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Newspaper
Tarboro Southerner
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1876
Page
1
Tarboro directory items list names for city offices and county roles including clerk, sheriff, treasurer, and police. Also notes mail schedules via Washington Mall and W & W railroad, plus several Masonic and fraternal lodge meeting times and officers.
The report describes the first day of the 45th Congress in Washington, detailing the Democratic majority's control at the start, Speaker elections between Randall and Garfield, and President pro tempore concerns. It notes key figures like Holman, Sayler, Cox, and Morrison, along with early committee actions on Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida elections. The scene captures gallery crowd dynamics, lobbyists, and the mood of a nation in cautious optimism.
A bashful young man visits a public school intermedi ate department and attempts to give a speech before amused pupils. His awkward start includes spilling ink and wiping his brow with a handkerchief, ending with his abrupt exit without farewell to the young school mistress.
The piece notes a growing anti Republican mood in the North, with private letters from New York Republicans admitting Tilden could carry doubtful states. It cites economic stagnation and predicts the Republican party will be harmed by carpetbaggers scalawags and Negroes, driven by self interest.
A lengthy manuscript excerpt describes Northern sympathy for Tilden and Southern disenchantment, with readers in New York and Indianapolis discussing political risk. It recounts an Indianapolis Sentinel editorial urging steady, lawful action, condemning fraud and urging patriotism amid fear of civil strife. An anecdote from Jonesboro traces lingering racial tensions and social color lines in daily life as public talk centers on liberty and national unity.
In a Baltimore Sun report, North Carolina voters backing the Democratic ticket by a large margin lifts business confidence in the region. North Carolina trade is noted as improving, with firms optimistic about prosperity following Governor Vance’s election.
A moral exhortation to boys about the cost of evening idleness on street corners and cigars. It argues that an hour nightly wasted equals 305 hours annually and that the money spent on cigars could fund ten leading periodicals. It urges self discipline to avoid lasting bad habits and pursue usefulness and happiness.
The piece urges North Republicans to unite promptly to oppose a perceived conspiracy by Returning Boards and carpetbag rulers backed by presidential power. It warns that failure could subvert institutions or trigger civil strife, threatening peace, property, and business, and calls for fair minded action to prevent further partisan disruption.
Greenville News editor Col. A. M. Speights recounted Charlotte crowds shouting for Lampton and Vance, noting both men attract strong support. Demonstrations would be equally large for Crampton if he appeared, as locals pledge to sustain constitutional government in South Carolina. The piece ends with a marketing plug about advertising.
A sermon urges men to live for worthy aims and leave a lasting monument of virtue. It warns that lives built on nothing perish unseen, while acts of kindness and mercy endure like stars in the evening sky and on the hearts of others.
More than a hundred colored Democrats from East Baton Rouge parish gathered in Baton Rouge to bid farewell to the men traveling to testify before the Returning Board about election-day peace. Twenty-five to thirty chose the Allen for the city, cheering Tilden and Nichols as they set off to vindicate their rights and votes.
Madame Raoult reports extreme low wages for women with some earning as little as three francs a dozen or half a dozen per day. The Congress urges women to form large cooperative establishments to gain wages and share profits with employers. Delegates total 253 from Paris associations and 95 from the provinces. Peegeen
A collection of witty rural anecdotes questions whether inventors risk their lives for invention. A man shows a bulletproof jacket to the duke of Wellington, who orders loading with ball cartridges and the inventor vanishes. A boy humorously threatens to send a club to the editor to win subscribers, noting many nonpayers. The final remark suggests the boy has presidential potential if he lives.
Compositors debate causes of death in a grim exchange about poison inflammation and mortality in the printing trade. An elderly speaker laments hard times, comparing plagues of insects and rumors of poisoning to the era's woes.
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