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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1838
Page
1
The Tarborough Press announces weekly publication at two dollars and fifty cents prepaid or twenty five cents per month if paid later. Advertisements up to a square cost one dollar for the first insertion, twenty five cents per continuation. Court orders and jurial notices are twenty five percent higher. Subscribers may discontinue on notice or arrears. Levers to the Editor must be mailed.
Damibel reports rising sentiment and rapid factory growth in Fayetville as Cross Creek Mills and Mallen's Factory expand. New Woolen factory planned, Rock Fish Manufacturing to accelerate, with yarns and loom plans signaling prosperity for Fay—ville as a manufacturing town in North Carolina.
Some New York banks have made spasmodic attempts to resume specie payments but are unable to continue. The Intelligent Correspondent of the National Intelligencer in New York notes that there is not a bank in the state ...
The writer warns that many claim to pay Specie in the honest sense while deceiving others. He expects merchants in the city to take a decisive action soon, saying the current situation cannot be endured much longer.
A letter to Governor Everett of Massachusetts threatened abduction of a child unless a pardon was secured. The writer offered to reveal the parties for ten dollars sent by post. District Attorney used a decoy letter. Hollis Parker was arrested and confessed to writing the letter. Parker remains jailed for lack of bail.
A Washington Globe dispatch from Mobile Alabama dated January 21 reports the great Eastern Mail from Mobile was robbed on the evening of January 19. The robbers murdered the drivers and the theft was detected at 6 A M the next day, but no trace of the mail or assailants could be found.
A man named Andrew Warrell murdered Joseph Speight in Gates County near the Folly on the 20th. Warrell, a Nansemond county Virginia native, fled after slitting Speight’s throat to almost death. He was known as a repeated offender and had earlier broken into Speight’s smoke house to steal bacon.
A complaint on sheriff sale advertising in manuscript notices. The writer argues ads should be printed in newspapers to ensure broad readership, noting illiteracy and weather destroying notices reduce sale transparency. Calls Legislature to require newspaper publication as a nationwide remedy already adopted by other states.
The Carolina Patriot voices surprise at state events and urges citizens to pause and reflect on governance calling for action. It invites readers to awaken and reject perceived evils with a spirited call to moral renewal.
A Baltimore woman died last week due to a pharmacist error who sent Precipitate of Mercury instead of Phosphate of Soda. The patient, fearing danger, returned the dose for recheck, but was again given the same fatal preparation, ending her life.
A New York gentleman introduces a metallic corn cap to shield the corn from pressure and effect a radical cure. It may be made of gold, silver, or copper and bears the authority of the New York Commercial.
Twenty four passengers from the Richmond and Fredericksburg Rail Road train that wrecked on the 18th publish a National Intelligencer card. They blame the accident on excessive and rapid speed, and fault the officers for lack of prudence, noting the crash occurred in a deep cut with total destruction possible if derailment happened elsewhere.
Officers report two female victims, aged roughly 20 to 35, found in a cask at Burling slip bound for Charleston. A man in a blue coat who delivered the cask resembled a physician. The cartman said the contents were “southern park.” Autopsy showed no violent death or marks of burial.
The Louisville Journal recounts a string of recent crimes including a man struck with a brick, a man fatally shooting his wife, a stabbing with a small robbery, and an arson attempt on Judge Jones’s home, all noted as part of a spike in city violence.
A Augusta county gentleman announces a novel cotton seed claiming triple the output of common cotton. He asserts suitability for poor and rich soils and even the northern cotton limit, with remarkably fine staple. Certificates are provided and seeds offered at 50 cents each from Mobile, Alabama.
New York police recently captured three men tied to a large con game involving forged letters purporting to be from the Bank of Kentucky cashier. They induced Gurley & Burton engravers to print Bank of Kentucky notes from Union Bank plates, resulting in counterfeit notes valued at 370000 dollars.
A young associate, remorseful, reported the robbery to police leading to arrests. Engravers held the printed notes. Another gang member who had secured many notes from the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Wisconsin Territory fled New York before capture.
M Desnamps of Lyons fell into a deep lethargy on Friday November 27 and was placed in a coffin for burial. At the last moment he stirred, waking to claim food, declaring he was conscious but immobile. He soon recovered enough to assure years of life ahead.
A devotional exhortation argues marriage serves health wealth and happiness. It urges marrying to promote worship, love of creator, happiness for wives, and to raise good citizens and soldiers for country and heaven.
The Mayor of Georgetown DC, at citizens’ request, calls a meeting to discuss important rights, interests, and welfare. Topics include proposed Congressional currency and banking legislation, protection of property and constitutional rights, petitions to abolish slavery in the District, and the expediency of procuring a recession of the town and part of Washington county to Maryland.
Mrs Ball wife of D E Ball merchant of this city met a melancholy accident last Friday evening with her infant in her arms. She slept with bed clothes on fire catching her clothes and wrapping her in flames before awakening. She escaped to a neighbor but died soon after. The infant fell from her arms and survived though recovery seems unlikely.
A Canton arrival reports a vast Surat fire that began April 24 in a Parsee’s boiling pitch and, driven by strong winds, razed 6 000 houses and claimed 500 lives by the following noon and through the night.
The Cashier of Merchants Bank reports receiving a dated letter by mail with a $120 enclosure intended for credit to Mr. S. The unsigned note signed Restitution suggests the writer, under dire necessity, strayed from honesty and defrauded Mr. S of the amount not deposited. The note implies a confession and plea for restitution.
A line from Newbern Spee argues that a person acting from moral remorse would not commit fraud for gain or dishonesty, noting the act was an internal atonement known only to the individual. The remark reflects a moral examination of motive in fraud cases.
The Pennsylvania brings word from Liverpool showing dates two days later. The coven market on December 23 closed higher. the market remains well sustained with 58,000 bales less in stock than last year, positively affecting the market. Havre cotton market also advanced.
In a corrected account of Col Ward s assassination the paper clarifies that Ward planned to marry his sister in law aunt Jo, provoking a deadly feud with Messrs Jones. It contests previous claims of motive of gain and notes a $4000 reward in Memphis Eng. for the apprehension of the perpetrators.
United States Senator James Trotter of Van Buren wins a Senate seat in Mississippi by legislative vote to fill the vacancy caused by John Black's resignation. The Globe reports Trotter 62, Bodley 32, Hudson 25, Baltimore American.
The Cleveland Olio Herald reports Kirtland’s Mormon society fracturing with Smith and Rigdon and families leaving at night. Reformers control the Temple, exposing plans by ex-secretary Parish. A fires destroyed the Kirtland printing office, sold off to a reformer amid sectarian violence.
Police visiting a Cross street residence found 72 women, 66 men, and 135 children living there, not counting the livestock attending the family.
The Raleigh Register notes the National Intelligencer prints 1992 daily copies and 7200 tri weekly, totaling 9192 on alternate days, with weekly 53 552 cables. The Raleigh office handles Madisonian printing and other work, employing about 200 hands including 50 women, with weekly wages around 1500 dollars. Equipment includes Napier and Adams presses, totaling capability for 76 800 sheets daily or 600 renais weekly.
Our County Court is now in session. Mike Clerk reports the Appearance Docket at 304 cases and the Trial Docket at 405, more than five times larger than any prior term. Voice of Sumpter, ((a.)
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