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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1853
Page
3
Reports from a court dispute over whether money sent by mail from a debtor to a creditor absolves debtor liability. The ruling contrasts with prior decisions, noting the sender followed customary practice and the destination was reached. Updates include local crime and society notes, with brief regional occurrences and weather.
Reports describe a robbery attempt in which a man fired upon the assailants during a wagon chase, a separate attack on Mr Allert Angel prompting a swift escape, and a coroner's inquest into Parvis W. Pearce’s death in the watch-house attributed to general debility from intemperance and exposure.
Elder George W. Burnham will preach at the Advent Chapel on State Street tomorrow December 95th. The public is invited to attend.
A special meeting of the School Committee will be held at Chamber No. 79 Thames Street on Monday the 26th inst at 4 42 p.m. Clerk ML Jona D Waldron.
A Whig State Convention will be held at the State House in Providence on Thursday January 12 1854 at 71 2 o clock p m to nominate candidates for governor and general officers for the coming year Delegates equal in number to their representation in both branches of the General Assembly are to be elected in the towns and cities of Providence and Newport by the Whig electors By order of the Whig State Committee WM S Patten Chairman and Henry Howard Secretary Providence Dec 7 1853.
A Brighton market listing shows prices for beef cattle cattle stores and swine with figures across categories. The report notes declines in beef and sheep prices and lists agent W B Palmer as the authorized representative in Boston New York and Philadelphia for advertising and subscriptions.
In Newport on the 18th inst Mr Charles C Heath of Newport and Mrs Deborah St Dice Stack Kip of Providence. 14th inst Mr David Taylor and Miss Wainsleth S Widder. 13th int Cu Charles E Mowry and Miss Lydia B Hovey. 21st Mr Wim Sinish Rohe mia Futh River. 19th inst Mr Phillip A Wood of New York to Miss Sarah A Collins of Wareham. 16th inst Mr James Hammond and Miss Pamelia Howard of New Bedford. 18th inst Mr Jere Hant and Mrs Phebe Dyre of New Bedford. 15th inst Mr Nathan Huard ang and Miss Frances E Dean of Taunton.
In Providence 18th inst a series of brief notices records names and ages including George S Stephen A Kenyon aged, Mrs Lucy Rowning aged 64, Mira Hanah Bate aged 1, and William A Waite keeper of the American House in his birth year. Other items mention East Grevanch and Silas Tompkins M D aged, plus brief references to 19th inot and Maltiah My Pierce aged 3. The readable fragments offer funeral or death notice fragments with scattered ages and relations.
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