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Newspaper
Bristol Gazette
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1833
Page
3
A reader urges the Bristol Young Men's Temperance Society to resume weekly meetings and redouble efforts after a disappointment. The letter warns of rising intemperance, calls for exhortations, and appeals to members to persist for the sake of wives and children and public welfare.
The Mir Editor posts a solution to a published Ennigma with letter-position riddles. It suggests substitutions like Pin for Spi and decodes items such as Cat lith Rat Nation Ant and Top through numbered letter hints.
Correspondence from Springfield dated December 16 1838 describes a young woman who suffers severe paroxysms and appears to read, speak, and perform tasks while unconscious. Witnesses report head pain bandages nightly awakenings and movement. doctors are astonished yet cautious, noting moral character and hospital care funded by local citizens.
Correspondent reports Mr Clay defies Jackson press while McDuffie speech, praised in National Intelligencer, stirs Capitol intrigue. Includes drowning accident of seven boys on a pond in Stuyvesant Meadows and society notices from Bristol Library and local police act.
Fire in Savannah destroyed several buildings on South Broad Street morning of the 12th, sparing only a few. The piece urges farmers and workers to spend long winter evenings reading to improve knowledge and future prospects.
Brighton Market reports for Monday December 23 list 140 beef cattle 30 stores 958 sheep and 250 swine. Swine prices show prime at 9 5 25 to 10 0, sheep selling from 2 1 8 to 8 quarters per pound, and barrows sows and young hogs priced with small lots noted. retail swine prices listed. A note adds evening admission restrictions due to recent disturbances.
A quarterly meeting of the Bristol Female Charitable Society will be held at Mrs N Gibbs's house on Thursday evening at six o'clock.
Letters directed to persons on board whaling vessels in the Pacific South Atlantic and Indian Oceans, if forwarded to this office free of expense, will be dispatched by the first conveyance. Messages mention ships like Fama Littlefield and Essex Coleman with January dates.
In this town on Wednesday evening last by Rev Bristed William C Cannon of New Bedford wed Miss Mary Ralph daughter of Joseph Ralph of this town. In Newport on the ath inst by Rev Eddy Josias Southwick wed Miss Phebe Place both of Newport. In Dighton Mass George R Davis of Somerset wed Miss Mary A daughter of Joshua Williams of the former place. In Fall River William Thurston wed Miss Eleanor Chace. In Dartmouth Thomas J Lee wed Miss Harriet Turner. In Boston Ozra Kumball wed Miss Hannah Marshall both deaf and dumb. The bridesmaid and groomsman were among the deaf and dumb. The couples formed acquaintances at the Hartford Asylum where the ladies mentioned were formerly residents. In Raynham Briggs officiated Leonare to na Hall.
Obituary notices report deaths in Newport Providence New York Dartmouth New Bedford Fall River and other towns. Details include ages from 2 to 58 and connections to Newport families. Several notices note funerals services and interment in Jewish Cemetery with synagogue prayers by Rev Isaac Seixas.
A December marine log lists arrivals and departures from New York Freetown and Providence ports, including sloops Eliza Tyron, Wellington, Ranger, Fame, and Brook. It notes ships rigged as brig Amstel, Albion, and Sally Hope, with cargoes of wool wood and coal, along with vessels bound for Havana New Orleans and Charleston. A Warren ship, sloop Portsmouth, ran aground in a gale with minimal cargo. multiple vessels cleared and sailed from Tarpaulin Cove and St Jago de Cuba.
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