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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1842
Page
1
The Tarborough Press announces weekly publication at two dollars fifty cents per year if prepaid or three dollars at year end. Less than a year costs twenty five cents per month. Advertisements up to a square cost one dollar for the first insertion and twenty five cents per continuation. longer ads priced similarly. Court orders and judicial ads are twenty five percent higher. Letters to the editor must be postpaid.
Reflections on a pack of cards with a Shakespearean quote about fate and choice. A terse decorative line in a historic press style, signaling literary musings rather than news.
A late night scene shows the author in bed as a mosquito flies about. The intruder launches taunts and threats, then settles into a tense standoff. The author rises, but the buzz continues until the tormentor retreats, leaving the room in uneasy silence.
A summary of government Indian Affairs material notes tribes west of the Mississippi. Cherokees are described as enlightened, with a functioning constitution and printed laws, and a growing economy including agriculture, salt, lead, iron, cattle, sheep, and hogs.
A detailed survey of tribes including Choctaws Chickasaws Creeks Seminoles Senecas Shawnees and others notes population figures laws education efforts and liquor issues. It describes their lands along major rivers cites cotton production and mills and warns of whiskey fueling degradation. It lists agents and a bleak western outlook.
The Concord Statesman recounts a death bed confession by Samuel Mann of Benton New Hampshire claiming murderous acts forty years earlier. Two witnesses describe a bright crimson light and a mysterious man during the deathbed scene before the confession and Mann’s death. An old Hogdon-Noyes murder rumor is revived. Cholera in India spreads fears of war delays. A letter from Camp Kurrachee notes heavy deaths among the 22nd regiment and new English recruits succumbing rapidly.
The Madison Courier quotes praise for city officials noting mayor is a cabinet-maker, marshal a blacksmith, city attorney a plasterer, and other officials from trades such as carpenter, pattern maker, tobacconist, tailors, machinist, wagon-maker, millwright, and saw-mill maker. It claims no city in the United States can outwork them.
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