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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1843
Page
7
A historical lament notes children harmed by grog with servants idle and households decayed. The writer condemns leglation’s ineffectiveness while praising Americans who endure moral decline yet remain hopeful and patient under crisis. Clement contrasts Job’s patience with national suffering and calls for action.
A Penfield temperance movement resolves to hold a convention in Eatonton on November 23 1843 inviting delegates from across Georgia. The Eatonton Total Abstinence Society pledges extended hospitality and urges publication of resolutions and reports. The notice urges editors to insert and editorialize the announcement.
A Millerite critic argues against a coming millennium, calculating population density to absurd extremes. A red chest with a young woman's corpse, rings and silk dress is recovered near St Mary's Newfoundland and given Christian burial.
The Brockport Sentinel reports Mrs. Johnson died after hydrophobic symptoms followed cat bites on her feet. She was barefoot when the cat attacked, biting the left foot then the right, wounds healing initially. In September, severe pains and hydrophobia developed, leading to death within a week.
Reports from An Athens Journal and Telegraph describe severe Greek distress with bread scarcity, while New Orleans editor Robert L. Brenham dies of yellow fever. Mormons travel from Nauvoo to St. Louis for New Orleans escape, and London Chronicle notes Queen Victoria’s reception by Louis Philippe. No Sunday mail east of Portsmouth, Maine.
A man reports a four inch scorpion arising from a log stave and biting his finger, swelling quickly. Dr. Brewster, an American dentist in Paris, is said to have treated imperial teeth, received costly gifts, and earned the title Baron as a gesture of regard. The piece also includes historical revenue figures and moralized advice notices.
The excerpt gives a Southern Planter recipe for light bread pudding with buttered slices, custard made from eggs sugar and milk, and slow baking. It also notes stain removal for mahogany using oil, a lye and copper mix for a nankeen hue, and a salve for inflamed wounds made from melted lard, onions, and fresh water.
A dated record shows subscribers who paid their Washingtonian subscriptions through June 10, 1844, listing Augusta including Jesse Johnson Pleasant Stovall David Bigelow John Kennedy Starkville 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 notes to Oct. 14, 1844.
Public notice from PR John Millen listing Office No 147 on the north side of Broad Street beneath Eagle and Phoenix Hotel in Augusta and dated June 10. The fragment indicates a business listing or address update in the local commerce section.
Active cotton trade at 63 to 74 with main sales at 63a 7. Many dealers abstain at current prices, yet buyers remain to take all offered. Anticipated Liverpool updates may influence future bids. U.S. crop expected half a million bales below last year. England’s stock remains ample to cover any shortfall. Cotton Baccarne shows large supply and brisk demand at current quotes. Groceries echo the general rise noted in cotton.
A dense list of state and private banks, branches, and notes from Georgia with mentions of the State Bank of Macon, Milledgeville, Augusta, Columbus, Athens, Brunswick and others, plus railway banks and city councils. Also notices of an executrix in Richmond and an auction house advert with drugs and instruments in Augusta.
The law firm of Snead Milledge announces active practice across Middle Lincoln Warren Counties and the Northern Circuit plus the Court of Common Pleas in Augusta Georgia. Samuel T. Chapman advertises as a lay lawyer serving Edgefield Orangeburg Barnwell districts and Richmond area courts.
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