17 Nov 1860
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1860
Page
1
A Port Jervis notice from November 2 1860 quotes a patriotic pledge in a handwritten flag poem. The text invokes God to sustain the Union and moral resolve during peril, with lines praising the red white and blue and urging prayers for national unity.
A narrative recounts Herbert Goffin, master miner, who saves blind Victor and others as floodwaters threaten a Belgian mine. His leadership forms a thousand-strong rescue effort, delaying panic, while workers dig a new chamber. the tale ends with celebration by miners, Napoleon, and the world, praising noble sacrifice.
A nameless woman sits on a churchyard stone, gray hair in disarray, mourning children lost to death. Her daily vigil by open graves shows a quiet, solitary grief that leaves her unseen by others, awaiting death as spring and autumn pass.
A reflective, lyrically scattered musing contrasts fleeting fame and daily life with the inevitability of death. It shifts from mortality’s silence after burial to a trivial domestic anecdote about ants invading a sponge cake, then pivots to praise for patient cultivation of virtue in a spouse.
A prose reflection on a child's bright illusion of life as a lush paradise. The tale traces the shift from trusting wonder to hard, mature insight, revealing that youthful visions fade to reveal life’s barren truths.
A compact excerpt discusses Petrarchan maxims on death and tears, the value of philosophy and poetry, and the immortality of truth. It includes observations on pruning grapes from Hovey’s Magazine and a tongue in cheek line on what sustains illness versus diet, with garbled OCR hints interspersed.
A New England party rides lower city cars to Fairmount on the Schuylkill skirting the Dam and New Park. They sail past water works, Girard Avenue Bridge, and river clubs to Laurel Hill Cemetery where Old Mortality guards inscriptions and monuments. The twilight voyage returns with song and moonlit wake.
A historical note argues that Matthew’s plain Saxon diction in the Bible carries more force and beauty than Luke’s Latinized vocabulary. It contrasts the two versions with the parable of the house built on rock and the floods and winds, noting Matthew’s wording has become proverbial.
The Albany Evening Journal editor recalls farm life with sap gathering and sugar house nights. He notes leisure reading by firelight, borrowing a history of the French Revolution after a long two mile barefoot trek for a book from Mr Hayes.
An article fragment discusses heat increasing with depth, predicting melting points for metals and a region where rock remains molten. It envisions extreme temperatures beyond known human experience and references scientists like Ingram Cobbin and Conant Roget in a speculative, science-tinged narrative.
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