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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1845
Page
2
A financial notice from the Washingtonian warns subscribers they may remit dues via their local Post Master to the publisher. The article lists a distant network of committee members and urges payment to avoid postage costs.
The piece defends the temperance movement praising its persuasive methods and noting broad backing across political and religious lines. It highlights the social harms of drinking, domestic misery, and fiscal waste, while hoping for a future where intoxication is as rare as opium use.
A reflection on the insidious pull of alcohol and the struggle of a man resolve to quit drinking. Surrounded by taunts and persuasive friends, he yields briefly, seeks abstinence through public pledge, and weighs the strength a temperance society could lend.
A speaker argues that feeble purposes falter before every breeze. A solemn oath has weight only when honor supports it. The passage declares the Bible is not a magical talisman but a plain common sense tool. It says a true resolution strengthens will and restricts liberty to avoid wrong.
A call to focus temperance efforts on youth before drinking habits form. Emphasizes early school involvement, shaping future adults, and placing boys in proper social roles to influence future society.
The Medical College of Georgia held its commencement on the 4th at the Masonic Hall with 33 graduates receiving the Doctor of Medicine degree from Charles J. Jenkins. Rev. Wm. Brantly Jr delivered an address. Dr. T. B. Gordon gave the valedictory. The issue editorializes on temperance, urging influential society members to renounce hospitality wine and promote total abstinence to curb intemperance and its social harms.
A long exhortation advocates total abstinence through voluntary associations across nations and eras. It cites erudition, eloquence, recovered drinkers, and notable speakers to persuade indifferent readers to join the temperance cause.
The article notes the Thurlow versus Massachusetts license case remains unsettled until January 1846 as the Supreme Court divides on the issue. It urges temperance supporters to prepare tracts on moral and local action and to back current laws, while warning against the belief that fines can be evaded by ramsellers.
The Temp. Standard notes that no citizen may sue the State except under a current law or with special permission from the Legislature. It laments the absence of such a law and expresses a wish for a Legislature unlikely to entertain Rumseller lawsuits.
A captain's canary drinks wine from a guest’s glass and becomes intoxicated, then refuses a second invitation at a later party. The tale ends with a moral on wisdom, noting how birds learn from past experience.
The U S Revenue Cutter Hamilton under Capt Sturgis helped free a brig from ice off Boston Light and offered the crew money for grog if they stayed to haul the brig to the wharf. The crew refused, remaining teetotalers despite claims of sailors being bought for grog. The article criticism targets Washingtonians and double standards among ship masters regarding sailors and morality.
The Albany Knickerbocker describes meeting a man on New Year’s who serenaded a stable. He was so drunk he could not tell front from back or carriage house from dwelling. He carried an old ham strung guitar and courted a woman to open her lattice, prompting a wry remark on gin and sugar as a great invention of the adversary.
The Boston Evening Transcript notes a new London republication of Father Ripa’s account of long residence in China. It includes his description of Chinese surgical treatment after a head wound, where a Turk operated with ice and water and a basin then bound the head as two men struck the neck with a rod.
The narrative recounts a brutal sequence of medical experiments in Tartary where a surgeon uses drowning, chest manipulation, and forced fasting to treat injuries. The patient endures suffocation, cold water, and daily marching as two assistants support him, aiming to realign a bent rib and heal a head wound. After seven days he claims full restoration and continues his journey.
A young woman Gorst was placed in a mesmeric trance by her uncle Forshaw in Drinkwater's gardens, Liverpool. She remained immobilized for four days and thirty four hours, with little nourishment. Amateur practitioners failed to awaken her, while two educated men gradually revived and restored her over several days, illustrating the dangers of meddling with mesmerism.
The Apalachicola Chamber of Commerce awarded Col A McDonald of this place a set of silver castors for the best lot of twenty bales of cotton sold in Apalachicola last season. The castors cost 101 in New York. McDonald's premium cotton sold for at least two cents above the top market price. A nine cent offer in New York for his present crop was refused. The piece urges planters to emulate his quality over quantity approach. Eufaula Shield.
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