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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1844
Page
1
Publication details state weekly Saturday morning issue by James McCafferty at one dollar per year with club discounts and mail payments in advance. Postmaster rules may affect subscription handling. Advertising rates listed include quarter, weekly, semi monthly, monthly continuations with discounts for yearly advertisers.
The article surveys meat and dairy values across species. Veal suits older, active individuals and feverish patients but digests easily. mutton from four to six years offers balanced firmness, lean parts most nourishing. lamb is light for delicate stomachs. burnt logs and city-reared animals are cautioned for digestion and health. It covers blood, milk varieties, butter, cheese, eggs, and fish, noting digestion, putrefaction tendencies, and the effects of preparation.
A fragmented report discusses butter as a remedy for digestive ailments. It notes butter eaten raw or heated to dissipate harmful parts and salt water effects, claiming nourishment and laxative action if overused.
A poetic vision recalls a ruined temple in Paulding with wild nature reclaiming the site. The speaker notes revelry, a lost child grown old, and a leafless oak as time destroys beauty. The guardian angel declares time shall be no more.
An ancient account details a Babylonian fortification of a square form, each side fifteen miles long with walls three hundred fifty feet high and eighty seven feet thick. A surrounding water-filled ditch, twenty five brass gates per side, and towers above the walls divide the city into six hundred seventy six squares.
The text describes square blocks with façades facing streets, houses three to four stories high, separated by void spaces. Middle-space yards and gardens occupy about half the city, making Babylon look grander than it is.
The Raleigh Clarion recounts the deathbed scene of Judge Gaston. Surrounded by friends, he recalled a Washington party and warned against Free thinkers in religion. He spoke of a divine plan and trusted in God before dying within minutes.
An extract from the New York Mirror argues fifty years alter social manners and marriage. It laments women no longer bake doughnuts, cites rising costs of weddings and housing, and notes servants replacing the mistress in the kitchen. The piece warns of poverty and bachelorhood replacing happiness.
A speaker argues wealth should fund active business and employment rather than merely accumulate for heirs. He warns dying rich harms manly vigor and risks ruin for heirs, urging gradual living disposition of property to allow it to do good during the owner’s life.
A fragment from The Philadelphia Sun recounts a gambler's warning about early winnings leading to ruin. It also recalls a tale from The United States Gazette and a Massachusetts clergyman's illegible hand causing confusion, with a later anecdote of an officer and an apothecary over a duel.
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