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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1845
Page
4
Poem urges usefulness and charity before death. It contrasts earthly wealth with giving to the distressed and predicts rewards in eternity. The speaker requests songs of heaven at death and describes laying to rest with clasped hands and a peaceful end.
Obituary notices Dr. Sewall a Washington physician and temperance advocate who died after pneumonia and rapid consumption at age 59. He shaped reform with medical lectures and stomach drawings linking alcohol to ruin and promoted total abstinence among influential leaders.
A temperance note argues water as the natural drink and warns against intoxicants. It cites examples like John Bailes of Northampton who lived to 128, Lord Heathfield, and Mary Campbell at 105, claiming water and temperate living promote longevity.
A temperance editorial laments reformers who break their pledge after neglecting meetings. It cites delirium tremens and attempts of self harm, noting some regain resolve, while others relapse and abandon the cause. The piece urges continued identification and reasonable support for societies.
Three Windham County merchants secured licenses to sell liquor and were approached by a ladies’ committee. The women urged the men to give up the traffic, offering to pledge them to cease if the men complied with the request.
In a contentious session the offer was agreed, licenses were surrendered and buried in the meeting’s presence. The document condemns rum sellers as not hopelessly incorrigible, ending with a cautious note of hope.
A young man from the Independent Drink-or-let-it-alone fraternity proposed to a pretty girl who had signed the pledge to neither drink nor traffic in ardent spirits. She replied she could not traffic herself for a hogs head of brandy, blushing at his proposal.
The prospectus outlines adding physiology magnetism and a department on women to advance phrenology and its aims. It argues health and moral progress rely on body and brain function and pledges practical phrenological instruction alongside new scientific topics for reform and improvement.
An appeal promotes a monthly 32 page Phrenology journal by O S Fowler. Subscriptions propose $1 for one copy, $2 for three, $5 for nine, or $10 for twenty. Editors who run the notice receive complimentary copies. Journal aims to be accessible to rich and poor alike. Jan 25 12
A prospectus announces a new monthly publication The Southern Historical to promote Southern literature, defend regional interests, and publish Georgia Historical Society materials. It seeks national talent, offers Five Dollars annual price, and calls for agents with returns due August 1, with first issue targeted for October.
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