29 Oct 1847
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1847
Page
1
The text states subscription pricing of one dollar seventy five cents in advance or within sixty days and two dollars after. notes the paper will not be discontinued until arrears are paid. advertisements charged at usual rates.
A reflective poem describes evening solitude and memories of the past. The speaker sits by dim embers as time drifts, hearing shades of long ago. Voices, tears, and holy faces return with soft murmurs, while forgotten joys fade into a melancholic day.
In a stormy Paris night Giacomo Lioni and his son Andrea die after a fatal struggle on the Pont Neuf. The tale traces Lioni’s gambling life and a circle of secrets ending in a deadly clash over money and family fate.
A discussion on sleeping in poorly vented rooms highlights health risks from vitiated air and the need for fresh air especially for children. A letter from Dalton describes Georgia's Rock Mountain in DeKalb County with a tower, blasting track, and views. Hydrophobia treatment by Mr. Youatt is outlined, advocating lunar caustic cauterization after dog bites to remove virus and prevent danger.
Mr. T Chandler of Rockford Illinois unveils a mortising machine that cuts a six inch long mortice in half a minute with one operator. It severs smooth joints without wood fracture and can be powered by steam water or other sources. Four chisels with movable and eccentric motions finish the mortise in a single operation.
An ex subscriber notes a printer's plea listing requests for forty to fifty bushels of potatoes, a hundred bushels of corn, fifty cabbages, linen shirts, nightcaps for children, and cash. The writer decries the printer as avaricious and unfit to demand such supplies to keep his business running.
The Charleston News urges a concurrent Thanksgiving on November 25 set by state executives. It notes abundant yearlong harvests benefiting both the United States and famine-struck Europe, and cites governors in New Hampshire Missouri Massachusetts and New York choosing that date. The piece highlights the day coinciding with the evacuation of British troops from the territory as fitting.
The people of Louis County Virginia grow excited over gold mining after a lump of virgin gold valued at eighty dollars is found on a local farm. Proprieter plans extensive searches and mine development amid reports of gold copper and iron deposits in the county. Also noted is a Sandlake New York case where a stepmother cut out a boy’s tongue to stop lies.
The Washington paper notes the President doubts the Doniphan march and battles, questions the Missouri presence in Chihuahua, and disbelieves Buena Vista while still aiming for re election. It recalls incredulity in old tales and a Houston era anecdote about belief in improbable events.
A destitute man in severe intoxication was found in a city gutter on Friday night and, after being taken to the watch house and then to the hospital, died from the effects of liquor. The Cin. Chronicle calls it a terrible warning.
A pine rail fence in Indiana is so crooked that a pig attempting to crawl through exits on the same side it started. The observer who saw it says the man who described it must have been cross eyed.
From Constantinople comes word that the Turkish authorities intend to blockade a stretch of the Albanian coast from Previsa to Durazzo in response to an insurrection in the province.
The Mobile Advertiser reports a 170 pound African American man fell from the third story of a house and struck the pavement without breaking a bone or skin, a claim that astonishes observers and raises questions about the fall and the incident.
Socrates faced the death sentence with irony noting Nature itself would share in the verdict. The dialogue underscores his acceptance of the legal outcome while questioning moral authority.
Patent describes a caustic potash water and tallow oil mixture as a fulling cloth substitute. Formulas vary by ratio of potash water to tallow oil with best quality at 1 part potash to 30 and 87 parts oil, and mixing steps include resting 12 to 18 hours before final use.
Ez. Pr. describes a ham curing method praised by the American Agricultural Association and the farmer's Club at New York. He details a pickle using salt, savory, marjoram, allspice, saltpeter, and brown sugar heated then applied to 100 pounds of ham for three to four weeks, followed by smoking in a seed cask with mahogany sawdust for fuel over one week.
A local recipe for pumpkin butter blends pumpkins with sweet cider. Two bushels of pumpkins are cooked with cider, either all at once in a large kettle or in batches in a smaller kettle, until the mixture reduces to 10 or 12 gallons. Spice to taste with ground cinnamon before finishing.
An 18th century note describes a German estate method to make wheat perennial like grass. After initial plowing and manuring, wheat is repeatedly mowed before ears form, allowed to regrow, and harvested in the usual manner with earlier ripening in the following year.
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