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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1842
Page
1
The Tarborough Press lists weekly publication at two dollars and fifty cents yearly prepaid, or one dollar per year at expiration. shorter periods at twenty five cents per month. Advertisements up to a square cost one dollar plus twenty five cents per continuation, with tower ads at a similar rate. Court orders incur a twenty five percent surcharge. Fiditor correspondence must be post paid.
A historical ad boasts SUERIANS Camphor Lozenges and Sherman's Worm Lozenges as powerful remedies for coughs, consumptions, and worm-related illnesses. It markets relief from nervous disorders, chest oppression, headaches, and a range of digestive and bodily complaints, claiming universal satisfaction and broad use among travelers and the ill. The piece also promotes Sherman's Poor Man's Plaster as a strong, affordable pain remedy, with numerous patient certificates and directions for use. It closes with notice of Georges Howard, Tarboro agent, dated February 23.
The March 19 edition from the New Orleans Picayune presents brief items ranging from local society notices to early city updates. It highlights community events, upcoming schedules, and small notices affecting residents without detailed features.
Galveston report dated March 12 1842 says 14000 Mexican troops under Arista crossed the Rio Grande and seized San Antonio Goliad and Victoria with Austin not attacked yet Gen Burleson raised 1200 to defend the country about 4000 citizens marching toward the scene Houston led a few hundred volunteers while others will follow The people vow to exterminate the invader with the government short of funds and the public to support the war.
A passenger reports a malicious action on the Petersburg and Roanoke railroad. A wooden sill placed across rails near Pleasant Hill depot derailed the Weldon southbound mail train, seven miles north of Garysburg. Captains Stiles and Boyken organized immediate repairs.
An attack on the railway near Weldon delayed mail and passenger service. A Southbound engine was derailed, forcing Petersburg to shuttle trains and detain travellers for hours. A second obstruction at the collision site blocked progress again, prompting calls for swift punishment of the perpetrators. Rich. Star.
The Tennessee Legislature passed an act virtually abolishing capital punishment authorizing the Governor to commute death sentences to life imprisonment. A separate Iowa bill to abolish capital punishment was passed but rejected by the council due to concerns about penitentiary conditions for convicts.
The steamboat North Star exploded on February 29 about 22 miles below Tuscaloosa. It carried 16 passengers and crew. about 15 were killed and ten to ten severely wounded.
A young man Benjamin T. White murdered his father and attempted to kill his step-mother in By ron. He restrained his father, shot him, beat him with a pistol butt, and aimed at the step-mother who escaped by raising her arm. White fled but was captured within hours and confessed intent to kill. A harsh letter to his father reveals extreme abuse. White is jailed.
An inquest reveals a deadly clash in Broad street after a quarrel between Thomas Hutchinson and McMillan, an engineer on the Georgia Railroad. Both were armed for a confrontation around 11 pm, leading to a fatal outcome and a juried investigation into the tragedy.
A confrontation led to Hutchinson stabbing McMillan in a left side wound. McMillan died within minutes. Hutchinson plans to surrender as a judicial investigation proceeds. The inquest verdict names a wound from a knife in an affray with Thomas Hutchinson. It’s mentioned both men were rumored to contend for the same lady.
Mr Pierpont cited an anecdote praising uneducated Indian girls for textile skill. He claimed a Hindoo girl could spin cotton and muslin finer than machinery, making thread far lighter per pound and producing dew-covered muslins that vanish from view when spread on the ground.
A land slide at Algiers opposite New Orleans on the 230 ul damaged Bell's ten pin alleys carried away, and several houses. Willow Grove House was submerged except the upper story. The river levee outer portion washed away and fears of further damage were raised.
The St Louis Republic notes vine buildings in Marion City on the Mississippi river are being moved from a town where Eastern buyers lost money years ago. A Hannibal area town twelve miles below near the river bank now offers lots sold for two to eight hundred dollars and frame houses at under a hundred dollars, including lot and building.
The Dover Inquirer notes winter ice scarcity near Boston drives New Hampshire dealers to Cocheco River. Ice men cut upper river with ploughs for transport to the city at nine shillings a ton, loaded in 60 to100 ton railroad cars, boosting railroad revenue and mirroring a profitable speculation.
On Monday last the term of service of convict Philip Crater at Auburn State prison ended. He reportedly boasted to fellow inmates of murdering a pedlar about twelve years ago and burying the body near the Susquehanna river, with wagon irons worked by a local blacksmith. A search earlier this week yielded shins near the riverbank, but bones were washed away and the confession appeared dubious.
The St. Augustine News reports that many Florida depreciations charged to the Swans are committed by white men in disguise who use this method to plunder. The Louisiana Legislature has unanimously asked the Government to declare war against Mexico.
Mr Thomas Lyrrell of Missouri advertises a cancer on his nose cured after failing with Dr Smith of New Haven. The method uses strong potash from red oak bark, boiled to molasses consistency, to cover the cancer, then tar plaster. After an hour and several days the plaster is removed and repeated as needed, with salves to heal. Cautery and knife had failed previously. the Raleigh Star reports a perfect and speedy cure.
The Executive and Legislative Departments of New York and Massachusetts held a joint meeting in Springfield at the Western Railroad invitation. Governors Seward and Davis attended with Josiah Quincy Jr presiding. Davis welcomed New Yorkers, Seward replied, and a cordial day ended with a shared collation.
On February 16 William McClung left home in Nicholas County to Summerville. A mountain storm trapped his family as their house burned. The wife and four children perished in the blaze and freezing cold. McClung returned to find his home gone and died from shock, restrained by friends.
A Boston Courier correspondent reports a plan to acquire Texas not by admission but through a treaty with Mexico. It suggests Wardy Thompson, a former minister, is negotiating cession to settle Mexican claims. The piece notes the President favors Texas acquisition as a policy, aiming to bring the republic into the Union through Senate assent to a purchase.
A Pennsylvania Legislature bill proposes forming the Pennsylvania Canal and Railroad Company to connect Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The plan stakes the capital at 10 million dollars in 100 thousand shares of 100 dollars each. Commissioners named include Geo M Dallas Benj W Richards Evans Rogers Harmar Denney William Wilkins and Charles M Reed.
The Wilmington Chronicle notes widespread sickness of a fetal character in Pasquotank County of Luis State with no specification of type. It also reports that several valuable citizens of that county have recently died.
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