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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1844
Page
7
The speaker argues that moral suasion fails with hardened drinkers and urges reliance on government protection. Examples show the harm of intemperance, the impact on families, and the need for law and abstinence pledges, noting Santa Anna era taxes and that 32,000 reformers joined churches in four New England states.
A young man seen at a New York East River dock years ago, once a shabby inebriate toiling as an hour laborer, pledged temperance and returned to respectability. His reformation is noted in the country’s leading paper as a talented and promising new member of the current Congress. This single success cheers reformers more than a thousand anti vice essays.
A preacher urges finding a baker's dozen true men. They must combine gentle kindness with firm zeal, avoid malice, and resist vice. He cites divine aid, truth, and mercy to bolster reform against barrooms grog shops and vice. Doctor Jewett inspires moral mission.
An elderly man named Charles Anderson, formerly a gunner on the U S frigate Potomac and pensioned for a wound, was arrested in St Louis for breaking open trunks at the Bremer House. He was intoxicated at the time and formerly served aboard the Potomac in a skirmish near the Foroe Islands in the South Seas.
Figures on mortality and lifespans across nations are presented alongside notes on population dynamics and seafaring propulsion. Kentucky gaming legislation and Lieut Hunters submerged propellers for the Albert are described with engine speeds and boiler pressures.
A hypochondriac advised by Dr. Crawford to travel to Ohio panicked at the surgeon’s knife, fled in fear crying murder, and afterward showed no liver symptoms for over two decades. Albany Knickerbocker notes Manhattan’s 1626 Dutch purchase for sixty guilders. Charleston Rambler reports a tiny steamboat under water propulsion and a lilac grafted onto an ash tree.
The Augusta market shows cotton prices up about a cent on the week with 60,000 bales in stock. Liverpool advices through the 13th last month underpin gains while buyers meet stern resistance and sales are light. Bagging demand is limited and grocery lines see fair, though not robust, activity.
List of payments to the Washingtonian and several individuals including Augusta F A Morgan to Jan 1 1945, D Ogden to June 10 1944, St Clair Mrs J Hughes to June 10 1944, Rome J W M Berrien to June 10 1945, Washington Jno Milner to Feb 10 1945, Vienna D J Bothweil to Nov 4 1944.
An OCR fragment lists Georgia banks and branches including Mechanics Bank Brunswick Bank Bank of Augusta Augusta Insurance & Banking Co Savannah Nores State Bank Planters Bank Central Rail Road Bank Macon Milledgeville Bank Athens City Councils Ruckersville Chattahoochee R R Bank Western Bank of Georgia Planters & Mechanics Bank Bank of Darien and branches and notes on bonds for specie 6 and 8 percent plus various city and state banks and notes from New York Philadelphia and Charleston with exchange rates and notes.
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