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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1856
Page
1
A collage of ads and prose items from Bristol Rhode Island includes notices on publication payments, religious and moral reflections, travelogue excerpts, and verses. It references Bradford Street addresses and urges advance payment for advertising while intermixing essays on virtue, education, and a Petrified City travel account.
Shortly before his departure to India, the lamented Hieber preached a sermon featuring a river metaphor. He described life's course as a stream from a narrow brook to a vast ocean, noting youth’s joys and losses as it carries us toward the infinite and eternal.
A speaker argues the term learned professions wrongly excludes mechanics and merchants. He says learning is now widespread across society, with tradesmen and businesspeople possessing libraries and knowledge, challenging the old elite view of lawyers doctors and ministers as sole bearers of learning.
The Picayune reflects on the refrain by and by as a universal ache heard from childhood to old age. It contrasts memories of longing with the futility of grasping the future and the wish to find the phrase in almanacs as a pale sunrise over remembered years.
A Sebastopol correspondent reports French and Russian soldiers meeting at the Tehernaya line for days in friendly talks sharing bread coffee brandy and camaraderie. Officers eventually punished the captain, and the weather is described as beautiful with six weeks of no rain.
In a curious court scene a widow, a moneyed man, and teachers with pupils are discussed. A judge ruling favors Mrs Barkins as a civil case proceeds amid odd anecdotes about a priest and a comic warning about sugar and a future family.
The narrator attends a dinner at Wiesenthal where Emily Dieffenbach and Nimrod’s sister Louisa shock with surgical antics. A dangerous amputation and brutal dental extraction leave him shaken, bleeding, and planning to depart the unsettling estate with Oken nearby.
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