The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-08-15
natter. advertisements and

reading matter, advertisements and
all.
In the Gazette. D. Gibson
ces himself as a candidate for the re-
erection of Thomas Jefferson for Pres
ldent, announcing to the voters of
wilmington and Sampson district
that his administration has been
pare. and calculated to secure the
rights, liberties and true interests of
its citizens"
Napoleon the Great was then the
First Consu of France, and the Ga
zette showed its friendliness TO him
oy reproducing newspaper extracts
resenting English enmity towards h
great Napoleon, who had shown in
many ways that he was the friend of
the United States. This was eleven
years prior to the battle Of Waterloo,
in which Napoleon was o~verthrown by
the allied armies Of Great Britain, Bel
GUM, the Netherlands and Prussia.
This Wi. indicate how far back this
ofu wilmington newspaper oes. for
at that time the great events were
pending that finally overthrow the
man who came very nearly conquer
ing the world. One of the principal
news stories, all of which appear un-
der single head lines. is an account
OF q French plot against Napoleon, the
object being to assassinate him and
AIO1Ho INC ~
What a difference such a story would
now make under glazing head lines
over lurid cablegrams instead of let
tiers published under the tame line
Of Late Foreign News The plot
was discovered February %. 1904,
and was just making the latest news
- America the following May.
The Gazette also publishes a sensa-
tlonal extract from a pa
per detailing how Judge Jabez Bowen
excited insurrection," tried to brow
beat a grand jury, which refused TO
obey his orders, and for which Ne sent
the jury to jail. Later the grand jury
was released n John Pooler, j. p,
wound up the affair by committing
Chatham" Among the news was also
a great counterfeiting plot unearthed
at Richmond, the name of the party
charged being omitted because Of a
fear of doing him harm in case the
charge could not be sustained.
There is a pretty good glimpse Of
the Wilmington Of a hundred and
seven years ago, for what was going
on in the port was c~hronicled. Two
sailing vessels were cleared, one for
Baltimore and the other foreign.
carolina rice grown on the Cape
Fear was exported to England in those
days and the market quotations fOT
thls famous product was announced
weekly from London. In the local
market turpentine was quoted at $2.25
to SO per barrel, tar $50 to $1.75 pei
barrel, butter 20 to 25 cents pei
pound, cotton Is to IS cents pei
pound, corn 90 to 95 cents per bushel
flour IS per barrel, coffee 20 cents pei
pound, lumber SO to SO per thou
sand feet, shingles 1925 per thou
sand, molasses IS to 10 cents per gal
lon, etc.
The advertising page showed that
several enterprisinG wholesale anu re
tail dealers believed in printers ink
These merchants were Giles & Burg
! win. Isaiah Hammond, Alexander Pc
den. Joshua Potts, TORY & Co., Will
kings, Scott & Co There were ad-
vertisements Of runaway negroes, one
Of the advertisements being that OF
Mr.. Thomas Wright, who offered $1(
for the return of a wooden leg ne
gro whom sail masters were warned
not to carry away. There were also
sales Of likely young negroes anG
there were domestic trials and tribu.
l~a-ions in those days, for a man ad
vertised that his wife, Penelope, haC
eloped and he would not be RESPONSE
bic for any debts made by her. There
were seVeral marriages of prOminen
people and one advertisement called
hO1 d Injecting VI hepuDllCdn OO'
ciety No. L." to meet at Z p. M. May
Is, 1904, at Mrs. Dorsey's. William
Bludworth was sheriff and was ad
vertising a long list Of tax d%elinquents
An executors sale was advertised by
J. G. Wright, r. Bradley and J. Hart.
man, and altogether the Gazette wa
q gOodly chronicle of the early day.
making now an exceedingly Interest,"
ing old relic. It was found a few
DAYS ago by Mr.. MalIard's famil,
THE SOUL OF THE INDIAN.