“It would seem...”

    Date

    2-18-1812

    Newspaper

    Petersburg Intelligencer

    Page and Column

    Page 2, column 5

    Newspaper Location

    Petersburg, Virginia

    Serial Number

    1032

    Abstract

    Report that the John C. Edwards account is fictitious

    Transcript

    It would seem, from the following two articles, that the account which we copied into our last paper of the tremendous VOLCANO in North-Carolina, turns out to be-a hoax! We have reason to suspect that the letter published in our last paper, under the signature of John Clarke Edwards, giving an account of a Volcano, said to have burst out in Buncombe county, is unworthy of credit.-We shall be able in a short time to ascertain the truth. Raleigh Register. We are informed by the Post master and by another respectable citizen of Ashville, that the communication published in our page 7, giving an account of the Earthquake in Buncombe, is a gross misrepresentation, and that no such man as John C. Edwards, (a name signed to the piece,) was every known in that place.--The same person last week passed off a most barefaced hoax upon the Register, making at a single dash of the pen, a widow and thirteen orphans by throwing a fat taylor on his belly in the Buncombe Earthquake, and making also a volcano occasion the overflow of 200 acres of rich bottom land, to the great injury of the owners!!--If this scribbler wishes to pass for a wit, he will find his claim disallowed by the public. The attempt to lessen the credit of vehicles of public information will not be passed over with indulgences. Star

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