14 Sep 1839
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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1839
Page
1
The Tarborough Press announces subscription costs and ad rates. Rates include two dollars fifty cents weekly prepaid or three dollars yearly, with various discounts for long runs. Notices and court orders incur higher charges. ads must be marked with views or continued until ordered.
An unclear notice from a merchant tailor based in VeRk LA announces seeking New York clients and orders. It hints at custom work and possible promotions, though details are garbled and partially unreadable.
A tailor invites gentlemen to inspect his goods including linen, collars, suspenders, gloves, and handkerchiefs. He pledges quality and fair prices and notes that all orders from distant millers will be met, with delivery to Tarboro on May 15.
The notice outlines plans and schedules for the Lavra Globe and the Cuageressenta Globe, issued weekly in local form for reference between Congress sessions. It notes a six month run, 16 fold quarto pages, and publication from the first week in May to the first week in November. Rates are listed: 1 copy 1.00, 6 copies 5.00, 12 copies 10.00, 25 copies 20.00, 50 copies 40.00, 100 copies 75.00. Payments by mail with bank notes from the United States. Subscriptions for Northern and Middle States encouraged. money must accompany orders.
The excerpt recalls Tamboro as a beloved home with hills rocks and oaks where independence and family happiness thrive. It contrasts early memories with a later critique of commission banks and merchants, detailing currency depreciation and losses that devastated planters, merchants, and farmers, leaving farms mortgaged and fortunes ruined.
The Mississippian excerpt notes cotton sold by commission banks for 28 to 35 dollars per bale, about seven to eight cents a pound, far below wartime levels. It argues banks depreciated currency by up to 50 percent, leaving planters with only three and a half to four cents per pound, while banks and merchants consolidate power and oppress independent traders under a growing corporate system.
The Whig Association, once the Union of the old Revolution and ’76 Societies, renames itself the ’76 Association amid 4th of July celebrations. Dr Ramsey of Cincinnati quips the group reborn as Renovated ’76 and boasts of resilience. The Washington Old Union Committee’s toast to John C Calhoun reflects continued Carolina spirit and patriotism in Charleston.
The Boston Transcript reports eighteen massive pillars, each about thirty three tons, carved with fluted capitals and nearly finished. The first column will move from Quin cy quarries to Long Wharf Quincy Point, a four mile run in a fifteen hundred dollar carriage drawn by seventy oxen, with total pillar cost four thousand dollars and total Exchange expense estimated at one and a half million dollars.
A friction arises as Missouri asserts a claim to a tract of land during its latest session, while Iowa maintains its ownership of the disputed area. The conflict highlights interstate boundary tensions and potential legal challenges ahead.
The Missouri officers survey residents in the contested area while Governor Licis of Ilona is advised, issuing a proclamation warning against exercising jurisdiction within the territory and promising force against violators. The article notes no further Missouri action since the proclamation. It also cites international factory outputs, including cotton manufacture values for England, France, and the United States.
The Hartford Patriot reports Emma Willard Yates separated from her husband and returned to Troy to resume efforts with the Troy Female Seminary. It describes Mr Yates as a tyrant and debauchee, not a husband, in the account.
A 14 year old enslaved girl servant was accused of tampering with the family of Rolla Sultzer in that county by mixing arsenic into their coffee. Mrs. Sultzer and six children drank it but were saved with immediate aid. The girl has been committed to prison while authorities pursue charges.
George Peters twelve year old son of J F Peters of York Derby Hallam Pa faced a furious bull. He dodged the attack leaped onto its back clung as the bull charged then jumped off and cleared a nearby fence. His mother witnessed the remarkable escape.
An all nine in Illinois found his stolen horses tied to a tree after they had been lost. He shot a man who approached them, later learned the thief was his own son. The father claimed he made 6000 by horse stealing. fourteen men were involved in the vicinity. Twelve were captured and jailed in Atlas, Pike county. Sixty stolen horses were recovered. Source attributed to the Paris Sentinel of the Sibiat.
Letter writers say Phillippe, King of France, leads a miserable life sealed in by troops. At the Tuilleries and Versailles no one is admitted when he is present. assassins threaten chimneys, an iron barrier daily alarms, and an observatory atop the Tuilleries watches for danger. A sentinel stands ready to sound an alarm.
A dreadful tale from Madison Wisconsin Territory describes N T Duncombe’s death by self harm after pressuring a separated partner. He severed relations, intruded into her room during her absence, cut his arms, wrote his name in blood on her clothes, and then fatally cut his throat.
Abiel Miles, a jeweler, reported to the police that his son, twelve, went to the Mechanics Bank to obtain funds for a $57 check. On returning home he was approached by a young girl who inquired if he had dropped a 52 bill, and the boy replied that he had not, when the girl ...
A boy agreed to carry a sum given by a girl after she claimed fear of a larger bill. They moved toward Miles store when she left a moment and returned to find the money missing, leaving only dirty paper. The boy reported to his father and police were notified. No trace of the alleged swindler was found.
A man with spare money and a grievance over two dollars sought legal aid to block repayment. The attorney charged three dollars, paid the fees to the magistrate, and later told the client the case was fully settled, implying the plaintiff would not trouble him again.
A young woman, daughter of Mr. John Squires of Franklin Furnace in Seiota county, Ohio, died last week from an accidental pistol discharge by another girl. The two were handling the pistol carelessly, not realizing it was loaded.
Adopted at the Ohio State Anti Slavery Society annual meeting the resolution states that any church opposing the Abolition cause is not a Church of Christ but a synagogue of Satan indicating a sharp sectarian stance within the movement and labeling dissenting congregations as hostile to abolition.
Professor Stowe of Cincinnati cites the American Biblical Repository noting vast European poverty. He contrasts U S hardship with European workers enduring long hours, scant food of bread and water, and heavy labor by women in fields and markets. He references Germany and France with young girls carrying manure in vineyards.
Rumor says 1000 reinforcements are en route to Monterrey for Canal iza and the Federalists under General Araya hold Moneloya. Patriots may surrender or retreat to Texas as invasion of Texas appears abandoned. Rumor also claims government seeks to sell the Unirateful Colony and Upper California to England to pay debts. Drought kills cattle on local ranches.
In England a new improvement in the horse collar replaces straw stuffing with wind inflation. The lighter design eases strain on the animal’s neck and withers compared with the traditional stuffed collar.
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