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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1837
Page
1
The Tarboraush Press notes advertising rates and policy including 16 lines per insertion, 24 cents per line for each subsequent insertion, and longer notices at the same rate. It warns advertisers to mark the number of insertions and that undisclosed notices may be continued and charged accordingly.
A lyrical fragment recalls a bygone scene by a willow and a rock where a beloved maid perished long ago. The speaker laments her loss, describing nature’s companioning imagery and vows to keep her memory alive, ending with a mournful tribute to a star gone from heaven.
An anecdote depicts Emperor Napoleon directing Colonel to a diplomatic mission in the United States within a week while noting he must marry to host his house. The colonel laments the impossible task of finding a wife in that time, prompting a suggestion to proceed with his marriage plans immediately.
In a Paris drawing room an envoy to America, Colonel de Villantroix, seeks the hand of Palmire Br, daughter of M Br, but a lost emerald ear ring disrupts negotiations. The Colonel produces the recovered jewel found in a fiacre glove and offers it to Palmire as a promise of match amid family distress.
In a tale of inheritance and intrigue Palmire retrieves a lost emerald ring from her father and arranges a dinner with the finder. Amid wedding plans Colonel Villantroix and Madame Br prepare to sail to America, while domestic whispers hint at village affection turning to partnership.
A traveler recounts a Sunday in Centreville Alabama where two gentlemen and the local postmaster justice of the peace orchestrated a wedding. James Ailsworth wed Miss Jane Ray in a moving stagecoach with the license handed to the justice and the couple continuing their journey.
Jonathan Dunbutter met Prudence Feastall after a meeting and asked her to accept the crook on his elbow. She agreed by placing her arm around him. Jonathan praised the line seek and ye shall find while Prudence suggested ask and ye shall receive might be better. He found the asking puzzling and risky.
Yankee Sam Slick muses on marriage as a troublesome partnership. He recalls courtship joys versus married life, describing sour looks, constant chores, and shared money. He laments a household where four people claim his earnings and vows to sign over his stock to end the arrangement.
The Alabama Beacon notes that some Mississippi banks reportedly redeem notes in corn. This has led to editors in that state to speak cautiously on the banks.
The Alabama Legislature passed a law making any person who uses a Bowie knife or Arkansas toothpick to kill another as if killed with malice aforethought. The act also prescribes penalties for selling such weapons. Per. Con
A laborer at John Tunis & Co. in Saturday morning discovered a three foot alligator beneath a pile of logs. The alarm drew several workers who confirmed the sighting and speculated on how the creature arrived there.
A fragment describes a reptile embryo placed aboard a fore craft on a southern river, hatched on a lumber yard wharf, nourished by dungeon vapor, discovered under planks, shot rather than saved, and kept in spirits at Toy & King’s druggist store for preservation.
A Rochester New York Adv report recounts Sam Patch guiding a wagon and team 100 feet above a bank above the Genesee near Portage in Alleghany County. The wagon and horses rolled down the bank but were saved, with the driver leaping up to aid the animals. The farmer Palmer, observed, escaped unscathed as his team recovered after the perilous descent.
The man John Sinclair of Waterloo New York sought to monopolize wheat at Cleveland and was robbed of sixty two thousand dollars intended for appropriation. He offers a reward of five thousand dollars. Public disgust at Buffalo spreads over the lake expedition tied to the Great Flour Plunder Scheme. The Kinderhook Sentinel notes Sinclair has secured facilities to speculate on the coming wheat crop totaling ninety five thousand dollars across Albany Geneva and Waterloo banks with possible ten thousand more sought in Ithaca.
A fragment discusses land speculation around Cayuga and Seneca lakes, accusing a speculator of unholy gain exceeding $30,000 from a certain deal. It cites a Boston sermon by Rev. Mr. Taylor who argued the first great land speculator was the devil, contrasting earthly wealth with moral cost.
The St Louis Bulletin reports the widely circulated tale of Levi Gilman a Missouri Supreme Court justice marrying an Indian princess is false. No Justice Levi Gilman exists.
In Baltimore, a woman named Warren volunteered to take Mr Mitch ell's place aboard a balloon at Fairmount. The craft rose with her aboard after sandbags were dumped, she flew high above the city waving a handkerchief, and observers saw her aloft near sunset far north of the city, seemingly calm as a summer morning.
Stark county Ohio man Mr Evans was imprisoned on suspicion of murdering his son but proven innocent. The Ohio Repository reports the notice reached the Lake Erie site and Evans has returned home.
A meteoric stave weighing about 500 pounds fell on Ezekiel Harrison's farm near Orangeville in the night of the 6th inst, smashing a valuable animal and penetrating the earth about ten inches, killing it. The incident was reported by the Columbia Republican.
A patent for ten years has been granted by the Emperor of Russia to one of his Aids de Camp. The invention places friction rollers on the rails rather than on carriages and uses sledges drawn by horses. Tested in St. Petersburg, claims say a horse can gallop at top speed while pulling a heavy load.
In Marblehead the girls reportedly improve ironing by walking on a smooth platform with hot irons strapped to their feet. They glide across the cloths ad libitum, a feat praised by the Boston Trans as superior to steam engines on common roads.
In a Pickwick excerpt Sam asks to inquire about the table and jokes about making his bed under it. The cobbler replies that the table legs answer just as well, reflecting Dickensian humor about furnishings and modest comforts.
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