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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1837
Page
1
Classified notice from Turborouch Press HY GEORGE TOW AN announcing weekly rates in Tina dollars and cebo mer wen with detailed insertion terms. It notes monthly payments, liberty pricing, and reader advertisements policies including sequence of insertions and penalties for missed or continued ads.
A fragmentary verse laments unkind treatment and asks why love cannot ease a troubled heart. The speaker longs for companionship and questions marriage while observing the era’s wealth and social expectations. The speaker remains hopeful yet resigned about finding a suitable wife.
The readable fragments reference beauty and filial devotion, with mentions of fountains, nature, and sacred pleasures. The jumbled lines hint at romantic and moral motifs through scattered phrases about love, longing, and virtue in a bygone poetic style.
A frail suitor named Jonathan seeks the old man’s consent to wed Sal. On a stormy night he finds the suitor’s plan faltering as misgivings rise. In a final moment he exposes humility and declares his intent, hoping to win approval and a future with Sal.
A rural farce unfolds as Jonathan tries to win the farmer Tsay’s daughter with honey and claimed wealth. The old man, suspicious of honey and the young man’s intent, chases him with a cane while misfortune piles up. In a tumble Jonathan escapes, Sall dies unmarried, and the scene ends in chaos.
From the Merchants' Exchange Bulletin Board comes word of a planned insurrection among enslaved workers in Rapides parish near Alexandria. An informant revealed the plot to his master, leading to the arrest of about fifty negroes. Nine were tried and executed at Alexandria on the 11th and 12th instant, three of them free blacks. About forty more remain confined with insufficient proof for condemnation. Louisiana Advertiser reports.
A severely distressing mortality tale reports Mr. Kenry Miller and his wife, his daughter in law Mrs. Lucinda Miller, two servants, and the elder Mrs. Miller dying in September in Arkansas from the fever there. The deaths occurred within hours of each other, leaving behind a mournful legacy in the family.
The Staunton Spectator laments the swift reversal of hopeful plans as a group of settlers bound for the West, once buoyed by favorable prospects, face a sudden end to their dreams with a grim early grave. The piece contrasts past confidence with present gloom, noting the abrupt shift in fortunes.
Sheriff Samuel Cooke riding to collect axes was shot in a house by a female occupant. He received a serious wound and the woman was committed to jail.
The text extols vast mineral wealth in the United States, praising gold copper coal iron and salt resources across Georgia North Carolina Virginia Missouri Maine and Texas. It highlights Maine granite quarries as a perpetual wealth source and notes their growing importance to builders and capitalists near Hallowell along the Kennebeck River.
Granite Hill Quarry specimens, shown at the Fair, are praised for tidiness durability and uniform texture. The piece notes the granite rivals any previously explored and urges mechanics to buy to build lasting materials and wealth for their city temples.
Col Davie of Hillsboro N C imports blood horses and cattle from England. They arrived at the wharves from the ship Richmond Portsmouth Times report.
A New York Journal of Commerce statement reports bank bills pulled from circulation since January 1, 1837 totaling forty six million dollars in under nine months. Additionally forty five percent of all specie, about twenty million, has been withdrawn leaving current figures at ninety two million in bills and five million in specie.
A gas lamp explosion in Jamaica L. I. killed Mr. Cogswell, 26, and his infant, with his wife critically injured. The scene unfolded as Mrs. Cogswell and child were in bed while Mr. Cogswell, undressed, lit a spirit gas lamp causing a flash and fire that filled the small chamber. He was taken to Miss Hannah's seminary and died at 11 A.M. The infant died later, the mother remains in precarious condition. Cogswell, a baker, was described as industrious and benevolent and a devoted Methodist.
The Greensburg Repositor y reports a heated incident in Madison last week after a negro man married a white woman. A controversial minister officiated the ceremony provoking strong local reaction.
A narrative recounts a visit to a house occupied by a Black family. To avoid arousing the minister’s suspicion, a young woman allegedly darkened her skin to resemble the bridegroom’s color, masking her true identity.
A ship departs Norfolk next month carrying 90 colored emigrants. Sixty are from the estate of the late John Smith of Sussex county and thirty from the estate of the Rev. John Stockdell of Madison county. Both estates directed funds to transport the freed slaves to Liberia per their wills.
A Staleigh Register item notes a child’s innocent definition of a Pilgrim as “a man who takes Beckwith's pills” in the city, illustrating playful local chatter and the newspaper’s townsman tone.
A devastating Otsego collision on Thursday killed Miss Patience French and badly injured Deacon Josiah Chace and another girl after a wagon horses reared, threw occupants, and the wagon smashed at a bridge. Mrs Chace and remaining children survived with injuries as Mr Chace lay near death.
Amid the public sorrow in Cooperstown New York readers mourn Mr Chace a respected elder as steamboat disasters unfold. The Gazette notes four hundred deaths in the past year across the Mexico Ben Sherrod and Home wrecks highlighting wrecks and accidents in river navigation and their grim toll.
Mr John Hall a worker at Harpers Ferry rifle factory near lost his life when a grindstone burst from rapid rotary motion. A stove fragment struck his face causing a shocking mangling injury.
Dr Abernethy remarks that excessive gormandizing and stuffing the digestive organs causes nervous disorders. He cites mental agitation and passions as a second major cause, noting that anxiety over uncontrollable things disturbs cerebral action and harms health.
The New York Journal of Commerce notes a pill maker in New York received two hundred lierces of pill boxes in the past season and has filled them. On a fresh load arriving, he told the carman he had sixteen bushels of pills but no boxes to hold them.
Eight interments occurred between the 10th and 16th instants in Mobile due to yellow fever. Most cases were reported as yellow fever and involved strangers to the city.
A reflective meditation on life showing how rough events often yield good outcomes. It argues that uneasy moments, traced to their sources, can lead to joy, pleasure, and even foil enemies. The piece suggests reason returns after storms of passion and ambition, bringing peace.
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