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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1844
Page
2
The narrative follows Charles Morton amid dissipation and loyalty to Louisa. A series of personal losses, including his father’s death and a final blessing from his dying master, tests his promises. Financial security arrives too late as moral reckoning and love clash with temptation.
The Washindonian publisher laments a near six hundred dollar deficit after a year of low price, free editorial work, and partial payments. He asks friends of temperance to subscribe at two dollars per year and urges postmasters and agents to assist, noting the editorial committee will continue work gratis.
A prospectus urges readers to back the Augusta Washingtonian, praising its temperance advocacy and practical value. It emphasizes weekly moral uplift, market updates, and financial solvency, asking every Washingtonian to become a patron at two dollars a year to secure the paper’s future. The plea notes existing generous friends but seeks to widen the donor base.
A warm hearted friend has subscribed for five copies of Volume III and the donors are thanked, signed by Mr. C.
The text debates the alleged benevolence of grog sellers during a Yellow Fever crisis. It cites a terrorized grog seller who sent a German to town to sell ginger cakes so residents could eat, arguing the sellers’ goodness is selective and self-serving.
A grog seller aided the burial by holding the rope that lowered the coffin into the tomb. Bystanders viewed the act with loathing, yet the man believed he was aiding a worthy deed and might receive praise. An old French witticism about the Devil parallels the tale.
Dr Stevens cannot proceed due to missing documents. Mr Lemon in London says the papers could be obtained by Rev Mr Howard during his England visit. Six thousand dollars had been appropriated for the history project and Mr Howard was sent to gather early Georgia history. Howard denies unfaithfulness and claims investigations were limited. Savannah Republican notes Lemon will reply.
The Southern Chronicle warns of J. Saxton a man of about 21 to 22 from New York who visited Columbia posing as a general agent for all newspapers and literature. He induced residents to pay subscription money but publishers deny knowledge of him. Saxton is described as 5 ft 8 or 9 inches tall with a sharp face long dark hair and blue eyes.
The text details designing a city garden with beds borders and walks, suggesting widths, materials for edges and paths, and water drainage. It covers plant placement relative to fences, use of conservatories, and emphasizes rotation and a nursery bed to sustain crops like radishes lettuce onions asparagus cabbages cucumbers melons celery leeks endive.
The writer discusses choosing early and thriving seedlings, practicing alternate drills with different seed, and transplanting or gathering plants for later use, leaving room for the most thrifty varieties to mature. The letter closes with a courteous sign-off.
In Washingtonian No. 11 WP. discusses garden tools and practical tweaks. It favors long handled implements a six foot shovel hoe rake to avoid bed trampling and suggests a six inch rake for nut grass and a narrow drill forming hoe. It notes iron claw gloves protect hands and promote careful work.
Our exchange papers bring glad tidings from the Union. At the Capitol and in state legislatures the temperance cause advances. Across the army navy and home the push to banish the scourge continues. News from England India Siam and missions shows widespread support for temperance and Christian moral reform.
A young man of about twenty five, worn by cold and dissipation, sits by a stove in a grog shop. Observers note a once bright intellect now clouded by misery. Somers, a fellow worker, calls him a loafer. the bartender vows to eject him if drunkenness returns, as William H. endures the rebuke.
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