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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1836
Page
1
An opaque notice discusses legal terms for advertisements including two dollars in advance and twenty five cents per month for renewal. It mentions penalties, notice requirements, and restrictions on submissions, with instructions to address letters to the Editor and to avoid non pant submissions.
A fragmented lament from a printer lamenting unpaid arrears and urging subscribers to pay. It critiques reader apathy, emphasizes the need for cash to keep the press and publication flowing, and calls on readers to settle balances to sustain useful instruction for the nation.
A vivid sketch of daily life at Gadsbys in Washington City portraying a peculiar menagerie of patrons and the dine‑in ritual. The bell summons guests to the dining hall while clock watches, false alarms, and eager anticipation mark the pre‑meal ritual.
A visitor recounts chaotic dinner at Gadsbys Washington hotel with rapid service, empty canvass back, and a Kentuckian mistaking private property for all on the table, amid a siegelike Congress period. Notes hotel’s central location, social mix, and enduring popularity despite flaws. Boston news mentions Foxes bounty money exceeding five hundred dollars last year.
The Philadelphia United States Gazette reports the Girard Estate affairs. Last year the city’s income from the estate totaled 250532 27. The next year’s net income is estimated at 106235 54.
The Alexandria Gazette denounces abolition petitions as mischief driven and false, signed mainly by women and children. It urges Congress to refuse reception and pass resolutions labeling the conduct fanatical and absurd to end the effort.
The Treasurer of Bradford County Pennsylvania has paid funds to satisfy a municipal or school district obligation. Details specify distribution of payment amounts to designated entities and dates of disbursement, reflecting a routine financial settlement in county records.
New York reports 10 182 school districts with 541 401 children receiving tuition last year at a cost of 1 300 000 dollars. Teachers salaries totaled 700 000 dollars.
The Vermont Legislature directs the State Treasurer to pay ten dollars per pound of cocoon silk produced in the state to encourage silk growth. Governor Everett of Massachusetts cites silk culture there and predicts silk manufacture will become a major Massachusetts industry.
A Boston Atlas correspondent's 1836 report outlines East Florida from the St. Johns region to the Georgia line, noting a pine barren terrain, a rising Tampa Bay ridge, the Suwannee and St. Marys rivers, the Okee-kee-no-kee swamp, and a potential lumber region. It also divides Florida west of the Suwannee into Middle and West Florida, with Tallahassee near a proposed boundary.
The article describes West Florida terrain with ridges lakes and good soils in pockets amid sandy barren areas. It notes a flourishing settlement on the Appalachicola branch and speculates on cultivation potential. A shocking murder near Newark Delaware involves an elderly man killed with an axe. suspects include his son wife and daughter, with the father jailed and others held on bail. The report closes with Wilmington tour.
In Hanover Chautauque County NY on the 12th two boys aged 6 and 4 were snowballing when the younger threatened to kill the other and then stabbed him in the left side with a large pocketknife. The wound left the victim speechless and he died soon after. The Fredonia Censor laments the depravity of human nature illustrated by a four year old using a deadly weapon against a playmate.
The Alabama Legislature grants a railroad charter linking Mobile Bay with the Tennessee River through the northwest corner of the state. The capital is set at three million dollars with novel funding provisions suited to an agrarian state, allowing subscriptions in non monetary form.
The Mobile Register reports a state backed railroad scheme to double real estate value by securing bonds payable in twenty years. The state would fund the road with its own resources, requiring landowners to subscribe stock liens as proof of earnestness, release upon completion, with completion within ten years or forfeiture of the charter and a 200000 dollar fine. The line would run through a rich cotton belt, boosting Mobile and Alabama to rival New Orleans as a cotton market.
Lieut. Keays and Dr. Gatlin, fallen with Major Dude's Florida detachment, were natives of North Carolina. Both named as gallant young men in the Raleigh Standard report.
An 19th century notice from Lynn Massachusetts copies a Mirror ad seeking ten wet nurses. Apply immediately to the editor. The terse classified style invites quick responses and shows period employment practices.
A quarrel occurred yesterday before the office between Mr. Webb of the Courier and Enquirer and Mr. Bennett of the Herald. Bennett allegedly struck with a cane, sustaining a head wound and later seeking surgical aid.
A proposition in the Massachusetts Legislature calls for chartering a bank with a capital of ten million dollars. A major London bank has opened an agency in Boston under Francis J. Oliver’s supervision.
The U S Gazette notes that even an aggregate sum of half a million dollars would not cover losses suffered by widows orphans and others left destitute by the insolvency of New York insurance offices. The item calls this one of the most painful outcomes of the recent disastrous fires in the city.
A Rutland Herald excerpt recounts Rev Dr Ely of Philadelphia hearing a humorous Illinois travel anecdote. A host supposedly cooked bread coffee and pork in one pan, used a tea cup lamp with rag, and even fed a horse from the same cooking setup. The piece compares Illinois ingenuity with Yankee methods in a lighthearted tone.
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