25 Apr 1835
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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1835
Page
1
The fragment outlines a weekly publication price of two dollars and one penny per year with advance payment, a monthly discount, and a routine for payments due after expiration. It mentions notices to subscribers and that failure to respond may trigger further actions or address changes, with delivery terms and potential penalties.
In this town a man calling himself James Lawrence was committed to jail for stealing a coat and other items from his board house. A trunk exam revealed 12 pairs of shoes, a small black bodice, a silver lane, and a coat marked J. L. The property is with Daniel Sherwood, Esq. Town Magistrate, who invites owners to call. The woman’s value is between 16 and 20 dollars. Lawrence arrived on the Fayetteville Stage.
From good authority it is alleged Samuel Dewey of the 2 Curlew decapitated the image of Andrew Jimson on the Constitution. He has reportedly been confined for eighty one days in Bloominghay Prison New York on grounds of suspected insanity.
An excerpt recounts a tale of a enslaved man driven to escape via a scheme in Richmond with a stage driver as an ally. The man gains freedom with aid from friends and papers, deposits half his sale money in a savings bank, and returns home satisfied as his partner’s funds are credited. A mixed brief follows on silk production in Mansfield Connecticut and notes on Yankee industry.
A Harvard Connecticut society aims to spread silt manufacture and silkworm cultivation knowledge. A Northampton Massachusetts mechanic unveils a versatile domestic silk machine that reels spins twists and processes cocoon silk into various forms. The device handles cocoon to finished silk in about five feet of space.
The New Orleans Advertiser reports that over five million acres in Louisiana face annual inundation, about one sixth of the state. Cultivated land totals under forty thousand acres, yielding roughly ten million dollars yearly, or about two hundred fifty dollars per acre, prompting calls for reclamation and potential enormous profits.
The writer muses on wool shrinking from adult garments to fit a child after a year of wear. He compares wool and human hair in moisture-driven contraction and notes numerous proposed remedies failed. He suggests a prize from the American Institute to encourage practical solutions for housewives and others.
Three farmers who studied geology purchased land rich in granite for 3000 dollars without the owner knowing its value. They were later offered 590000 dollars for the same land, illustrating how geological knowledge can vastly increase a property's worth.
The United States experiences an estimated annual population rise of 250,000 from immigration and about 500,000 from native births, reflecting a substantial net increase in overall growth.
Aaron and Robert Fay, brothers from S town in Worcester County, died near century’s end. Each had twenty children. each wife bore ten children. each wife bore seven sons and three daughters. Only one survivor remains in each family, and both are the youngest born.
On the 9th inst, the body of a man was found on South Mountain in Franklin count, Pa. His feet were frozen in a hole and flesh on his head neck and breast was largely eaten by wild beasts. He appeared to be 40 or 45 years old and had no identifying papers.
A corner stone of a church at Grindstone Hill Guilford township Franklin county Pennsylvania was recently cut out and robbed of its coins and other contents. No suspects named and no motive stated. Local authorities urged vigilance and prompted inquiries.
A steam powered brick machine is being erected in Louisville. It is expected to produce 200000 well finished bricks per week.
A description of Lactoline, a milk essence extracted by evaporation in Paris, said to resist heat and moisture. Diluting with small amounts of water yields fresh milk. The discovery is praised as a marvellous aid for travelers ships and crews at sea.
At the March session of the Circuit Court and Oyer and Terminer of Herkimer County Lydia Foster won $1000 from John English for breach of marriage contract. The defendant was valued at $8000. In the same court Susan Eastbrooks awarded $600 from Nelson Dunn for seduction.
Adelaide Watson, 79 Grand Street, faced the bar on a charge of seducing a married man who was a store clerk. The man left his wife in Boston for Watson in New York, becoming the father of two. He allegedly drew Watson away from the union and taunted the ill wife at her bedside. The full tale centers on deception, infidelity, and a sick bed grievance.
A distraught wife discovers her husband with another woman and a confrontation ensues. The employer of the husband, Mr. F, takes the misguided girl to the watch house. Justice Wyman reprimands the woman and commits her to prison, while Mr. F is allowed to remove her to join her parents. The husband plans to follow his mistress to her homeland.
The Mervin children, aged about eleven and twelve, disappeared February 26 near Stockton in Baldwin County. A letter from Blakely dated March 18 reports two Black men in jail confessed to the murders. Separate assault on two Mrs Moye’s daughters riding near Montgomery Hill led to a pursuit. one assailant seized, confessed, and said bodies would be found in Mr Moye’s mill creek. A second suspect, a man belonging to Mr Moye, is implicated. Bodies yet unfound as of Tuesday morning per Mobile Register.
In New Bedford and Nantucket benefactors supply the New England Asylum for the Blind in Boston with a compact set of raised-type letters. The improved Boston method shows far greater letter density per page than Paris or Edinburgh, enabling thinner paper and tripling matter per book. Blind workers can set and print most pages, as the Book of Acts nears completion.
The text notes progress in completing Proverbs and Psalms, preparing types for printing, and other improvements under Dr. Samuel G. Howe and Phil Hellenset, superintendent of the Boston Institution. It describes replacing sunken-engraved maps with standard-engraved ones and a lighter frame for arranging arithmetical characters, all advances attributed to Dr. Howe.
The Buffalo Journal editor noted a cheese seen in the city recently described as almost large enough to rival Parson Leland’s gift to Mr. Jefferson. The cheese, weighing 300 pounds, was produced by Clark Dart and David Camp of Hamburg and measured eight feet three inches in circumference.
In Connersville Indiana an oak tree seven feet in diameter was cut down. The owner gained six dollars from bark seven hundred rails three hundred stakes four cords of wood a bee that partly survived a fall and about fifty people ate what they could while gallons of honey were saved.
The Bangor Daily Whig reports a tragic incident in Solon where David Spencer and his parents were killed while removing a felled beech tree. The tree trapped the son then snapped, crushing all three occupants as they attempted rescue.
A major burglary occurred at Dubosy and Eaton on Bank Street Philadelphia where iron chests were forced open after hours. The shop was guarded by a dog which the thieves planned to quiet with a male dog. Three men were arrested and jewelry may be recovered. The robbers are believed to have posed as country merchants visiting multiple stores to size up security.
A brief extract from the Cazevovia New York Monitor discusses provoking one another to good works as a liberal example of benevolence. The text notes Astrife as an unusual character carried on in the piece.
In a series of notices from February 10 to 11, Buffalo leaders and donors pledge wood and aid to the city’s poor. Mayor Ebenezer Johnson offers 23 cords with a poverty carve-out tied to intemperance, echoed by Manly Colton and O H Dibble. Twitchell, Palmers, and Wheelock join with wood, provisions, clothing, and even beer to the needy, emphasizing temperance or indifference to its cause.
A Cincinnati youth nearly completes an air gun claimed to surpass all others by turning a crank to fire sixty balls per minute with about 130 pounds of force per ball. The device feeds balls from a top tunnel and aims to weaponize a musket variant equally easy to handle, capable of firing balls of any size by anyone.
The Cincinnati Gazette laments rampant speculation inflating prices rather than genuine demand, noting the burden on the poor who pay dearly for basics. It cites a man profiting 20 000 dollars from bacon while a poor woman struggles to buy flour and potatoes.
A gentleman's will, read aloud after his death, notes he would have left a thousand pounds to his dear friend Mr Whomes B if he had possessed it, but since he did not, the recipient must accept the will for the deed as written.
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