BRISTOL NEWS ROSTER AND PUBLICATION DETAILS
Brestor Prenex weekly notices dated Saturday morning at Bradford Street Bristol run by W H S Bayley with subscription terms in town two dollars per year advance two dollars and fifty cents per half year other rates include single copies four cents and advertisements one dollar per square for three weeks with twenty cents each additional insertion yearly advertising twenty lines per week ten dollars including the paper religious obituary and political notices treated as advertisements
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Brestor Prenex
Bradford Street
Bristol
RB. I
W. H. S. Bayley
Angels of the Wind and Rain Poem Fragment
A fragmented verse presents imagery of angels, autumn leaves, and music blending earthly tones with heavenly bliss. The speaker reflects on loving a musical presence, likening it to streams and whispers under dripping eaves.
Desperate Naval Bombardment Alarms Newport Harbor
A preserved letter recounts Captain Wallace and a 10-ship fleet bombarding Newport after demanding town leaders meet aboard. Citizens negotiate a ceasefire, supplying 40 sheep as a pledge to prevent further attacks, while clergy and locals endure fear and fatalities from the sustained shelling.
Bristol under fire during pirate raid described in Bristol harbor
Eyewitness account recalls ships firing on shore near Bristol ferry and Paposquash point after plundering 90 sheep and poultry. Describes women and children in distress, but houses mostly unscathed. a distillery suffered rum losses. Also notes Rev. Burt, Boston-born Harvard-educated pastor of the Congregational church in Bristol for 34 years.
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Nero
Paposquash
Paposquash Point
Bristol Ferry Way
Mr. Burt
Boston
Harvard College
Bristol
Daughter of Pilot editor joins Sisters of Mercy in Providence
The only daughter of Mr. Donahoe of the Pilot entered the Sisters of Mercy in Providence on the 27th. Over two thousand people from various denominations attended the ceremony. Miss Donahoe chose religious life of her own free will and now bears the name Sister Mary Cecelia Xavier.
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Taxen In
Donahoe
Order of the Sisters of Mercy In
Providence
Mary Cecelia Xavier
Portraits of Talent and Genius in De Quincy's View
The excerpt contrasts talent and genius as tools and vision. It notes capable men without genius, and gifted figures like De Quincey who possess many talents but lack a single decisive faculty, described as a Pegasus running unrestrained. It frames talent as handicraft and genius as an inner eye.
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de Quincy
Pegasus
Vivian
Not one man in a hundred knows what is evidence
Leader argues men are taught sciences not Science and lack understanding of evidence and its sources. He warns that few restrain impulsive thoughts by evidence and laments widespread fallacy and failure to guard against biased reasoning.
First regular Boston Albany stage line 1793
The Boston to Albany stage route began in 1793. Before then Green Mountains in Berkshire county were nearly impassable for a stage. Worcester, Northampton, Pittsfield, Albany formed the four day journey, with trips twice weekly. The line later reached Whitestown beyond Albany, then Utica frontier.
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Boston
Albany
Green Mountains
Berkshire County
Worcester
Northampton
Pittefield
Whitestown
Utica
Genesee Valley
Great West
Ohio
Illinois
Manly French savant reappears after imagined amputation
Dr Noble recounts a tale of M Boutibous at Wagram who believed a cannon ball had amputated his legs. He lay unmoving through the night not fearing blood loss. At dawn a surgeon shook him and declared the legs intact. Boutibous stood on his legs, amazed by the misbelief.
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Noble
Manchester
Boutibous
Wagram
M. Boutibous
Dr. Noble
Bookseller’s Quip On Binds in Two Volumes
A French bookseller told Benson that one book was bound in mutton and the other in real, speaking while holding both volumes. The remark highlights a witty distinction in binding as he showcased the titles.
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Benson
Dinner tease over a de oyley remark
A man named D'Oyley insists on the spelling De Oyley. At dinner he is playfully teased as someone asks him if he will have some de-umpling, a pun on his name. The exchange highlights light social humor in a dining setting.
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D'Oyley
de Oyley
Mr. de Oyley
Mrs Jericho’s Suitors and Early Life Noted
A fragment notes Mrs Jericho as a woman of mixed traits including affection, meanness, and passion as she contemplates marriage to Mr Simp king. It mentions her birth in an early period and a long residence around a certain locale.
Sunday offerings and Monday forfeitures compared to Paradise
Readers are warned that those who expect heaven by Sunday shilling donations and compensate with tenfold losses on Monday will not gain a paradise seat. The writer likens such adjusted generosity to a one-express train unable to outrun summer lightning, illustrating futility.
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Heaven
Paradise
Boswell and Johnson Discuss Tranquil Sound Impact
Boswell tells Johnson that a noisy company caused his head to ache. Johnson replies that the head pain came from the sense put into the noise, noting it affects those unaccustomed to such stimuli.
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Boswell
Johnson
Journey to a New Home on the Purdy Farm
A young seamstress Lydia travels to White Plains and joins farmer Elijah Purdy and wife in Westchester. She endures a stern welcome, the busy household, and a hearty rural baking day as she adapts to farm work and the new environment.
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White Plains
New York
Billy
Zebediah
Zekiel
Bill
Lydia
Liddy
Elijah Purdy
Mrs. Purdy
Nate
Lilah
Rose
A New Help Transforms a Purdy Household
Lydia joins the Purdy family as a hired girl and slowly shapes their home. Caleb helps with milking and protection from barnyard fears while Mrs. Purdy grips to control yet admires Lydia’s steady progress. The setting shifts from poverty to domestic ingenuity as Lydia builds confidence and improves the room and routines.
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Lydia
Leeds
Caleb
Brindle
Mrs. Purdy
Caleb Purdy
Lydian
Bluaki
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Newport Mercury
Wallace
Glasgow
Papasquash Point
William Bradford
Col. Potter
Tion
Renand
John Burt
Egan
Ing Ring Field
Arple
Timothy Ingraham
Godey
Alice B. Neal
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