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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1843
Page
8
An old verse warns of intemperance and moral ruin as Love revealed by a truant child contrasts with Jealousy. The narrative frames the dangers of drink through personified affections and a plea for pledges to resist the demon of deceit. The Columbia Washingtonian boarding shows temperance messaging.
About 2 000 congregants joined the Temperance Society in a Sandwich Islands event led by juvenile groups from 23 schools. A 1400 strong youth procession, flags with moral mottoes, speeches by chiefs and missionaries, and a long 40 by seven foot feast table marked a lively temperance demonstration and lasting impulse for the cause.
An Arkansas colporteur recalls entering a grog shop where six men lounged as he unloaded saddle-bags of books and tracts onto the counter. The keeper refused, invoking an oath, then a clash over comic almanacs and gambling warnings surfaced amid the tossed literature.
The issue details William E. Williams a 27 year old Connecticut native who killed himself at the Knickerbocker Hotel with a jack knife after a life of extravagance and delirium tremens. It also notes the death of Joseph McQuade from intoxication found near a Washington street porter house and a cataclysmic powder mill blast at High Falls with six workers killed and 300 kegs burning, plus earlier earthquake fears in Catskill.
A temperance note details plans to gather statistics from Georgia societies and pledges, seeking names and membership numbers. Narratives recount a night of distributing temperance literature at a store, with readers and scoffers, amid a discussion of 1842 almanac dates and a Baxter's Call tract drive.
The Rev. Justus Perkins recalls a Persian Armenian servant who wept when recounting his father’s ruin due to wine. Once wealthy owner of gardens and four horses, the father’s drinking led to prison, near death, and loss of property and status. The servant now earns five dollars a month.
A noisy circular lists numerous items for sale or order including goods such as horse bits, snow bits, etc. The advertisement promotes neat prompt execution at the Washingtonian office and mentions various miscellaneous products and services.
The proprietor offers a wide assortment of legal forms and materials ready printed or printed to order. He pledges to ensure customer satisfaction through fair pricing and accurate execution of each request.
William H. Pritchard advertises as a general land agent serving Cherokee counties including Union Lumpkin Forsyth Gilmer Murray Dade Walker Chattooga Floyd Cass Cobb and Paulding. He tests mining lots checks quality and siting for mining advantages sells or leases lots records titles attends intruder notices and offers information to lot owners. Commission on notes or accounts twelve and one half percent. power of attorney required. postage paid for mail from post office.
An 1840s advertisement details a manure and compost method called The Bommer Manure Method with steps, costs from 50 cents to /b4, and claims of producing purin liquid fertilizer. It offers mail delivery for a fee and notes patent rights held by ABBETT, Baltimore, plus a claim about publishers who run ads receiving a copy. Also mentions Georgia court decisions published in 1842 with limited copies for sale.
A prospectus announces the Washingtonian Temperance paper to be published in Augusta Georgia. James McCaferty states it will be a weekly family paper urging temperance and morality, with sections on agriculture science and markets. Subscriptions are one dollar per year, with club rates and agent terms for postmasters.
The Miscellany claims to be a strictly neutral family newspaper serving the Southern and Southwestern States. It rejects sensational crime tales and obscene content, focusing on moral tales science travel poetry agriculture and domestic intelligence. Subscriptions are two dollars fifty cents in advance with a promotional offer for Major Jones Courtship and a sixth copy gratis for five new subscribers. Madison Georgia May 1 1843.
The Conner's United States Type and Stereotype Foundry offers type and printing materials at eighteen percent off old prices. Listings include Agate, Nonpareil, Minion, Brevier, Long Primer, Small Pica, Pica and other sizes with various deductions. New articles and patterns are available for orders. types casts and stereotype material advertised for newspaper service.
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