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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1836
Page
1
A fragmentary notice from Tinbrough Press discusses publication costs and deadlines for advertising. It mentions periodic rates, payment requirements, and penalties for nonpayment, urging compliance and outlining required notices and posting duties. Names and specific dates are unclear due to OCR errors.
Fragmentary poetry laments the loss of a mother, recalling her bridal hours, watching and prayer, and the tender scenes she inspired. The speaker mourns her absence, noting her beauty faded, and laments that her radiance cannot be seen again.
Senate on the 7th votes to instruct Judiciary Committee to study granting a delegate for the District of Columbia, placing it on par with other territories. Treasury report shows $27 907 000 on February 22. Abolition petitions persist. Also notes regrettable death of Henry Moser after a fall from a horse near Germanton, disrupting his county business and plans.
The Greenville Mountaineer reports Henry Primfield froze to death on January 18 near the town, with severe cold and snow. He left a wife and several children. It also notes Solomon Douthitt, about 60, died of cold near Table Rock, Pickens County, on January 28, near his home.
Unclear particulars surround the death of Vr. D. with indications that ardent spirits were involved in the unfortunate affair.
News from Texas reports 5000 advancing and 10000 Indian forces, with volunteers returning discouraged by famine and poverty. Camp at San Antonio lacks bread, Spanish beef supplying meals, inhabitants blamed for plunder, Santa Anna expected next spring, land grants tied to company grants, weather described as prolonged sunshine. Handolph Teun. Rec.
A dire scene on Worth River near West Virginia Times details a mountain family killed by cold and hunger during a protracted blizzard. A man frozen near a cabin was found with a shovel, the mother and two children within. the family had exhausted food and fuel as they awaited relief or a thaw.
The departure of Gen. Macomb to Florida signals serious worry in the war department about a clash between Brigadiers Scott and Gaines. Gaines may be reacting to Florida within his division while Scott remains tasked with the Florida affair. Past rank disputes and Wilkinson Hampton quarrels warn against further officer tensions as capable young officers seek opportunity.
Report states the Comanche and several other tribes have declared war on Texas and will assist Santa Anna in ongoing operations, signaling a coordinated native resistance amid the Mexican conflict.
From Centreville Indiana the People’s Advocate reports a man named Isaac Heller formerly Isaac Young killed his wife during infant care by an axe in her neck severing her head and killing three children. He confessed citing inability to support them and is imprisoned. formerly tried for murder in Pennsylvania but acquitted on insanity plea.
Robert Allen, son of Col. Robert Allen of Smith County Tennessee, was stabbed through the lungs on the steamboat Selma on the Mississippi river after a quarrel triggered by a dinner remark denouncing gamblers as horse-thieves. He died in New Orleans. Allen was a young lawyer en route to settle in Alexandria Louisiana.
The public should avoid aiding idle vagabonds with printed papers of false calami ties. A recent reprint in town altered dates to exaggerate misfortunes. The writer warns that feeders of these banditti may turn to highway robbery when begging fails. Names Casselleni flagged in Columbia Herald.
The Camden and Amboy Railroad and Delaware and Raritan Canal co owners offer to sell to the state for seven million six hundred fifty thousand dollars, claim the sum recoups construction costs at five million five hundred thousand. They also propose a thirty six year lease at one percent, plus right to another line along the straight turnpike from Frewen Bridge to New Brunswick, signed by Stockton Stevens Brown and Green.
Mary land seems disposed to push Internal Improvement with earnest effort. A House of Delegates Ways and Means Committee report proposes raising twelve million five hundred thousand dollars by state stock to fund canals and railroads and drainage and agriculture. Allocations include Chesapeake and Ohio Canal three million, Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road three million, Eastern Shore Rail Road one million, Maryland Canal five hundred thousand, Annapolis Canal five hundred thousand. The balance to finance land drainage and marl manure to boost mulberry plantations and silk, with lower interest loans to favour agriculture and manufacturing.
The Louisville Cincinnati and Charleston Rail Road Bill passed the Kentucky Senate by twenty six to eight, received governor approval, and has become law. The measure regulates the construction and operation of the line linking Louisville Cincinnati and Charleston.
A master tailor says he paid a journeyman $1,498 in one year while another master claims $1,645 in forty-five weeks. The remark prompts a tongue in cheek note from M. Y. Star urging readers to consider tailoring as a path.
The Boston press comes under fire after at least four incendiary attempts on Monday night targeting the printing plants of the Sentinel, Courier, and Advertiser. No injuries reported. authorities investigating the string of arson attempts against major newspapers.
The Silk Culturist notes growing public interest in silk as a subject, stating that silk societies and incorporated companies are drawing attention more than any other topic known to us.
The passage notes widespread growth across the country with numerous plantations and factories starting operations. It asserts the United States will become one of the world’s leading silk brewing and manufacturing nations in the near future.
The Indiana legislature created the Western Scientific and Agricultural College to be sited by the board of trustees in the state. It will follow Grimke’s curriculum favoring English literature over Greek and Latin classics, with a thorough practical agricultural education. The institution aims to prosper and benefit both community and individuals.
In the Maryland Legislature on the 26th ult. Mr. Berry moved to instruct the Committee on the Colored population to examine the expediency of enacting a law directing free people of color in the state to emigrate within a stated time.
The New Orleans Union reports the Supreme Court decision in the long pending suit between the United States and the City. The ruling transfers 1 600 000 from levee lot sales to the city funds, enough to cover the city’s debt and remove objections to the plan by Alderman Labatat to divide the city into three sections.
Three former editors join the United States Senate. Isaac Hill of New Hampshire from the N. H. Patriot, Joan M. Niles of Connecticut from the Hartford Times, and John Norvell of Michigan from the Franklin Gazette are listed among editors now in the Senate.
In Spartanburg District born Isaac E Wofford, a medical student, was killed while riding from Mississippi. After an overnight stay at Lewis Pyles in Taladega County he encountered two Indians hiding behind a log who fired, wounding him fatally near the hip. He died the next day around 10 or 11 o'clock after riding about a mile.
The obituary records John O. Boggs wh expired and, after being shot, he sent for Pyles. The community’s team and local sympathizers mourn the suspected loss of a young man, reflecting local ties and concern in this place.
A Brussels English clergyman conceived a steam power based on fluid pressure. He claimed eight inches of water could lift and move a vessel toward the East Indies, indicating a prospective breakthrough in steam propulsion.
In a shipbuilding yard two sawyers named Garland and Horburg uncovered a neatly built wren's nest with an egg embedded in the heart of a log. The discovery, within a waterlogged tree, suggests the nest may have remained there for well over fifty years.
A Valparaiso sourced account from mid November describes the Pekin quake as the most terrible in memory. Shocks lasted twenty one days, destroying about one hundred thousand houses across four provinces, with bodies in the fields and survivors living in the open air. A sinkhole at Pong Techin released a black water stream that swept away people, animals, and crops.
A Moorabi resident named Taylor reportedly encountered resistance during an event that led to a bank break and the subsequent removal of a man who had been carrying a dog. The incident description is fragmentary with unclear sequence and details.
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