Glermont Courier Weekly Notice and Rates
The Glermont Courier issues weekly with Charles W. Pegg as proprietor. Subscription terms state 2 50 per year in advance and 8 if paid within the year.
10 Sep 1879
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1879
Page
1
The Glermont Courier issues weekly with Charles W. Pegg as proprietor. Subscription terms state 2 50 per year in advance and 8 if paid within the year.
The Clermont Courier lists legal and transient advertisements at 1.00 per square for ten lines per insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. Long terms offer liberal yearly reductions. Business cards exceeding six lines are 4.00 per year.
Alphonso Taft argues the Republican view on national power, law enforcement, and election protection. He cites historical acts and Supreme Court decisions to defend federal authority at polls, oppose state sovereignty claims, and urge enforcement of civil rights through federal power.
In a German discussion, Herr Tiedemann claimed 7 million landed proprietors exist, 2 million untaxed under $105 yearly. Among actual taxpayers, no more than 150,000 earn over $750 annually. He notes daily forced sales of lands and farms and general distress.
The author contrasts mountain hospitality with Southern wealthier circles, recounting a stormy log cabin stay, postwar changes in servant labor, and how strong fellowship among Southerners fostered mutual aid. He notes camp meetings as key to fellowship, and describes instances of fierce loyalty and violent ferocity born from this social fabric.
In a Detroit Free Press item, a young man used an artificial fly on a stranger asleep at a Michigan avenue saloon. The fly climbed his nose and eyes while the sleeper stayed still. The student of pranks was mobbed, battered, and silenced as the crowd watched. The sleeper woke, warned the crowd, and eased off.
California voters will cast ballots in September on Chinese immigration. Ballots will bear the phrases For Chinese immigration or Against Chinese Immigration to record the electors views. A memorial will be prepared by the Governor and attested copies distributed to lawmakers and state officials.
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