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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1847
Page
2
A narrative details a daring siege near Fort Dayton with Captain Wells and Dudley guiding a breakout toward Tryon County. Arnold, Larned, and Willet coordinate with British forces while deception and hostage plots unfold. Ellen, Welles, and Wallon figure in a dangerous web of loyalty, illness, and shifting allegiances amid alert Indian allies and strategic maneuvers.
A garbled note mentions Beason Atlas and a witness, with reference to debt or loan and a court or legal context. The readable fragment implies a disputed transaction and eventual recording of a court entry.
The article reports the opening of a teachers institute with lectures by Bates and Dumont, a discussion on corporal punishment, and vigorous drills for teachers. It also covers a Washington journal note on peace prospects with Vera Cruz and Queretaro, plus letters debating Popery and a digressive anecdote about a pumpkin vine.
The item notes a Wilson & Co holiday sheet with engravings and readings, priced at ten for one dollar. It also cites New Bedford Mercury excerpts about Honolulu becoming a free port for whalers, permitting $200 of goods landable duty-free, and mentions distress in outport communities and upcoming Brazilian port restrictions.
The steamship Acadia reached Boston Saturday afternoon carrying 82 passengers from Liverpool and Halifax. The report notes widespread European commercial distress with bank relief and import concerns, Dublin murders, and political talk of Mexican war policy and possible taxation amidst looming famine fears.
The letters from Genoa and Turin claim the Austro Jesuit influence blocks popular reform efforts. Officials ban parish clergy from offering prayers for Pius IX. An organ player is jailed for playing tunes deemed subversive as Austrian forces still hold Ferrara.
Dispatches dated November 17 from St Louis recount later notices from Santa Fe. Reports accuse Colonel Newsley of dividing the Missouri regiment and sending units to Chippe...ch and keeping others idle. Colonel Price arrives with veteran troops. Dr. Warner of Capt Pauls company is wounded on the Plains and later discharged. Mr. Foote of Castor’s battalion dies from a tarantula sting. Americans’ property feared to be confiscated by Chiricahua forces, with danger to owners and youths.
A letter from Vera Cruz, dated Sth inst, describes a suspected Spanish schooner seen while the propeller Secretary Buchanan, under Capt. William Dus vis, arrived from Tampico on the 9th. The vessel, black hull white bottom, with a blue white blue flag, sent a boat ashore for water and carried ten men.
The Ocean Steam Navigation Company, through agent Mr. Milla, secured a contract with the British Government to carry royal Britannia mail from Southampton to Bremen, according to the New York Herald.
A chaotic report details a steamer collision near Cape Girardeau and a deadly wreck of the Caroline after departing Wilmington. Survivors describe a brutal eight day gale, loss of life including Captain Brown, and grim acts of survival with scant resources before rescue by the brig Swapico and others.
A boy age twelve caused a firearms accident injuring two French children in the city’s south part. The boy fired at a dog. a bullet hit the boy’s heart, killing him instantly while the girl was wounded but expected to recover. The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon. Bath Maine Tritune reports. Reverend Joseph Bennett of Woburn Maggs reportedly cut his throat at home this morning and died shortly after. he had married recently. James Forbes, near Westfield, was run over and killed by a train. a bottle of rum found on his person. John W. Field’s carpenter shop on Elbow Street burned last evening around seven. adjoining two-story dwelling damaged. the house insured with Mutual. Norfolk Beacon Office was totally destroyed by fire last Saturday.
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