22 Mar 1845
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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1845
Page
1
Published every Saturday by James McCafferty on Wacintosh Street opposite the post office. Rates: single copy one year two dollars, six copies ten dollars, thirteen copies twenty dollars. Advertisements 50 cents per square for first insertion, 25 cents for continuances. Twelve lines per square, postage free.
We, whose names are hereunto annexed, desire to form a Society for mutual benefit to guard against pernicious practice injurious to health standing and families. We pledge ourselves as gentlemen not to drink any spirituous or malt liquors wine or cider.
A July morning expedition from Tremont House tours Boston readers through Lowell's vast mills. The piece details the canal city’s parks, boarding houses, and expansive factories run by A. & A. Lawrence and Co. It notes 25 000 residents, 11 corporations, thousands of workers, and the Lowell Offering magazine.
The article notes that only five rose kinds were known in France and England 160 years ago and a sixth imported from Italy sparked a florist frenzy. Linnaeus listed fourteen kinds in 1762, now over two thousand exist. New hybrids promise year round animation and improved odor and beauty from the ancient stock.
A thief entered a Cincinnati boarding house kept by a widow, hid under a bed between a wall and a tunnel bedstead used for children, released the tunnel to deploy the sleeping youngsters, and after all retired he ransacked closets and drawers taking loose change and clothing. He pocketed about two dollars and a half as he plundered the wardrobe.
A watchmaker recalls a gentleman who owned a flawless watch that ran irregularly. After disassembling and reassembling it twenty times, he suspected a magnetized balance-wheel. A needle test confirmed magnetism in the steel parts, altering the watch’s motion. The tale warns that a sound mind, if magnetized by bias, acts irregularly.
The speaker urges a young man to uncover crude talents by persistent effort. He emphasizes hard work, deep digging into one’s mind, and polishing abilities until they shine and illuminate the world, warning that inactivity leads to mediocrity.
General Foy, noted speaker of the French Chambers, calls aristocracy the league of those who consume without producing, live without working, know everything without learning, take honors without earning them, and occupy government posts without ability to fill them.
A farmer reports years of using the same oats yielded a dusty, sickening blast on the crop and workers. In 1832 he bought 100 bushels of purer seed from Richmond but mixed it with his impure stock. He washed the seed in strong lime water overnight before sowing, improving cleanliness and yield compared with the Richmond seed.
James Grant of Davenport Iowa reports cattle died after being turned onto corn fields and fed dry fodder. Sudden deaths followed, cows milked at night found dead by morning, oxen dying after working. He saved the rest by giving heavy doses of Epsom salts. Albany Cultivator.
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