17 Sep 1879
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1879
Page
1
The Clermont Courier notes weekly publication on Wednesdays. Editor/publisher Chas W Pegg lists annual subscription at $1.50 in advance with full payment within the year.
A lyric reminiscence from an illness and despair to relief through long-loved friends Dickens Scott and Moore. The note from Ciceroa, Ill, recalls sickness of heart the spout and a wish for never more leaving, then praise for steadfast companionship and renewed cheer.
The narrative follows a man presumed dead during a wake as his fiancé plans his burial and the old chill of gossip and vanity surrounds the ceremony. In a later report, diver James K. Jenkins dies while recovering an anchor, his air-tube failing and his head submerging after a struggle with underwater gear.
A Paris professor Dr Paul Emile Chauffard treated a patient with a skin disease he declared as the long-lost form known as Jewish leprosy. He claimed the case revived a forgotten condition and noted the patient’s cure, presenting a curious tale of scientific rediscovery.
In spring 1863 at Stafford and Spottsylvania two armies halted for a concert of war songs. Northern bands played national airs while Southern bands answered with Dixie and Bonnie Blue. A shared version of Home Sweet Home sparked a joint cheer, softening hard faces and making enemies briefly allies.
A 12 year old boy named Naira McEvoy enters Jefferson Market Police Court and asks Judge Morgan to surrender himself. He explains his parents died years apart, he has no home, no clothes, and cannot eat unless begging or stealing. He seeks placement in a proper institution to learn and become a man. The judge promises to find him a suitable home.
The Bangor Commercial notes a remarkable ten year old son of Col Fuller once Bangor Postmaster. He can name day of week for any date, remember Presidents details, Bible verses and hymn pages, and recite arithmetic tables. He reads widely and enjoys Fractions and dictionaries in leisure. PERSIA hosts a Vienna Count Monteforte now serving Teheran as mayor and chief judge with broad powers.
The article recounts John Crossley recalling his mother a former farm servant who earned six pounds a year, saved a nest egg, spun wool in her leisure, and carried dairy to market. He credits God and his mother for his success and notes hosting dignitaries including the Prince of Wales at Manor Heath.
A Normandy peasant widow cleverly honors her late husband by selling his horse and assigning the dog’s value to her share, forcing a combined sale of pair for 5 francs while keeping 500 for herself. The piece blends a moral about Eve and labor with short anecdotes of society.
The sketch reviews Angela Burdett Coutts born 1814 as heiress to Sir Francis Burdett and Thomas Coutts fortune after adopting the Coutts name in 1837. It notes her wealth, her early life, and her steadfast philanthropy including a church for 1,000 and two endowed schools educating 400 children.
In a Detroit ice cream parlor on Woodward Avenue a young attorney and the woman who admired him share a table with three chairs. A great mistake unfolds from that warm evening and so does the course of true love, hinting at a ruinous future for chivalrous suitors in America.
A family resolves to speak only truth for a day prompting lighthearted corrections. One member admits laziness delaying breakfast while others retract casual claims about cold weather and appearances. The exercise exposes how quickly casual statements must be trimmed to stay true.
The Hartford Times recalls a church umbrella theft and a local ad inviting return, prompting residents on San Fernando street to recover many umbrellas. In Chicago, a similar lost umbrella ad elicited a boastful, threatening letter from an anonymous responder, challenging the claimant and offering money to prove identity.
Inscription on a Llannefydd churchyard tomb records Elin wife of John Owen dying March 25 1859 and John Owen dying August 23 1859. It notes they lived together in matrimony seventy years and are buried side by side.
The Washington Sunday Herald recalls the near duel between Jefferson Davis and W. H. Bissell after the Mexican War. Davis and Bissell faced threats over battlefield bravery claims, with Senators Brown Toombs Dawson and Shields involved. Davis avoided arrest through cautionary steps as Shields pressed toward settlement. The piece also notes poetical observations on the nightingale by Hibberd, Coleridge, Shakespeare, and Cowper, discussing species and habits.
A Harper's Weekly excerpt describes Russian tea houses where tea is drunk with vodka, cigarettes are common, and summer tea includes extra lemon. Russians rarely drink coffee, lighting and gambling appear among officials, and devotion at the Virgin shrine accompanies drinking. It ends with a joke about breaking a five dollar bill.
A critique on religious reforms undermining marriage as a test of any system. The piece condemns Shakerism for denying family and love, labels Mormon and socialist schemes as threats, and argues the family is unmanageable within alternative communities. It ends with a string of humorous quips and state rhymes.
Prefecture of Police statistics show 502 dog madness cases in Paris for the year, with 141 in the first quarter, 175 in the second, 133 in the third, and 53 in the fourth quarter, indicating more winter and spring than summer and autumn. Two women in Pittsfield Mass were found stealing rare plants, dressing in men's clothes to raid a conservatory, and police found their home full of stolen flowers.
Ad text outlines legal and transient advertisements at 1.00 per line for ten lines first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. Yearly reductions apply. Business cards over six lines cost 4.00 per year.
A humorous column from the Burlington Hawk Eve riffs on rustic verse with spoof lines about a man drawing a diamond, gum and fountain, a $300 loan, a navy-blue wasp cushion, honey merchants, a sea shore refrain, a patrolman, a dyspeptic pie eater, a lodge misadventure, and a two-watch fool, ending with a quip about a recent idiot with two watches.
Mme Patti, barred from St Petersburg by the Czar over matrimony woes, initially refused to sing in the Russian capital. Hearing of the ban, she stood firm but later accepted a lucrative proposal after terms climbed to £1000 a night, alongside engagement of Signor Nicolini.
Dialogue fragment features farmers and rural banter about planting and travel but lacks a coherent event, date, or identifiable persons or organizations to summarize into a newspaper item.
A county gentleman found an ox in his corn field last Sunday afternoon. He fired a common Smith and Wesson repeater at the animal as it fled, shooting at about twenty paces. The ball struck the ox behind the fore shoulder, broke through the body, and the beast weighed over 400 pounds before dying near a neighbor's place in Americus Georgia.
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