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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1841
Page
1
Publication details set weekly by George Howard. Rates: 2.50 annually paid in advance, 3.00 at year end, 0.15 per month for short periods. advance payment required for distant subscribers. Advertising charges: one square 1.00 for first insertion, 0.25 per continuation, longer ads at proportional increases, court and judge ads 25 percent higher. Posts for editor letters required.
Advert for Dr Wim Evans soothing syrup claiming to ease teething pains and prevent convulsions. Includes a testimonial from a mother about dramatic infant recovery after gum application, instructions for use, warning against counterfeits, and distributor details in New York and multiple agents.
The act appropriates funds for revolutionary and invalid pensions, widows and orphans, half pay, and arrears for 1841. It also allocates one hundred thousand dollars for Seminole removal and stipulates arms not be delivered to Seminole until they reach Arkansas western boundary. The bill ends with approval by President Van Buren and details on Tennessee land entry, pre emption, and sale of surplus lands, with proceeds due to the United States.
Government acts authorize Tennessee to sell vacant lands south and west of the reservation line with conditions. Land warrant holders from North Carolina must locate or pay per acre within set terms, or accept payment from sale proceeds. The relief act relinquishes Indian reservations to named individuals under specific shares, pending authentic deeds and presidential approval.
Representatives of the United States report Mrs. Ann F Perrine widow of Doctor Henry Perrine and Sarah Ann are prevented by the Florida Indian war from continuing Perrines planting venture begun under the act to encourage tropical plants. The act supplement notes Perrine was murdered by Seminole Indians during location and execution of required measures.
Perrine, Hester M S Perrine, and Henry E Perrine, his surviving children, are declared entitled to all rights and privileges granted to Doctor Henry Perrine by the supplement act. The eight-year occupancy period to prevent forfeiture is extended until after the current Indian war in Florida ends. Approval dated February 5, 1941.
From the Globe via the Portland Argus dated the 15th instant the Senate on the 13th took up resolutions to repel British aggression and, after amending to 51,000,000 for state defense, referred them to the committee. A further resolve urged the President to remove foreign armed forces in the upper St. Johns valley and to relieve Maine from its heavy defense burden.
On the 27th the Mississippi House of Representatives passed a series of resolutions declaring the state bound to redeem her hands and preserve faith inviolate. On the 30th the resolutions urging Senators and requesting Representatives in Congress to vote for a general bankrupt law passed 47 to 39.
Mrs Christian Baker of Boston bequeaths equally split estates worth likely forty to fifty thousand dollars to the American Board of Foreign Missions and the American Education Society. The American Bible Society receives two thousand dollars and the American Tract Society at Boston one thousand dollars.
The late William Bartlett of Newburyport leaves about half a million in estate. He donates fifty thousand dollars to the Theological Seminary at Andover. The remainder mostly goes to his grandchildren.
In June 1838 a valuable enslaved man owned by Mss. William Eddings of Abbeville District fled to Halifax County, North Carolina, then voluntarily returned after two years and seven months. The Greenville Mountaineer reports the slave sought to remain with his master, and condemns abolitionist rhetoric as hypocritical.
The London Morning Chronicle notes the Mexico Britain treaty and Britain recognizing Texas independence. It claims the Texian Government agreed to assume 1,000,000 of the Mexican debt. A deputation reportedly pressed the subject on Lord Palmerston.
A report outlines proposed bonds options including land security in California and Texas for debt payments, with a 100,000,000 acre pledge and a 25,000,000 acre trust for bondholders. It notes a London agency communication on overdue coupons, and mentions a plan to consolidate the Mexican converted debt and local caste tensions in Philadelphia market action.
The Galena Gazette reports that on the last Oth ult a two horse mail stage between Galena and Dubuque broke through the ice on the Mississippi. The mail, horses, and carriage sank with a passenger named Taylor aboard.
The Massachusetts House indefinitely postpones the proposition to indemnify the proprietors of the Charlestown nunnery burned years ago. The vote on indefinite postponement was 207 in favor and 49 against. Also notes a Milan blacksmith who says suspending a chain from the anvil corner with a ring can nearly deaden hammer noise.
A Knoxville Register report dated February 6 notes a fatal epidemic spreading in West Tennessee and alarming Henry County. The illness, identified as the Cold Pigue, recalls earlier outbreaks in East Tennessee and western North Carolina counties, with ravages remembered in upper East Tennessee.
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