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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1857
Page
2
The article argues wealth causes crime as a lure and enables fraud through secrecy and impunity. It contrasts rich criminals who profit from financial schemes with poorer offenders who rob or steal, noting social tolerance and the hoarding of public funds by elites.
The piece discusses widespread crime and its economic impact, urging protective reforms and moral action. It notes improvements in business activity with mills like Sprague brothers, Weymouth, Adams Weymouth works resuming, and Fall River and nearby mills planning reopens in January. It mentions North Atlantic mills and Katting Cotton Mill readiness next week.
The article notes Congress activity minimal with Douglass speeches on the Kansas Conventions and Stanton successor nomination remark. It lists House Standing Committees, names Durfee and Brayton as appointees, and references Boston mayoral results with Liscolg defeating Hall by about 4000. It also mentions magazine engravings and charitable plans for the poor.
A local committee plans a popular lecture course to close winter with Henry Giles as a featured speaker and readings by Mr Kelley. Subscriptions are sought to fund repeats and support literary events at the Court House ball night.
The December number of a valued publication is highlighted for its usefulness to families and children. It includes nine engravings and assorted prose and verse, promoted as a neat New Year present. Printed by Damrell & Moore of Boston.
Notice informs readers a new issue will be issued Friday morning and requests advertisers to submit ads by Thursday morning. The message includes a Christmas reference and asks advertising friends to send in their materials.
In Newport from 1857 a correspondent notes lectures by John Stanton Gould on Gov. Coddington and his fines, plus the city’s shift toward a watering-place era. He praises Win Newton and William Cranston, observes hotel expansion and social change, and mentions financial distress and asylum admissions amid a mix of local pride and irony.
A letter recalls a dramatic scene as a spiritualist drawing, fifteen to twenty feet long, drawn in trance, drew throngs of followers. The writer notes the city’s Jewish community distress over repairs and fund shortages for a religious edifice, with broader remarks on faith and longing.
From New York dated February 17 1867 correspondence reports the Europa from Liverpool and the Star of the West with California news and millions in specie. Bank statements show over twenty six million in specie, with English rumors of Walker’s steamer proven false and potential coastal reinforcements. Warlike Mormon reports, Crystal Palace fat cattle exhibit, and Atlantic wool shipping notes are included amid dull trade and steady market conditions.
A visitor at De Wolf House in New England extols its long tradition of hospitality. The guest, who has traveled widely, lauds the innkeepers Messrs. Virs for their efforts to comfort and please travelers, calling the establishment an ornament to the area.
The New York Lepore, the grey Family Paper, attains a remarkable circulation of three hundred thirty thousand copies. The prospectus of The edger, with essential information, appears in our advertising column.
New Yous reports Nov 28 details from Port au Prince as Barque Ariel arrives. Capt Maye and companions released from prison. Bonds with trial particulars bound for Boston. Monetary crisis hits commerce with dull market, high coffee prices near 83 409, flour at 12, codfish at 3.
Reports from Europe describe troop movements in India with 7000 troops expected in Lucknow by October and Delhi’s fall affecting Meecat. News from Hong Kong and Shanghai notes exchange rates and missionary deaths, while financial distress and bank aid dominate Western markets.
News notes Gen. Walker’s 150 men land at Punta Arenas on November 20 after sailing from Mobile Bay on the Fashion. The U S sloop Saratoga observed but could not intervene as landing occurred at Scott’s wharf. British and American forces planned to contest further incursions as Costa Rica Nicaragua disputes loom without open hostilities.
Farmer Samuel Smith of near New Britain Connecticut was attacked in his house Friday night by three young American intruders. They beat him with a hatchet and fled after a struggle with his two Irish workers. A hatchet, two clubs, two hats and a locket were left behind. Three assailants were later arrested. Plunder appears to be the motive.
A Sunday night break in at Paneatink Bank in the village saw intruders gain entry by breaking a window sash but abandon the vault after disturbing plaster over the granite stone. The act suggests inexperience or alarm, per the Westerly Echo report.
An unclear report notes a capital shift of about 100000 dollars affecting stations in New York and Boston and a broader plan tied to a grading or stock change. Details are fragmentary and names or dates are not clearly readable.
Providence banks vote to resume specie payments as soon as practicable. A special committee reviews bank conditions and balances with a plan to reopen on a day agreed by the majority, while consulting New York Boston and Philadelphia mercantile communities.
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