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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1849
Page
2
An excerpt reveals a tangled social exchange where Mrs Beastreoke, Mrs Podeshall, and others discuss misfortune and reputation. The speakers debate hypocrisy and proper conduct as a neighborly dispute unfolds amid tensions about fidelity and social standing.
Immigrant ship Crescent City reaches New York from Cha gresa region after a difficult voyage. Letters from Panama describe harsh conditions, delayed ships, scarce supplies, high flour prices, and efforts to move travelers to the gold region.
The report notes large savings from abstinence, with funds redirected to home improvement, education, and benevolence. It cites hundreds of church edifices built, libraries expanded, and newspapers circulating as virtue centers. It claims reduced liquor sales, improved labor conditions, and declines in hotels and taverns amid a growing population.
A dated passage laments liquor abuse and calls for ending whiskey manufacture and sale. It condemns jail inmates and beggars profiting from drink, urges restraint, and appeals to moral forces and public duty to reform and abandon contraband alcohol.
An address criticized Calhoun for denouncing federal power to regulate slavery in territories and to prevent slaveholders from moving property into free regions. The piece notes his weak stance on slavery, calls his health and influence deteriorating, and highlights broader abolitionist sentiment in the South as well as other local notices.
The Garonne of Baltimore, valued at 100000 dollars, has been paid for in San Francisco at 800000 dollars. Duties collected at New York Caswin House on Monday totaled 89593325 dollars. Taunton and New Bedford trains will depart Providence after Monday at 8 a.m. A Morning Beaton train changes to 8 o'clock. The U S Supreme Court ruled that the New York and Massachusetts tax on foreign passengers is unconstitutional.
The report highlights low pay in religious and temperance presses, with wages reduced to a vague pittance and printers in Huston said to be the lowest paid in the Union. It notes congressional consideration of a Cadmus ship claim for Lafayette passage in 1824 amounting to $5,000, including $4,000 for passage and $1,000 for the captain's attendance.
The Thirty Senate and House debate Panama Railroad policies with amendments and a branch mint in New York. Calfornia statehood and New Mexico admission details surface, along with naval and military appropriations and scattered Rhode Island actions.
News from Yucatan states 8000 Indians fought 500 American volunteers. Indians retreated after a fierce battle and the town of Tella was captured and burned. Forty three Americans died, plus Capt. Etlut of the General Master’s Department and others in Cholera Morbus outbreak.
The Providence Journal reports January session actions including petitions to attend meetings, referrals to Judiciary, incorporation requests for Line Rock Bank, and amendments to corporate acts. It notes civil officer election regulation measures, docket resumption of private petitions, and a set of pardons and creditor cases with counsel appearances and final grant of petition.
The report covers the Canada arriving in Europe amid ongoing clashes and muttered alarms, noting casualties and advancing forces. It also details cholera mortality in Britain, Italian negotiations, and shipping losses along the Atlantic and Dardanelles with several vessels confirmed damaged or lost.
The article sketches Mr. Steadman of Somth near Stonington described as eccentric living within seven miles of the Shoup ton railwaybed. It mentions his two wheel carriage with a single favorite up and refers to various distant maritime and travel notes, including Captain Foxwell and a steamer from Rio de Janeiro.
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