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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1869
Page
2
Commentary argues President Grant should appoint wartime allies and reform naturalization to curb fraud. It praises his nonpartisan stance yet emphasizes his duty to the whole nation, warning that party control must yield to accountable governance. It also notes railroad earnings and a book on St Paul as contemporary interests.
February 1 1869 Providence Wm C Townsend Esq visits Sullivan and Erie Coal and Railroad property near Auoust and finds coal seam thickness remarkable and inexhaustible. Railroad bed is largely formed and could run in months with low maintenance costs. inspectors Mason Cracr Cusarke concur in the favorable assessment.
The item catalog lists many brief items from the era including Chippewa Falls flame damage to a large portion of town, labor shortages in Georgia and Florida, a 101 year old Colchester resident’s death, penny oysters in Georgia, a sale in England, thousands of new schools in West Virginia, a Maine Ladies Society, Mississippi lumber growth, profitable California farms, highwaymen in Virginia, a tin horn exhibit in Naroxgon, a railway accident in Louisiana, carpet manufactories in Philadelphia, Penobscot Indians health, and a 1766 born Hagerstown resident. It also mentions sugar and molasses reactions to eating oysters, bird cages in Birmingham, salt springs in Kansas, a boy injured by belt at Fall River, a Richmond name-recognition joke, a new street lamp in Savannah, a buried-alive case in Alleghany, a Boston jewelry robbery, a Fall River arm injury, Oregon births and deaths, lard-time party invitations, Isabella of Spain abdication, suffrage lectures, and a Bay state gun accident with a child.
Bristol 1868 marriage and birth tallies show diverse origins led by American parents 76 Irish 10 German 2 English 2 Scotch 8 French Canadian 15 mixed. births 180 with 68 deaths and 14 errors. Real estate transfers include DeW H Tanner to Easton for 210 and multiple other parcels. a major fire at National Rubber Co. damages and losses estimated 7000 to 8000. medical note on a merged molar. court notes on guardians, estates, divorces and naturalizations. town lamps and market plans updated.
The Bristol county Supreme Court term opens with Justices Durfee and Potter presiding. Grand Jury appoints Thomas L. Norris foreman and John C. Pegram pro tem Attorney General. Civil docket entries include continuances and a Roseworth v Smith ruling with judgment for defendants. Equity case Bourn v Hall settled for 400 dollars and costs. Grand Jury presents Liscomb youths for boom breaking and larceny with guilty plea and five years. Williamson and McGovern cases plea guilty with prison sentences.
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