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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1836
Page
1
The notice outlines weekly publication by George Howard at Této Dollars and J. Cente per ven. Rates include twenty-five cents per month for continued ads and sixteen lines or eight squares per insertion. Advertisers must prepay or pay on delivery with notices to editor to be ignored if not paid.
Yesterday Thomas Wint singer was executed in Wheeling for the Jesse Chrisman murder after a lengthy prelude of martial watchfulness. A warrant delaying Boon Long’s reprieve until September 2 was reported revoked. Citizens formed guards, a patrol enforced order, and the town endured a week of tense, vigilant fear as rumor and threat faded with the execution. Reports from the Journal of Commerce note Rathbun frauds totaling about 7,000,000, stirring sympathy for the banker turned offender even as his crimes collate to a vast scandal.
The text reveals a prolonged fraud by a central figure who enlisted his brother and nephew Rathbun Allen in the scheme. The nephew, once a clerk, was at large for days with no evidence tying him to the forgery. Found letters later clarified their operation methods.
The late English papers label Col Arraon Burr as the American warrior while he is frail in Philadelphia. The Ledger debates republican republication of amatory correspondence and condemns insinuations of universal female profligacy. Albany Evening Journal reports Troy citizens tar and feathering revelry after dog destruction. St Louis Republican notes St Louis Observer materials treated roughly in Alton after abolition paper closure.
Mr Storrs an abolitionist attempted to lecture in the Methodist chapel at N Hf on Wednesday last but was prevented by a mob that broke windows and drenched the audience with water using an engine in an unrestful event reported by the Eastern Argus.
The tunnel, a massive undertaking, is expected to take about six weeks to finish. It has already been drilled through 475 feet north side and 60 feet south, with roughly 60 feet more to cut before the two faces meet. The project will be the largest of its kind upon completion.
The extraction is described as the longest and through rock as hard as any, with open cuts on both sides of the bowel nearly terrible to view from the summit. The north cut reaches 55 feet deep, and work is continued under the supervision of Mr. Rutter day and night.
A Journal of Commerce piece denounces Shaddy a new merchandise made from old rags reworked as wool cloths. It says the fabric appears like fresh wool but deteriorates quickly. The critique calls it an unworthy cheat, noting it could mislead buyers who expect quality garments.
A historical notice advises that persistent nosebleeds may be stopped by sniffing two or three pinches of finely grated salted dried beef with nutmeg, using the same technique one would use to take snuff. The method is presented as a self-administered remedy for violent or protracted bleeds.
Reports from Paris to July 25 and London to August 1 describe heightened agitation in Paris, with warnings of plots, arrests, and a forbidden July 29 review. Paris fears a renewed royalist conspiracy as Thiers and Talleyrand return. In Mexico, a July 13 battle near Ela routs the revolutionists, General Asavado captured, and federal forces anticipate further unrest as Vera Cruz prepares a squadron.
A Vienna letter from July 7 notes cholera continues to spread with mourning. The disease affects many towns along the Trieste route, intensifies in Frioul and Laybach, and reaches Presburg with cases reported in Pesth and Buda.
The Louisiana Advertiser reports from Tampico via the arrives of the La dy Hope that Mexico is in a frightfully convulsed condition with plotting treachery and open hostility between parties. The Constitutionalists, though defeated at Etla, are not demoralized and grow in numbers. The overthrow of the current government seems likely but would entail much loss of life.
The New Orleans Bee reprints Cosmopolita extracts on Etla assassinations in Cajaca and government executions at Edla by Canali20. Liberals are derided as sant culottes while priests push influence to end the terror. The piece likens events to Desson and Robespierre with hope for a later Bremaire ending a reign of terror.
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