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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1855
Page
2
The article argues that vast advances in wealth, population, science, and invention have accelerated transport and telecommunication. It credits railways and telegraphs with injecting vitality into civilization, transforming society, and creating a connected global network. It contrasts past ignorance of foreign lands with modern curiosity and interdependence, linking prosperity to widespread intercourse and free thought.
A 2 PM special town meeting will consider appointing a committee to confer with Warren's panel on annexing Bristol territory. The gathering aims for full voter participation and fair terms, with potential compensation discussed if annexation proceeds. The Providence rail line opening prompted excursions. service plans include a morning and afternoon schedule and future midday runs as tracks and depot work finish.
Citizens urge greater caution at the depot to protect children who gather for train arrivals and departures. Reported incidents show boys crossing tracks as cars approach, risking serious injury. parents urged to keep children away from moving trains.
Citizens are offered a daily trip to Newport aboard the fine steamer Perry. The boat departs from the Depot wharf each morning around 9:30 and returns at 3:00 PM, providing about three hours in Newport. Fare is 26 cents each way.
Ellen McGrath was bound over for trial in September after examination on suspicion of aiding in the birth and concealment of a child. A Providence City Council resolution authorized the Providence and Worcester Railroad to lay track from Canal Street to its passenger depot to accommodate the Providence, Warren and Bristol Railroad Company cars under direction of Lester Angell Lincoln and Aldermen Bowen and Manchester.
Mails from New York and Providence will be received at the local post office at 10 o clock each morning. Evening mail from Providence and Boston closes at 7 1 2 o clock. The New York and Southern Mail closes at 3 P.M. The change will help the community forward and receive communications the same day.
Cy Wasurns Indian Circus comes to town Monday with Willis Band, praised by the Troy Daily Whig as the best in the country. The Indians are described as real red men whose performances captivate the public with romance and astonishing feats.
The Newport Advertiser reports the Tad Pole, about the size of a wash-tub, sailed by John Herrishoff of Bristol in the Regatta held on the 4th. It measured 10 feet, started at 19 45, returned 44, was the smallest boat and received a salute of one gun and a $10 purse from yacht gentlemen.
A delegation of Indians from Kansas Territory met with Col Mis acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Washington. A relief petition to President Pierce has been sent by Germans imprisoned at Melville Island Nova Scotia. They claim they were hired in New York to go there for work but faced enlist or imprisonment and chose water. Also Norfolk Herald notes unusually strong spring sweet potato crop shipped to northern cities.
The Pacific arrives at New York on July 11 with notable passengers. Reports from Sebastopol note ongoing siege activity, illness of Lord Raglan, and no immediate battles in the Baltic or Sea of Azov. Military dispatches through June 26 record French and English casualties, Malakoff works, and renewed cholera cases. The Porte secures a $2,000,000 loan backed by Smyrna revenues.
Reports from farmers nationwide indicate a promising wheat harvest with big crops in Illinois Indiana and Iowa. Some states like Pennsylvania Ohio and Virginia sowed less wheat, but overall the burden should be offset by gains elsewhere and higher prices may curb demand when crops are gathered.
Between thirty and fifty thousand barrels of mackerel have been on the sea route between Halifax and Chester Nova Scotia. The prospect of the fishing season was never finer.
The Northern Light sails into New York July 8 with California dates to June 16 and 457 passengers including Col. J H Wheeler American Minister to Nicaragua bearing two treaties. Reports say Col. Walker's forces near Realgso threaten a quick end to the conflict. San Juan del Norte reconstituted under T J Martin. Also notes fire in San Francisco, Lola Montes departure, and mining and milling activity in California with Mint output and jobbing quotes.
The Fayetteville Observer notes Henry Burgin on the Roanoke has 900 acres of wheat expected to yield 20 bushels per acre totaling about 18 000 bushels worth around 50 000 at current prices. Thomas Burgwin also farms 900 acres of wheat and large quantities of corn oats vegetables.
A rope set on the Bellefontaine Railroad near St. Louis swept a Laborers’ train carload crew from open cars during a Sunday night passage on July 1. Three men were killed and several injured in the incident.
A man named Evans living about forty miles from Cairo Illinois was bitten by a lad d recently and during his paroxysms five men failed to restrain him. Following his pleading, several people placed him between two feather beds and smothered him to death.
The Philadelphia Ledger reports a white girl of fourteen was kidnapped Friday near Downingtown, Chester County. Two men in a close carriage abducted her after blocking her mouth with plaster from a tin box, drove about twelve miles toward Maryland, and released her in a wooded area after warning her not to scream. Two colored bystanders aided her. The paper suggests the assailants mistook her for a mulatto and intended to take her into Maryland.
Halifax reports a mutiny among Foreign Legion troops stationed near the city on Mellville Island. Soldiers refused island work demanding pay. Paymaster and Governor were barred. A 40-man detachment from the 76th Regiment pursued, eight men jailed as others fled into the woods.
Washington Star correspondent in New Mexico reports a court martial and a military court of inquiry in session at Don Fernandez des Ties May 3. They probe a riot weeks earlier in which Major A. H. Blake of the 1st U S Dragoons was assaulted by intoxicated privates. Five soldiers face mutiny trials.
Three day interviews at the State Department between the British minister and the American Secretary of State set the course for Fishery Commissioners under the Reciprocity treaty. Cushman led the American delegation as plans move to fishing grounds with British counterparts, survey teams, and Coast Survey officers to record proceedings and chart routes. The process shifts seasonally between the gulf, Nova Scotia coast, and U S shores, with arrangements described as amicable. The President hosted the commissioners at dinner and they proceed to Halifax via New York. A new proclamation lists frontier ports for bonded merchandise export to Canada including Rouses Point Cape Vincent Suspension Bridge Dunkirk Swanton Albany Island Pond Toledo Chicago Milwaukee Eastport and Pembina.
A Sunday yacht voyage on the Grace Kerr ended when a squall caused the vessel to jibe and sink off the Bay between Fort Hamilton and Fort Diamond. Three men, Ferguson age 28 a Journal of Commerce reporter, John Parker, and George Grady, drowned. McManus and his partner were rescued as the boat sank.
The New York Tribune notes a custom that men keep their pews if space allows while women sit in the inner end. It laments the old rule forcing a woman to take the restricted seat and men to exit briefly, calling the practice barbarous and unnecessary.
The British Banner lauds Massachusetts Governor Henry J. Gardner in a last day proclamation praising his piety patriotism and sense. It suggests sending a copy to Queen Victoria and the Prime Minister as a homily for Lord Palmerston and a supplement to resolutions from church denominations.
A party of Hollanders, skilled in dyking and draining, began converting a vast salt marsh near Jersey City into cultivatable land for vegetables and fruits, transforming thousands of acres for agriculture.
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