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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1836
Page
1
Notice outlines weekly publication price, rates for advance payments, and subscription rules. It specifies 25 cent inserts, line length limits, and that subscribers may discontinue by notice. Letters to the editor must be mailed to the office.
A Tallahassee Floridian report from August 13 describes a clash between Lowndes County Georgia party and Creek warriors near the Florida border. Women and children were taken prisoner, a mother poisoned her children, Col Ned Randolph with eight men engaged savages, twenty-one warriors died, many wounded, bodies found mutilated.
A fragment notes a gentleman arriving one Thursday from Key West with intelligence of a vessel landed by a Spaniard. It mentions a schooner named Auerivan touched at Kan Key, said to be full of enslaved people and bought in exchange for ammunition from the Seminoles. Local folks claim authorities did not act decisively.
A Duncanville, Ang. letter from Governor Call of Florida reports Major Hoxey’s authority for about 150 Urea warriors, with women and children among them, moving toward Florida. Claims four engagements with casualties: 4 whites and 14 Indians killed, 20 horses taken, with fighting in Stewart and Lee counties. Major Gen. Salford pursues. Major Ohio forces hold five companies between Wt River and the Chickasaw to block escape.
From Columbia to August St they report that the government has determined to make arrangements if possible with friendly Indians to enter the service of the United States against the Seminoles in an approaching campaign. Cal file notes one of Gen Jesup's aides TS
The St Louis Bulletin dated July 15 reports two men's bodies found in a harvest field near Grand River and three women murdered by Indians, with several children carried off. Several volunteer state companies have been called out by order of the Adjutant General.
From the New Orleans Bulletin dated August 18, reports Texas politics and annexation sentiment. Stephen F Austin appears favored for the presidency if elected, with a pro annexation stance. Texan forces under Rusk move on Metamoros while Texian naval actions block Mexican communications. Santa Anna’s release is opposed. he is guarded near Velasco as Mexican vessels convert to war craft to guard the coast.
A Charleston Courier writer extols the Broad River in North Carolina for ten miles of granite ledge cascades and surrounding mountains described as ancient and imposing, with a sense of timeless grandeur conveyed by the author.
The Rutherford Mountains near Ashville New York rise two thirds forested then sheer granite precipices spanning miles. Towering cliffs hundreds of feet high, crowned by dwarf pines, rivaling the majesty of Table Rock in scenery.
The Boston Transcript notes a neat engraving on the Sculptured Rock at Digton Alass. Since colonial settlement scholars have debated it yet 1807 drawings by Kendall are correct. Washington saw it and pondered similar Virginian carvings. The 11 by 4 foot gneiss shore rock bears inscriptions believed Indian.
A National Ledger excerpt discusses James Madison’s authentic History of the United States Constitution. It notes his will authorizing publication and directing proceeds to humane and literary uses, asserting the work’s value to readers and lovers of free government. It cites the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 and the importance of publishing discussions and proceedings.
The fragment presents a will clause allocating nett proceeds after expenses to the wife and detailing legacies to be paid from that fund. It reflects testamentary measures designating funds for a spouse and specific legacies, typical of probate or estate settlements in historical notices.
A white man arriving from Richmond with a free Petersburg-bound man, two free boys, and a plan to sell the youths for $450 is exposed. The free man is the Petersburg owner, and the white man had contracted to take the children abroad and split the proceeds. All parties are in custody.
Lexington Mass cabinet makers Bradbury and Allen have decamped after committing extensive forgeries totaling about 17,000 dollars against the father and uncle of Allen.
Benjamin Rathbun of Buffalo owes nearly three million dollars with 2.6 million in property. More than a million is alleged as forged paper flooding Wall Street for months. The U S Bank of Philadelphia, and his papers, are implicated in a vast fraud. His assets are assigned to five trustees to pay clerks laborers and builders owed, while arrests for forgery tag his downfall.
The wife of B Rathbun, described as a very worthy woman, could not bear the shock of a revelation about his conduct and is now laboring under mental alienation.
The Nashville Republican reports a catastrophic rainfall in Dickson county with walls, stock, fences, and iron works washed away. Two Yellow Creek families perished, a single survivor escaped by climbing a tree as floods surged. Cumberland River rose 25 feet in two hours destroying forges and furnaces.
The corporation of New Orleans purchased two cotton presses in the city, one for $375,000 and the other for $200,000. They occupy valuable ground, and the object of the purchase is to remove them as nuisances from the sections of the city where they are located.
In Coburg Upper Canada a new machine operates to aid carpenters by preparing boards for flooring with greater precision. Powered by a two horse tread-wheel, it uses saws planes tongues and grooves to reduce hand labor and increase efficiency.
A Dedham Massachusetts paper reports on a new veneering method using marble paper from S C and E Mann that imitates rose wood. The technique is said to be elegant durable and cheaper than real veneer with a pine table covered to resemble rosewood selling for 150.
The four story brick house at 144 Fulton Street, 25 feet wide and 60 deep, is being moved back about 20 feet to match the street expansion. Furniture and goods remain in place in the lower stores with tenants not required to leave due to danger. Reported as one of the largest brick buildings ever moved intact.
An Ohio paper notes a 12 year old boy weighing 160 pounds. The Beaver County case is heavier, recounting a pair of youths described as unusually large for their age as the report begins.
A colorful historical note recalls a county couple married in the southern corner and later weighed on scales. The two individuals combined weighed 750 pounds, described as not found wanting in the balance.
In Edgefield district South Carolina four people live near Hatcher's Pond with a combined age of 388 years. One person Mary Wise is 115 years old. All can ride long distances on horseback and carry out their usual duties.
Dr. Alexander Leger of New Orleans fled to Havana to escape bigamy charges and returned after being pursued for marrying Lovisa Beauvais while his wife resided in France. Unable to post $5000 bail, he was jailed and shot at on his way back, believed mortally wounded by Beauvais’s son as the ball struck his forehead.
Adam Norton killed his wife with an axe on October 30 in Forsyth County, causing instant death. He sent word to neighbors and then drowned himself in the river. The incident is attributed to religious melancholy in the husband.
A man named George Hailey fell from a vessel into shallow water near Baltimore and drowned after coming to rest on the bottom. A large lobster grabbed his ear and held on, and when the body was recovered about an hour later the lobster still clutched the ear. Philadelphia Trans.
The statement notes that 547000 volumes of books were printed in the United States last year excluding pamphlets periodicals and repeated editions.
Foreign note reports a Bilboa cobbler accused of wrong politics was dragged to the market, stabbed, and pelted to death by an infuriated mob including women who washed hands in his blood and made children imitate them while dancing fandangoes and singing obscene songs around the corpse.
The 1835 Paris records show 229 personal crisis reports with 73 from women, many choosing charcoal fumes. The fashion claim links to a tyrant’s legend of strangling mistresses in a sack. Women avoid steel tools after age thirty while men continue past fifty.
In Mekmez now believed to be entombed in city chambers are 50 million in Spanish dollars jewelry gold and silver belonging to the monarch.
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