The Magic Wheel and Temperance Debate in Alabama
The article describes a 12 cent admission magic wheel exhibit in a grog shop rear in Alabama claiming to imitate mythic serpents. It mocks wine drinkers, notes public license costs, and links to broader temperance movements in Boston with Irish signer pledges and imagined savings from abstinence.
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Juiter
Rindamanthus
Earth
Tartarus
Recollection of a Rum Seller in a Respectable Neighborhood
A narrator recalls a grey era recalling a rum shop near Rum Oll o where respectable men including colonels and church officers served drink. One evening a known neighbor, old L, enters for a last glass before heading home five miles away, illustrating social tolerance of the time.
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Rum Ollo
Old L
The Rumseller Conscience Across a Damned Night
A rumseller recalls aiding two men who drugged a drunkard customer. He watches the man deteriorate as he ferries him home by horse and laments the moral debt of selling liquor. The tale ends asking if the rumseller still feels guilt after thirty years.
Hawkins Temperance Lecture Charms Small Audience
Mr Hawkins delivered a temperance lecture recounting his conversion aided by his daughter Hannah. The touching scene of the child at prayer moved the speaker and audience, though bad weather and busy season kept attendance small. The State House Representative Hall was allotted for Sabbath evening lectures, and officials noted the novelty drew interest despite poor turnout.
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Hawkins
Hannah
State House
Temperance reforms and vigil on crime in early America
A lengthy, period tone discussion on temperance leaders in Charleston and Philadelphia Judge King, warning that continued reform could abolish courts and prisons. Reports on gambling deaths in Macon and a Rabun county volcanic mountain claim, plus a France horse braking method and an 1830s sea voyage anecdote about look aloft.
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Philadelphia
King
Grand Jury
Criminal Court
Ram
Looking Aloft for Strength in Adversity
Fragmentary 19th century sermon exhortation urges readers to steady themselves in tempests by looking toward eternal life. The text references deep faith, consolation in God, and perseverance through hardship as the heart seeks strength beyond human support.
Samuel T. Chapman to attend Southern District Courts
Attorney Samuel T. Chapman will travel to the Courts of Law and Equity in Edgefield Orangeburg and Barnwell districts South Carolina and to the Courts of Richmond and adjacent counties Georgia. The notice lists August 213 as a date in Augusta Georgia.
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Amuel T. Chapman
Equity
Edgefield
Orangeburg
Barnwell
S. C
Richmond
Orrice
Augusta
Snead & Milledge
Lincoln
Warren
Court of Common Pleas
John C. Snead
John Milledge
State Bank
Deal Marine and Fire Insurance Bank
Planters
Central Rail Road Bank
Nores State Bank
Macon
State Commercial Bank
Milledgeville Bank
Georgia Rail Road Bank
Athens
Ruckersville Bank
Marine & Fire Insurance
St. Mary’s Bank
Central R. R. Bank
Central Bank Center Exchange Bank of Brunswick
NS Ae Insurance Bank of Columbus
Phoenix Bank
Columbus
Bank of
Hawkinsville
Milledgeville
Monroe Rail Road Bank
Bank of Darien
Rete Chattahoochie R. A. and Banking Co
Western Bank of Georgia
Bank of Columbus
Planters & ¢ Mechanics Bank
Columbus Bank of
Exchange Table Specie Basis Reprinted
Exchange table shows specie basis values with cities including New York Light, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lexington, Richmond, Savannah, and Charleston. The fragment suggests rates or comparisons among these locations and teams or cagers.
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New York Light
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Lexington
Richmond, Va
Savannah
Charleston
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