Caswell County, N.C. - MISC - Milton Spectator, 3 Jan 1836 -------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. --------------------------------------------------------- Contributed by Mark Murphy --------------------------------------------------------- [Milton Spectator excerpts, 3 Jan 1836] [excerpted by Mark A. Murphy 19 Dec 2002] ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE NICHOLAS. -We are sorry to hear that the contagion of assassination has extended to the Russian Dominions.......His Imperial Majesty was shot by a ruffian. An aide-de-camp was killed by his side..... ----------------- TEXAS. Governor Houston has formed his Cabinet, which consists of:- Stephen F. Austin, Secretary of State. Henry Smith, Secretary of the Treasuray. Thomas J. Rusk, Secretary of War. Samuel Rhodes Fisher, Secretary of Navy. James Collingsworth, Attorney General. ------------------ FRANCE.- There has been a attempted Revolution in France; headed by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, a nephew of the Emperor Napoleon. It was easily subdued, and the young man and the Colonel of a Regiment, who acted in concert with him, taken prisoners. ------------------ POLITICAL MEETING...... ...the following toasts were drank.... Arkansas.- Your first political acts proclaim your virtue and intelligence; we willingly acknowledge you a full blooded sister. (1 gun, 3 cheers.) .....By Mr. A. Williamson. M. Van Buren, the worthy successor of Andrew Jackson.... ....By Wm. Florence, Esq. The democracy of Caswell, may they never be defeated... ...By Capt. J. Penis. May the successor of Andrew Jackson administer the government on the principles of the present administration.... -------------------- MARRIED, In this place on Friday the 30th ultimo, by the Rev. N. H. Harding, Mr. James Lawrence, to Miss Catharine Sneed. ----------------- In Rockingham County, on Thursday the 8th ult. by Sampson L. Cryer, Esq. Mr. Henderson Jones to Miss Mary, daughter of Capt. Michael Colley of Mississippi, also by the same, on the 15th ult. Mr. Amos G. Walker to Miss Harriet D. Hancock of Rockingham. ---------------- In Rockingham County, on Tuesday the 20th ultimo, Mr. E. G. Browning, formerly of Caswell, to Miss Nancy, daughter of Mr. Clement Whittemore, of the former county. ---------------- DIED, In this county on the 6th ult. after a lingering illness, Mrs. REBECCA ALLEN, wife of Henry Allen, Esq. In announcing the death of this truly estimable lady, we will suffice it to say that she was a pious and exemplary member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and that she was distinguished among her sex for those virtues which beautify and adorn the female character. To her husband and children her loss will be irreparable. ---------------- OBITUARY Died, in Yanceyville, on the night of the 30th of November last, Mr. JAMES UZZLE.- Mr. U was a native of Isle of Wight, Virginia, and had been a resident of Yanceyville but a few months. Although his sojourn with us was short, his deportment as a gentleman and christian, had endeared him to all with whom he had intercourse, and his untimely end is deeply deplored. The deceased was an exemplary and pious member of the Baptist Church. He has left an amiable widow an interesting little daughter to lament a loss to them irreparable. His mortal remains are inurned at the Baptist Church in this vicinity, there to await the sound of the trump that shall summon the dead to arise and appear before the bar of Jehovah. ---------------- A list of Letters remaining in the Post Office at Milton, N.C. January 1st, 1837, which if not taken out in three months, will be sent to the General Post Office as dead letters. A K Leroy Atkinson. Mrs. Kidd. B L Lelia M. Brown, Luey M. Lewis, Antonio Benceni, 2 Golden Fleece Lodge, 2 Sarah Buckner, Wm. B. Langhorn. Armistead W. Boyd. M C Merry Maynard John H. Crockett, Dr. H. Mc'Aden, Allen Case, Lemuel F. Moseley. Mildred H. Connally, P R. T. Coleman, John Patterson. Thomas Cardwell, R Samuel Chaney, Elmira Robinson. R.T. Crowder. D S Elizabeth W. Davis. Daniel Smith, F Benj. M. Smith, P. Fitzgerald. Mary Stamps. G T John B. Gaines, A. B. Thomas, James Grubbs, Dabney Terry, Thomas C. Green, Wm. E. Teed, T. L. Gatewood, Joel Thomas. William Gordon. W H William Word, Samuel Hobart, Lucy Woody, John Hughes, James White, Z. Hazelbut, Fleming Wood, 2. Gregory Hightower. R. P. Wooding, Silas H. Woodard, J Judith Wall. James Jones, Y Miss Mary C. Jones. Nancy Yancey. Persons calling for any of the above letters, will please say they are advertised. N. J. Palmer, P. M. -------------------------- TO SLAVE OWNERS, As the hirings are approaching, and the Raleigh and Gaston Rail Road Company wish to hire as many hands as possible on their work- I would like to say a few words on the subject. Those who know any thing about the treatment of hands on the road, are already satisfied that it is such as no slave owner could object to. [that's mighty white of them-mm] .... I am assured by many of the most judicious farmers, that it is impossible to make as much from hands on the farm as they are receiving on the rail road..... Charles M. Garnett. Chief Engineer.... I, as Agent for Mrs. Hodge have hired her hands to work on the Greensville and Roanoke rail road for the last nine months, and am fully satisfied they have been very well treated. Rich'd Bullock. December 2d, 1836..... -------------------------- State of North Carolina, CASWELL COUNTY, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, October Term, 1836. The Petition of John Pleasant, Tignal Pleasant, James B. Pleasant, Francis Pleasant, William Pleasant, Louisa Pleasant, Lucy Griffith and William Rascoe and his wife Airy. vs. John Rascoe his wife Martha, and Mary Vaughan. Petition for sale of slaves..... -------------------------- State of North Carolina, Caswell County, James W. Jeffreys v. John Webster and Alfred M. Lea} In Equity November Term, 1836. -------------------------- TAN YARD! HAVING purchased of Dr. John T. Garland the Tan Yard in the town of Milton, the subscribers respectfully inform the public that they have employed Mr. Theodorick L. Williamson..........and will endeavor to merit a liberal share of their patronage. Thomas C. Green, Henderson Stanfield. Milton, N. C. Nov. 15, 1836 2-tf.