21 Feb 1835
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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1835
Page
1
The Turborough Press by George Howard lists weekly price ten dollars per year with a year advance option. For periods under a year rates are twenty five cents per month. Arrears lead to discontinuation after notice. Mail and postpaid addresses to the editor are required for service.
Washington physicians Nathl. P. Causin and Thomas Sewall publish a detailed two hour interview with Richard Lawrence, jailed for attempting to assassinate the President. He describes his background, motives, and weapon preparations, claiming no remorse and expecting monetary gain and political disruption. The report notes his calm demeanor and belief in broad conspiratorial aims.
The Postmaster General appointed Dr Richard Mason of Virginia as Treasurer and Chief Clerk of the Post Office Department, succeeding O B Brown who resigned from the position.
The Ohio Senate passed a bill prohibiting circulation of notes under five dollars, echoed by Alabama law on small notes. Governor Dunlap urged Maine to follow, aiming to purge small notes and establish a gold and silver basis nationwide. New Jersey’s state council approved a five dollar minimum note bill set to take effect July 4, with expected Assembly passage.
The New York Assembly approved a concurrent resolution urging Congress to expunge from the Senate journals last session's resolution on the removal of deposits. It passed 89 to 31 after the Senate had similarly approved 24 to 4.
A northern reviewer lauds a new Richmond periodical as a brilliant testimony to Southern literary talent. It highlights Mr White's venture, the quality of contributors, and strong essays like My Classmates, Cupid's Sport, and Cyclopean Tower, while cautioning against hackneyed foreign topics and praising Southern inspiration. The piece closes noting a libelous letter case involving M. Y. Star against Peter K. Wagner.
A CPA young lady walking with two younger sisters on Tremont Street in Boston was seized by a villain who dragged her away. Frightened by the children's screams, he fled and left her on the ground nearly dead with fright.
In one of the New Orleans parish courts a verdict of five thousand dollars was obtained by A. K. Smith, or unclear plaintiff. The damaged suit details remain partly fragmentary with lingering uncertainty about the full names and scope of the case.
A Savannah merchants meeting on January 15 resolved to subscribe immediately to the Atlantic and New Orleans Seaboard Line Company charter stock. Georgia granted authority. allocations: Savannah $100,000, New York $75,000, New Orleans and Mobile $75,000. Joseph Cumming chaired, William Roberson secretary.
The Governor of Pennsylvania admits a disgraceful truth that about 400000 people in the Keystone State lack education benefits. The piece traces the spread of public schooling from New England in 1747 to New York, Virginia, and later states, highlighting Pennsylvania's lag.
A New Haven Herald correspondent recalls a servant asking how cold it was. He joked the thermometer neared zero, but she counters that Miss L. mentioned it was 44 degrees below Nimrod.
A Union street exhibition crowd watches as an elephant picks up a young lady's ivory card case from sawdust after a performance. The elephant then thrusts his trunk into a group of startled fashionables while the keeper discovers the missing case and seeks its owner. The scene unfolds with alarm and swift dispersal among spectators.
Mr Parker of New York has discovered a composition that hardens like stone yet works like mortar when soft. Weather exposure petrifies it to actual stone. a hammer breaks it. A specimen is at Mr Garfield’s shoe store in Congress street, agent for Parker locally. It forms bricks like pillars and cisterns, and several sections of a canal are cast in it. The American Institute awarded Parker a gold medal.
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