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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1845
Page
3
A graphic account describes a flogging scene in a British regiment, detailing Thomas Jackson's five hundred lashes leading to his death and burial with military honors. The narrative shifts to observations on the Seneca Nation with names, locations, and cultural notes in Buffalo.
A three to four mile distance from the city lies the Indian Reservation where Seneca Indians form a small settlement with a schoolhouse and a church. Children learn English reading and writing while others pursue agriculture. Most grow up idle and emulate white vices, with a shanty church serving as a Sabbath service site.
A peasant child is seized by a she wolf and later recovered after the young wolves taste prey but spare the life. The narrative shifts to a mother and four year old girl attacked outside a cottage as the wolf drags the child away, the mother vainly tries to rescue her with a brutal struggle lasting several minutes.
In Frazer's Magazine a scene unfolds in a forest as a wolf scatters clothing remains, the woman stumbles amid jagged ground and thick bushes, and the child’s screams fade to silence while a witness recalls the chilling aftermath and the mother’s despair.
The piece notes long standing pressures to move women to the Virginia colony. It cites 1620 exports of ninety girls and sixty more the next year, sold as wives for tobacco prices, with debt for wives prioritized for recovery. It quotes Holmes and a writer praising Virginians eager to marry arriving London women.
A Southern writer extols New England free schools where the poorest boy achieves equality with the son of wealth. Governor Barbour of Virginia visits Boston and learns of the system. He sees a medal winner whose father is a wood sawyer and a runner-up who is the son of John Adams, the President.
The Augusta market shows brisk demand for cotton with firm pricing. quotations 5 to 6 cents, extremes 5 to 6 1/4 cents. Bagging demand is limited but prices steady. Groceries see little business with no demand improvement and unchanged quotations.
The pamphlet notes the building of a surgical infirmary near the Georgia Railroad depot to be ready by August 1. It will accommodate 4 to 8 white and 10 to 20 black patients with day and night nursing and no board charges. Surgical attendance and operations carry usual fees. during November to March poor patients are admitted and treated at no expense by faculty.
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