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Tarboro Press

Location

Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Sep 16, 1843

Page

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Tarborough Press Advertising and Subscription Rates

The Tarborough Press outlines weekly publication details by George Howard with subscription costs tenable yearly or monthly, advance payment rules for distant subscribers, and ad rates for varying sizes and placements including court orders. It notes that ads not exceeding a square run at one dollar for the first insertion and twenty five cents for each subsequent insertion, with higher charges for logger advertisements and court-related notices.

Poem Fragment Reflects Satirical Views on France

A fragmentary verse mocks French manners and names linguistic quirks, noting chairs as chaises and joking about terms like mates and fillies. The speaker stands alone, describing a national sentiment and a wary stance toward travel to France.

SHORT PATENT SERMON ON LOVE MYTHIC FORCE AND ITS POWER

A Sunday sermon extols love as a vast, untamable passion shaping imagination and action. It warns against entanglement, cites its transforming beauty, and notes its influence from beauty to despair, describing love as a universal, eternal force that binds humanity.

Love, Religion, And Freedom In One Imperishable Bond

A preacher decries nihilistic views of love and cold hearted indifference. He urges listeners to recall parental and sisterly affection and the moral beauty found in nature, music, and the divine, asserting love’s universal presence from grass to God. The oration blends religious fervor with patriotic and poetic imagery to defend heartfelt emotion.

Sal Eden Anon Dorne

Croatan District Settlement Described by Edenton Sentinel

The Edenton Sentinel details a small coastal district named Croatan in Carolina. About 150 inhabitants, mostly Methodist, worship weekly, few drink ardent spirits, with no store, doctor, lawyer, or officials. Disputes are settled by community reference, residents live as one family, and broils are rare.

Edenton Sentinel Croatan Carolina Crostin Sound Wlohe Methodist Church Zio

Forgery Suspect Billings Elopes From Earlville

Charles S. Billings, a longtime merchant tied to a large New York trade, fled Earlville after being detected in a wholesale forgery scheme totaling about $12,000. The Raleigh Independent notes the case as a major local crime story with implications for the regional business community.

Charles S. Billings Earlville Madison County New York

Death by own action of Rev Matthew Gambrell minister

The Rev. Matthew Gambrell, a respected Baptist minister in Anderson District, South Carolina, recently died by his own hand. Reports say he was not sane at the time. The Highland Sentinel extols his character in strong terms.

Matthew Gambrell Anderson District South Carolina Highland Sentinel

Death of Missionaries at Willamette Falls

A group including Cornelius Rogers and Mrs Rogers with Aurelia Leslie Squire Crocker and two Clatsop Indians drowned February 1 near the Methodist Mission in Oregon Territory. Their boat capsized after riding the rapids above the falls. Rogers had volunteered to pay his own expenses and married a daughter of the Rev Leslie of the mission.

Cornelius Rogers Rogers Aurelia Leslie Squire Crocker Wellamette River Oregon Territory Rapida Leslie Wellamette

Homicide in Philadelphia Market Ends Man’s Life

John Withenstine a butcher in Spring Garden market Philadelphia died Monday from a blow by George Widener. No angry feelings existed between the men and the blow arose from skylarking.

John Withenstine Spring Garden Market Philadelphia George Widener

Noted Friend Laments Death Then Surrenders to Authorities

Mr W hurriedly summoned a physician upon seeing his friend in distress and, after the death was announced, promptly surrendered to the authorities. The incident underscores the abrupt end of the affair and formal compliance with justice.

Bear Kills Little Girl In Canonsburg Pa

A pet bear in Canonsburg Pennsylvania killed a young girl after children teased the animal with sticks and stones. The bear broke its chain and seized the child, squeezing her to death.

Cannonsburg

Remarkable Lenin dental surgery in New York

Dr A C Castle performs a difficult operation on Lieut Shubrick of the United States Navy after BUCKSHOT destroyed his upper and lower jaws in Florida. A dental prosthesis substitutes the missing teeth, restoring ability to chew and greatly reducing deformity. The officer now breathes, masticates, and shows minimal trace of the injury.

New York A. C. Castie Herald Lieut. Shubrick United States Navy Florida

Death by own action in Visage man’s suicide

Mr. Warren Stilwell of Visage committed death by own action by hanging himself between 6 and 7 o'clock Sunday morning. He tied a twenty foot rope from a third story post to his neck and leaped from a front window, the fall jerking his neck. A passerby freed the body. life was extinct from the fall’s force. He was about 33, leaving a wife and one child.

Eve Nessus Toprr Warren Stilwell Afudison Co

French Bathing Place Charm and Beach Fashion Described

An 1800s travelogue depicts a secluded bay sheltered from heavy surf where clear azure water reveals white sand. It notes French bathers in minimal linen outfits and straw hats aided by lifters, while the narrator recalls his awkward aquatic debut among locals.

Bairoz Gom

Sea tenants mingle with grace in buoyant courtship

A vivid observation of marine life as sea creatures glide and interact with human-like manners, likened to social courtesies in Parisian gardens. The narrator notes their calm demeanor and mutual recognition among the fair tenants of the sea during their gentle voyage.

Paris

Failure of the Mexican seed cotton in India discussed

John B. Ducker of Franklin County Mississippi shares a letter from Mr Hawley, a Mississippi cotton planter who traveled to India under British government auspices to test cotton growth. The report, dated near Broach, India, November 21 1842, notes Mexican seed cotton yields far below expectations and predicts native Indian cotton will be more productive for Americans, while the venture harms the East India Company and yields no benefit to participants.

India John B. Ducker Ranklin Combultore Bengal Bombay Wolfe McCulloughs Burn America East India Company

Editor of Cecil Whig shoots Maryland legislator

The Globe reports the Cecil Whig editor, published in Elkton Maryland, shot Amos T Forward a member of Maryland's last Legislature on Wednesday and died at ten that night. The Whig editor says he is jailed for murder and asks publication of no detrimental remarks until a fair statement is received.

Cecil Whig Elkton Amos T. Forward Maryland The Whig

Wheat surplus sighted in Ohio reaches twenty million bushels

The Ohio Statesman estimates that after meeting domestic needs the state will have a surplus of about twenty million bushels of wheat this year. This projection underscores strong production in Ohio and potential impact on markets and pricing through the current crop cycle.

The Ohio Statesman

American Manufactures Going Abroad Spark Canton Market

A Canton merchant, Isaac Hillman of Congress Street, reports a sale of 50 degen razor strops to Canton. He notes Boston manufacturers are booked through August and finds it hard to supply domestics by August 15. This year Boston exported 15,000,000 yards of cotton goods to China, while Britain sent 12,000,000 yards, as Celestials prefer our cloths. Troy Whig reports the shift in trade.

Canton Isaac Hillman Congress Street Canton Market Boston China Great Britain Troy

Elopement Trail Reaches Fort Wayne in Wild Gossip

The Path finder reports Dr Peabody and Mrs Belden, who fled Cleaveland together, seen in Fort Wayne with a second pursuing party nearby. Cleaveland’s social atmosphere is described as contagious as sensational details surface about the young bride and her mid age widower husband. The tale includes alleged misuse of the husband credit to acquire silks, satins, and fine linens from dry goods merchants.

Dr. Peabody Belden Cleaveland Fort Wayne Indiana Pathfinder

Affray in Nelson County Reported Between Citizens

Nelson recounts an affray between two county residents with oneinjury described. The incident details are sparse in the account and there is no formal charge listed in the fragment. Further information is needed to confirm names, location, and outcome.

Nelson

Court corruption alleged in Virginia trial report

A prisoner admits a shot not mortally in a trial report. The correspondent accuses three judges of bench control to steer the decision, citing circumstances suggesting corrupt justice. The piece mentions Mrs Geo Irving of Prince Edward county struck dead at a kneading trough on the 15th and a house left shattered.

Geo. Irving Prince Edward County

New Process of Counterfeiting in Cincinnati Sun

The Cincinnati Sun reports a claimed discovery of a daguerreotype based counterfeiting method in Cincinnati. It warns the technique could flood the nation with undetectable notes and prompt new legislation.

Cincinnati Sun

Tragic Fall From Window Kills Young Girl

Last evening about nine thirty a sixteen year old girl named Biga Hill died after leaning from a third story window on Front street near Spruce. A guard slat gave way and she fell to the ground striking her head. Onlookers carried her away but she died instantly. Doctors Moore and Gibbons arrived but could not help.

Biga Hill Front Streets Spruce Street Spruce and Front Street Flisten Moore Gibbons Phil U.S. Gazelle

Involuntary Ballooning Near Paris Causes Boy Rescue

The Courrier des Etats Unis reports a balloon party near Paris where a tethered balloon detached its crozat and hooked a boy watching the ascent. The boy clung to the rope as spectators screamed, was lifted into the air, then safely brought down. Also noted is missionary Gutelaff’s claim that Chinese long known iron constriction precedes English discovery.

Courrier Des Etats Unis Paris Terra Firma Gpm Gutelaff

Remarkable St Landry Family Has Thirty-Five Children

A CPA negro woman in St Landry parish reportedly bore thirty five children, with twins five times and triplets three times. Twenty children are living now, according to an Opelousas paper cited by the N O Bee.

CPA St. Landry Opelousas N. O. Bee

A Love Letter From Jonathan in Ode of Affection

A playful antiquated note from Jonathan complains of three days apart and pleads for a beloved, praising beauty with lavish sensory imagery. He asks for a lock of hair or any touch, promises ecstasy, and ends by recalling a small debt of two shillings for tobacco.

Garden of Paradise Eden Gabriel Jonathan

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