Total Abstinence Pledge Notice
A brief public notice reports residents signing the total abstinence pledge. The record notes community support and local officials promoting temperance.
25 Jan 1845
Page 1
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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1845
Page
1
A brief public notice reports residents signing the total abstinence pledge. The record notes community support and local officials promoting temperance.
Officers listed include vice presidents IWKINS HUPP Esq and HAINES Jr Secretary AREST Treasurer NAGERS Z tans E. E. Scofield with names Dod James Godby and other members in Milledre, detailing society leadership and governance positions.
The Albany Cultivator notes that fall sowing yields better grain and less weather damage. Wm Sum of Pomaria reports on barley buckwheat and rye trials, stressing seed selection soil manure and near stable sites. The piece also discusses grazing barley once established and agriculture as social improvement.
It is familiar to farmers that when any animal has been subject to this complaint, that upon the return of winter the coming of the illness recurs, warning owners to watch for returning signs and seek remedy promptly.
A reader notes a nonendorsed cure for corns: wrap an unwashed flannel around the corn and toe, wet the flannel with fine sweet oil morning and night, renew weekly, and pare the corn as it shrinks. The writer invites feedback if successful.
The article argues the paramount duty of citizens to pursue universal literacy and moral uplift. It notes reading ability is essential for informed suffrage and governance, warns about public opinion and direction of power, and urges deeper efforts to instill reverence for right while extending educational reach.
The speaker urges moral and intellectual cultivation as the foundation of liberty. He cites the Holy Scriptures as the only effective remedy for human heart malady and calls for elevating citizens’ character to secure future freedoms and global influence. He reflects on a growing nation and looming census, stressing Providence guiding a destined mission.
In Drontheim Norway a regiment known as Skate runners wears green uniforms with long gaiters. They carry short swords rifles and seven foot climbing-staffs. They move swiftly in deep snow outrunning cavalry and inflicting rapid pursuit on enemies during marches. They once outran messengers carrying news of Charles XII s death and aided Swedish forces during sieges.
A Vermont father forced his daughter and her husband from his home for wedlock to a poorer suitor. The couple moved toward Boston, found work, prospered, and later welcomed him warmly. When he visited, he heard from a neighbor that they had treated him with unprecedented kindness, remarking that they had broken his heart.
A neighbor recalls a daughter who forgives her cruel father, saying he killed her with kindness. The father laments his cruelty and asks Heaven to forgive him, admitting the daughter’s loving response was right despite her suffering. He pleads for a universal cure for conflict between people.
A romantic scene unfolds with Robert Emmet and a veiled lady at a dungeon door, a farewell before execution, and a later Italian deathbed of Sarah Curran. The account shifts to Montezuma’s court, detailing lavish meals, ceremonial acts, and palace entertainments observed by a visitor.
The passage notes Mexico’s elaborate meat dressings and hot serving methods, claiming the table of Montezuma offered over three hundred dishes and his guards more than three thousand, illustrating grand feasting customs.
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