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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1821
Page
6
A poetic meditation describes an hour of quiet joy easing loneliness. It contrasts solitude with the world’s clamor and invites the reader to find heavenly peace as nature rests and Philomel’s song rises. The verse moves from sorrow to contemplative exaltation.
A compilation of aphorisms and quotations from Anaxagoras Aristotle Antisthenes and others on mortality desire fleshly pursuits fear of bad example and the cycles of life. It traces hopes of the wise versus fools and notes the vanity of procrastination and the futility of lingering in indolence.
Fragmentary OCR passage recalls a Roman senate custom of senators bringing their sons. An incident involves Papyrius Praetax talus attending with his father as an affair of great importance is discussed. The matter’s determination is postponed to the allowing day with strict injunctions against divulging any syllable. The story cuts off as the young Papyrius returns home.
A long extract recounts a boy Papyrus spinning a tale about a senate debate on whether one man should have two wives or one woman two husbands. Senators react with astonishment and ban a senator’s son from meetings except Papyrus. The piece then shifts to Cardinal Du Bois and artists Le Brun and Seequier, with foreign news about Ferdinand VII, Cortes, Merino, and upheavals in Piedmont and Naples.
Reports from Mooredton note rising feuds and strong public demand for government stock, with the 2 percent consols climbing as brokers expect a broad funds advance. The Coronation at Westminster Hall sees resumed works and changes in page attire as proclamations loom.
From the Sheffield dris, the narrator wakes before four in the morning as Arcaid wakes. Markets fill the streets with vegetables, wine, olives, and bread while goad-keepers call for milk and vendors begin their day. The streets brim with activity, bells, and processions, ending with theatres, illuminated shops, and a night of Spanish social life.
A crowded square glows with rush-lights and paper lanterns as two women and a cake man serve. The crowd listens to guitar music and a female ballad, while a Cyprian Corps performs and rosary beads clatter before revelers disperse as night deepens and the city quiets.
A midnight shooting near Augusta leaves Saunders dead in his home. A man named Esser, believed to be allied with Brown, assaulted Saunders wife, looted two watches and two dollars, and fled through a back door. Authorities chase a stout man linked to Low Wall & Co building work.
Early reports describe a barrous unprovoked murder on King Street. Paul Laurens shot and killed a young German clerk Crawsons after attempting entry to an after hours store to obtain liquor. Laurens was arrested and jailed.
A Norfolk Beacon item notes James Powell and his wife were murdered near Jerusselton last Thursday, their house set on fire. A three month old child survived, found some distance from the scene. The report cites a Southampton gentleman as the source.
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