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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1845
Page
7
The passage contrasts truth as power with wealth and talent, depicting rulers and crowds fearing truth. It recalls biblical imagery, a ministerial figure guiding life’s destructible principle, and ends with Prudential Matches about a rich man who pushes his daughter to marry for wealth and loses it all.
Leigh Hunt praises a Berkshire Jubilee performance of Ben Adheim and the Angel with Mr Macready. The piece recounts the angel writing on a gold book for those who love the Lord and those who love their fellow men. The second item celebrates the Chambers brothers rise from Edinburgh printers to major publishers with vast warehouses and large weekly circulations.
The January issue of the Missionary Herald lists twenty five distinct missions with 94 stations and 133 ordained missionaries. Among them are eight physicians, seven non preaching physicians, sixteen teachers, nine printers and binders, and 178 female and male lay assistants. Two hundred eighty seven members aid native preachers and helpers, totaling 487 missionaries supported abroad. Mission churches number 25,612.
The missions report 32 000 pupils under their care including 1029 boarding and 639 free aid locations. Since inception 75 000 adults and children were taught to read the Sacred Scriptures. They operate 15 printings establishments with 30 presses and 32 type founts, printing 400 million pages in 38 languages. Average annual expenditure last six years about $250 000.
The Secretary of War proposes forming a new territory on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains at the headwaters of the Platte and Arkansas rivers, to be named Nebraska. The piece cites it as an Indian name for the Platte and highlights its strategic location between Atlantic and Pacific routes, with the surrounding geography described.
The Wellington rooms in Liverpool employ concealed ceiling apertures feeding an upper air chamber with a chimney shaft to vent vitiated air. A perforated zinc band around the room connects to an air chamber in the vaults below, where air passes through water filters and is temperature controlled by steam pipes, a steam engine, and a revolving fan.
The net tle is condemned as a weed by farmers but Dutch practice treats it as useful. Seeds and roots aid horses and dyes, and it serves as green feed for cows. Bavarian notes claim benefits for cattle, sheep, hens, pigs, and even hemp fibers, with year-round growth and culinary shoots.
The Southern Whig is sold to J. H. Christy and will be run by Clayton and Christy. Brown and Dunn of the Marietta Herald retire from editorial duties, replaced by B. E. Benton, previously a La Grange Herald proprietor.
An Englishman praises a new pronunciation guide while a Kentucky native stands six feet eleven in Cincinnati. A Cuban copper ore cargo reaches New York and Brooklyn plans an experimental smelting. A New Cuncass man pays two hundred dollars for liquor to a slave, losing license forever. Hamilton’s widow, 90, remains vigorous in Washington. English crowds chase General Tom Thumb, claimed twenty five inches tall. Irene, wife of Mexico’s Herrera, once a factory girl. Havana’s governor bans Eugenie Sur’s Wander Jew. Francis Coombs, Santa Fe prisoner relative, murdered in Louisiana. suspect jailed. Cincinnati Observatory’s great telescope arrives in New Orleans. France reports 159 married women charged with attempting or committing spousal murder since 1844.
The Augusta market shows little activity since last week with few planters buying. Groceries demand remains limited while prices stay largely as previously quoted.
County Line Academy in Quaker Springs announces reopening on the first Monday in January with J T S Park in charge for the past two years. Tuition is low, with boarding nearby at six dollars per month and special rates of twenty two dollars per quarter in the teacher's family. Found item: gold waist buckles lost around January 18, owner to claim by proving property and paying expenses at the office.
A historical prospectus promotes a periodical merging Phrenology with Physiology and Magnetism, arguing these sciences explain human nature and moral behavior. It forecasts future sections on physiology, animal magnetism, and a department on women, promising health insights and social improvement through knowledge.
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