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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1845
Page
3
The piece critiques false prosperity and concealment in households urging frankness between spouses. It warns that ignorance about income and expenses undermines the marriage and that concealment leads to later regret, urging readers to embrace honesty.
The Goshen paper notes a farmer with 80 to 100 hens selling 7,680 eggs in ten months at 11 cents a dozen, roughly equaling 70 dollars in value or 1,600 pounds of pork. It adds that 50 hens can yield five to seven thousand eggs annually, worth about 50 to 70 dollars at one cent per egg.
The Hartford Times recounts a dramatic incident at a Rhymacy furnace where a fireman’s young son slipped into a furnace. The father leaped in to save him and after pulling the child to safety, swapped places and narrowly escaped death himself by clinging to a red hot iron bar before being carried home in a dangerous condition.
Washington Georgia editor urges strong support from subscribers to keep a newspaper lively and financially viable. He argues punctual, liberal readers in advance payments and active promotion make a paper interesting and respectable, while neglect leads to decline and failure.
A reader notes a rare comet appearing after sunset, described as a stranger from space likely an estray. The message likens it to a curious observer, and references Santa art fortunes and Congressional talks on Texas annexation, with a hopeful, humorous tone.
The article surveys diverse new year start dates from ancient and medieval times. It covers Jewish, Chaldean, Egyptian, Chinese, Roman, Turkish, Persian, Mexican, Abyssinian, American Indian, Mahometan, Italian city states, and French civil and ecclesiastical reckonings. It notes shifts from autumnal to vernal equinoxes and the adoption of the Gregorian reform in 1582 and 1752 changes in Britain.
The 1643 Massachusetts law required freemen to cast Indian corn for one candidate and beans for another in selecting Assistants. A voter placing more than one crop for a choice faced a ten pound forfeit. The familiar polling cry to the polls echoes from this bean voting era.
The widow of Alexander Hamilton visits Arlington House where Washington relics are displayed and the bed linked to Washington is described. She aims to place the Hamilton Papers before Congress, including over a hundred Washington letters unseen by the public, with hopes the government acquires these national treasures for posterity. A brief humorous anecdote about a Methodist preacher and kidney potatoes follows.
The item lists appointments by the governor naming Samuel Hall as Solicitor General for the Flint Circuit and Octavus Cohen as Navy Agent for the Port of Savannah. It also alternates between odd anecdotes about a nose graft with a fowl rump, a brother of the Ettrick Shepherd living in the Susquehanna region, long-lived Boulogne residents, and various notes on Santa Fe trade, a Rochester baby note, home remedies, and other brief curiosities.
Cotton demand remained good but supply exceeded needs causing price declines across several grades. Ordinary 4a 4c, fair 5c, good fair 5a 52, and inferior parcels struggled while scarce quality stayed near stable. Bagging activity remained light with no price changes. Groceries saw steady business with coffee dipping slightly and figures adjusted.
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