06 Sep 1849
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1849
Page
1
Mathew Faran, a poor cabinet maker in a southern city, is lured by strangers to perform a mysterious job for a hundred dollars. He helps construct a box for a supposed corpse, discovers a live man in a canvas bag, and after a tense escape the survivor rewards him with six hundred dollars and secrecy.
The text extols mechanics as vital to society and education, noting apprentices gain future influence and craftsmen can shape policy. It contrasts Chinese funeral practices, highlighting reverence for ancestors without a centralized tomb system, favoring personal burial plots on ancestral land with simple, tasteful gravestones in rural settings.
The article discusses the difficulties of Hungarian proper names for English speakers, urging a phonetic alphabet. It gives pronunciation guides for figures like Kossuth, Gorgey, and Waas, explains surname-first usage in Hungary, and notes German and Slavic influences on local names.
The text argues poverty is an enduring evil causing moral and physical suffering. It asserts wealth without compassion fails to bring happiness, noting poverty breeds sorrow, sin, and anxious care. It challenges the belief that wealth alone grants joy, emphasizing the impact of benevolence and the limits of donor satisfaction.
A lawyer built a hexagonal office that drew Irish onlookers who mocked the unusual design. He shouted at them calling them saucy blockheads. One man joked about seeing the devil at the window. A Connecticut woman quips she has fourteen children, mostly boys and girls.
The text details Cuba’s dimensions from 624 miles long and 22 to 117 miles wide with about 37 000 square miles, population figures 1 400 000 including 610 000 whites 190 000 free colored and 600 000 slaves. It notes imports 1847 totaling 32 389 119 with United States supplies 7 049 975 exports 27 998 770 with 12 394 876 to the U S and 476 773 tons American tonnage.
A clever contrivance from the East designs to prompt hens to lay eggs by using a trap door and spring linked nest. An imported Russian hen tested the device, and though the nest appeared empty, investigators found a chamber beneath housing half a bushel of eggs.
A Bohemian religious movement named Adamites has emerged. Its practices are described as highly immoral and disgusting, highlighting how small influences, repeated over time, can deeply erode established norms.
A married man returning home on Beacon Street mistook his neighbor's door for his own and searched for a night key hole for about twenty minutes. In his despair he exclaimed that someone has stolen his key hole, a moment noted as evidence of heavy drinking.
A vivid reminiscence describes a highly energetic woman who washed a week's laundry, hung clothes, cooked three meals, made a pair of pants for her son, darned stockings, treated cholera, cured herself, and dyed four dresses all within a single day.
On Mr Johnston’s farm near Geneva a roan cow yields up to 45 quarts daily in June 1848 and 42 quarts per day through the month. She produces 14 1/2 pounds of butter weekly from cream, milking thrice daily with grass pasture alone. Johnston, a renowned Scotch farmer, manages three hundred six acres with extensive clover pastures and underground drains. His land improved from worn-out to prime in twenty years, funded by farm proceeds. The article also notes wheat and flour experiments showing water content varies by climate and suggests kiln drying and thorough drying to reduce spoilage and losses.
Instructions describe selecting plump berries by sieving, washing to remove fungus and insects, and using a salt brine to float light grains. Soak twelve to twenty four hours, drain brine as manure, add lime, and sow when conditions permit. Brine can preserve wheat for weeks and even three weeks during overflow.
The article promotes sunflower seeds as a cure for founder in horses. It advises mixing about a pint of whole seed with the horse feeds immediately after diagnosis, claiming it will effect a perfect cure.
A New York project reports a 15 percent return on a capital of 300000 dollars. The note highlights plank road construction as the investment focus and indicates expected profitability for investors and local infrastructure.
A farmer argues fall sowing is superior to spring for grass seed. If seeded before rain or snow, seed sinks into soil and germinates once warmth returns. A light harrow and rolling improve germination, leading to rapid growth unless frost halts it. Some farmers never sow in spring and consistently succeed. Try it.
An English agricultural writer lauds modern tillage as a vast improvement over two decades ago. He ranks the conversion of stiff clays into friable mould via draining, trenching, or subsoiling as the greatest discovery, praising Mr. Smith of Deanston for this transformational method.
The article cites Lord Somerville's remark to the Board of Agriculture about Holland's saltless bread punishment and its supposed link to worms. It also notes a Mrs Marshall case of lifelong worm infestation tied to natural salt aversion and cites Pereira.
A new town named Ironton near Hanging Rock in Lawrence county Ohio imposes a permanent ban on selling intoxicating liquor with every property deed. The rule targets temperate residents, signaling a hard temperance stance for the iron trade centric settlement.
A stark critique links brandy to social decay describing it as a leveler headacher consumer of substance and destroyer of health and reputation. It portrays it as instigator of riot breach of domestic peace and a source of misery and crime.
A fragment speaks of loyalty among a man and his closest circle, noting how true friends stand by him even when others turn away. The text hints at themes of trust, kinship, and the value of steadfast companions in hardship.
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