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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1853
Page
2
In a reflective essay, a speaker debates foreign fashions and language, defending English tastes against American imitations. The dialogue shows tension over cultural influence, national pride, and the value of preserving native customs amid global trends.
The New York Times reports Henry D. Seldon a longtime A T Stewart Shawl head salesman in New York drowned after apparently jumping from the Arabia near Liverpool. Illness marked his voyage and he vanished at the larboard gangway as the ship steered back and searchers combed the water.
The May review highlights the steady rise of Bible societies, Sabbath schools, missions, seamen’s aid, and anti infidelity efforts. Reports from Central Church Boston describe prayer meetings and appearances by notable figures, while commentary considers potential tensions with Mexico over Mesilla Valley and General Garland’s plans.
Surveys of routes for a mail road between this town and Providence are nearly finished. One route will be selected soon and grading will start immediately. The Providence and Worcester Rail Road Co are laying rails on South Water street and will extend the track to the old Boston and Providence Depot at Fox Point.
Charleston papers confirm 164 souls were rescued from the William and Mary wreck on the Bahama Banks. The survivors were taken to Nassau by the schooner Oracle under Capt. Sands and left in destitution. The ship's captain is condemned for abandoning passengers and failing in duty.
The Court of Probate will hold its regular monthly meeting at the Court House on Monday at 2 PM. A copy of Truman Smith’s speech on Census returns and Congressional printing is cited. The piece critiques government printing costs and suggests a national printing establishment to save funds.
Mr. D. A. Waldron commits to progress, upgrading his establishment with a large stock of fashionable clothing hats caps and furnishing goods. He is described as industrious and worthy of liberal patronage from the community.
The Fall River News and Job Printing Office now uses a steam powered press for the first time in town. Growing business has necessitated the upgrade. The proprietors are praised as worthy young men deserving their success.
Mr. G. W. Easterbrooks received Hansen's new Menruty for June. The volume is described as one of the richest numbers yet issued.
A Shanghai dispatch from March 12 reports widespread panic among Chinese traders after rebel successes and fear of Nankin fall. Banks close, goods unsold, silk contracts delayed, and foreign sellers unable to be paid. A March 19 letter notes rebels at Nankin, 30 to 40 thousand insurgents, foreign aid requests, and continued suffering from banditti and disrupted supply lines.
The Presbyterian Assembly debates the slavery issue with Southern delegates threatening secession if the report is adopted while Western delegates vow withdrawal otherwise. The committee’s modified report recommends asking slaveholding states about numbers in churches rather than forming a new enquiry. The final vote was 76 to 38 with likely Southern secession.
The brig Advance under Dr Kane left New York for the Arctic to pursue the Sir John Franklin search. The Union steamboat accompanied them from Sandy Hook with invited guests aboard. Masonics held a farewell meeting at the Medical College with Grand Master Evans and Deputy Grand Master Coles paying tribute to Dr Kane.
City government of Boston enacts ordinance prohibiting burials in municipal graveyards after July 1 and restricting removals from the city between October 1 and another date without special permission.
The Humboldt reached Cowes after a ten day passage with 89 tons aboard. the Arabia left on the 14th and arrived at 12.907 M, news deemed unimportant. Obituary notes Captain Robert Gordon of the Albert is dead. France faces internal dissent as the Patriot denies hostile fleets to the Sandwich Islands. A large race bet stands between ships President Fillmore and Bordeaux. Reports describe widespread floods in central France and unsettled Turkish affairs with potential clashes at Smyrna and Iconium. A commission is named to resolve Greece Turkey differences amid turmoil and rumors of revolts. Three Days Later from Europe prompts questions about Maine Law appointments under Pierce.
From Havana advices arrive to the 22d inst. Cargoes of coolies reach from Amoy for Cuban plantations. A Jesuit College near Havana is planned signaling the order's restoration after expulsion. On the 20th inst the British Consulate office in Havana was robbed of gold and the secretary of the Mixed Court of Justice was questioned on suspicion of the crime.
The Overland Friend of China reports a brutal murder of Captain Parsons of the American ship Amity and George Mugford, manager of a steam work, in Mantua. Authorities act swiftly but motive remains murky, with suspicion falling on a discharged worker tied to a young American sub-manager. About $130 was found in the house as the killers fled.
A May 16 letter from Cardenas notes exciting reports of troop movements toward various points amid fear of a new Fillibuster invasion. Printed appeals urging soldiers to join an outbreak on the 19th, Lopez’s landing anniversary, were said to have been thrown into barracks windows.
Capt Malony and Dr Christian of the ship Roseius were arraigned in the U S Circuit Court charged with murder aboard during the Liverpool to port voyage. Both pleaded not guilty. Separate trials set with Gatain to begin June 1.
Despatch from Savannah reports that all but two passengers of the ill fated William and Mary have been saved by wrecking schooners as the ship drifted before sinking near the Great Isaacs and the Bahama banks.
The clipper ship Contest under Captain Brewster arrived in New York this morning from San Francisco, having completed the California voyage to California and back in six and a half months after being passed by the Northern Light at this port.
Bowen and McNamee won 118 damages from the Lake Erie Telegraph Company in a Cleveland Common Pleas ruling. The judge held that if a despatch was too obscure to be understood no damages could be awarded, but if it was sufficiently plain to business readers and caused plaintiffs injury, damages were proper.
John Prior, a native of Ireland, drowned at the Social Pond of the Social Factory in Woonsocket on Sunday. He entered the water after drinking and did not resurface. The body was recovered yesterday morning.
The big bass of the season was caught Monday night at Kelley’s bridge by Henry W. Child Jr of this town. It weighed 45 1 4 pounds. On Tuesday night many tried for its mate but he remained uncaught. the largest bass weighed 31 pounds and was taken by Thomas L. Goff.
Four packages of liquor were seized at the Boston steamboat landing by the City Police during forenoon operations. About seventy gallons are described, with thirty more packages, mostly barrels, in police custody awaiting court decision. Earlier, another seventy gallons were diverted into the County sewer.
The late rains produced severe freshets in Maine washing seeded lands and damaging embankments on the Atlantic and St. Lawrence railroads. A high freshet on the upper Kennebec sent logs over Gardiner’s bridge piers and into the river above Augusta, with booms above Augusta carried away and logs clogging the Gardiner area.
Report shows 9 133 immigrants arriving in New York from May 28 to May 30. May total reaches 22 792, with year to date 90 061, down from 1852 and 1851 figures of 100 225 and 102 166 respectively.
Fifty two ships at Liverpool are preparing to sail for Australia with a registered tonnage of 31,294. Between the 5th and 11th inst, four vessels cleared, totaling 2,388 tons.
A Boatman's strike nearly stops Pennsylvania Coal Company and Dakhivare and Hudson Canal operations after price hikes. Boatmen raise boating coal rates from 90 to 93 cents to 1 per ton, while some boatmen refuse to pay, leading to arrests for resisting the largest liberty.
Digging near a canal, workers uncovered a body in perfect petrification, wearing corduroy clothing. Authorities believe the remains are of an Irish laborer from canal construction, with limbs nearly intact and transformed to stone. Local officials investigate origin and cause.
Mary A. Barrenger aged about eighteen employed in a Cohoes factory crossed a railroad bridge on a Sunday afternoon and, stepping on loose boards, was dumped into the river. Rescued by rower Thomas Lenegan she survived with a broken jaw and knocked out teeth, a remarkable escape attributed to fate.
The New York Evening Post notes commercial houses in Peavidamie are building clipper bark ships to trade between that port and Montevideo, tied to an American steamer line expected on the La Plata river.
The piece describes fashion trends with exaggerated features: long skirts and stiff bodies, low bodices, and very full petticoats. It notes bony understructure near the heart, transparent fabrics, and minimal hair flowers with artificial roses on the cheeks.
A Boston Journal correspondent recounts the wreck of the William and Mary near Isaacs, noting the long boat flooded and caulked overnight. He suggests using common brown soap to seal seams quickly, warning salt water defeats soap and planks swell, but soap can hold when applied by two men in minutes.
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