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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1838
Page
1
The Tarborough Press announces weekly publication at two dollars and fifty cents in advance or the yearly rate after one year. Monthly rates apply for shorter periods. Advertisements square or longer vary with duration. Letters to the editor should include sender identity for proper handling.
The readable text contains a quarreling, uncertain verse about unseen meetings and frowns. It mentions a girl named Loyd and a vow to be a partner in games. The archaic spelling and errors obscure clear events or dates.
The New York Journal of Commerce reports a slave named Thos f Hughes returned to Mr Day under police custody amid questions of coercion and master theft. It portrays a Vigilance Committee network of spies aiding runaway slaves and potentially orchestrating thefts to undermine masters. Citizens warned of dangers from abolitionist tactics and secret societies exploiting runaway slaves.
A letter urges careful scrutiny of wrongdoing and warns against excusing felons or aiding crime. It condemns the flimsy veil of fanaticism disguising dangerous aims and stresses that respectability should not shield illicit actions. The piece challenges readers to distinguish mercy from moral compromise.
A notice indicates Bankers Hill will be partly demolished to make way for new buildings. The proposal has drawn considerable opposition and debate across New England as developers push for the project.
In response to an attempted act of desecration at Bunker Hill a large Monument Association meeting was held on Saturday morning. Members remonstrated against the desecration and resolved to complete the monument within a year, spurred by the incident to move forward after years of delay.
A fragment notes that two gifted young Louisville poetesses have abandoned poetry for marriage. It describes how their verse attracted admirers and claims their pens have made fortunes, reflecting a social column tone from the era.
The Cork criminal court heard Howorth McCarthy charged with offering an eight year old boy to an apothecary for dissection and proposing to kill him. The alleged keeper, a fifty year old ill looking woman not related to the boy, held him about two years. The boy was reportedly made drunk with whiskey on arrival. Death sentence was recorded against her and the boy was placed in care. No similar case is recalled.
Post reports a brutal murder at a small grog shop on Gired Street near Teheupi Toulas Street where a sailor named Gotlief, recently discharged from the United States Navy, was slain after being intoxicated. The keeper Mrs Doyle and three men were arrested as associates. The body was found in a dug hole beneath a raised plank floor, and the dirt reveal led to the crime's discovery.
A drugged tea killed a sailor in a port house plot. Smith, Johnson, Davis and Mrs. Doyle are implicated. Doyle proposed murder for the watch, a porter supplied laudanum, and a grave was hidden under a cart. Police later captured the conspirators who confessed and await trial.
Readers recall a threatening handbill targeting Mr. McCardell editor of the Darien Telegraph. Citizens of Melotosh County, across parties, held several Court House meetings and unanimously urged the editor to desist from publishing allegations about private character, which he agreed to do.
The Cincinnati Post notes a severe mortality rate in Knoxville. It cites ten deaths in The Register, including Dr James King. Mayor Col W B A Ramsey, editor of the Register, issued a proclamation for a day of fasting humiliation and prayer, set for Friday last.
The article notes a deficit in cotton and corn in North Alabama and Tennessee, expected to be offset by stronger conditions in South Alabama and Mississippi. It also predicts abundant sugar and cotton crops in Louisiana despite earlier concerns.
Report from Fort Jessup says a large mounted Indian force moved from their Sabine area and advanced within 15 miles of Nacogdoches Texas Gen Rusk pursues them Gen Houston sought artillery from Fort Jesup but Col Many refused yet sent a guard to Lieut Henry to assess conditions and expected the Sd regiment would enter Lexas if needed.
Two white abductors who tried to lure a black couple near St. Louis were captured by the victims who alerted their master. The conspirators were bound by the arms and whipped out of the state for three miles as punishment.
The Spirit of the Times recounts a Philadelphia young woman who gazed at the sun during an eclipse and was struck blind for hours. The Baltimore Sun asks the Times to verify if sight was ever restored and what methods, if any, recovered it.
A man named Seet living near Clarksville Tean was killed in a struggle with his wife. The deceased, said to have a drinking habit and abusive treatment of his wife, attacked. she seized a nearby knife and fatally severed major neck arteries, dying within moments. From the Baltimore Sun.
A Frenchman named George Morelle killed himself at a Freder tavern. Police report unclear motive. witnesses describe a quiet man who appeared despondent before the fatal act. Authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death.
A fragment notes a certificate from St. John’s Lodge in Gibraltar praising a pirate for losses suffered and recommending aid from Masonic lodges in Virginia and North Carolina. It mentions he has a wife and three children and shows lodges ministering to his needs.
A hay laden wagon with a young man aboard burst into flames from burning woods in New Jersey. The blaze consumed the man, the horses, the hay, and the wagon, leaving tragic losses reported in the incident.
The Mobile Board of Health on the 13th inst announces yellow fever in the city with two cases and little fear of a malignant spread. It notes fever now exists in New Orleans Mobile and Charleston and urges strict port inspections of vessels arriving from these cities.
Severe drought reported in Flemingsburg Kentucky where water was so scarce that Fogg and Stickney of the circus paid 12 dollars per day for enough water for their horses as there was none within three miles. Local farmers feared they would have to move cattle to find water if dry spell persisted.
The Norfolk Herald reports a strong east wind turning west with heavy rain from Tuesday evening to Wednesday noon. The Chesapeake and James rivers flooded the harbor, tides nearly matching 1831 levels, flooding wharves and warehouses, uprooting trees and fences but causing no major damage to houses or ships.
A short tale portrays Zacharia Hodgdon as an ill tempered husband who mistreats his wife. To spite him she secretly cooks the codfish in several ways and adds an amphibian, provoking his heated reaction when he sees the varied preparations.
A wife cleverly answers a husband’s preference for fried fish with a boiled chowder dish and a surprising frog centerpiece. Zachariah, amused and chastened, concedes his wife’s point and vows to avoid such “lessons” again.
The excerpt surveys women and their suitors through life’s stages from youth to forty, humorously noting how the question shifts from "Who is he?" to "What is he?" to "Which is he?" and finally "Where is he?" as time passes.
A clergyman once called for the thousand and over psalm in the pulpit. A parishioner quipped there aren t so many in the book. The minister replied then sing as many as there be and took his seat with a smile.
The piece cites Spain reporting Solsona’s fall and heavy Carlist losses, plus Egyptian claims of Druse subjugation by Ibrahim Pacha. It also notes the mysterious death of American merchant William Boake, drowned with marks suggesting foul play, connected to Hart & Co. of New York.
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