08 Sep 1880
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1880
Page
1
The Clermont Courier lists subscription terms at 12.60 per year in advance with weekly payment details and editorial notes from CHAS. W. Fr.
A devotional note by Mac Craig urging readers to trust in God the Father in all tasks. It emphasizes faith amid hardship, promising divine guidance and steadfastness when life grows dark and hope seems dim.
The narrator recalls Chips a beloved ship carpenter on the Gazelle a generous and brave hand who mentored and cared for mates and crew. A perilous night chase by four whaleboats ends with Chips dying after a line tear injures the captain and the ship sails away leaving his friends to mourn. Two years later a Boston visit reveals Chips’s mother receiving his confession of disobedience and forgiveness.
Jennie June recounts a tale of a young girl who crafts an elaborate silk net gown from straw embroidery. The gown uses wheat, oats, and grasses woven with fine split straw to create a full, decorative outfit.
The message celebrates Republican policy as the engine of prosperity since 1876 and argues for Grant era stability. It contrasts Democratic calls for change with a defense of resumption, refunding, low interest, and national credit while warning of Southern influence, fiat money, and state banks. It endorses Gen. Hancock as Republican candidate and urges unity to protect civil rights and national authority.
Democratic exodus in New Albany Indiana triggers panic as leaders like George F Penn and Washington C De Pauw switch to Garfield Arthur and Republican tickets. A Garfield and Arthur Club forms at De Pauw American Glass Works with seventy five voters, while other local Republicans recruit from former Democrats. Franklin Sanders, running for Indiana Governor, sits as the “deadest duck.”
The Cincinnati Industrial Exposition proceeds as Ohio faces widespread coal-region turmoil from New Lexington to Mingo Junction. Reports include a Troy hangings reprieve, a $800 robbery in Columbus, a Belle Centre suicide, farm accidents, mail delivery expansion at Mansfield, and a Cleveland boiler blast injuring several.
A quotation from Peok's Sun notes that cars are not human yet possess human-like instincts such as staying out late and following other cars, reflecting a playful comparison of machines and behavior.
Legal and transient advertisements priced at 1.00 per line for first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. A yearly reduction offered. Business cards up to six lines 64.00 per year.
The piece urges gentle behavior within the home to prevent harm, noting how chronic rudeness erodes family bonds and memory. It reflects on the impact of spousal and parental neglect, then pivots to historical curiosities about St. Jean Florida and Santa Fe New Mexico, ending with a fragmented note about cigar contents.
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