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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1853
Page
2
The narrator ponders a hidden underground escape and fate with Susan. He recalls a confession tied to a Castleroy figure, notes a fractured romance, and hints at a noble act by Paul while a grandmother corrects him about Auld Robin Gray.
A river of 1852 era text describes the Pacific rescuing ten to sixteen crew members from the dismasted barque Jesse Stevens near Tuscar Lights after a fierce gale. Captain Nye and five sailors braved the storm to save shipwrecked men clinging to the wreck and in the life boat.
A gale drives a crew to heavy work aboard a New York steamer. A horse and a man are swept toward the hold. The mate hangs by ropes while a brave seaman dives in to seize his companion by the ear and save him from being washed overboard as the tide rages.
Report notes that one person struggled until help arrived and both individuals were rescued without injuries. The Savannah Republican reported the event with a brief urban notice style.
The New Year opening brings the paper a chance to greet patrons and families with wishes for health and prosperity. The year 1853 starts under favorable conditions with plenty of harvests, quiet politics, and debates on gold’s value and its impact on money. The writer urges responsible governance and personal virtue, noting life’s fragility and the hope of blessings and trials ahead.
Early Tuesday the lower factory shaft broke and split the cylinder just after startup. The crank connected with the balance wheel was also broken. No one was injured, and repairs will take several weeks to complete.
On Saturday Captain James McIntyre fell into the hold of ship Boy at O'Wolf's wharf but a plank across the between-deck beams broke his fall. He sustained only slight injuries and his life was likely saved by the improvised cushion.
A young boy, son of Capt Peterson, injured two fingers while playing with a straw cutter on Saturday. One finger was nearly severed and another cut severely. The incident serves as a warning that boys should avoid handling sharp instruments.
The regular monthly meeting of the Court of Probate will be held at the Clerk of the Supreme Court room in the Court House at 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon. The Gothic Hall proprietor plans to close his business and sell stock at cost, offering citizens a chance to buy cheaply. John H. Allyn is also winding down his stock and plans to quit the business while other dry goods dealers push low prices with good assortments.
Providence readers are urged to notice Louis Louisson who is famed for offering the best bargeids in the city and maintaining the largest stock of ready made clothing. He invites customers to visit and inspect his offerings.
Citizens who wish to purchase furniture in Providence are directed to a separate advertisement for W A Potter. Potter offers a very large stock in every style and will dispose of it as aggressively as any establishment in the city.
The Circuit Court in Providence delivered its decision on the constitutionality of the state's Liquor Law. Separate opinions were written by the judges, with Judge Curtis's lengthy entry spanning about twenty pages and Judge Pitman's brief. Both concurred in the law being unconstitutional on various points. An abstract from the decision appears in another column, with a full pamphlet report to follow.
On Saturday last, Mr. Cors, a German at the Sagat House, attempted to take a gun from a vessel deck. The gun fired, entering his right arm below the shoulder and splintering bone. He is improving and likely to save the arm.
The New Hampshire Gazette of Portsmouth completes its ninety-eighth year as the oldest paper in the state and among the oldest in New England. The article notes Hanper's New Mommy and rich historic pieces, praising the current issue and its value to general readers.
New York reports the steamer Uncle Sam arriving from Aspinwall with passengers and over half a million dollars in gold dust. The Cortes carried California mails and substantial gold to Panama but not yet delivered. Earthquakes near Acapulco and many mining notes accompany a broad Pacific coast dispatch.
On December 27 1852 floods damaged the Great and Little Miami rivers and several railroads. Bridges were washed away on the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton line and the Madison and Indianapolis line with an engine and freight train falling through a broken bridge near Pleasant Run. The Miami and Whitewater Canals also broke and private property suffered. A canal break ten miles from the city will take two weeks to repair.
A late 19th century report notes an abortive effort to restart the slave trade on the Sherbro river in West Africa. It records a slave vessel captured near the river mouth, fully equipped for a cargo of enslaved people, marking a significant setback to the enterprise.
Tue Casner writes from Concord that Governor Brown of Mississippi cites a despatch naming Hunter Virginia in the State Department Slidell Louisiana Treasury Dix New York War Johnson Arkansas Navy Bright Indiana Interior Medary Ohio Post Office Nicholson Tennessee Attorney Generalship. The news creates great party confusion.
Judge Campbell issues a temporary injunction blocking construction of the Broadway railroad project. The order stops work pending further hearings and review of the case.
Pittsburg homeopathist Dr. J P Dake challenged Dr. James King an allopathist to a public discussion on medicine. The Post reports King has consented to meet Dake to settle which system kills the easiest homeopathic or allopathic.
Dr. Howe examined all cases of idiocy in Massachusetts and found that in all but four cases the parents were intemperate, addicted to sensual vices, scrofulous, predisposed to insanity, or intermarried with blood relatives.
The Rev Alfred Thomas Wood is in remand at Hull on charges of obtaining money by false pretences. He collected charitable contributions claiming support for a Liberia church. He told a witness that George and Eliza Harris from Uncle Tom's Cabin were members of his church and that Cassy died six weeks after arriving in Liberia.
Advices from Port au Prince report fever still raging with record fatalities in thirty years. Over fifty Americans have died, including Capt. Rogers and two crew members of the scar Sarah Maria, Capt. Deer of the John Tyler, and Captain Whar of the S.C. Roscoe.
A boy was caught by a police officer in New York for allegedly pocketing a wallet from a lady. Brought before a justice, the woman pursued a complaint but produced only half a Dutch cheese found on the boy. She left in mortification without filing charges.
In this country six hundred sixty thousand five hundred sixty three slaves are owned by ministers and church members. Methodists hold 219263, Presbyterians 77000, Baptists 125000, Episcopalians 88000, Campbellites 101000, and others 50000.
Mrs Newcomb wife of H N Newcomb head of a major Louisville house in a fit of insanity during her husband’s absence threw their four children from an attic window. Two boys fractured skulls with one dying soon after and the youngest girl died next morning. The third child may survive and the eldest escaped serious injury. Occurred December 21. Massachusetts Boston Journal report.
While testing the floor in a Louisville house, a carpenter found 13000 in bank notes and turned them to the owner, who claimed no stake and returned the money. Only 120 was usable cash. the rest were notes from failed banks in Mississippi and other states. The finder remains unidentified.
The Secretary of War states that out of about 11 000 officers and men in the army during the past year 8 000 were used in defending Texas, New Mexico, California, and Oregon or guarding emigrants bound for those regions. Except for the Rio Grande area unsettled by Caravajal movements Texas saw few Indian depredations.
Early Saturday morning the steamer Massachusetts entering Stonington harbor collided with an anchored schooner. The bowsprit pierced the steamer causing serious scalding injuries to one man as hot water sprayed from the boiler in foggy conditions.
A quotation attributed to Political Litt. Demosthenes via Plutarch recalls his early career moment. He spoke of two paths in public life one toward an early grave and the other toward political power, suggesting he would have chosen the former.
The American Consul at Tahiti asks the San Francisco Collector to publish the Islands government police and customs regulations. In London a cat skeleton with a rat in its mouth was found in Gerard's Hall crypt, believed to be 480 or 500 years old.
Sheriff Benedict faced charges for selling liquor in Johnston Rhode Island and was convicted after a Monday trial. He paid a $20 fine plus costs, with Wm. Fil testifying Benedict sold him a glass of liquor. Benedict accused the witness of perjury as Angell doubts the charge.
Captain James A. Gardiner of the sloop Frederick Brown Bowen's Line New York packets was killed off Norwalk on the 24th by an accidental gun discharge. He was an enterprising man, leaves a wife and three children, and had promised to return home for Christmas. The newspaper notes the report was not fully investigated.
Assessors in New Orleans report a drop in city property values totaling three million three hundred ninety two thousand three hundred forty two dollars over the past year.
Reports from Buffalo say the wife and son of Mr. Brown, found murdered last week near the city, are safe. The wife was not with him, and the son reached Pembroke after parting at Lancaster. No suspects have been identified.
In the Common Pleas Court at Dedham the jury found Deacon Hollis of Braintree guilty of selling two quarts of cider in violation of the liquor law after a twelve hour deliberation.
At Cincinnati on the 21st after a prisoner’s trial in the Criminal Court for grand larceny a juror who had just arrived from Europe and could not speak English was found. The court was informed and the jurors were called and discharged.
A Courier correspondent reports East Louisville houses hold five to six acres of barrelled pork piled three tiers high in open lots. Another six acres could form eighteen acres of barrels if laid out. Slaughtered hogs and live hogs in pens occupy five to six acres more.
The DeKalb Mississippi Gazette dated the 11th records three crimes: an affray between Wright and Turner leaving a brother-in-law gravely wounded, the murder of Samuel Aikin by 18 year old John Edwards, and the assassination of Col. James H. Sims by John J. Edwards who at the time was said to be transporting his nephew charged with the Aikin killing beyond officers’ reach.
Mrs. Ann Reynoldson of Dubuque Iowa died after drinking boiling water the day before. She was about 20 years old and mother to two children the second barely a week old. Before dying she regretted the act and attributed it to a sudden temptation. She had heard that boiling water would cause death in three minutes.
A St Jago paper reports the recent earthquake has produced prodigies by sharply reducing cholera deaths. It claims sufferers revived from attacks and, after hours in damp air, felt no renewed illness. The paper notes general belief that the malady was effectively killed.
U S Charge at Sardinia reports Mrs Beecher Stowe novel Uncl Tom’s Cabin arouses intense European interest with Italian editions printed in Turin and chapters published daily in a Paris edition. Readers react with strong emotions while debates arise over slavery and freedom. The piece notes images of misery and the impact of the work on public opinion. Also mentioned is a proposed plan to allocate convict earnings to convict families where justice has benefited them.
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