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Newspaper
Augusta Evening Dispatch
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1858
Page
3
Advertisers are warned that notices must be handed in by eleven o clock in the forenoon to appear the same day. The paper cannot receive advertisements after that hour due to heavy column pressure.
Local readers are reminded this is the final week of a celebrated world renowned painting exhibition in Savannah. A large crowd follows the event as speculation grows on whether it will ever be seen again.
In Augusta Georgia on March 25 1858 the Washington Artillery mourns the death of their late member Sprastian Rupier a brother soldier. The minutes resolve to inscribe a page in his memory have officers and members wear the mourning badge at the next parade and publish the resolutions in city papers sent to his relatives.
Worn by Wazel Green and Bill Gates talk of coons and a big spring value. Major Brown recalls forty years ago when coons were common, while a tale of a tree full of coons and a strange blistered bite unfolds. Water whirlpool tales, a Pa. leg severing accident, and a Elizabeth City fire court news close the column with brief notes on Hebrew jokes and a hotel arson case.
The returns of forty seven Methodist Episcopal Church conferences in the United States show 1865 preachers total 6134 with 5658 travelling, 711 supernumeraries. Local preachers 6718, members 700,968 in 1855, probationers 110,155. Overall membership 800,827 with benevolent gifts totaling 226,597 for missions, 14,852 for Sunday School Union, and 27,848 for the Tract Society.
Reports from Avevusta Charleston Columbus Mobile and Savannah describe cotton sales yesterday and today with varying prices. Prices range from about 9 to 11 cents for middling and good middling while receipts total 2816 bales in Charleston and 1531 bales traded in Savannah.
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