19 Sep 1877
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1877
Page
1
Poetic meditation on autumn harvest and life’s passage. It contrasts September abundance with mortality, urging to sow now while time remains and to cherish small earthly gains. References to reaper, harvest, seasons, and eternity frame a reflective, pastoral landscape.
Nellie Willard, a widow of three years, resists marriage to Henry Levison because her late husband Wilson Willard made her promise never to remarry. Levison challenges the vow as a haunting vision of Wilson appears to Nellie, prompting a tense scene about love, memory, and duty.
Nellie and Harry Levison confront a spectral bargain when a departed husband appears to urge Nellie to remarry. Nellie fears the ghost’s command but gradually yields, while friends and relatives discuss the uncanny reunion and a clever deception involving Fred Willard's disguise.
Charles Kaiser owns the town's only hive. His cat Tabby attacked a bee at the hive entrance and was swarmed by the hive. She rolled in the grass, took severe stings, and fled after being chased away by the owner. She remained missing for over a week before reappearing.
The letter reveals Keats weighing a successful tragedy to lift his finances and status. He describes his habits to ward off misery, his hermit life, and his plan to devote gains to family support while assessing whether his work will secure property or require a longer literary journey. He notes no blue devils since the last letter.
A Florida boy has trained an alligator to come to the pier at his call and take food from his hand. Observers warn that the creature may one day act against him, making the boy’s taming appear more inexplicable than safe.
Ohio General Assembly proposes a statewide ballot measure on October 2 1877 to reorganize the judiciary. It calls for creating District Courts and Courts of Common Pleas with elected judges, transferring probate duties, and altering sections of Articles IV and XI with a two thirds or three fifths assembly concurrence for key changes.
Milton Barnes certifies a true copy of an act passed April 7 1877 by Ohio General Assembly. Original rolls are on file in the Secretary of State's office with the seal affixed. Witnessed and dated in Cogee on April 6 1877.
The article argues that forest destruction along the Black Sea coast worsens drought and enables a surge of poisonous field spiders. It notes Russian troops suffer from bites, linking the spider proliferation to loss of habitat and prey that once kept their numbers in check.
Madeleine Molle, a fourteen year old girl, leads the defense of Fort Vercheres near Quebec during a Iroquois siege. She orders repairs, fires the cannon, saves a settler family at the landing, inspires soldiers and civilians, and holds the fort until relief arrives. The narrative ends noting her later marriages and widowhood.
An eye witness describes Mount Cotopaxi’s June eruption and sea of ash that collapsed factories and bridges from Latacunga to Chillo. The flood split in two, destroying estates and a Patate wine estate, with over a thousand dead and Quito engulfed in 30 hours of darkness and ash.
A Russian general condemns a soldier who avoided battle to see his home, but the man pleads affection for his family and is pardoned after offering money to his wife. The scene portrays Serbians as faithful husbands more than soldiers. At a camp meeting a hymn about sparing food shocks attendees and elicits laughter.
A feature on Yung Wing the Chinese education commission head in Hartford who brought 115 Chinese boys to America for schooling. The article describes the colony in Hartford, its students living with American families, Chinese staff in residence, and social life including four annual Chinese banquets. It notes Yale progress, plans for future study, and political aims to modernize China through Americanized graduates.
The deceased had never been indicted for crime and was a member of many lodges. he belonged to a highly respectable family. It was his brother who had been indicted.
An interview with a Balti more & Ohio Railroad locomotive engineer on a Detroit visit reveals a wartime tale of a daring last passenger run. The crew faced armed officials and threats, with the engineer noting a propulsive dash through tracks as a crowd waited, a brandy handoff, and a dramatic escape at speed.
A New York World tale shows a man hiring a flat on the condition no tenant plays piano. He learns a piano exists and, hearing the Battle of Prague, confronts the janitor who admits it belongs to his daughter.
A curious quip notes that the kind of flower most commonly raised by mothers of unruly boys is the lady's slipper. The remark playfully contrasts parental patience with garden lore.
The Clermont Courier lists advertising rates: legal and transient ads one dollar per square for first insertion, fifty cents for each additional insertion. Yearly ads receive liberal reductions. Business cards up to six lines cost six dollars per year.
A humorous poem on a person blaming their liver for constant sadness and illness. The speaker questions why life feels dreary and aches persist, listing coughs, wheezing, and a leaden stomach while lamenting loss of appetite and joy.
Mrs. Jigwig claims the family has plenty of money while Pat rick bears a boil on his nose. The husband Charley hears of a jealous tale involving a foreign count who fled without paying board and left a trunk with carpet and bricks.
EdMuND de ROTHSCHILD is about to wed Mlle Adelaide de Rothschild daughter of Baron Willy de Rothschild of Frankfort. Edmund’s father Baron James de Rothschild wed his own niece Bette daughter of Baron Solomon de Rothschild. Bette’s grandchild marries Baron Willy’s daughter in a complex web of kinships.
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