Amende Honorable at Temperance Meeting Cited in Norwich
The Paris correspondent reports a large Norwich temperance gathering where the Bishop of Norwich publicly praised Father Mathew while affirming Christian brotherhood on neutral ground. The prelate apologized for censure once given and welcomed Mathew with a cordial gesture amid cheers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Nation
Higencer
Norwich
Ngland
Orwich
Father Mathew
Jand
Chronicle and Sentinel urges charity amid brisk trade season
The Chronicle and Sentinel urges readers to remember the poor as trade revives and business thrives. It warns that luxury and activity can dull sympathy for orphans, widows, and the sick, calling for mercy and charitable action during the prosperous period.
Benevolent Society Appeals for Aid to the Poor
A plea for charitable support to relieve the vulnerable restates that the Benevolent Society distributes aid without burden to donors and seeks funds or provisions and wood. The secretary Mr John W Wightman will receive donations for orderly distribution. The piece urges the rich to help the needy and sustain the society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dion No Poe Dey
Benevolent Society
John W. Wightman
Heaven
Tem
Sons of Temperance Celebrates First Anniversary
The Sons of Temperance marked their first anniversary on Monday with a parade through principal streets and a capacity crowd at Broadway Tabernacle. The order, about 1500 strong in New York, supports members in illness with 400 weekly and funeral costs of 30, while promoting benevolence and temperance nationwide. An oration by M Oakley, portraits of Daniel Sands presented, and a doxology closed the event.
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Sons of Temperance
M. Oakley
Broadway Tabernacle
Daniell Sands
New York State
The
Expensive Nap At New York Hotel Ends In Lost Money
The True Sun reports three well dressed young men visited a fashionable New York hotel, drank, and left one man asleep. When he woke he found $150 missing after discovering his companions had disappeared. He did not know the culprits. The piece ends with a moral about avoiding strangers and drinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ancient Excursions of War, Industry and Wit in Pieces
A pasted miscellany recounts a story of a daring Italian noblewoman aiding a desert grenadier beside Bonaparte, a Napoleonic taunt, and a vivid note on cot ton imports. It includes a New York Express summary of India cotton shortages and a Charleston Transcript description of Ruggles shoe making machines, plus a quip about marriage age and corsets.
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Inpta Corron
N. Y
India
England
Europe
United States
Charleston Transcript
Candlelight on a New Way to Make Campus Candles
A brief from the Chambers Herald describes a candle the size of a broom straw that yields a brilliant, durable light. To make it, melt one pound bees wax with a quarter pound soft turpentine, strain, prepare a wick, and repeatedly coat it with the mixture to form a 40 yard long wick.
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Herald
Preservine Bees Egg Preservation Patent in England
A patent in England claims a method for preserving eggs for two years using a mixture of one bushel quick lime, thirty two ounces salt, eight ounces cream of tartar, blended with water to form a workable paste. The composition is applied to eggs to extend shelf life.
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England
Roofs that defy weather rise from Swedish tar mix
The excerpt recalls an 1843 note from Charlotte, Virginia recounting a Swedish Royal Society discovery. It describes roofing with tar mixed with powdered charcoal to mortar thickness, who claimed roofs covered this way hardened and resisted weather for over a century without repair.
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Royal Society of Sweden
London
Sweden
G. Charlotte
Georgia Banks and Rail Road Notes Listed
A lengthy listing of banks and branches across Georgia, including State Bank branches in Macon and Milledgeville, Central Railroad Bank in Macon, and notes on bonds and currency. Banks named include Exchange Bank of Brunswick, Bank of Augusta, Bank of Columbus, Planters and Mechanics Bank, and Marine and Fire Insurance Banks with various branch references. The fragment also references city councils and rail road banking connections, with scattered figures and bond details amid the unreadable OCR.
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Bank Vesses Spairoesess Ces Central Rail Road Bank
Sois
State Bank
Macon
Commercial Bank
Milledgeville Bank
Athens
Ufve
Exchange Bank of Brunswick
Nosale
Brunswick Bank Bank of Augusta
State of Georgia
Savannah _— Insurance Bank of Columbus
Poenix Bank
Columbus
Bank of
Hawkinsville
City Council of
Monroe Rail Road Bank
Western Bank of Georgia
Bank of Columbus Georgia
Georgia
Aus Mechanics’ Bank
Augusta Insurance & Bankil
Georgia Rail Road
State Bankily
Nladyaccseene Marine and Fire Insurance Bank
Milledgeville
Uncertainy City Council of
Maconas
Chattahoochie R. R. and Banking Co
Planters & Mechanics Bank Columbus Bank of Ocmulgee
Charleston
Igg
Bank of Hamburg
Sexu Siddieabeus
Avanama Notes
Augusta Market Cotton and Grocery Prices
Cotton shows steady demand with prices 64 to 74 cents and principal sales at 63 to 67 cents. Liverpool advices to the 4th inst. are favorable but do not justify price gains. Groceries remain in good demand with merchants well supplied at current price levels.
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Liverpool
Augusta
Canerutty Connectrep
Bana
Burter
Goshen
North Carolina
Corres
Cuba
Baltimore
Gounrow BR
Dupont
SFFP
Astin Ste
Russia
Rieat
Tore
Moasses
N. Orleans
Avana
Romer As Gee Ora
Tanners
Malaga
Sugars
New Orleans
Havana
Brown
Muscovado
St. Croix
Porto Rico
Bush
Topacco
N. Carolina
Virginia
Twineer
Souchong
Hyson Its
Gunnonder
Benoa la Sss
Dr John Millen Declares Candidacy for Tax Collector
Announcement states Dr John Millen as a candidate for Tax Collector of Richmond County with filing in January.
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John Millen
Richmond County
Payments to Washingtonian and David Plumb Through 1844
Record lists payments to the Washingtonian Augusta D Plumb and to June 10 44 Hays Bowdre H W Aisley and David Plumb through June 10 44. Also Thomaston Dr C Rogers Daniel Beall H Smoot J Perdue W A Cobb Josiah Ansley J P Murray G A Harris A T Shackelford B Hicks and Jos Speir through Dec 3 1843.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washingtonian
Augusta
D. Plumb
Hays Bowdre
H. W. Aisley
Washington
David Plumb
Thomaston
Dr. C. Rogers
Daniel Beall
H. Smoot
J. Perdue
W. A. ‘Cobb
Josiah’ Ansley
J. P. Murray
G. A. Harris
A. T. Shackelford
Hicks
Chance for printers in Fort Gaines Whig management
Journal notice from Dill and Harris Fort Gaines proprietors seeks a competent person to take charge or share ownership of the Fort Gaines Whig. Immediate attention requested. Also includes South Carolina court return days and local notices from Edgefield and T. Chapman.
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South Carolina
Oraxareere
Barnwent
T. Chapman
Edgefield
Snead & Milledge
Lincoln
Warren
Court of Common Pleas
John C. Snead
John Milledge
Augusta
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Chronicle & Sentinel
Augusta Benevolent Society
Mery
Egypt
Bonaparte
Pyramids
Bourrienne
N. Y. Evening Post
Ruggles
Gold Street
Cnecks
Speke
Boston
Lexington
Richmond
Savannah
Loagoreom
Amuel
Chapman
Orangeburg
Barnwell
S.C
Orfice
M. Antony
WM. Haines, Jr
John B. Murphy
Broad Street
Mwutice
John Winter
Anna Winter
Exeter
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