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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1835
Page
4
A rustic poem depicts Dinah in a kitchen by the oven thinking of Sambo and a wedding hoe cake. She toils to bake a real hoe cake and declares love with the cake as token. Sambo accepts and they wed as the narrator offers a moral about genuine affection over showy gifts.
A historical verse notes fair women winning hearts and the social call to church and marriage. It reflects on blue eyes lips and the idea of kissing being harmless, with bells tolling and a nod to a mother’s stance.
The legislature creates Van Deren's College for Young Ladies with power to grant diplomas and honorary degrees M P L MM M I to suitable ladies and others. A proposed charter amendment would add M F Master of Folly, with the first recipient to be Mr Van Doren.
A proposal in the Mexican Congress seeks to separate the Province of Texas from Coahuila and create a military commandancy. The aim appears to curb popular will, which has lately displeased the Mexican government.
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes imports by Avery and Merritt of Tranby by Blacklock and Whale by Whalebone. Tranby and Whale rank highly with Tranby famed for a time trial ride by Mr. Osbaldistone, covering two hundred miles in eight hours and forty-two minutes, while Whale is a runner of fair character.
Tranby delivered the day’s top performance running sixteen miles and a 4 mile heat in six minutes, carrying 157 pounds. The great race comparison was Eclipse and Henry. Owners imported horses W Godolphin Larborough Fylde Master Henry Sarpedon Chateau Margaux Claret Tranby Whale, with Chateau Margaux valued at £12,000 and each horse yielding at least $5,000 annually, some nearly double.
A Georgia boy at Providence slipped under a planing machine to grab shavings. He cautiously raised his head and the machine shaved it cleanly above the ears, leaving him fatally injured.
Virginia records show 11 black males and 9 females left the state for Liberia during 1834. Transportation expenses totaled 580 dollars. Poulson.
A jailed Negro man who killed his master Mr Trussell in Greene County and then additional victims died in Erie before execution. He allegedly killed five people, including a mistress, a neighboring woman, and a child in a house fire. Suspected link to Southampton insurrection. other trio who killed their young master Mr Swearingen in Fayette County were tried and sentenced to death yesterday.
An express informed Gen. Hanter that a violent clash of Dutch laborers near Bladensburg on the Washington and Baltimore line left five or six wounded, with one or two gravely hurt. Marshal Hanter, Deputy Woodward, and officers secured 12 prisoners and about a dozen muskets, keeping the scene under control as investigations proceeded.
Two men were shot and wounded in a disturbance described as a riot among Dutch laborers seeking higher wages. One wounded man could identify his shooter. A further examination is planned Monday. The riot split between wage-seekers and those refusing to attack contractors, with police praised for preventing greater violence. Washington Mirror.
A St. Marys letter reports a sequence of(vicious) killings by Tom King and his sons at the Casey homestead after a planned vengeance for a marriage. Nancy Casey and James Scott die, Demot and Mrs. Casey wounded, Baldwin Casey gravely injured. escape of the newlyweds who fled three miles away. killers fled, as John King and two Rouses stayed. Despite sobriety at the time, the bloodbath ends with multiple severities.
A fragment notes that the elderly man and his other sons escaped while an initial group is jailed at Jefferson. The source mentions a U.S. Gazette reference, implying a contemporaneous government record or notice related to the event. The readable text centers on arrests and fled individuals.
The Richmond Enquirer reports about 700 workers are on the line from Richmond to the North Anna River. Depot buildings will begin in Richmond on purchased ground. An agent will go to England to buy iron for 27 miles, two locomotives and tenders. Passenger cars to be obtained in summer and fall, with in use of the contracted section expected next winter.
A respectable Philadelphia widow, Mrs. Rachel Quarnes, living alone on Middle Street, was discovered dead Friday morning in the back yard with most of her clothes burned. Authorities suppose her clothes caught fire by accident, causing her to run outside to alert neighbors and collapse from the flames.
Report from South Hadley Massachusetts describes a gang of idle men interrupting Mormon religious services with violence and noise. The article notes the sect’s growth in the Bay State and describes dances and exhortations as part of the religious exercises.
The New Jersey legislature has passed and enacted a law suppressing bank notes of denominations less than five dollars. This action completes the bill, now lawfully binding.
A Gra car on the Amboy and Camden railroad caught fire on the 4th, likely from the locomotive. A sizable portion of two bags of newspapers for the south was destroyed, with legible contents forwarded from the Philadelphia post office and the rest returned to New York the same evening. Washington Globe.
An old Baltimore to Bladensburg mail stage overturned at Bladensburg bridge. The postmaster reports two mail bags saved from the coach and heavy Baltimore mail risking water damage. Three men and two women were rescued in exhaustion. the stage body sank and was recovered by a cable.
Prisoners confined in Baltimore jail attempted to free themselves and gained access toward the yard before authorities thwarted the plan. The incident indicates a significant jail security breach and ongoing concerns about inmate conduct and containment.
The wife of the prison keeper demonstrated self possession and promptitude by alerting authorities promptly when danger arose, aiding a swift response and containment of the incident.
A Welsh report from Helford recalls the brig Caroline from America nearing disaster after a week at sea. Six survivors in a wrecked boat endured nine days of hunger and thirst, one man dieing after drinking salt water and another eaten body parts.
Seventy years hence the Long Island Farmer imagines a century end scene when only an old man survives from 1835. He recalls a brutal winter when the quicksilver froze, horses died in stables, wells froze to eighty-two feet, and the nation faces unprecedented cold and hardship.
A Drover reported missing hogs near a farmer between this place and Somerset Maryland. A search of a suspicious neighbor revealed the hogs hidden under hay in a barn. While transporting the man toward Somerset jail he collapsed and died, leaving officials to handle the aftermath.
In the era of Warren Hastings a district in Benares yielded a fibrous woody stratum beneath the soil. Major Robuck led scientists to the site where excavation revealed this unusual horizontal layering. Further digging exposed details of the discovery and its significance.
Fragmentary notes describe a vault found with a printing device or press, apparently ancient and not modern. Scholars speculate on the device's period and possible Chinese connections, noting long-standing printing methods and questions about invention by Faust and other legendary figures.
In the Galenian district near Mayen, English miners have begun copper ore digging after a proposal to split profits. Since November 10 they have raised about 70,000 units of ore from a depth of five feet, with roughly half ore content. Two men have kept steady work while ore dips into rock crevices, and they expect to yield about one thousand pounds of ore for smelting by early next month. A. and associates plan to melt ore locally and bear transport costs to Atlantic markets, aiming to capitalize on rising prospects in the area.
A fragment from a New Bedford page describes a family group of five brothers and eleven others totaling twenty four pounds in weight, with one lady said to be nearly three hundred. The odd figure set hints at a satirical or stylized item rather than a literal census.
A fragmentary obituary style notice describes an attempted killing of the Speaker of the Lana Assembly by pistol shot, noting the act was carried out under the House’s order and that the Speaker was discharged from duty.
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