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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1821
Page
6
The poem describes a doomed maiden named Matilda whose beauty and happiness are ruined by a villain. Scandal marks her reputation as friends withdraw and pity fades. The speaker pleads for Anna and God to commiserate her sorrow as she lies cold in the ground.
A reflective verse on tears as a divine favour and proof of feeling. It links sorrow and joy, describing tears as a balm for pain and a symbol of affection. Humid eyes express hope and anguish, while the tear is tied to love and reconciliation.
An 18th century poem frames Hope’s temptations and Pain while noting Goldsmith and Johnson’s reputations. The Salem Gazette recalls Plymouth Colony law threatening fines for refusing governor or deputy governor posts, then questions the modern relevance of such penalties.
The Courier Francais reports Lalande returning to Bordeaux with a living hippopotamus and a rhinoceros, plus three whales, and details the dramatic death of the hippo and Lalande’s medical dissections. The page also argues for limits on imprisonment for debt, criticizing creditor power and defending state interests.
A wife named Morgan was locked up for insolence in Deptford after a magistrate ordered her detention. Her husband, arriving to visit, became furious, and after she was sent to Maidstone jail he died of a broken heart. A coroner’s inquest ruled death by the visitation of God. Also notes satire on a steam prayer device and Britain’s national debt figures.
The Hibernian Journal reports a public demonstration of Gregorys new invention in Dublin showing a self supporting ladder that rises forty feet in seconds and can be used as a fire escape with a cradle and pulley. The device ascends without building support and can reach upper stories to direct engine pipes during a blaze.
A judge in the department Zips sent a young woman with 200 florins toward Goelnitz. A countryman joined her, led to a mine shaft and demanded her money and dress. She fled, he fell into the cavity dead, with three naked female corpses nearby and 600 florins found on his belt. Hamburgh Correspondenten notes a large male Easteraaxr aboard a vessel.
A report from Norfolk dated May 25 details Jesse Corbell in Suffolk Jail confessing to knowledge of a slave theft network. He names Willis Edge Jerry Read and others as organizers, with abducted enslaved people sold in Norfolk and beyond. A later letter confirms a robbery in Edenton involved Read Willis Edge and others, and notes confessions shifting trials to September.
A featured specimen sheet from Murray Fairman showcases advanced engraving and steel dies as a counterfeiting defense for bank notes. The circular explains combining line and dotting styles, high finish engravings, and integrated die work to deter imitation, with notes on uniformity and distinct bank character.
A detailed analysis discusses the Ottoman Empire’s strains as Albania, Wallachia, and Moldavia threaten stability. It notes Serb, Greek, and Arab tensions, possible reshaping of imperial power, and the Divan’s challenge to marshal forces while European interests loom.
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