Washington's Birthday Observed With Northfield Celebration
The town marked Washington's Birthday with a public dinner in the new Town Hall attended by over a hundred guests including the Hon. ex-Governor and several professionals. The event featured a national salute, church bells, a tea sale for the Congregational Society, and a torchlight procession by the King Philip Fire Engine Company.
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Washington
Bristol
Congregational Church
Jaime
Shepard
Congregational Society
Artillery
King Philip Fire Engine Company
Wea Ainst
American Republic
Nomination of Tornze for Governor Highlighted by Convention
In Providence on the 17th they announced the unanimous nomination of Hon. Thomas G. Tornze of Warren for Governor. The convention approved the choice as satisfactory to the people if elected, and the report notes Terner will likely follow in the footsteps of the respected predecessor.
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Providence
Thomas G. Tornze
Warren
Terner
Dog Attacks Men in Thames Street Yard Hydrophobic Bite Fatal
Early Thursday a dog in a Thames Street ship yard attack left Mr. Stanton with a non bleeding bite through a cloth. It then bit Mr. Manchester’s hand and Mr. Gardner’s dog killed meanwhile. The dog showed hydrophobia signs at Warren where it was killed by Joseph Brown. The dog belonged to John R. Gardner Esq.
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Stanton
Thames Street
Oliver Street
John R. Gardner
Modesty of President Buchanan Questioned in Request for Powers
The text critiques President Buchanan for asking Congress to grant thirty million dollars and broad power to influence foreign nations. It suggests motives of patriotism and precaution, portraying him as a kind old gentleman deserving respect and a crown.
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Buchanan
Congress
Premature Infant Found in Outhouse Vault
A male infant, born prematurely, was found in a vault inside an outhouse in this town on Monday afternoon. Coroner Munro took charge to investigate the death. The week has seen varied weather from fog and rain to strong winds and snow with last night remaining cool.
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Towh
Munro
Northward summers for Bristol praised in 1859 letter
An Alabama sender writes Feb 15 1859 that he plans to spend most summers with family in the North and extols Bristol as a superior summer residence. A Massachusetts House bill to regulate bread sale weighs loaves by weight and requires maker branding with penalties up to ten dollars for violations.
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Alabama
Bristol
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Post Route Bill Discussed in Congress This Week
No business of importance occurred in Congress this week. On Thursday the Post Route Bill was taken up and debated at length, with focus on the topic of raising letter postage.
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Congress
Public Schools of Bristol Rhode Island in 1820s
The Bristol town committee for public schools, appointed April 1828, introduced a free school in the Academy Hall for boys 7 to 12 and girls 9 to 14 with a 25 cent entrance fee. Women taught in the Middle and North Districts while Lancasterian methods were adopted in the Brick School House. Expenditures for instruction in three districts reached 782 dollars for the year ending April 1829.
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Bristol
Rhode Island
Henry Wight
Alex. V. Griswold
Semuel W Briggs
Jabez Houlimes
John Howe
Col
Peter Church
Charles Fulen
Lemuel W. Briggs
Seo Y
Otis Storrs
Storr
Minister's Wooing Continues in March Magazine
The March issue continues Harriat Beecher Stowe's tale Minister's Wooing alongside Professor at the Breakfast Table. Other articles match the magazine's high standard, and the periodical is offered with Phenix at four dollars per year if prepaid.
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Atlantic Mowraty
Harviat Beecher Stowe
Phenix
Tex Houx Monraxy Magazine Debuts in Two Cities
A new magazine titled Tex Houx Monraxy is published simultaneously in Buffalo New York by Arey and Gildersleeve and in Hartford Connecticut by O D Care & Company. Subscriptions are 1 50 per year with discounts for multiple copies. Mrs Arey and Mrs Gildersleeve edit the periodical, aiming for a first class family magazine with chaste high moral tone.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Arey & Gildersleeve
Hartford Conn
O. D. Care & Company
Arey
Gilders
Concert at id se pine promises rich singing evening
The notice invites attendance at a Wednesday concert by Tux Oxp Fouss at id se pine. It highlights learned rehear, praise, and the happiness of choir voices awakening memories of past mothers and sisters singing to the Most High.
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Id Se Pine
Life of temperance lecturer J H Hawkins promoted for widow
Indebted to S Crovam for copy of a biography of J H Hawkins a renowned temperance lecturer. Compiled by Rev W G Hischins it spans over four hundred pages of life letters and documents. Profits from sales go to Hawkins widow in indigent circumstances.
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S. Crovam
Westminster Street
Providence
J. H. W.hawxine
W. G. Hischins
A. M
Hawkins
Arrival of the Africa from Liverpool to New York
The steamship Africa, leaving Liverpool on the 5th, reached New York Tuesday morning. The London Times discusses British relations with Mexico and possible stern interference to defend Mexican respect and rights. French reports note Prince Napoleon's Paris entry met with indifference and a pamphlet on Napoleon III and Italy circulated. The Isthmus of Panama and Nicaragua Canal plans are cited with English capital backing and a London financial domicile.
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Africa
Liverpool
New York
Great Britain
London Times
France
Napoleon
Paris
Ital
Austria
Italy
Siecle
Panama
Suez
Nicaragua Canal
London
Aoemt
England
M. Belly
Southampton
Rivas de Nicaragua
General Assembly January Session Deliberations and Votes
A detailed recital of Rhode Island General Assembly actions from February 183 onward, including adjournment votes, bills on holidays, banking and savings statutes, and the Narragansett tribe land dispute. The narrative covers Senate and House proceedings, key motions, and committee reports with references to specific figures such as Thurston, Bayley, Updike, and others.
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Eure
Thurston
Hopkinton
Kinidtown
Bayley
Bristol
Providence, Journal
Senate
Ita
Hague
Secretary of State
Jr. Updike
South Kingstown
General Assembly
Richmond
Peck
East Greenwich
Hotée
Réprésentatives
D. Clark
Cumberland
Sheffield
Committee On the Judiciary
William L. Baker
Warren
Price
Johnston
Robert H. Tees
Charles'l. Hazard
Supreme Court
van Zandt
Newport
House of Representatives
Committee On
Judiciary
Jenckes
Foster
Hayes
Providence
Sanford
Hubbard
Glocester
Samuel G. Arnold
Reform School
Randall
Committee On Corporations
Eames
United States Deposit Fund
Ballou
Smithfield
Aches
Mr Smith
Senart
Joint Special Committee
Charlestown
Updike
South Kings‘ Town
Gilbert Tillinghast
Third Baptist Church
Waterman St. Baptist Society
Providence Conference
Providence Conference Academy
St. John's Church
Burfington
Expedition News and North American Attitudes Abroad
A San Francisco date returns reporting a Humboldt county clash where twenty Indians died and many captured, plus a massacre feared near the Colorado frontier. It notes robberies on a Pacific railroad train, and discusses Paraguayan expedition debates and shifting Latin American sentiment toward US action. Wonders about Soulouque brutality in Port au Prince with skeletons found in a dungeon.
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St. Louis
Fed
Overland Mail
San Francisco
Messick
Humboldt County
Los Angeles Vineyard
Stockton and Albuquerque Mail Company
Colorado
Johnson
Fort Belknap
Washington
Pacific Railroad
Port Au Prince
Soulouque
Burglars Strike Northboro Bank Vault Again
Monday night saw a second failed raid on the Northboro Bank vault. Thieves pried a large pane of glass from the window with a diamond and wrecked the outer door lock using gunpowder. They stole a few postage stamps and pencils and also looted the nearby Agricultural Branch rail station for small items.
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Ron Toe Noxrusoro’ Baxx
Northboro’ Bank
Rai Station
Boston Journal
Local Notices From Corington and Orange
A colored man named Chsar died in Corington Louisiana on February 8 at age 38. In Orange a man married on the 9th, became a father on the 10th and warned the public against his wife on the 14th, signaling apparent marital conflict and domestic concern.
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Chsar
Corington
Orange
The Black Warrior Stranded at Rockaway
Report from New York on the steamship Black Warrior ashore at Rockaway with five feet of water at low tide and little freight. The wind favors salvage as underwriters plan to discharge specie. The wreck prompts notes on a recent mercy by the Bey of Tunis and other varied items including a Boston pastor’s death and political chatter on Chief Justice Taney’s successor.
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New York
Black Warrior
Rockaway
Qanderwriters
Bosch
Germaine
Bowen
Ebel
Tanis
Taney Tenkt
Washington
Daniel 8. Dighgow
Senate
Nineteenth Annual Eastern Conference Session Details
The nineteenth annual session of the Providence conference will begin March at Fall River St Pauls church with Bishop Ames presiding. It covers Eastern Connecticut, Rhode Island, and parts of southern Massachusetts with about 40 ministers connected. Two vacancies will be filled in Providence at Pleasant and Elm streets, with Rev. Andrew McKeown among likely Elm Street appointees.
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Corres
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Fall River
St Pauls Church
Bishop Ames
M. E. Church
Noti
Providence Conference
Rev. C. St. Titus
Providence
Anthony Palmer
New London
Paul Townsend
Sandwich
Pleasant
Blm Stréet
Elm Street
Andrew McKeown
New Bedford Mercury
New Disease Theory from Virchow Researches
A summary of Virchow’s experiments on malignant particles in humans and animals shows disease propagation by inoculation using diseased matter and blood with white cells and vibriones. Time to death varies 44 to 66 hours, except one case where two sheep died in 31 hours. The Fall River mayor offers a $1090 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person who sent threatening messages.
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Unirrts Corp Borneo
Drata
Eliza O'Neil
George O'Neil
Tomlinson’s Block
Columbia Street
Tfi
Matobea
Fall River Beacon
K. Virchow
Renking
Fall River
Hae
House of
Fanlos Tieeice
Atch
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Bristol Phenix
Europe
Herajesty
Miller
Glucester
Burrillville
Dixon
Wheaton
Equity
Robert H. Lees
Charles T. Hazard
King
North Providence
J. Newell
House
Thornston
Kimball
Bristol County
Wm. P. Munro
Wim
St S. Bayley
William Bradford
Manchester
Portsmouth
Flagg
Seaman's Friends’ Society
Philadelphia Ledger
United States
Dolphin
Buenos Ayres
Paraguay
South America
Whiffer
Uruguay
Tor
South
Central America
J. H. Fayrquirp
Jo H. Fairchild
Sant Boston
Peralysis
Boston Traveller
Pirreraxp
Pittsfield
Mendes Eich
South Arrest Congregational Church
West & Brown
The
Baptist Church
Harti
Vivile Republaygne
Sigo
Theyfener
Pliernur
Jacques
Jean
Tuileries
Gruef
Albany Evening Journal
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