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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1845
Page
3
An extended reverie on truth as power, wealth and talent failing to resist tyranny. It extols truth as a divine, enduring principle and contrasts it with wealth driven by pride. Prudential Matches recounts a rich man who coerces his daughter into a wealth marriage, only for fortune to vanish in years.
Leigh H unts Ben Adheim and the Angel is praised as a beautiful piece performed at Berkshire Jubilee by Mr. Macready. The tale shows the angel writing names of those who love the Lord and then those who love their fellow men. Reward of Enterprise details the Chambers brothers Edinburgh rise from printers to publishers with vast warehouses and large print runs.
The January number lists twenty five missions under the American Board with 94 stations and 133 ordained missionaries. It notes eight physicians, seven non preaching physicians, sixteen teachers, nine printers and binders, eight other lay assistants, and 178 females. There are 343 sent from the United States and 17 native preachers with 122 other native helpers, totaling 487 missionaries abroad. Mission churches total 25,612.
The report notes 382 or boarding pupils and 639 free residents under mission care, totaling about 32,000 enrolled in education. Since inception 75,000 people taught to read the Scriptures, with 15 printing establishments, 6 type foundries, 30 presses, 32 font sets, printing in 32 languages and four hundred million pages printed. Annual expenditure averaged about $250,000 over the past six years.
The Secretary of War suggests establishing a new territory on the eastern Rocky Mountain slope at the headwaters of the Platte and the Arkansas to be named Nebraska. It would be our soil and control the grand pass between the Atlantic and Pacific. The piece mentions lofty peaks and waters draining to the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of California, and the Pacific, framing a continental divide.
The Wellington rooms in Liverpool employ concealed ceiling apertures connected to an upper air chamber and a furnace chimney shaft to vent vitiated air. A perforated zinc band around the room channels air through water to remove impurities and steam-heated pipes to adjust temperature, with a steam engine and fan delivering purified air, ensuring strong crowded-assembly comfort and near mountain-breeze purity.
The article notes nettle is vilified by farmers as a worthless weed but is valued in Holland for pot herb young shoots and yellow dye from roots. Bavarian sources claim nettle benefits livestock and poultry, improves cattle and pig fattening, aids egg production, and yields edible shoots with a fine flavor. It grows year round and fibers yield hemp-like material.
The interest of Dr. Wm. Flint in the Southern Whig has been bought by J. H. Christy. The paper will be run by Clayton and Christy. Brown and Dunn of the Marietta Heli con retire from editorial charge and are replaced by B. E. Benton, ex proprietor of the La Grange Herald.
A Kentucky giantess stands six feet eleven in Cincinnati. A Cuban copper ore cargo arrives in New York for Brooklyn smelting. A liquor sale to a slave costs a two hundred dollar fine in New Cuncass. Hamilton’s widow, age ninety, remains vigorous in Washington. Tom Thumb attracts crowds in England, claimed twenty five inches tall. Irene Nichols of Monmouth, wife of Mexico’s Herrera, identified as future Mexican First Lady. Frances Coombs murdered near Louisiana plantation. suspect arrested. Great Telescope for Cincinnati Observatory lands in New Orleans. Since 1844, 159 French married women charged with killing or attempting to kill husbands.
The Augusta market shows little activity since last week with few planters in town buying bagging. Groceries sales remain limited though prices stay largely unchanged from prior quotations.
County Line Academy in Quaker Springs reopens on the first Monday in January with Mr J T S PARK in charge for the past two years. Tuition and board costs listed. limited room in the Teacher's family for 22 per quarter. Also notice of two gold waist buckles found with owner to prove property and pay expenses.
The periodical announces expanded coverage on physiology and animal magnetism linked to phrenology, aiming to teach health, habits, and happiness. It promises departments on physiology, animal magnetism, and a focus on female education, with subscriptions and sample pages provided.
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