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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1833
Page
5
Fragments reference a Saturday morning event near the Globe Hotel on Back pubs streets with incomplete details.
Notices required by law warn executors administrators and guardians to hold sales on the first Tuesday in a month. Sales must be announced sixty days prior in a public gazette and forty days prior otherwise. Debtors creditors and applications to the court for care to sell must be publicized for four months.
Correspondents receive news that Paico Literati will be published as soon as possible. The Bank of Georgia reports the board meeting on Monday the first of August and elects Thomas Stocks of Greene County as Agent for Discount and Deposit at Greensborough.
A public meeting in City Hall discussed a Athens to Augusta rail line and city stock subscriptions. A five person committee was appointed to correspond with Athens and open books for stock subscriptions while opposing views and debate continued on the project.
A committee report at an adjourned meeting sets the next gathering for the third Saturday in August. The Chairman is empowered to fill any vacancies in the committee, and the session adjourned to Saturday August 17.
An editor lambastes the Superintendent of the Mighty Workshop for misstatements about Missionaries, calling for truth and consistency. He questions who humbled whom, cautions against egotism, and urges honesty while predicting broader fallout if the stance remains flawed.
The piece profiles adventuring young men drawn to New Orleans seeking relief from losses and ill fate. It laments their mistreatment, wasted hospitality, and sneering neglect, predicting sorrow and premature death in the city. Boarding and living costs are noted as exceptionally high, with rents and provisions pushing monthly expenses to 30 to 50 dollars. It calls New Orleans among the globe’s sickliest spots due to cholera.
A physician details cholera symptoms and treatment, recounts outbreak impacts in New Orleans and nearby areas, and describes a proposed disinfectant program using chloride of lime. He also notes personal illness, travel between New Orleans and Alabama, and reports on real estate gains and regional slave losses amid the epidemic.
The writer details New Orleans as a magnet for migrants and trade, noting high labor costs and health risks. He describes creoleResistance to medicine, the city’s literary scene as limited, and debates river navigation threats, shipping routes, and rail expansions.
Colonel Thaverhin arrived in Toston from West Point to direct the construction of Lie fortifications for the harbor defense with an expenditure rising 31 200,000. The completion will add to existing obligations and follows his long service at the institution he has just resigned from supervising.
A July 4 1833 gathering in Lower 3 Runs by the Society for the Protection of Stocks and Crops adopted resolutions praising the deceased Tuomas G Lamar. They pledge thirty days of crepe armbands and plan to send copies to the August Chronicle and the family. George R Dunbar presided as chairman with Gro W Coxtins as secretary and treasurer.
The article notes sugar becoming very scarce with grocers charging 8 to 8.5 cents for fair quality, several operations at those rates, and molasses also scarce with a nominal 26 cents per gallon though actual trade is minimal.
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