07 Oct 1843
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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1843
Page
1
Publishes every Saturday morning at one dollar per year for a single subscriber five dollars for a club of six or ten dollars for a club of twelve subscriptions must be prepaid postmasters may frank subscription money. Advertisements offered at reduced rates with sliding scales for frequency.
Mr H J Thompson reports a method to extract juice from corn stalks after ears are removed, producing molasses superior to earlier stalk yields. A domestic mill builds from timber and cylinders to press juice, with boiling to concentrate. trial potential praised for planters to reduce costs and create a second crop from cornstalks.
F. J. Betts, Esq., in the Albany Cultivator asserts salt repels cut worms. He reports sowing two bushels per acre broadcast last year and again before plowing this spring, noting no plant losses while neighbors complain of damage. He concludes salt is a certain remedy for this pest.
The article stresses that posts should not be planted green as they will last longer in wet soil but fermentation speeds decay. It notes constant moisture harms less than sap fermentation and urges drying house sills and other timbers before use.
The piece admonishes Saunders for forging checks and deceiving himself. It contrasts his planned rich future with the swift reach of police and criminal justice, while exploring motives of poverty and the moral folly of crime.
A Scottish nobleman helps a boy drive a cow and rewards his honesty. The boy correctly identifies the house staff who tried to steal the reward, exposing the butler’s deceit. The Duke dismisses the dishonest servant, upholding integrity and rewarding truth.
The Sandwich Express reports three enslaved men from the United States fled to Canada but returned to bondage after their master pledged safety if they came back. The trio crossed the Detroit River to Windsor and again faced servitude. Also noted is Major William Buchanan, a 96 year old veteran, arriving in Washington for his eighteenth pension draft and recalling Civil War service with Marion.
Willis in a National Intelligencer letter praises Albert Pike of Arkansas as a rising West lawyer and respected figure. He recalls Pike leaving Boston twelve years ago with sixteen dollars in his pocket and predicts Pike’s later success and potential to publish a volume of poems.
A widow in Buckinghamshire, facing the risk of losing her husband’s estate without a will, enlists a neighborly cobbler to impersonate him. The plan collapses when the cobbler hints at granting half the estate elsewhere, leaving the widow with a misdirected bargain. A separate Pittsburgh anecdote follows, about a man kissing a thimble and a burlesque interruption.
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