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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1845
Page
8
A fragment from The Washingtonian titled Portpry by The Poor Student notes reflections on the Past and mortality. Dated March 21 1845 the piece ponders buried joys and withered hopes and hopes for purer heaven after death.
A somber verse recounts Lucy's death and burial in a lonely forest bier with no friends to mourn. The speaker pleads to Christ to avoid dying alone and longs for a loved one near during the soul's last breath. The defiant grave marker offers a pale rose and robin as quiet witnesses.
In a Massachusetts river village a pretty cottage shelters a once-happy family. The father, once devoted to home, drifts into tavern visits and drinking with inebriates, straining marriage to Helen Grey and endangering the children as suspicion grows.
A dramatic tale shows Joe Somers a temperate youth ruined by drink. His mother endures neglect and poverty as he falls from sobriety to violence. After a churchyard death, a night of crime leads to his transportation for life with his homeland fading from sight aboard a voyage to penal exile. The scene shifts through guilt, punishment, and an emotional farewell to his mother.
A husband ruins his property and family through drink, his wife toils to feed starving children, and the couple lose their cottage. The Washingtonians urge him to pledge, and he reforms with help from his children, becoming a churchgoing provider as a graveyard monument marks his late wife.
Prospectus for volume seven outlines aims to reform character through phrenology. It argues knowledge of human nature via phrenology tests doctrines ethics and creed, adds physiology to study health and mental life, and promises future departments including physiology and its link to temperament and improvement.
A promotional piece for a new monthly journal by O S Fowler advocating phrenology physiology and animal magnetism as guiding sciences. It argues education for women and moral reform, lists low subscription rates and distribution plans through Nassau Street New York, calling for editors to publish the notice.
The Star of Temperance announces a weekly family paper from New Orleans aimed at temperance education and social improvement across the South West. It pledges moderation and firm stand on abstinence, education reform, cultural library societies, and nonsectarian Christian principles, with Stevens & Arms as publishers seeking support for insertion.
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