North Carolina Newspapers

!"""" l?! P Whole Xo. 05j. Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, JC. C.) Saturday, May 13, 1837. Vol. XIII fro. 19. i The "Tarborough Pre-" I BY GEORGE HOWARD, i Is published weekly.atTici) Dollars and FiftvCentx per vear.if paid in advance 5 or, Ti'ireeDollnr.i, at the expiration oft he t subscription vcar. V or any period. If?, ! than a year, Ti.pei.'.'.y fire Cevtx per mould. 4 Subscribers are at libert vtoilist oniinue ni any time, on ffivin? notice thereof and navirt arrears those reidin!r nt n di i lance must invariablypay in nil vance, or ' give arespomible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements nol exceeding 16 lines i in length (or a square) will lie inserted nt I; fv cent? the hrt insertion &i25cents cacl t continuance. Lonjrer ones at that rate for every qunre. Advertisements rrtnst .. be marked the nmnberof insertions requi ' re J.orthey will he continued until other- f wne ordered, and charged accordingly, j Letters addressed to theKditnr must" he j pot pud, or they may not be attended to NEW ARRIVAL OF Spring Summer AT THE Cheap Cash store. James JVcddcIl, HAS just returned from ihe Northern cities, where he hat purchased at exceedingly Low Prices, a LARGE and Splendid Assortment of FANCY AND STAPLR GROCERIES, HATS, SHOES, Hardware, China, Giass and I Earthen ware, , Which he offers at a very small advance on j The Jew Fork Cost, I And feels confident he can convince -all ; who may favor hiru wiih a call that his 1 Stock not only comprises a most splendid I variety, but having purchased them in i many instances at a great sacrifice to the f importer, he will ofTer them at such aston- ishingly low prices ns he flatters himself will fully meet the views of those whose object to huy Fresh & fashionable Goods At very low Prices. TERMS Cash, or the usual credit to i punctual customers. I Tarhoro', April 3. 1837. ; AT C8T, I CERTAIN. !JKing SfJEdmondson Have now on hand a variety of Spring and Summer j Hardware, Groceries, &c. ; All of which they are willing to dispose of At cost for Cash, j Or at a very small advance on accredit to punctual customers. All persons wisuing to avoid paying a large profit on Goads, anoulu not tail to avail themselves oi mis Great Opportunity We would further sav to our customers, we do this for the purpose of making room for A larger Stock of Goods In the Fall. Call at the sign of II. King where the bargains may be found. King & Edmondson. Tarboro', July 1st, 1836. ml fFl The Young Jack, EDGECOMBE, WILL STAND the ensuing season at my stable, on the north side of Tar River.'on the road leading from Teat's ridg- to the Fall Tar River, lliree miles above the bridge and will be let to mares "t THREE DOLLARS the single leap, FIVE Dollars the season, and MNE Dol lars to insure a ware to be in foal with twenty-five cents to the Groom in every instance. A transfer of property forfeits the insurance. The season will commence 'he 10th of March and end the 10th July. Every attention will be paid, but no res ponsibility for accidents, &c. Edgecombe, Is four years old, and a tery large sized Tack to his ae. His appearance is the best recommendation that can be given. 11 I) Wimherley. February 24, 183" isteUancotts DISINTERESTED LOVE. I loved her for herself alone. For she as nil to nv; Her virgin heart wai Cupid's throne, Her voice its minstrelsy. (Her father was a man of weal'h, A man he was of feeble health.) Oh! she ws fair as spotless truth. As lieriuiiful and bl ight, Or, like a plowing dream of youth, A vittion of delight! (She had no brother, sister dear Nor poor relatiwns very near.) Her form a Venus model r. Swell dignity such eraee The ringlets of her jet bhuk hair, AdornM her lovelv face. (Her mother died some years before tier pa would never marry more.) I gazed upon her speaking eye, And dropped upon rnvknee And told her that I soon must die It she d not ntv me. (If pa should 'offer up his soul.' 1 knew my love would have the who!e.) She turned away I dared not speak, I thouclit she was enraged A tear ciursi l doivn her .,.. i. Niched .he. I am encased.' (Some other chap would cut a dash upon the old man s hoarded cash.) She was not what she seemed to be. tier voice was cracked and hoarse. Ami then she squinteu dreadfully Iter Kin was very coarse. (Her pa got well and failed one day, ner gentle husband ran away.) Ves 'tis a very plea-ant thought My fortunate escape! But hint I in the act been caught, fwere then a sorrv scrane! (You can't catch me with chaff oh no! I always knew 'twould turn out, so.) COURT1NG AND COW-HIDING. Oh, woman, woman! how much Hast thou to answer for! How many cities sacked, and soldiers slain! How many empires lost, and fortunes ruined! How ma'nv broken hearts, and broken heads broken vows, and broken win dows! For Eve the first, and prettiest, and best woman God ev er made father Adam lost im mortality, and Paradise, and a; most ueautiiul garden, r or He- len, Paris lost Troy the com-j "Do you know a Mrs. D.r' said mercial emporium of the eastern ' the husband, world the New York of Asia "I have the honor." replied the Minor. For Cleopatra, Mark; lover. Antony lost the empire of the j "1 am sent to request your corn world. And but we might go pany at her house." on for ever to enumerate the in - stances ol the disastrous fascina- i is out of the way." Cut this was lions of fairy forms, and brilliant ' said aside. eyes, and ruby lips, and rosy kiss- j How shall we describe the ca ts, and thrilling tones, and pretty ; tastrophe? How shall we tell feet and ancles, and all those sort how the unsuspecting lover was of delightful things which, alas, j entrapped into the house; and ruin us poor deluded men, and get how he got one of the most sav us into scrapes and rows and age horse-whippings a discovered cause our bones and credit to be gallant ever received; and how he broken, and put our conscience, ; was compelled to deliver up one virtue, morals, noses, and reputa- of the most tender, and tno6t de tions, out of joint. Rightfully funny of all intriguing 'Tis a bad world the men are correspondences; full of delight bad, selfish, deceiving and the ful kisses;" and "pulling whis- omen, heaven bless their bright kers;" and and the rest must eyes, are sad, wicked, dear, de lightful creatures, and make more mischief than all the banks, spec ulators, failures, monopolists, ve toes, and humbugs put together. Hell, well, there is no help for it: and if men have nrettv wivps. 1 ... , I j . , and other men will carry on in- trigues, and behave naughty, and pretty women will encourage them, and ungallant husbands will . I intercept letters, and lay' plots, and break lovers' heads whv. what can we do but make the most of it, and in our own original, ini mitable, h unapproachable style, serve up these delightful incidents for the amusement of our readers? Mr. D. was coing home to din ner the other day to his house in F square, congratulating him- 1 H"..t ----Q self on having an excellent appe-jsake tite, and the prospect of dining off a dish of shad in a sociable way. with his pretty wife and a large family of boarders. Apropos what right has a man to keep a boardigg bouse, who has a pretty wifeand is inclined to be jealous? We have a theory mat tie ought, in the first place, to oe bound over to keen the neace. As we were saying, Mr. D. was coming Home to dinner, when he lound a suspicious lookiner bov standing suspiciously on his door step, wuu a suspicious looking billet, suspiciously directed to his wife. His suspicions were arous ed, and he, like a fool, took the letter and, like an ungallant wretch, opened it and, like a cunning man, copied it and, like a deceitful man, sealed it up and sent it per direction and, like a hard-hearted man, went home and asked his dear, innocent, unsus pecting wife, what letter she had received? f She, like a a wo man, denied having received any; when he, like a cruel, jealous husr band, read the following: "Dearest , If vou haveanv compassion on one who is wholly and devotedly yours, meet me this venmg, at half past seven, at Mrs. street. I am dying to see you. It is an age since my eyes feasted on your loveliness, and drank in rapture from those bright founts of beauty, that spar kle light twin-stars in the firma ment. Each minute will be an hour till I taste the sweetness of those ruby lips, and prove myself as 1 now subscribe, your devoted lover. - j Here was a pretty poetical situ ation. The lady burst into tears fell into hysterics and threat ened to put an end to her existence by throwing herself into the river. One would suppose that Mr. D. had done mischief enough for one day, but he was not content. He went to his store, dressed himself like a porter went to the place of assignation, armed with a fero cious cowhide. In the meantime our gallant had dressed himself, re-curled and perfumed his black whiskers what killing things whiskers are! left his desk in Wil liam street, and at the time "ap pointed, a few minutes before, perhaps, Mr. D. saw him ap- proach. j "O then,tliat fool, her husband, be imagined. JVew York Her. PARAGRAPHS UPON HEIGHTS. Height of Folly. ..To get drunk and lie across the Rail Road to obtain reoose. . 1 Height of Inquisitiveness. To climb the house lop, and look down the chimney to see what -I I ! 1 ooe s neignoor nas lor dinner. Height of Dignity, To run a gainst a post in the street, and then beg pardon for the encoun ter. Height of Gallantry When intoxicated to reel along the street, with a lady under your arm to es cort her safely home. Height of Honor. To defraud one's landlord or tailor, lor the of discharging one's gam bling debts. Height of Temperance. To keep one's skin constantly soaked in ardent spirits, without ever get ting drunk. Height of Imprudence, T quarrel with all your neighbors, 1 who will not agree with your own views and notions of thines. Height of Benevolence. To luniDle down the staircase and break your head to avoid step ping on a kitten that is reposing on the stair. Height of Charity. To give a poor beggar a dollar and at the same time threatening to horse whip him if he ever troubles you again. Height of the Ridiculous. Af ter being tumbled down a preci pice in a stage coach full of pas sengers, amidst the shrieks and groans and faintings, to hear a la dy, with tears in her eyes, inquir ing for her band box. Height of Absence, or Oblivi ousness. To forget that you are married, while abroad, and pav your addresses to another. Height of Chagrin. To pick up a reticule, dropped by a lady of very genteel figure and appear ance, walking before vou, and up on her turning round to receive it from your hand, behold a set of features as black as ebony. Height of Morlificntion.-To make an offer of your hand to a la dy, and learn for the first lime, that she had long been betrothed to your partner. Style. A country editor re commends the following style of making love, as being of the new est pattern: "Will you undervaly yourselt so much as, to overvaly me so much as to keep company with me?" The propitious an swer to this is: "No undervaly ment at all, sir." Edification of married men.- "Ven you're a married man, Sam- lvel, you II understand a good many things as you don?l under stand now: but vether it's vorth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter of taste. I think it isn't."--Pickwick papers. Jl dialogue on hops. A Provi- dence paper gives us the following adroit dialogue. "Friend," said a shrewd qua- ker, to a man with a drove of hogs, "hast any hogs in this drove with large bones?" "Yes," replied the drover, "they all have." "Hast any with long heads and sharp noses?" "Yes, they all have." "Hast any with long ears, like those of the elephant, hanging down over his eyes?" "Yes, all my drove are of that description, and will suit you ex actly." "I rather think they tvould not suit me, friend, if they are such as thou describeth them. Thou may'st drive on," Newpapcrs. The fashion of enlarging newspapers is now car ried to a ridiculous extremity. Not a day passes but we receive a paper which has undergone an enlargement. All swelled and distended, like the poor frog ri valling the ox seemincr actually to suffer from its accumulation of bulk as one laboring under a dropsy. There was a day, about the time we first bore our stick in the cause of typography, when the diminutive siie of newspapers might have been complained of; but the other extreme is now rea ched.' And the fact is, there is little improvement no additional interest, in nine cases out often. They swell out all on a sudden, tremendouslv: and very frequent- ly a racy, agreeable, handy sheet, is converted to an overgrown, awkward, dull, heavy concern; i-omaining such a mass of stuff, hat you are almost deterred from perusal. Yon must look and peer with all your eyes, to find the news; and when you are done, your arms are so fatigued, you irop them helpless by you side. We are not actuated by the spirit of that unfortunate fox, JEsop tells us of, Who lost his tail in a ?rap, we .assure you, gentlemen. The Compiler, which ten years ago would have been thought a mammoth, suits our readers admi rably, and if we should be forced to follow the example of these swelling gentry, we don't know what we should so much regret. Richmond Compiler. New Printing Press.- -One o our most ingenious and worth) mechanics, Mr. I nomas Trench has invented a new Printing Press, which will eclipse every. thing of the kind heretofore put ir operation. It is intended for ste reotype plates, and will Work of- fifty reams of paper, of mammoth size, ner dav. It is intpnHpH tr ' w- be attached to paper mills, and will print as fast as any mill car ! manufacture, without any othei help than that required to manu facture the paper. The register, by a simple regulation, can easily be changed and made perfect. We have now a sheet in our office, worked on this new press, twenty six feet long, printed on both sides at a lime, in a quarter of a min ute. The sheet contains two books of 160 pages each. The cost of a first rate press, on this principle, will not exceed $1,000. A. Y. Posu Wonderful discovery of mechan ical power. Several of the papers have referred to an immensely im portant application of magnetic and electro-magnetic power,which can be applied with great safety o uie propelling oi steamDoats, locomotives, or to any branch of manufactures, requiring power of an inexhaustible character. Mr. Thomas Davenport, a blacksmith 1. T ... ot Vermont, is the inventor, and professors Silliman and Henry both speak in high terms of the improvement and its application, Mr. Davenoort has nssoriatpd , with him Mr. Ransom Cook, ofj Saratoga Springs, who has sug-j gested many improvements in this; surprising invention v and we be lieve all that is required hmeans to carry out this novel application. And where would steamboats, and steam batteries and engines have been in this couutry, if Ful ton and Chancellor Livingston had not expended their own mo ney to carry out the bold project? 1 his new power is safer no dan ger, no explosion, no fuel, very little expense, and immense expe dition. JV. Y. Star. C?Gilbert E. Hudson, of New York, and Mr. Gonon, formerly of France, have invented an im proved method of telegraphic communication, and intend estab lishing a line of Telegraphs be tween New York and New Or leans, by means of which, a des patch containing one hundred words, may be transmitted from one place to the other, in the space of half an hour. JVcwbern Sent. A villanous hoax. Some ano nymous scoundrel lately wrote a letter with the signature of a house in Norfolk, ordering a quantity of hardware, to the amount of $800, from their correspondents in New York. The goods were prompt ly put up and shipped, and a bill of lading and invoice forwarded by mail, which arrived some days ahead of the vessel, and on the receipt of which as might be sup posed, the consignees were not a little surprised. As they had r.o occasion for the articles, the' were of course returned; and the house in New York, besides their trou ble, were saddled with the expense of freight on goods going and re turning: Whether the trick was played for the sheer love of mis chief, or with a view to fraud, is uncertain; but certain it is that the author of it deserves to be "slicked." Marble Quarry. We have seen a specimen of a stone pronoi i ced to be marble, and which admits of a very fine polish, found some miles south of Germanton, in the neighboring county of Stokes. Petit Gulph Cotton Seed. fW subscribers have received from JL New Orleans, 260 bushels Petit Gntph Cotton Seed. They have also on hand and are now re ceiving a general assortment of GROCERIES, All of which they offer for sale on reason able terms. N. M. Martin Donnan. FeteriburJ, Va. Feb. 18. 8 6 Chinese Mulberry. fill HE subscriber has for disposal seve JL ral hundred rooted trees and cut- Longevity. The Southwestern Christian Advocate announces the death, on the 28th of February, in Davidson county. (Tennessee,) of Col. Adam Binklev. aerd ons hundred and thirty-six years! He served throughout ihe Revolu tionary war, at which time, it is said, he had a wife and eleven children. Raleigh Register. (3C?"The Express mail rider from I tllw IVnrlh u ne man nA fian, near Augusta, Ga. on the ! 22d ult. in an unfrequented spot, and shot at as he passed. The ball penetrated his thigh; but re- joining presence of mind', he kept "s sauuie, ana quicitening his speed, was soon beyond the mis creant's reach. ib. j Divorces. At a late term of the i Rlmri id.,..,! c hikjuv. l.'iauu UUpirilJC VvUUrt, held at Providence, there were fourteen petitions for divorces granted, ten on the application of females and four by males. The principal cause for divorce shown by one of the petitioners was, that her husband had put her head into a kettle of hot water- It is needless to add that the husband was himself heated by ardent spi rits. The petition was granted. Legislative Candor. A mem ber from Salem, in the late dis cussion in ihe Massachusetts Le gislature to raise the pay, said: 4I rise to say I am in lavor of raising my oft-ti wages, and al ways have been; and he who will not provide for his own household is worse than an infidel." Laugh The Death Waltz. A French paper relates a singular and start ling incident. At a ball lately given at Port Louis, near Lori ent, while a young lady was ivalizing, she felt the hand by which she was supported become stone cold, and on leoking into the face of her partner found his teatures deadly pale and horribly contracted. She fainted at the sight, and fell to the ground while the cavalier dropped by her side. The lady was taken up and recovered, but the life of the gen tleman was extinct. She main tains that he was dead several sec onds before she knew it. and that she made one turn round the room with him after he was a corpse. He was a married man with seve ral children, and his wife was at the ball. Inflammation of the throat. Powdered allum, applied by the finger to the part affected, very seldom Jails to cure inflammation of the throat in a few d ay s.