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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1838
Page
1
The Tie Terborough Press outlines weekly publication at two dollars and more for longer periods. It notes advance payment, distance notices, and ad rates with penalties for continuations and court ads. It requests readers address letters to the editor.
An allegorical poem recounts the wedding of Moon and Sun as witnessed from a distant courtship. Jupiter, Mercury, and a comet officiate as wedding tale unfolds with celestial imaging. The piece reflects on love, delay, and vows across centuries, ending with Hillsborough readers on February 13.
The finleigh Star notes rising interest in mulberry tree culture with leading financiers in Philadelphia and Monmouth, New Jersey. Northern demand drives large orders, including twenty to thirty thousand trees for a Philadelphia buyer. Philadelphia sales reach hundreds of thousands this season. An investor in Monmouth, NJ saw $400 grow to $3,000 after stock retention.
The Portsmouth Times notes growing interest in sericulture across North Carolina and Virginia, highlighting profits from silk and mulberry cultivation. A letter from Rev Sidney Weller urges state action to promote silk culture, arguing climate and soil favor the South and predicting silk could replace cotton in coming years.
The Nashville Whig reports there is no doubt the Ross removal contract will be carried into full operation despite opposition. Two parties of about 1,000 have already begun under this contract.
The Natchez Free Trader reports earth sinking along the river margin at Vicksburg near Maine Street and Washington Street. Deep rents run parallel to the river, endangering buildings including Corfrew and Wats warehouse near Main Street, which has begun to collapse, forcing occupants to move goods. The McDowell house, opposite the former Pichard House, is cracked from the foundation sinking as several other structures shift.
Citizens of Vicksburg urge securing a practical geologist to determine the free state of the case. The move seeks to identify both the danger threatened and the injury already done.
In Wayland Massachusetts a man identified as Mathew Smith stabbed his wife seven times in the neck during a Sunday night break in, threw her on a bed where she died, then cut his own throat in a field. He survived and confessed.
Vermont editors note the jury was “married men” in a Georgia woman’s verdict for being a common scold. The remark suggests no clear inference but hints jurors as judges. The piece reflects editorial stance on jury composition and moral regulation.
In Cincinnati on the 18th instant a fight broke out between cousins Charles and William Henna. William was defeated and Hugh, his brother, intervened and was crushed by a fall or blow, breaking his neck and dying shortly after. Charles and William were both committed.
The 1831 English steam press could print a thousand primed sheets an hour while a current National Intelligencer press prints 2500 sheets per hour. The New York Courier and Enquirer reports a press at six thousand sheets an hour, with a capacity of seven thousand, needing ten workers, touted as the fastest in the world. Even common country presses yield about 250 sheets per hour, a stark contrast.
A New York based Sub Marine Armor Company, formed by Capt. William Taylor of New Bern, receives Chartered backing with a $200,000 capital. The hollow armor, built of webbing and gum parastic over iron rings, includes a glass-fronted head lantern and allows a wearer to submerge and move underwater.
A Raleigh News piece extols a diving suit enabling near dry land mobility underwater. Supplying air via a Tudia rubber hose, the wearer can explore sunken wrecks like the Bristol, rescuing thousands of dollars in valuables such as railroad iron and steel. The armor promises use in pearl fisheries and river surveys, with a call to explore North Carolina’s coast for buried wealth.
The Hawaiian Spectator editor reports Rev Artemis Bishop predicts in fifty years white contact will erase aboriginal blood from the Sandwich Islands. He criticizes missionary paternalism, citing high child mortality from introduced vices, challenging defenders to prove their conduct beneficial and willing to debate from Mauna Loa to Hawaii crater.
Peru accounts from Valparaiso to June fifty report an expedition of five thousand men having embarked and ready to sail for Callao within days. Buenos Ayreans march in triumph through Bolivia toward Lima, signaling Santa Cruz’s likely downfall.
The New Hampshire Statesman reports a late last week trial in a town of interest. Col Knox of Pembroke was prosecuted for uttering discreditable words against his brother's wife, convicted, and fined $1000 with costs.
The heirs of Duremsi and others sue the first Municipality of New Orleans for restitution of property between Ursuline and Esplanade Levee and Rampart streets and for 500000 in damages. The value of the claimed property is 4,000,000.
Last evening near Harlem a cartman named Michael Healey, half drunk, lashed a spirited horse through the Third avenue troops. The maddened animal crashed into the 3d regiment, then the ninth, scattering men, injuring many and endangering a dragoon believed to be fatally hurt. Panic and chaos followed as the horse and rider tore through the line.
Chaos erupts as officers fail to restrain the mob who rush the cartman, inflicting severe injuries and rumored fatalities on women. Charles H. Hale risks his life to rescue the wounded man, who is then taken to police custody with a dangerous sabre wound to the head. officers Rose and Jones assist.
Colonel Zane of Philadelphia was committed to prison for trying to shoot his daughter while intoxicated. His son, rushing to aid his sister, was fired upon and wounded in the arm as the father discharged a second barrel. wadding struck the son’s shoulder as he moved through the entry.
Two large sales near Lexington Kentucky by Maslin and Samuel Smith show strong demand for Durham cattle. Highlights include a cow with calf selling for 2100 dollars and other cattle at 1350 1200 and 1000 dollars, with Samuel Smith’s entire stock valued between 3000 and 3500 dollars.
The New York Express reports the King of France issued an ordinance prohibiting breadstuff exports. The Journal of Commerce notes the decree targets the Spain border to starve Don Carlos, framed as political rather than based on French crop fears.
A North Carolina visitor reports a tested method to protect cabbage from worms. Dust cabbage leaves with powdered sulfur in a gauze bag, shaken over plants at dusk or dawn before dew dries. Repeat if needed for thorough protection. Jamestown, Do.
Bozwell argues that a cheerful wife helps her husband in business by smiling continually. He says a man's gloom increases a hundredfold when his wife scowls. A pleasant wife is a rainbow during storms, while a fretful wife in trouble is like a fiend tormenting spirits.
A historical note describes M Chaussie drying a human body. Starting weight 120 lbs, dried weight 12 lbs, implying solids made up one tenth of the original and fluids nine tenths. The passage highlights the large proportion of body fluids relative to solids.
The Farmers Cabinet notes that colic in horses may be quickly relieved by drenching with about a quart of common salt and water, as strong as possible. It also suggests relief for bots and warns medicines of unknown qualities should be avoided.
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