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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1869
Page
2
The article argues for stronger temperance efforts after wartime moral cost, noting widespread intemperance among soldiers and civilians. It highlights adulterated liquors, rising death rates, and calls Massachusetts and Rhode Island mothers to push for prohibition and licensing reform backed by clergy and community groups.
A Boston minister plans a three day peace concert beginning on the 15th 10th and 17th of January to honor the city and its citizens. Mr Gilmore band leader aims to gather twenty thousand singers and an orchestra of one thousand instruments in a large building with ticket prices at one hundred dollars and fifteen hundred tickets to secure the performance. Local merchants back the project and offer items such as anvils for anvil chorus as part of the plan. The effort seeks broad support from the musical community to achieve a historic achievement in the world’s arts.
The letter argues Rhode Island should supply a capable cabinet member amid Grant’s choices. It notes no RI naval officer has joined the Navy Department and urges a RI citizen for War Interior Post Office or Attorney General roles, expressing desire for local representation in the president’s council.
In Burlington Wisconsin a fourteen year old girl was pronounced to be in a trance after telling her parents not to bury her as she slept. She remained motionless for nineteen days with no sign of decay yet her cheeks faded slightly from abstinence. The unusual case draws local attention.
The majority in the United States Senate refuses to permit the rotunda of the Capitol to be used for an inauguration ball. The piece condemns members of Congress for proposing to turn public buildings into a private celebration and stresses representatives act for their constituents.
A narrator recalls wandering from quiet inland lanes to the sea coast and a stormy encounter. He reunites with a fisherman on a rock perch as the storm grows, feeling oddly responsible for the tempest and its potential harm to life.
A storm off the coast drives a brig onto Dumb Ledge. a young sailor is found dead on the beach while others search through the night. The tale closes with thoughts of the missing boy and the sorrow of a home left waiting. A separate Iowa accident recounts a man’s fall from a well and a windlass collapse as he is saved or treated. The Church of the Good Shepherd in Hartford is dedicated, built by Mrs. Samuel Colt. four bishops and sixty clergymen attend a $200,000 project.
A noted forgeress was arrested in Newark New Jersey for forging signatures obtained from business men by soliciting periodic subscriptions and then cashing the false commitments. She used multiple aliases and amassed nearly one hundred thousand dollars in profits.
A new Lincoln statue displays the late president in his final day attire with a mantle and downward gaze. He holds the Emancipation Proclamation in his right hand reflecting a solemn pose. Also noted is Patrick Foney, a pardoned thief from New Hampshire, who reoffended and returned to prison. A Hartford couple, engaged for over thirty years, still awaits marriage obstacles to be removed.
A man released from Black Acusetts State Prison Friday last, having served twenty one years, is identified as the institution’s oldest inmate. In Bloomington an impecunious thief damaged a corner stone to steal two dollars in coins. Smoke from burning coal harms St. Louisa, making it as disagreeable as Pittsburg or London.
An Orangecourt New York resident named Denevollest gave a sleigh ride to a thousand children. In Portland a man named Thomas McCaxin drank a full tumbler of whisky on Saturday and immediately died.
The town reports widespread illness with measles and other diseases, many students absent in primary schools. The Town Council and Court of Probate met, approving wills and estates, appointing guardians, and ordering real estate sales and local finances.
Paul, the original Woolen Remnant man, 51 Dorrance Street, Providence, has no connection with A. T. Stewart & Co. of New York. Our town was visited with heavy thunder last Wednesday night.
Prof Dinan of Brown University spoke on Primeval Man for the tenth course lecture under the auspices of the Association. The talk traced recent archaeology finds such as lake dwellings in Switzer land shell mounds in Denmark bone caves in Belgium and France and Abbeville flint implements. It outlined three archaeological ages stone bronze and iron and stressed the developing relation between science and revelation. Rev D A Whedon will give the next lecture Thursday evening.
A memo lists numerous land sales with buyers and sellers including Henry B Potter, Samuel S Drury, Frederic A Geisler, Zebedee Paull, Albert Knight, M A DeW Howe, Elisha M Wardwell, Thomas Pearce, Samuel Ingraham, Hannah L Doty, John G Harding, Harriet Bullock, William Diman, James D Wardwell, Rody O Donnell, Mark A DeW. H. Tanner, and others. Prices range from 70 to 4000 dollars. properties sit along Thames Street, State Street, Cooke Street, Union Street, and nearby roads. Also includes a promotion for Speer’s Standard Wine Bitters.
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