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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1845
Page
3
A speaker in New York narrates a Washingtonian lecture detailing gradual descent into drink, personal convulsions, and the redemptive power of sobriety. He cites a wife’s deathbed plea, a grave visit, and a Westboro boy’s pledged reform, contrasting misery with happiness in reform.
Two young men arrived in Pittsburg on Wednesday evening and lodged at the Monongahela House. They began drinking heavily as soon as they entered their room and continued the spree for an extended period.
At two in the morning a brother, in a drunken frenzy, beat his sibling with a chair, believing him to be a robber. A gash on the head and brutal injuries were found on the injured man, who lay on bloodstained flooring. witnesses fear he may not survive.
The people of Beauport near Quebec raise a forty foot Corinthian column to honor temperance gains in the parish. The piece lauds moral victories over vice, contrasting them with bloody wars and monuments to past battles. It views temperance as transforming society for health and happiness of future generations.
A former pledge violator enters Temperance Hall and seeks pardon from the Franklin Society president. He tearfully pledges amendment after claiming liquor was prescribed as medicine by a physician, reviving his appetite and causing loss of job money and all but hope of the inebriate. Physicians are urged to beware prescribing alcohol in such cases.
The piece notes the inaugural was carried by express to Baltimore in one hour and two minutes, then to Philadelphia by express locomotive. It also records a York Pennsylvania run of one hour and 45 minutes via the Susquehanna Railroad. It adds Texas trade data for year ending July 31, 1844 with 13 vessels entered and duties yielding 177,861.55. It ends with miscellaneous items.
A Columbus woman Margaret Reese is ordered for trial for the murder of her infant child. An optical expert in Oxford Mass reports potatoes harbor tiny animallike pests, not an epidemic. A submarine tunnel near Marseilles is described from Abbey of St Victorie to Fort St Nicholas. A Randolph nephew story is debunked as false. A man with a cigar is warned by a monkey keeper at Van Amburgs menagerie.
Public notice announces Bronson's Travertier's Directory now in press and due March first. It covers routes from New York to New Orleans with distances fares times and cross lines plus country descriptions. Pricing includes plain binding four dollars fifteen cents and extra bindings. wholesale terms offered to booksellers and merchants.
The Augusta market shows reduced cotton demand with prices 4 to 53 cents and few deals below 45 or above 50. Buyers and sellers pause awaiting Liverpool steamer receipts due soon. River conditions are good despite dryness and three frosts. Bagging trades remain limited with ongoing crop demand expectations. No new features in groceries. quotations unchanged.
Alexander Campbell president of Bethany College Virginia with R L Coeman of Virginia will deliver a series of Christian discourses at the Cristian meeting house Reynold Street Augusta. Meetings start Saturday April 9 at 11 o clock A M and continue one week. Citizens and distant brethren urged to attend.
Fragmentary OCR text references multiple cities including New York Boston Philadelphia Baltimore Lexington Richmond Savannah and Charleston with scattered phrases noting no sale. The readable content is inconsistent and suggests a brief public notice or market report with unclear action.
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