15 Jul 1837
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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1837
Page
1
The Tarborough Press prints weekly at ten dollars and fifty cents per year with advance payment. Rates for insertions show a one week period under a month. twenty five cents per month for continued notices. Advertisements are charged per square with rates for multiple insertions. Letters to the Editor must be postpaid or they may not be attended to.
Sleep for the night is dark or kindles to decay. Sleep all the sun and living world be joy. Sleep, mar of toil, unto thy couch betimes. Sleep, student, sleep. Sleep while ye may for soon wakeful age come on. Pure be the breast and calm the long last sleep shall be.
The article argues restless new workers shift jobs to chase wealth, claiming constant learning wastes time and harms skill. It contrasts country residents with city dwellers, suggesting city riches from failed ventures lead to bankruptcy and ruin rather than steady, earned success.
A discussion contrasts urban and rural fortunes, noting greater risks and failures in city life while some thrive in banks and high society. It argues farming offers steadier happiness, then presents Washington Irving inspired musings on matrimony and age, health, and domestic solace for both sexes.
A reflection on how women endure reverses of fortune with fortitude and rise to comfort and support their husbands under adversity, showcasing tenderness transformed into resilience and strength.
The New York Express reports a surgeon claims a cure for consumption by a chest incision between the ribs creating an air entrance outside the diseased lung. The affected lung would collapse and become quiescent while the other lung continues its function. The operation is described as neither difficult nor painful and potentially doable in any case with a lung injury into the chest cavity.
The Presbyterian General Assembly in Philadelphia ends the 1801 union plan with the Congregational Church of New England. Western Reserve Synod is cut off, peace talks fail, and both Old and New School factions split to seek division terms. The Assembly also bars the American Home Missionary and American Education Societies from operating within Presbyterian churches.
The Buffalo Patriot details the Zoar community on the Muskingum river in Tuscarawas county Ohio. It notes several thousand acres owned by the group ten years after settlement, their water power producing a flouring mill and a saw mill, and the scenic meadows along the river.
The wife of Ephraim Knowles of Rossco Ohio recently delivered four children in one birth.
A schoolmaster punishes a pupil for profanity by making him hold tongs at a hearth hole until a mouse appears. The boy spots the creature and, with the tongs placed on both sides of the hole, catches the mouse and proclaims his triumph.
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