23 Jun 1849
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1849
Page
1
Bristol Pwenex published every Saturday morning at No 7 Arene Stkert. Rates in advance two dollars yearly for town residents. Single copies four cents at the office. Advertisements: one dollar per square for four weeks, twenty cents per additional insertion. Yearly advertisers ten dollars per annum. twelve lines in minion type make a square.
Nostalgic verses recall a homeland and childhood scenes. The speaker laments memory’s fleeting beauty and imagines the Cat beneath the hill with rural imagery of mossy banks, rills, smoke, larks, sheep, and kine. Retrospection fills the heart with bliss as memories remain vivid.
Mis Ba bel Wohsleven of Pittsburgh recently died leaving a will with dispositions totaling over ten thousand dollars. She bequeaths to Auburn Theological Seminary two thousand sixty dollars and several religious societies amounts of fifty dollars each, plus six hundred to Pauline Buller and two thousand to Rachel J Sarsison. Henry Fabry and sister receive thirteen hundred dollars, Doctor McNair two hundred, with the residue to the Asylum for Indigent Widows and Single Women on Cherry Street.
A Milo Maine incident recounts Mrs Bagley shooting a seven foot wingspread eagle to protect her child as a large bird attacked. Separately, at a Shoe and Leather Dealers Bank in Boston a forged $900 check was presented by an Irishman claimed to be from Henry Bond, but the apparent mastermind remains at large.
The writer describes methods to keep lemons fresh for months using an ice house and closely covered jars. Wrapping in paper and periodic wiping help maintain moisture, with best results achieved by three months of storage in summer in a dry jar and ice environment.
Richard Boylston, Esq., longtime editor and publisher of the Amherst Farmer's Cabinet, is in the city after a relative leaves him a $40,000 legacy. The Boston Mail lauds him as a worthy printer and man for the endowment.
A narrator recalls a blunt remark by a married man about a certain lady. An old bachelor in the crowd retorts with lively defiance, asserting no woman can be homely, and lampoons the notion with spirited logic. The exchange reveals social tensions around appearances and marriage.
A Victorian letter-satire contrasts the wealth of Church of Ireland bishops with early apostolic poverty. It mocks clerical plunder and argues Protestant hierarchy profits from Irish suffering, calling for reform as it links church wealth to famine and social injustice.
The passage argues true greatness lies in moral habit and unbending integrity rather than position or popularity. A humble neighbor may be greater than a powerful figure, shaping others quietly through prudent, steadfast actions and self effort.
The text reflects on affliction revealing Providence and heavenly blessings. It notes sorrow unveils religion and that prosperity leads to forgetting divine guidance. It compares sunshine to stars and emphasizes affliction as a path to moral insight.
A narrator recounts Lucy Wendall a dutiful, quiet glove factory worker in a city tenement. Her supposed fate hinges on a clash with her employer father figure over an engagement to his son John, leading to hardship, separation, and eventual reconciliation as Lucy returns with her husband to start anew as a wife and mother.
A fragment lists daily maxims from Sunday to Saturday attributed to various authors and a long note cites Judge whose harsh sentences included a death verdict. It ends with Rav. Henry Gilea, a known Unitarian lecturer in Calais, noted in the present tense.
In Venice around 1600 a skilled craftsman named Tebaldo, spurned by a noble bride, devises a weapon a key that fires a fine needle into a target. He kills the bridegroom at the wedding and then the bride’s family falls to his vengeance. Suspected, Tebaldo is judged guilty and hanged after the instrument is found.
A tame black ram lured into a college corridor disrupts a professor spying through a keyhole. The ram butts the snooping instructor, causing a chaotic but harmless tumble. The next day the professor searches for clues, unaware of the prank. He learns the truth after graduation and laughs at the joke.
A schoolteacher tests pupils with questions and answers and the absentee is asked who they believe in. A pupil answers Napoleon Bonaparte, then the Holy Ghost, then reveals the absent student is ill. Another tale recalls a jury debating horse stealing and delivering a verdict of imprisionment to avoid the death penalty.
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