24 Sep 1847
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1847
Page
1
The notice outlines payment terms of four dollars and seventy five cents if paid in advance or within sixty days, and two dollars for delayed payment. It states the paper will not be discontinued while arrears are owed and that advertisements are inserted at usual rates.
The poem describes a famed beauty, a queenly enchantress, resuming a soft, siren voice as she sings to a mother and child. The poet contrasts royal splendor with a simple cottage, where she gently blesses the infant and shares quiet, inward pity for her fading grandeur.
A doctor recalls a passionate youth with Ellen, whose sudden love withdrawal ruptured his heart. He abandons practice, wanders in search of relief, and recalls Niagara and Niagara's memory as he battles despair, anger, and a vow to rebuild his life. The tale ends with a note urging support for local mechanics.
In a Mexico bound journey from Puebla to Mexico City a passenger carried seven thousand dollars in gold. A masked robber, posing as a banker, lured him aside and, with threats and a pistol, extorted the treasure before fleeing with accomplices nearby. In Cincinnati a drunken husband was wheeled home on a wheelbarrow by a woman days ago.
The fragment notes a Mexica style exclamation Tennamiquilictli used to request a kiss. It frames kissing as a social test of charm and invites imagining asking a pretty girl for a kiss in the native tongue.
The piece notes large global shipping profits and navy pay as a curious aside, cites the American Board of Foreign Missions, West Point funding, and naval salaries versus ministers. It critiques the Sub-Treasury as a failed fiscal agent, citing a New York to New Orleans transfer via a Star bank draft as proof of its futility.
A dated note praises a homemade paste that stays sweet and free from mould or fermentation. The method dissolves alum in warm water, adds flour to creaminess, mixes powdered resin and cloves, boils to a proper consistency, and warms with water to soften later.
The Cour ier des Etats Unis reports Mr. Glatz of New York possesses a child aged about twenty two months, 39 inches tall, that grew four inches in three days and four inches in a week after a twelve day pause. French physician M Le grand calls it the most curious phenomenon, though the child’s strength wanes and blood can be seen in its veins as it relies on nursing and is not expected to live much longer.
Mr. William Reed of Cayuga County New York born in Cummington Massachusetts seventh child born June seventh 1777 died June seventh 1847 aged seventy seven. He married seven wives had seven children in seven periods of seven years and served seven terms in the State Legislature with seven speeches and seven hundred seventy seven dollars in compensation.
The piece cites rising road travel with 400 passengers and abundant peaches from Springfield, mentions a surge of imports from Lake Erie, and reports high war expenditures by Mr. Polk's administration. It criticizes funding choices, alleging misallocation, high costs, and delayed troop provisions as summarized from Jalapa and Picayune sources.
A gentleman wills his eldest son £100 plus one eighth of the remaining property, the second £200 plus one eighth of what remains, the third £300 plus one eighth, and so on with each child receiving £100 more than the previous. On division, each child ends up with the same amount. Determine the number of children, the total fortune, and each share.
A Detroit elopement leads to Taylor's arrest by the husband of the woman, Mrs. Davis. Taylor faced the Mayor on larceny charges for taking his wife’s clothes and was held after a habeas corpus hearing. Judge Lowrie remanded him to jail for Michigan requisition on larceny.
David Palmer of Middlebury was found dead after jumping from his second story window while suffering delirium tremens. He was seen alive the evening before and left a destitute family. The Akron Beacon urges temperate behavior to avoid such tragedies.
A loaded pistol in the hand of a man walking before Joseph Squire’s home discharged as a wagon approached. Four people were wounded as the two groups exchanged words. A listener muttered a crude remark about the violence.
H Stanberry, the state attorney general, states that last winter’s militia act places the system on the same footing in war as in peace. Exemptions from training and commutation recognized by 1844 law, limited to peacetime, now apply in war under the 1847 act.
The document estimates the whole force in Mexico including arms, army, and navy at about 40,000 in ranks, plus mechanics and laborers. It suggests total strength could approach 50,000 when counting additional personnel across sea and land.
Wilhelmus Simmons of Taghkanic New York tried to burn a hornet nest with matches and a pole. The barn and about a thousand bushels of oats rye and hay were destroyed with losses estimated between 1200 and 1500 dollars and no insurance.
A plough turned up an axe near Cincinnati bearing the letters U. S. The find site is believed to be the 1795 encampment of General Anthony Wayne before his march to Greensville to conclude the treaty ending the Ohio Northwest Indian wars.
A teacher tests a boy with riddles about nails and tails and praises the student as an honor. The text notes 37 to 38 million bushels of grain shipped from the United States to Great Britain in 1846 with about 45 million dollars value. New Orleans bans funeral bells during the fever as a public health measure. Cedar bark mixed with horse feed is claimed as a remedy for a cough in a local report.
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