18 Feb 1837
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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1837
Page
1
A garbled vintage newspaper notice outlines subscription terms priced at two dollars and fifty cents per year with monthly charges, advance payment required, and arrears follow up. It notes ad limits of sixteen lines per insertion, rates per square, and that letters to the editor must be mailed to the Kalitor for attention.
Notice notes examination at the nearby seminary next Friday the sixth at the residence of the subscriber and urges parents guardians to attend. Exercises will resume Monday the sixteenth of January next indicating a reopening date and location for the institution.
A report portrays dire conditions among 14 000 Creek Indians traveling to Fort Gibson. Contractors profit from deliveries and many emigrants lack shoes and basic clothing. Frostbite, exposure, hunger, and deaths are described. appeals urge public charity for gowns shirts coats shoes. Many left homes early and sold lands at sacrifice.
Langfroid and five other Indians, all convicted of murder at the Russell Supreme Court term, were hanged in Girard Alabama. They bid farewell with songs and a fierce war whoop before the noose.
A brief fragment depicts a person seated on a stump at a wigwam, smoking a pipe in a relaxed, unconcerned attitude. The line ends with “Pet. Con.”, suggesting an editorial or catalog note in the source.
From Texas reports via the Courier de la Louisiana a series of Indian killings near the Cross Timbers alarms at Nacogdoches. General Arbuckle is urged to return with U.S. troops while Felix Houston’s force conducts reconnaissance toward San Patricio and destroys Mexican Texian settlements on the Neuse. Texian garrison numbers are listed as 1500 regulars and 4000 militia. the coming clash is expected at the Colorado River.
The expenditures of the City of New York for the present year are estimated at 3,000,000 dollars with 1,000,000 dollars allocated for improving the streets.
A Black man was waylaid and killed a few nights ago near Richmond. The alleged murderer, also described as a Black man, has been arrested and is jailed to await trial.
Col Crowell has withdrawn his noted horse John Bascombe from the Turf race at Augusta for a $20,000 challenge against any horse in the United States. The entry had not been accepted. One half of John Bascombe recently sold for $16,000, claimed to be among the swiftest roapers in the Union.
The western papers discuss a buried city found in Wisconsin Territory near the Reck or Crawfish river. Descriptions claim brick walls 4 to 5 feet high with 12 feet base thickness, buttressed at five-rod intervals, enclosing about three miles in an irregular square and enclosing five large and fifty smaller buildings. An inscription on a…
A fragment notes Mr. Robert McCarty of Buffalo claiming to fire 3 to 500 one pound balls per minute from a rifle without powder or steam. He compares his device to Cochran’s multi chambered gun, pondering its propelling principle and potential as a portable battery. The report references gas, vacuum, or electromagnetism as possibilities and cites the New York Star.
The Monmouth Inquirer reports John G Taylor of Middleton township was jailed on Sunday charged with murdering William James, a boarder and foreigner, by slitting his throat and then setting fire to the house burning his mother Mrs Taylor. The motive cited is dispute over property division.
Citizens of Marblehead Massachusetts launch a pledge to abstain from flour and bread until flour costs fall to eight dollars per barrel and are full weight. The move evokes 1773 slogans “No tea drunk here” and “No flour eaten here” from colonial times.
The Buffalo Journal reports the widespread claim of about fifty people arrested for forging and passive spurious money is false. A few individuals have been arrested on the charge, but the large rumor is not true.
A humorous remark criticizes New Hampshire and Virginia lawmakers for proposing a tax on men over thirty to fund orphan children, supervised by maiden ladies over forty three, portraying the plan as a ridiculous effort to force marriage.
The Troy Budget reports fifteen boys broke through the ice while skating in the vicinity and nine were drowned. The incident highlights a deadly skating accident with a high loss of young lives.
Northern papers describe a vivid nightly sky on the 24th arr. evening. The brightness of the phenomenon led Baltimore engine companies to rush out, thinking a fire hung over a city district.
William Henry Weston faced sentencing in the Circuit Court in Washington for shooting his wife but was granted a new trial. He claimed his wife had threatened to kill him and kept a loaded pistol, and he said he had to obtain a peace warrant against her before the assault.
In court Mr Thompson hears a magistrate styled case where the prisoner claims his wife, described by a witness as a “devil incarnate,” provoked his actions. He insists a new trial would show robbery and life threats by his wife and argues the shooting was accidental during a confrontation at Drummond's when he feared for his life.
The Boston Traveller reports a bizarre scene at the Artists' Gallery where Mr Staunton began an address at an anti slavery gathering. A sudden coughing fit and a contagious sneezing outbreak caused by cayenne pepper sprinkled on the stove forced the crowd to rush for the door and end the meeting.
Joseph Vose of Boston engine 2, a married man of good character, was fined 10 dollars and costs by the city police on suspicion he attempted to steal a ham from Faneuil Hall market. He claimed he found the ham on the market walk and intended to place it at a stall when Watkins nearby shouted an accusation.
Report states American prisoners captured in the Vexian war escaped on December 7 but were confronted by about 400 Cherokee Indians in Mexico who whipped them and forced their return. The Indians act as spies for the Mexican Government and the prisoners have suffered severe cruelty, supported only by foreign charitable aid.
A columnist asks the author of Three Experiments to add another chapter and explain how to live without the means, contrasting living up to, with, and beyond one’s resources. The inquiry invites a broader meditation on thrift and waste.
A French Journal reports a strange plant quarrel where cabbage harms nearby vines. It also notes a claim that eating cabbage before dinner allows drinking wine freely without inconvenience, reflecting period notes on cuisine and agriculture.
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