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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1868
Page
2
The piece extols Christmas as a universal Christian festival and its historic impact on moral and political progress. It contrasts eras and regions, praising Christianity's role in family, education, human rights, and industry in Rhode Island, and celebrates local industry like Puritan New England and state resilience.
An overview of Rhode Island's barren lands and rich waterways shows extensive water power driving numerous mills and diverse output from jewelry to cotton textiles. The piece highlights Blackstone and Pawtuxet rivers fueling mills, widespread small towns along streams, and varied manufacturing from jewelry to woolen cloth and leather goods in Providence and Bridport.
A lyrical verse by Geo D Eldridge describes a frosty night glide under a full moon over a wide ice track. The imagery paints a serene winter scene with stars dimmed and a golden shield moonlight spilling across the rink.
A brief verse warns of death and the approach of doom urging haste since each passing day brings mortals closer to heaven. HL. E.
The Union Pacific Railroad reports 960 miles completed with 120 miles graded and iron laid, and over 400 miles built in 1868. With under 400 miles remaining to connect to the Central Pacific, the line aims to open to the Pacific in early summer 1869. Earnings exceed liabilities, admitting strong bond support and increased rolling stock.
The case of S. R. Kellogg, described as a no forger with success in Massachusetts and Connecticut, is to come up at Elizabyett XK in a few days, according to local reports.
Advanced sheets from Geo P Rewell Co announce a new directory listing US and Canadian newspapers by town with details on issue days politics size price establishment editor and circulation. It will include regional lists and specialty sections and sell for five dollars.
Reverend Alfred A. Wright of Little Compton suffered a severe facial injury when a dull ax struck his forehead and nose during wood splitting last week. The accident occurred as the axe rebounded from a line, leaving a gash at the base of the forehead and along the nose.
Mr John Steere of North Providence was fatally injured Saturday when his wagon collided with an opposing team while driving home. His wife reported a possible preexisting paralysis moment before the crash. Steere remained unconscious until Tuesday morning and died at age twenty two.
The chinchona tree yields quinine with chinchena cansya and chinchena rubra as top sources. Demand has depleted many districts, urging discovery of new supplies. Jamaica shows potential for cultivation on mountains 1500 to 2000 feet high, with other nearby islands offering similar conditions and a chance to sustain global quinine supplies.
The fourth volume and second year of Tuk New Eclecric Magazine begins with the January issue presenting biography travels fiction history popular science education wit and humor. A portrait engraved from life of John Ruskin is the frontispiece. Price four dollars a year. Published by Turnbull Murdock Baltimore.
In New Bedford yesterday Mr. Alpheus Adams of Barnstable, aged 94, attended to perfect his papers for a bounty land claim. The crowd noted his perfectly legible signature without glasses, praising his bright and cheery condition as a fine example of preserved old age.
Two pickpockets on the Alobile and Ohio Railroad were taken out by passengers on Monday evening and left hanging from a tree.
A stark reflection on war likened to a candle maker of the worst men. The speaker argues such men’ s deeds are inherently wicked and exposed in the end.
A saying reflects on people who rise without concern for cost while harming others by such behavior. It contrasts their ability to obtain the best goods when free with the broader social impact of their choices.
A collage of brief items reports diverse hues from 1867: Span and New Jersey velocipede firms, Portsmouth grain prices, a famed New York barkeeper, a Sovruren editor’s turkey giveaway, and czarist locomotives on ice. It notes marriages, rescues, poison trials, and vast fortunes, with reports on ships, church pew values, bridge contracts, and regional curiosities.
Entelligence notes no Association lecture this week. RF The National Rubber Co employs six hundred fifty workers. A lecture to young men will be held at Town Hall Saturday evening by Rev Harris of Boston. Rev I S Jones will give the sixth Association Course lecture Thursday evening. Ticket prices for the remainder are reduced to fifty cents.
Notice requests parishioners to hear Rev Mgr Harris of Boston preach at the South Christian Church both morning and afternoon on Sunday next.
Alfred Pierce and his crew shared large turkeys for Christmas. The act provided a festive benefit to multiple masons and laborers employed by him.
The Bristol Light Infantry announce a Grand Military Assembly at their Armory on Thursday evening next the 31st. Music will be provided by Herrick Bramhall & Greene's Quadrille Band.
The final examination of William Wilmarth, charged with breaking into and robbing Miss Frances A. Crowley’s millinery shop on the night of the 6th, was held Monday last and he was committed to jail to await trial at the next March term of the Supreme Court.
The first temperance meeting of a monthly series by Reallura Lodge of Good Templars was held at Town Hall. Rev. TI. 8. Jones presided, with remarks from Rev. C. P. Osborne and others. The assembly adopted a resolution urging total abstinence as a Christian duty and a collection was taken to defray expenses.
A visitor reports an apparent sale event at the Emporium on Broad Street Providence with carpets marked down 25 to 50 cents per yard. The stock is described as being rapidly closed out amid a grand rash in the carpet store.
Reverdy Johnson noted diplomat Saint and six eminent American artists featured in Peculiarities of American Faces and Physiognomy works. Includes Dietetic Habits of Great Men and Thirteen Varieties of Dogs with fine portraits. New volume begun, price three dollars a year.
The January number of this charming monthly has been received. The publisher promises it shall be better than ever the coming year. It is one of the best little publications, brimful of pictures and good reading. A year’s subscription to The Nursery is $1.50. Published by John L. Shorey, 18 Washington Street, Boston.
An 18th century ad touts Srexe's Stanpano wine bitters described as a superb tonic made from pure native wine and herbs. It lists sellers N G West T J Griffin and C Bedell.
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