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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1845
Page
7
A temperance call condemns alcohol’s ruin on families and society. It portrays intemperance destroying virtue, promptings dueling and debauchery, and corrupting lawmakers. The piece urges Odd Fellows to support temperance work and to align thoughts and deeds with the pledge.
Inmates of the City Prison invited to sign remonstrances to the Senate opposing removing New York from excise law. James Eager, under death sentence for murder, had a statement written on the remonstrance about the curse of intemperance and the consequences of drinking. The Organ notes sellers and allies weigh this dying man’s declaration.
Captain Mark Woodruff, keeper of a liquor house in Aurora Portage County, died recently of delirium tremens. The obituary moralizes on temperance, urges reform, and cautions moderate drinkers about the dangers of alcohol as it recounts the victim’s decline and the pain of grieving friends.
On the morning of the 18th alt citizens signed the temperance pledge at Albany rooms. Among applicants was a well built yet poorly clothed young Irishman who, when asked his purpose, replied with shining eyes in his native brogue that he had seen a fine company of fellows yesterday and among them.
A speaker recalls past drunken frolics with John Bryne on St Patrick's Day and asserts Bryne's current gentleness in Albany. The writer predicts equal respect for himself by next St Patrick's Day, underscoring the claim with a moral about example.
In Colden, Erie County, no liquor is legally sold in taverns or stores. The argument notes the county has sent no paupers to the poor house in ten years and asserts stopping liquor sales would reduce pauperism accordingly.
A Cincinnati Adverter piece recounts real lives showing rise and fall in credit and fortune from 1820s to 1840s. It cites bankers, merchants, and directors who fell into bankruptcy, insolvency, or dependency after earlier success, noting dramatic shifts in wealth and status within the city.
A Chicago inventor claims a ditch cutting machine will replace spades, powered by two oxen and two men to dig a two foot by three foot top, eighteen inch bottom trench at twenty roods per day. Daniel Aldridge is fined $1000 and jailed twelve months in New Orleans for keeping a faro table. Charleston grand jury criticizes duelling and liquor sales. Mr Boyle kills a nine foot panther in the Palermin Arkansas stream.
Short items recount drunkard and dog bond in Boston and a Typo-Masonic charity order in New York. Newport born Martha Taber aged 161 and in good health. Canadian graphic-stone quarry near Lake Simcoe. Virginia temperance progress. Rev James Jackson’s death by drowning near Savannah. Maine revolutionists die aged 100,98,88. Baltimore arson arrests. Rochester grave-robbing trial. copper mine near Fort Wilkins yields high copper content with big revenue. Hawaiian temperance journal promotes teetotalism. 69 members in Hawaiian Total Abstinence Society. John Hawkins lectures in Lexington, Kentucky.
Married on the 3rd by Rev. George F. Pierce, George Ropenson Paver of Burke weds Laventa A., daughter of William Rhodes, Esq., of Richmond County.
Died in this city on Friday 28th alt Rev W T Brantly senior D D in the 59th year of his age. The obituary lauds his forty years of ministry with marked humility. He upheld Baptist doctrine, displayed consistent piety, and faced death with Christian fortitude. His loss is a blow to religion and society, yet his faith remains his legacy.
The Augusta market reports strong demand for cotton with prices at full levels. Inferior to middling fair range runs from 4 1 2 to 6 1 2 cents per pound, square bales 6 1 2 to 6 3 4. Great Western and Liverpool accounts expected within a week, bagging stocks light and grocerie prices rising.
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