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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1867
Page
2
A Boston letter recounts Crete’s struggle for freedom and the distress of Turkish-ruled refugees. It urges readers to aid the beleaguered population, citing massacres, confiscations, and mountains residents starving without bread for months.
The article traces Cato of Tusculum born about 234 B C through early poverty to political ascent. It covers his trials under Fabius Maximus, attacks on Scipio, his rise as consul in 195 B C, opposition to the Oppian law, and his brutal campaigns in Spain and Thrace against Macedon and Antiochus. The narrative notes his harsh ethic and controversial achievements.
The Diamond Dickens offers the Pickwick Papers as the first of twelve or thirteen volumes in a Complete Works edition published by Ticknor & Fields Boston. The illustrated edition costs $1.59 and plain edition $1.25, with monthly issues and free delivery on receipt of payment.
A Boston and Providence Railroad stockholders meeting approved a plan to form through service to New York via Bristol. Directors may guarantee boat bonds up to 750000 dollars with Bristol road to share obligations, amid support from several directors and officials. The vote totaled 15728, with 10176 in favor and 5547 opposed.
The twenty seventh session of the Providence Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church began Wednesday morning at the Matthewson Street M E Church in Providence with Bishop Q C Baker of Concord New Hampshire presiding.
A mosaic of short items on births and deaths, political shifts, debt, and curiosities. Reports include a child born in Indiana resembling a turtle, estimates of state debts, Fenian activity in London and New York, voter registration implications in Washington, Chinese workers for Paris expositions, and odd local tales from Massachusetts and Ohio.
Work on the new steamship line progresses with two gravel car trains of twenty cars each, delivering sand and gravel from Burrs Hill. Daily traffic runs ten to twelve trains, each car carrying about five tons, totaling roughly twelve hundred tons per day. A large carpentry gang is framing the new Depot building, slated for completion in about ten days. Plans include extending the current pier about one hundred feet northwest, starting about seventy five feet north of Messrs Camp Brunsen and Sherry’s wharf.
The article asks readers to search for and return books loaned from the Young Men’s Christian Association Library while it was held by the King Philip Fire Company. It notes the sets are broken and stresses the library’s goal to be a complete reference collection with limited finances.
Reports indicate the new steamer Bristol is expected to conduct her trial trip from New York to this port around the fifteenth of next month.
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