03 May 1845
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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1845
Page
1
Published every Saturday by James McCafferty at Macintosh Street opposite the post office. Terms: single copy two dollars a year, six copies ten dollars, thirteen copies twenty dollars, prepaid. Advertisements 50 cents per square for first insertion and 25 cents per continuation line. yearly advertisers receive liberal deductions. Mail allowed if postage prepaid.
A fragment lists Daniel Hook as president and William J Hard as vice president with Hawkins Huff and William Haines Jr as officers. L. D. Sallerstedt appears as treasurer in the damaged text.
We, whose homes are hereafite an nexed, form a Society for mutual benefit to guard against harmful practices. We pledge ourselves as gentlemen not to drink any spirituous or malt liquors wine or cider.
The piece condemns Scotch snuff use by women as a deadly dental habit harming health and morals. It recounts scenes of women dipping and spitting, describes a Salisbury Watchman letter, and portrays health decline and moral degradation tied to snuff culture in the Old North State.
Advice on conduct and happiness for young women urging self management before marriage. The writer suggests balancing personal behavior with future partnership, emphasizing readiness and control as essential for the whole duty of woman.
A mid nineteenth century column counsels brides on appeasing husbands, managing finances, and avoiding scrutiny, advising secrecy about age and steps to keep husbands agreeable. The text shifts to a Texan cavern rumor about a vast honey-filled hive, with settlers blasting rocks to extract honey and wax, seen as more valuable than local mines.
A cavern on the Colorado River above Austin Texas hosts an immense wild bee hive. The limestone cliff rises about 150 feet from the river and the cavern mouth sits ten feet below the cliff top. On warm days a dark bee stream exits the chamber, sometimes two feet wide, drifting like a smoke wreath. The hive is said to contain incalculable numbers and may predate local settlement. No swarms have occurred, according to old settlers.
Estimates from the Patent Office report show Wheat total at 95 million bushels worth about 71.25 million dollars, led by Ohio and New York. Corn reaches 422 million bushels with a value around 105.125 million dollars, Tennessee the top producer. Potatoes total 100 million bushels, Hay 17 million tons valued at 102 million dollars, Cotton 872 million pounds worth 52.226 million, Sugar about 201 million pounds worth roughly 5 million. Louisiana dominates sugar.
The report lists state by state outputs in millions of pounds for crops and notes Indiana produces maple sugar 74 million pounds close to Ohio and Vermont at 44 million, Rice 111 million, South Carolina 84 million, Georgia 17 to 18 million, Louisiana 5, Tobacco 152 million, Kentucky 58, Tennessee and Virginia 33, Missouri 12, Ohio 6, Maryland under half a million. It finds Indian Corn most valuable, Hay second, Wheat third, Cotton fourth, Oats fifth and Potatoes sixth.
A London social experiment using a marriage ad prompts fifty to sixty suitors to attend Drury Lane in uniform. Each is instructed to flaunt a handkerchief and glass on stage, hoping to impress a rich débutante. Chaos erupts as rivals confront each other and realize their failed ruse.
In a heated assembly the speaker rejects delay stating the moment is ripe for action. He dismisses cautions about revolutions and ancient wars, insisting enduring principles sustain the resolution despite opposition and dramatic imagery. The tone mirrors a tempest of rhetoric.
A fragment from the Concordia Intelligencer recounts a printer s note assigning brutal tasks with mockery and violent imagery. The burlesque order mentions General Washington in galleys, murder of a young girl, Herculanum ruins and distributing smallpox, ending with a grim joke about the press.
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