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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1849
Page
2
A poignant scene unfolds at a bedside where a dying man calls for his daughter and family. Florence and Alice share a grim moment as Mr Geahan’s final words are murmured amid the emotional farewell and a sudden, silent death.
Florence faces harsh family pressures amid a thwarted marriage proposal to Pierson and conflicts with her mother-in-law Alice. After a cruel confrontation and a blow, Florence quietly ends her home life, stealing away with her mother’s miniature and a small purse to seek solace elsewhere.
A vague sense of unease or incubus-like weight overwhelms Alice, leaving her unable to shake the oppressive feeling despite efforts to deny it. The fragment hints at a psychological or supernatural distress affecting her thoughts and mood.
The adjourned Bristol Town Meeting appointed Bennett Munro as Tax Collector for the year and named a committee to collect arrears on lots in the North Burial Ground. It ordered no one but town sextons to dig graves there and required a certificate of lot purchase before digging. The meeting adjourned to October 27.
Europe reports from the Europa note more favorable war prospects fading. France grows stable with business activity returning, while major changes may still occur elsewhere in Europe and monarchy faces a steadfast challenge.
Housekeepers urged to buy a superior sal natrus product from Baggs Drury and Easterbrooks after favorable analysis by Dr C T Jackson of Boston. The Genevys Lady's Roux for May features prominent contributors, four steel engravings, six full page plates, 24 extra pages, and engravings like The Rose and Sally and Pilgrims to the Shrine.
Readers are told of R Sands & Co Hippoferman Arena show with Elephants Camelo ponies and camel driven chariots. An entry time is given Friday morning at 11 o clock with a camel drawn band chariot procession. Bermuda advises that John Mitchell the inmate has been punished and sent to Cape Good Hope as a free immigrant with family rejoining him.
News from Europe reports the Steamer Europa arriving at Halifax after fourteen days from various ports. The Americ and Washington lines resume routes, while New World and Plymouth Rock arrivals are noted. Markets show improved sentiment with English funds rising and grain and cotton trade firm amid political tensions and recent Danish conflict uncertainties.
The dispatch reports France curbing domestic unrest under Louis Napoleon with several sentences and transportations for life and years for Bayhes, Albert, Blanque, Flooe, Sobrier, Raxpal, Quinten at Bourges. Acquittals are listed for General Sourtair and others. Italy and Sicily are in upheaval with Charles Albert abdicating, Radetsky armistice, and Palermo resisting peace terms. Hamburg notes ongoing Schleswig-Holstein Denmark tensions and possible war with Russia backing Denmark.
Around 11 pm in Warren Street Roxbury Me W W Harris of Milton was accosted by three seamen aged roughly 16 to 19. A heavy blow with a slung shot caused a serious head wound and he was knocked senseless. On waking he found $7, a valuable breast pin, and a rosewood snuff box stolen along with nearly all his possessions.
The dispatch notes an influx of Americans in Panama City and nearby burghs, with steamer Oreggon sailing on the 13th and 226 passengers aboard. Prices for steerage reach $500 as buyers seek departures, while a canoe voyage is planned. the U.S. Consul remarks few vessels have visited in years, contrasting with recent three months activity.
April 16 report warns of extreme weather in Pirmapetria with three days of severe cold endangering peach, plum, apricot, and cherry crops. On Saturday night into Sunday morning temperatures dropped to 12 degrees below freezing in several locations.
An 1840 letter from Chinon New Jersey reports frost severe but wind and dry air limiting damage. It notes peaches not yet blown, trout may be killed, and ice eight inches deep due to a cold spell and strong breeze.
The National Intelligencer publishes Col Fremonts letter from Taos New Mexico dated February 18 revealing journal extracts of marooned travelers. He describes exhaustion hunger and starvation with companions forced to eat the dead to survive as the party nears San Fe where they expect to depart around February 7 and Fremont denies the expedition had a paid objective.
Wasamoros April 11 The National Whig adlice announces appointments including Philip Greeley Jr as Collector of Customs Boston Philip Mone Naval Officer New York Samuel J Peters Collector of Customs New Orleans Robert B Salle Naval Officer New Orleans Manuel J Garcia Surveyor New Orleans Benjamin S Hawley Collector of Customs Asia luehicola Florida J Present Hall Attorney United States Southern District of New York Charles Bingham United States Marshal Southern District of Alabama James Scott Hepister Jeffersonville Alabama
Tre Cuovens Datea from Brazos notes cholera rages fearfully at Matamoros with daily deaths. New Orleans papers declare the disease entirely disappeared from the city hospital.
From Bermuda dated April 16 reports ships Hartford Spitfire and Great Western in service or repair after distress. Great Western carried 300000 dollars in specie to Southampton. Capt Sullivan arrives detailing loss of schooner Abby Hammond with 15500 dollars of specie sunk and insured losses 11000 and 4500.
The packet ship Constellation billed as the largest merchant vessel would have departed New York for Liverpool with 2000 tons dead weight of provisions and a bulk cargo of 19000 barrels, crew not aboard to limit draught to 23 feet amid uncertain timing. A note on manuscript to proof reads about misreadings causing altered sentences in print.
The speaker recalls a dinner party that progressed from silence to talky exchanges then argumentative disputes. The sequence moves through unintelligible chatter to total inarticulateness and finally duruk in a humorous, critical tone.
A letter from a distinguished friend of popular education appeals to the press and public to support a National Common School Convention. It urges readers to back the measure, praising press influence and urging journals to aid the call and help shape national educational policy.
The Committee of arrangements for the Nanunal Common School Convention to assemble in Philadelphia August 22 requests state and local bodies to convene by July 30 to appoint delegates to the National Convention. Delegates should reflect state representation in Congress and include teachers and superintendents to advance common school education. By order of the Committee Joseph R. Chandler Chairman A B Wiicur Cor Sec.
A Vermont Courier report recounts a slave in a southern city arranging to escape via a northern contact and an intermediary paying $40 for a box on a steamboat. The box was turned upside down during transit, nearly causing death from blood rush, then uprighted and reached a northern city where abolitionists aided the freed man.
The ship Culelis ashore near Nantucket and later taken in by the Mystie arrived at its port. The owners and salvors cannot cover salvage costs and the vessel is libelled in the U.S. District Court with an early court decision expected. The bond of 70 dollars was posted by principal Joel White of Norwich with Stanington sureties. Copper taken from Colchie by Myste during initial wreck salvage has been replaced aboard.
Thos Bally Blavdare Co. on Bourbon and Custom House streets reports a robbery on the 7th. A bank box containing funds and valuables valued around 200000 dollars was taken by three men while a young clerk briefly left the counter. Contents included gold, bank bills, and checks, with other notes and drafts.
The schooner John W. Herbert Capt. Lewis from this port on March 1 with 33 passengers to Corpus Christi arrived at St Josephs Island on the 24th and sailed for Galveston after landing. She was fatally destroyed on Aranaga harbor day. The particulars of her losses have not been received. The vessel was about 1000 tons built a year ago at a cost of $6000 owned in Provincetown and believed to be financed at the Cape. The company aboard was the Essex Mining and Trading Company. William C. Waters, President. Boston Journal.
In Cecil county Maryland the Smoxy Case involves a suit against an Iron Company over smoke nuisance entering a dwelling. Physicians offered conflicting testimony on empires gas compounds while jurors faced a cloud of dispute. Capt Ryrie of the steamer Niagara faced a New York arrest with $3000 bail for alleged ill treatment of John F Doyle and arrest as a Trish sympathizer during the Ningst incident.
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