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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1839
Page
1
The notice outlines subscription rates and payment terms for weekly issues, with advance payments, arrears handling, and penalties for late or continued notices. It mentions advertising charges, legal notices, and court orders, with old style pricing and formatting.
An old verse laments a missing order for liberty and redress as sixty years pass since the moment to act on rights. The piece references democracy, civic courage, and the urge to demand justice despite time.
A distressed extract reports ongoing hostilities between the Sioux and Chippewa tribes near Fort Snelling. It notes a large Chippewa gathering for annuities, a Sioux ambush, and a massacre of Chippewa men women and children, with warnings of further violence as tensions rise.
A reader cites transport signage stating baggage is at the rail traveler’s risk with sometimes the word sole added. Wendell’s Reports are referenced in Albany Advertiser discussions about traveler versus public duties. The article notes two cases cited in decisions.
The Miy term 1935 decision holds stagecoach rail and steamship owners as common carriers who insure safety for passengers. They must answer for losses not caused by God or enemies. Ownership presence or aid by the owner does not shield liability. The carrier’s duty includes proper handling, waybills, and tickets. Passengers need not expose themselves to danger to reclaim lost baggage.
Offbeat fragment reports the brig Ame rid sailing from St Johns to Florida on the 20th ult. It mentions freed degroes and workers described as mechanics and agriculturists employed by Mr Kingsley, a Florida planter, on his Liayti estates and during Monday.
The Columbus Ohio Journal notes Ohio’s harvest surpasses prior records with a massive wheat crop housed in fine condition and the weather producing excellent Indian corn across the state, signaling strong agricultural prospects.
The Journal of Commerce notes the redness of already gathered wheat and the promising outlook for the new crop. It suggests that in the coming year breadstuffs may be exported to SLOQUO,UG00, reflecting optimism in trade and agricultural yield.
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at Springfield spent several days last week on a land dispute over pilts to bind. The case, in litigation for two or three years, involved land valued at about thirty dollars after costs. The bill of cost ranged from six to eight hundred dollars, but the parties left satisfied with the Glorious Uncertainty of the law.
The exports of New Orleans during the quarter ending June 30 have migrated in value to upwards of twenty two trillions of dollars.
The New Orleans Bee cites a travel incident with no parallel in its pages. A gentleman who left New Orleans aboard the steamboat Diana reached Louisville in five days eighteen and a half hours, stayed thirty hours, and then returned to New Orleans in four days. A separate voyage covered about thirteen thousand miles in roughly eleven and a half days.
A Boston gentleman came back to Newask kin aboard the Great Western after being away six weeks, spending eight days in Dugland during the voyage.
The length of rail roads in the United States up to 1539 is estimated at 4100 miles. The average cost, including buildings, locomotives and cars, is 820000 per mile. There will be eighty exilions of original capital invested in rail roads in the United States at the close of the present year.
The Crawfordsville Lad Examiner reports a grim marriage scene where Joseph Buss and Jane Rush wed recently. Buss allegedly choked his bride on night one and boasted of prior killings for money, threatening to kill her before morning with an axe in the room.
A woman who tried to prevent her escape and fatally injured her husband by giving him a blow was tried and discharged after alleging self defense. The incident centered on a domestic dispute with the wife seeking to prevent escape and ultimately causing the death of her husband.
A fourteen year old prankster aboard the ship Alexander from New Orleans to New York was placed in a water cask after multiple offenses. A storm rolled the cask overboard near Cape St. Blas, where a cow’s nudge freed him after hours afloat. Fishermen near Apalachicola rescued him, enabling his return north via Columbus.
A correspondent reports that on Thursday at noon the Northeastern School House in Wellfleet was struck by lightning. Forty children and their teacher were prostrated but none seriously hurt. one eyebrow scorched, others burned feet, and the teacher left with benumbed, discolored feet for two days. The bolt traveled from the belfry through plaster and nails to the stove pipe, then split, shocking the teacher near an open window as it exited.
The Buffalo Republican notes two late fortunes from court actions and legacies. An inmate Barrow in the county poor-house gains a tenth of Main street property near Mansion House and Buffalo Creek through Chancery. A journeyman cabinet maker, deceased three years, was buried by a distant relative and a letter asks if he left a will after a $190,000 legacy.
A Montreal Tran report recounts a second nighttime visitation by the spirit of a deceased husband to Mrs. after months of skepticism. At midnight she awoke alone, the specter moved from the table to her bed, and she felt suffocating terror as his stern eyes fixed on her as she whispered his name.
A shadowy speaker requests payment of a newspaper account to rest in peace. The July Mississippi Sentinel notes that new cotton is expected to reach river towns by month end, earlier than last year, with planters hoping for high prices and cash valued at one hundred cents per dollar.
The Public Lands ceded to the United States in each state and territory amount to over three hundred million acres. If unsold land within states plus lands in territories and regions are added, the total reaches about nine hundred million acres. This would supply every man, woman, and child in the United States with a farm of fifty to seventy five acres.
A Raleigh family suffered two deaths and injuries when a four year old girl died after falling into a tub of hot water. Around the same time a seven year old boy, son of Mark M Williams, was kicked in the mouth by a horse, losing teeth but surviving the incident.
Mrs Elizabeth Rick of Scott County Kentucky was murdered by her enslaved black woman on September 9. The killer set a large brushwood fire, tried to burn Mrs Rick, stabbed her mouth and tongue, then fled to lie to her master. The mistress survived and the slave was committed.
William Pearce of Franklin County N York has been convicted of murdering his father during a woods dispute. He received a death sentence to be hanged on September 2. The crime occurred while they chopped in the woods, a blow in the breast with a sharp axe ending the dispute. The prisoner is not 17 years old.
Letters from Rio Janeiro dated a couple of months ago report 36 fast sailing ships fitting out for the slave trade in port. January saw 1042 slaves on three ships and February 1637 slaves on ten ships. With mortality often at least half, the two months in this Brazilian port imply over 1400 lives sacrificed.
The Chartists Petition presented to British Parliament on the 14th gilt contained no fewer than 1 280 000 names. It took ten men to lift it.
During a Sunday tempest on the march from Mezier to Wissenburg a battalion of the 51st regiment was struck by lightning. About two hundred men were knocked down and bled from the mouth eyes and ears though only two were killed.
A dubious home remedy claims three or four drops of nitric acid dissolved in cold water will cure sick headaches caused by stomach acid deficiency. The fragment notes this as a suggested cure without medical endorsement.
A True American note advises that stomach paralysis from ice water can be eased by dissolving a teaspoon of Cayenne in hot water and drinking it every 20 to 30 minutes until chills subside and perspiration returns. It warns to avoid alcohol.
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