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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1845
Page
3
A Symbol column extols temperance, laments alcohol’s ruin on families and society, and urges Odd Fellows to support temperance work. The piece links drunkenness to theft and violence, urging members to act and think like temperance men.
City Prison inmates were invited to sign remonstrances to the Senate against removing New York from the Excise Law as it passed the Assembly. James Eager, under death sentence, requested his lines be written on the remonstrance warning that intemperance led to his demise and loss of family.
A Portage County report recalls Capt. Mark Woodruff of Aurora dying from delirium tremens. The piece laments alcohol’s ruin and urges abstinence, urging reform to redeem memory and spare loved ones distress. Akron Water Nymph writes moral appeal about temperance and hope of regeneration.
In Albany at the Temperance Rooms on the morning of the 18th alt a group of citizens applied to sign the pledge. Among them stood a well built yet poorly clad son of Erin who, asked his motive, replied with sparkling eyes and his native brogue that he had seen a fine company of fellows yesterday and among them.
A speaker reflects on drinking companions including John Bryne, noting a transformation from drunken frolic to respectability. He asserts that by next St Patrick's day he will be as respected as Bryne, illustrating the proverb about the influence of example in social behavior.
In Colden Erie county the town bans liquor sales in taverns groceries and stores while asserting the county has not sent a pauper to the poor house in ten years Stop the sale of liquor and pauperism would decrease as a matter of course Ibid
A Cincinnati Adver tiser piece recalls dramatic changes in fortunes over decades. It lists multiple real figures on Main Street who rose from modest beginnings or fell into bankruptcy, noting bank directors, merchants, and a Penitentiary founder who died poor, and a governor’s descendant who now works by needle.
A new machine developed in Chicago by two oxen and two men can dig a ditch two feet deep and three feet wide at the top, eighteen inches at the bottom, at twenty roods per day. Also reports a gambler convicted in New Orleans for keeping a faro table, fined $1000 and twelve months imprisonment. Charleston grand jury opposes duelling and sale of spirituous liquors. Mr Boyle in Arkansas shoots a nine foot panther in Palermin stream.
A Boston drunkard and his dog show loyalty. A New York Printers’ charity order aims to elevate the craft. Mrs Martha Taber born in Newport in 1744 nears 161 years. Copper mine near Fort Wilkins touted for high yield. Three Maine revolutionists died aged 100, 98, 88. Fires in Baltimore. Grave robbery trial in Rochester. Hawaiian temperance press grows. 69 members in the Hawaiian Total Abstinence Society. John Hawkins tours Lexington with success.
Married on the 3rd instant by Rev. George F. Pierce at Burke Mr. Grorce Ropenson Paver weds Laventa A daughter of William Rhodes Esq of Richmond County.
Obituary honors Rev W T Brantly D D who died in the city on Friday the 28th in his 59th year. It extols forty years of ministerial service with humility and steadfast faith in Baptist doctrine, noting his piety, industry, and resignation to heaven.
The Augusta market shows good demand at full prices with steady to rising quotes for various grades. Demand since the Cambria cargo has reduced stock, leaving scarce offerings, while Great Western and Liverpool accounts due in the next week are awaited. Bagging stocks are light with limited demand, and groceries show little business though prices trend upward.
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