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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1844
Page
4
A compact verse recounts a paradoxical scene where doom and revelry clash. The speaker contrasts a ravening foe with a rising awakening of life that dispels death’s revelry as truth shines through darkness. The tone mimics wartime lyricism with vivid imagery.
Rev Leonard Bacon chronicles the twenty year rise of the Temperance Reform movement, rooted in Christian ethics and led by ministers. He argues the idea advances slowly, faces opposition from vested interests, and will transform society and national life as it expands from America to Europe, Ireland, and beyond.
A historic warning describes a long standing fraud that boosts alcohol by mixing narcotics like cocculus indicus and nux vomica into malt liquor. The excerpt presents an alleged Essence of Porter recipe with Spanish liquorice, gentian, black extract, capsicum, molasses and heading to spike beer, claiming to convert weak beer into porter.
A Ladies' Temperance Mirror column urges readers to picture the drunkard’s wife and children suffering from intemperance. It calls for signing the total abstinence pledge and pledging talent and wealth to the temperance cause.
Miss L R Williams offers a course equal to Europe in quality at Broadstreet Seminary. She has long teaching experience and invites parents to enroll daughters with strict attention to education morals and manners. A noted music teacher is engaged, boarding available, terms at the Seminary near the Bridge Bank Buildings references from M M Dye E E Ford and Dr D Hook.
The Rev Mr Harp plans to resume duties at the Seminary on Tuesday October first. The institute offers four classes with a ten month scholastic year and quarterly terms of 1250 dollars. A preparatory class will admit scholars not yet advanced.
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