22 Aug 1835
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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1835
Page
1
The readable fragments reference Parbyradgh Press and a dated notice involving Te Hatlare and Meyers, with unclear instructions about liberty, decrees, and shipping terms. The chaotic text mentions prices in cents and duties, and an instruction to mark every 16 lines, though the full action and parties are not legible.
A Raleigh Star excerpt reports a society forming to raise funds from white residents to erect a Washington monument, with a plan for unified national virtue and liberty praise. The letter notes Poland's patriot monument as inspiration and mentions successful early fundraising efforts.
The Norfolk Beacon reports a sunris ing establishment shut down in the borough this instant by local authorities. The stock of apparatus including tables pens and cards was presented to the mayor and sent to the flames. A mayoral notice warns several persons from Vicksburg to depart immediately or face the law’s penalties. Also mentioned is a Putero boy in Hanover County Virginia noted for a peculiar habit of chewing periodical surfaces and reportedly voiding two sons in six weeks, while seeming healthy.
An unsettled conflict between Ohio and Michigan erupts as 250 militiamen from Michigan attack Toledo. They ransack the printing office of the Toledo Gazette, destroy type, and force entry. Citizens report acts of intimidation and violence tied to territorial claims and a governor from Michigan.
In Toledo, property seized by authority of adjoining county for resisting the procedure faced sale. Citizens’ mobs led to Michigan battalion visit and outrages. State authorities clashed, sparking regret. Call for Parliament to settle the crisis at the next session of Congress.
Reported in the Louisville Kentucky Advertiser of 10c ult a man named Coleman assaulted an 8 or 9 year old girl in a temporarily occupied office. Citizens captured him after night, lashed him two to three hundred times, tarred and feathered him, then set him adrift. The piece questions Western vigilante justice by Judge Lynch.
The Times reports five gamblers were hanged in Vicksburg Mississippi. It notes Me W McCall and Mr Callum among the names and questions if they are Doctor McCall, a former dentist and minister, and Vathanel A Kellum, son of Bowden Kellum, who traveled west with McCall. The piece suggests these may be the men.
A Maine couple obtained a divorce after mutual separation petitions. The husband complained of his wife smoking, a habit she had before marriage but hid. the wife countered that her husband chewed tobacco and even ate onions. The court granted dissolution, freeing both to resume these habits. The notice warns Southern matrons about tobacco preparations.
The Greenville Mountaineer notes Buncombe County in this state was whitened with frost on the mornings of the second two days ago. Public Execution. Pleasant Gillis, a free Negro, sentenced by the last Superior Court for an atrocious assault on a white woman, was publicly hanged yesterday by the neck until dead.
The New York Evening Star piece dated the 6th presents a card from a journalist noting twenty five years of direct connection with the public press and the author’s consistent stance and conduct. The fragment hints at a reflective career summary and professional ethos.
The Evening Star opens its pages to Northern voices defending Southern constitutional rights and opposing immediate emancipation. Publisher M. M. Noah invites readers north of the Potomac to share sentiments supporting the Confederacy and the union’s safety.
A Romney intelligencer report describes a horrific murder in Randolph County Virginia. A tavern keeper and household members allegedly hanged a clock pedlar and bled him to death after opening his jugular vein. A wagoner lodged nearby, was refused, then witnessed the aftermath.
New Orleans reports that Leclise, arrested in Madisonville on suspicion of murdering Marquett the confectioner and his assistant, confessed before the mayor to being present during the double murder. He claims the killer was someone known to him only by sight. His evasive admission led to immediate commitment for trial.
A long tale explains Lynch's law through a Washington County Pennsylvania incident. A poacher, suspected of stealing from neighbors, evades detection until a trap by Mr. Van Swearingen leads to capture after a ruse about a stray newborn calf. This anecdote is related to the term Lynch's law becoming proverbial.
A poacher was confronted by Van Swearingen for fraud about a gun and ownership. After 24 hours to quit, locals tried him in a makeshift court with Lynch as judge, ordering 300 lashes and 24 hours to leave, with a further 300 lashes if found again. the culprit fled as his wounds were lacerated.
Citizens of Mecklenburg hosted a public dinner for Messrs Leigh and Mangum on the 6th at Buffalo Spring. The event was liberal and generous, reflecting the Whig party spirit. Speeches by Mangum and Leigh were highly interesting and eloquent.
A mob at Catskill New York obstructed the landing of the steamboat Ohio on the 4th, pelting the crew and passengers with rotten eggs and stones. The provocation cited was ill treatment of a troublesome passenger on a prior voyage.
Alice Dean, recently hanged in Mississippi, formerly lived in Columbus County, North Carolina. He came as a pedlar from Connecticut, opened a store, incurred debts to many, then fled. He appeared in Mississippi as a Steam Doctor.
A Western Stage passenger recalls learning in Alabama that Judge Crawford shot a Music Teacher dead over alleged improper liberties with his daughter during piano lessons, reported by the Augusta Courier.
A Nashville to Baltimore letter dated the 18th alt reports a man from Baltimore who had disclosed mail robbers cutting a stage mail. The body was found the next morning in the river with his throat cut and his shirt tied over his head.
Extract from a Cayuga Mississippi letter dated July 9 reports a plot to poison several Port Gibson families. Two leaders were immediately arrested and details follow.
The Port Gibson jail is described as filled with negroes and a postscript claims that 30 blacks have been hanged in Madison county. The accounts assert confessed guilt forced to take poison, with deaths occurring within ten minutes.
The New Orleans Bee notes a shipment of 10 000 coffins arriving by flat boat from Cincinnati. It mocks Western friends determined to bury the city wholesale, asking what will ten thousand coffins at once signify in the face of fashion and import.
Warwick, the murderer of Mr Fisk, was tried at Fayette but discharged on technicalities. On leaving the court he was tarred and feathered, whipped, doused with turpentine spirits, mounted on a rail, and paraded through town amid cheers. He received money to flee the state and must be gone within five hours.
In Charleston, two individuals were arrested on charges of stealing seven enslaved people and three Indigenous individuals from near Fort Mitchell Alabama. The kidnapped group were transported to Charleston by the defendants.
A Norwalk Connecticut incident reports anonymous threats to remove timber and an old town house. Timber and the building were taken at night after letters signed by Lieut Andrew warned removal. The affair stirred local fear and aroused public suspicions, with editors reportedly muzzled as the town debates the terror.
From the New Orleans Bulletin dated July 18, news reaches Teras that Texanians seized the Amnahuac garrison of 100 men and sent them to San Felipe. San Antonio vowed to be vigorously defended as widespread excitement grips the province and residents vow to resist any invasion.
Mr Ladd editor of a paper in Corydon Indiana stabbed his wife on the 2d of the month and believed her dead then stabbed himself in the heart and died soon after the wife was living at the last reports from that place
The New York American reports about thousand thirteen hundred children ages seven to eighteen left without work in Paterson after refusing to labor more than eleven hours daily. Critics compare this to British overwork and call for public opinion pressure or legislation to end brutal child labor and protect growth and health of children.
An account describes the Walters family dwarfs in Wyshe County Virginia. Four children are listed: two males aged 25 and 9, and two females aged 19 and 17, with heights from 2 feet 7 inches to 3 feet 6 inches and weights 21 to 43 pounds. The report notes their travel plans to satisfy public curiosity and expresses support for their pursuit of independence.
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