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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1843
Page
7
A series of opinion letters discuss temperance efforts and a proposed state convention in Milledgeville. Authors urge active leadership, critique alcohol abuse, and challenge Washingtonian editors to boost support for the Augusta Washingtonian.
A Washingtonian notice urges a general Temperance Convention of Georgia during the legislature session. Penfield hosts a preliminary gathering with limited strength but potential for a central Milledgeville meeting. The Penfield effort is praised and the Manufacule Society is asked to mobilize members for the statewide event.
A South Carolina man known for heavy drinking was deemed irrecoverable by friends. They staged a drastic experiment by covering him with glue, affixing cowhair claws and a cow tail, then left him. When he woke, he found his body strangely bound and constrained.
A correspondent from the Arsenal shares verses recalling the terrible havoc of an unseen foe and vows made under solemn circumstances. Epivor.
A reflective religious verse recounts prayers for deliverance from disease and the hope of praise in all states of life. It closes with a contrast praising a virtuous woman who steers family virtue, greater than romantic heroines.
A compilation of kitchen notes detailing Bread Sauce with bread soaked in milk, pepper, salt and butter, plus an Oxon Saver herb and onion relish and a Curry Sauce with butter curry powder nutmeg saffron. Also instructions to raise nap on worn woollens and to suLPmor wool silk straw bonnets using charcoal in a closed room.
The passage describes boiling brimstone with hot coals and letting dyed woollens hang to dry for three hours or overnight. It notes dry bleaching of fine woollens and recommends sulphuring coloured woollens before dyeing. Straw bonnets are bleached using the same method.
A roster of subscribers up to June 10 1844 from Augusta and nearby towns lists J F Carsewell J B Ramey C J Jenkins Wm Doyle Warren Aiken Jas W M Jenkins Win H Baldie and others. The Augusta Washington Total Abstinence Society sets a meeting for Thursday night 24th at 8 o clock in the Presbyterian Lecture Room to discuss a Temperance Convention at Milledgeville in November and to hear several addresses. Committees for subscriptions are named by ward with members listed and WM Haines Jr as secretary. Augusta August 19 1843.]
Fragmentary OCR lists invitation tickets and various items such as blankets caps batt tyoxers and hors. It appears to describe a display or sale of miscellaneous goods including hats coats and other merchandise at a Washingtonian office.
The notice states law blanks and printing offered in gold and color inks with an office fitted for the work. The firm Snea and Sledge formed by John C. Snea and John Milledge will practice law in Middle Lincoln Warren Counties and Northern Circuit. Their Augusta office is at the io Range over the Post Office. August 8, 1843. Aug 12.
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