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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1867
Page
2
The article discusses gradual social progress, noting education as key after Reform acts, praising educated voters including black progress in America, and criticizing Puritanical repression of Fenian activity. It reviews Britain's cautious liberalism, calls for updated crime codes, and highlights Pacific Railroad progress and President Johnson’s annual message.
Reports cover diverse topics from Cuba church vaccination and mummies bones to Dickens readings and Paris exhibition plans. Notable items include deaths, auctions, rail and steamship news, public notices and local real estate transactions across multiple U.S. towns.
The Boston Journal reports Nathaniel McKay of East Boston on a New York bound train helped with the deceased who was formerly of this town and a clerk with Alexander Strong at 97 Pearl Street Boston. The body was sent to a sister living at 4 Chester Square, and friends departed Boston to bring the remains home.
The City of Paris under Captain Kennedy completed the Queenstown to Lindy run in seven days twenty-three hours and four minutes. The voyage beat Cunard’s Scotia record by four hours, set in July 1866, according to the New York Journal of Commerce.
In a Rhode Island churchyard at Little Compton rests Elizabeth, wife of William Pabodie, died May 31, 1717, aged 93. She is claimed as the first white woman born in the country.
In St. Louis a 17 year old German boy shot his uncle with a revolver, then attempted to kill his aunt with a hatchet, and finally stole $40 from the home and made his escape.
A railroad accident in Alabama released a menagerie’s wild animals from their cages. They fled into the woods but were captured again without major difficulty.
The Louisiana Convention introduces a bill to establish free schools for children aged six to eighteen regardless of race, color, or condition, and to create a New Orleans free university open to all who meet admission. The plan aims to educate both whites and blacks to foster peace and harmony in the South.
The Chinese Josh house in Portland Oregon is complete and being furnished in lavish style. A two lit oil glaze vestibule lights the outside painted figures while inside bronzed gilded furniture gleams in Chinese fashion. A throne and neon like glows hint at upcoming ceremony with celestial figures depicted in motion.
Grorara becomes the only reconstructed Southern State to restart interest payments on its debts, signaling financial stabilization amid postwar adjustments.
The will of Mrs Mary T B Gladding, who died November 6 in this town, was admitted to probate. The document outlines gifts to Foreign Missions in Turkey, the American Bible Society for Heathen lands, funds to the American Home Missionary Society, a pew in Bristol’s Catholic Congregational Church for Stranger’s use, and a trust for aged and indigent female communicants, with income to be directed to saving institutions in the state.
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