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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1866
Page
2
In a 1866 analysis the author links monetary policy to education and virtue. Wealth expansion fosters endowments for learning yet spurs rapid speculation and crime. A proposed 30 year 5 percent gold funded loan aims to reduce prices, curb speculation, and restore specie. The May Treasury release shows debt shrinking toward a potential early cancellation.
In Bristol the annual town meeting voted to vigorously enforce alcohol restrictions, signaling a new era of public order. The Bristol School Committee report lauds high educational standards and calls for better funding to retain top teachers, while Newport prepares for Election Week with preparations, parades, and city-wide cleaning.
A historic reader letter extols Newport’s revived park as a charming miniature landscape with graded walks and thinning trees, while lamenting Bristol’s temperance lag and the prevalence of liquor inns along Main Street. The item quotes an 1866 Jerusalem trip note describing Mount Sinai, Jabel Musa, Susafeh, and Sinai’s sacred sites, and ends with praise for American watchmaking, citing Waltham.
The article notes a New England company covering over three acres with 60 miles of iron pipes, producing about 75 000 watches annually. It contrasts American mass production with foreign hand work, touting uniform parts and accuracy as keys to the firm’s high reputation and wide use.
In a morning discourse at the Congregational Church Rev Dr Shepard commemorates a half century of ministry. Born in 1791, licenced in 1816, he served in Georgia, Ashfield Massachusetts, and then here for thirty one years. He notes benevolence lagging prosperity and ponders the times of great change. The sermon coincides with marriage, birth, and church anniversaries.
The American Minister General Kilpatrick rode through Valparaiso urging firemen as Chileans cheered him. He speaks Spanish well and is well liked, amid the bombardment scene.
The Court of Common Pleas in Bristol County opened Tuesday with Judge Sylvester Sherman. The Grand Jury reported no presentments, and the Petit Jury was dismissed due to lack of counsel. Indictments State vs Michael Matthews and State vs Henry Seeling were continued. Jeremiah Q. Sullivan's naturalization petition was granted. One jury case was tried this term. Also noted is a review of Horace Greeley's The American Conflict and an accident on the sloop E Sprague injuring Captain Gibbs and a sailor.
Members are urged to attend the regular monthly meeting on Monday to discuss the annual convention to be held in Albany on June 1. Rev Joseph A James of Fall River is slated to preach at the town M E Church Sunday morning and evening. The New York correspondent’s letter arrives late for this issue and will appear next. The Common committee has begun work promptly and properly.
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