Tarborough Press subscription rates and policy
The Tarborough Press lists weekly publication at two dollars and fifty cents per year paid in advance or three dollars per year at the door. For any period under a year, forty-seven and a half cents per month. Subscribers may discontinue with notice and arrears paid. Distant subscribers must pay in advance or provide a local reference. Advertisements under a square cost one dollar for the first insertion and twenty-five cents per continuation. Longer ads priced proportionally. court orders and judicial ads are twenty-five percent higher. Ads must state insertions or run until ordered otherwise. Letters to the Editor must be post paid.
Field of Battle and the Soldier’s Sacrifice Poem
The Madisonians piece laments a lost battle and a hard toll of death and widows. It mourns homes broken by war and questions divine justice, urging rulers to face impartial judgment for the bloodshed. The poem contrasts fame with guilt and the cost borne by mothers, wives, and children.
Procrastination warns against tomorrow's traps
A Sunday Mercury sermon denounces reliance on tomorrow, urging immediate action. The speaker ridicules hopeful schemes and emphasizes seizing the present moment, arguing that time slips by while delay breeds loss and misfortune. He cautions against trusting future color and urges diligent, present effort to gain lasting peace and success.
Port au Prince Fire Destroys Six Hundred Houses
A January 9 blaze in Port au Prince Sta Domingo consumed the Chemist shop and swept through the quarter for three hours. With no water to check the flames, merchants tally a two million dollar loss in goods, part of a four million dollar total fire damage in the city.
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Port Au Prince
St. Domingo
Lise
Relief row sparks county court day blaze in Trimble
Frankfort correspondent reports a relief row at Trimble county court as sheriff refused to qualify amid excitement. That night the clerk’s office burned. Governor Letcher nominated another sheriff to the Senate.
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Frankfort
Lexington Intelligencer
Trimble
Letcher
Senate
Doctor Wells Lynched After Alleged Wife Beater Incident
A Madison county doctor named Wells was dragged from his home by neighbors and severely lynched for habitually whipping his wife. Later reports claim he lured her to a remote spot where, between twilight and dark, he attempted to murder her, attacking her neck and causing a slight wound before she escaped into thick brush. The account is reported by the Richmond Chronicle via the Louisville Journal.
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Doctor Wells
Madison County
Richmond Chronicle
Louisville Journal
Bank Failure at New Orleans Sends Panic Through City
The Commercial Bank of New Orleans suspended payment on the 20th, causing widespread confusion. Runs hit Mechanics and Traders, City Bank, and depositors, while State, Union and Canal Banks faced only minor runs. Banks dispatched specie to satisfy customers, keeping doors open late to swap notes for gold.
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New Orleans
Commercial Bank
Union
Canal
Extraordinary Proceedings Burn State Bonds in Legislature
In Illinois on the ninth, 1 786 000 in State bonds and 287 501 56 in State indebtedness certificates were burned in the presence of the Legislature. After the Governor destroyed the securities, the Fund Commission appeared with trunks of bonds, both signed and unsigned, and started to pile them into the flames. Large numbers of bonds were burned by various means.
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Illinois
Bond Destruction Seen in Flames and Indifference
The Journal of Commerce reports on state bonds being burned and dismissed as worthless by calm observers. The writer laments the ease of canceling obligations through destruction and questions the attitude of an august legislature toward repudiation.
Days of Worship Across Cultures by Weekday Rulers
A compact note lists the seven days each claimed for public worship by different cultures. Sunday marks the Lord’s Day for Christians, while Monday through Saturday are attributed to the Grécians, Persians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Turks, and Jews respectively, outlining a historical spectrum of sacred time.
Brate Generals Battle Near Lima South America
An extract from the Madisonian reports a clash between Generals Vidac and Torrico about 140 miles from Lima. Of about seven thousand troops, fewer than fifty were killed. Both generals fled. Vidae claimed victory after being persuaded his army won, while Torrico fled despite favorable odds.
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Brate
Madisonian
Vidac
Torrico
Lima
America
Vidae
Suicide of Bank President Lavergne Shocks New Orleans
News Orleans February 19 1843 report states Mr Lavergne president of the Consolidated Bank betrayed by misfortune chose to end his life. He visited family burying place near Algiers then crossed the river and expired about ten o'clock. Lavergne was regarded as probity and honor though rumors circulated amid bank calamities.
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Orleans
Laverage
Consolidated Bank
Algiers
Lavergne
Murders and Crisis Reports Rise in Recent U.S. Data
The latest estimates show 193 murders in the United States over the past year and 65 personal crisis reports. The figures highlight ongoing safety and social distress trends across the nation.
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United States
Lynch Law in Shelby County Report from Hannibal Journal
The Hannibal Journal recounts two recent Lynch style incidents in Shelby County Missouri. In Marion county a merchant with a judgment seized stock, bought it back for sixteen dollars, sold cattle for one hundred, then seized debtor for the balance and was beaten with fifteen lashes by a neighborhood committee before being forced to leave. In the other case a creditor pressing a rich claim entertained a mock sale, where neighbors called for “Judge Lynach’s horse” and threatened a ride of the buyer, resulting in no sale.
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Hannibal
Missouri
Shelby County
Marion County
Csttle
Judge Lynach
Pretty Jailer Entraps Horse Thief in Meadville Story
In Meadville, jailor Mrs Throop tricked a horse thief by luring him to his former cell with the promise of viewing old quarters. She identified him as a previous inmate sent to the penitentiary three years prior. She locked the door and turned him over as a prisoner to authorities.
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Throop
Meadville
Mrs. T
Localize New York Serpent in Bread Flour Dispute
A report from Bolavia New York notes a family dispute over bread made from flour that caused suspicion toward a son who refused to eat. The incident centers on shares in an eight dollar pension or payment among his parents and siblings amid a flour mix.
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Bolavia
New York
Pisall
Flood on Red River reported by Telegraph
The Washington Arkansas Telegraph of the 8th says the steamer Napoleon picked up between two and three hundred persons on the Red River voyage to Fort Toward. Col James H Johnson and family reported lost. Fort Vawsen arrived at Fulton off Monday saving several families below, some from atop houses as waters fell and fear of more damage passed.
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Red River
Washington (Ark
Napoleon
Fort Towfard
James H Johnson
Fort Vawsen
Fulton
New Orleans
Elopement Ends With Abduction Flight From D C
The Georgetown Advocate recounts a Baltimore bound elopement that began with a church ceremony in Washington. After three days the groom faced a claim by Chases of Baltimore as an absconding apprentice. A magistrate’s intervention failed and the couple fled Baltimore, leaving the bride to cope with the sudden departure.
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Georgetown
D. C
Baltimore
Seach
Chases
Baltiamore
Millerism and strange deaths spark in 19th century Sweden and Newark
The State Gazette reviews a strange April incident in Elfsburg Lehn where a poor tailor fell into a coal pit and survived 39 days without fuel. It also reports a Newark merchant’s wife driven to arsenic suicide by Miller doctrine, killing two of her children, while a Providence Millerite gathering incites apocalyptic panic with mass nocturnal vigils and a trumpet summons.
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Gaz
Ocknolin
Elfsburg Lehn
Sweden
Jonathan Leveridge
Newark
New Jersey
Providence
Minster
Witnnes
Parson Miller Bars March Zist Debtors From Access
Parson Miller declares no man may ascend the Zist of Marchy unless his newspaper debts are paid in full. The proclamation affects patrons behind on subscriptions and aims to curb arrears across the parish.
Right kind of newspaper supporters matter
A writer urges faithful subscribers to support a newspaper with timely payments and public praise. He argues editors need loyal financial backing to maintain spirit and quality, warning that careless dues undermine effort, while advance subscriptions and encouragement keep papers thriving.
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