22 Jul 1837
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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1837
Page
1
The notice outlines pricing and terms for advertisements in the Tarban meh Press. It states charges for ads over six lines, first insertion at two cents per line, and two cents each additional line. It notes annual renewal options and required payment for editor letters.
A verse filled tribute to the Quaker girl, praising her purity kindness and honesty. It contrasts refined beauty with moral steadiness and affection, highlighting simple speech thee and thou as emblematic of virtue and charm. The piece exalts the Quakeress as the ideal partner and source of earnest affection.
Truncated Reuters style excerpt discusses the Globe and Journal of Commerce noting a shift among bankers and the Democratic Party toward metallic money. It questions why the bank faction resists cooperation if hard money policies are weakening. The piece critiques a planned suspension of specie payments as a federal strategy to pressure the government.
The Virginia Special Court of Appeals affirms the General Court ruling on John Randolph's 1821 will and codicils through 1831, emancipating his enslaved. The decision settles the will's intent and frees those enslaved under its provisions.
The Albany Journal reports the steamboat Munroe from Buffalo on June 19 wrecked near the Upper Lakes. Four to five hundred aboard, the greater part said to be lost.
The Reverend John H. Edmiston, principal of the Paris Tennessee Female Institute, is accused of attempting to seduce a pupil. A married man with children, he allegedly exploited his clergy role to gain control over students, with an incident halted by a intervening gentleman.
The note describes a villain thwarted by an arresting event in Paris, with citizens publishing a card to clear a young lady from any suspicion of vile designs. It portrays slander as the motive and presents the protector as the false villain, highlighting public uproar and moral concern.
The Boston Daily Advertiser reports a singular death in Boston on the previous Monday. Christopher Jones, an Englishman over forty, attempted a novel stunt using a rope and a twenty five pound weight tied to a looped end. He jumped from South Bridge aiming to emerge dressed as a female, but drowned after struggling underwater. His body was recovered about twenty minutes later. a sleeve and fawn of a woman’s garment remained tangled with the rope. Raleigh Reg.
Portsmouth Times reports peaches appeared in the New Orleans market before June 30 and were sold at three dollars per dozen.
The Luscalooca Monitor States that about two weeks ago U S troops attempted to dispossess a citizen at Gunter's Landing of property claimed by another. They met resistance led by the person to be dispossessed. The opposing party is said to have achieved a bloody triumph with five or six women among the dead, including the clerk of Marshall County, and many wounded.
A slave girl owned by Mr. J. B. Brinker near Massie's Iron Works Franklin County Missouri murdered a two year old child by drowning it in a small branch and striking it with a billet of wood. She confessed to the crime after the disappearance was reported.
A girl in Potosi Washington County confesses to killing a man’s child last fall by placing it in a barrel in a spring and drowning it, and to murdering another child of Mr. Shirley for amusement. She claims she despised Mr. Brinker but enjoyed causing mischief, presenting as a clever and fearless suspect in custody.
The Norwalk Gazette reports Eliakim Peck, an elderly Danbury driver, was in a one horse wagon when a bee hive toppled from a nearby farm. The hive envenomed the horse causing a fatal collapse within an hour. Peck survived but is not expected to recover.
On Tuesday night a man named Jenkins was beaten after trying to mediate a matrimony dispute between Jobe and Ann Peters. When Jenkins intervened the combatants stopped fighting each other and turned on the mediator. The piece warns that a stranger should not meddle in others quarrels and that he who stirs up trouble has no right to complain if sparks fly back.
In the Court of Common Pleas the case of Matthew Minchie versus Joseph Binni seeks 10000 damages for criminal conversation with Minchie's wife. Binni, a boardinghouse lodger at 95 Catherine Street, pursued a gradual seduction culminating in repeated kissing and audacious liberties before the wife’s betrayal was uncovered when Minchie traveled to Albany.
Inside a Brusanic residence a servant was confronted about nocturnal intrusions. The defendant entered the lady's room, woke the servant, and attempted to bribe him to silence with two linen shirts. The servant resisted, the woman left, and the jury awarded the plaintiff five thousand dollars in damages.
A Detroit offender was fined ten dollars and costs after blinding a man by throwing snuff in his eyes during a street confrontation. The incident, described as a rather dear pinch, reflects a bold act of aggression in a public space.
The St Josephs Times reports a United States Curier being sent by General Jesup to Mobile with 150000 in specie to buy Indian property ponies cattle and more. Doubts arise about raising the money and whether the Indians will accept rag money. Officials fear postponement of peace as payment in silver may be required.
A desolate portrait of Mormon founder Joseph Smith at Kirtland near Lake Erie, with Sydney Rigdon as his secretary and cashier. They run a banking house that issued about 150000 dollars. The temple is a three story rough stone building with large pulpits and a school attic.
The text discusses multiple languages taught to many students and cites a temple's estimated cost of at least $60,000. It portrays Smith as calm yet deceitful and Rigdon as fiery and eloquent, with his sermon on pressure described as mild and persuasive. It notes followers include many upright, tolerant individuals.
A playful clipping claims a simple nose press can quiet a squirreling child within a minute. The piece praises the method and cites an eastern paper as the source, noting its usefulness for parents and its publicity value.
In Bell's Life in London a late vignette shows a boy in his master's livery carrying a basket of medicines, eyes closed in fatigue. The caption lampoons influenza's toll on all, with verses recounting sleepless nights, a busy physician, and the boy’s weary, patched face as he delivers remedies.
Mrs Cent, in Wisconsin territory, recently presented her husband with four little cents two male and two female.
A father asks why his daughter does not wear rings at a ball. She replies it hurts when her hand is squeezed. He questions the reason, and she jokes that she wants to keep her hand in squeezeable order.
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