14 Apr 1860
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1860
Page
1
Jim Bruce, a boy with limited means and a dissipated father, learns self discipline by quitting tobacco. He tracks his spending, decides to stop buying tobacco, then discards his tobacco box and chews no more. His resolve stands as a cautionary pattern for peers to cast aside the habit.
Mrs Partington travels to town to pick a guardian for her precocious child. She laments urban changes from country life and coal smoke while noting the city’s moral turpitude and radical training. She fears disruption but hopes restraint will guide the boy toward usefulness despite influences. The text fuses humor and social commentary.
The author argues that those who spread coldness and blame will find similarly cold a world, while a consistently kind and merciful person will receive mercy in return. A life of pardon and help fosters a warmer, more generous world through reciprocal mercy.
Advice to children against gossip and tattling. It urges focusing on positives, refraining from repeating faults, and practicing charity. Encourages praising virtuous traits and telling sins to God for pardon, aligning with Christ-like behavior.
An odd reminiscence of a Western hotel where a stranger slept with a trapper who boasted dreaming of scalping Indians. Mrs Partington mused on Napoleon's pillars and iron pillows as a boy asked a question about murder, while a Rev Dr Neal spoke at a late lecture about happiness and selling.
Henry Morford and his sister Alice rescue an orphan girl named Ellen Waters on a cold night. They confront Miss Waters, secure Ellen, and vow to raise her as their own, viewing the act as a divine gift and a deed unto the least of these. Ellen finds warmth, a new family, and a hopeful future with the Morfords.
The excerpt recalls Patrick Slonry on his deathbed declaring there is a book more valuable than all others and asking to read it. John Randolph reflects on human depravity while awaiting death, and Sir Walter Scott, nearing death, asks for the book as the shades fall.
The bill reported by Mr. Eliot of Massachusetts forbids fitting out vessels to transport coolies from China for forced apprenticeship or servitude abroad with penalties for builders and commanders. It requires consular certificates for voluntary emigrants and empowers the President to order examination and port adjudication. It also extends the acts of February 1847 and March 1849 and takes effect immediately.
The text describes a transparent, multi layered hair with overlapping cells tapering to a point. It notes serrated edges, transverse lines, and irregular sinuous patterns. Hog bristles resemble human hair, finer lines, jaw teeth visible at edges, and horn fibers show close overlapping plates with different medulla arrangements.
A tense city meet reveals a vain but hopeful tragedian told of a rich patron offering a hundred pounds to see him reform Hamlet. The aspiring actor haggles over the offer while a scheming man tries to stay anonymous, leading to a sharp break.
A brief vignette shows a child asking if a man is respectable because of his worn attire. The mother responds that clothes do not determine character and gently rebukes judging others by appearance. The dialogue contrasts superficial judgments with a moral teaching.
A 19th century column argues parental discipline forms adult character and social behavior. It warns that neglecting home rules fosters disobedience, crime, and vice, urging parents to provide wholesome routines and reading material to keep youths away from pollution and public disorder.
A healthful living man who drinks brandy and water and eats rich suppers is held up as a counterexample to temperance critics. The piece notes his decline and death from chronic illness after years of alcohol use, leaving six children ruined financially and physically. The tone is moralizing and sensational, drawing on a journal entry for evidence.
A collage of antique maxims and anecdotes contrasts proverbs on resisting beginnings with religious admonitions about sin and crucifixion. The piece blends a Thomas Adams quotation on temptation with stories of a Washington engineer aide and quirky domestic tips.
The document records a sequence of acts from the January 1868 Rhode Island General Assembly. It covers amendments to distraint of animals, pauper removal appeals to the supreme court, governing bagatelle tables, criminal case penalties in Providence county jail, and provisions for a new State House including funding through a sinking fund and a statewide ballot measure with consent or non consent options.
Fragmentary text reflects on charity as wide moral action from helping others to guiding wanderers and aiding the thirsty. It contrasts worldly wealth with the good deeds remembered after death. A garbled note recalls William the Conqueror fearing final judgment and seeking clergy intercession for sins.
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