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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1850
Page
1
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Poem pleading for divine support in hardship and sorrow. The speaker asks Jesus for strength to endure derision, temptation, sorrow, illness, and death troubled by fleeting pleasures. A devotional verse urging steadfast faith and heavenly hope.
A call to readers to aid impoverished families during winter, urging compassion for those without shelter clothing or food. It emphasizes divine providence, social duty, and the virtue of giving up luxuries to relieve the sick and hungry through practical charity.
The passage argues that mere years and daily motion do not constitute life. It calls for knowledge, truth, love, beauty, and faith to awaken the conscience. Intense feelings, wonder, prayer, doubt, hardship, and trust nourish the essential humanity beyond mere routine.
A Hertford clergyman faced mockery after a tax joke in which he claimed ownership of rats and mice and admitted lacking a bank stock. Friends witnessed the satire, felt shame, and helped withdraw the line of clerical wit. The episode hints at modesty dulling arrogance and public credence fading for those who congeal reputations.
In Paris a model balloon measuring five yards with 1900 litres of gas and a fish shape was tested in the Hippodrome to steer in a direction. It uses two ladders to ascend and turn, with movable wave fins driven by simple mechanisms. the inventor M Arnault says the full version would require a seventy yard long craft to carry three men.
The Europe bound advices report a England telegraph company bought the patent for private, secure messaging to protect business correspondence. A Union meeting at the St Charles Theatre in New Orleans drew huge crowds praising the Confederacy with Senators Foote and Downs denouncing agitators, to sail to Washington on the Pacifia.
A.C. Huguenin a German watch importer living at 19 Beekman St jumped the Park Fountain iron railing and tried to drown himself. Officers Bell and Whigam pulled him from the basin and took him home. He had shown mental distress for days prior to the incident.
A puzzling note from early papers claims a man grows half an inch taller in the morning due to sleep and pressure. It jokes that readers who skip payments shrink in stature and humorously suggests some subscribers would fit Barnum’s crowd, given their small size and debts.
The Mississippi Legislature appointed a 14 member House and 7 member Senate committee to report a bill for a convention with plenary powers to take measures deemed proper amid present difficulties. Quitman reports dispatching a note urging immediate militia organization.
A rowdy monologue recalls a wheelbarrow analogy ending with a cracked world and a headlong fall into a gutter. It shifts to a Hoosier recalling Jenny Lind and a grave marker note, then to a town critic debating cash systems and weekly board payments, ending with a quip on compromise and self-respect.
In a heated house drama, Miss Isabella Warden wrestles with love for Hezekiah Spike while family jealousy, deceit, and a perilous murder rumor swirl. A dead body is found in a brook, accusations fly, and Bella’s steadfast integrity leads to a dramatic confrontation and a pledge of marriage.
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