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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1842
Page
1
The Tarborough Press lists weekly publication at two dollars fifty cents annually paid in advance or three dollars at the end of the year. Monthly payments are twenty five cents. Subscriptions may be discontinued with notice of arrears. Advertisements under a square cost one dollar for the first insertion and twenty five cents per continuation, with higher rates for longer ads and court notices. Letters to the editor must be postpaid.
A lengthy catalog of public acts and resolutions passed in the 2nd session of the 27th Congress for 1842. It lists appropriations for civil, naval, Indian affairs, pensions, and specific projects, plus numerous district and territorial adjustments, land claims, and enforcement provisions. The article also notes a local incident in Person County about a lost child found after four days.
A small Nag's Head inlet channel, twenty feet wide and four feet deep, will open Friday morning after weeks of work by local volunteers and summer residents. Hundreds are expected to witness the event as a test of the inlet’s practicability and potential to become a highway to the oream. Doct. Wm. Tate recovered a rifle used in the Ramsour’s Bridge battle placed in the body of Mr. John Duckworth, a Revolutionary soldier.
A fragment states mustle remained for sixty two years until removal due to irritation and inflammation. Pressure caused by the growth produced surrounding skin changes over several months as noted by the Highland Messenger.
The Carolina Watchman praises a new pamphlet by Benjamin Swaimy Bay of Randolph titled The North Carolina Road Law. It covers 99 sections of the Revised Statutes on Roads, with notes, references to English authorities and Supreme Court decisions, and 40 pages of compact, useful guidance to maintain public roads and enforce penalties for neglect.
The Apalachicola Journal reports a second Indian murders incident near Marianna in Jackson County around the month’s start. Perkins and family were slaughtered by Indians. one child escaped after arrow wounds. A pursuing party confronted the Indians, who offered a fair fight in English. one Indian fell as the others retreated. Also notes Georgia flour production rising with investments in mills and wheat quality.
A brutal prize fight between Lilly and McGoy occurred in Westchester County, twenty miles from New York City. McCoy fought for two hours forty one minutes across one hundred nineteen rounds before Lilly prevailed. McCoy died. Police pursued arrests as officials sought principals, seconds, and backers. The report also notes Evans Casselberry of St. Louis patenting a clock winding method claimed as perpetual motion via mercury temperature changes.
Rioters gathered at St Catharines in mass protest over unemployment destitution and stormed through the town. Stores mills and a American schooner were looted while authorities and the Catholic priest reported failure to restrain the mobs. The crowd reportedly enjoyed their plunder as of the latest reports.
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