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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1843
Page
5
The Washingtonian will be published every Saturday morning by James McCafferty at one dollar per year for a single subscriber, five dollars for a club of twelve. Communications by mail must be postpaid. Advertisements priced by length with discounts for yearly rates and varied insertions.
Detailed instructions on ruta baga soil, planting, thinning, and ridging techniques. Guidance covers seed depth, seedling spacing, transplanting, hoeing, and furrow turning to suppress weeds. Includes notes from Cobbett on yield, plus fall and winter handling, storage, and animal fodder uses.
Mr H J Thompson, a enterprising planter, shows a cornstalk molasses sample equal or superior to sugar-house molasses. He boiled stalk juice in a kettle reducing seven gallons to two, yielding 25 to 30 gallons this year. He notes uncertain yield per acre but asserts labor from corn stalks is profitable. A specimen is available for viewing.
The Edgefield Advertiser notes Col Walker’s yield trials and James S Pope's sugar house molasses from corn stalks. A correspondent describes extracting syrup, estimating seventy five gallons possible with timely stalk stripping, drilled planting, and careful cultivation.
In a Tuesday lecture Col Lehmamouski lauds Empress Josephine. He recalls meeting her in 1790 at General Lafayette’s house and notes her evolution from Countess Beauharnois to wife of the First Consul and Emperor. He praises her charity and calls her the Mother of France.
The text cites Lord Brougham on the dangers of unenlightened voters and quacks. It quotes the Florida Sentinel on using experience as a schoolmaster, urging parents and teachers to shape thinking and morals, warning that debt and extravagance erode virtue.
The speaker argues maternal influence shapes virtuous character and national renewal. Neglect of family government undermines schools and reform efforts. If mothers embraced responsibility, society would see fewer unhappy families and less crime, with the streams of virtue flowing from a restored home.
The speaker exhorts pupils and their families to toil, save money, pay as they go, avoid long credits, and be sober and prudent. He stresses self reliance and that everyone should work hard, including boys and girls, to earn their keep.
A Irish woman's remark on progress and perfection sparks a reflection on historical improvement. The piece muses that true finish may come only with resurrection, contrasting past and present changes through centuries of history.
A London medical journal reports Dr Joslin of New York described a compositor who developed facial paralysis after holding type in his mouth while proofing. The case shows paralysis of muscles supplied by the periorbital and zygomatic branches, with preserved tongue and mastication, affecting expression and eyelid movement.
The Foreign Quarterly notes Herschel’s observations in the Southern Hemisphere of about 2500 nebulae and 2000 double stars. It states he has found ample evidence of the change and revolution his father proposed, aiming to complete his father’s work as a monumental achievement in modern science.
The passage recalls Cobbett's reply to a challenger proposing a fight. He advised drawing a chalk Cobbett on a door and sending word if hit, to prove that the real Cobbett could not be harmed, regardless of the outcome of the encounter.
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