29 Jul 1837
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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1837
Page
1
The Tarboro weekly press lists subscription terms, prices, and advertising rates. It notes annual and monthly payment options, advance payment requirements, and continuation rules for notices up to a set length. Readers are urged to prepay or provide references, with letters to the editor required to be postpaid.
Captured in W Irving's in press tale weaves a clash between Ko ito a fiery renegade and the Nez Perces. Ko ito after fleeing with a Time tribe beauty seeks refuge amid Bonneville's camp and ridicules their peaceful deer hunting and defensive ways.
The Annapolis Gazette reports a Justice of the Peace trial where Richard Kirby sold his wife for five dollars to George Vunn. Dunn, the buyer, later refused payment claiming it was a jest, but the court ruled Kirby must bear the burden of his matrimony while Dunn remained outright buoyant at avoiding the sale. The wife is described as young and pretty.
A humorous remark compares the female heart to a new India-rubber shoe able to stretch but quickly rebound The speaker claims women have sturdy hearts with much wear despite pulling on them in jest framed as a quotation from Sam Slick
The Barre Gazette reports about 220 residents gathered on the Common for a Fourth of July tea hosted by Barre ladies. Entertainment by Mr Wheelock pleased attendees while playful toasts mocked Old Bachelors, highlighting social merriment and light satire during the celebrations.
A violent 4th of July disturbance at New Berlin Chenaniy county involved two parties arguing over the dining room at Williams's Hotel. General A C Welsh confronted a mob with a cowhide and pistol while the master of the hotel threatened. The scene featured angry displays with water spouting and decanters flying as tensions rose.
A violent scene described as a bloody brute affray erupts in the street with shattered glass, falling stones, and torn clothing as crowds clash and inns are driven from the area. The report notes showers of glass, stones, and hostile acts ending a day of turmoil.
The Nashville Cumberland Presbyterian editor James Smith, a gospel minister, exposes impostor Williams the oculist who fled Nashville, recounting bombast, bribes offered to back fake editorials, and denunciations of his medical pretensions. The piece quotes reactions and a sharp critique from Smith.
The London Herald notes bridges emit no smoke due to quicksilver driven work. The New York Era credits Lord Cochrane, later Lord Dundonald, with discovering heat expansion of quicksilver as a power for machinery. He reportedly tested it on an 800 ton vessel in the Mediterranean and back, though details remain secret.
The Newburgh Journal editor is described as so handsome that, according to the Boston Post, he is forced to carry a club to keep women off. This light item notes social buzz around the editor’s appearance.
A man was arrested for forging a $1172 note. A barrister accepted a forged Waterville Maine letter to bail the prisoner, who then fled to Portsmouth NH and was recaptured. A second forged letter to bail him again appears from an eastern town. authorities seek the con artists. The piece ends with a moral to beware letters and a note on a steamboat accident in which three died.
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