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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1836
Page
1
Turborouth Press publishes weekly at two dollars and cents per issue. Prepaid periodicals cost twenty cents per month. notices mailed to residents require advance payment. Advertisements are charged per insertion and must specify the number of insertions. unpaid notices may be ignored.
Washington D C April 9 1836 reply to Illinois inquiry states Martin Van Buren is not and never has been a Roman Catholic. He was raised in the Reform Dutch church and later attended Presbyterian and Baptist services while in New York era. The note preserves his sectarian stance and support for religious liberty.
A formal letter notes privileges and blessings secured by the constitution. It closes with respect and the phrase Your obedient servant. Signed by Aaron Vanderpoel and addressed to Hon. Zadoe Casey.
Reports from Franklin and Charlotte describe a striking sky display on the night of April 22 with a red pink clouds and saffron streams. observers note a large red cloud boiling then splitting into three streams moving west north and east and fading by late night.
The writer describes an aurora like the aurora borealis displaying deep orange and red hues. Amid extraordinary clarity the phenomenon is deemed sublime and moving, prompting thoughts of the great conflagration and the coming day of God. Charlotte, N. C. April 26, 1836.
A Portsmouth letter to the Newbern Sentinel dated April 29, 1836, reports dramatic dredging gains on the Flounder Slue Channel. Three vessels from Newbern and others from Washington and Bay River pass through with 7 to 8 feet draft, while the old Swash has only about 6 feet. Deepening by about a mile and a quarter raises depth from 5 feet to 8.4 feet, with navigation better than last fall when dredging ceased.
Rhode Island hosted a large anti-slavery convention signed by eight hundred participants with more than two thousand dollars raised in one evening. The event endorsed resolutions praising George Thompson and Charles Stuart, controversial foreign incendiaries, and critics note southern press silence may worsen sentiment.
The note calls for truthful printing of the convention’s doctrines to keep the southern public properly informed, avoiding both apathy and excitement. It emphasizes fair dissemination by its members and urges balanced coverage.
A slender woman about 35 years old, genteel and well-spoken, recently arrived and gained local charitable funds through distress stories. Suspicion arose from inconsistencies in her accounts, prompting authorities to investigate. Upon learning of the inquiry she vanished and is now untraceable. The notice warns neighboring communities to stay vigilant.
The Edenton Gazette reports an impostor posing as a Methodist Book Concern agent collecting donations after a fire. The man, claiming credentials lost at Wilson's on Dan River, traveled to Virginia and Greensborough where he tried to preach. Described as John 4 Hemmings, about 22 to 23, six feet tall, slender, fair, light hair, with a blue broadcloth coat and white hat.
A duel was fought in St Augustine between Lieut Simons and Lieut Pillans of Captain Fripp's command, both of Charleston. Simons was struck by his opponent's ball and died within two days.
Col. Cass, the Secretary of war, says the militia system under the present plan burdens the public without corresponding advantage. He believes a single classification would be as efficient, sparing the parade, vexatious requirements, and expense.
In Brunswick Maine Bowdoin College students defied a late law by attending May Training dressed in ludicrous outfits. A huge four yard flag bearing Bellum flew from the meeting house vane and similar banners appeared on the chapel spire and college. About 150 gathered in the yard in drawers shirts reversed attire and ridiculous adornments as they staged a wild protest in prankish form.
The scene featured buffalos skin and painted hats rising to four feet high with fire pokers. Freshmen bore a life sized ass banner, Juniors a full grown hog ridden by an officer, Medical Students a skeleton. The band paraded with a Devil figure and unconventional instruments. All voices shouted here when names were read, described as inconceivably ludicrous by observers.
The report cites Dr. Luzenburg of New Orleans as claiming an easy preventive method for small pox and varioloid pits. He states pits form only on skin exposed to light, and not on covered areas, implying selective treatment could avert facial pitting.
A critique notes about 300 young lawyers in the city earning far less than a mason or carpenter who commands twenty shillings daily year round. Parents prefer professional paths, leaving mechanics underpaid and underrepresented. A cited contract for a carpenter and mason worth $100,000 is cited as evidence of real business opportunity.
A girl named Mary Kogan of Sandy township Tuscarawas county Ohio allegedly stole a horse from Mr Johan Coventry of New Philadelphia. She bridled the horse with hickory, rode bareback, sold the animal, then walked home and was jailed awaiting trial.
A newborn infant was found left at a Petersburg home door in a pine box wrapped in a flannel shirt. A handwritten memo said the child’s respectable, wealthy parents would reward care. The box contained a gold ring and a $5 bill, and the child was believed alive.
Rahway Advocate reports John E. Bowyer of Richard M. Donald & Co. druggists New Brunswick ended his life with a pistol Sunday morning. He had married only three weeks earlier to a Newark woman. No reason given for the act.
Report in the Philadelphia Gazette describes a man who, while intoxicated and riding a return car about three miles from Norristown, disregarded warnings and fell under the cars. His head was severed by the wheels, and the conductors are praised for their careful conduct.
The family of Dr. Hays on Fifth street Cincinnati were poisoned by their black female servant who put arsenic in their coffee. All recovered except the doctor’s wife who remained dangerously ill. The act was attributed to her belief in abolitionist justification.
A man promised to wed one Maine girl but favored her sister. He offered to buy release from the engagement. The betrothed demanded about sixty two dollars, which he paid, obtained a quitclaim, and then married the sister. The note appears in the Boston Post.
A man in the village offered to drink a pint of wine and consume five dozen eggs if others would foot the bill. He reportedly carried out the feat with perfect ease a few days earlier at a local store.
A three story brick warehouse owned by McIlvaine and Houston in Wall street Louisville Kentucky collapsed on Wednesday, burying four or five people. Mr McIlvaine was rescued exhausted but unharmed, while Mr Newton a clerk was found dead among the rubble along with a dead young colored boy.
A table from official sect publications estimates the total number of Americans showing a preference for each religion. New York Baptists lead with 4.3 million, followed by Methodists 3 million and Presbyterians 2,175,000. other groups include Congregationalists 1.4 million, Catholics 800,000, Episcopalians 606,000, Universalists 600,000, Lutherans 540,000, Dutch Reformed 450,000, Christians 300,000, Friends 220,000, Unitarians 100,000, Mormonites 12,000, Dunkers 10,000, Shakers 6,000, Moravians 5,576, Swedenborgians 4,000. The note adds the figures do not reflect full communion. Envy shoots at others and wounds herself.
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