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Newspaper
The Watchman
Location
Danville, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1822
Page
1
Printed and published every Thursday by George Sweeney. Terms set for weekly publication at two dollars per year. One dollar due at subscription, one dollar due at six months. No discontinuation for arrears, nor subscriptions under six. Postage charges apply to subscribers by mail.
An anonymous pamphlet review summarizes British financial policy from 1816 to 1822. It notes army and colonial expansions, wholesale retrenchments, and tax reforms. cites reductions in the army and navy budgets, abolition of sinecures, rising excise receipts, and shifting exports and imports including cotton sugar rum tea tobacco and silk. It asks what Americans would think of raising large revenues from a single internal tax source.
An underground cavern near Taylor's Creek in Ohio released flammable gas after miners bored 50 feet into rock. A light triggered an explosion. several men were scorched but no fatalities occurred. Gas ebullition ceased on the eighth day. Wilmington, Del. April 16. A traveler on the St Georges to route road is reported.
A man was robbed of about 6400 and tied to a tree near the road after leaving the Red Lion tavern ten miles below this place. He was later released by a passerby who found him and freed him.
From Georgetown Metropolitan a late advertisement appears in the Savannah Museum noting a pew in St John’s Church offered in exchange for a horse. A splendid copy of the Holy Bible will be up for sale at the meeting house in the morning. The godly are invited to take chances.
A short notice describes a folk remedy for hooping cough in children. It asserts that rubbing the back bone from the neck downward with warm garlic and placing the patient near the fire will quickly cure the ailment, repeating the treatment for several days.
The Salem Register cites a Calcutta letter dated December 13 proposing a society in Calcutta to aid visiting mariners with instruction. Rev William Ward hails similar US and UK societies after his travels. Serampore Mission runs a type foundry, a paper manufactory, seventeen presses, and workers for printing scriptures in Indian languages.
A select committee report criticizes peacetime loans and urges debt redemption, avoiding tolls and broad taxation. It advocates retrenchment to cut useless expenditures and reduce officer pay and salaries.
The government resolves to modify the tariff to raise revenue. William P Duvall of Kentucky, former judge in East Florida, has been appointed by the president, with Senate consent, as governor of the territory of Florida.
From Smyrna a note reports that at the port a French and Dutch squadron patrolled with a Turkish fleet of about 60 sails seen off Morea in February. The Grecian fleet hid in the Archipelago while no definite war news between Russia and the Porte had arrived but was expected.
The office will accept flax and wool as payment for newspapers. Wood or grain at market prices may be paid by Milton area subscribers at Montgomery Sweney's still house in Milton for the Watchman. Subscribers preferring produce should send it promptly as an acceptable favor.
The editor of the Watchman accepts rags as payment for the newspaper and offers as much as the paper maker allows. With a small effort, a family could save enough rags yearly to cover their newspaper costs.
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