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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1836
Page
1
The Tarboro Press publishes weekly at Two Dollars per year with a cents rate, or Three Dollars if paid at year end. Monthly rates apply for partial periods. Advertisements up to 16 lines cost one dollar for first insertion plus 25 cents per 16 lines thereafter. Longer ads charged at the same rate. Address letters to the Editor and pay by post.
The Atlantic report covers a Senate debate sparked by Maine’s anti slavery resolution. North Carolina's Mr. Brown faces Calhoun Mangum opposition as critics try to misrepresent the remarks. Expunge is urged as the remedy with strong calls to cut the record and uphold a banner of justice.
This week The Standard begins reprinting Col Benton’s great Senate speech on expunging resolutions. The piece is described as powerful, masterly, and eloquent, with opposition arguments swept aside like feathers in a whirlwind.
Senate debate over Mr. Clay's land bill includes opposition from Hill Genton and Wright, with Southard and Crittenden supporting. Speeches cover war costs, naval needs, and military funding. Wright cites hundreds of bills awaiting action, projecting millions more needed beyond the treasury surplus. Florida war costs loom.
The Georgia Journal reports rumors of a turbulent Creek spirit with ten to fifteen families fleeing to Columbus for safety. Alleged attacks on a planter include theft of cotton, corn crib damage, and six enslaved people driven off. The piece calls for decisive action against tribal chiefs if true.
The body of George W. Martin of Rockingham, killed in the Ben Franklin explosion near Mobile, was found eleven days after the accident. Judge Martin, aided by Gen. Davidson and others, supervised recovery and secured twelve thousand dollars in U. S. notes found on a belt for his next of kin, believed to be his father Alexander S. Martin. The deceased was unmarried.
The Montisello Herald reports in Shaw angunk mountain New York a melancholy notice dated April 14 describing renewed heavy snowfall after five months of snow. A sudden fresh fall began early April 13 and continues heavily as the paragraph is written.
The Merchants' Bank of Providence Rhode Island was robbed of 149000 dollars, including 15000 in specie. A reward of 10000 dollars has been offered, and authorities expect quick detection of the culprits.
A boy at Frederic Maryland attempted to enter between two loaded railroad cars and was injured in a dreadful accident near the freight yard. Authorities report the youth suffered serious injuries but specifics remain unclear as rescue crews respond.
A bus depot incident ended with a worker being struck by a vehicle and fatally injured as his body was torn apart under the wheels, according to early reports from the scene.
Massachusetts Legislature committee reports startling factory facts. About 500000 women and girls work in U S manufactories, many with no schooling. In four Massachusetts towns 1895 children aged 4 to 16 miss school part of the year. Proposal: no child under 14 may work in state factories unless they attended public or private day schools for at least 3 of the prior 12 months. forfeiture set at 50 dollars.
The heirs of Hugh John and Daniel Mosher, who recently inherited an estate totaling thirty two millions in England, are missing. The Albany Daily Advertiser notes a search is under way in this country to locate them.
Distressing occurrence reports the death by drowning of Mr. James D. Brown, an engineer of the State and son of Jas. Brown Jr. Esq. The accident happened at the Seven Islands on James River near Middleton's Mills, Flu vanna when his boat struck a rock and his heavy coat prevented swimming. He was highly useful and respected in his profession and family.
A witty impossibility tale explains inheritance through a widow who marries her son and a daughter who marries the old man. Their child makes the father both grandfather and great uncle, thus the boy becomes his own grandfather. Remarkably, a Norwich schoolboy reportedly experienced this.
A lengthy Victorian prose piece extols marriage as Heaven send, praising a wife's virtues as comfort, safety, wealth, and moral guidance. It asserts that for pleasure, health, or money, one should marry, presenting matrimony as the ultimate social good and companionate ideal.
A tragic incident occurred last evening in our city involving a fatal self harm act and an attempted murder case. Local authorities are investigating the circumstances and urging any witnesses to come forward.
A jealous lover killed Mrs. Wade with a duck shot and killed himself after a confrontation at her Filbert street boarding house. The article notes Mrs Wade’s good character and reports a coroner verdict of death by self-inflicted wound. Doctors Coxe and Rodman aided the wounded woman. The piece also covers a Texas proclamation and land bounty resolutions for volunteers, detailing acres granted based on service and family status.
GA man Charles W. Zeiss appeared in sessions court in New York last Saturday charged with assaulting his wife by dragging her from bed and attempting to force arsenic. He received six months in the penitentiary. The recorder added a note about a future inheritance of sixty to seventy thousand dollars.
Republic of Texas report lists provisional officers from the new government. President David G. Burnett, Vice President Lorenzo de Zavala, Secretary State Samuel P. Carson, Secretary War Thomas J. Rush, Secretary Treasury Bailey Hardman named by the Convention.
A fragment from the Phil Inq reports that Mr Benton who died in San Antonio was a nephew of Hon Thomas H Benton. It adds that Jesse Benton, the senator’s brother, was alive in Texas at the last dates and ready to abide the outcome of the struggle.
A petition presented in Pennsylvania seeks to limit taverns and grog shops in Philadelphia. The document references a lengthy task force and gathers thousands of signatures as part of a legislative effort to curb alcohol outlets in the city.
A wild goose chase leaves farmers puzzled as the plume escaped en route to a fenced pen, prompting local huntsmen to recheck nesting grounds and call for better poultry security in the village.
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