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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1836
Page
1
An old style rate card offers monthly terms at two dollars per week and twenty five cents per month for notices. Advertisements limit and continuation rules are outlined with payment in advance encouraged. readers are urged to address letters to the Editor for responses or further attention.
A fragmented verse explores hollow existence and hollow power. It questions hollow crowns, hollow hearts, hollow praise, and hollow loyalty, contrasting imagined grandeur with empty deeds and shallow leaders. The poem laments hollow patriotism and the futility of hollow dreams.
A Raleigh Standard note reports a Mr J Khey advertising a Washington State device said to be the most useful invention since steam power. The machine is said to shape timber and finishes a stave to appear as if through a lathe. It may not produce ready made barrels. Also in New Salem Citizen a pauper who died at Randolph Poorhouse left eleven children, all with different fathers.
We the subscribers report progress on forming a Cotton Factory in Hton to be powered by water. A general meeting is requested at the Milton Hotel on Wednesday the 17th instant. Spectator.
Fragmentary text mentions Lieutenant Hen and a cruel act against Indians in Florida. References Col. Thomas Hen to Raleigh lineage and a West Point graduate named Neoleiny, described as a promising young man. The garbled OCR provides few concrete facts or dates.
A New Orleans Bulletin extract recounts Col Clinch’s fearless leadership at Wythlacoochee with his horse shot and a ball through his cap. It notes Seminole removal talks, cattle sales, and camp at Cantonment Brook under Gen Clinch with roughly 150 troops, amid alarms and fort building at Nunansville.
The newspaper defends the administration and presents the first portion of the War Department report on Florida hostilities. Adjutant General Jones outlines suppression movements and Cass orders to Gen. Scout, with promises of an Abstract detailing U S relations with the Seminoles from Payne's Landing to recent depredations. The piece argues no neglect by the current administration and calls for readers to assess official actions.
The brief account notes that the Seminoles agreed in the 1832 treaty to relinquish territory near Tampa Bay and retire to the prairies of Arkansas after three years, not two as misstated, with the treaty dated May 9.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury shows total cost up to Sept 30, 1835 at 57,552,207 dollars. It lists surveyed and offered lands totaling 166,897,082 acres, with 44,499 acres remaining unsold.
The Court of Appeals of South Carolina resumes ceremonial requisitions. Sheriffs must wear black coats cocked hats and swords and attend the judge to and from his lodgings. Clerks and lawyers are to wear black coats in court, reviving antique formalities once thought buried.
The New York Medical Journal and Review reports Samuel Thompson, patentee of the botanic system of medicine, has recently recovered $20,000 damages from an individual in New York for infringements of his patent.
The Burlington New Jersey Herald notes heavy snow damage with hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in timber losses as cedar swamps and pine lands are bent and broken across the state.
A New Haven Temperance meeting last Wednesday passed resolutions urging concern over rising diam drink in youth. The article argues moderation as safer than total abstinence and cites a past Washington Temperance Club known for secretly drinking after dimmer dinners.
Henry Lossley of Georgia marries Mary Lansing. She believes him dead after years of newsless search. He wanders with fur traders to the Rocky Mountains, remarries, and returns to find his Mary alive and awaiting him. They reveal their long separation and marry again before a large assembly in North Alabama.
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