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Tarboro Southerner

Location

Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Aug 20, 1875

Page

3

Tarboro Southerner State News Highlights

The report notes peach prices at 75 cents per bushel in Charlotte, a clamorous call for a steam laundry in Goldsboro, and the Asheville courthouse sale to Sheriff Jim Young at 205 dollars. It covers tobacco crop damage from wet weather in Rockingham and surrounding counties, remarks on ex Gov Graham, and local election results in Mecklenburg. Other items mention a Wilmington rifle team, Rev Mangum’s farewell sermon, and various regional notices.

Goldsboro Tarboro Asheville Jim Young Rockingham Graham Wilmington Jno. D. Woody Mecklenburg Barringer Col. Johnston Mangum Edenton Street M. E. Church Raleigh Sentinel Milton Chronicle

Local Merchants Promote Winter Goods And Cigar Deals

A collage of ads and quips highlighting J A Williamson selling heavy goods at low margins and new corn goods. Whitlock’s cash reductions attract buyers with five cent cigars and Turkish trousers for women. Notices mention subscriptions, local mills, and upcoming sales while playful lines poke at figures and politics.

Whitlock J. A. Williamson Battle & Son Rocky Mount Mills Rocky Mount J. A. Williamson's Whitlock’s Jill Heads L. I. Staton Man

Exodous of visitors and town notes on main street

An unusually large number of summer visitors left this week including Col Cromwell and family. Four brick stores in process of erection by Judge Howard and Mr Pippen will enhance main street. Local items mention a personal enigma, election politics, and temperance speeches. A Washington correspondent is secured and county officer report duties are emphasized with September deadlines.

Asheville A. A. Campbell Valley River Murphy Cherokee County Campbell England Ireland Zanzibar Col Cromwell Fami Judge Howard Pippen Main Street Friends of Temperance Sajed South Enrrore Coxcorp Marcus Warren Hitler Wm. Warren Concord Warren Wastitxcron Beaufort Washington Nerius Fayetteville the Gazette J. G Manly Roaman C. C Newat Canson Wil James Shepherd William B. Rodman Supreme Court Professor Schneider Washington Cornet Band Maggie Brown Eliza Satchwell Fannie Fulford Madame Schneider Schneider Wesleyan Female Institute Staunton Echo Lande

Old South swamps tale and political rancor in Edgecombe

A rambling fragment recounts a youth tale of a fiddler spared at night by a monkey’s mischief and a crowd of dramatic factions. The piece then shifts to weather, floods, and river fears, followed by praise for a North Carolina Southern magazine and vivid rants on Civil Rights politics, white unity, and local partisan strife in Edgecombe and neighboring counties.

Hyde County Squire _C Wood‘gon Lewis Noah Worsley North Carolina Tarboro Raleigh Daily News Rome

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