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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1838
Page
1
The Tarborough Press announces weekly issues at two dollars and fifty cents per year with in advance payment options. Advertising costs vary by length and insertion. single-square ads priced lower, longer notices rise in proportion. Subscriptions may be renewed or canceled with notice. court orders and judicial advertisements incur additional charges.
A lyrical fragment paints the land of Cypress and Pine with images of Woodbine vines Oak trees and roaming wildlife. It evokes country scenes of blooming flowers birds and hunter’s horn while praising the region as a favored place under mossy oaks and forest shade.
A reflective line equates beauty to fragile bloom and fame to empty breath, noting life’s brevity and death as the only certain interval. The verse contemplates mortality with a somber, classical tone.
Major General Scott of the United States army issues a stark address to the Cherokee, urging removal from North Carolina Georgia Tennessee and Alabama under the 1835 treaty. He vows force if necessary, describes troops occupying lands and insists migration be completed by a stated date, warning of immediate consequences for resistance.
A 1838 Cherokee Agency address urges peaceful emigration and restraint amid looming removal. It pleads not to provoke war, promises food and clothing at designated stations, and asks both sides to protect civilians while awaiting official relocation orders. The note is signed by a Winfield scorer and appeals to Cherokee and American factions for mercy and patience.
A 19th century report describes explosive torpedo devices used to protect Fayetteville during fires. About thirty pounds of powder are placed in a tin canister with quick match and a protective wool cover. Dogs guard multiple devices in the guard house, ready to deploy at the first alarm to allow evacuation. The system is said to have saved much of the town without any recorded accidents.
A plaintraveler reports a tiny Texas tavern setup by the roadside. An old saloon customer sits beneath a blanket across four stakes with a candle box as a table, a jug and half a broker bottle before him. When asked his business the man replies he is "keeping tavern sir" and offers drink.
A Northern paper reports the marriage of Cheadere Dwight Weld, famed abolition lecturer, to Angeline Emily Grimke of South Carolina. They allegedly wed without civil or religious rites, witnessed by bystanders, marking a controversial shift from Grimke's former society circle and abolition advocacy to a new public, unfettered life.
A fragment from the Lynchburg Virginian questions a woman’s plan to remove a man from his household role to foreground her charity by sharing coffee in his place. The quip suggests concern over excessive philanthropy and its social effects, hinting at broader moral anxieties of the era.
The Louisville Journal recites a moral critique of a renowned teacher who left his wife and children for a married pupil associated with the Hamiltonian system. The report cites a Hampden County justice certificate and outlines a life of elopement, bigamy claims, and aliases including Honfleur and Holland, with ties to London and Lexington.
A Mississippi Valley era tale from Lakeville tells of Julia Maria daughter of a farmer who marries a middle aged man after disapproval. A rival in New Orleans seizes a chance to win her back and manipulates the husband away. The farmer returns home to a fatal discovery.
A horrified husband, driven by shame, fires his house in three places. Flames spread quickly through the upper stories and roof. The adulterous wife and her lover awaken to the blaze and try to escape by leaping from windows, but the husband shoots them as the casement opens, and they fall among the burning ruins.
The Canton Herald reports a boy about 13 or 14 found near Cathiliot Prairies, Indiana. He is tall with fine limbs and intelligent black eyes, has lived with Col. Clark Clark’s family in Bush Hill, shows no speech, and eats raw meat, birds, and nuts. He sleeps on bare ground, rejects clothes, and shuns civilization aside from occasional corn bread at the servant girl’s request. He avoids human attachment except to the servant girl and returns to the woods when possible.
A late physician's diary warns that a slight cold can mature into pleurisy, lung inflammation, asthma, or consumption. It describes how exposure, damp clothing, and drafts may feed a hidden reptile of illness that slowly coils around vital organs, urging readers to treat a minor cold seriously.
An almost total solar eclipse will occur on September 18 in the United States, the last central eclipse visible in the country until May 26, 1854. The following total eclipse is projected for August 7, 1864.
Mrs. Link wife of Adam Link of Jefferson County Virginia was killed on Tuesday by a railroad car near Harpers Ferry. The Charleston Free Press notes she had never witnessed a railroad operation and had traveled to Harpers Ferry to view a train. She crossed the bridge with her husband and stood on a platform when the fatal event occurred.
A locomotive approaching caused a switch to change and part of the train to disengage, leaving a car on which Mrs. L. stood exposed and crushed between cars. She died instantly as shocked spectators witnessed the scene. The incident aroused profound horror and sympathy among onlookers.
The New York Annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church closed its session May 30 in New York. It suspended two members for attending an abolition convention at Utica, denounced Zion's Watchman for schism and abolition stances, and urged support for the American Colonization Society.
Late from Florida states Col Powers dispatched Captain Bulloch with a dragoon company from Garry's Fors to pursue Indians near Jola's Ferry on New River, per the St Augustine Herald dated June 2.
Capt Tompkins was at Miranopy and expected a fight with Tiger Tail who was near him with warriors. Two companies of dragerons had been sent onto Capt Tompkins.
Norfolk Herald reports from the Jacksonville Courier that 1700 Indians and negroes have been removed from Florida since November, yet 450 warriors still inhabit the territory, keeping inhabitants in continual apprehension of danger.
Alabama era excerpt recounts a brutal Florida Indian attack. Superintendent I. D. Peurifoy says his family was killed or gravely wounded, home burned, wife left alive but mortally wounded, slaves hid, and property destroyed. He pleads for prayers as he seeks relief.
A Mobile Chronicle letter from Lowndes county Mississippi warns of dire cotton prospects due to extreme cold mid May. Nine tenths of local plans to tally destroyed. planters already sowing for an entirely new crop as of June. M. Y. Star.
From the St. Andrew packet ship Liverpool papers reach May 8. Manchester and other manufacturers report brisk business. Of 12 000 tons of railroad iron ordered in a week, 10 600 reserved for America. Liverpool Cotton Market May 7 prices up 1 36d per lb. Weekly sales 39 710 bales. imports 32 029. Strong general demand continues. Saturday sales 5 000 bags and 3 000 today at steady prices.
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