New Year Reflections From Bristol Editor Amid Hard Times
The Bristol editor greets readers with hopes for 1858, laments economic hardships, and urges support for the poor. He notes ongoing world turmoil, calls for perseverance, and asks subscribers to renew dues to help sustain the paper and aid local relief efforts. A gathering at the Court House failed due to low turnout, with a follow up meeting planned at the Congregational Church to address immediate needs.
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Bristol
Probate and Town Clerk Offices Move to Hope and Bradford
The Probate Office and Town Clerk relocate to a new central room above the Commercial Bank at Hope and Bradford streets with a large vault for town records. The regular monthly Court of Probate meeting will be held there Monday at 2 o'clock.
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Court House
Congregational Church
Ita
Hope and
Bradford Streets
Commercial Bank
Lycanan
Othe
Eagle Bank
Court of Probate
Lectures and moral reform through public lectures
The piece urges attending lectures and reading rooms to elevate morals and culture, citing better towns and warning against drum-shops and gambling. It praises Mr Glyre and other eminent lecturers for a winter program in Canistmas Eve, and laments youth moral decline without such enrichment. It also notes Christmas Eve church service fire incident and New Year open houses with local figures mentioned.
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Schole
New England
Glyre
St Michaels
Episcopal Church
Mr. Stowe
Nuisance Act case remanded after Supreme Court ruling
The Supreme Court overruled exceptions in a case against Benjamin H. Hopkins for keeping an ale house and tippling shop. The decision remands the matter to the Court of Common Pleas for further action. Attorney General Hart leads the prosecution with strong local enforcement noted. A contemporaneous item mentions Rev. Mr. McKeown delivering lectures in Fall River.
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Geners! Assembly
Supreme
Ible Couns
Benjamin H. Hopkins
Court of Common Pleas
Supreme Court
Ames
Leflore
Providence
Hart
Blake
The Old Year Fifty Seven Dies In Winter Remembrance
The piece mourns Old Fifty Seven as the year ends with bells tolling across the land. It portrays mortality from cradle to grave, the grim reaper harvesting lives from rich and poor alike, and welcomes the newborn year Tupmay with cautious hope.
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Grim Dean
Brussel‘s
Tupmay
Relationship Between Them In Folklore Rhyme
A quizzical verse asks for the relation between two figures, noting that the connection is obvious to one with an eye. The speaker hints at a meeting between a hopeful son and his mother, and seeks the elusive “bother” in their bond.
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Bristol
Finlay
Congress Adjourns to January After July Session
Both Houses of Congress adjourned on July 22 and scheduled return on January 4, marking a long recess. The note signals a temporary pause in legislative activity with planned resumption in early next year.
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Congress
Northern Light arrives with California mail and 250 passengers
News from Aspinwall reports the Northern Light reaching the port with California mail and 250 passengers totaling over 2 million dollars in specie. The Golden Age carried 350 passengers and 62,478,000 in treasure. Gen Walker’s force surrendered. Wabash arrived with Walker aboard. battles for Castille and San Juan del Norte are noted. The document also covers California trade, mint reopening, and South American incidents.
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Ant
California
Capute
Walker
Norther Light
Aspinwall
Sth
Tosle
Gen Walker
U.S
San Juan del Norte
Fort Castillo
la Virgin
Holivar
C. Morgan
Ogden
Col. Anderson
Com. Paulding
San Juan
Norfolk
New York
Engle
Wabash
Garrison & Morgan
Greytown
Castille
United States
Sonora
South America
Callao
Valparaiso
Santiago
Chil
Valparamo
Mer Bernel
Valparazzo
Esmeralda
Sant Maria
Bolvin
Ohi
Mary
Minisler
Washington dispatches report Paulding Walker affair
From Washington Dec 29 the Cabinet disapproves Com Paulding arrest of Walker and debates the neutrality act. Reports say Gen Walker greeted with enthusiasm on routes to Mobile and New Orleans while Floyd and others oppose undermining Gilibusters. Kansas constitution ratified with slavery shocks northern supporters. A Providence River drowning of Mr Dunwell is noted with boat found near Dyer's Island.
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N.Y
Com. Paulding
Jed Ty
Walker
South
Paulding
Thompson
Congress
Kansas
Dunwell
Bryer & Dunwell
Providence
Newport
Dyer’s Island
lVev
Port Advertiser
Arrival of the Axago and Atlantic Trade Notes
The Amiga arrives from Southampton this evening. London markets show firmer wheat and flour with dull exports and eased prices. Hamburg loan aid moves, Stockholm and Hamburg report bank failures, and British Parliament adjourns. Henry S Bright, once Hull merchant, sentenced to ten years penal servitude. Frigate Congress crew visits Jerusalem. The Leviathan tenders show no progress. English manufacturing weak. Bludder field prices lower.
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York
Southampton
London
Yonsels
Niagara
Boston
Liverpool
Severn
Hamburg
Norway
Stockholm
India
Henry Smith Bright
Corm
Hull
Congress
Jerusalem
Arsgo
England
Civil War Rages in Bourbon County Kansas
Dispatches report clashes between free State and slavery factions in Bourbon County with US Marshal leading 80 men demanding surrender. A volley fired and hour long fight left one pro slavery fighter dead and two mortally wounded. Marshal badly wounded. General Lane held Sugar Mound ready to defend against dragoons, battle feared.
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Str. Louis
Kansas
Democrat
Bourbon County
United States
Free State
Lane
Sugar Mound
Clark
Massacre of Missionania Report From India
Letters from India confirm the Delhi massacre of American missionaries Reverend Freeman and wife. They were beheaded after days of captivity, both natives of New Jersey. Also note Rosin Gas claims at Whitin mills in North Uxbridge with gas priced at 250 dollars per thousand feet, cheaper than Woonsocket Pawtucket and Providence providers.
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Newanx
Missionania
India
Delhi
Rey
Mr. Freeman
New Jersey
Rosin
Messrs
Whitin
Mexican rebellion expands as garrisons join against government
Reports say Tacubaya and Veracruz garrisons have pronounced against the government, calling for dissolution of Congress, overthrow of the constitution, and dictatorial powers for Comfort. Other states may follow, signaling a widespread revolution. Yucatan rebels continue without a decisive edge.
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Mexico
Tacuyba
Vera Cruz
Congress
Yucatan
Detailed U S Frigate Account of Walker Surrender
An officer aboard the U S frigate Wabash gives a detailed statement on General Walker and his men after their landing at Point Arenas. He describes Walker taking property, tense exchanges with Lt. Cilley, and Walker’s surrender to Commodore Paulding aboard the Fulton.
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Walker
U.S
Wabesh
Point Avenay
Scott
Chatard
Arenas
Nicacagug
Cilley
Saratoga
Compinye
Calley
Col. Anderson
Cisto
Hiram Paulding
Brunswick
Fulton
McHor
Piulding
Bayle
Lieut Sincair
Hin
Sud
Fiag-Othese Paulding
Captain Eagle
Lirut
Sinesir
General Wather
Paulding
Futran
Capron Kagie Tis Aid
Wasbash
Norwich Captain in Crackdown for Seamen Cruelty Trial
Elieba Hull of Norwich Connecticut, captain of the whale ship Catherine of New London, is held in $4,000 bail for trial on cruelty to seamen. Cabin boy Henry Teft testified flogging for swimming, with a four foot paddle, broken in use, then forced into tarry pots filled with seawater for ten hours. Ring fell ill and was sent ashore at Cape Town and hospitalized near Boston. Test escaped with rheumatism.
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Crusty Tro
Elieba Hull
Norwich
Catharine
New London
Henry Teft
Jobo Ring
Ring
Cape Town
Boston
Greased pig contest draws crowd in Dorchester Christmas
The Boston Traveller records a Christmas Day greased pig shuffle in Dorchester with about five hundred spectators. Twenty eight entrants paid twenty cents each totaling seven dollars. Warren HaalopA won. A following foot race saw Jonathan Baker prevail among six entrants.
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Boston
Dorchester
Warren Haalopa
Jonathan Baker
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