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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1843
Page
3
The letter argues Americans suffer from alcohol abuse and moral decline among children, describing families as weary and degraded yet still patient. It contrasts Job's patience with the nation's, noting ongoing readiness to enact stricter liquor laws despite hardship and perceived divine disapproval. Clement.
In Eatonton on September 11 1843 the Total Abstinence Society resolved to invite Penfield delegates to hold another temperance convention in Eatonton and open homes for visitors. They urged publication of the resolutions and report and invited all state societies to attend on November 23 next.
A Millerite article disputes the millennium before resurrection with a math illustration of overpopulation, then reports a sensational find near St Mary's Newfoundland where a red chest containing a young woman's corpse was recovered at sea and given Christian burial.
The Brockport Sentinel reports Mrs. Johnson died after hydrophobia developed from two cat bites. She was barefoot in her yard in May when a cat bit her left foot and then the right, wounds healed at first but in September sharp pains appeared, escalating to hydrophobia and death within a week.
In Athens Greece suffers severe bread scarcity with many eating wild herbs. Obituary notes Robert L Brenham editor of the New Orleans Tropic dies of yellow fever in New Orleans. Mormon migration from Nauvoo to St Louis and New Orleans referenced. No Sunday mail east of Portsmouth NH. Queen Victoria welcomed by Louis Philippe with a fond royal greeting at sea.
A man in great anxiety brings a four inch scorpion from a log end that bit his finger, causing swelling and rapid inflammation. Dr Brewster, famed for Imperial Russia teeth work, receives gifts and a Baron title in Paris. The excerpt also notes U.S. postal revenue growth and a moralist’s 19th century guidance.
A Southern Planter item describes a light bread pudding with buttered slices soaked in a custard of eggs sugar and milk baked briefly until custard remains soft. Also shared are home remedies for mahogany spots from cologne water a lye-based dye for color and an onion infused salve for inflamed wounds.
The Washingtonian subscription payments up to June 10 1844 are recorded by location. Augusta includes Jesse Johnson Pleasant Stovall David Bigelow John Kennedy Starkville lists Wm. M. Carnesville Dr. H Freeman Cooks Law Office Mrs. I Colson Zimri Tate Mrs. McKinley Jacob M. Tate Wrightsboro Thos. Dozier J. W. Adams D. A. Bland St. Clair J. D. Kelly J. R. Prescott with a note to Oct. 14 1844.
Public notice lists Dr. John Millen of Office No 147 on the north side of Broad Street beneath the Eagle and Phoenix Hotel in Augusta with June 10 implied date. The fragmentary item indicates location details for a professional or legal notice.
The Augusta market shows active cotton trade at 63 to 74 with principal sales at 63a 7 while buyers still seize available stock. Anticipated Liverpool updates will influence prices as the U S crop is expected to be about half a million bales below last year. Cotton bales, bagging, and general groceries reflect broader market demand.
A dense list of banks and city councils appears alongside notices of estate claims, sales, and local business advertising. The exchange table groups financial institutions from Macon to Columbus with notes on bonds and country banks, followed by probate notices for John Winter and executorship details of Anna Winter, and an Augusta bookseller advertisement offering legal, medical, and educational libraries and supplies.
The undersigned lawyers announce practice under the firm SNEAD & MILLEDGE and will serve Middle Lincoln and Warren Counties in the Northern Circuit and the Court of Common Pleas in Augusta Georgia. One partner may be found at the office over the Post Office. Samuel T. Chapman will attend courts in Edgefield Orangeburg Barnwell districts and nearby Georgia counties.
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