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Newspaper
The Watchman
Location
Danville, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1822
Page
1
The notice states the weekly issue schedule and price terms, with two dollars per year and one dollar due at subscription and six months later. It warns no discontinuation until arrears are paid and proscribes minimum six month subscriptions. Post subscribers bear postage costs.
A traveler on a Bohemian frontier meets a roving robber who offers shelter in a black walled hut. The host reveals a haunted tale of wealth, love, betrayal, and ruin, ending with the captain confessing robbery born of a storied, tragic history.
In the insolvent debtors court in London a private in the guards petitioned. The chief commissioner noted the insolvent found one hundred pounds in five notes of 101 each and one fifty pound note. He gave tens to James Wright who absconded. the fifty he tried at the Bank of England and was detained. He was arraigned, jailed, then discharged after four magistrate appearances, and finally discharged by the chief commissioner who warned against finding another hundred pounds.
A laborer named Joseph Lewis shot and killed a mulatto man named Jack Bass at his house, accusing him of bewitched trickery. Lewis’s wife and an older Portsmouth resident allegedly aided his irrational belief. Lewis is committed for trial.
A brief plea notes a few bushels of wheat rye corn oats or buckwheat are in high demand and gratefully accepted from subscribers in arrears for the Watchman.
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