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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1865
Page
2
The Bristol Phere comments on Wirz's hanging as an act showing government weakness. It argues clemency was extended, condemns the leaders of rebellion, and challenges punishment as a measure when principals remain free. It speculates on Jeff Davis and the fate of Confederate leaders.
After sixteen years of occupation French troops begin leaving Rome to bolster the Pope and curb patriotism. The proclamation urges Romans to arm for self defense against brigands, pursue political regeneration, and seek unity with the greater Italian nation as control slows and papal power weakens.
Alexander H. Stephens has officially declined to run for Georgia governor, stating he will not seek the office. The decision ends speculation about his political plans and leaves the gubernatorial field open.
A news summary notes cholera arouses wide concern across the country with city sanitation steps to curb spread. In Europe Paris reports the disease among rag pickers and street sweepers, while Emperor and Empress stay in Paris to aid hospitals and distressed patients.
The Tunisian Ambassador General Hashem and Consul Perry visited Providence from New York arriving Sunday at City Hotel. Mayor Doyle and the Board of Aldermen greeted them before Sabbath services at Reform School. They toured Brown University, mills, and factories, and met Governor Smith. They continued to view American Screw, High School, Mesers A W Sprague works, and took tours of Tool Company and Gorham. The ambassador left for Boston and Europe on Wednesday.
The contract records Morris Ketchum of New York selling to Charles L Anthony of New York for 125 250 dollars. The property, a premier New York house finished and furnished in 1861, reflects Ketobaom’s wealth with an estimated cost near 200 000 dollars. the text asks what such an estate would cost today.
Beautiful bound 1866 almanac with lithographic game illustrations and instructions for Croquet. Describes winter parlor play and summer lawn games, plus literature and household recipes. Mailed postpaid by publisher George Coolidge at 3 Milk Street Boston for 50 cents.
The Visitor enters its tenth volume with January 1866 number. A day school monthly with new features readings music speeches dialogues stories puzzles enigmas rebunca and more from top writers. Publisher offers one year free to an agent via post with five cents for details. J W Davenapar 1308 Chestnut Street Philadelphia PA.
Thellon Praston King, Collector of the Port at New York, leapt overboard from a Hoboken Ferry on Tuesday and drowned in a moment of mental aberration. In other news, twenty seven states must ratify the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, with twenty five already having acted, South Carolina becoming the twenty fifth on the 13th instant.
A young adventurer arrives as Adolf Graf Za Dohna Schlodien and captivates Fifth Avenue society with staged noble status. He robs and borrows from elites, courts cash advances, and circulates forged letters before being exposed as Francis Brabenca, a deserter linked to a theft at Count Dubna’s residence.
The American Colonization Society dispatched a party from Baltimore on Saturday totaling 174 Freedmen from Lynchburg Virginia and vicinity. The group includes 30 families and single young men with skilled trades such as bricklaying farming tobacconist and blacksmith. Leaders are respected local workers and several are Christians including a Baptist preacher. More groups from the South plan to follow, signalling a significant new effort by the society.
Paul Ledger analyzes the next Congress with a divided Senate and House. He notes 38 Union Republicans and 11 Democrats in the Senate, plus 11 Southern states unrepresented that will gain 22 Senators likely siding with Democrats. In the House, 143 Union Republicans and 41 Democrats remain, while Southern gains could add 58 members likely aligned with Democrats.
The Rhode Island Supreme Court chief justice Samuel Amey resigns due to ill health. Elected in 1856 at the May assembly session, he served with notable learning and dedication. The public and bar mourn the loss of his acute intellect and erudite mind and wish for his rest and eventual return.
Bartholomew Corbett, 89, father of Sergeant Corbett who shot Lincoln’s assassin, Booth, was taken to the Marylebone workhouse on October 24 after falling ill with erysipelas. The eccentric old man lived isolated for seven years in a room packed with stuffed birds, books, and papers, and was found in a crowded corner when the door broke open.
General Nolsan reports in the Jamaica Colonial Standard that all rebels captured on the island are hanged following a summary trial. He notes an insurgent mob of about eight hundred people, mostly women and children, dispersed by gunboat shells. The piece contrasts this with American practices during the rebellion.
October United States Treasury figures show coin deposits at fifty four thousand dollars with nearly one hundred million on hand and thirty million in national bonds. Portsmouth navy yard readies Passaconaway for sea, with Minnesota Maratanza and Galena to be fitted out. A Chicago express robbery is solved with the driver identified as the thief. A Raphael and a Morillo paintings fetch large sums for galleries. New Haven forms a freight line to New York with one hundred fifty thousand dollars capital. A wrecked brig near Cape Fear claims fifteen lives after a long ordeal. A Wisconsin boy shoots his parents then himself. the hotel owner in Barre, Massachusetts fires at a horse hit by a rifle round. Apples may be abundant, peanuts exports drop drastically. Boston-area robberies rise with chloroform attacks. Italian petroleum basin analysis shows high quality oil. Bedford Street ladies fund a Grant life member. War-time debt jokes persist as butter prices rise. Major Gen Couch to manage Portsmouth coal mines. A man killed near Fall River in a ram and boot incident. A bale at Central Mill hides four shells. Irish population tallies rise in England and Scotland. President’s brother Will Johnson dies from accidental gun wound. Government hospital casualties total under five thousand. A Boston man imports a Swiss watch with a three thousand dollar cost. A Thorndike man robbed of three hundred seventy five dollars. A fourteen-year-old Peoria boy’s death by action. A Melrose veteran Joshua Ware dies after forty years of Boston newspaper work. A nine-year-old North Mansfield boy sets a schoolhouse fire. Navy casualties in war total seventy five thousand served, with over twenty thousand losses. Italian cotton exhibition planned for Naples in December and January. Nashville and nearby regions suffer robberies.
The Ponil Attu Christian Association lists a winter lecture lineup featuring Wendell Phillips Rev D A Wamon Rt Rev F P McFarland James B Angell HonAir Deming Prof J Lewis Diman Rev A L Stone D D Willits plus remarks on the Bay State series closing lecture by Rev A A Willits. Tickets are one dollar and twenty five cents, with proceeds supporting the association’s library.
A district ad copy extols a perfume scented with Phalon's Night Blooming Cereus to lure the user to the desired conclusion. The fragrance is claimed to surpass all others and is advertised as widely sold.
Ad offers an invention retailing for six dollars at a price of fifty cents with a free mail sample. It urges immediate examination by calling the advertiser R. L. Wolcot at 170 Chatham Square, New York, dated September 16. Also notes cholera evacuation of Paris with 115000 people leaving within ten days.
A Washington correspondent notes the Booth capture reward remains unpaid while a committee ranks legitimate captors amid a nearly quarter million dollars. Other items report Mormon polygamy threats, Wirz papers, Fenian prisoners in Ireland, and Tidewater Virginia disease and mortality rising due to war debris and poor drainage.
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