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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1835
Page
4
The piece laments vanished days of chivalry and revels in lively streets and balls while praising Knights of old and romantic deeds. A closing line invokes Jim Crow in a provocative historical chant.
A dramatic Saturday scene shows two moving parties on Courthouse hill. One group departs for a southwest home, with carts and a prosperous, multiethnic crowd. the other returns to old state roots with two frail horses and a family fragilely packing belongings. A youth with an axe guards the journey, claiming the father died in Tennessee. The contrast prompts pity and Hogarthian commentary on wealth and loss.
A harsh complaint about poverty and emigration from the state notes citizens leaving for unknown regions, seeking to spend their lives in former homes. It questions what can be done to avert depopulation and the distress of property loss, urging action to prevent further displacement.
Lieut Morrison’s 1655 comet forecast projects a May to August appearance in Ursa Major and claims it will outshine 1811 with a tail spanning forty degrees and light rivaling a full moon. He links electric attraction to floods, quakes, storms, and epidemics, citing centuries of fluctuating phenomena and foretelling scorching summers and extensive earthquakes around 1535 1836 and 1555.
A late London paper reports a true bill by the Grand Jury of Surrey against the Bishop of Winchester and nine others for an assault on Rev Cornelious Griffin at a recent public meeting for the Gospel in Foreign parts. Also notes a sensational posting about a rat killing stunt at Tompkins Hall with 100 live rats to be released and 60 minutes to kill them.
An abolitionist linked man tried abducting a white woman in Albany, was stopped by a watchman and imprisoned. A Boston circle funded Harvard gifts totaling 85 thousand dollars that year, plus further endowments for botany and history. Indianapolis considers a moving penitentiary cage bill. Separate quips include a quick marriage knot tale and a humorous country romance exchange from the Yankee and Balt. Visitor.
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