[Excerpts from the Hillsborough Recorder, 3 Oct 1821]
[transcribed by Mark Murphy, 4 Oct 2001]

...The editor of a paper is master of all parts of it...
...We have seen particularly in the Southern newspapers, gross
libels upon distinguished gentlemen, repeated daily for months, in
the advertising columns, when the editors would have permitted
them to appear in no other department.  The abuse has been so
common, that it is generally supposed there can be no hesitation
in publishing any thing, for which money is offered.
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MOURNING FOR BONAPARTE
The following is the manner in which the decease of Napoleon, and
the mourning for his death are announced under the sanction of his
widow Maria Louisa.
Parma, July
By reason of the death of the most serene husband of our august
Sovereign which happened in the Isle of St. Helena on the fifth
of May last, her Imperial Highness, the gentlemen and ladies who
comprose the interior service of her Court, the persons of the 
ducal household, and the livery will go into mourning for three
months; commencing tomorrow, the 25th, and continuing till the
24th October...
*****
Latest from Europe...
   The lord chamberlain of England has issued orders, directing the
court's going into mourning on the 15th ult. in consequence of the
death of the Queen.
   General Pepe, who commanded the Neapolitan revolutionary army,
has arrived at Falmouth from Lisbon...
   An Augsburg article states that on the 16th of July, the
Seraskier of Bruila, sent to Constantinople several chests full of
ears and noses that had been cut off from the Greeks, and salted on
account of the warmness of the season!
...The Turks crucify their unhappy victims, the Greeks.  Sixteen
of the richest Greeks had been subjected to this cruel death, after
their wives and children had been slowly burnt before their eyes.
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HILLSBOROUGH
HEALTH OF WILMINGTON.
Town Hall, Sept. 22, 1821.
Six persons, black and white, have died of the prevailing fever, 
since the date of our last publication; and there is no expectation
at present of the stoppage of the disease until frost.
By order,  THOMAS CALLENDER, Town Clerk.
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MARRIED,
In this town on Thursday evening last, by the Rev. John Witherspoon,
Dr. JOHN ROGERS, to the amiable Miss MARGARET L. SHEPPERD, youngest
daughter of col. William Shepperd.
DIED,
In this town on Thursday last, Mr. JOHN FADDIS, Jun. merchant.  In
this dispensation of providence a young man in the bloom of his life
has been taken suddenly from the midst of his friends and companions,
a sad memorial of the transitory nature of our earthly existence
and the frailty of human expectations.
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NOTICE.
ON Thursday the 1st day of November next, there will be sold to the
highest bidder, on a credit of twelve months, (the purchaser giving
bond with approved security) at the late residence of James Murray,
senr. deceased,
SIX LIKELY NEGROES;
All his crop of Corn, Fodder, and Tobacco; and Stock of all kinds;
Household and Kitchen Furniture, and Farming Utensils;
with many other articles too tedious to mention.  The sale to 
continue from day to day until all is sold.
All persons indebted to said estate, are requested to make payment
immediately, or they may expect to find their accounts in the hands
of an officer for collection; and those having claims against the 
same to present them well authenticated for settlement, within the
time prescribed by law, otherwise this notice will be plead in bar
of recovery.
Wm. Murray and John Murray, executors.
October 3, 1821				35-4w
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LIST OF LETTERS
Remaining the Post Office, Hillsborough, October 1, 1821.
...Judge Murphey...
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FOR SALE,
A Surveying Compass and Chain, of good quality.  Inquire at this
office.  	October 3.  		86-5t
*****
The subscriber having been appointed agent for this state, offers
for sale at the factory prices,
Dr. A.G. Bull's Lately Improved Self-Adjusting
Patent Hinge Truss.
THE superior utility of this Truss, consists in its simple mode
of application, as well as the happy effect (of its approximating
qualities) of the Rupture Ped; which in its form and operation, 
differs from all others...
Richard L. Cook.
September 26.			85-7t

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