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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1843
Page
1
The Washingtonian to be published each Saturday morning by James McCafferty at one dollar yearly or five dollars for six subscribers or ten dollars for twelve in advance. Postmasters may collect subscription money. Advertising rates listed for single and continued insertions with annual discounts.
J Bovary reports to the Agricultural Society on cotton yields around the Wateree region. He compares 1843 to 1841 noting cold springs heavy rains and possible killing frosts may cut yields by at least a third. He cites diaries of crop progress and warns against relying on optimistic puff pieces from publications.
The piece traces early American agricultural adaptation by colonists. It notes how Indian corn, pumpkins, and wheat were acclimated from southern roots, mentions asparagus expansion inland, and calls out the potato's journey from Ireland via Ireland to America, highlighting gradual adoption before 1710.
An Aug 2 1843 letter from Princeton recounts a fugitive slave case in New Jersey. James the enslaved man was identified by a claimant from Mississippi in a jury trial under state law. The jury sided with the claimant, and James was freed after payments by a donor and citizens.
The Maine Cultivator advocates cutting low ground hay early before seed ripens to improve feed quality. It advises salting the cut hay with three pecks to a bushel per mile rood, plus thorough packing to preserve brightness and sweetness, noting salt aids antiseptic preservation when stored green and plentiful.
A garden apple tree, ten plus years fruitless, produced fruit after a method from an old volume. Cut a four inch round bark piece from each limb near the trunk and replace it tied with a rag until it adheres. Only cut limbs bore fruit now. The Reading Gazette notes 228 steamboat accidents over 25 years with 1700 lives lost.
The article argues that women shape a society's morals and education from childhood. It cites Cromwell and Napoleon as examples, claiming a mother’s influence determines a child’s opinions and future virtue, urging mothers to embrace responsibility.
General Cass recounts a legendary Miamis practice called the Man Eating Society. He describes ritual torture of captives by a tied victim burned at the stake, with the practice linked to a chief named White Skin. The report notes a converted Seminole preaching in Reading and the arrest of Rev J P Backus for forging notes, with details of his life manuscript.
A noted preventive method for spontaneous hydrophobia in dogs is described using flour of sulphur. A small particle mixed into ordinary food or drink is claimed to ward off the disease. The practice has long been known in Europe and is said to deter the onset of rabies by a simple additive.
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