19 Sep 1835
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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1835
Page
1
A garbled OCR passage references various people and locales in a disjointed stream. It mentions terhorensgh peess by GRO Tw AKT and a pap toe peerteal, with scattered notes on deaths, trials, visits, and a crowd at a portal. The text is unreadable in places, preserving only fragments of names and actions.
The excerpt paints Marel and Stanger describing a preacher who mixes sermons with slick manipulation. He preaches while arranging horse thefts, then hams up piety at meals to solicit money. A Methodist elder at Middle Tennessee and South Alabama is cited as part of his deceitful pattern, including a solicitation for twenty dollars under holy pretenses.
A Confederate era tale recounts a preacher mounting a trade with Brother Nobbs over a prized jack. The exchange ends with counterfeit money and the preacher’s departure toward Tennessee, while Murel schemes to abduct a enslaved man named Clitto, offering false freedom.
The Natchez Courier reports a broad rumour of a treaty in Washington whereby Texas is ceded to the United States. To avoid constitutional questions, a plan is said to be adopted: since the Mexican American border has not been formally agreed by both governments, a payment would settle unsettled lines and prevent future controversy.
A Western district correspondent reports a steamboat carried false burial coffins to Tipton county. Instead of corpses the chests held arms and ammunition. Locals fear an insurrection plot and vow to search every river erase along the Mississippi, prompting widespread alarm.
The Presbyterian Clergy of South Carolina and Georgia adopted a resolution declaring abolition societies inconsistent with slaveholders' interests and with the principles of U S political institutions. It states the synod opposes abolitionist methods and views.
To Jan 15 17 Harry Rockwell and Esther Niles wed at Mast Hampton Connecticut. In 1519 Rockwell left for Savannah for six months but returned only July 4 1835. While away, his wife divorced, remarried, and her second husband died. Rockwell found her in the same house after 10 years and was formally remarried to her.
An elderly interior New York woman was prosecuted after attacking a village parson during a heated debate themed on Bible interpretation. The altercation escalated to force, leaving the parson injured and the woman briefly restrained.
Mademoiselle Celeste captivates Tremont Theatre in Boston drawing an audience with brilliant performances and overflowing houses. In less than eight months she has earned strong acclaim and growing demand.
The narrative notes payments totaling over thirty five thousand dollars for services and touring engagements in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and New Orleans. Support from Mr. Caldwell of New Orleans includes five thousand dollars cash and two six-dollar benefits over four consecutive weeks, predicting an annual income approaching fifty thousand dollars.
The piece describes a new portable rail pad by Mr. Lewis Gomperts. It consists of eight straight bars movably jointed to envelope a wheel, forming a polygon around the wheel as it rolls. Each bar touches the ground successively, the polygon changing shape while in contact.
Dr Harrison of London publishes a Lancet letter detailing a neck dislocation remedy that reportedly restored life after a fall. He cites three cases, including a woman causing dislocation, where kneeling pressure and neck stretch revived a man nine miles from the scene. The note cautions only trial if opportunity offers.
In Princeton last evening a man calling himself Silas Tripp distributing anti slavery papers was confronted near a Blacks meeting. A crowd escorted him to the town’s west end, threatening lynching, tar and feathers, and then released him after promising no further trouble. He claimed to be an agent for the Philanthropist and Liberator with copies of the Anti Slavery Record bearing Arthur Tappan’s name.
A Whig report notes the first ebullition of public feeling on a subject, saying there was little noise and the office nearby heard nothing of the transaction until it was over. The tone suggests restrained civic response rather than a loud confrontation.
A Randolph case involves Mr Peake aged twenty to thirty who planned marriage but was poisoned by his future mother in law using arsenic in hash and water. He died, the mother in law confessed, and December trials follow. In Fishkill Mr Chancey Weeks and six family members were poisoned. two children died, others gravely ill, arsenic found in tea, a colored worker arrested as the perpetrator.
Last evening in Haverhill Massachusetts an abolitionist lecturer named Mr May faced a hostile reception. As the meeting assembled, stones and lighted firecrackers shattered windows into the pulpit and pews causing the crowd to scatter. A piece of ordinance was brought to the scene probably to intimidate attendees. Briggs's Bulletin.
The Ohio legislature approves 300000 dollars for war expenses while Michigan's territorial council consents to 310000 dollars. Both bodies move to strengthen defense efforts amid rising tensions.
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