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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1838
Page
1
The Tarborough Press announces weekly publication at ten dollars and fifty cents per year if paid in advance or twenty-five cents per month for shorter periods. Subscribers may discontinue with arrears. Advertisements: one dollar for a single square, twenty-five cents per continuation. longer ads at proportional rates. Court notices incur a twenty-five percent increase. Letters to the editor must be postpaid.
The poem portrays early spring with buds, birdsong, and vibrant landscapes as winter fades. It celebrates nature’s awakening, urging fields to be tilled and seeds sown, and all creation to greet the bright season with renewed vigor.
A cryptic query presents Kate declaring a definite answer and referencing "The baenstans last folly" as the possible solution. The line plays on archaic spelling and a playful riddle format, with no clear public event or person-to-place connection.
The Washington City Chronicle denounces widespread bank expansions in the United States, arguing more banks and offices encourage idleness and luxury. It urges farmers and workers to return to productive toil and discard bankers and stockjobbers as needless.
The Farmers' Bank of Canton Ohio announces it cannot redeem its paper but claims secured debts are sufficient to redeem circulation. The bank was asked by the Ohio Legislature about when it intends to resume operations.
The reply claimed specie payments would resume after repeal of the Specie Circular. The claim proved false as banks suspended by the note cannot even pay in paper, or the notes of other banks.
The New York Sun reports a sweeping collapse at the Farmers' Bank of Genesee County Michigan. Investigators found no officers in charge no kept books and a tangle of stock notes and unendorsed notes totaling 168653 40. Prominent notes by President H R Jerome Delos Davis and Rufus Brown Jr were payable five years hence. No specie or foreign bills were found and bonds or collateral were listed. meeting liabilities relied on about eleven thousand dollars in endorsed notes.
A Murfreesboro Tennessee report describes Mr. Lofiin, a respected local man, encountering a Black man in a cave during a turkey hunt. A struggle over a weapon left Lofiin with a severe facial wound while the negro died from a skull fracture after neighbors intervened. The assailant was described as about 25, 5 feet 8 inches, presumed runaway, and the injured hunter’s wound is not dangerous.
A column riffs on old proverbs about taste and beauty, contrasting them with a controversial case of a white educated young woman who falls for a filthy negro. The piece mocks prudish notions and questions morality and social expectations in a provocative, cautionary tone.
A Baltimore Sun report describes a marriageable woman from a respectable family in Pike Creek, Carroll County, who funded her lover’s freedom by selling a house for half its value. The male, a servant of the household, was bought from a slave dealer in the city to be freed. The woman paid $800, and the couple fled together, with the lover admitting she had first wooed him.
Mrs. Tyler received a one year sentence in Baltimore county jail for cruel treatment of a helpless nine or ten year old girl under her care. She beat the child with a rope for minor faults and at one point heated a Dutch oven against the girl’s bare skin. Her husband was also convicted, fined $5 and costs.
At the Natchez anniversary of the Mississippi Colonization Society on March 14 Captain Isaac Ross of the state bequeathed to the American Colonization Society an estate valued around 400000 that emancipates about 170 slaves and arranges their removal and settlement in the Society colony.
Unconfirmed authority reports an Indian hunter attacked near Alligator Bayou by a gang of wolves. He reportedly killed seven wolves in a heroic stand but was overpowered. Found next morning, torn and dead, with seven dead wolves nearby and several live wolves feeding on his body, according to Grand Gulf Adv.
A humorous verse lines explain why many tall men stay bachelors. A gentleman asks for the reason and the reply suggests they must lie cornerwise to keep their feet warm, and a wife would be in the way.
In the Saturday Courier a Dutchman described his pair of horses as so alike that seeing one would make you think of the other. One horse was a black coat with a white facial spot, the other a white coat with a black facial spot.
The Boston Trans reports a Weymouth birth on March last of a male infant with four eyes four ears four arms and four legs. Duplicates appeared above true features with limbs emerging from unusual positions. The child died the day after birth.
A Carolina Gazette condemns young ladies for dipping snuff made from chewed and spit tobacco. It notes a man salvaging quids from streets and selling dried refuse as Scotch snuff, urging readers to reject such adulterated products.
A member elect, late to the assembly, rode in with rifle bowie knife and hunting frock. He demanded the oath, forced his way through a chamber crowded with cigars and bats, and was sworn after a clerk signaled from the Senate. He boasted of backing banks and river improvements, then apologized claiming the lower room was not a groggery.
A mock declaration by North Carolina lawyers in the early 1800s vents humor over a troublesome landlord at the White Lion. The document comically lists grievances from meager fare and drink limits to fleas and bed bugs, framing a satirical break with ceremonial rhetoric. The piece embodies colonial era legal wit and local fellowship.
A Cherokee community accuses a landlord of savage conduct, unlawful taxes, adulterated liquor, and betrayal of trade, declaring final separation from the former landlord, and denouncing Mrs S and Miss Sally for complicity as they refuse to address the grievances. They describe drunken behavior, insurrection, scorched earth treatment of horses, and theft of jugs, demanding bold action and severing ties with the tyrant.
A wealthy man living between two noisy blacksmiths agrees to quiet their work if they stop by offering a fine dinner. After the feast, he asks where they will relocate. One smith replies that they will swap homes, with the other moving into his companion’s house.
A Circuit Court of the United States in this city ruled that Tie farrelton Bank a Louisiana chartered banking company cannot contract in this state for want of capacity to act across state lines thus cannot recover on a bill of exchange. The decision will be reviewed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
A Paris chemist, M Granval, patents an economical process to preserve the human body for an indefinite time. The method yields facial features in a sleep-like expression. Costs range from three hundred to two thousand francs. A company is formed to guarantee preservation.
Instructional washing recipe outlines using seven gallons of water with half a pound of soap two ounces sal soda and two quarts lye or lime water. Clothes boil an hour then drain and reboil in batches, rinse through three waters with fig blue and starch, yielding very yellow fresh laundry that dries white. The method promises economical results and longer lasting clothes for ten dozen pieces per day by one servant.
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