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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1836
Page
1
The Tarborough Press announces weekly publication at ten dollars and two cents per year, paid in advance, with rates for shorter terms and monthly options. Advertisements must state the required number of insertions or be continued and billed accordingly. Letters to the editor may not be attended to if match pad or ties.
The Lend Bar Diversion bill faced severe dissecting on its third Senate read, with Senators Morris Walther Niles Wright and Beowen delivering wide speeches. The bill’s retroactive revenue plan to be used for five years and its aim to stress bank debtors before the presidential election drew sharp debate and hints of political maneuvering. Wright’s speech is printed in full in the Globe, arguing there is no net land proceeds to fund the Treasury and exposing the false land surplus claim.
Anxiety rises over Cherokee and Chippewa treaties stalled in the Senate as the distribution bill looms. Georgia has asserted control over Cherokee lands, threatening dispossession by November if treaties fail. Violence is feared if removal deadlines collide with a Congress not in session.
A dated editorial quips that politicians always serve self interests, harming democracy. It recalls past sympathy for the Cherokees during their hard fate, contrasting with current actions seen as ruinous to them to save money for spoils and distribution.
War Department communication and frontier security dominate Saturday House debate as partisans clash over funding and troop support. Several western lawmakers flip positions, with Underwood Mason Graves wavering before voting affirmative. court session notes praise Judge Saunders and report a $2000 false imprisonment verdict in Hyde County.
The letter praises Judge Will as a useful figure, despite political differences. It states that honoring him is deserved and that the current stance is correct, asserting respect for his service from the Virginian observer.
The Court of Appeals on Tuesday reversed unanimously the Inferior Court ruling admitting the will of the late John Randolph to record, holding that he was believed insane at the time of writing it.
A young doctor newly settled in Haverstraw treats a thumb infection with calomel and jalap. after repeated purgatives the patient loses her teeth and health while the husband sues for damages. The doctor defends his method as scientific per Gunter, and wins the case with costs.
Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope observed a great shower of meteors two years ago in November and again last year. On the 14th he noted brilliantly dazzling meteors rivaling Venus, bright enough to read by. He has not seen any since and calls it possibly coincidental. Northwest, New York Star.
Mr. John Smith wins eight thousand dollars after suing steamboat Advocate proprietors for damages from a flue collapse that killed three of his children and injured his wife. Verdict delivered in the court, detailing liability and compensation for the family.
Maryland printer near Elkton shoots himself in the head with a musket. He placed the muzzle in his mouth and pulled the trigger with his foot, scattering brains on the room wall. He left as a reason that he was tired of life.
The Bergen county coroner viewed the body of Catharine Plyer, a 21 year old English native, who threw herself from the river bank above Hoboken landing. He reported she was of unblemished reputation and had taken her own life by drowning.
A respectable family resident girl from No 58 Monroest, city, leaped into a Ho boken river and drowned after leaving a note blaming Barodiski, a Polish exile and dial maker at No 175 Broadway. Barodiski attended the funeral in distress, with family and friends attributing her death to presumed mental distress. NY Com.
The Wilmington Adv reports a Massachusetts petition by G Odiorne and others urging repeal of Southern state laws restricting rights of Black citizens. A joint committee split, with a majority opposing action and a minority backing abolitionist aims, claiming northern legislators must secure federal safeguards.
The Concord Courier notes two men once regarded as upstanding in the community are now under scrutiny in a developing local matter. Details remain sparse as investigators review roles and connections to the incident.
In a Massachusetts town, officials arrested two individuals by order of the Governor and transported them to Salem to face charges of selling the meat of a sick ox two to three years ago. The meat was packed into about two hundred barrels, none sold since, as owners were informed of the contamination and could not identify which barrels contained the infected meat. The accused are said to have respectable connections.
The ravages of yellow striped bugs on cucumbers and melons may be prevented by sifting charcoal dust over the plants. Repeating the process two or three times results in plants free from annoyance. Charcoal contains a property that repels these insects as soon as it is applied.
In Lewisville Ohio a crowd is urged to attend a gander pulling on horseback with a $25 purse for each head torn from the luckless birds. A gander hangs by the head from a post as riders gallop by to snap off the bird’s head, a cruel sport noted as common in the southwest and criticized here for its harm to the birds.
A breach of promise case ended with Nancy Griffith winning against James Perkins. Evidence showed 12 years of attention, then he courted another and married. No explicit promise required, Judge Gardner ruled. Jury awarded $450 for twelve years of courting, deemed cheapening of female society.
For some time the family and friends of R Henry Esq Baltimore vice consul observed he was under a low mood. They hoped his cheerfulness signaled recovery, but yesterday morning a servant found him lifeless suspended from his bed tester. It is presumed financial embarrassments led to this rash act.
A brief motivational item urges self kindness as a foundation for healthier relations. It frames friendship with oneself as the first step toward fostering empathy and supportive conduct in daily life. The tone resembles a concise advice note from a community column or column-inspires brief.
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