10 Dec 1859
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1859
Page
1
A devotional verse by Rev J T Powers expresses safe refuge in Christ. The speaker rests on the Saviour’s breast, feels love and constancy, and finds freedom from misery as the hymn concludes with spiritual reassurance.
The piece stresses animal health through proper feeding, housing, exercise, and mild treatment for illness, warning against overmedication. It notes the importance of accurate diagnosis and cautious care before disease advances. A humorous auction anecdote precedes a note that Dr. Uays of Kane is organizing another Arctic expedition plans for spring. The Barnstable kidnapping trial cost is cited as over the specified amount.
A first person narrative aboard a whaler recounts a voyage from Bristol to Hawaii, a night on the volcano Kilauea, and a daylight ascent into the crater. The tale blends dreamlike visions with peril as a companion Manchester shares a prophetic nightmare and the pair explore a lava lake amid perilous fumes and shifting lava.
A narrative recounts a perilous moment on a volcanic bank where a rock seam fractured. Manchester retrieves a tuft of hair as the chunk splits and erupts taking his companion Polo to death. The survivor is borne away by Kanakas, haunted by the fatal fall into the lava.
In an English parish the minister, reading aloud a royal verse, was distracted by yelping game dogs wandering about. He abruptly blurted a treasonous line calling for the prince royal and royal family to be removed, provoking tittering among worshippers.
A fragment essay personifies wind as a musician linking it to nature and distant places. It includes brief humor with rural scenes a hatter crown and a recruiting joke plus a pedagogical quip about wisdom and learning from a boy and a lampooned editor.
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