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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1858
Page
1
A narrative set in a Berkshire district school recalls a prank and moral test as a train journey yields a pivotal lesson. Peter Walton, president of the railway, consoles a taunted youth, teaching civility regardless of appearance and status.
The piece reproduces an advertisement seeking a handy laborer who will plough a married Protestant man with a son or daughter. A note promises a milk‑rich house as payment. A popular author counsels wives to discipline their husbands with the broom’s soft end, not the handle.
In a Boston preachers meeting discussion of public prayers on special occasions, Father Henson recounts a cruel scene on a Mississippi river journey. A young master taunts a enslaved man while others demand he pray to boost bids. The slave prays, but the crowd rebuffs him as the master and crowd depart.
An amiable and accomplished young lady from California, recently back from Europe, asserts that William Tell remains living. She says that in Switzerland she saw him hanging out in wood cutting, a claim noted with curiosity.
A long excerpt extols the value of self improvement for workers and farmers through reading and study. It cites Elisha Burritt the learned blacksmith as an exemplar, argues education aids farm efficiency, and warns against idle habits. A London anecdote from Admiral Beaufort about midshipmen dinner habits follows, then poems and reflections on poetry, duty, and Franklin.
A Yankee doctor from Ashfield Mass named Bates has set up practice in Hakodachi Japan and is conducting solid business. He follows a motto by Bishop Berkeley on speaking of virtues to faces and faults behind backs.
A collage of humorous letters and social notes on medicine folly, political quips, self reliance, and odd local curiosities. From Liver disease advise to Governor Brownlow exchanges and oddities like a 2500 population Edgartown with 500 pianos and a frail Madison mother, all in brisk, provincial voice.
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