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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1842
Page
1
The Tarborough Press outlines subscription costs: two dollars and fifty cents yearly in advance or three dollars after year end, seventy five cents per month for partial year. Advertisements up to a square priced at one dollar for the first insertion, twenty five cents per continuation. longer ads vary with length, court notices 25 percent higher. Letters to the Editor must be postpaid.
A mournful verse laments a beloved leaving, noting the painful hour and heart’s reluctant ache. Friends recall the departed as the speaker questions blame and fate, hinting the separation may be permanent.
A solitary traveler, Asa B., Esqr., an Edgecombe County native, is described in frontier attire as he travels toward Nashville Tennessee. The account notes he killed a man on the field of honor during a May day, casting a reproach on chivalry and gentlemanly warfare. The story follows the events surrounding the duel and its deadly outcome.
A humorous Edgecombe crowd recounts a westward character B. challenging a youth to a code of honor duel. The affair includes mock pistol rounds, misfired shots, a fake death, a hasty escape across the river, and a comic ferry departure, ending with B. fleeing toward the west amid laughter and tall tales.
The Baltimore American recounts a duel between Marshall and Webb with both pistols misfiring at the first shot. Webb misses again at the second fire, while Marshall raises his gun, with the editor praising the two as brave. The piece notes political bias and contrasts other newspapers’ takes on the event.
A political broadside accuses Whig leaders of power abuses and unkept pledges. It charges giving 325 000 public funds to General Harrison's widow, faults retraction promises, and condemns their tax and tariff positions while urging constituents to act to curb perceived government overreach. Governor Morehead is urged to support Cassius against the Whigs.
A man named Grice living across the river was shot in the abdomen by his son-in-law Chasen on the night of Wednesday the 13th. The wound destroyed entrails and part of the right arm. Inquest indicates the act was justified, Grice described as troublesome and ill-natured, with intemperance cited as a factor.
The Fincas tle recounts the death of Colonel John Persinger of Alleghany county during a harvest incident. A young enslaved boy, once raised by the Colonel, refused to change his cutting method. After an altercation the Colonel was wounded, died days later from mortification. The boy was tried on the 9th and condemned to be hanged on August 12.
The Boston Mail reports that about 2 o'clock Wednesday the 6th inst ant the University Hall in Cambridge was blown up by a large bomb-shell carried inside and ignited. The blast wrecked most of the upper story, but a baker sleeping in the building escaped serious injury. The perpetrator remains unknown as college faculty and town authorities investigate.
The Cambridge College student body passes resolutions expressing total disapprobation of the blowing up of Prof Piere's recitation room and indignation at the act.
An elder man once as black as most enslaved people has undergone a drastic color change over about twenty years. Now he is completely fair except for a few facial spots, with hair the sole evidence of his previous complexion. He belongs to Thomas T. Somervell Esq. Such a radical transformation is deemed unparalleled.
Tennessee banks have decided to resume operations on August first. The decision, though delayed, marks a return to normal banking hours and services after prior interruptions.
The Savannah Republican reports Col Haynes, late state treasurer, has drawn a deficit to the state to a considerable amount. The Comptroller's books show deficits reaching $18,000, though the true embezzlement of public money is stated to be much larger.
An enraged man beset by his wife s religion confession ordered to murder her and the church pastor. He was arrested, escaped custody, tried to kill officers with an axe, and upon hearing arms mentioned, killed himself by slashing his throat, dying almost instantly.
The New York American cites letters from Europe forecasting thousands of Germans heading to the United States. One district alone allegedly ships 20,000, with emigration sweeping Germany and Holland. A French Paris paper cites Mentz reports of broad movements from Germany to North America. Villages abandon their homes, some guided by pastors and schoolmasters, as Upper Hesse and Rhenish Prussia see mass departures.
In Great Barrington Timbershin Austin, a widower, swapped his daughter’s wife with his neighbor’s wife after his own wife’s death. Austin paid 5 to boot and now lives with the neighbor’s wife, while the neighbor has Austin’s daughter as his bride. The odd tale comes from Stockbridge Mass Visiter.
Miss Lucy Long of Ohio brings a breach of promise action against Hiram Smithson. He defends that he was willing to marry but not ready, claiming she was in too big a hurry, prompting her suit.
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