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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1844
Page
7
In Charleston Rambler prose a gifted Vernon succumbs to intemperance after college life and marriage. A loving wife endures blame as he spirals amid loss and violence. His daughter Lucy intervenes, then is harmed, prompting confession and social censure.
A dated editorial fragment urges temperance by highlighting the cost of daily liquor and its impact on families. It references a pledge of abstinence, a sailor wardroom ban on drink, and anecdotes of alcohol’s ruin from a militia colonel’s son to a man who sold his sword for liquor.
The account details Burgoyne's NY campaign burning General Schuyler’s mansion and his surrender to American forces. Lady Ackland recalls crossing to the American camp with her children and receiving compassion from General Gates as Gen Schuyler’s hospitality and dignified forgiveness are highlighted.
The Courier Francais notes a library conversation at the National Institute stating that every century midpoint in five hundred years brings a European social crisis. It cites 1440 printing, 1550 Luther, 1650 Bacon and Descartes, 1750 philosophy, and forecasts a fundamental revolution around 1850.
A necrology lists eminent figures lost in the past year including Hol land the landscape painter Raimbach the engraver Robert Southey La Mot i ouque Galpin the landscape gardener Pine Jane of Royal Residences Wine and Walnuts Hahnemann founder of Homeopathic School Caroline Pickler German novelist Sir Charles Morgan Foster essayist Noah Webster Washing Allston Gen Armstrong Pete Augustus Jay and Hugh S Legare.
The piece reports on Oregon Indians claiming metempsychosis and language retention, with a doctor noting a man who shot himself in July and twice before, faking rebirth after a leather shirt protected him. It also notes Harper’s Pictorial Bible selling ten thousand copies and comments on education health and prosperity versus personal fault.
Mr Hezekiah Jenkins living near Snow Hill in this county reports twelve square bales of cotton weighing 500 pounds each this year with more corn produced. He worked alone with three small sons as his only hands all four not equal to three good hands.
The article suggests digging up fence corners and planting them with winter squashes beans and bush peas to yield more. It also advises planting ornamental trees to shelter cattle and shade roads, plus a preservative composition to protect gates roofs and timber from weather.
W M Russett offers a six month publication of a youth oriented religious newspaper titled Rose Bud Forsyth Ga to fund its launch. It will target religion and early piety, avoid sectarian doctrines, print 18 by 24 inch pages at 75 cents for six months, and start after January 1 1843 if enough subscribers are secured.
Bagging demand is light as planters are generally supplied. Stock on hand is heavy and ample for the upcoming season. Groceries activity paused since Christmas with poor weather keeping country buyers away. Stocks are full and well assorted.
Bank names and branches listed across Georgia and nearby states appear in a fragmented exchange table. It cites institutions including State Bank Macon Milledgeville Athens Columbus Augusta Milledgeville Macon Darien Hawkinsville and Western Bank of Georgia alongside railroad and city councils.
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