Tarborough Press Subscription and Advertising Rates
The Tarborough Press is published weekly at two dollars per year paid in advance or four dollars and fifty cents at the end of the year. Advertisements up to a square cost one dollar the first insertion and twenty five cents per subsequent insertion. Longer ads priced per square with court orders and judicial notices fifty percent higher. Ads must state insertions or be continued and charged accordingly. Letters to the editor must be postpaid.
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Tarborough Press
Grorce Howamp, Jn
Advice to the fair on beauty and virtue's worth
The fragment urges young and fair readers to value inner grace over fleeting beauty. It warns beauty fades with youth and illness but true charm lasts if joined with virtue and sense. The piece extols honor, tenderness, and steady character as lasting power beyond cosmetic appeal.
Our girls and their grace in steadfast virtue
A poetry lyric praising our girls as bright, pure, and faithful, extolling their beauty and noble spirit. It contrasts them with other nations, celebrates home love, and declares our own lasses as the chosen.
Great Speech Against Tariff Marks in 19th Century Tone
The article extols Mr. McDuffie's speech attacking the tariff, calling the system corrupt and oppressive. It details steep duties on carpeting 31 to 103 percent, coarse carpets 103 percent, printed cottons and shoes taxed 45 to 162 percent, and salt and sugar harm rising costs for farmers and households. It portrays the tariff as pervasive, raising prices from shop floors to stables and kitchens.
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McDuffie
Youny
Free Trade Banner Advances Against Protection in North Carolina
A polemic discusses tariffs harming farmers and iron, urging North Carolina to join Democratic free traders. It decries high prices on imports while farmers' goods rot in barns and predicts Democratic support in Congress, a shift toward Free Trade and the repudiation of Protection. The piece promotes unity, independence, and a move away from party shackles to defeat Protection.
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North Carolina
Mr Clay
Committee of Ways and Means
North
Franking Privilege Criticized and Taxpayers Burdened
From the Senate statement it appears that during three weeks of a session Washington mailed 466945 franked letters and 4314948 franked documents weighing 359579 pounds. The piece condemns the post office monopoly as costly to the public, noting British practice and a push for reform. Also reported is a 60 street fight near the railroad depot involving Mr Fowler of the Globe and Mr Hart of the New York Evening Post, with knives drawn but no serious injuries. The Washington Standard notes a new Bank of East Tennessee in Knoxville with a 1 million dollar capital and a branch potential at Jonesborough, circulation limited to twice paid-in capital.
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Senate
Congress
Washington
England
Scotland
Ireland
Post Office Department
Canada
Russia
America
Fowler
The
Globe
Hart
New York Evening Post
Washington Standard
Bank of East Tennessee
Knoxville
Jonesborough
Take Your Time for Matrimony And Morals
A fragment from Dow Jr Economy and related items lampoon social aims and flirtation norms. The column urges restraint in marriage pursuits, warns against reckless pursuit of wealth, and mocks flirtatious behavior among women while offering satirical anecdotes on doctors and moral failings. It also reports on theft at Merchant's Bank, abolitionist schemes, and a Cape Fear canoe disaster where seven African Americans seek to cross the river, five drown.
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Lucy
Ilain
Miss Lucy
Dow, Jr
Cape Fear
Jonathan Evans
Kelly
Kirkpatrick
Fayetteville
Fire at Steam Rice Mill Ends in Heavy Loss
Fire broke from the Steam Rice Mill roof owned by Capt. Samuel Potter and Mr. J A Wade on a Friday morning. The main building and several thousand bushels of rough rice were destroyed. a attached shed burned. debt of owners estimated five to six thousand dollars, plus three thousand insured. Firemen’s effort saved a shed. local planters suffered losses in the hundreds.
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Samuel Potter
J. A. Wade
Wilmington Chron
Smuggling Bust Seizes Wool Cloth From New York Ship
New York customs officers seize 700 pounds worth of West of England broadcloths smuggled aboard the Oxord, reported by the Aurora. No admission yet from the owner regarding the covert import, as authorities continue inquiry into the operation.
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New York
Oxord
Aurora
Question of Con fiscation Over Smuggling Goods on Oxford
The Oxford, built in this city nine years ago at a cost of $70,000, faces possible confiscation as to its innocence. The Montezuma from Liverpool arrives and Captain Marshall, owners, and officers learn of the Oxford’s smuggling goods. The mate admits existence of such goods on board now under collector’s orders.
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Oxford
Liverpool
Marshall
Bank robbery and deadly incidents reported in New Jersey and New Orleans
A Mechanics and Traders Bank in New Orleans was robbed of 544 dollars in bank bills in broad daylight on the 25th, while officers remained at their posts. Theodore Johns of Morris Town New Jersey died after post mortem exposure to blood from a corpse during an autopsy. Andrew Jarvis of Sandtown Burlington County New Jersey killed his brother Napoleon by cutting his throat while he slept, with no cause given.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Cincinnati
Kentucky
Bald
Messrs
Taylor & Hadden
Mechanics' and Traders’ Bank
New Orleans
Theodore Johns
Morristouwn
New Jersey
John B. Johns
CPA
Sandtown
Burlington County
N. J
Andrew Jarvis
Napoleon
Marvelous Story From Concord Mystery and Murder
A drover named Pierce in Concord New Hampshire discovers his dead companion hidden behind a fireboard after they separate from a fellow drover. Pierce defends himself as intruders break in, killing two attackers. his dog mauls the landlord, all amid a dramatic night of crime and chase. An English grain experiment by A Palmer shows exponential wheat growth and a harvest yield of 98 600 grains from a single planted grain.
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Boston Mail
Concord
New Hampshire
Pierce
Brighton
England
A. Palmer
London Times
Palmer
Leap Year courting rules for girls and bachelors
The piece notes Leap Year gives girls the prescriptive right to court while young men should stay home and practice charm. It urges young men to prepare with fans blushes and bustle during visits. It warns if girls do not reduce the number of old bachelors this year it is their own fault.
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Poltpigal
Raleigh Standard
Raleigh Independent
Philadelphia
Ilinois
Ohio
Columby Happy Land
Mr. Kissam
Merchant’s Bank
Kissam
Kossam
Greensboro’ Patriot
Hamilton J. Sisk
Stokes County
Phace
Moore
Stokes
Sisk
Moore's Place
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