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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1841
Page
1
The Tarborough Press outlines pricing for subscriptions and ads. Annual prepaid rate is two dollars forty cents, three dollars at year end, partial year at twenty five cents per month. Advertisements up to a square cost one dollar, with twenty five cents per continuation. court orders and judicial notices at twenty five percent.
Second hand pianos in good order offered for sale by GEO. HOWARD of Tarboro. Apply for details on reasonable terms. Published July 1, 1841.
Mr and Mrs Graves announce all instruction departments filled with experienced teachers. Dr. Vanden Pers appointed Professor of Music. Warrenton's climate and rail access noted. Year split into two five month sessions starting July and January. Winter session fees include fuel. Detailed tuition for piano, guitar, organ, wax arts, painting, needlework, and languages listed. Council names Plummer White Graves Wilcox Vanden Berg Eaton and others.
The subscriber GEO. HOWARD of Tarboro announces sale of a prime Cotton Gin with 37 saws ready for immediate use and a Harman patent Threshing Machine capable of threshing 125 to 150 bushels of various grains per day with one horse. Sale terms are very moderate and accommodating. June 3, 1841.
A letter submits verses titled The Bride from Nov 30 1511 Tarboro showing praise for poetic imagination and imagery. The poem warns against mere rhyme and advocates lively invention while presenting lines about love, fidelity, and enduring support through life’s storms.
A Pennsylvanian editorial argues the United States Bank’s collapse harms national integrity and harms international views of probity. It condemns renewed bank speculation, warns that a new charter would mirror past ruin, corruption, and political power grabs, ending in a four-cent stock collapse.
The affair of the United States Bank demands a standalone notice. British subjects hold nearly four million sterling in its capital, described as an entire loss, greater than all losses from British bank failures since the late seventeenth century. Guernsey and Jersey alone sold 290000 pounds of its stock.
The passage questions whether a levy of three or four pounds per person in the islands is a historically large tax, suggesting such a sum exceeds any single-year taxation worldwide. It urges statesmen to reflect on whether these are important facts and to reconsider delusive theories behind their policy errors.
A local note laments a Reverend accused of embezzling a lady's property and notes his bail of five hundred dollars, criticizing supposed justice and urging equal application of the law. The writer defends impartial justice and mocks outcomes for the rogue in fine dress. The piece closes with a celebratory tone for the nation.
Mrs Broad alias Foster a highly respectable lady convicted in Philadelphia of bigamy has been sentenced to thirty days imprisonment If this sentence becomes a precedent polygamy will become fashionable
A mail bag from Augusta Georgia bearing contents bound for New Orleans was stolen on the 23d ultimo. It is believed to include the New York mail of the 19th ultimo. No further details available on suspects or recovery.
An English traveler in Vermont notes a farmer and wool cart scene at an inn. The punchline reveals the driver to be Palm er, the then governor of Vermont, prompting amusement in the London Courier excerpt from a Vermont paper.
The indefatigable Mazard presents tables from the 1810 census showing 8,683,141 males and 8,380,425 females nationwide, a surplus of 301,716 males. New England states show more females, while Middle, Southern, and Western regions vary, with notable excesses in Ohio and Illinois and districts like the District of Columbia hosting the largest female excess.
The document lists state tallies and race based sex ratios, noting white male excesses and varied female to male proportions among free blacks and slaves. It highlights Virginia and South Carolina disparities and cites small slave counts in several states, ending with overall gender percentages by group.
A Middlesex Hospital patient survived after six hours with laudanum poisoning. Stomach pump failed to restore pulse, but electrical shocks via neck and epigastrium revived respiration, di a phragm movement, and heart beat, proving electromagnetism can reverse dire overdose outcomes.
A German paper discusses a novel silk spinning and twisting machine by Henry Gref, a Swiss from Malhausen now in St Petersburg. The device reportedly allows silk thread production by a single operator without spin dies, and is favorably described.
The Maine Farmer notes a cord of green wood weighs about 1,443 pounds due to moisture. Drying wood before sale reduces load by over a thousand pounds, easing hauling and protecting horses. Dry wood burns longer and steadier, though some say it costs more, yet it keeps rooms warmer longer.
A healthful quick warmth comes from dry wood as it burns clean and hot while green wood chills you as it smolders. Dry wood wastes less room heat up the chimney carrying steam from moist wood, reducing fire risk. In homes without chimney sweeps, dry wood also needs less kindling and keeps chimneys from becoming hot enough to spark or flare, lowering fire danger.
A New York Commercial Advertiser note warns against excess nutmeg consumption after a reader reports dizziness vertigo confusion and memory disruption from eating about half a nutmeg. The correspondent describes a brief, highly erratic state followed by full recovery and cites others affected.
A young woman who ingested rat poison arsenic found tobacco helped she chew and swallow saliva with no relief until physicians gave blue vitriol emetic. After dark green discharge appeared days later she recovered. A second case in the same locality saw a sick person use tobacco similarly with success, avoiding other remedies.
A catastrophic blaze totally destroyed the Tower of London including the Grand Storehouse and Armory. The building suffered irreparable damage with casualties of priceless trophies and over 300000 stands of smile reportedly lost. The total replacement cost is estimated at no less than one million pounds.
A woman in England dislocated her lower jaw while scolding her husband. He forced her to nod an oath not to scold again before a surgeon repaired the dislocation.
A London era commentary notes French fashionables abandoning tight lacing and shifting to Grecian forms as the standard for women's waists. The piece proclaims the wasp waist era ending, with tape strings broken and women freed from corsetry.
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