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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1845
Page
3
In a Baltimore Visiter snippet quoted by the Baltimore Sat. Visiter a speaker jokes about brokers and shaving to ease a dull market. The comment ties personal conduct to temperance as the reason for his actions, reflecting era concerns about self restraint and business prudence.
An excerpt from the Exploring Expedition narrative shows no benefit to keeping the spirit ration. Wilkes notes crew preference to abandon grog, with all volunteers choosing to forgo spirits, asserting the expedition’s hardest duties succeeded without alcohol.
The article notes 130 inmates at Western Penitentiary in Pennsylvania with 110 intemperate, 11 moderate, 9 temperate. It cites a Boston tale of ruin by fashionable wine and urges youth to sign the pledge, warning that wine and bad company lead to downfall.
A temperance celebration at the Baptist Church in La Grange drew Seneca chiefs, younger men, boys, and women in native dress. The gathering featured native psalms, hymns, and a prayer in the Dative tongue, with several addresses by attendees.
The account describes speakers expressing deep commitment to a cause during ceremonies led by Mr. Bliss, a longtime missionary to the nation, with the order of events organized under his direction, as recorded by the Temp. Standard.
The passage surveys famed figures across war and statesmanship who achieved greatness young. It cites Lepanto, Ravenna, Rocroi, and more, noting captains, popes, cardinals, and explorers attaining prominence by their mid-thirties. The author argues history favors youth as the source of heroic achievement.
A Russian journal reports that mud baths at Eupatoria Lake in Crimea offer cures via saline gases absorbed through distended pores. Tourists flock to Sak village hotel for the health treatment amid fashionable interest and exotic allure.
An unnamed narrator recounts capturing a young gazelle in the desert, keeping it in a tent overnight, coaxing it without success, and releasing it in the morning after observing its distress and indecision about returning to freedom. The account emphasizes the animal's fear and bewilderment after the prior day’s events.
A fragmentary travel reminiscence recalls a cautious departure with an uncertain step. The narrator describes a nightmare awakening in danger, a camel journey through a harsh ordeal, and a symbolic candlelit encounter, ending with a wary hope about a damaged heart.
Colonel Reed of Boston claims a new air chest telegraph that could rival Morse. The device uses an air-chest charged by a pump to propel letters or packages through a pipe, promising rapid dispatch with safety. Reed estimates $60,000 could enable Boston to New York transmissions in about thirty minutes.
The excerpt shows a classroom exercise where Jim Gaz and Sall name nouns and pronouns. The teacher guides parsing of proper and common nouns, possessives, and nominative or objective cases, emphasizing gender, number, and agreement rules.
Married in this county on the 27th by Rev Justina Key Matthew J Carswell of Augusta to Harriet Elizabeth Kilpatrick daughter of Rev J A T Kilpatrick. In Twiggs county on the 23rd April by Rev Jacob R Danforth Taliaferro Jones M D to Caroline Jane Saxon.
The Augusta cotton market is dull with a small decline of about 4 cents since the Great Western arrival. Prices stay between 4 and 6 12 cents, with 30,000 bales in stock locally and in Hamburg. River is low, freights at 50 cents per bale. Bagging prices unchanged, groceries show no new demand but an upward price tendency for all items.
The Maine Farmer reports Mr True Remick raised six hogs born in 1843. Pigs spent spring in a close pen fed skim milk and potatoes, then pasture and boiled potatoes for winter. They were fattened on raw red potatoes with little else and killed January weighing 398 to 513 pounds.
A lawyer, hired to plead for a defendant, begins by praising the prisoner as a consummate scoundrel, then laments calumny faced by great men, noting the public whispering about his client and his own reaction to it.
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