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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1842
Page
1
The Tarborough Press details annual and monthly subscription rates with advance payment encouraged. It notes liberty to discontinue with arrears, distance subscribers must pay in advance or provide local reference. Advertising costs listed per insertion changes, court notices priced higher, and letters to the editor must be mailed for consideration.
SHERMAN'S Camphor Lozenges offer relief for nervous headaches, fatigue, and seas of ailments from colds to lung distress, touting extensive certificates and thousands of boxes sold. Also claims worm lozenges cure worm symptoms and restore health in多 patients, with plaster and other remedies marketed by GEV. HOWARD in Tarboro on Feb 23.
A poem in the voice of an emigrant named Oscar, bidding farewell to native land and friends. It glorifies Texas as a homeland, contrasts with disorders of elsewhere, and longs for a future with a bride in a brighter clime. Repeated lines emphasize the speaker's resolve to leave and find happiness.
A nationalist critique argues one year of Whig policy has degraded the currency, bidding the end of sound money. It denounces treasury notes, exchequer plans, land revenue waste, and calls for recall of public lands and a return to specie with a strong government stance. It cites figures from New York papers on depreciated notes and warns Parliament against perpetual paper money.
The article notes many bankrupts listed as gentlemen declare only wearing apparel as assets, often with wardrobes worth thousands remaining at home. Jewellery and gold or silver ornaments are sometimes claimed as wearing apparel, with claims reaching ten thousand dollars, per the schedules shown to the court.
Fragment from a New York District Court report discusses whether jewellery owned before marriage may be retained by a bankrupt’s wife. Judge Betts and Gen. Sandford weigh if diamond rings and other items are part of wearing apparel or subject to surrender to the assignee. Aimed at clarifying a contested precedence in bankruptcy law.
The Boston Atlas reports annual ice exports near 600000 dollars and suggests a plan to trade ice for cotton from Bombay, outlining a prospective exchange of commodities in a transoceanic barter.
The Charleston Mercury comments on the surge in East India cotton, noting the increase draws much attention and hints at a simple secret behind the alarming rise. The brief remarks reflect contemporary concern over global cotton trends.
The text notes a broken Chinese market absorbing surplus, pushing oil price to new lows and harming its culture. It argues forced British goods sales indicate British manufacturers’ overproduction and bankruptcy. It also mentions Indian cotton growth facing a suddenly closed market, with other markets in excess and sacrifice.
In a county in Alabama a woman was jailed after shooting another woman in the nose. The assailant claimed the target had threatened her multiple times and she acted to stop what she described as ongoing harm. The injured party was left requiring medical attention.
Mrs Ira Andre committed suicide by hanging in the room where her husband slept. He awoke to find her body suspended by the neck. The death occurred in Washington County Pennsylvania and was discovered by her husband the following morning.
A fragment recounts a tale of a woman from a far town who, after discovering her husband enjoying the company of another, sewed up his clothes and, while he slept, gave him a severe beating. The report presents a lurid, hearsay-style anecdote with limited context.
Mrs. Grabber, a New York reformer of noted notoriety, is strongly suspected by the Susquehanna Advocate of using human flesh in her profession. She is said to have disposed of her husband and several visitors in this manner, creating considerable noise in Gotham.
A large amount of Treasury notes in New York fell due on Monday week and were all dishonored. This caused excitement among the hiders, who were glad to sell them at one per cent discount.
The New Orleans American reports a surplus of western produce in the city with commission merchants having advanced more money on it than it would fetch in the market. The product is not as valuable locally as it was at its origin.
The Virginia House approved a land fund quota 68 to 53 but the Senate rejected it, placing Virginia beside South Carolina and Alabama. The piece notes Ino M. Gregory, once a stage driver and log cutter, as a potential governor candidate, remarking on his talent and self-made career.
A former spindle worker from Ware Hampshire County who later taught school and moved west is now the accomplished wife of the able Representative in Congress from Michigan, as noted by the Newburyport Herald.
Ambrose Spencer, second son of Hon. J. C. Spencer, was arrested in Ibany on multiple charges of forging his father’s signatures. The case involves several suspected forgeries tied directly to his father.
Three hundred and nineteen Florida Indians arrived at New Orleans from Tampa Bay on the Rosalind on the 11th. Among them are the wife and family of Tigertail, who recently escaped from Tampa Bay, part of the emigrant company bound for Arkansas.
A Mississippi Legislature session saw a heated moment when a member asked for a bill to be read to reveal its reality. The dispute intensified until one member hurled a heavy inkstand at a colleague’s head, ending the disruption.
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