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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1851
Page
2
A tale of a wife's costly furniture orders and a cruel creditor. Mrs Denean leaves in anger, then reconciles as Mr Duncan's fortunes improve. His integrity and frugality help them overcome misfortune and repay a legacy, teaching a costly lesson about display and responsibility.
At 9 30 this morning a wall collapsed during teardown at 69 Myrtle Street owned by Caleb Cushing injuring two Irish laborers William Dylan of Batolphabeat and James McGinnie of Merrimack Street. Dylan is feared fatally injured while McGinnie died soon after hospital admission Massachusetts General Hospital. News notes religious revival spreading in New Haven with weekday services and many joining to lead a religious life as churches report growing earnestness.
A coroner and city officials examined a mysterious box marked S C Gorham in a crowd near Exchange Place and New Street yesterday. The box emitted a strong odor and investigators found broken bottles of ammonia hydrate instead of bodies, drawing the public’s curiosity and laughter as officers, aided by health wardens, inspected the scene.
The company supplies coal for steamboats and employs over five thousand men. It operates five hundred and fifty boats with crews of four to five each, including captains. Together with miners engineers mechanics and drivers they form a large force attending the locks. The total number of boats on the canal is about one thousand.
The packet ship Washington from Liverpool arrived after a 36 day passage during which she lost her main top mast. She carries 5 cabin and 050 steerage passengers, totaling 1010 souls with officers and crew, all in good health. This marks the greatest number ever conveyed to this port, Captain Page having brought 3,500 immigrants in consecutive voyages.
The Sabbath School of the Methodist Episcopal Church held an exhibition Wednesday evening with a full house. The program featured well chosen pieces admirably spoken by children and adults, with excellent singing from the Sunday School. Credit to the superintendent and teachers for a successful event.
The Warren Star notes a large turnout in Bristol County as the School hosts a major exhibition. The paper hopes the district will stage another similar event soon to showcase student efforts and community interest.
The April town meeting elected J Russell Bullock moderator and re elected Peter Gladding town clerk and George Monro town treasurer. Wardwell and Hall secured General Assembly seats, with a broad list of town officers named including auditors, attorneys, and tax collectors. The Providence result favored Allen and Chapin in state races as tabulated by the Providence Journal.
On Wednesday Inet the old Whig ship of Rhode Island engaged the enemy in political conflict. Disaffection and desertion weakened her crew as sails rigging and hull suffered heavy damage. Many wounded but no deaths. The captain of the enemy is described as cruel and deceitful. The crew finds pride in defense and vows to repair and resume future confrontations.
The Coast Probate holds its regular monthly meeting at the Probate Office at 2 oclock on Monday afternoon next. The Bull imported in the Marmion from Liverpool to improve local stock is noted as English blood. A new volume of Miscellaneous Poems by George H. Coomer is reviewed, available at Matthew's Newspaper Depot. In Massachusetts, the Massachusettes Legislature for U S Senator ballot results show Somner 179, Winthrop 169, scattering 32, with three weeks more for a trial after a divided vote. Aver's Cuenny Pectora is recommended by the Christian Observer as a trusted medicine for throat and lung ailments.
Correspon dence notes dull trade from Boston to New Orleans amid rising itinerant hawkers and small stores. A notorious swindler, a middle aged woman with lavish display, bilks merchants, landlords, and boarding houses while 5,000 sidewalk sellers flood entries with goods. The Georgina sails February 8 for California mail and gold dust, and Webster’s Harrisburg speech is praised as Nicaragua tensions rise. The money market steadies and stock values rise as a Clouse shooting case draws five drivers into custody.
About five hundred canal boats and barges lay in tiers across several acres of the Atlantic Dock Basin. Families of boatmen occupy these flaming dwellings for the season, with twenty boats recently departure. Caulk, paint and repairs surge as the fleet nears penne ihe 15th when the canal area opens. Sabastero freight offers little Western traffic, and spring forwarding lags naval pace.
A fragment describes postal agreements with Capa ba to speed mail delivery. It mentions a sealable bag system and uniform postage for letters prepaid within the United States and to western provinces. The text hints at temporary rates and eligibility for certain senders.
Reports from Batawa say Robert McCaw a railroad workman on the Attica and Hospersville line was killed yesterday afternoon at Alexander. Two others were killed in War saw on the same day as strike tensions rise. Irish laborers reportedly marching from Warsaw to Attica threaten noncompliers prompting citizens to arm. Murderers arrested and further injuries feared with two hundred stands of arms arriving from the State Arsenal.
Ezekiel Debo a twenty year old man was stabbed by James Brown as they argued on a city street. Debo died soon after and Brown, who had just returned from college, was arrested and committed for trial.
An elderly colored man was seized by unknown assailants last Saturday night as he and his wife resisted. They were dragged toward the Maryland line. the woman was knocked down and the man captured. He had lived in the area for about a year and was thought to be a fugitive from slavery. This marks the second such abduction in the neighborhood within weeks.
The Ohio license law authorizing liquor dealing was repealed by the State Constitutional Convention. The section states no licence for trading in intoxicating liquors shall be granted in the state, with General Assembly authority to act against resulting evils. The vote counted 57 yeas to 38 nays, and the engrossed report after amendment showed yeas 18 to 45 nays.
The US Mail Steamer Cherokee departed New York Friday afternoon bound for Chagres carrying 905 passengers. The Prometheus also sailed for Chagres the same day with many passengers, and a third steamer left for the same port in the past week. Emigration to California continues unabated with families from Utah and California among its ranks.
Joseph Wagner attacked the Clouse residence on Sixty-first Street New York shattering a window and firing a pistol through the broken pane injuring Jacob Clouse who is unconscious Wagner was arrested and jailed awaiting a verdict. Four others held on suspicion in the village.
An unidentified woman threw a vial of vitriol at Mins Voances Kilgore as she left the lamp factory on Besch Street. The contents burned Kilgore's face and she cried out in pain before the assailant fled, jealousy suspected as motive.
In Albany two hackmen Fisher and Denham were arrested on a charge of assaulting and violating Mrs Burke. They lured her under pretense of finding lodging aboard the Armenia and afterward left her in a stable. She traveled to Jenkinson's Brown before dawn. Mrs Burke is the mother of seven children, only two alive, with relatives in Rochester and Buffalo.
The Phillipe home in North Woodstock Connecticut burned last week. Mr Phillipe and his wife escaped but three of their children perished and a fourth died soon after from burns. Phillipe suffered severe eye injuries and other effects from the blaze as the Atlantic voyage era death toll is noted.
William V. Willie reports from London that American shipowners note rapid construction of a large class of clippers called the San Francisco clippers. Vessels vary 1000 to 1700 tons American, with one 2500 ton ship in progress in New York. The speed is praised as potentially superior to existing vessels and may capture the China trade if laws stay as is.
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