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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1853
Page
2
A report notes Verdi’s lecture on Italian affairs at the Court House with details of Mantua events, the Bishop’s role, and Mantua citizens’ uprising. It mentions his escape, praise for the lecture’s quality, and announces a second talk next Tuesday evening. The piece also discusses temperance and Maine Law debates among local voters and officials.
The surveying party finished the Taunton to Walkers Cove route across Little’s Narrows in Somerset and wanzey. They plan to report to the Colony Company and petition for a grant before the state and Massachusetts legislatures next session. Report notes Sunday constables neglecting duties and youths roaming. a bakehouse on Thames Street in Wa was robbed of 100 cents, with other stores recently entered. Protests point to weekend street prowling as a sign of public nuisance near the Cove in Providence.
The report notes three or four laborers injured when a bank caved at Burrs Hill, one with a broken shoulder. It also records the death of Rev. F. Norris of Somerville after months of illness. A railroad meeting was well attended with a mayoral presiding and a listed committee to pursue the event.
The Providence Tribune’s stance on a proposed constitutional convention is debated. The editor previously supported holding a convention but now questions changing Rhode Island’s fundamental law. The piece challenges consistency in respecting the people's June and November votes.
The New York streets hosted a large gathering Sunday with fifteen to twenty thousand attendees including twelve to fourteen hundred Americans from Philadelphia. The street preaching crisis ended without liberty of the press or Catholic churches being attacked, and Parsons was allowed to preach in the shipyard safely, avoiding potential clashes.
A Providence Tribune report on recent temperance events cites a debate over who supported the Independent Ticket. Deacon Coit, a town figure and Maine Law proponent, opposed the nomination yet attended earlier meetings and faced criticism from the paper.
From Havana the Crescent City reports arrival from New Orleans via Havana on the 11th. A nephew of Judge Clayton, American Consul at Havana, died in the city on the 12th. The Judge had announced Havana for Mobile on the Black Warrior which would touch there en route to Mobile.
A North China Herald excerpt cites the Insurgents under Lew the Great, announcing by proclamation that tyranny will be abolished and order restored as Ming loyalists, forbidding dispossession or harm, calling on all to continue occupations and obey orders, dated Th Sept 1833 at the north gate.
The New Bedford Standard reports the sudden and mysterious vanishing of Rev Gardner Dean a Baptist minister who had been visiting for revival meetings. He left a tea engagement with Rev Taylor on Sixth Street and has not been seen since. His clothes remain at his boarding house and threatening letters are rumored but unconfirmed.
The Providence Journal notes rising burglaries and highway robberies as criminals grow bolder. Citizens arm themselves after assaults, with watchmen already armed and new guards appointed though not yet supplied. Watchman Swain was assaulted Saturday night after lacking his cry alarm.
The Rev Theodore Parker preached last Sunday in Boston praising a steady decrease in crime as a gratifying and encouraging sign. The remarks linked the rise of civilization with lower criminal activity.
The cabinet messenger failed to win Turkish acceptance for a three month armistice as English diplomacy faltered. In the Danube theaters there were no major moves while Kalafat remained Turkish held. A Russian manifesto allows neutral grain routes via Braslau and Galatz if no Turkish contact is maintained. Minor clashes included Turkish troops versus Servians and Montenegrins. the Meredin was captured by a Russian ship and a Turkish frigate retook the steamer before nightfall. No significant French or continental news.
The Newburyport case reports Elizabeth Burnham alias Burnley aged 20 and Annette Sampier aged 19 found dead in one bed at the Merrimac House on a Friday night. The inquest notes a quiet death with no poison traces and concludes both died naturally given their frail health and poor spirits.
The May or and Aldermen of New Bedford offer a 300 reward for the conviction of anyone maltreating Rev Mr Dean or aiding his liberty. He has not been found at present. The Mercury repeats that Mr Dean disappeared before under similar circumstances citing a clergyman who heard the claim from Dean himself.
A Chelsea home was attacked by two Irish women seeking to remove a young Trish girl from her foster mother Mrs Huntington. They claimed no legal authority and aimed to place the girl under Catholic influence. The girl resisted, Mrs Huntington protected the child, and the assailants fled after a violent struggle. An officer seized one assailant. the other remained at large. The incident spurred notes on religious tensions and custody.
The brig Emily reports sighting a vessel bottom up at 9 PM on the Sthinet in lat 31 96 lon 76 10 during a northeast gale. Four men clung to the wreck while the Emily stayed three hours to aid them but the worsening weather forced the crew to lose sight of the vessel. A large net lay on the water, likely the captured vessel’s cargo.
Fragmented report describes Peruvian tensions after a consulate siege with loss of life and threats of irons to the consul. It also notes Ericsson engine progress with near completion and plans for a New York Havre steamer replacing Humboldt vacancies.
The son of Samuel Cleland, fifteen, from Mount Bellingham Chelsea, left a sick bed last Tuesday and has not been found. He suffered brain disease from intense studies and wore only scant clothing. His father travels in Europe. Information to friends with a generous reward. Previously noted by the Bastom Times.
Mary Smith alias Stevens, arrested on counterfeit charges, was before the Police Court held on $10,000 and discharged as a formality. Later she was taken before U S Commissioner Woodbury on $500 bond to be examined Friday. Found with counterfeit coins and shop items, she is linked to a New York Baltimore Philadelphia gang.
A terse late report describes a drunken father punishing his son by placing him on a stove in Trenton New Jersey with severe burns. The Louisville Courier notes Bourbon whiskey production in Harrison County shrinking from about 15 000 barrels to an estimated 10 000 this year as distillers convert plants to other uses amid public disapproval.
An incident near Gen Howes's place at sunset involved Anointa Hionway Roasky aimed at kidnapping. A man emerged, demanded her horse and purse. She tossed the purse, the burglar dropped it, and Roasky rode off as the assailant whipped the horse, pursued for about a half mile. the purse contained around a dollar in change.
A few days ago a poor inebriate named Kingsbury was found dead in a meadow near Mansfield Connecticut. A friend informs us that the Coroner's jury returned the verdict died for want of ram. He died of delirium tremens.
A fragment from Ashland Kentucky references a person named Thornton Monks, alleging harm that may have killed him, though details are unclear. No other context or corroborating facts are present in the readable text.
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