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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1844
Page
7
A Christian citizen decries the possibility of court martial for dissenters and imagines a divine, peaceable reign over a hellish battlefield. He laments mass slaughter and the smoky rivers of blood, calling for restraint amid maddened mobs and frenzied passions.
Dr. Baily of the Cincinnati Herald recounts two sermons by Thomas H. Stockton, praising his eloquence and vivid imagery. The Sunday address on the ascension unfolds in dramatic, biblical tableaux with a rising, majestic cadence and celestial imagery.
A missionary child in the South Seas witnesses siblings burying a deceased brother and later another. A younger child pleads, Do not plant it, echoing a misunderstanding that burial is planting seeds. The piece reflects on the motif of resurrection and springing from the earth as a fitting figure.
A survey of curiosities includes the beetle eye facets counted at 3181 in a beetle and 8000 in a horse fly. The note praises Webster's Dictionary, mentions apples stored in corn, and reports Buenos Ayres at war with Rio Grande. A fatal jealousy case in New York and a premium offer from Tioga Phenix follow.
A compact meditation on corruption and renewal using biblical imagery. The sower scatters seed and hopes for springing beauty and reward, likening it to a parent laying a loved one to rest and anticipating future glory. The passage invokes sheet anchor as a guiding metaphor.
A social exhortation urges women to labor at home without blushes or apologies. It cites Cobbet and his wife as exemplary, praising women who wash, stir coffee, and keep hearths clean as best preparation for marriage. The piece proclaims industriousness as the strongest recommendation to potential husbands and dismisses mockers as fools.
Three mathematicians Fuss Savitch and Sabler conducted independent trigonometrical levellings across many stations, correcting earlier barometrical estimates. They find Caspian Sea mean low mood at 83.6 English feet below the Mediterranean, with possible error around 1.3 foot, resolving a long standing geographical question.
The Augusta market remains discouraged with a downward drift in cotton prices from 3 to 44 cents, most sales at 4 to 44 cents. Bagging demand stayed limited as planters’ needs were largely met, while groceries saw fair demand at prior quoted prices.
On Christmas time all should enjoy a roast beef meal, regardless of wage, and the City Marshal proposes to supply every widow in the city with a liberal amount of beef free of charge at the Lower Market house on Monday morning. Orders may be made at the Washingtonian office or via J A Christian.
JMR Russell announces a grand atmospheric voyage guided by John Wise on Wednesday December 25 1844 at the Hampton Race Course Broad Street South Augusta. Weather permitting the ascent aims for 1 PM with room for 5000 spectators in carriages. A parachute drop with a living animal is promised from a mile high for safe landing.
A fragmented OCR list details banks and city councils including State Bank Macon Milledgeville and Columbus, Georgia Rail Road Bank Athens Augusta Darien and branches, Central Bank and Planters Bank, with scattered notes on bonds and sales. It references South Carolina and Alabama entities in partial form as well.
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