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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1844
Page
5
For a single copy one year two dollars for six copies ten dollars for thirteen copies twenty dollars payable in advance. Advertisements at 50 cents per square for first insertion and 25 cents for each continuance. Twelve lines constitute a square. Liberal deduction to yearly advertisers. No letters from Post Office unless postage free.
Dr Joseph A Eve presides with Dr Daniel Hook and Rev William J Hard as vice presidents. L D Sallerstedt serves as treasurer while James Harpere and C S Dod appear among the noted members along with John G Dunlap J E Scofield John Mitledge James Godby.
Jacob Mangle argues composting yields greater returns than cash interest by building three simultaneous heaps and turning them for maximum soil fertility. He outlines a yearly ox cart operation producing 1500 loads, costing about $250, and details chemical processes that convert starch to sugar, promoting manure use over distant dung.
The text explains converting damaged flour starch into sugar via acetic acid and gluten separation. It notes starch vesicle size, gluten settling, and starch suspension in water. It adds that young plants contain starch and cane sprouts hold starch early, later becoming sugar as the cane matures, with sugar extraction kept separate.
A simple remedy for gapes in chickens involves feeding small dough crumbs mixed with a trace of soft soap. The method requires only one or two administrations to be effective.
A nameless Mississippi planter, rich in cotton and slaves, sinks into debt as banks foreclose. The sheriff’s returns reveal a migration to Texas where his slaves seemingly depart with the Texas fever, leaving empty graves and an eerie medical juristic note on bodies gone to another land.
A humorous tale recounts how names drift when translated across languages. Ferguson becomes Feuerstein then Flint through German and English retranslation, and Pierre a fusil yields Peter Gun. O'Trotter traverses Europe, becoming MeTrotton, Trottington, Trottingnae, Trottinville, Trottini, Van Trotten, Von Trotten, Trottinski, Trottindorf, and finally Trottinson in China. Campbell and Beauchamp notes appear as further name shifts ending with Duponceau bridging to English Bridgewater.
The passage argues that youths left to unbridled impulses pose greater danger than adults. It cites three days of Paris as a revolutionary example driven by boys and compares it to the Polish struggle started and sustained similarly by youths.
The piece recalls how boys fought bravely in early wars and at Kensington riots describing a boy with one leg who kept riding the car and a newsboy at the market house who watched battles until a stray shot struck him and he quipped about the seamps.
Advice warns women to avoid profane, gambling, drunken, unreliable men. Do not marry someone who breaks promises, acts without reason, or chases other women. A man who neglects business when single will likely worsen after marriage and harm family life.
An inquest into the drowning of Jane Webb aged six at Ley Colliery, Broockmoor, records a canal death discovered after a morning incident. The report cites English sources on body recovery experiments and notes the need to document successful methods for saving drowned individuals.
A bystander claims a loaf of bread with quicksilver will float to a drowned child. The loaf travels to a spot, circles, and the body is found beneath it. Proponents cite river eddy effects and the loafs weight to explain the phenomenon as a valuable fact, not a fraud.
Dr. Gaven reports Henry Moore Smith, an accomplished villain, fell ill in Kingston prison with coughing fever and wasting away. After a turn key left the door open, Smith vanished, later reappearing to feign cachexia and other symptoms. He confessed to attempting to raise blood by pounding bricks and other self harm methods.
Mr H L Smith describes a telescopic comet observed over two weeks in September from Cleveland Ohio in the Herald. He notes its position near Beta Ceti Phi Ceti Piazzi and other stars, with a bright nucleus and 1 degree long tail, tracked at specific hours and eyepiece settings.
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