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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1842
Page
2
The article endorses President Tyler’s admirable performance on the first page and asserts that his pursuers failed, claiming the Federal Whigs did not succeed in the attempt to head Captain Tyler and that he triumphs over opposition.
The Senate and House adjourned after two, amid a chaotic session marked by partisan clashes. Critics faulted large outlays and unconstitutional maneuvers, noting a massive, improvised spending spree and protests against payments to judges and Wyandots. The piece condemns the Whig majority as a ramp Parliament craving fresh measures to influence the nation.
Mr Howard describes a rare nighttime rainbow seen on August 25 at 9:15 in Belle Mont Nash County North Carolina. The moonlit arch spanned the horizon with a complete semicircle the colors vivid though dimmer than daylight rainbow. It appeared with a few stars beneath and faded after about fifteen minutes as light rain fell. Respectfully, MO F Bellamy.
In Corn Neck, floods ruin crops and fences as fields ride the current, with the writer praising faith and endurance amid disaster. A drowning near Warren ton kills Mr. Burwell Pitchford, a respected magistrate. a Warrenton Reporter notice details the accident after heavy rains. Mesmerism is also mentioned later in the piece.
Joshua Lawrence recounts rising from a destitute orphan fed by coon and squirrels to owning land and wealth, praising Providence and faith. He reflects on humility, divine providence, and the contrast between material riches and spiritual endurance amid floods and agricultural hardship at Corn Neck.
The Folk Herald reports Theophilus Fisk will retire from editing the Chronicle and Old Dominion to pursue mesmerism. It notes Fisk’s success and cites a cure where an eminent physician, once unable to walk 100 yards, was put into a mesmeric sleep and awakened able to walk with elastic gait.
A 70 cent rate, tar at 1 dollar 10 cents, fish including shad priced at 64 dollars per six, herrings cut at 3 dollars 50 cents to 400 dollars, whole 2 dollars 25 cents to 2 dollars 50 cents.
A South resident Thompson lost $500 to a confidential servant, a Black man, who fled to Canada. A posse captured him at Waterloo and returned him. In Lockport abolitionists obtained a writ of habeas corpus, the Supreme Court Commissioner discharged the man as a free person, yet he was rearrested on the theft charge and awaits examination.
Serious case by Black people appears in New Orleans papers. Baylis L. Wilcox, overseer for Dr. A. Allen in St. Mary Parish, was fatally harmed on the Loth inst. by two runaway Black captives he was transporting. One accused man was fatally hurt during capture. the other was tried, sentenced, and hanged on the 18th inst.
A laborer in Ivybridge Devon near Penn faced a sudden catastrophe while ricking hay. During a moment of anger he cursed and vowed God would strike the hay, and a bolt of lightning, guided by the fork’s iron prong, struck him dead instantly. The incident was reported by the N Y Sun.
English factory riots spread across major districts from August 1 to 18, with clashes involving constables and troops amid pleas for charity. Lord Wellington appointed to command in Britain to suppress revolt. Brazil fights insurgents near Tamanda. government orders no mercy and burning of enemy property. Washington Market notes: corn $3 per barrel, bacon 7 to 9 cents, lard 6 to 6.4, naval stores new dip $235.
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