26 Apr 1834
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Newspaper
Bristol Gazette
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1834
Page
1
The Bristol Gazette urges punctual payment with annual and quarterly rates. Advertisements cost one dollar per square for three weeks and twenty cents for each subsequent insertion. Yearly advertisers may pay ten dollars. new subscribers or replacements must pay postage in advance, with incentives for five subscribers who bring in new readers.
In the Senate on Monday April 14 memorials from Troy and Schenectady favoring the Bank and deposits restoration were presented. Salem Massachusetts residents urged restoration of a stable currency. Debates arose over public money deposits and the Bank of the United States amid protests about conduct and language. The funeral of Representative Dennis from Slorsland interrupted sessions. The National Intelligencer reports tribute to Littleton Purnel Dennis.
An early audience attends the Senate as secretaries read a controversial message. Mr Poindexter condemns it as unofficial and not a proper Executive Message, moving to not receive it. Debates extend to 3 o clock. adjournment follows with no decision. In the House, resolutions on bank suspensions and deposits are discussed. appropriations and state of the union work proceed before adjournment.
The United States ship John Adams at Gosport Navy Yard Norfolk was struck and damaged on Wednesday evening. It caught fire but was checked by fire engines arriving promptly amid a severe thunderstorm felt across town.
A boiler burst on the steamboat Wyoming near Madison Indiana causing several passengers to be scalded. The vessel was racing another boat which towed her to Cincinnati. Two or three people reportedly leaped overboard and died. Injured on deck are expected to recover.
Frederick H. Ware seized a nine year old girl named Lucinda Shackford as she walked to school in the Mall and carried her toward the burying ground. Passersby intervened and Ware pleaded guilty at the police court and was bound over for trial at the May term of the Municipal Court.
A Freehold New Jersey man David Matthews sustains severe burns leaving his life in danger while two of his children perish. A Brattleboro paper notes a New York woman borrows pounds of four and laments whiskey use with a neighbor. A countrywoman discovers candle prices rose by a penny, blamed on war. Early rising linked to beauty and virtue. The piece closes with a quip on wealth and sickness.
The article summarizes 1832 medical guidance by Dr. Dewees on croup treatment. It instructs rubbing the throat with turpentine, using syrups such as squills or Cox's hive syrup as expectorants or emetics, and repeating doses if hoarseness persists. It advises castor oil for constipation, barley water or flaxseed tea for diet, a warm room, and throat protection with flannel.
A Maine Farmer excerpt details a Vermont style winter wheat technique. Ground is prepared in autumn seed sown late after swelling and boxing then frozen storage until spring. It claims reduced winter kill and nearly double yields, urging trial to boost regional wheat crops.
A nineteenth century editorial urges laboring men to avoid violent bursts of work followed by rest. It argues steady daily toil maintains health, prevents dyspepsia and illness, and cures laziness, while criticizing feeble workers who only labor during planting or haying seasons and suffer prolonged sickness. By V. E. Farmer.
A pastor recounts burying H. C. aged 25, widow 22, after a fatal encounter blamed on drink. He recalls his anger at the destroyer, but keeps silent to protect friends, noting society covers the real cause with euphemisms and whispers of consumption.
Jefferson states that the habit of using ardent spirit by men in public office has caused more harm to the public service and personal trouble than any other issue in his administration. He says if he began again he would first question every candidate about their use of ardent spirits.
The diary of a Panv Bician traces Henry Dudleigh’s decline from prosperous, prudent merchant to ruin. A suspected apoplexy, risky outlays, and a swindler’s mortgage fraud devastate his finances. Creditors press, a court fight ensues, and bankruptcy follows as his daughter Agnes consoles him.
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