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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1850
Page
3
Osx Matt Bedtan emerges as a famed visitor attraction. The house grew from a modest start to become possibly the most extensive clothing house in the world by selling at small profit and heavy advertising.
The Crescent City arrived with news from California and 157 passengers. Susaner Colombes reached Panama with $150,000 in gold dust and 50 passengers aboard after departing San Francisco on June 18. A destructive San Francisco fire leveled 300 houses, sparing the Custom Houses, Journal of Commerce office, and several banks, with heavy losses and a disrupted money market. Dust and gold dust circulated as primary media, and prices for coffee, flour, sugar, and lumber reflected market strain amid ongoing recovery efforts.
Four days after leaving Liverpool at noon, the New York steamship Atlantic, Captain West, arrived in New York at 4 o'clock Sunday, completing the voyage in ten days and 15 hours with 48 passengers. The Canada reached Liverpool on Sunday at 6 A.M. News from Europe notes rising American securities, varying trade, and political shifts following Sir Robert Peel's death. In France Paris reports an arrest near the Kirsee connected to an attempted assassination of the President, while electoral lists are published under the new law.
The British Steam Packet Asia, Captain Judkins, arrived from Liverpool with about a hundred passengers. Papers from Liverpool up to the 12th and London to the 12th are received. Notable items include Frankfort’s German Senate authorizing a Peace Congress, and France's electoral law shaping universal suffrage. A London court convicted Pate of assault on the Queen, sentencing him to seven years transportation. Reports from Paris and Madrid note mixed Spain-US relations but generally friendly ties.
A Tribune note surveys the free three of the list Web States, detailing that most members have served long in the House and Senate. It notes Corwin and Graham governors, with Graham later elected by a large majority, and Webster, Crittenden, and others previously in Harrison's Whig Cabinet.
Washington reports a Texan letter threatening war unless Sama Fe rights are recognized. Volunteers for Sama Fe are pouring into Texas amid tensions and renewed calls for independence.
Market totals include 600 beef cattle 4 pairs of working oxen 62 cows and calves 3500 sheep and lambs and 300 swine Prices shown for various lots with extra and first quality bids ranges in late July 1850. No working oxen and several small price entries appear for cattle calves and pigs. Some illegible entries noted but overall listing reflects a busy market day in Brighton.
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