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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1842
Page
1
The Tarborough Press lists weekly publication at two dollars and fifty cents per year if prepaid or three dollars at year end. Shorter terms are twenty five cents per month. Advertisements under a square cost one dollar for the first insertion and twenty five cents per continuation. Court orders and judicial ads cost twenty five percent more. Letters to the Editor must be postpaid.
President Tyler appeals to Congress to address Treasury embarrassments and the nation’s debt. He argues a careful examination of past causes to avoid repetition, notes the growing mismatch between responsibilities and means, and warns retrenchment alone may not suffice without protecting defenses.
The president warns that Treasury deficits of about 14 million dollars loom after this session’s resources. He urges swift, decisive finance reforms, including temporary Treasury notes, a government Exchequer plan, and higher import duties possibly above 20 percent to sustain ordinary expenses and defend the nation, while urging harmony in tariff revision.
President Tyler urges suspension of land proceeds distribution to preserve public credit. He argues the government must pledge land fund revenues to secure a loan, restore confidence, and avoid collapse of finances amid widespread distrust and unsettled currency. He warns only strong fiduciary action can prevent broader economic collapse. Washington March 25, 1842.
Mobile, March 26 Chronicle reports a fatal tragedy after a quarrel behind the scenes at the theatre. Miss Hamblin stabbed Mr. Ewing during the first act, then fled by a window in theatrical dress. Ewing and Hamblin were married and recently separated. Hamblin’s escape remained unsettled by midnight. Three wounds described, one near the ribs, with death seemingly hastened by the fall of the deceased. Hamblin’s postcrime actions suggest nonpremeditation.
The will of Stephen Girard revealed two million dollars set aside for an Orphan College. The plan attracted praise and criticism as the bequest drew public attention to Girard’s charitable intentions and the envisioned institution.
Public reaction split between hopeful praise and concern. The narrative traces how trustees pursued durable marble grandeur and European influence, diverting from the founder’s will. After ten years, the Girard College remains unfinished, the orphans unplaced, and the fund dwindling, illustrating a warning that good deeds should be done in life.
An elderly gentleman of seventy four died in Worcester jail after being imprisoned for endorsing a note valued under one hundred dollars. He could not pay, and the creditor refused to release him when informed of his illness.
In Boston on Monday Henry E Greatoreaux an organist and his wife Catharine G were brought up for an assault on Harriet M Sampson with intent to compel intimacy. The sensational charge sparked rumors of drugging. They were committed to jail for lack of bail of one thousand dollars awaiting Thursday examination. Mrs G appeared gravely ill with consumption. In Cincinnati last week whiskey price fell to 124 cents per gallon, actual cost about 11 cents after barrels.
John Whitman of East Bridgewater Plymouth County Mass entered yesterday on the 108th year of his age. He remains in good health though his sight hearing and memory are somewhat impaired.
The New Era cites an overextended editor who runs a tavern, is a schoolmaster, captain, shoemaker, pill maker, peddler, and Sabbath reader with a large family and a schooner in a wind rumor. The Boston Morning Post adds the man sailed to Boston last fall with onions and potatoes and warned subscribers the next issue would depend on wind and finances. A hydrophobia note from Dr Helier in Paris mentions a Greek practice of watching tongues after dog bites for pustules to prevent hydrophobia.
An old recipe prescribes applying a paste made from the yolk of an egg six drops of turpentine finely cut beet leaves burnt salt and Indian meal with a pinch of snuff or fine tobacco. When seasonally applied it is said to never fail to cure a felon.
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