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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1856
Page
1
Published weekly from No 7 Bradford Street Bristol R I W U Bayley announces subscription rates two dollars per year in advance for town residents four cents single copies. Advertising charged one dollar per square for three weeks, twenty cents for each additional insertion. Payment in advance. Religious Obituary and Political notices billed as advertisements.
An essay argues to curb infant mortality with strict sleep, diet, and cleanliness guidelines. It promotes straw mattresses, early bedtimes, minimal furnishings, outdoor play, regular meals, and warm clothing. Additional snippets cover guano for melon patches, tomatoes for cows, and constant soil stirring to aid plant roots.
Testimony from Castle Garden staff describes dying children and neglect among Mormons arriving in New York. A sergeant recounts Salt Lake leaders with many wives and infamous doctrines. A Garden physician notes exhausted, debilitated children begging for mother. Observers deem Mormonism a crime and curse with inevitable retribution.
George Haynes of Morgan County woke during a sleepwalking attempt at Walters Hotel on Marietta Street and nearly fell from a second story window. Weighing over two hundred pounds, his foot jammed between sash and casing, leaving him suspended until cries drew help. The incident was witnessed by bystanders and reported in the Zanesville Aurora.
An Indiana Farmer correspondent reports currants prove highly profitable with careful tending. He notes his bushes grew six to eight feet tall and thrifty after applying soap suds and chamber lye around roots in summer, claiming neighbors confirm the surprising effect on growth and fruit.
The Maine Cultivator advises growers to cut cucumbers with a knife leaving a small stub on the stem and slit the stem to encourage new cucumbers. It suggests the method for producing pickling cucumbers and recommends trying the experiment.
An exchange discusses road manners, claiming the road reveals true nature. It contrasts a man who yields half the road and shows courtesy with a young driver who speeds without yielding, eliciting pity for the reckless behavior.
A quotation argues that life requires responsibilities to stabilize ascent. It suggests a person chained by multiple duties gains steadiness and rising strength, while a single bachelor wanders aimlessly. The metaphor compares a kite needing a string to fly, to a person needing ties to achieve higher goals.
A New York press man praised the printing craft at a typographical Society toast saying the type battery shoots farther than guns as it travels the world. A second tale recalls Lord Brace’s stinginess and a farmer’s rebuke over sight of wealth. A third quip notes counting children with a drum and idle men with a dog fight.
From Christian Watchman we learn Rev George D Boardsman of Barnwell Court South Carolina was forced to leave his pastorate after refusing sympathy for Brooks in the Massachusetts senator outrage. The second item recalls villagers fearing an quake yet noting an old lady’s calm faith as she joyfully declares God can shake the world.
The Newburyport Herald recounts a crowded circus doorway scene where a boy about twelve begs for a dime to enter. A stranger, mistaken as the boy’s father, jokes about having a shop and finally gives a dime after the lad asserts his claimed identity.
A collection of humorous snippets from an Iowa paper sketches odd entertainments at the Red Barn and piquant anecdotes. It lampoons pretentious sermons, legal caricatures, and frontier manners while noting posters, exchanges, and local mischief with playful irony.
The 1856 Rhode Island act divides Cumberland into three districts for electing representatives to Congress and state and town offices. It outlines district boundaries from the Blackstone River to the Massachusetts line, sets town officer numbers, election dates, and council composition, and provides general governance rules and repeals inconsistent laws.
An 1856 session act repeals governor appointment limits for militia aids and authorizes the governor to appoint needed officers. It also reprints acts on arrest power for fruit theft, Newport hackney regulation, bank commissioners duties, and truancy penalties with enforcement provisions.
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