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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1844
Page
1
For a single copy one year two dollars for six copies ten dollars for thirteen copies twenty dollars payable in advance. Advertisements will be inserted at fifty cents per square for the first insertion and twenty five cents for each continuance. Twelve lines to constitute a square. A liberal deduction to yearly advertisers. No letters taken from the Post Office unless postage free.
Dr Joseph A Eve serves as President with Dr Daniel Hook and Rev William J Hard as vice presidents. L D Sallerstedt is treasurer and James Harpere as secretary. Other officers include Hawkins Huff William Haines Jr C Dod John G Dunlap J Scofield John Mitledge James Godby and more names listed.
Jacob Mangle argues compost heaps yield higher returns than cash investments. He outlines three heaps per farm and a yearly system turning and mixing yields 1500 loads, costing about 250 dollars in labor and oxen, equating composting to compound interest and saving carriage costs. The piece explains mixing ratios, fermentation, lime treatment, and notes starch can convert to sugar, with starch chemistry and production of sugar briefly described.
The article describes converting damaged flour into starch by acetic acid action, separating starch vesicles from gluten, and settling steps. It notes young plants contain starch, sugar cane sprouts have little else, and mature cane holds mostly sugar with little starch remaining.
Farmers may treat gapes in poultry by feeding small crumbs of dough mixed with a pinch of soft soap. A single or repeated doses are suggested to alleviate the condition in chickens.
The piece retells a nameless Mississippi planter who prospers on cotton and slave labor then collapses under debt. Banks foreclose, his slaves die of a fever, and he flees to Texas leaving empty graves behind. Creditors mock a Texas fever that spirits away both body and livelihood.
A humorous passage recounts how names change across languages from Ferguson to Flint and Pierre a fusil to Peter Gun, and how Mr. O Trotter becomes Me Trot ten and Trottini across Scotland England France Italy Holland and beyond, ending with Beauchamp to Bridgewater.
The piece argues that youths left to uncontrolled propensities can be more dangerous than adults. It cites the Paris three days as a notable example of a youth driven revolution in a leading nation, and notes a similar Polish struggle begun and sustained by boys.
The piece recalls young soldiers in two wars who fought bravely and with little fear. It cites a boy with one leg who rode trains despite danger and a newsboy at Kensington who laughed through gunfire until a stray shot pierced his breast, then shrugged off danger.
Advice urging women to avoid profane gamblers and tipplers and men who lie, break promises, or act without conscience. It warns against inconstant affection, neglect of business, and wavering affections, arguing such men will harm family life and children.
An inquest into the drowning death of six year old Jane Webb at Ley Colliery details the incident near the canal. The report references a Staffordshire Mercury note on mesmeric recovery methods and notes the body was found after drag efforts.
A Baltimore Visitor account describes a loaf of bread floated by quicksilver to a spot where a drowned child’s body was found, with the author offering a rational, hydrographic explanation of the phenomenon and urging belief in the observed facts.
In Kingston, Henry Moore Smith, described as an accomplished villain, fell ill with coughing fever and wasting away. He reportedly feigned illness and used hoaxes to simulate grave symptoms, then vanished when a prison door was left briefly open. He later claimed bizarre self-harm methods.
Mr H L Smith reports a telescopic comet in the Cleveland Herald observed over two weeks. It appeared first on September 10 near Beta Ceti, with a 0.24 inch aperture eyepiece, bright nucleus, and a 1 degree tail. Subsequent positions were noted near Phi 3 Ceti, Piazzi’s birth hour, and between small stars, using various eyepieces.
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