08 Aug 1854
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Newspaper
Camden Weekly Journal
Location
Camden, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1854
Page
1
Publication details show weekly issues by Thomas J. Warren with advertising rates. Rates include two dollars prepaid, two dollars fifty cents delayed three months, three dollars if unpaid. Rates per square for fourteen lines. single insertions vary. Notices require margin notation to avoid continuous publication.
A South Carolina temperance writer argues for state level action over Maine style prohibition. He cites Maine law as effective in Portland and Rhode Island’s steady practice, urges abolishing grog shops, and calls for total prohibition with medical exceptions, while praising education and public opinion.
A Floridian and Journal essay describes Florida as built on a vast network of irregular arches with numerous subterranean rivers and springs. It calls for canal-cuttings to connect waterways, notes many mineral and thermal springs, and cites Newport Suwannee and Port Brook on the Ocklawaha as notable. The piece questions coral-formed origins and references Agassi. A Virginia incident reports a panther killing a child near a spring and a hunter shooting the animal high in a tree.
Reports from Burvavo New York detail devastating cholera toll at the Canada side Suspension Bridge with unburied corpses and a fire to hide remains. The piece also covers War funding estimates, a Worcester abolitionist incident, Wheeling tavern violence, Danish Mormon shifts, Georgia factory ideas, and cabbage worm control methods.
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