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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1856
Page
1
The Bristol Phenix lists subscription prices and advertising charges. Rates include annual and half yearly payments for residents, or two dollars for non residents, with single copies at four cents. Advertising is one dollar per square for three weeks, twenty cents for each extra insertion, twelve lines per square, all ads prepaid.
An October poem explores autumnal imagery and themes of time decay mortality and the cycle of life. The speaker laments time and death while noting nature's beauty and the fading splendor of the year as leaves fall and sunsets dim.
The Messrs Lee land of the Metropolitan Hotel were arrested on Saturday afternoon at the instance of banker W. E Culver of Louisville Kentucky. His affidavit accuses them of buying $16,000 in bonds with Valley Bank funds two days before their bank failed. Judge Bosworth of the Superior Court issued the warrant.
The Senate resolution urging the Governor to call an extra session if Fremont wins the Presidency was not acted on by the House. The piece argues national unity will prevail regardless of the election outcome and cautions secession as unconstitutional. It invokes Jefferson to warn that constitutional rights must not be overridden.
Samuel Sharwood a journey man tailor from England has been asked to leave Montgomery Alabama for opposing slavery of white mechanics. Alabama papers mock him calling him a devout Methodist. The brief item notes rising Southern sentiment against his anti slavery stance.
In a state return the Calhoun county tally is incomplete as returns are missing while the town had prepared for an August vote. Citizens recall an elk stampede interrupting polling, causing many to flee and abandon attempts to cast ballots.
The museum logged last week visitors’ references with noted vote counts for Fremont five, Fillmore 1506, and Buchanan 947. This item appears in the Boston Journal.
A Alabama gentleman shares a method to estimate a horse age by wrinkles above the upper eyelid after age nine. Each year adds a single wrinkle, so a horse with three wrinkles would be twelve, four equals thirteen. The claim comes from a horse dentist. readers are urged to try it, though skepticism is noted.
The steamship Edinburg on its last trip from St Louis to New Orleans carried half a million dollars in gold coin from the United States Sub Treasury in St Louis to the branch mint in New Orleans.
The Poughkeepsie Eagle prints a call for a meeting of supporters of Fremont and Dayton set for October 16. The notice is signed by one person and twenty four voters from the locality.
A moral essay on how excess spending ruins fortunes regardless of income. It cites a bar-tender who overspends on a house and servants, a single man squandering wages on frolics, and a merchant who funds luxury with risky hopes. The piece warns thrift builds wealth and greed leads to ruin.
The piece urges children to sit straight, quoting why upright posture matters for breathing and health. It explains the lungs, oxygen, and blood, warning that stooping reduces air intake and can lead to illness or death, concluding that good posture lays a strong constitution.
An elderly Orthodox man recounts a Sunday sermon to his son Frank. The father recalls a sermon “one of the most delightful sermons ever delivered” that “carried nine to the gates of heaven” and jokes that Frank should have gone in, as such chances may not come again.
Two anglers near Shrewsbury argued about the horse-fly and asked a rustic. He replied he had never seen a horse-fly but once saw a cow fall over a steep bank.
A young bride on her wedding day is seen in deep reflection when asked what she ponders. She replies she is considering which of her former lovers she should wed if she becomes a widow.
At a Buchanan gathering in Genoa Cayuga county a butcher named Roxkers accused Col Fremont of eating dog. A speaker countered that Fremont had eaten less dog than most, and another man, who had made sausages for the audience, delivered the clinching retort.
A Quaker, asked about Phrenology, indignantly replies that there can be no food in a science that compels a man to remove his hat. The remark satirizes the supposed science and its ritual demands.
An orphaned girl recalls a lonely childhood and a new life with her father’s widow who becomes a true mother. She meets Leonard Montgomery at her mother’s New York home, he falls in love, and they pledge marriage on her dying mother’s bed as preparations for a wedding unfold.
A description notes the extreme speed of cotton manufacturing gear. The finest lace thread is passed through a lamp flame, burning fibers but not the thread. The motion is so rapid that to the eye the thread appears motionless as it whirls past a wheel within the flame.
The passage quotes Dr. Franklin on death as a release from bodies that hinder knowledge and benevolence. It frames death as a kindly exit when bodies fail to aid pleasure or good, inviting the speaker and friend to join a perpetual party beyond.
A colloquy contrasts the saying that adversity brings good traits with a sharp remark that a country judge exposed the speaker's flaws. Jim consoles Sam as the two men discuss trouble and character under pressure.
A court official sparked laughter in the Supreme Court when the judge ordered the crier to announce the session and the official quipped that the crier could not cry aloud because his wife is dead, a humorous misfit between duty and personal loss.
The passage argues wealth pursuit defines the era across centuries and nations. It notes England and the United States pursue money power despite lessons from bankruptcies and disasters, with people driven by a dream of gold from dawn to night.
A tale claims a burglar heard a loud basement noise then hunted the source armed. He finds a rat dragging a large clam from a basket and trapped by the shell. After tugging, the clam holds fast and the rat is captured.
A reflective passage contrasts ideal landscapes with human flaws and foibles. It notes that beauty bears freckles, good wives overlook small faults, and even the brightest minds err. The piece observes that people, like the world, fall short of perfection.
In a fragmentary dialogue Lovelace and Lovelece debate women and marriage. Lovelece contends women's thoughts fixate on matrimony and fetters, while Lovelace admits he has never married. The exchange contrasts gender expectations and social pressure in a light, candid tone.
A London Times correspondent reports a Dutch officer at Wiesbaden who after losing all at play shot himself. gambling resumes quickly at the table. a week earlier an English officer did the same in Hamburg. The piece notes reform pressure from the Duke of Nassau and German princes. Also a quip about Peters Cunningham and Jerrold recalling a dish described as calved tails.
The renowned ship builder George Steers was buried at Greenwood Cemetery after an obituary announced last Thursday. About five thousand mourners attended the funeral with many prominent citizens and officials officiating.
Rev D N Sheldon formerly president of Waterville College and now pastor of Elm Street Church Bath has been formally excommunicated by a Baptist Council for heresy in dissent from the commonly received doctrine in his work on Sin and Redemption A dull author just delivered and a plain woman about to be so are two very subportant animals
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