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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1857
Page
2
The Bristol daily notes years of public interest in Juniper Hill Cemetery, with extensive surveys and plots laid out. Funds remain needed to complete grading and avenues, with shares at 100 dollars and 28 already taken, as titles and sales proceed.
July 27 1857 Justice Mungo presided over a Bristol court hearing Patrick Lahee for keeping a public house with intoxication issues. Others fined include James Duff and Jemmy, with Sisson and O Brien pleading guilty to drinking and public nuisance. A horse theft and nonreturn case involving Samuel R Cooley ends in six months’ hard labor.
Local residents report nocturnal thefts of fowl in the south town. Mr. Waldron trapped a fat coon with a leg in the trap on Monday, shot it, and weighed about 12 pounds. A reward of two dollars is offered for anyone who tears down posted handbills. Probate Court meets Monday at 2 in Sterndon. India mutiny stirs England with suspicions of outside involvement, which she denies.
Fragment from a polemical piece condemning alcohol as a downfall of reason. The speaker rages against drinkers converting intellect to beastial, moral ruin and invokes hellish laughter as sobriety fades. It laments the intoxicating peril to virtue and salvation.
The essay contrasts the Elgin, Xanthian, and Nineveh marbles with natural wonders, arguing that Egypt and Grecian relics pale beside nature's vast works. It invites readers to ascend pyramids and mountains, then tremble at nature's power that dwarfs human art and monuments.
A European dispatch reports the Europa steaming from Liverpool near Sambro Head with fog delays, plus arrivals and timings of the Persia and Erricsson. It covers debates in Parliament on slave trade, Suez Canal views, and planned British naval and colonial actions in India and China, with references to Niagara and other vessels.
Later from Havana, July 28, reports the steamer Philadelphia arriving after a 23 day Havana passage. Health of the island and city good, shipping in harbor healthy, markets at Havana hull, sugar stock about 224000 bales. Brig W D Miller landed 400 slaves near Candenas and was later burned.
Official advices report the Dale docking at Porto Grande Cape Verde on June 27 as smallpox rages on shore making landings for table supplies difficult.
The article notes Philadelphia and Baltimore see steady decline in foreign trade with few ships owned and no landings. New York expands rapidly while Boston’s imports rise toward a record year. Major global trades are concentrated in those two cities, narrowing options for Philadelphia and Baltimore to a small port circle amid the winter embargo.
The Rumstick Point quarantine vessel has two illness cases, both now improved. Dr. Moore cannot confirm yellow fever and suggests a non contagious simple fever as the likely cause before departure from Havana.
The slave brig H. D. Miller had landed a cargo of 400 negroes near Cardenas while another vessel was charted. Two cargoes of coolies had arrived at Havana.
Washington July 29 reports Commodore Newton fell to paralysis soon after Naval Court No. 3 adjourned and died shortly after the attack. He appeared in perfect health until the moment of the incident.
A fatal yellow fever case occurred in Walliamsburg last Sunday. L. D. Gross, a ship joiner who had worked on a vessel from the West Indies, died after four days of illness. Drs Colt Wade and Brady confirmed the diagnosis as a well marked yellow fever case. Health Officer Dr. Cleveland will present the matter to the Board of Health this afternoon.
A Vermont praise compares the state to a model with no police or murders in ten years. It extols homes where fathers work and mother leads, educating and molding citizens and patriots.
A U S steamer reaches port with fifty three former Walker forces, mostly young from the South and West. Among them are officers Major Delaney and Lieutenants Simpson and Snyder. four deserters are shunned by the faithful. Several wounded or amputees, some in clothing distress, are brought aboard cyane. Deserters also noted aboard Roanoke and Saratoga at Aspinwall and Grey Town, with Wm Bigley dying en route and to have been heir to substantial sum if he had lived.
The Bridge Commissioners contracted L Kingsley of Fall River to build the Brickstone river bridge. Delays from insufficient appropriation push completion to next spring, with centre pier and abutments to begin soon. Carriage travel over the current bridge will be suspended during ongoing work, and the old bridge will be shored for winter safety until the new structure is ready in spring.
A Cincinnati Gazette excerpt reports July 22 from Jommmsa Rockcastle Co Kentucky that a mob stormed a church during a sermon abducting Rev John Bee and two other ministers. One minister was injured and they were forced to leave the county. The assailants claimed to target thieves and claimed schools threaten public order, revealing anti slavery tensions and push to establish a school as the outrage motive.
Last Saturday around noon William Cook aged about years son of Mrs Quok misfired a pistol while in a back yard with a neighbor boy. The ball entered the left breastbone passed through the right lung and lodged in the region. He was taken home where Drs Miller and Baker treated him. His condition is very critical.
The Scientific American notes that wearing thick cotton over the head can prevent sun stroke and heat fits. It states no case of such fits has been found in someone who wore a thick cotton wrap, and presents the remedy as simple and worthy of general knowledge.
The America, due soon to arrive for whaling, will be fitted with a whale boat built on the propeller principle recently invented in New York. The boat is said to be capable of thirty miles per hour through the water, a speed noted by the New Bedford Standard.
A violent tornado swept over Tewksbury on Friday afternoon described as remarkably destructive. It carried away trees fences and parts of a house belonging to John Clark. Residents reported a whirl of debris from Round Pond to the valley with a width of about twenty five rods and no loss of life.
A correspondent praises the outside route to New York for avoiding overnight transfers between car and boat. The piece commends Governor Dubeiko and the officers for their service and steadfast leadership.
On Mercer Street a man identified as A. I. Van Liem was found dead with signs of violence. His pockets were emptied and watch damaged, leading to suspicion of robbery. Police have yet to identify the assailants. Also reported is the death of Captain Patten in Boston and the illness of his wife slowly recovering from fever.
An Anecdote from Mr. Sumner in London recounts his discreet arrival at Maprigy’s hotel on Regent Street under the name Mr. Summer Boston. Lords Brougham the Lord Chief Justice and the Lord Chancellor visit his room, with the hostel staff astonished by the reactions and the Morning Post later reporting his arrival.
In New York on Monday a couple of patent safe-crackers targeted a gullible man at a hotel. They deceived him into borrowing a gold watch to impress his wife, then he vanished after stepping out a door, with his wife holding the funds.
A garbled report details an altered Metacomet Bank note intended to deceive readers, followed by a Tamworth drowning incident where Margaret Melntytes jw, aged fifteen, reportedly drowned an infant during an absence connected to Mrs Whiting and later became a mother herself, with the infant’s fate unknown.
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