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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1855
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR shows a Bristol weekly ad and notices with rates and small print. Mentions advance payment two dollars per annum, rates per square, and obituary and political content amid garbled typography.
Captain Percival clashed with crew aboard the John Land leading to confusion as the ship neared Nukakiva Marquesas Islands. After pumps were stopped and the crew refused orders, the vessel was kept afloat, later anchored on December 4 1884. Four hundred dollars advanced to cover pumping and a salvage claim is asserted by the crew and master Srexcer Pfarr.
Captain Pratt reports that the D M Hall and crew offered to rescue the John Lani from a sinking condition near the Sandwich Islands. Captain Percival allegedly refused aid and insulted the rescuers, threatening discipline while the two crews argued over abandoning or saving cargo and vessel.
An Irish worker on a wharf resumed work after his employers sent currant jelly to ease a sore throat. He claimed the jelly served as a powerful medicine, saying he made it into a poultice and applied it to the outside of his throat, noting it was better than a doctor’s remedy.
An elderly woman, famed for flowery speech, gathers her grandchildren. She declares I am the root and you are the branches. A grandchild asks what she means and she muses that branches would thrive if the root lay beneath the ground.
A Manchester correspondent recalls a 1847 incident in which a desperate young man, penniless and facing debt, received a twenty dollar loan via a sealed box post office scheme. Years later, at his wedding eve, he is confronted by the benefactor, the bride herself, who had provided the loan as the business partner. The tale ends with a troubled yet hopeful union. A Texas-travelling gentleman later reports counting 113 deer while moving from Columbus to Richmond.
In a modest room Mrs. David lies dying as Thirza and Eve Wilder observe. The drunkard John David confronts guilt over ten years of misery while Catharine finds peace. their children gather as she forgives and dies, leaving John to care for them.
An extracted advertisement fragment recounts a missing person, Killa Jane O Fogarty, with odd details about livestock and a Guernsey cow. The text shifts to a puzzled exchange about a piano and a nun’s wife, ending with a whispered warning about a sheriff's attachment.
The remedy uses camphor gum dissolved in rum to produce a strong camphor scent that irritates and destroys pests on the animal. Reapply after two to three weeks to kill newly hatched vermin and prevent egg hatching, as no safer method is noted.
An old man at a church recalls a lost love as children taunt him. He wears a ribbon in memory of his departed bride who died in war. The scene shifts to a funeral procession and the groom near his wife, a moment marked by sorrow, a bullet, and a silent vow.
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