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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1844
Page
4
The excerpt depicts a child’s final moments as a tender good night is spoken and a serene, angelic smile appears. A final shadow transforms the scene into a twilight of the grave with a fluttering breath and a last look of love. The passage concludes with the line Good night marking death.
An 1850s style piece juxtaposes a dying boy's heavenward dream with a parable of a serpent representing Ardent Spirits. It critiques alcohol’s harm, imagines heavenly purity, and urges banishing ardent spirits, calling on temperance societies to seize control.
A dying boy urges his father to quit rum and join him in heaven. The father, moved by the vision, vows to become sober and seek admission to the celestial world. He renounces alcohol and lives humbly, inspired by his son's peaceful death in Charlemont in August 1844.
A proclamation describes Ardent Spirits also known as Gin Rum Brandy and Whiskey as having escaped custody from the laboratory or apothecary shelf. It notes a wicked disposition and the need to pursue or recapture this figure described as personified liquor.
A passionate lament condemns drink sellers and society for producing the suffering of a drunkard. It portrays the death scene from delirium tremens, denounces retailers who profit from alcohol, and pleads for empathy toward victims, families, and the moral duty to intervene.
In Charlemont August 1844 a speaker denounces temperance hypocrites who preach abstinence but secretly drink. He warns they betray the cause, compare them to Pollock’s hypocrite, and urge reform to join the temperance army and fight bravely against intoxication.
The Nantucket Inquirer reports the Citizen, owned by C. G. and H. Coffin and commanded by Capt. Hiram Batley, departed for the Pacific with a Total Abstinence pledge signed by all aboard except one. The New York Sun notes the ship begins its voyage as a Temperance Ship, urging further adoption of abstinence aboard vessels.
A harsh view of liberty portrays it as leading to drunkenness and ruin. The passage condemns wine abuse and the neglect of wives and property, suggesting delirium tremens and a drunkard’s grave as the fate some associate with freedom.
A Virginia parish sought a minister of top talent with visiting, writing, and genteel manners and offered 350 dollars plus a possible 50 more. Dr. Rice replied that only Dr. Dwight in heaven fit the bill and joked the minister might live on four hundred dollars.
An Arkansas Intelli gencer letter details Spencer Academy in the Choctaw nation educating nearly a hundred American Indian youths. Opened February, enrollment rose from forty, with no English spoken at entry. Pupils now study in English, arranged in three divisions with dedicated teachers guiding advanced studies.
Dr. Smith reports from an Iowa medicine article that no officially associated Indian is deaf or has aged eye or tooth decay. Sioux natives reportedly need no spectacles as vision remains sharp even in old age. Gov ernment pine farmers Reed and Doe affirm after six years in the region that ophthalmia is the common ailment for Indians.
Dan Marble recounts a humorously evasive encounter as a Yankee asks a wood chopper about his missing yellow dog. The chop saws through the joke by giving progressively longer time and distance cues, ending in a sly hint that the dog is far ahead with a comically long tail.
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