29 Oct 1879
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1879
Page
1
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Abner, aging and lonely, keeps Billy the goat as a cunning housemate who plots vengeance. The parson and others suspect cruelty as Billy lures Abner to a bridge with poison herbs. Abner dies, and the goat is revealed as the mastermind in a grim, ironic fable with a stated moral.
A reflective piece urges developing the South’s mountainous Kentucky Tennessee and North Georgia regions with iron and coal. It argues for regional growth, harmonious race cooperation, and the economic power of mining and industry over solely agricultural wealth. It recalls emigration patterns, rural life, and satirical glimpses of 19th century frontier commerce and Senate pages' earnings.
The government builds three steel clad warships at Portsmouth Pembroke and Chatham naming the Majestic Colossus and Conqueror. Each will be built to Inflexible pattern with 6000 horsepower engines and sixteen inch armor on Colossus and Majestic. They will feature diagonal revolving guns and expected speeds near sixteen miles per hour.
A historic anecdote shows Queen Victoria enforcing punctuality with the Duchess of Sunderland as Mistress of Robes. When the Duchess arrived late to a public ceremony, the Queen fastened a diamond watch to her neck, delivering a pointed reproof that led to the Duchess resigning a day later, though the resignation was not accepted.
Justin McCarray, a new Home Rule member and parliamentary leader writer on the London Daily News, notes the decline of candle manufacture in the United States. He recalls once profitable firms shrinking or failing as demand falls and kerosene dominates, reducing candles to a fading symbol of conservatism.
A fragment of verse recalls keepsakes a child clings to while a mother urges restraint. The second piece, from the Azores, contrasts Azorean courtship with summer labor, noting the husband’s shorter work period and a wife’s extended duties, per T W Higginson in Woman's Journal.
A wife tries to match buttons for a broaddioth vest. Blummer discovers six very mixed buttons including a shirt button and a poker chip, and laughs at the absurd match. He jokes there will be no button money grudged after the sight.
The London World argues that feminine religion depends on social conditions, not fixed faith. It contrasts anti ecclesiastical liberal educated women with stricter, ritual minded figures driven by fashion and wealth. It questions the future of fashionable Spiritualistic congregations in London.
A reader argues that men's criticisms of women's labor echo misunderstandings of daily chores. The piece compares haying and housework, suggesting men underestimate the effort, and notes harsher remarks about women's summer rest.
A Ragged Register excerpt recounts Anna Dickinson’s sharp exchanges with a train passenger over money and talk, while a San Antonio Express report details the death of nine year old Annie Haldeman from lye injury and long illness, noting her skeletal appearance and preserved mind.
A collage of light anecdotes and quips from Boston Post Albany Journal and Paris papers. Tales range from wedding jabs about best men to a humorous pedometer misread and a maid’s quickness joke. The pieces capture social foibles and breezy humor of daily life.
A curious skeleton was discovered near Chattanooga Tennessee. The Times reports the pipe found with the bones belongs to the stone age and was smoked by the original American aborigine many thousands of years ago.
The article notes France’s urban cultural growth and agricultural improvements since Louis Philippe, citing roads and state farming programs. It highlights institutions like L ecole Superieure Agricole, Veterinary College Alfort, Versailles gardens, and draining schools, plus experimental farms and farmers’ schools funded publicly or privately.
A carved crescent shaped throwing weapon fascinates scientists as it skims along the ground and rises high to strike distant targets. In another scene a diner presses a waiter with a joke about serving reed birds on toast, insisting on the proper preparation with a cheese sandwich and a beer.
The Paris Petit Journal details the prewar savings boom with deposits rising from 720 million to 1.01 billion francs by 1878. After the war deposits fell to 515 million in 1872, then climbed steadily to 1.01 billion, aided by a savings bank system that converts excess deposits into rentes.
Legal and transient advertisements priced at 1.00 for the first ten lines and 0.50 for each additional insertion, as published in the Clermont Courier.
A fragmentary excerpt recalls a tale by a Cincinnati Commercial writer about Daniel Boone trapping a young serpent in a hollow log. The account describes a creature with brown striped body and a leather thong through which a copper plate was attached, suggesting Boone imprisoned the snake inside the tree for years.
A remarkable anecdote from Science News describes a mother who, while guiding her family, buys a chicken and asks the cook to prepare it. A dog then retrieves a portion of the meal, carrying it in its mouth before resuming its place, as the tale unfolds with incredulity.
The text fragment notes a claimed snake bite cure using leaves and a tea made from cottonwood, plus a man carrying a remedy home. It also cites Victoria Australia reporting 2,123 ounces more gold in Q1 1879 than a year earlier and notes over a quarter of miners were Chinese.
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