18 Feb 1876
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Newspaper
Tarboro Southerner
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1876
Page
1
A garbled OCR style notice lists court clerks sheriffs coroners and other public officers including Staton McSabe Cobb Duggan and Williams. It mentions mails arriving and departing via the W and W railroad with times toward Tasboro and Washington and Veenville, reflecting a period public service bulletin.
A humorous tale unfolds with two suitors pressing Emma as a judge and a crowd seek the missing word that binds a comic romance. The scene shifts to a lively legislative parody in Congress with shouty youths and a rowdy debate about salaries and unity.
In Ashton Virginia a stormy night surrounds a missing supper and a traveling tax collector, Mr. Jacobs, who leaves $5,000 with his wife Jane for safekeeping. As the hour grows late she grows anxious, hearing unseen noises while fearing the money's fate and his risky midnight Richmond journey.
A woman, Mrs Jacobs, faces two masked robbers in her home while her husband’s money is stolen. She poisons the robbers with arsenic in tea, saving the money but killing the men. The twist reveals the dying man is her husband, leaving her a maniac in an asylum.
A stout man named Bullard lodges on South C Street and amuses the landlord with jokes but angers roommates with his snoring. After repeated evictions and threats to pay for all beds, Bullard refuses to leave, insisting he paid for his bed and will stay. The landlord finally realizes Bullard remains, as crowds gather to hear the nocturnal disturbances.
At a recent dinner, Mr. Snuffin loudly praised a newspaper item about a woman named Emma from Pencader, calling it one of the most amusing things he had observed. The remark sparked reactions among the guests, with interest in the referenced Adeler story.
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