Bristol Phenix Notice Fragment
Fragment from a Bristol Phenix publisher notice. Includes subscription rates and terms for advertisements, with garbled text and remnants of payment rules and discounts.
08 Jul 1848
Page 1
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1848
Page
1
Fragment from a Bristol Phenix publisher notice. Includes subscription rates and terms for advertisements, with garbled text and remnants of payment rules and discounts.
A youth drinks once at a party to appease a request from a young woman. He then attends nocturnal gatherings with peers, steps toward excess, and becomes pale and ill. He dies in sorrowful circumstances as family mourns, narrator recalls scripture warning that drunks shall not inherit Heaven.
The Rev. Jen Parry of Welch Calv inistic Methodist chapel Chester has died aged seventy. For 32 years he edited a Welsh periodical and his Mothers Gift sold over 100000 copies in twenty two editions. He preached extensively and remained healthy despite heavy schedules. Contemporaries praised his ministry and temperance addresses urging ministers to fulfill duty.
An aged man asks What is Rum and dies after calling it the curse of earth. A dying drunkard and a weeping wife condemn earthly bliss. Coleridge lectures split readers into four classes by how they read. A knight protests but concedes a crumbling wit bleaches into truth.
The Boswell residence in Hathorne street was entered through a cellar window last night. A thief lit a lamp, searched a coat, then took a wallet with about eighty dollars and fled after Mr Boswell woke. A second item reports Jonathan Bennett found dead in Tiverton woods, presumed suicide, with a rope around his neck.
A fragmented column recounts a mischievous tale of Mark Antony and Cleopatra angling with live and dried fish, a wry Irish court quip about challenging juries, clerical cautions on patent medicines, shopfront divides in London, a coffin-adorned lodging sign, a Dublin obituary note, and a Maine judge’s sleepy courtroom scene, all in a lighthearted period voice.
Edward Wilson is lured from Bucks County by city temptations in Philadelphia. A cousin Thomas Martin follows as Edward recounts a reckless life in salons, taverns, and a reforming scheme. They visit a fashionable rum shop and a gambling room, where Edward’s resolve weakens under peer pressure and liquors.
Edward Wilson, a fashionable drunkard and gambler, succumbs to rum and gambling after visiting a city rum shop. His increasing vice strains family finances and risks his cousin Thomas, prompting plans to move to a mercantile life under stern parental guidance.
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