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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1851
Page
1
Publication details for a Bristol Saturday morning newspaper octave a mix of subscription rates local ads and pricing. It notes rates for town residents two dollars per year and distant readers four cents per line with half yearly and quarterly mention.
An old winter vignette from Lowell Maine blends a lyric meditation on loving the afflicted with a personal memory of a moonlit sleigh ride. The narrator contrasts loving the poor and weary with the allure of beauty and glory, then shifts to a snowy roadside scene and a freight of local news about floods, repairs, and curios from the Crystal Palace sale.
In a Padua setting, Leonardo and Vinzentio pursue a plot to save Giuliotta using antidotes and staged poisons. Vivaldi tightens his control while Arsula uncovers a secret letter, and a masked intervention tests loyalties as the conspiracy nears its crisis.
In a dramatic resolution a confessor reveals all, Vivaldi is arrested and executed, and Araula is banished. The marchese discovers Leonardo is the instrument of deliverance, offers his daughter’s hand, and prepares to unite families under one roof for supper.
The sale in Washington of Sir H. L. Bulwer’s furniture, who had returned to England, occurred on Wednesday and Thursday. Cabinets inlaid with tortoise shell and ivory priced from thirty five to forty eight dollars, twelve beaded velvet chairs at ten dollars each, four mahogany and rosewood velvet chairs at twenty dollars fifty cents each, two rose wood centre tables at one fifty five and fifty two dollars, walnut marble sideboards at twenty three dollars each, an oak sideboard at eighty six dollars. the marble head of Diana was knocked off at fifty two dollars.
A huge diamond, about the size of a pigeon's egg, once in the czar's sceptre, is valued at £300000. The gem was stolen from a Hindustan ship's hold by a Frenchman who sold it to a captain for £2000 and later to Empress Catherine for £90000 plus annual £4000.
A compilation of 1851 Rhode Island General Assembly resolutions directing clerks to report court fees, directing Hamilton Bank dividend handling, authorizing street openings in Providence, binding Supreme Court reports, reallocating funds, and reporting on Massachusetts Rhode Island boundary efforts. The document includes multiple true copies witnessed by A Potter and Secretary Potter.
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