Pleasant Hill Female Seminary Opens Nearby
Pleasant Hill Female Seminary starts Monday next under supervision of Miss Virginia Gardin from Brunswick County Virginia, praised teacher with decades of experience. English tuition ten dollars per month session, French music painting drawing piano instruction available, boarding seven dollars monthly near Belford or Sull's Cross Roads. James Irrison Nash County notes location and patronage.
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Gardin
Virginia
Brunswick
Dba Braswell
In Edgecombe Court Notices 1840 Milbourne Case Featured
In Edgecombe County the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions November term 1840 ordered six weeks of publication in the Tarboro Press to summon Stephen Milbourne Edward Williams and wife Nancy and Francis Wood and wife Betsy to appear for a sale of a slave. The docket includes a broad ad about Evans Soothing Syrup and teething cures with testimonials and cautions about counterfeits, plus a satirical anticipation of political events titled Old Granny's inaugural. The document also notes a constitutional amendment vote with yeas and nays and a rejected bill, and mentions Gen Milson's amendments.
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State of North Carolina
Edgecombe County
Court of Pleas and
Richard T. Eagles
Admi R
John Milbourne
Stephen Milbourne
Edward Williams
Nancy
Francis Wood
Betsy
Tarboro’ Press
The Caroline Murder Beazley Confesses in Caroline County
A Richmond Star report recalls the Caroline County murder of John Long by Mark L. Beazley near Bowling Green on a December night in 1840. Beazley describes the killing amid alcohol and fear, moves the body, burns evidence, and finally confesses after discovery by local officials. Long is depicted as a harmless man, while Beazley is shown as a repentant, troubled suspect awaiting punishment.
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John Long
Mark L. Beazley
Bowling Green
Caroline County
Virginia
Richmond Star
Star and Transcript
Long
Ong
Beazley
Cood
Robert Hudgin
Famly Long
Beazley’s
Saunders
Gren
Norbern Sutton
Tenant
Hudgin
Festus Dickinson
Tappahannock
Essex County
Bank amendment debated in North Carolina Senate
The Raleigh Standard reports the Friday session where the Banks bill faced a negative vote on laying on the table by 22 to 23 and a negative vote on postponing indefinitely by 19 to 26. It notes Gen Louis D Wauseons amendments, including a provision suspending specie payments during suspensions and blocking debt collection until resumption, with further notices of agents and listings from various towns.
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Gaither
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Arrington
Bond
Cooper
Etheridge
Exum
Hill
Houlder
Kerr
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McDiarmid
Orr
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Reid
Ward
Whitaker
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson
Albright
Bynum
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Dockery
Edwards
Faison
Hawkins
Hellen
Johnson
Melcher
Mitchell
Moore
Mendenhall
Montgomery
Moye
Myers
Parks
Puryear
Ribelin
Selby
Shepard
Sloan
Speed
Spires
Spruill
Waddell
Worth
Senate
Louis D. Wauseon
Boston
Mass
J. M. Redmond
Geo. Howard
Tarboro
N.C
F.S. Marshall
Halifax
I. Russell
Elizabeth City
Bland
Edenton
Vlomon Hall
Newbern
Mason
Raleigh
Awill
Brunswick
Guark
Washington
S. Seventh Street
Philadelphia
Abduction Narrative Tops New York Port News
A sensational traffic tale circulates newspapers alleging a captain of a vessel in New York harbor used accomplices to aid a crime against a person. The report suggests swift legal action against the alleged offenders if the account proves true.
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New York
Men Impersonating Ship Captains Kidnap Girls for Slaves
A report from New York claims a man known in the city as a ship captain persona lured about fifteen to twenty young women by offering free passage aboard a passenger packet bound for New Orleans and Havana. The girls were brought to the coast of Africa and sold to negro chiefs for fifty slaves each, a rumor said to be based on a letter allegedly crafted by one of the kidnapped women and then sent back to America.
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New York
New Orleans
Havai
Havana
Africa
America
The Popular Vote Table for United States Presidency
The table presents the popular vote across states for the U S presidential race, listing states and totals. It shows how different states contributed to the overall tally and indicates the leading candidates by state results and statewide percentages.
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The
United States
Great Missourian claims record size and sale offer
A St. Louis letter describes the Great Missourian as a colossal animal found in Missouri, 16 feet tall and 32 feet long with 50 ton inferred weight. It supposedly weighs about 100,000 pounds, with inverted knee joints and long toes. The owner, offered $20,000 cash, plans no sale, as six musicians ride its ribs during exhibitions. The creature will travel to New Orleans, New York, then Europe.
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St. Louis
New Orleans
New York
Europe
Troy
Escape plot leads to pardon for murder convict
Milledgeville Standard reports in the legislature Howard County affair where James Hunter, condemned for murder, escaped in his wife’s clothes with her help. After discovery, his wife was jailed and later surrendered to save him. Hunter was pardoned and readmitted to civil privileges. the piece lauds the act as noble even for a felon.
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Milledgeville Ga
James Hunter
Lovejoy
Jones
Paulising
Hunter
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