01 Mar 1845
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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1845
Page
1
Publication details reveal James McCafferty prints on Macintosh Street opposite the post office. Rates list single copy two dollars per year, six copies ten top? twelve lines per square, ad rates 50 per square first insertion, 25 cents per continuation, yearly advertisers given liberal deduction. Post office letters not accepted unless postage paid.
We pledge mutual benefit and to guard against a pernicious practice injurious to health standing and families. We, gentlemen, pledge not to drink any spirituous or malt liquors wine or cider.
Officers listed include Dr Jos A Eve as President Dr DanTel Hook Rev William J Hard as Vice Presidents M Nes Jr Secretary L D Sallerstedt Treasurer with managers James Harper E E Scofield Rev C S Dod James Godby John Milledge
In Milledgeville on the 27th ult a small group formed to promote farming interests. They propose an agricultural convention on the fifth Monday in March with county delegates and invited members. They urge county associations and circuits to form clubs as branches of a State Agricultural Society and warn cotton price concerns may be eased by reduced production. The committee cites Hancock and Southern Cultivator as models. Richard Rowell Leroy Turner lead the committee. Feb 1, 1845.
An observer recounts a visit to the coal mines at Mauch Chunk detailing 475 workers, the Summit House, and daily life. He observes a boy with mental disability, his bond with a mother keeper Katy, and the boy’s dramatic escape from danger during a mine blast scene. The piece intertwines poverty, benevolence, and a religious lesson from a Bible discussion with a preacher and an old African guide.
A devout man near the minister seeks guidance after reading saints writings and finding scripture hard to understand. He approaches with humility during a hot noon as the preacher hoes corn and listens to his confession of sin and search for salvation.
A Neal's Gazette excerpt urges cultivating hope as essential to happiness. It argues hope fuels vitality, combats despair, and keeps life lively through small joys. The piece encourages pursuing new interests, embracing trifles, and extracting honey from humble moments.
The passage notes that loudest critics and selfimportant bluffers reveal themselves as impostors. It argues that civility arises from ordinary behavior, while the most ostentatious pretenders become the most irritable and subservient in mixed company and social settings.
A Scotch writer with experience cautions against becoming an editor. He urges readers to choose any other path if they have not chosen a profession, listing trades and roles from packkeeper to schoolteacher, emphasizing humane reasons and self preservation.
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