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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1839
Page
1
The Tarborough Press outlines weekly subscription pricing at two dollars fifty cents paid in advance or three dollars after a year, with options for changeover times. Advertisements of a square or smaller are priced, with rates rising for longer runs. court orders and certain notices have special pricing, and all letters to the editor should be mailed promptly.
Wellington and Slighland drill for summer suits. Merino camblet and various fabrics in rich colors. Phin and ribed Gambhroon and velvet Westings, satin, Marseilles, Valencias, linen, and accessories. Gentleman buyers invited to inspect, with order fulfillment and tailoring in the latest style. Tarboro, May 15, 1839.
Prospectus from Blair and Rives offering subscriptions to The Batra Globe and related weeklies in 1839. It outlines pricing for one, six, twelve, twenty five and fifty copies, with annual May start and November end, urging payments by May 7 and noting banknotes or local currency accepted for mail payments.
A Tarboro newspaper piece mocks Whig attempts to hamper free schools. It sperates rhetoric from reality, arguing schools aim to teach reading and moral discernment, while warning the plan may stall due to legislative clashes and political games.
The Nansemond County Whigs praise Mr Clay while Northern Abolitionists press him. The piece derides Clay as pompous and duplicitous, notes Nansemond and Rochester letters merge toward amicable contact, mocks his anti abolition speech, and suggests he alienates Whigs, anti Mormons, and abolitionists alike while courting diverse factions.
The report condemns Federalists with Mr. Clay for dragging his carriage horses through Saratoga and the wives of aristocracy placing a rose crown on his head after an election speech. It argues such displays resemble royal pageantry from despotic regimes and notes Clay removed the crown after a few minutes, warning against монarchical tendencies.
The Florida constitution has been adopted by a majority of the people. The St Augustine Herald reports a vote of 2070 to 1975, majority 95, with returns certified by Gov Call and sent to the Convention’s President for official proclamation.
The Car insburg Reporter reports that no offer was made for the Pennsylvania State Loan of two million fifty four thousand dollars authorized by the last Legislature. Proposals had been receivable until Friday.
A reddish looking negro went to New Lisbon last week, tied a pelt around his body, called himself a converted Indian, and preached in a church. After the sermon a collection for his benefit totaled about $50. Some members paid his fare to Wellsville where he preached again and received thirty to forty dollars.
A Columbus Ohio Statesman report notes a man once thought to be a "son of the forest" travels to Steubenville and, instead of seeking the house of God with Lamb followers, frequents grog shops and Bacchanalian gatherings, later revealed to be a member in good standing of a sooty tribe.
Postmasters may enclose money in a letter to pay a subscriber’s subscription and frank if written by the postmaster himself. If the letter is written by another person, the postmaster cannot frank it. The extract from a Postmaster General letter to the Newport, Rhode Island postmaster is called to subscribers.
An 1839 Buckingham county letter reports sales of Morus Multicaulis buds to be delivered in fall at two cents per bud. Jesse S. Armistead sells 500,000 buds, John Morris 300,000, Capt Saml Branch 110,600, plus numerous smaller Buckingham sales at two cents per bud and four cents per cutting. Charles A. Scott offered eleven cents per tree for 300,000 trees to be delivered fall 1840.
Prices current show cocoons $250 to $5 per bushel with demand exceeding supply. Silk worm eggs at $10 per ounce of clear eggs. American reeled silk at $5.50 per pound. Reels and machinery priced from $6 to $400. Cash market exists for all raw silk produced as supply remains far below demand.
The piece cites American missionaries in Ceylon who have reportedly dismissed six thousand schoolchildren due to lack of funds. It frames this as evidence that Americans are becoming rational and that reform should begin at home, noting there are heathen enough to civilize with benevolent effort for decades.
The Greenville 5. C. Mountaineer notes a wagon load of prime wheat sold in East Tennessee for 374 cents per bushel, with a buyer suggesting he could have paid 25 cents elsewhere. Farmers in the region reportedly offer to engage corn at 12 to 18.4 cents per bushel upon harvest.
A Philadelphia Ledger report describes a large pending claim dating from a deed shown on Saturday the 12th. The document, dated before William Penn's treaty with the Indians, promises thousands of Jersey acres to the holder and heirs. An heir recovered the deed from a local possessor and suits are expected to follow, with the claimant a shoemaker by trade and lands spanning several New Jersey counties.
In New York a five year old child vanished for days prompting wide alarm. The mother sought entry to a house on Elizabeth Street but was refused. Police forced the door, discovering the child dead inside a rough pine box. Inmates of the house were imprisoned.
A fragment notes that the child was killed for the purpose of being sold for dissection.
Samuel Drew digging a well near Ypsilanti Michigan struck quicksand and was partially buried. Neighbors tried to rescue him but carbonic acid gas filled the well. He was speechless until air was pumped in by the fire engine, enabling directions for his release.
Extracts from Jamaica papers warn that the Abolition act will abandon the island to blacks, mirroring St. Domingo. The author argues it will not diminish slavery but intensify its severity by shifting control from white to Black masters, restoring harsher conditions for Africans.
A New York based Sunday Morning Visitor sermon criticized as uncertain in religious stance. It quotes Doctor Gridlay and mocks aging, urging strict parenting and cautious marriages for daughters. The Exeter News Letter notes the satirical passage as a commentary on morality and fashion.
A French patent covers sewing boots and shoes with brass wire. The method reportedly resists moisture and dust, does not tear under use, and costs no more than wax thread sewing while allowing as easy a stitch.
A steam boat 145 feet long and 25 feet wide is being built in Pittsburgh entirely of iron.
An authority cites a coming revolution in French sugar manufacture. A large capitalist plans a new pumpkin sugar plant, claiming experiments prove pumpkins yield abundant, high quality sugar.
A Cincinnati Sun correspondent reports a Michigan man near Grand River escaped mosquitoes by sheltering under an inverted kettle but the insects pierced the vessel. He used a hammer to pin them down as they probed through, yet a large swarm attached to his home, forcing him to abandon shelter.
The recipe describes a cheap composition to protect roof and weather-boarding from rain and fire. Combine one measure fine sand two measures sifted wood ashes and three measures slackened lime ground with oil. Apply first thin coat and second thick with a painter’s brush for strong adhesion and fire resistance.
A young dandy enters a barber shop and asks for a shave. The barber performs the routine while the sprig boasts, then asks for no charge. The exchange turns on gratitude for soft calf skin to whet a razor, highlighting social vanity and quick wit.
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