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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1853
Page
3
A Concert of Prayer for seamen will be held at the Methodist Church Vestry on Monday evening at 7 o'clock. After the service, the annual meeting to elect church officers will be conducted.
Eminent Episcopal clergyman Rev K J Stewart will deliver a temperance sermon on Wednesday evening February 23 at St Michael's Church. The public is invited to attend.
Attendance for the quarter ending January 28, 1853, lists public schools by their excellence in punctuality and orderly attendance.
A Saturday night fire heavily damaged multiple structures on Eddy Street and nearby blocks. Buildings owned by Anthony Martin Gardiner and Sterry Clark suffered major loss, with insurance coverage totaling around 4 000 dollars. The historic Foundry building also burned, while stock and dye woods were saved or damaged, and a dwelling owned by Charles Dyer was nearly destroyed.
William R. Snow formerly landlord of the North Adams House receives appointment as Steward at the White House by Gen. Pierce. Salary set at $1000 per year plus family livings are included. Local Vermont liquor law results and state nominations are also noted.
Joseph Damont wins seven thousand dollars in the New Orleans Fifth District Court against the New Orleans and Carrollton Railway Company for injuries to his daughter Maria Camilla Damont from a railroad accident in October 1851. The injuries forced amputation of her left leg and three toes of the right foot.
Andrew Jackson Davis sends a long communication to the Hartford Times on the philosophy of producing and controlling rain. The piece offers no concrete methods, focusing instead on speculative possibilities. Prov. Journal notes the article mainly entertains theoretical reflections rather than actionable rules.
A man named Robert Peters was shot at Ripley Ohio on the month’s date by Charles Baird whose sister he had seduced and refused to marry. Peters lay in critical condition on the eleventh.
Mrs. Dorothea Abrahams leaves 81 Church Street Savannah property valued at 1000 to the Hebrew Society and legacies totaling up to 20000 for expanding a home for indigent widows and single women run by the Widow's Society, with building funds allocated for the purpose.
Investigation into the Coroner's Jury reveals organized gangs of rowdies in Newark and troubling social disorder. The findings call for decisive reform measures to address the menace affecting the moral fabric of the community.
The passage notes alarming tales of yellow fever aboard the Saranac and a Norwegian brig with deaths at sea near Rio Janeiro. It also reports dull business, scarce coffee, and a U S instruction to stop register fees for American vessels only touching at St Thomas without loading or discharging cargo.
The Antarctic from Liverpool via Norfolk lands forty cases of ship fever and dysentery at quarantine. sixty three deaths have occurred since leaving, with twenty three sick landed at Norfolk. The smallpox has disappeared.
Meeting notice from Bestal and Todd calls for punctual attendance at February 24 convention in Providence. H E Pitman and W B Palmer announce authority of the American Newspaper Agent to solicit subscriptions and advertisements in Boston New York Philadelphia areas.
A list of wedding notices from Pawtucket to Fall River and Providence shows couples like Jamon Miner and Ann Turner in Woonsocket Pawtucket and Elizbeth Sellers in Fall River. Additional unions include Thomas Salskary with Alice Carroll and Henry Horton with Jane Leet in Providence and nearby towns.
A condensed obituary list reports numerous deaths across Warren Newport Wickford Providence Woonsocket Fall River and Tiverton on various dates. Entries name Henry Wardwell's son Henry A Henry Wardwell Mary Tyler Harriet March Berigh Garluer Abigail Roberts Emily Hall Harriet Crowell Jay Charles Smith Marcia Wales Ishai Mason Lelia Thorne Moore John Franklin Juli Milne and Abby Milne with ages ranging from young children to nonagenarians.
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