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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1856
Page
2
The Bristol Phenix notes the school committee's annual report for the year ending April, praising its readable form. It urges parents and taxpayers to study school state, stresses the committee's duties and need for personal attention to results, and commends the emphasis on practical studies, apparatus, and public examinations.
A circulated paragraph claimed an Albany Court of Appeals ruling in Mechanics Bank versus New Haven Railroad Company. The note says no decision has been made and none will be until possible. The editors doubt the court will halt railroad activity or invalidate investments over alleged fraud.
At a Monday meeting the Pokanokes Steam Mill stockholders failed to decide on disposing of the property. Many favor selling for a potential profit given the site’s manufacturing potential. The nearly new engine and attached additions remain in good order. The main building could be reconstructed cheaply if needed.
The May Term of the Court of Common Pleas began in the county town with Judge Shearman presiding. After a few hours of inconsequential business, the court adjourned to meet again on the last Monday in June to take up the docket. A notice explains mail letter pickup arrangements for California and Oregon residents, via the Pacific Mail List published in New York. The Treasury advertises for a new Custom House and Post Office on Hope Street, with local store changes and hopes for a larger, creditable building for the government and town.
The Providence Transcript reports the Company of National Cadets organized in the city will hold its first parade on Monday the 26th and travel by a special train to a nearby place. They will dine at the DeWolf House and return to the city by 4 PM.
The report notes a cool week with heavy frost Monday night and saturated earth. It predicts seed time and harvest will still come, despite gloom for farmers. It corrects that Rhode Island General Assembly begins on the last Tuesday of May, not Tuesday.
The Richmond lecture was moved to next Thursday evening. Jin Myens and his celebrated company plan a town entry this morning between 9 and 10, weather permitting. Performances on the Common start at 2 PM with an evening show at 7 PM. Connxpaum notes a popular Post Office window among ladies.
May 3 proceedings show Johanna Sullivan convicted of indecency and assault, eight days in jail. Assault cases against Isaiah Davis and Issiah Davis were addressed with fines and costs. James Clarke appealed a $1 sentence. Munro and Hemet cases ended with acquittal on a fraud charge.
The North America arrives with Liverpool news to April 23 and a supplement from the Liverpool Courier reports Russia updates. Militia in Russia disbanded. light houses to be lit and buoys laid in the Gulfs of Bothnia Finland Baltic and White Seas. London notes Clarendon declined a marquisate and a cabinet meeting at the Foreign Office. The naval review at Spithead is highlighted. France sees trade improvement with wheat prices mixed. Treaty of Peace ratifications and Ottoman evacuation clauses are discussed in Vienna and Constantinople.
Halifax May 8 steamship America from Liverpool arrived May 7 with 159 passengers and cargo en route to Boston. North American and City of Baltimore sailings noted. London papers discuss Cabinet meeting on Central American questions, maintaining Crampton in Washington, and release of a Treaty of Peace copy with thirty four articles. Lord Clarendon and Lord Palmerston tabled correspondence on Central America with enlistment papers due soon.
Coroner's inquest in Warren before Samuel Randall E finds Michael McMurry born in Ireland and long time resident of this city had been missing nine weeks after leaving to visit a daughter. He apparently left Barrington by mistake, walked onto the railroad track, and fell from a bridge. Verdict is accidental drowning. He was about 60 years old.
A morning blaze started around seven at the Water and Miller street residence owned by the Luther estate. Firemen confined the fire to the roof though the upper dwelling suffered, with two families affected and furniture saved. Lower storefront R B Johnson Co grocers endured water damage. The building was insured with Mutual Office. In Franklin New York a man named Leland married a renowned woman and then drank himself to death about two weeks later.
The Tribune reports ongoing discussion on recognizing Walker's government and sending Minister Visil. President may reply to Padre ViJil's speech, with potential cabinet disagreements. An agent is planned to investigate the Panama incident. Gen. Molina of Costa Rica seeks a dispatch on Virgin Bay massacre.
The Post Office adopts a system to publish the Pacific Mail List at every post office in California and the Oregon Washington territories. Letters to unknown recipients will be listed with the sender using a card and a three cent stamp sent to New York. Glass-paned lists will be posted in post offices so recipients can learn where their mail was directed.
Mr Wood has authority to put his plan in operation but the department assumes no responsibility. All correspondence should go to the Pacific Mail List, New York. Postmasters are asked to display the circular in their offices. James Campbell, Postmaster General.
Two boys fishing at Long Pond in Worcester found a box floating near shore. They pulled it ashore and discovered a dead young woman inside, wrapped in sawdust with both legs and hands severed, stones packed around her. The alleged discovery suggests an attempt to sink the body.
A barque struck by a squall on March 13 capsized with three masts gone. Survivors endured five days without food or water, eating a dead comrade and a rat. The schooner Pigeon rescued ten men on April 15 at St Johns Newfoundland, with several crewmen lost to exposure. Names include Henry Engleston, Joseph Thompson, John Crimmons, and William Brown of New York.
Boston Journal reports distiller John M. Barnard offers a premium of one thousand dollars for the best essay on legislative enactments to regulate manufacturing, sale, and use of intoxicating liquors. A law outline must accompany the essay for consideration. A judges’ panel includes Gilchrist Clifford Vinton Cooper and Capen.
The Portuguese Consul General calls a meeting of Portuguese in New York to aid the starving Cape Verde Islands. Hackett offers professional services and 100 dollars. The piece praises American charity and urges broad liberal aid in the emergency.
A few weeks ago Dr. John C. Warren disinterred from St. Pauls church family tomb the remains of his uncle General Joseph Warren who fell at Bunkers Hill. The skull is intact with a lone ear aperture marking the fatal ball entry. The remains were placed with other family members in Forest Hills Cemetery.
New York May 6 The seventh anniversary gathering at Broadway Tabernacle heard Rev Dr De Witt chair the event. Treasurer E Vernon reported receipts of 69330 66 with expenditures 96765791 leaving a balance of 1672 65. Directors reported 119 workers this year 97 home 56 foreign and 11 more than last year. Several resolutions and addresses followed by J P Lee Sunderland Barchard Frelinghuysen Tyng. Also a Portuguese Consul meeting opened a subscription raising 2100 for Cape Verde relief.
The Cabinet met at an early hour to discuss Central America policy and whether to recognize Gen. Walker's government. Padre Vigilly arrived as a ministerial candidate. Marcy and Cushing opposed immediate recognition while Pierce and Davis favored action. Tomorrow’s session was expected to decide the question.
Information from the United States Consul at Sidskepore reports the death of Captain Jonx R How of Rhode Island, late master of the Chinese junk Chun and formerly master of the bark Hungarian of Warren Rhode Island.
Mr. Crampton suggests the British government will not satisfy Secretary Marcy's demand. If his view holds, he may soon have his passports ready, as the response is due by the next arrival report in the Tribune.
A special messenger for Gen Walker was robbed on the steamship Ilinvis en route to the port. A note for six thousand dollars payable to William H. Hall within four months was taken along with letters to local parties. The papers relate to operations linked to the Transit Company and involve unnamed individuals.
Turin inventor M Banelli unveils an electric telegraph allowing trains in motion to exchange messages with each other and with line stations at all speeds. He also proposes a system that dispenses with wires for graphic communication along the railway line.
Com. Stockton writes to the Newark Mercury condemning the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and urging New Jersey voters to express disapproval of the breach of the peace compact.
A Cincinnati man named Canfield arrives seeking his wife who eloped with Lorenzo D Parker. With Constable Pierce they trail to Eastern Depot and board the Marblehead train. In Marblehead they surprise the couple at a hotel as Canfield regains his ten year old son and returns to Ohio. The wife remains with Parker after the incident.
Lawrence report says a woman claiming to be Francis P. Buckley s wife arrived from New Haven to find her missing husband. At the depot she met another woman traveling to Lowell who said she had married Buckley in mid April. Ellen Hellen and Buckley were later jailed in Haverhill awaiting trial after a disturbance.
In a public address Father Taylor of Boston says he has seen Amos Lawrence's pocket book. He notes a fold printed in gold with a Bible verse about profit and the soul and another fold declaring the gold is the Lord's. A third fold reads that giving to the poor is lending to the Lord.
A Savannah News correspondent reports William Ellison, a freed slave who bought his freedom years ago, now owns a cotton plantation and controls about half of Statesburg in Sumpter district, South Carolina, with workers and influence in the area.
D H Thompson of Fitchburg patents a hay cart using rakes on an inclined frame that load hay into the vehicle when pulled across a meadow. The device operates by drawing the wagon over hay, causing the frame to rake and lift the hay into the cart.
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