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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1845
Page
7
The Baltimore Visiter notes that times are dull and the speaker explains the urge to shave with ease near brokers, blaming temperance for shaping self-perception and actions. The snippet hints at economic anxiety and personal conduct linked to moral reform.
Extract from Captain Wilkes' Narrative of the Exploring Expedition argues that discarding spirit rations improves safety and efficiency. Sailors volunteered to give up grog, choosing to continue in boats with other provisions, and the expedition’s arduous duties proceeded without liquor.
The piece cites 130 prisoners in Western Penitentiary Pennsylvania with 110 intemperate, 11 moderate, 9 temperate and argues total abstinence as safety. A Boston tale of a man ruined by fashionable wine is told to urge youth to pledge and resist temptation.
A temperance gathering for Seneca Indians was held at the Baptist Church in La Grange. Chiefs and younger members attended, with females in native dress and multiple choirs performing native psalms. A chief offered a prayer in the Dative tongue and several speeches were delivered.
The report notes speakers’ deep feelings for their cause and states Mr. Bliss directed the ceremony orders, reflecting his period as a missionary resident to the nation.
The passage surveys numerous figures who achieved greatness in youth or early adulthood. It cites emperors, military leaders, popes, reformers, scholars, and writers such as Lepanto victor Don John of Austria, Gaston de Foix, Conde, Rocroi, Gustavus Adolphus, Nelson, Clive, Innocent III, Luther, Pascal, Raphael, Richelieu, Bolingbroke, Pitt, Grotius, and Acquaviva, arguing that the history of heroes is the history of youth.
The article notes a Russian fascination with Eupatoria Crimea mud baths. Saline waters dry up in summer leaving a stagnant slime used by the sick to absorb gases, claimed to purify blood. A grand hotel at Sak serves bathers, drawing fashionables and health seekers in a global trend.
A narrator recalls cornering and caring for a young gazelle taken from the desert by his Arabs. He kept the creature in his tent, offered comfort, and observed its distress before deciding to release her, hoping for her return to freedom. The gazelle remained confused and uncertain about her path after escape.
The text depicts a woman wandering in uncertainty after an unsettling experience. She recalls waking to a strange scene and facing a perilous journey aboard a camel. The narrator reflects on an imagined candlelit encounter and a desire to spare her heart from further pain.
Colonel Reed of Boston claims a simple air chest device may outpace Morse telegraphy. An air pump charges a chest to propel letters or packages through a pipe at high speed. Reed estimates a $60,000 outlay could transmit between Boston and New York in thirty minutes with safety.
The excerpt shows a classroom drill where Jim Gaz and Sall practice parsing parts of speech and grammatical cases. The teacher explains why Jim Gaz and Sall are nouns in nominative or possessive forms and how they agree within sentences.
Married in the county on the 27th by Rev Justina Key Matthew J Carswell of Augusta wed Harriet Eliza Kilpatrick daughter of Rev J A T Kilpatrick. In Twiggs county on April 23rd Dr Taliaferro Jones to Caroline Jane Saxon.
Our cotton market is dull with a small decline of about 4 cents since the Great Western arrival. Prices range from 4 to 6.4 cents, with little above 6 cents seen. Stock at home and Hamburg near 30,000 bales. river low but freights steady at 50 cents per bale. Bagging market steady with old quotations. Groceries show no new demand detail, but all prices trend upward.
The Maine Farmer reports Mr. True Remick raised six hogs born in 1843 with a simple, potato based diet. They lived in pens, pastured, and fed mainly boiled and raw potatoes with skimmed milk, reaching weights from 398 to 513 pounds dressed.
A memory-challenged attorney pleads for a prisoner and, after declaring the defendant a consummate scoundrel, quickly retorts that every great man endures calumny. A whispered correction reveals the defendant is his own client as the judge notes the irony.
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