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Augusta Washingtonian

Location

Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Jun 01, 1844

Page

7

Youth temperance reformers urge global pledge movement

The piece urges youth to form temperance societies in villages and schools, promoting pledges and peer encouragement. It contrasts youthful zeal with earlier lax habits, warns of drink-driven ruin, and calls for temperate parents to lead by example to protect future generations.

Mr.ybridge E-Youth Erance

Butterflies and Danger in a Ragged Verse Prose

A fragmentary excerpt contrasts poverty with addiction and mortality. It juxtaposes a hungry, freezing child with a father drawn to rum, warns of danger from ardent spirits, and muses on aging and chasing butterflies from youth to death, ending with a sly aside about a gin drinker.

Mose Kingdom of Heaven Glory Death

From the Learned Blacksmith to the Steam Engine

The excerpt portrays a Massachusets figure famed as the Learned Blacksmith praising steam power as a mighty iron beast. It also gives medical guidance for reviving drowning victims and notes an 1844 remark by Valentine Mott, Surgeon General. A Baltimore America report on the Washington to city telegraph experiment follows.

Massachusetts St. Peter’s Sahara Valentine Mott The American, Shipwreck Society New York Baltimore American Washington Corporation of Lazaretto Professor Morse C. Colfer Mifflinco Isame Albany

Descriptive Notices and Reports From the Era

The text summarizes legislative motion on adjournment and a decision on a smallpox hospital site, notes Morse telegraph progress, references a destructive New Orleans fire, crop troubles from worms, potato experiments from Pennsylvania, and a horse founder remedy. It records various regional updates, church conference items, and agricultural observations.

Augusta Market Sees Steady Prices Amid Softening Demand

The market shows no major price change since last issue with holders firm at 4 7 and sales mostly 5 to 6 4 cents for PTON. Bagging sales are moderate as planters refrain from large early-season purchases. Groceries demand remains weak, linked to low cotton prices.

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