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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1838
Page
1
The text outlines subscription rates at ten dollars and fifty cents for advance payment and three installments at year end, with shorter term periods priced accordingly. It notes advertising charges per square, continuation policy, court and legal ads at higher rates, and instructions about manuscript handling and postal replies.
The piece argues that editing a paper entails more than word flow. It emphasizes the editor’s labor, judgment, and ethical responsibilities, noting tone, temper, uniformity, and courtesy as essential to a paper’s character and credibility.
The editors face a common challenge of finding enough head room to draft freely. Cited pressures include deadlines, space limits, and editorial standards that shape how ideas are shaped and presented.
An amusing note from the Star recounts an elephant from the Norfolk menagerie swimming to Portsmouth under its keeper. The animal balked at boarding the ferry boat, turning the voyage into a standalone aquatic trek.
In a July 3 Louisville Herald note, the tomato is celebrated as a recent culinary newcomer with French Huguenot origins, once called Pom de ermour. The piece extols its dietary and medicinal virtues, notes versatile preparations, and urges universal cultivation as a gentle, digestible daily remedy amid hot weather and associated fevers.
The Mrs. Bush, who died by laudanum on Saturday, leaves a family. She had suffered depression after a daughter's death. She is the third sister to take her own life under similar circumstances, per the Sun-Id.
A local marriage notice reports Edward Lappen, age 15, marrying Miss Har net Allen, age 11 years 10 days, at Hempstead Harbor. The brief item notes the youths as the Led Star couple and places the event in North and South Hewstead, with minimal detail.
A late abstinence gathering in Stockton heard a staunch teetotal speaker liken liquor to liquid hell fire. He urged the audience to stick to water, comparing it to a cobbler’s last. The report notes a Baltimore discovery of clarified castor oil by George W. Waite, improving taste and medicinal quality.
An old-era remedy prescribes unstacked lime and slack Wom soap bound in a plaster the size of a small bean. Change the dressing every wall hour for three hours to draw out the bone and joints and leave them sound.
The Saratoga Sentinel reports at the last Over and Terminer in the county a man named Ezekiel Little was convicted of biting off his wife’s tongue. He strangled the act by chok ing her until her tongue protruded, then seized and bit off about an inch. The charge arose because the wife refused to believe him to be Jesus Christ the Son of God and worthy of worship. She had strong reasons to doubt him.
A fragment notes a man believed to be the son of the devil, Ele cleans knives and must reserve power. The text states he was sentenced to seven years in State prison, sufficient for other uses, per the Philadelphia Herald.
A July 13 letter from Fort Snelling reports a recent Sioux Chippewa clash on the Chippewa river. The fight left one Sioux dead and five Chippewas killed or wounded. One Chippewa was roasted and eaten by the Sioux in a gruesome act.
A Utica clergyman was dismissed by his congregation for insisting that taking a paper without paying is a sin. The majority of the church backed the stance, and newspapers were involved in the discussion.
An old farmer in Pennsylvania mocks his second wife’s schooling claiming she knows too much. He jokes she taught chemistry and other sciences, and notes she supposedly warned him about gin, calling himself a temperance man yet admitting his past indulgence. The passage sports comic, satirical tone with hyperbole.
A Philadelphia Inquirer excerpt condemns river gambling aboard steamers on Western rivers. It cites deaths and disappearances linked to gambling, cites a Grattan Backwoodsman piece on the issue, and urges Western states to enact laws to suppress this vice amid mentions of duels, fights, drownings, and the moral collapse on boats.
William Neil, president of Clinton Bank Ohio recently assaulted Samuel Medary editor of the Ohio Statesman in Columbus streets after feeling aggrieved by remarks in the paper. The attack was described as a sound drubbing in the Baltimore Sun report.
The Mississippi crop report notes cotton is in promising condition despite prolonged drought. Dry weather allowed planters to burn away grass and recent rains left fields clean for rapid cotton growth. Corn, however, is not in good shape and will suffer more from lack of rain.
The New York Whig notes Astor House demonstrations of steam power enabling rapid laundry work. Stationary wash tubs, a steam driven drying process in five minutes, and clothes spread on wooden horses riding rails into a heated room show a novel workflow. A steam engine also pumps water and furnishes steam to the kitchen and wash room.
A Bayden seed letter from Barkeeo in Georgia dated July 24 reports Isaac Carter’s plantation producing the largest corn crop in the county. Overseer Shinner notes Bayden corn averages 5 to 12 ears per stalk, with one stalk showing 13 large ears and 9 silken shoots, plus 4 non silking shoots expected to mature into nub bins, suggesting a total of 22 large ears and 4 nub bins per stalk.
A field incident in Miami county reports a fly entering a harvest hand’s ear. A physician removed 35 insect progeny from the ear, noting the patient endured days of pain. Treatment advised includes filling the ear with laudanum or brandy to soothe spasms and kill remaining insects.
A fragment notes a claim that smallpox deaths among Indians reached one hundred thousand in a year, allegedly caused by sutlers and ram-sellers serving white commerce. It cites a St Louis Commercial Bulletin report from the 17th stating ravages in Indian country had nearly ceased.
A Lowell Massachusetts report via Rev Leanel Porter claims the daughter of Lew Atwood suffered consumption and vomited 300 maggotlike worms on July 14. The worms, kept, reportedly hatched into many of the common houseflies, amplifying the bizarre tale.
A disturbance occurred in Jersey on Wednesday as black residents faced attacks with clubs while celebrating emancipation in the West Indies. Reports say local woodsmen pursued them, driving them into boats before further assault. Alderman Ash is cited as helping quell the disturbance.
At Monticello New York involvement in a criminal conduct case surfaces with Win Ratchi recovering 400 to Dr Blake Wales. The active proceedings show the plain officer’s water as part of the investigation and ongoing legal actions.
A historical receipt describes a roof and building preservation mix using one part fine sand, two parts sifted wood ashes, and three parts ground lime in oil. The coating is applied thin first, then thick, claiming strong adhesion to boards and shingles and resistance to fire and tools.
A Knickerbocker writer extols the Mississippi Valley as a vast coastal plain with length near 2500 miles and breadth 1200 to 1500 miles. He argues it was once oceanic, shaped by long volcanic convulsions, and as the earth’s most delightful and fertile region capable of supporting 100 million people. Balt. Pat.
Mr Buckingham argues there are at least one hundred million armies entombed in Egypt. He describes how peasants use mummies for fuel and medicine, and notes embalming resins are sold to traders and used in painting. He cites belief in transmigration of the soul and ancient embalming practices among Egyptians.
A friend provides a blackberry syrup recipe claimed to treat the summer complaint. The method uses 2 quarts blackberry juice, pound leaf sugar, cinnamon, allspice, and a pint of fourth proof brandy steeped and mixed, with dosing from a teaspoonful to a wineglass per patient. The note asserts it saved life in cholera cases in 1832.
The Grasshopper pest arrives in the city as bids for corn show damage. Market Street hosts a crowded scene with men dancing along the pavement and singing in their own language as residents fear widespread ravages. The item reflects a rural complaint spreading to urban areas.
The New York correspondent for the National Jucielipencer reports under the date of the 19th mst that rain last week produced beneficial effects on crops. In many areas where the corn crop seemed ruined, revival begins and an average yield is promised.
The Inquirer reports that the drought will nearly wipe out the corn crop in the Memphs Lena vicinity. Local assessments indicate extensive damage, threatening harvest yields and regional livelihoods.
Reports describe cattle dying from an unidentified illness in New Hanover. Carcasses decay quickly, prompting immediate burial. Some individuals were poisoned while attempting to skin the dead animals, raising concern over handling and safety.
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