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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1821
Page
2
A fragment from Yeagleston verses depicts an hour of solace and joyful reflection. It contrasts sorrow with a calm, heavenly interlude where nature, distant waves, and a serenely quiet landscape draw the mind from pain to exalted contemplation.
A collage of antiquated aphorisms and moral reflections from ancient thinkers including ANAXAGORAS ARISTOTLE DEMOCRILUS and SADI Aman. It contrasts proverbs on death fear of contagion and the pursuit of virtue with parables on endurance laziness and the consequences of procrastination.
Fragmentary notice recalls ancient Senate customs in Home where senators brought sons into session. It notes Papyrius Praetax talus attending with his father and hearing a debate of great importance marked by strictest injunctions against divulging even a syllable until the allowing day.
A playful fiction about whether one man should have two wives or one woman two husbands spreads through a senate crowd. Young Papyrius reveals the ruse to the senators who then bar his kin from meetings, praising his wit and secrecy.
Reports from Mooredon and London describe rising stock values and funds expectations as markets prepare for a new year. Coronation preparations at Westminster Hall gather momentum with page dress designs and proclamations anticipated for the Court of Claims re assembly.
The narrator wakes at four to a bustling Arcaid street scene with churches, convents, markets, vendors, and crowds. Processions, bells, and wares fill the day from mass to noon meals, then bullfights, theatres, and illuminated streets as night approaches.
Crowds gather on the square as rush lights paper lanterns and table lamps illuminate a night of guitar music verse and a tale of murder. A Cyprian Corps show and missionary acts draw attendees before midnight, then silence settles as lovers’ salutes fade and the city sleeps.
A white man Saunders is shot dead in his Augusta road home around midnight. The killer, named Esser and suspected to be connected to Brown, rifled the house taking two watches and two dollars, assaulted Saunders’ wife, and fled toward Augusta road authorities. The suspect is described as a stout man, believed to be the same who previously robbed a traveler of saddle bags. The Savannah Republic reports the crime as a grave local tragedy.
Early this morning a brutal unprovoked murder occurred in Charleston when Paul Laurens stabbed a German clerk named Crawsons at the door of Benjamin Dey’s store on King Street after being refused entry for liquor. Laurens was captured and jailed. Charleston Times report.
A reader cites a Norfolk Beacon note alleging James Powell and his wife were murdered near Jeruss!¢ within three miles on Thursday last and their house burned. A three month old child was found some distance away still alive.
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