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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1845
Page
3
The document notes a policy aim to extend protection over territorial limits and reject new European colonization without consent. It also reports on a lengthy President's Message partial publication and a lecture by Professor O Worr praised for engaging clarity and natural science instruction. a follow up lecture is promised.
The Senate opened with Vice President Dallas presiding and forty three members named. The House elected a Speaker with Davis receiving a majority. South America voyage updates, the Greenville cotton factory fire, and various local deaths and drownings are reported. Calhoun elected to U.S. Senate from South Carolina. Truxton refitted. slave steamer seizure near Pernambuco. Penelope captures Cacique and implications for prize cases.
The piece surrounds heated Rhode Island political tensions with attacks on James F. Simmons and the Law and Order candidates, plus coverage of Berwick fortifications and Mormon emigration fears. It also lists local incidents, trials, and advertisements for medicines and ointments, reflecting period news and notices.
An advertisement touts Folger's Olosaonian or All Healing Balsam as a remedy for lingering coughs risking consumption. It claims numerous cures and cites Col. Benton of Bleecker Street who was supposedly cured after taking the remedy.
The sixth Lecease of the Course will be delivered at the Court House on Tuesday evening sext by Hon Fasnew Baris of Taunton. Doors at 7 pm. Lectures commence at ten pm. Tickets available at John B Munro’s store for 75 cents for the course and 25 cents per single lecture, to be paid at the door.
The record lists several nuptials and engagements including the marriage of the late George W. Allen's daughter, a union for Miss Margaret Iman with a son of the late Mr Kirby of Augusta, the engagement of Mr Job G. Lawton to Miss Patience Cavol of Fall River, and the marriage of Nathaniel Lewis to Hannah J. Northop in Centreville Warwick.
In this town on Monday morning lant Mrs Mary wife of Capt Joseph Munro aged 61 Yesterday Elisabeth wife of Mr Jeremiah Munro aged 29 On Tuesday morning Jacob Williams son of Mr Jacob Babbitt Jr aged 4 On Wednesday afternoon Mrs Hannah widow of the late Mr William Manchester aged 73 In Warren on the 20th alt Ann Frances infant daughter of Samuel and Jane Ann Allen aged 5 months and 14 days Aveva on his passage from Canton to Suez Charles W King Esq of New York late of Olephant Co Canton and son of the late Samuel King Esq of Newport
The Marine Journal records daily sailings at Bristol port from November 1 to 4 1845. Sloops Bristol Hathaway from Freetown and Wm H Allen from Providence are noted with arrivals and departures, including Three Brothers Angra York and others like Ney Allen from Taunton and Glide from Providence.
Entries list vessels and movements including Huma and Weeden at Mobile on the 19th loadings. Tarry Not with Nassau bound cargo at Jacksonville on the 20th. Silver Spring cleared at Philadelphia on the 28th. Mantilla at Let with unknown port. James Cage from Grand Caillou reported at New Orleans on the 23rd.
A long maritime log lists whaling vessels, captains, ports, and catches near Maui and the NW Coast. Noted are the Charles Carroll Andrews from Nantucket with 150 whales and 12 months at sea, Marcus Taber from Fairhaven with 200 barrels and illness forcing quit, and Mary Pitman from Nantucket with 650 barrels sp added. Also records ships spoken by the South America and various hauls, weather, and losses including Tacitus wreck and United States with 450 whales oil.
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