19 Aug 1854
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1854
Page
1
Public notices from a Bristol publication advertise subscription prices and payment in advance. The sheet lists two dollars per year in town, four cents for copies, and classifies advertising rates by square measures with yearly rates for twenty lines per week at ten dollars per annum.
A poem pleads for God’s help and protection for motherless children. It laments their lack of maternal love and asks for mercy, guidance, and strength to resist sin, urging readers to remember their plight and shield them wherever they dwindle in life.
New York August 8 report says the Ericsson sailed this morning on a trial trip with one engine. A second engine will be ready in a week. Steam is generated on primitive systems but is expected to be much more economical than the current setup.
Captain David Burt of the ship Stephen Kee at Bath reports outrages at Chatham Miramichi. He was detained while seeking clearance and fined after a magistrate alleged he shipped his own crew. Burt describes lack of protection for American shipmasters and conflicts over seamen and consular support. The American consul Mel Fraser supports Burt’s right to hire crew, while authorities warn against police and shipping master interference.
Jeremiah Mullen reports his 19 year old assistant left his home in Salem on Friday evening and foul play is suspected. The missing young man is about five feet four inches tall with a dark complexion, wearing his dress at departure.
Workmen uncover burned bones and charred wood beneath the surface of a West field. The remains appear to be those of individuals executed at the stake, laid in a coffin as in a churchyard burying.
The American Bratt Society reports last month publications at 86 813 volumes and receipts of 23 735 50 dollars. A Parisian fashion dentist was jailed in Philadelphia on $2000 bail for improper conduct with female patients under chloroform. A French vessel captain, Samuel Nichols, faced U S Commissioner Ingraham on charges of slave ship activity aboard the Grey Eagle, with over 600 captives taken from Africa and 16 deaths. the case postponed due to missing witnesses.
A storm safety notice explains it is dangerous to lean against a wall during a thunderstorm. Lightning can travel down walls and strike a person, who conducts electricity better than the wall, so avoid wall contact during storms.
A collection of short essays argues that religion and business should aid each other while warning against using church attendance to gain trade favor. Anecdotes critique worldly motives, and a separate note praises love as a divine force shown through simple, generous acts.
The text outlines ancient city sizes and monuments. Nineveh measures fifteen miles long nine wide and forty miles around with one hundred foot walls. Babylon covers sixty square miles inside walls three hundred feet high. The temple of Diana rises four hundred feet after two centuries of work. The Great Pyramid stands four hundred eighty feet high with base six hundred sixty three by six hundred sixty three feet and three layers totaling about two hundred eight. Egyptians built with massive stones and a workforce around three hundred sixty thousand. Thebes spans twenty seven miles, Carthage and Athens twenty five miles each.
A reflective exhortation on human conduct and aspirations urging readers to elevate even modest lives through noble aims. The prose invites personal reflection on how affections and talents contribute to a greater, eternal harmony beyond earthly existence.
In a hotel lobby a man signs the register and offers a prank explanation for his initials P. Li. B. The staff mistake the mark for nobility until he reveals it stands for Patent Leather Boots. He explains he paid extra for boot blacking, then leaves with a quiet smile.
Reading unclear notes report faults committed in public with location hint between Zanesville and Lafeyward. The text records an output figure of 78 flour per 1000 barrels of flour per day.
The article notes that bells heard from a distance increase when sounded on a surface. A bell in Philadelphia was raised on a triangle and struck during market day, startling crowds as the sound carried farther than usual. It states air sound speeds 1130 to 1140 feet per second and water 4708 feet per second, with sound distinguished twice as far underwater as on land.
The piece extols labor as righteous and vital, arguing activity sustains life and honors God. It claims luxury and conquest arise from honest work, denounces labor scoffers, and asserts all human adornments come from diligent toil in mines, fields, and forges.
A fragmented line references a Pent neon and cotton factories and a tank. The speaker notes someone asked them to go see them but they did not go, expressing relief.
The Marquis de Cus ling argues serfs lack acknowledged rights yet form the nation. Peasants fear loss of land and seek benevolent masters to buy them and their families, sometimes paying to gain freedom from tax burdens and to be owned by a richer proprietor. In some districts peasants repay more to masters than the value of the land they work.
The passage urges judges to be more learned than witty and more reverent than plausible, advising integrity as their central virtue above all. It emphasizes prudence, caution, and principled judgment in judicial conduct.
A church scene shows a young convert confessing wicked acts and promising restitution when an old lady interrupts suggesting he should marry Nancy as agreed. The exchange captures a humorous, rustic tone and social pressures of the era.
A fragmentary line from a historic text describes a drunken man using a lighthouse metaphor. The garbled wording hints at nautical imagery and cautionary language about water and guidance, suggesting a maritime proverb or lyric fragment.
In New England parishes a thirty year practice sent birth gift notes. an old maid Tabitha Temple praised mercies, but her note reading expressing thanks led a visiting minister to pray for “the child,” provoking laughter as Tabitha blushed and she never tried again.
A green’un who had never seen a steamboat fell through a hatchway into the Winfield Scott’s hold. He exclaimed loudly in surprise, saying the thing was holler. The incident reflects the newcomer's startled reaction to steamship life.
A Pacific excerpt discusses why people fear carrying small bundles and the social stigma of appearing burdened. It recalls two Bonaparte anecdotes, one about Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte’s American son at Cambridge who resists carrying a broom, and another about a woman who never carries bundles herself, fearfully avoiding vulgarity.
The text notes a divided situation with a poor man fearing the almshouse and a rich man fearing dyspepsia and wine padding. It asks who is ahead in this precarious contest.
A fragment discusses plum pudding rarely boiled enough and parodies Lord Byron who planned a birthday plum bing with careful directions but faced a mishap. The text also muses about memories of wild oats from youth in a reflective tone.
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