08 Oct 1853
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1853
Page
1
The notice outlines subscription rates and delivery terms for a Bristol publication. It specifies prices for in town and distant subscribers, advance payment options, and indicates the office handles mail and rate adjustments with various per-year and per-issue charges.
An 1853 Rhode Island act creates a Court of Magistrates in Woonsocket Cumberland with two Justices of the Peace, appointable by the Town Council, to hear civil and criminal matters within defined boundaries, with a clerk, docketing duties, and financial provisions, including fines remittance and state payment. The court convenes at 9 a.m. with weekly civil and criminal sessions and rules for adjournments and habeas corpus procedures.
The act creates a town court in Cumberland replacing Justices of the Peace, detailing judges, clerks, fees, appeal procedure, quorum rules, and operation start. Appointments are by the Town Council, lasting until successors are chosen, with specific entry fees and petty costs outlined.
In Parliament Mr Pitt calls Britain’s past conflict the last war and is interrupted as MPs chant the phrase The last war but one The crowd quickly shifts to declare I mean the last war that Britons would wish to remember.
A fragmentary selection of quotations extols the Bible for sublimity beauty and morality citing Fisher Ames Patrick Yeomatt Dr Johnson and John Locke. The passages urge daily Bible reading and reverence for sacred language as guiding truth and salvation.
A teacher recalls that true bargains hinge on truth and conscience. A boy cites Esau selling his birthright for porridge as a bad bargain, another points to Judas selling Jesus for thirty pieces of silver, and a third notes that gaining the world but losing the soul is a worse bargain.
The piece portrays New York waking at seven as markets stir, milkmen and news carriers move, saloons open, and steamboats, steam engines, and omnibuses begin their daily routines. The scene captures the city’s arterioles of labor and light, ending with the sun rising over Trinity.
A reflection on early humans discovering fire and linking it to sun worship. The passage suggests curiosity, trial, and the transformation of fire into a symbol of divine presence. It compares ancient reverence for fire with the emergence of Christianity drawing on Sun Worship imagery.
The Worker lampoons a “model husband” who endures a wife’s endless chores and fits of ill humor with patience and cheer. He surprises with kindness, helps with messes, and forgives late nights, becoming the imagined ideal despite absurdity.
In a Monday evening talk reported by the Portland Transcript, Dr Boynton explained how a Toten sheds its shell. A girl’s response about outgrowing clothes, saying you “let out the tucks,” amused the doctor who admitted her wit.
The snippet contrasts poor and rich life in a medieval setting with Spartan dining, limited luxury, shared meals, torches, brown earthenware, and plain dress. It references noble wealth, arms and horses, and late medieval fashion trends among women at theatre while noting fragmented narrative about Dante and St.
In a Dublin tale from the Memoirs of J. T. Hopper a wealthy family invites a guest to dine and discovers his own claim as a mechanic reversed by a tailor’s mark on his hands. The exchange notes pride in humble crafts and social perceptions.
A Portsmouth Journal item recounts a Massachusetts clergyman famed for deep study who, in absent intervals, pockets items from tea guests. His wife finds a silk apron in his side, mistaken for a handkerchief, and after comedic pocket-compacting, the apron is finally revealed as mislaid belongings.
A reflective fragment laments a human life wasted with no object or work. It contrasts nature’s beauty with a soul starved of meaning, describing longing, despair, and the gulf between rich inner faculty and unfulfillment.
A Great Falls High School astronomy class on a stargazing excursion found a bright object they believed to be a new star. They hurried to show their teacher, who was indisposed, and the object proved to be a lantern attached to a kite.
A fragmentary quote from the Tribune discusses a trend toward timidity and half hearted virtue. It argues that such people are obscure and unthreatening because they are nobody, contributing little to society.
A garbled medical fragment discusses self limited disease and a physician's cautious stance on prognosis. It mentions nine to twenty cases and insight into laws of probability, noting recovery and the difficulty in explaining this to the world.
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