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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1866
Page
2
Rhode Island delegates back the Union cause as Congress weighs Reconstruction and representation for former Confederate states. The Providence meeting calls a March 30 convention to nominate general officers while endorsing General Burnside for Governor if the Union ticket prevails.
Fourteen delegates from Auhe NW U primary meetings meet in Providence on Wednesday evening. Twelve of the delegates elected to attend the State Convention favor nominating Burn aide for Governor.
Marshal Forey argues in the French Senate that Mexican opposition to foreign rule renders the occupation a usurpation. He warns a French withdrawal would disperse residents and ruin interests, urging France to stay allied with Mexico and bolster its government while avoiding vengeance by oppressors. He suggests the United States will not interfere with Napoleon's policy. New music from Adams & Co. lists There’s no such Girl as Sally and other songs with prices.
The city buzzes with sensational telegrams from Canada about Fenian raids. Immense activity surrounds war plans at S R General Sweeney’s office with ex Confederate officers offering to join Young Ireland, while bonds flood the market and counterfeit notes circulate amid Irish nationalist fervor.
Benjamin W. Greens, charged with his wife’s murder in Hartford, was discharged on grounds of insanity and will be placed in Butler Hospital for the Insane.
The Toronto Globe cites a Fenian plan to cross into Canada for a March Patrick’s Day procession disruption and frontier raid. Other items note a Methodist church thief, Treasury vaults with 14 million, a girl’s revenge hanging, rampant smallpox in the South, coal prices in Boston and Philadelphia, pardons in Virginia and North Carolina, a Plains Indian treaty south of the Arkansas, Rhode Island manufacturing, San Francisco officials replacing workers, Massachusetts fasting day, Martha’s Vineyard revival, and War Dept cholera measures.
Election of delegates to the State Convention in Providence is set for this evening at Town Hall. The meeting opens at seven thirty as organizers seek full attendance. A separate item recounts a bizarre early morning incident at the Court House involving a woodpecker, later killed, with its skin sent to Providence as a memorial.
The body of Mrs. Mary P. Coggeshall, widow of Josiah Coggeshall, was found on the eastern farm area near Bristol Neck after she left home to visit sister Mrs. Simmons. Believed to have become exhausted in cold, she wandered and died. bonnet cloak and satchel located separately. She was seventy six, daughter of the late Mr. Loring Finney.
The Provence Conference of the M. E. Church begins its Twenty Sixth Annual session this Wednesday at 9 o clock with morning business and afternoon preaching and anniversary exercises. Rev J B Gould of Providence preaches Tuesday evening at State Street M E Church. Democratic electors convened at the Court House with George H Reynolds elected as moderator and delegates Edward W Brunsen Samuel D Wardwell and William H Spence chosen to attend the State Convention in Providence. H J Pitman re elected Town Committee and delegates instructed to vote strictly for straight Democrats.
Was lad, son of Mr. John W. Barney, lighting a bonfire of dried stalks near his father's Mount Jane north side home on Saturday afternoon. The house caught fire and was saved only with difficulty by passing men who helped extinguish it. Barney was away from home at the time.
Town Hall was well filled Monday evening as Rev A A Willets of Brooklyn delivered a lecture on Domestic Happiness to an appreciative audience.
The Georgia Minstrels performed to a fair sized audience on Friday evening last week, providing an entertaining program for attendees.
A new island rose five days ago in the Grevian Archipelago reaching six acres and 10 feet above sea level. It is volcanic, half molten lava, with flames and explosions reported as it expands. First seen January 31. The article also notes proposed English passenger lines with buoyant ships that cannot sink and steam whaling trials by Roys Brothers with captains Roya, Roys, and Roys sailing from England around April 6.
A brief notice suggests a total lunar eclipse visible in the United States on March 10 with events timed around 9 00 pm and 10 50 pm. Details in the text are unclear and contain garbled words.
About 500 Shakers at New Lebanon report six men and eighteen women with total ages 3109 years, averaging around 8 dollars per person. The oldest is 95 and the youngest 82, with six over 90. Fashion notes say Spring bonnets are smaller than ever.
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