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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1844
Page
3
A distraught husband denounces poison after a night of despair and loss, then theatrically tosses the bottle into the street. His wife and children rejoice as he embraces them, while the family dog Neptune shows approval with a wagging tail and a relieved scene unfolds.
A Maristan prison tale recounts a lunatic butcher who smuggled his tools to kill the chained Turkish trooper Delee. He and fellow escapees murder him, hang the body in a cell, and attempt to hide the crime as a burial. The incident unfolds amid French-Moroccan hostilities and later reports describe barometric superstitions and a vast lead mine discovery in Iowa.
Graphic dispatch from the New York Evening Post describes the bombardment of Mogadore by the French, its fierce resistance, and the ensuing battle. It notes an island fortress with 120 cannon and a garrison of four to five hundred men, the 14th to 16th August operations, and the decision to storm the island.
Obituary notes the death of John Thornton Kirk land Lothrop in Washington Texas on the 14th ult. The piece also mentions German settlers buying Prairie la Porte Iowa and starting a city there, plus various brief items including papers from the Mulberry bark and an arrest for obstructing a railway. Abner Kneeland dies in Salubria Iowa. Santa Anna secures funding to invade Texas. A Scots lad asks about old moans while a Mobile cobbler signs over his door about teaching music.
A collection of brief items notes a court martial for Capt. Newton over a ship loss, consular appointments and a diplomat’s return, flood losses in cotton, a strange Rat Soup tale from Lock Haven, drunken advice on courting, a debt imprisonment in Paris, London population growth, Herschel on lightning, odd dating tips, suicide methods, a political decline, a print press project in Oregon, and Charles Woodman’s relapse and sentence in Boston.
Temperance Mericine. A Meeting of the Washington Total Abstinence Society will be held at the CITY HALL on MONDAY NIGHT next at half past 7 o clock. Citizens of Augusta are urged to attend and support the society in advancing its principles. Members should participate, and addresses may be expected. WM. HAINES Jr. Secretary.
Since Saturday our report notes Liverpool prices to the 19th ult show a drop of 0 to 1 cent per pound, easing local cotton by 3 to 4 cents. Fair cotton sits at 5 1/2 to 5 3/4 cents with sales from 5 to 5 1/2. Bagging remains in strong demand with ample stock. Groceries see brisk demand amid planter absence for polling duties, with expectations of improvement next week and no price changes.
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