05 Sep 1845
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1845
Page
1
A verse fragment from a weekly issue titled The Breathing of the Wind. Spirit voices drift on evening winds, recalling loved and lost souls with sighs and melodies. The poem speaks of gentle guides home and moments of respite before the cloud returns.
A lyric meditation on the restless human heart as it bids farewell to a faithless beloved. The speaker notes the foolhardy joy and hidden sorrow, asserting the heart's capacity for love and pain while blessing the restless, human core.
A fragment from Knickerbocker Magazine recounts Jabez Doolittle's locomotive tale and his pin making machine. It notes a planned Far West railroad, a supposed volcanic swallowing, and Doolittle's boast of a magnetic telegraph spanning the world seven times per second.
A reminiscence recounts Jabez Doolittle’s failed patent for a steam locomotive and a rat trap hybrid. The inventor gives a perilous display, crashes through a wall, and vanishes, while Washington Irving and others recall the strange device and its rumored existence as a fiery, meteor-like spectacle across the American frontier.
A New York gentleman recalls Thomas Paine defending the Bible in a late night discussion. Paine argues Bible use correlates with social order, noting Europe’s illiteracy and Ireland’s lack of Bible access, and counters that prisons house many who cannot read. He then leaves without reply.
A Hartford Adv. spoof targets a down east paper by calling for a 175 strong “gaping Corps” to stand at church doors each sabbath and leer at arriving women. It jokes the enlistment will record names and intellect, then mocks the idea of moral reform with a donkey comparison and other sly jabs.
Miss Landon reflects on light transitory vapors as symbols of human hope. She argues that hope arises from burning passions that consume themselves and wander into the future. The vapor vanishes beyond the horizon as it grows faint and indistinct.
Kentucky editor declines publishing a long piece on champagne unless the champaigne itself is transmitted. The remark reflects a practical approach to verify the article’s claims before printing.
The text reflects on death as an ever present prospect that, when faced calmly, softens life’s highs and lows. The tomb’s influence tones both joy and sorrow, making summers bright and winters harshness milder in a measured, elevated view.
The passage remarks that this well known fluid could be described as incorporating all organic principles and mineral substances forming the constituents of living beings.
The Western Christian Advocate editor writes from Columbus after Marion's conference, praising Governor Bartley and urging biblical criteria for rulers. He argues good, capable, and uncovetous leaders are vital, then shares a Jersey wheat thinning custom and a Vermont seed wheat tale from the Boston Cultivator with practical farming notes.
Report on a Western apple variety the Stump Apple from Lebanon Ohio praised for flavor and drying uses after last Cincinnati Horticultural Society show. Also brief items on lightning rods protecting Rev Wade home in Roseville and incense spending by Chinese in empire. A Washington coroner’s case and a Boston Post note on dark eyed maidens.
W B Thompson of Fayetteville Ohio publishes a dated reply to George Fisher about a horse note payable when James K Polk was elected. The document includes certificates from Thos H Underhill and W B Conklin detailing delivery failures, agreed pauses in politics, and court judgment with costs. A final line notes five churches under construction in Washington City.
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