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FO.i THE FREE TliESS. I ne'er icill cease to Love. This globe in raging flames shall burn, The hills with age decay; The rolling spheres shall cease to turn, And dull, inactive, lay: The planets from their stations hurl'd, In discord wild shall row, And madly thro' the air be whit 1M, Before I cease to love. The sun shall cease to run his race, The moon shall cease to &hine; The stars to show their brillian; face, Blown out by power divine. The briny waves shall cease to roll, To lash the sounding shore; The earth be rent from pclc to pole, And rivers flow no more : The mighty winds shall cease to blov, The air shall cease to move; And trees and herbs, shall cease to grow, Before I cecse to love. My throbbing pulse shall cease to beat, My limbs be still in death; The blood shall from my heart retreat, And still shall be my breath: This head below the turf shall lie, These feet shall cease to rove: Before this passion I deny Before I cease to love. Yes ever on my heart shall be, Love's gentle image stamp'd; This heart cf mine shall cease to be, Before this love is damp'd. SHEPHERD BOY. F.iom the Boston Atheneum. The Doctor in Trouble. A Doctor there lived in the county of Fife, Physic 'em, tisic 'cm, lie! And he had a wife, was the plague of hi.; life, With her s(juallery, bawlery, ho! She worried and teazed the unfortunate elf, If his patients were few, lie was tuUent him self, But at last she fell ick and was laid on the shelf, With her sigh away, die away, ho! Now in sables theDoctor had often reheat sV., Whine away, groan av .iv, ho! And he always wore mourning for fear of the worst, With his seem to grieve, laugh in sleeve, ho! So a coffin he bought of a friend in the trade, And madam under ground very snuglv was laid; And the very next night Bolus married her maid, With her fie for shame! change her name, ho! Now it happen'd that night, that a gentle man bred, Dig away, in the clay, ho! To the grave occupation of raising the dead, With his coffin crac k, spade and sack, ho! Rang at one in the morning the Doctor's night bell, And said "Sir, I've brought you a subject to sell: But the watchman is near, so be quick or he'll tell With your cut and slash pay the cash, ho! The Doctor had scarcely refastcn'd the door, With his bolt and chain, lock again, ho! "When he tho't in the sack he heard some body snore, With their snoolc 'em, poozle 'em, ho! But who shall describe the poor Doctor's surprise. When he opened the sack to examine his prize, For his wife was come back! and she open'd her eyes, With her snuallery, bawlerv. ho! And the Doctor he dropp'd her, away, oh ! nd ran Natural Curiosities. Travellers in the low countries have related to us (says the Macon Geo. Telegraph) the follow ing facts: A snot of earth, about an acre in ex lent, near the Court-IIoue in Lowndes county, suddenly gave way not long since, and sunk to the depth of a hun dred feet! The place is now covered with water, the trees standing as thev grew the tallest pines being 20 or GO leet below the level ho had contemplated, and that he could then spin wool at a lower price than the than lour cents per noun three patents for his machines, and a gentleman who accompanied him from New-York, and who had engaged to buy these machines for a manufacturing company in Connecticut, laid him down ten thousand dollais in my presence." a Lake oi considerable size, and then ran off in a large rivulet. Put, about a year and a half ago, the water of the Lake found a subterraneous outlet; the bed ol the rivulet, as well as of the whole lake, has become, entirely dry and covered with luxuriant grass, &c. The lake dis appeared so suddenly, that tons of fishes, terrapins and alligators, totally unappri sed of its intentions were left behind. Travellers speak of the large ponds or lakes in Florida, as objects of curiosity. In Armonia Pond are several large isl ands, said to be floating! A circum stance is mentioned of an individual hav ing purchased a small island in this pond which, when he went the second time to see, could not be found! He after wards heard of it in another part of the lake, several miles from where he left it. Jackson Pond, in Florida, is said to be increasing in extent; the earth on the margin having settled; or, from its out let becoming obstructed, the quantity of water having accumulated. Fields and orchards cultivated but lately by the In dians, are now entirely under water; the tops of the peach trees being nearly co vered. We have given the above particulars as they are slated to us; and from the re- jtion of fourteen feet. Clothed in all the spcetabilily cf their sources, we have no j importance of the law, the Sheriff as doubt of their being substantially cor-jccmled, ntu9 wj(, n firm grasp, seized rect. An inquiry into the causes of the fatal knocker. Instantly he found these operations of Nature, will be an in-1 himself at the bottom of the steps. Af teresting employment for the admirer of: tor havimr recovered, in some measure, Nature's works. went away, and returned in about three j sunt proceeding. There is some justice months, with two models, declaring, on his return, that he had perfected what in this remark. The notion of an imne rious obligation upon gentlemen to set tle their disputes by shooting at each other, is evidently relaxing in those por- English, who could not effect it for less lions of our country where its influence than four cents ner pound. I issued j has been tyrannical. Various excep tions to the general rule are from time to time invented and admitted as valid, Novel application of Electricity, or a new way to pay old debts. A cer tain physician in Massachusetts, who possesses a powerful electrical machine, discovered a Sheriff making rapid strides towards his house, and suspect- fro m ciicnmstances, that he had designs on his personal liberty and the general rule itself seems likely of being in this way eventually destroy ed. The modes of getting from the ne cessity of fighting a duel are ahead v pretty numerous at the South, and the time may come when one will be provi. ded for every case that may occur. some Strange Excuse. Mr. G. P. Cohei, of Charleston, S. C. has published Dr Kdwaid Chisolm, because the latter re fused to accept the challenge of the for mer, lie be in it a Jew. We think a noor 1 w-U ' w m . J ' I l' I the worthy M. D. made preparations : excuse is better than the acceptance of challenge lo mortal comuat; and we are half inclined not to be angry with th Doctor, for alleging Mr. Cohen's reli -gious opinions instead of his own, as reason lor not pistolling him. accordingly, to ward oil the anticipated attack. Attaching a conductor (from his electrical apparatus) to the knocker on the front door, he then charged the machine to a very high degree, and waited the result. The steps which as cended to the front door had an eleva- Qnti-Duelling Society. In cor.se quence of an advertisement published in the Charleston papers branding a gentle man of that place with the names of cow ard, &c. &e. who refused to fight the writer, the Anti-Duelling Society's star, ding committee state that such nublica- from the blow given by an invisible tions "imply a reflection on the admi- power, and having collected his scatter- j nistration of justice, and a claim on pub- Curious Discovert. W'c learn (ays: C( writs, together with his scattered lie patronage, in behalt of the practice of the Vermont Gazette) that a gentleman ! senses, he made a second attempt, won- duelling, and by making the private dis- in hasburgh, in this state, while plough- dering at the strange method of paying j pules of individuals the subjects of pub- iiv in his field, found a few days since debts. lMcanwlnle, the JJoctor nad a- ; he discussion and public interest, and m wiiat is termed by some an iron shirt,'. gain charged his faithful conductor. No ! dieting wounds on the feelings of other, the body part ot which is made whollv sooner nail me Mienll again uareu to the more uihicult to be borne because oi of iron rings,' linked into each other. about one inch in diameter. The collar is maue oi nrass r;ngs so cioseiv inicr- woven as to be perfectly still. The pro per name of the garment is undoubtedly ''a coat of mail," but how it came in Irasburg, is left to conjecture. It was found, :i'y our informant stale s, under the stunip of a tree about two feet over, which had become rotten. We have s0( n several of the l ings, which arc made of small wire, and appear to be rivetted together. We are told that the IT. S. Kngineers who arc surveying in that region, have procured it, and intend to carry it to New-York. sooner had the Sheriff again dared to touch the fatal knocker, than he found J their publicity, such publications rank himself twelve feet nearer the centre of j high among the causes which keep up the earth a second time. Remember-1 the practice of duelling. And whereas, ing the adage, ''beware of the third j the right to insert such publications ha time," he immediately quit the prem- no more to do with the liberty of the full posses- ! press, than the right to violate the secu so well de-rity or happiness of individuals in any other mode, has with the enjoyment of public liberty. Therefore, Rcsolvedy ises, leavin sion of the fended. the Doctor in cattle he had Singular Discovery. A Charleston paper stales that, two small colored girls, one 7 the other 9 years of age, who were inveigled from their owner about 17 months since, and have been secret ed since that lime, were discovered in iiiai citv, hv means ot an anonymous That as this hoard is particularly charged with the adoption and prosecuiion of such measures as may conduce to the suppression of the practice of duelling: and as they consider the prosecution oi the printers who admit suah articles in to their columns as the only effectual i letter, concealed under the floor of a ! means 01 putting a op to such publica house in GibbeV street. They were in I tiorjS Committee will consider if: a most wretched plight, not having room thcir tlu,r on the appearance of any si tu si' up under the floor, but stretched j milar publication heieafter, to institute a, prosecution lor me ouencc agamsi u.e ' Females in Italy. Mr. Carter, in one of his last letters, makes the follow ing observations upon the condition of females in Italy: ''The country was all uion a miserable maltrass. lvimr on the in bloom and the flowery plains exhibit- j ground, and nearly afloat in" water, oc ed a gaiety of landscape, which can Icasioned hv the late rains, and both of the level ot the surround I n or country. Small ponds like this arc fro-(calculable qucntly met with in the lower parts of the Slate, and are there called Lime Sinks produced probably by the action of the subteiraneous streams. In Thomas county, the waters of two creeks at their junction, formeily made; eight cents to one cent per pound" hardly be conceived in less sunny climes. Hut the inhabitants are miserable, and know not how to appreciate or improve the munificence of nature. We actually saw females harnessed like cattle to the plough, and dragging it through the light coil, while a man was lounging in the furrow, guiding the share! Woman, poor woman, is here emphatically degra ded into the drudge of life, and it makes the heart bleed to witness the burdens she is often compelled to bear. There is no affectation or sentimentality in this. It is a plain downright matter of fact, which stares the traveller in the face, at every step of his progress thro' ltalv." x Inventions. Mr. Thornton, of the Patent-Office, Washington City, relates !he following anecdote: ';Mr. Gilbert Drcwster, a very ingenious artist, from Connecticut, came to the Patent-Office about the middle of October, and requested permission to, examine the models. I informed him they were do posited for public inspection, ami that he was at liberty to see and examine them as often and as long as he pleased. Instead of spending a few hours, he vi sited them daily for about six weeks, then thanked me for the gratification he had enjoyed, declaring them worth mil lions of dollars, or that they were of in- value to a real meehnnioinn He said he saw movements and combi nations of which he had before no idea, and that he was now enabled so to im prove the machinery for spinning wool, as to reduce the price of spinning from them naked. When taken from their place of concealment, they were scarce ly able to walk; and, in addition to hav ing nearly lost the use of their limbs, had turned almost white, from darkness and moisture to which they Two wen- cditorof the paper in which such publi cation shall appear 2 bold stand against Intemperance The members of a Presbyterian Church, in New-York, have reccntlv formed the j themselves into a Temperance Society, and unanimously resolved that they will not manufacture or sell, or be engaged dies, one free and the other a slave, (the i ,n the manufacture or sale ot spinlou latter grafulmother of the children) had j liquors, nor suffer any intoxicating li been hied and convicted, within a week quor to be drank in their families, ex or two, of harboring and concealing j e'ept when prescribed by a physician, or them; but no punishment could induce'11 c:xso of sickness. They have also re them to disclose where the children ! solved unanimously, that they will inakci had been so long confined. were, until their situation was discover ed in the way above mentioned. Duelling. A writer in the Charles Ion Mercury, congratulates Ihc people of that part, of the country, on what he calls the evident decline of the practice of Duelling. Men of honor, says he, now reluctantly approach this mode of settling their differences. They will sometimes even submit to an insult ra ther than fight a duel, especially if the insult arises from the uncourteous lan guage employed in requesting this kind of interview. In other instances those who have requested an interview in the sweetest and civilest phrases in the Eng lish tongue have upon reflection, relin quished their just claim to satisfaction, rather than meet their adversary upon any other terms than those they them selves choose to dictate. The writer ascribes this change not to a want of cou rage, (for who would impute that to men of honor?) but to a conviction that the character of a gentleman mav be sun- He potted without re'sort to such an unplca- an indispensable prerequisite to admis sion into their pale that the candidate or candidates shall agree not to become en gaged in the sale or manufacture ofspi ritous liquors, nor to drink such liquor., for the reasons abovemeniioncd. Too much truth. If j-cu see a mc:. and woman, with little or no occasion, often finding fault, and collecting one. another in company, you may be sure they are man and wife. If you see a ledy accidentally let fal? a glove or handkerchief, and a gentle man that is next to her kindly telling her of it, that she may gather it up, they are man and wife. If you see a gentleman that is courte ous, obliging, and good-natured to even body, except a Certain female who lives under-the same roof with him, lo whorr. he is cross and ill-natured, it is his wife. If you see a male and female, continu ally jarring, checking and thwarting each other, yet under the kindest terms and cppcllations imaginable as dear, &c the? arc man and wife.
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