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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1838
Page
1
The Tarborough Press offers weekly publication at two dollars and fifty cents for advance payment or three dollars at year's end. Subscriptions may be stopped with notice and arrears paid. Advertisements up to one square cost one dollar for the first insertion, with twenty five cents per continuation. longer ads priced proportionally. Court orders and judicial notices cost twenty five percent more. Letters to the editor must be postpaid.
A Sabbath morning sermon lulls a man to sleep and he dreams of a fearsome lion in a field. The beast morphs into a giant as he struggles with a club and a sharp blow, then wakes to find the parson mid sermon and the congregation astonished.
A narrator recalls a terrifying church incident where a woman's neck is grabbed, a nose bleed stains her dress, and the speaker flees before apologizing days later to Miss Emily. Years pass but the memory lingers with the bell and valley sounds evoking the dream.
Disturbance divided church members over pastor. At Sunday service, new pastor and followers rushed in to hold a love feast, sparking a melee with the incumbent party. Police intervened and cleared the church, doors closed.
A disputed incident involves a black man named Hodges who allegedly assaulted Mer Loomis, a white preacher, on Broadway while Loomis walked with a black congregation member in Anthony Street. The event is tied to Hodges rivaling Loomis for the church pastorate.
A Terre Haute area report describes a shocking lightning strike on a man in the open prairie one mile southeast of Terre Haute. The body was found nude, clothing torn to shreds by the blast, boots ripped apart, and skin damage observed on elbows and lips where the electricity exited.
The New York World reports a brutal massacre near Virginia Sulphur Springs in which Sally, Andy, and Jane are implicated in the killings of Judge Mayers two young daughters. Jane, who had been guiding children to a local school, witnessed the grisly event, as Sally killed the youngest and Andy the elder. Prior unexplained deaths of four of the judge’s children are suspected to be poisonings tied to Sally.
Report describes two young children aged seven and eight found dead. Witnesses saw the bodies and a distressed mother weeping, calling the scene heart wrenching. Parents are mentioned but not in detail.
A lecture on Palestine at Musical Pond Hall drew a large audience. The speaker traced Joppa as an ancient Phoenician seaport and Tyre as a wealthy, once mighty island city famed for crafts shipbuilding and trade. He noted Tyre’s rise on rock, its decline into luxury, and Ezekiel’s prophecy.
The body of Jeremiah Bacon was found near a farm well on Saturday morning, away from his home. It is believed he died suddenly while at work, suggesting a fatal episode on the property in West Jersey.
The Delaware Gazette recounts a tale of two passengers saved from the Pulaski disaster. Mr Ridge of New Orleans, a wealthy stranger, tried to aid a admired young lady but lost his boat place. He lashed settees and a cask to a raft, saving the woman who had eluded him in the boat, only to face certain peril together.
After a wreck, Hey defied danger to strengthen a makeshift raft, and Hey and Miss Onslow survived on the ocean’s surface. They were eventually picked up by a vessel, and Mr Ridge proclaimed a passionate, enduring love. Miss Onslow, reportedly worth two hundred thousand dollars, pledged to share fortune and fate in an alliance described as offensive and defensive.
A Kentuckian in Canton accuses Mr. Mitchell Calhoon, Drane’s second, of cowardice triggering a Bowie knife duel. The confrontation left both Calhoon and the Kentuckian badly wounded. Calhoon is linked to U.S. Congressman John Calhoon.
Two men quarreled over opening a tavern in Manchester Mississippi on August 8. Benj Tanner from Alabama fired a pistol and killed Asa Hazleton formerly of Boston instantly. Tanner was imprisoned.
A 13 year old girl of respectable standing reportedly eloped on horseback in Alabama with a man described as her father’s Black associate. Othella was apprehended.
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