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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1840
Page
1
Weekly publication schedule at Ton oltre and Fifty fetes per year. Subscriptions may be discontinued anytime with notice. Advertisements priced per insertion and continuation, with rates and conditions detailed. letters to the editor must be posted.
Advertises Dr William Evans’s Soothing Syrup as a safe pleasant remedy for teething distress in infants. Claims to prevent convulsions, ease pain, and shorten suffering during dentition, urging mothers to obtain it from New York or listed agents. Includes testimonials of recovery and cautions about dosing and storage.
The act outlines navy funding for 1840 including pay for officers and seamen, ship repairs, medicines, yard improvements at Portsmouth Charlestown Brooklyn Philadelphia Washington Gosport Pensacola and more, plus provisions for ships, transport, coal, and contingencies. It transfers appropriations into a unified navy increase and sets reporting duties for the Secretary of the Navy.
An act appropriates twenty five thousand dollars to fund exploration and survey work along the northeastern boundary between Maine New Hampshire and the British Provinces. The President is authorized to execute the survey using any unappropriated Treasury funds. Dated July 20, 1840.
An act authorized appropriations from the Treasury for the support of the Military Academy in the year 1840. The Senate and House of Representatives enact that specified sums be paid to sustain academy operations for that year.
The act details payments for officers cadets and musicians totaling 59228 dollars for pay 40004 for subsistence 3936 for forage 390 dollars etc. It sets minimums for cadet and instructor pay and clarifies that instructors in infantry cavalry artillery engineering and related chairs receive at least the same compensation as math faculty. Also grants ethics instructors equal pay to other assistants and authorizes funding through July 20 1840.
A mail bag with heavy stones was recovered from the Roanoke Rail Road bridge foot on Wednesday. Fragments of letters, including money, were from Louisiana Mississippi Alabama and Georgia. One Louisiana letter bore July 31 postmark and others August 11 from Augusta. An unreadable French letter contained a fifty dollar U S note. The fragments were sent to the General Post Office in Washington.
Recent accounts describe a raid by Indians at Indian Key Florida where six people were killed and homes burned. The attackers landed on the island and caused widespread destruction.
A steam boat boiler explosion on Friday morning at 6 o clock blew up the James Gibbon. Two hands were blown off and not found. Captain 8 s wife and mother in law were sealed with the former badly. Three children and a servant were scalded. one child died shortly after. The boat sank. survivors boarded a lighter and were carried to Richmond by Captain Bucknam of the Patrick Henry who returned with the sufferers.
Intelligence from Mexico reports a new revolution as federalists under Generals Urrea and Farras seize key posts in the capital. President Bustamante was taken at his residence but later released amid ongoing skirmishes between the rival factions.
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