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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1845
Page
7
The Tem. Advocate praises officers who kept duty amid severe tests while condemning Arnold for drunken betrayal. It asks young men to reflect on drinking habits as a threat to country and honor. The piece warns that intoxication can lead to infamy and treachery.
A shopkeeper in a temperance tale rails against drinkers and ministers as rival forces. He plots to blinds his storefront and defy the Reformers while fearing exposure from a vigilante editor and the temperance press. The piece shifts to cotton policy urging farmers to diversify and boost domestic manufacture, detailing profits from home produced textiles and urging cotton fabric use.
A Camden Journal summary from a committee report led by Col. James S. Deas to a Mobile Alabama planter meeting argues against limiting cotton cultivation by acres or harvest timing. They favor broad agricultural associations despite efforts to constrain cotton farming.
A terse notice reports a fatal firearm incident with limited readable details. The fragment mentions no warning and presents the event as a sudden occurrence, with no clear location or individuals named in the accessible text.
On the second of March in Pittsylvania County Virginia Mr Evard a silver smith entered the Rising Sum tavern and fatally shot Francis Compton aged about eighteen after the weapon discharged firing turkey shot into his breast bone. Evard has been committed to jail.
The relic press will join the National Institute gallery in Washington. It is said to be the same press used by Dr. Franklin a century and a piece ago with an oak case and ink crust. The die measures 20 by 12 inches and the bed 25 by 20 inches. It was presented by Harup and Son of London to Joan B. Murray of New York, who then gifted it to the Institute.
A remarkable creature reports an oyster grown upon a sea spider from Oyster Bay. The oyster clings to the spider’s back, forming a quadruped organism with two hearts and two bodies. The oyster is plump, its growth aided by the spider’s motions now limited by the burden.
Santa Anna continues to be confined at Perote prison. Letters he wrote to Vera Cruz merchants instructing them to keep his cash were intercepted by the government.
The Cambria's favorable Liverpool reports up to the 4th inst sparked a rise in cotton prices by about a cent per hundred, with large trade noted. River conditions favor steamers with tow boats, but those carrying their own cargo find the water slightly low. Bagging and groceries show steady to upward tendencies amid limited demand.
In this city on the 23rd inst after a sixteen day illness Laurence N James aged 21 years has died end of notice.
The Washington Total Abstinence Society of this City will hold a meeting Thursday night next April 3 at City Hall beginning 7 30. Several addresses are expected and an election for the Board of Managers will be held. All the public are invited to attend. WM Haines Jr Secretary
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