Temperance Movement Reflections and Incidents
The piece discusses the Washingtonian temperance revival, praising Hamburg and Baltimore efforts, detailing a meeting where a reunited couple affected by drink inspired attendees. It notes Father Mathew's praise of the press and recalls Ireland’s late 18th century drink trade, illustrating the impact of temperance on Dublin’s whiskey culture and shopkeepers.
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Father Mathew
Cleryman
Ocsion
Ireland
London
Idlic
Ery Metropolitan Daily Journal
France
Dublin
Mattthew
Inhomas-Street
Cireu Ce
Affection and Family Ties in Norfolk Herald
An earnest exhortation promotes warm affection in families. The piece argues against cold distant parenting, urging readers to cherish hearts, nurture love among children and parents, and cultivate domestic bonds through religion and devotion to God and neighbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk Herald
Printing's benefit praised by Foreigh Review excerpt
The Boston Mercantile Journal cites an April 1839 Foreign Review passage praising print technology. It contrasts horrific battles of Tamerlane and vast empires with a German artisan and movable type. The reflection argues movable type surpasses conquests and illuminates human history through printing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Mercantile Journal
Foreigh Review
Tamerlane
Damascus
Mentz
Walter Penniless
Napoleon Bonaparte
John Faust
A Terrible Picture of Capital and Labor
A New York Com prompt frame critiques a Punch engraving titled Capital and Labor. It contrasts an aristocrat at ease with a lavish dining room and liveried servant against starving workers in coal mines, a door barred by gold, love, and hope unable to enter, portraying a horrific view of English life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Punch
London Charivari
N. Y. Com
Royal Tribute to Sigourney's Talent and Gift
A French Queen presented Mrs. Steournry with a bracelet as thanks for a poem praising royal family members. The gesture signals growing European appreciation for American writers. The notice contrasts past views of Americans with current recognition.
Remark on Mrs Extet and German literary praise
A German critic with high literary distinction in a letter to a friend in this State commends Mrs Extet of Columbia for her English work on the poet Schiller. She admires the author’s knowledge of German and language mastery and notes the author's cultivated mind and good heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chron
Improved cotton gin described by Kelly of Vicksburg
The Tuscaloosa Monitor reports an invention by Mr. Kelly of Vicksburg Mississippi, with Doctor Maclin purchasing the state rights. The design adds three sets of grates and two stationary brushes. the saws pass tightly within a larger brush wheel housed in an airtight cylinder.
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Tuscaloosa
Kelly
Vicksburg
Miss
Maclin
Extraordinary Longevity and Oddities From Various Regions
A Greenville Mountaineer item reports a North Carolina man named Bracx Well claimed to be 136, alive near the mountains and progressing through a temperate life. Other notes describe a Belgian giant’s coffin not matching his width, a Cyrene silver coin with Jupiter Ammon and silphium, and a nugget about safetida misidentified as a drug. Practical home tips cover preserving horse radish, hardening earthenware by gradual heating, and bran additives to protect glazing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Bracx Well
Braddock
Greenville Mountaineer
Cyrene
Africa
Jupiter Ammon
Pliny
Julius Cesar
Augusta Market Report on Cotton and Groceries
The Augusta market notes strong cotton demand with principal sales at 71 to 77 cents. It hints a choice square bale might exceed recent highs and mentions good river freights to Savannah at 75 cents per bale, with transient boats sometimes charging 62 to 4. Groceries also show solid demand and prices matching current quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
List of Payments to the Washingtonian
Augusta Dr Newton A Baker paid to June 11 44. Newbridge Robt C Mayson to Dec 3 44. Lawrenceville Ga C W Simmons to Nov 25 44. Darbys P O Mrs Nancy Thomas to Nov 25 44. Eatonton John Huidsen to Nov 25 41.
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The
Washingtonian
Augusta
Newton
A. Baker
Newbridge
Robt. C. Mayson
Lawrenceville
C. W. Simmons
Darbys P. O
Nancy Thomas
Eatonton
John Huidsen
Dr John Millen candidate for lax collector Richmond County
Announcement lists Dr John Millen as a candidate for Lax Collector of Richmond County with an election in January. It notes attorney Samuel T Chapman will attend courts in Edgefield Orangeburg Barnwell and Richmond counties and other Georgia districts. Also details a home industry store relocating and offering fall winter clothing at favorable terms to aid the poor.
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O’connell
N. Y
John Millen
Richmond County
Amuel T. Chapman
Nat Law
Law
Equity
Edgefield
Orangeburg
Barnwell
S.C
Richmond
Augusta
Home Industry
Insurance Bank
Snead & Mil
Middle
Lincoln
Warren
Court of Common Pleas
John C. Snead
John Milledge
Reynold-street
Lincoln-street
Exchange Table of Georgia Banks and Bonds
Exchange table lists Georgia banks and branches, state and city councils, railroads and insurance firms. It notes bonds and notes values, specie exchanges, and rate uncertainty with par and discount figures for various institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Bank
Marine and Fire Insurance Bank
Central Rail Road Bank
Milledgeville Bank
Georgia Rail Road Bank
Athens
Ruckersville Bank
Central R. R. Bank
Macon
Exchange Bank of Brunswick
Insurance Bank of Columbus
Bank of
Hawkinsville
City Council of
Milledgeville
Columbus
Monroe Rail Road Bank
Chat
Augusta
Central Bank
Phenix Bank
Bank of Darien
Bank of Columbus
Georgia 6
Pr. Ct
Charleston
Avabasta Notes
Avgusta
Mechanics’ Bank
Brunswick Bank
Bank of Augusta
Augusta Insurance & Banking Co
Georgia Rail Road
State of Georgia Savannau
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Temperance Hall
Friends of Temperance
Hamry
Ling
Ashingtonian Society
Hamburg
Dld
Cours
Journal
Washing- Temperance Society
Eir Hall
Ving
Knight
Casey
Constancy
W. K. Mitchell
Democratic Pacifique
Moorsted
Belgium
Lille
Louis XVIII
J. B. Courtright
WM. Haines, Jr
Garvin & Haines
Moedicaericecines
Broad-street
A. St
North Side
Eagle and Phoenix
M. Antony
John B. Murphy
Sills Street
Guedron
N. Ballingal
Gcharles McCoy
Porto Rico
Allow
Georgia
Baltimore
Western
Gunrow ER
Dupont
FFF
Russia
Moasses
N. Orleans
Avana
Malaga
New Orleans
Havana
St. Croix
Tosacco
N. Carolina
Irginia
Souchong
Cis
New York Light
Boston
Philadelphia
Lexington
Richmond, Va
Carecks
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