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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1838
Page
1
The Tarborough Press offers weekly issues at ten dollars and fifty cents for advance payment or three dollars per year at expiration. Subscriptions may be continued with notice or arrears, with distance patrons paying in advance or replying to references. Advertisements under a square are 25 cents. longer ads scale higher. court orders and judged notices incur 24 percent higher.
A speaker laments a weighty grief not eased by kin or wealth. He trusts his father but insists only Janet’s steadfast love could relieve his troubled heart, though he fears flattery and coldness from others. He mentions appetite ailments and digestion troubles as distractions from sorrow.
A fragment describes many devils in the world from bold to mock, horns and tails, some serious, some polite. It contrasts devils for churches and imps for revels with a laughing woman, two bright eyes, asked as the worst devil of all.
Raleigh Register reports on James Kear ey's plan to determine inland sea navigation from Albemarle or Pamlico Sound to the ocean. The engineer warns coasting channels between Beaufort and the Chesapeake Bay risk closure within years, urging a Beaufort Harbor link to maintain trade and coastwise access for Union vessels.
The article discusses a deep water inlet bar and a proposed canal from the Nense and Cape Pear Rivers to connect inland steamboat routes with Wilmington and the Ocean, predicting major Atlantic trade benefits for North Carolina. It also outlines Congressional appropriations for 1837 1838 and reports a Southern smelting method that could vastly increase gold yields from ore, with the Charlotte mine cited as a dramatic example.
The article explains that gold mines once prized for gold only now yield gold silver and lead with combined value quadrupling the original gold and tenfold rise in gold itself. Congress authorizes Southern mints to coin silver change on the spot, boosting circulation. Cotton prices and labor have driven investment back to mines. with 1834 gold bill and new Southern minting, the South’s gold region is expected to revive rapidly and become a major industrial center. It notes total Southern gold received at the U S Mint from 1624 to 1834 was 5,126,500 dollars, with most gold going to Europe or used by jewelers domestically.
Report from the St. Louis Republican describes two Boom county citizens chasing a runaway slave into Adams county. In a bagel thicket both sides fired, wounding a pursuer and killing a slave before the other slave surrendered. A melee followed as a magistrate examination demand arose and the master escaped with the enslaved person to the ferry. No outcome reported.
The Charlottesville Advocate notes Richard Vos of Briery, in this county, owns a ewe that bore a lamb this spring resembling a deer. The ewe roamed in deer country last fall, explaining the crossbreed. The animal is described as beautiful and lively, prompting local interest as the first reported intermixture of sheep and deer.
The Boston Times reports Mr J Cutts Smith has invented a piano tuning key simple in construction. It promises great utility by letting ladies tune their own pianos without hiring a specialist, potentially replacing the old key.
The Mobile Typographical Society passed resolutions urging the National Typographical Association to authorize a public memorial for Franklin. They ask local societies nationwide for opinions and propose committees to collect subscriptions from printers only. Washington city is suggested as the best location.
A Mobile Chronicle slip dated July 25 reports Col R H Alexander of Mobile, formerly from this state, fell from a third story boarding house window and died shortly after from the injuries, detailing the fatal accident and its immediate consequences.
The report notes a man who did not speak after the incident, leading to the assumption he was asleep when he fell at Ralagh Register. Local authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the fall and any resulting injuries.
The New Orleans Conviet reports that the American schooner Lane, Capt. Clark, cleared for Mexico, was captured by a French cruiser after entering Mexican ports under a French decree. Clark recaptured Lane and hoisted the U S flag, with $15,000 in specie and 3000 hides aboard. A duel between Capt. Clarke and prize-master Le Coet followed, ended by their seconds.
John Jacob Astor contributes 350000 dollars and a parcel of land to the Corporation of New York for the establishment of a public library. This philanthropic gift supports a permanent library building and collection for the city.
Dr Henry Sherwood of New York claims a law of magnetic needle variation, linking a pole that allegedly revolves about the earth every 666 years. He says this, with instruments and tables, can determine latitude and longitude by needle dip with great precision, tying to magnetism galvanism and electricity. Congress reviewed the claim with Naval Affairs committee, printing 5000 extra copies and weighing its historic significance against potential accuracy and public understanding.
The New York Journal of Commerce reports a curious remedy where a napkin soaked in boiling water applied to a dying man’s stomach brought near instant relief after he had drunk cold water on a hot day. The brief notice notes rapid improvement following the application.
The Blairsville Lyceum sets a debated question about whether printers should starve to death to oblige subscribers. The inquiry notes a rising view that a newspaper is a pay-for-like article and seeks a settled precedent. New Yorker.
A Louisa County resident named Vaca Me Thornly was murdered by his nineteen year old slave. Thornly used a saw to teach the slave, who then seized an axe and fatally struck him in the head. The victim was a husband and father of one. The slave was tried and sentenced to hang on the eleventh of next month.
A young man known as Houck, the Gelumbus Jail escapee, is captured near Springfield after a sister alerted a confidante. The confidante told her husband, who alerted the county sheriff. Houck, about 25, had stolen mail for roughly two years.
A Cherokee population movement report notes about 3000 at Ross Landing and 6000 expected from North Carolina, with 3000 already departing for the far West, totaling around 15,000 on the move to new homes. The figures reflect the scale of the relocation from the agency source.
It is said that Mr. Lovejoy of Georgia, one of the passengers saved in the late catastrophe of the Pulaski, was also on board of the Home and the Wm. Gibbons, three of the most appalling situations of danger ever recorded.
A 27 year old Georgia woman died in Bel Fast Maine from a wound inflicted by a sewing needle during a scuffle with a small boy. The needle pierced the chest and lacerated the heart, according to examination findings.
The Carrollton Enquirer reports a singular nightly spectacle on the 20th amid a drought. At about 8 o clock a clouded sky discharged electricity for two hours with bright zigzag sparks crossing the horizon and arborescent light forms, described as luminous balls of fire driven by the air.
In Kentucky Indiana and Ohio milk sickness rages with cholera-like severity. Avenience Kentucky offers a thousand dollar reward to trace the disease origin. In Woodford County Francis Nave loses his cow to a throat tumor then his horse hogs and finally himself fall victim after exposure via a hand wound.
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