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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1838
Page
1
The notice details subscription rates at two dollars fifty cents per year paid in advance or three payments at the year’s end. Monthly rates, arrears handling, and terms for discontinuation are given, with price scales for short notices and longer advertisements. Administrative notes specify payment for continued ads, court orders, and posting time frames.
A quirky verse parody recalling a bachelor figure with playful rhymes and dramatic sentiments. The speaker critiques a teased suitor, hinting at vanity and heartache while urging self reflection and warning against lingering heartbreak. The archaic tone mimics period newspaper verse style.
Fragmentary poem-like lines describe fashion’s grip on society, contrasting luxury and discomfort. Hidden figures and phrases evoke vanity, status symbols, and wary citizens amid stylish but restrictive attire.
A letter reveals that the New York State Antislavery Society funds and coordinates political actions for the coming elections. Advocates aim to mobilize abolitionists, hold county meetings, and organize conventions in Niagara and Erie counties to sway voters against Republicans. The piece accuses church aligned activists of sealing a political march under religious cover.
A New York State Anti-Slavery Society appeal urges abolitionists in Chautauque Niagara Erie Genesee and surrounding counties to hold county meetings before the election. The letter cites mobilization to sway voters at polls and asks county executives to convene and plan abolitionist conventions to defeat proslavery candidates. It notes strong abolitionist nominees and calls for rapid action across multiple counties.
The Territorial Council of Florida seeks a land township grant in Florida to establish the Dade Institute a charitable home for orphans of the Seminole War. Officers, sailors and soldiers' orphans would be educated there under President J A L Norman with communications via Washington City or Tallahassee.
At the late term of Pope County Circuit Court Arkansas William Brown was tried for the murder of his wife Mary M. Brown on June 14. The 14 year old daughter testified decisively and the jury found him guilty. He was sentenced to death and hanged on October 19. The case is noted as originating from the state with Brown having married the daughter of a respectable Cabarrus County man who suffered cruelty.
Joseph Lancaster founder of the Lancasterian system of Education was run over in the streets of New York by a frightened horse and died shortly after from the injuries. He was in his 67th year.
A Natchez written letter mailed July 14 targets Thomas M. Dougherty. The author, using disguised handwriting, claims to have planned and carried out two killings on the 12th and 13th, expressing no remorse and stating they cannot be identified. The note was unsealed at the St. Louis Post Office last Wednesday.
The Baltimore jury finds Wm Stuart guilty of murder in the second degree for killing his father, sparing the parricide’s life. The verdict challenges the brutality implied in the case and highlights the unusual outcome in this murder trial.
In Zanesville Olvie a clergyman was summoned to unite a couple but the groom failed to appear while the bride wept with her friends. Months later the same clergyman faced a new ceremony and the bride refused the vow claiming past pain. The jilted woman returned the insult to her former suitor with a firmer rebuke.
The Occola reports from London that near half a million dollars in gold and silver arrived for the South Western Rail Road Bank, imported by the Louisville Cincinnati and Charleston Rail Road Company directors. The bank subscription closes Thursday. stockholders meet in Charleston on the 20th to elect Directors, with a temporary banking house prepared as operations start under favorable prospects.
The steam packet Columbia reaches New Orleans with Houston papers dated the 20th. News from Matamoras reports nineteen surveyors traveling into Indian country nearly all killed by Wacoes Irones and Keachies. four survivors tell of desperate defense. Carnes, captured near Nueces, is freed. Brenan from Goliad remains jailed. Texian Telegraph editor questions the character of the upcoming Texian Congress and condemns self-styled reformers as refugees from justice.
A fragment expresses outrage at legislators failing to enforce the elective franchise and warning that felons may sit in government, tainting justice with their corrupted influence. The tone laments earlier constitutional restrictions and calls for reform.
Edward Curd Sr of Lorin County Kentucky emancipates 15 slaves in his will. Two are freed unconditionally while the others are freed on condition they emigrate to Liberia and remain there. He leaves each of the freed slaves $50 to cover travel expenses. They have decided to depart for Liberia.
General Taylor reports from South Aspalya on the Apa lachicola river that on October 20 the entire Apalachicola tribe embarked on a steamboat under the removal treaty. The Indians, once a source of concern, are now proceeding to their new homes west of the Mississippi.
A Paris newspaper reports a jealous Deputy M Rodriguez murdered his wife at his Madrid hotel after a masked ball quarrel. His brother-in-law, incognito at the ball, exposed their relation, leading to a vow of violence and the fatal pistol shot to the wife’s heart. The husband was carried away in madness and may not survive.
FPA meeting held in Philadelphia with delegates from Delaware Pennsylvania and New Jersey to form a National Silk Society. A Baltimore convention is proposed for the 28th, to facilitate inter-communication among silk producers and promote information on cultivation and progress of the industry.
One of New Orleans' oldest and richest citizens, Alexander Milne, died there about ten days ago. A native of Fochambers Scotland, Milne came to New Orleans fifty years ago a penniless stranger and built a vast business fortune through industry and integrity.
The will of Alexander Milne leaves about one million dollars for four asylums in destitute orphan care in New Orleans and Milneburg. Legacies pour to relatives, with a fund of 1000000 for Fochamblers free schools and smaller gifts to three domestics. A New Orleans paper notes many children will later bless his name.
A Charleston report tallies the epidemic from August to October, noting 352 yellow fever deaths, 345 white and 7 black, among 636 total deaths from all diseases in three months. The peak week ending September 19 saw 92 deaths, 66 from fever, as the outbreak ended.
Four weeks after indictments were returned by the Yalabusha County Grand Jury seventy gamblers faced charges. A Coffeeville letter says the Grenada-area desperadoes armed with shotguns knives and pistols vowed to resist the court. Sheriff prepared to move in with force to capture them without bloodshed.
The Philadelphia Grand Jury denounces betting on elections as an evil of terrific magnitude and urges a law to disenfranchise for a time anyone convicted of wagering on election results, with punishment of fines and imprisonment for offenders and abettors.
The article describes a wagon with independently coiled cranked axles for each wheel to absorb shocks on rough roads. Similar systems have been praised by scientists, used on a giraffe transport wagon, and ordered by city residents. George Barnard of Newark, N J, holds the patent and builds these carriages.
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