21 Jan 1860
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1860
Page
1
An evocative verse fragment contrasts a city’s paused life with holy songs and solemn prayer. It laments the halt to commerce and the outward display of earthly schemes while invoking sacred sounds to rise above the stillness.
A fragmentary column blends religious reflections by Dr Payson and John Newton with meditations on grace and human frailty. It moves to science humor from Prof Henry’s Smithsonian weather method and closes with a weathering proverb on time and opportunity.
Robert Hope and Samuel Hullins, neighbors for over a decade, feud over a Trafalgar pension. Hoping to escape rent, Hope accepts a fake white cross from landlord Taylor which he wears on his coat. The cross brings mockery from villagers, siblings, and schoolchildren, inflaming Hope until he returns home to a violent argument with his wife. He resolves to remove the symbol and pays his rent the following Monday.
A historical piece cites a grim Red Sea slave trade with thousands of Galla and other children sold to Arabia, while describing a State Street building find of ancient cartridge boxes and shining blacking cakes. It also reflects on career choices favoring skilled trades over mercantile work.
A 19th century reflection on Haitian manners contrasts curtsey and salutation with social codes. The piece laments greed and folly, noting how fools chase wealth while the dead take nothing, urging readers to act with genuine conscience rather than vanity.
William Fox, an overseer, ends the practice of feeding officials with poor rates. He serves a feast to paupers in the workhouse dining room, while the visiting gentlemen are astonished. Fox states any dinner for the poor is funded by the parish, and vows to provide meals to those in need.
A self described sensitive young lady with weak health adopts hard domestic labor inspired by Irish workers. She details initial illness after exertion, then cleans the parlor and stairs daily and reports improved vigor in mind, body, and spirit. She urges others to try her Catholicon.
A wartime exchange recalls the Duke of Wellington praising a regiment for a bold attack on an enemy battery and then foretelling that before his orders are carried out, the officer’s unit may become the first in the other world.
A street scene in New York shows a native man and a white man reacting to a wig shop, a joker failing to land laughs, and banter about bravado and scalp takers. A toper debating pale looks and a child asking where someone is going ends with a blunt gag about going to buy wax.
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