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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1856
Page
1
Readers in town taxed with annual subscription payable in advance with nonresidents charged higher. Single copies cost cents each. ads priced by square inch with weekly and annual options. Obituaries and notices billed as advertisements with payment required in advance. Ode titled ALMIGHTY credited to Derghaven noted as sublimity.
In a Detroit straits setting a young woman Margaret Beckler seeks forgiveness for vast family wrongs. Her rector guides her to forgo revenge, study Christ’s forgiveness, and pray for enemies as she resolves to leave vengeance to God. She later encounters the fraudster Clarke Babbeton, chooses mercy, and finds inner peace en route to her father’s cottage.
New York Mirror describes a huge sea serpent seen at Greenpoint early Monday. It measured about three feet in circumference and roughly 150 feet long, according to witnesses. The creature reportedly lashed the water with its tail after a watchdog barked and then vanished.
A Paris journal claims M. de Lamartine failed to stave off auction by creditors for his family mansion and estate. The report says the prolonged fight exhausted him and left him ruined and heartbroken, prompting a possible emigration to the United States.
A wealthy New Orleans family, deemed tainted by mixed race, could not join the city’s best society and moved to Paris. Reports say one daughter married a foreign ambassador at Louis Napoleon’s court.
A young man fell from the Warren Bridge and was saved by a buoyant life-saving device. The incident marks the first practical virtue of the new gear we have chronicled, hailed by Boston press as a notable rescue.
A reflective couplet contrasts spring blossoms with summer beauty and autumn fruit warning that wasted youth leads to contemptible ripening and miserable old age in later years.
A little girl encounters a man with a wagonload of slaughtered swine. She bows politely. The man laughs and pretends not to notice. She explains she curtsied to the living hog, not the dead.
The New York Commercial Advertiser mocks a grave Treasury Report noting the line about “vices of all descriptions” as an unintentional joke in the enumeration of articles not imported but manufactured domestically.
A pedlar asks an elderly woman about a road no pedlar has traveled. She answers that she knows one and that it is the road to Heaven, noting the pedlar’s face brightens at the idea.
A crusty bachelor at a tew-table remarks that women are facts. He adds that they are stubborn things, replying to a question about why 80 in a quotable quip attributed to Crabstick.
The 1856 Rhode Island General Assembly divides Cranston into two voting districts for representation and local offices. It sets boundaries east and west of the Stonington Railroad, details district elections, meeting schedules, and town officer appointments. The act also divides Tiverton to form Fall River with financial and pauper provisions and sets governance structures.
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