30 Nov 1839
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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1839
Page
1
BY GEORGE HOWARD the Tarborough Press is published weekly at ten dollars per year if paid in advance or three months by installments. Monthly payments allowed for short periods. Advertisements up to a square cost one dollar for the first insertion and twenty five cents for each continuation. Higher rates for court orders and judicial notices. Letters to the editor must be postpaid.
An extensive testimonial list promotes Dr Harrells Tomato and Slippery Pill remedies as superior to competing medicines. The flyer claims cures for fevers, liver disorders, jaundice, headaches, constipation, female complaints, and general ill health, naming numerous residents and towns in North Carolina and Virginia as users and endorsers.
A list of individuals and firms across North Carolina and nearby ports including Tarboro Norffolk Edenton Plymouth Hertford Tyrrel Washington Halifax Windsor Raleigh and Ocracoke with a date of Sept 21 1839. Ny
A Washington City notice from October 10, 1539, promotes the Congressional Globe and its Appendix. It lauds wide subscriber reach, claims low publication costs, and outlines pricing: one copy each, or six for five dollars, twelve for ten, with payments by bank note. It urges prompt orders by December 9 and notes acceptance of bank notes from specific regions.
A playful verse recalling green peas bacon and greens with nostalgia from Greensboro, North Carolina. The speaker muses on memory, hardship, and joy tied to a simple meal, praising bacon and greens as solace through changing times and misadventures.
The Silk Journal advises wintering mulberry trees by keeping roots underground in earth rather than full burial, prefers sawdust for packing and storage, and cites Mr Herbemont’s grape vines packed in sawdust showing no damage after months in boxes. It warns against fermenting matter and moss as root protection.
The Boston racer Worse Boston issues a world challenge for a four mile race with a purse between 15 000 and 30 000. William R. Johnson backs the plan. If Wagner agrees, the event promises to be a premier athletic spectacle, with Norfolk Virginia proposed as the venue.
Thursday last the farm owned by Hates W. Mixson Esquire in Chowan County, about 4 1/2 miles from Edenton and covering roughly 400 acres with 280 under cultivation, was offered at public sale and brought a large sum of 315 000 cotton machinery excluded. The notice questions whether times are hard or if bank suspensions affect Chowan County, citing the sale as proof of a thriving farming interest per the Edenton Gazette.
Rev Joseph H Saunders former pastor of the Episcopal Church in Pensacola died on the 26th ult. He was an eminent scholar and a truly pious man and his loss will be deeply felt by the church, his family, and many friends.
Reports in the South indicate a new Charleston to New Orleans route to begin operations the first of the month. Travel is promised in about four days via a chain of steam boats, stages, and rail from Charleston to Brunswick Tallahassee Lola St Joseph Mobile to New Orleans. Travelers from Boston to Wilmington then Charleston and to New Orleans may be completed in under eight days overall.
A letter from Austrian consuls in Hamburg and Leipsic warns that governments are exporting paupers and criminals to the United States. A vessel from Goethel planned to depart September 14 with inmates including two named robbers Piereland Albracht and others. Bremen and other ports are cited for government payments, while the writer urges Congress to ban landing criminals and paupers with harsh penalties.
Foots have been elicited to prove that many American vessels are fiidd out in our ports and engaged for the Slave trade. The Government, satisfied, plans a ship of war and a schooner for immediate cruise on the African coast to halt this traffic and protect lawful commerce.
A man in an ad joining town declares love for a beauty whose father is a lawyer. He asks her to marry at once, she agrees, but he interrupts, offering a six month option to refuse. The report appears in the Chicago Democrat.
The Memphis Enquirer estimates farmers in the region have saved seventy five thousand dollars this season, reflecting significant gains for the agricultural community and boosted market confidence despite adverse conditions.
The Enquirer notes widespread bread and meat production by households, with Missis sippi broadly enjoying abundance. Hard times push farmers to grow corn and provisions instead of buying from up country neighbors, evidenced by 1838 and 1837 hunger lessons and a planter’s shift to self provisioning.
Night of the ninth saw a vault theft at Merenats Bank of New Orlens. A total of 22,000 vanished, with 20,000 in hundred dollar bills, 5,100 in tens, and 2,000 in fives, while nine clerks were suspected though no clear suspect emerged.
The Corporation of Trinity Church New York has set aside 300000 to erect a new church on the site of the century old building. Of this sum 85000 will be spent on the steeple. The church's wealth is estimated at about 52506000.
Report from the Burnt District notes cleared foundations and rising walls at C. King & Co. with new shops expected to open this season. Businesses show life despite light stock and adequate insurance coverage. Total damages to insurers and individuals run about 250000.
In Paris journals the minister Cunin Gridaine proposed adding a freedom of conscience article after the treaty. The National notes such a move would be anachronistic for Texas and Anglo Saxon origins.
Vic Existor of the Newark Eagle set out on a collecting tour, faced heavy storms across two days in the mountains, and after spending 34 dollars on travel he returned with receipts totaling only Aree dollars.
The Philatelia North American reports a printing office in Hanover NJ receiving a roll of paper seventy feet long. The eight hundred twenty page roll prints books at thousands per day with rags entering at one door and stitched volumes exiting at another. The sheet prints both sides with the Spelling Book and heralds promise for the rising generation.
The N O Picayune contends that women live for being looked at and admired, and for balance could be said that men live for looking at and admiring them. The remark reflects social views on gender and gaze.
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