[Excerpts from the Hillsborough Recorder, 12 July 1820] [transcribed by Mark Murphy, 11 May 2001] Vol. I Wednesday, July 12, 1820, No. 23 ****** List of Letters Remaining at the Post Office in Hillsborough, N.C. July 1, 1820 ...A.D. Murphy, 3. ... ****** Hillsborough Academy The exercises in this institution will be resumed on the first Monday in July. J. Witherspoon, Principal. June 7. ***** Notice is hereby given, That at the last May term of the court of Pleas and Quarter sessions, held for the county of Orange, letters of administration on the personal estate of WILLIAM BOND, late of Tennessee, deceased, was granted to the subscriber; all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make payment; and those having claims against the same, are hereby notified to present them within the time prescribed by law, otherwise this notice will be pleaded in bar of a recovery. David Yarbrough. Hillsborough, Jun 14, 1820. ***** DAVID PRICE COPPER-SMITH INFORMS his friends and customer, that he expects to receive, by the next arrival of the steam boat, a general assortment of Strong Copper Sheets and Bottoms, suitable for making stills of from thirty-five to eighty-five gallons, which he will warrant equal to any made in the United States. Persons wishing to purchase will please call at his shop in Hillsborough street, and judge for themselves. He expects to keep on hand a constant supply of STILLS, and of materials, which will enable him to execute any order with which his friends may favour him. Fayetteville, May 10, 1820. ***** THE BUONAPATE [sic] FAMILY The members of the Buonaparte family at Rome consist of the princess Pauline, married to prince Borghese; Louis Buonaparte, the Ex-King of Holland; Lucien, the prince of Canine, and his family; and lastly, the mother of Napoleon Buonaparte....... The mother of Napoleon, formerly dignified by the title of Madame Mere, resides, together with her brother Cardinal Fesche, in the Pallazzo Falcone.... ***** STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE In General Court, June 16, 1820, The committee to whom was referred a preamble and certain resolutions of the legislature of the state of Virginia, on the subject of a proposed restriction of slavery, communicated by his excellency the governor.... ***** MARRIED, On Wednesday evening last, by the Rev. John Witherspoon, John Scott, esq. attorney at law, to Miss Caroline L. Minor, daughter of the late Capt. Minor, of Newbern. ***** Suicide.- On Saturday the 1st inst. a negro boy belonging to John Whitsal, in the upper part of this couny, was returning from the hold[?] with several of the family, apparently in perfect health and good humour; when he suddenly threw down a plough which he was carrying home, and ran a short distance into the woods, where he was found on Monday evening following suspended with hickory bark to the limb of a tree. The coroner's jury reported a verdict of self-murder. ***** A remarkable large Child.- Mr. Abel Deal, living about ten miles from Elizabeth Town, Bladen county, (N.C.) has a son named Haywood, will be nine years old in August next: is five feet six and a half inches high; was weighed by James Shipman, esq. in January last, and his weight was one hundred and sixty-seven and a half pounds.- He has all the actions and disposition of children generally, of his age. He is rather corpulent; has an open, good countenance; good disposition; very sensible and communicative, for a child raised in the country. His eyes are weak, particularly in the sun. His father is an industrious labouring man, a common size; his mother is quite a small woman- They have a daughter older than Haywood, remarkably large; she lost her eye-sight when very young. Raleigh Reg. ******* Nested Curse.- A villainous practice is spoken of in the Virginia papers, under the above appellation, which is this: In bales of cotton sent abroad, large rocks have been found imbedded in them.... ****** Philadelphia, June 27 A cargo of new Wheat, from North Carolina, of 1200 bushels, was sold yesterday in this market, at 94 1/2 cents, cash. ****** Inland Navigation.- The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Cape Fear Navigation Company convened in this place on the 29th ult. adjourned on Saturday last sine dic.- The company have elected: Directors George T. Hearsey, Esq. Pres't. George McNeill, Henry Branson, John Newlin, and Hon. A.D. Murphey. The Report of the President and Directors....... ***** (By Request) To the Western Merchants. The Petersburg merchants having commenced their "summer circuit", you will please to take notice, and govern yourselves accordingly. Yours & c. C.B. ***** FOUND, A FEW days since, between Chapel Hill and Hillsborough, an elegant gold Watch Key, which the owner can have by proving property and paying charges. Jacob Gregory. Haw creek, Orange county. [end of excerpt]