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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1841
Page
2
Tarborough reports authorisation to announce Mr. John Norfleet as candidate for Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions. County court held with nothing notable. two shares of Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad sold at public cash sale for 36 dollars per share.
The state returns indicate Edward Stanly reelected as Whig with no organized opposition, while Republican votes mainly favored Henry Lt. Toole. Raleigh Standard lists the delegation: Kenneth Rayner, Daniel, Stanly, Washington, McKay, Arrington, Deberry, Saunders, Shepperd, Reneher, Caldwell, Williams, Graham, with several new members and most notable as a shift from Democrats to Whigs.
The Richmond Enquirer notes the Whig majority in the Legislature falls to four on joint ballot, down from ten in the House of Delegates last year to two now. Whig papers claim victory, but the editor suspects a joke from Fay. Juur.
The snippet notes Hurra for old Edgecombe with 840 votes for Henry I Toole and eighty for Edward Stanly. It comments on Stanly’s perceived spoiling by Congress and questions constituents.
The Mississippi and Illinois members’ terms expired March 4 and no law allows a special election, so no reps will attend the upcoming Extra Session. Mississippi seats renew next fall, Illinois next summer, impacting the Democratic party’s potential gains.
A fragment notes that Mr Webster and the Bank of the United States are linked by a claim that Daniel owed the bank the sum of one hundred ten dollars, indicating a financial dispute or ledger entry. The passage appears cut off and lacks full context or dates.
A letter accuses Col. Drayton and the Prime Minister of accepting a settlement offered by the Bank in exchange for patents on Iowa lands valued at about ten thousand dollars. It questions ethics and integrity in Washington and calls for accountability from American statesmen and leaders. The piece attacks habits of spendthrift gambling and moral laxity. It references Daniel occupying a Washington house under a Boston man’s credit.
The Philadelphia Ledger reports banks held a meeting yesterday to reject the legislature’s act granting authority to issue small notes. They resolved not to adopt the new provisions, abstain from adjusting their credits, and suspend further action under the act.
The Maryland Legislature appropriated 2 million dollars to finish the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to Cumberland. Scrip issued by the company remains unpaid as funds were not provided, causing holders to incur steep discounts. A hypothetical one million in notes would yield 700 thousand, a loss of 350 thousand. The piece questions stockholders' right to such treatment, citing Kendall's Expositor.
The General Assembly of Rhode Island adjourned after two and a half days. They counted votes for general officers in one and a half days and dispatched business rivaling Pennsylvania's four months. Next session starts June 1 with five working days. Bloodshed notes follow.
One day last week the horse attached to the Muaileart sprang forward at Rail Road Depot and leaped the outer railing of the bridge, plummeting about forty feet to the ground. The powerful animal, though blind, was highly valued and died instantly. Chronicle report.
A report notes a grape vine found near the area measuring forty three inches around at ground level. The Ohio Supreme Court sitting in Lebanon, Warren county, with Judges Lane and Hitchcock on the bench, states that if a slave owner brings a slave into the state voluntarily or allows him to come, the action is addressed by the court.
The passage notes that a slave traveling from one state to another becomes free the moment he touches Ohio soil, asserting the state’s free soil stance and its impact on runaways and escape routes. This summarizes a legal principle tied to Ohio’s status as a free state.
A Pennsylvania youth recently jailed in Rockingham County Virginia was tried in Harrisonburg and acquitted for the murder of his father. The Register reports the tragedy arose from a drunken frolic involving father mother and son with the father striking first and the son fatally striking back with a horse whip. Remorse and anguish are noted as the lasting torment for the acquitted youth.
A reader notes beets of middle size roasted in the fire and peeled before serving. The beets are said to be sweeter and richer than when boiled, according to a cultivator's account.
A French naval letter from December reports on St Domingo in ruin. Port au Prince shows widespread poverty and neglect with barefoot troops, derelict plantations, and collapsing coffee cultivation. The president is capable but cannot reform a slothful populace.
The annual income of the Queen of England is cited as one million six hundred thousand dollars with estates including Buckington Palace St James's Windsor Castle and Brighton Pavilion. The text laments royal excess funded by laboring classes and calls for popular strength and freedom from despotism.
An obscured fragment from the Takboro press discusses regional trade and attitudes. The speaker, addressing George and Sam, contemplates loyalties and views on religion and politics, then shifts to a potato seed question about Southern versus Northern seed supply and practices for selecting "small" potatoes.
In a persuasive address, Josiah Lawrence urges farmers to plant Irish potatoes with abundant manure in small seed beds or drills, cover with a dagon plough, weed when four to six inches high, and apply furrows. He warns against rotten or undermanured material, notes prices and imports, and calls North Carolina the garden spot for hospitality and plenty.
The Tarboro Press recalls a night’s vision of passengers aboard the British Queen at fifteen miles per hour down Tar River. It questions whether Tar River can ever host steam ships of 2000 tons and wonders if Turpentine Run might become a navigable stream for small craft before the world ends.
Late from Europe the steam ship Caledonia arrives with English dates to the 4th instant. No news of the President. British Ministry defeated on the Irish Registration Bill twice, by 21 and 11 votes. Cotton dull, flour dull, money market improved. Washington Market May 26: Corn wholesale 31 75 to 2 dollars. Naval stores and fish prices listed. Alep.
Communicated Ga The Re Rev d Z L ves has appointed to preach in the Episcopal church in this place on Tuesday evening next the 1st of June. Puckett is expected to preach at Red Banks on the 1st of June with a long list of subsequent dates and locations including Greenville Great Swamps Conetor Wardbore Ouval Town Creek Upper Town Creek Tossnot Content neas Old Black Creek Memorial Louth Nauhunty Pleasant Place Sandy Luttom Richland Chapel Souh West Youp's m Stump Sound Wardsville June North East White Oak Hadnot's Creek Bell's Newport Chapel Slocumb's Creek Swift Creek Galloway Lith Greenville Great Swamp Conetor Tarbo Town Creek Upper Town Creek Falls Var River.
The following tracts were sold at the Court House door in Williamst on the second Monday next. John Taylor heirs sold 100 acres valued 100 dollars tax 8 8 cents. Matcom Manning, Hardy Bally sold 50 acres valued 100 dollars tax 20 cents. Crisp Mari e sold 50 acres valued 100 dollars tax 20 cents. Drury Toole sold 80 acres valued 180 dollars tax 10 cents. Charlene lve zit sold 80 acres. Arnold Whitfield, 28 April 1841.
An 1840 advertisement touts Brandreth's Pills as superior purifiers and tonics. It claims daily use strengthens the body and treats a range of ailments from gout and inflammation to diabetes and dysentery, noting no harmful effects and bold cures. The piece credits GEO HO warp, Tarborn, Oct. 1840.
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