08 Jul 1837
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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1837
Page
1
The Tarberoush Press announces a weekly edition at Torin Dollars and ree Conte, with subscription and advertising details. Rates specified include twenty five cents per month for certain patterns, with discounts and insertion charges based on order size, and letters to the Radio section must be paid in advance or not appended.
A broad scene depicts a pivotal gathering at a tavern where merchants, lawyers, doctors, bankers, and others discuss the harsh times. Toby prods with blunt wisdom urging farmers to plow and cut extravagance, while traders and speculators face ruin and pressure to change.
A garbled passage shows Uncle Toby and others in a rural setting with dialogue about choices and a quiet departure. The fragment hints at a walk, a horse, and a three hour delay, ending with a character named Lebar. The text is incomplete and lacks clear news context or identifiable events.
A Tarboro press notice argues buyers seek guidance beyond sellers when purchasing pianos. It contrasts two hundred fifty dollar English actions with French Grand Action instruments, urging readers to spend more for lasting tune and quality. It also recounts a vivid Tiverton description of a serpent-tongued infant for contrast.
A niche endorsement highlights the French Grand Action Piano Forte as a preferred instrument, gaining strong support from the observer for its refined touch and amplified performance potential.
A physician reports a female infant with persistent bleeding and voracious milk intake. Several eminent surgeons, including Dr W, advise tongue extirpation. The father Mr W is about 28, the mother about 22, married five years, this their first child. Names omitted per request.
An interior county couple in this state maintain a large household with eighteen living children, all married, and among them eighty-two grandchildren. The united household totals about one hundred twenty souls, noted by the Wilmington Adv. as a remarkable family train.
The Washington National Monument Society announced public notice that several designs for the monument were submitted over the past year, with no selection made and no site fixed yet. The writer expresses a wish that the temple will inspire awe and endure through ages.
A Geological Society of London paper by Mr Roy proposes that ancient America hosted a vast inland sea. It allegedly stretched from the Mexican plateau to 47 degrees latitude, bounded by the Rocky Mountains, the headwater barriers near the Great Lakes, and the Alleghenies to the Gulf. The claimed sea covered about 960,000 square miles.
A match race of 10000 is set between Lady Clifden and Charlotte Russell with Col Johnson and Col Wade Hampton in charge respectively. The contest will be at Camden the day before the course’s fall meeting, Belt Pat.
An altercation occurred in Little Rock Arkansas between Dr McWilliams and Mr Pew sub editor of the Arkansas Gazette in front of many citizens. McWilliams charged Pew with gross and wilful falsehood. Pew turned deadly pale as a fearful change came over his countenance.
To the horror and astonishment of the beholders, he fell and died without a struggle or a groan.
A Missouri gentleman reports that last week in Jefferson City a wife aged 60 presented her husband with tin children. The husband is at least 80 years old.
A note from the Sun reports Mrs Rose, described as a pretty woman, giving weekly Sabbath lectures at Tammany Hall on the community agrarian system. A friend says her rhetoric rivals Madame Darusmont, and the writer plans to skip church to attend next Sunday.
A New Hampshire court rules that a boy may be an apprentice even without written indentures. The master exercises direction and control, and neither parent nor guardian may interfere to the master’s injury. Any third party employing the apprentice without the master’s consent is liable for damages and the apprentice’s earnings from the start of employment.
The Salisbury paper notes strong progress on the Wilmington and Roanoke Rail Road with state subscription secured and construction underway at both ends. A Charleston to Wilmington steamboat line links temporarily to the Portsmouth line by stages, to be kept after completion, offering inland travel avoiding Frying Pan Shoals and Cape Lookout Hatteras for timely arrivals and potential profitability.
The Mississippi Legislature passes a law barring the introduction of slaves for sale or hire. Penalty includes a $500 fine and one to six months imprisonment for each slave imported. All contracts for purchase or hire are void. Law passed May 1 and took effect upon passage.
The Rhode Island Legislature debated a bill to force banks to redeem in specie. A large majority opposed suspending operations, and the discussion revealed strong partisan lines during the late session.
The article states that the suspension party had a circulation of thirty thousand dollars with only four dollars and twenty six cents of specie in its vaults. It asserts the bank remains solvent and capable of meeting obligations while warning that trade conditions will limit future price advances. It references Liverpool advices and notes fluctuations in cotton and other market factors affecting the state’s trade outlook.
The Norfolk Herald notes wheat harvest begins with farmers using scythes. Counties from Currituck to Perquimans report fine wheat grounds and industrious husbandmen. They anticipate crops 50 percent above average, with reports from Pennsylvania Maryland and Virginia counties.
A vivid, period tone description of tropical discomforts. The author lists myriad insects and pests—ticks, chigoes, flies, lizards, ants, scorpions, snakes—each causing bites, stings, or ulcers as a relentless, panoramic portrait of life in the tropics.
A narrative explains how mosquitos came to Oahu when a New England gentleman, attached to his home country, imported a pair of mosquitoes from Yankee region to regain the familiar sounds of home. The insects are described as being in abundant perfection.
A Genessee Farmer suggests using soap suds to spray melons cucumbers cabbages young grafts on trees and rice. The soap solution is claimed to promote growth and kill worms bugs flies and lice infesting these crops this time of year.
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