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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1840
Page
1
The Tarborough Press lists weekly publication at two dollars and fifty cents per year if prepaid or four dollars at year end. Less than a year costs forty five cents per month. Advertisements up to a square are five dollars for first insertion and twenty five cents per continuation. Longer ads follow proportionally with court orders 25 percent higher. Letters to the editor should be mailed prepaid.
An advertisement extols Dr William Evans' Soothing Syrup as a cure for teething pains and convulsions in infants. It claims rapid relief when rubbed on the gums, warns of dangerous symptoms, and urges timely use. A testimonial notes dramatic improvement after early application and credits agents and regional purchasers.
A stamper in the Globe proposes publishing Kendall's Expositor a low cost semi monthly newspaper. The aims include defending suffrage fighting election cheating denouncing abuses of privilege exposing banking practices and offering news summaries and useful inventions for farmers mechanics and laborers. Subscriptions at 100 per year prepaid with bank notes accepted.
The first number will be issued about the mid dle of January next. The meeting of Congress will afford a good opportunity to send on subscriptions by the members. Postmasters are authorised by law and regulation to send money to Editors in levers written by themselves. All letters to the Editor must be free or postage paid.
Resolutions introduced in the New Jersey Assembly request banks to state if they currently pay specie on their notes and, if not, when they plan to resume specie payments. The measure highlights ongoing debates over currency and bank practices in the era.
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes an estimated half a million dollars was gambled on the recent Pennsylvania election in Philadelphia and New York. It states betting penalties appear insufficient and warns of continued risk.
In the Georgia House on the 4th inst, Mr. Flournoy of Washington introduces resolutions opposing the Sub Treasury bill and directing Senators in Congress to vote for its repeal.
Augusta merchants across party lines have addressed a memorial to the Georgia Legislature, calling on the body to restore the state's currency by compelling banks to resume cash payments.
A congressional committee lists the Prince of Orange among foreign stockholders in the Bank of the United States. It notes he has recently ascended to the throne after his father abdicated the throne willingly. The report states he held the sum of one million dollars.
Professor Davis, chairman of the University of Virginia faculty, was shot by a student on the 19th and died on the 21st. The incident followed a riot anniversary among students, with factious eagerness to celebrate by a row. Semmes of Georgia is arrested as the shooter.
The Philadelphia North American reports a singular and gruesome ceremony at Montmartre Cemetery. A mournful workman entered the grave with wine and two glasses, breaking the bottle neck, then drank with novices as initiates before the grave was filled.
South Carolina papers describe a public sale at Camden of a white man named Reuben Bradbey for nonrecognizance in a bastardy case. His wife bid one dollar to purchase him, and observers believed she was badly cheated by the bid.
A Philadelphia Ledger paragraph humorously notes editors’ poverty while profiting from causes they back. It recalls an editor who asked supporters to “pony up” after reporting his two week diet of bread and molasses, warning it could impair his intellect and duties.
A private confession reveals a scribe’s insistence that his lifestyle is truly lived though editors of a rustic class pose as prosperous. The piece mocks poverty hidden by hunger and vanity, noting public reaction to the paper’s sudden exhaustion and demise despite claimed thriving.
The Baltimore Sun reports Mr. Knight of the Holiday Street Theatre dropped a $50 pocket book while walking. He was about to search for it when his dog appeared, running toward him with the pocket book in its mouth, restoring the loss.
From Florida we learn the army headquarters report encouraging prospects for ending the Florida war. A first conference between Indians and Gen Armisted produced terms to be presented to Washington by chiefs. Deputation of chiefs will visit this month to discuss settlement while chiefs seek to retain part of Florida ready to submit if ordered. General Armisted is tireless and praised for his efforts toward peace.
Mehemet Ali fields a 130000 strong regular army led mainly by Christian officers. Solyman Pasha, a French former Ney aide, trains officers. Young Egyptians study artillery in Paris Vienna and London. The drive introduces European discipline and aims to unify and strengthen Egypt while reshaping Muslim pride. Arsenal workshops schools arise, with barracks, clothing, food and medicine planned, signaling hospitals and European civilization to follow.
At about six yesterday morning officer Taylor found a newborn girl wrapped in an old quilt on a Chatham Mulberry street stoop. The baby appeared healthy aside from wet exposure. She was warmed at the police station, clothed, fed, and sent to the alms house for care, despite the alleged attempt by her mother to destroy her.
The Treasury of the Bunker Hill Monument Association acknowledges a ten thousand dollar donation from Amos Lawrence Esq to aid in erecting the monument.
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