20 Oct 1855
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1855
Page
1
Beeshor Pmenix lists ads for Saturday in Bristol at Nogt Bradford Street by R Tes cin ae Meow H Bayley. Rates: two dollars for a small notice, four cents per line for insertion, advance payment required. Religious obituaries and political notices excluded from advertisements.
Fragment from a religious meditation on death and mortality contrasts earthly pleasures with the hope of a heavenly home. It laments fading friends and urges mindful living before the inevitable end, reiterating the refrain that we too must die.
Passenger recounts a daytime balloon voyage from Cincinnati as the giant globe lifts off, with Col. Lithan and others aboard a wicker car. The crowd presses close, ballast is adjusted, and the city, river, and surrounding hillsides unfold below as the flight glides toward Mount Auburn and further toward Cumminsville.
The balloon voyage drifted toward Sharon from Cumminsville and other villages, with onlookers inviting drinks and supper below. A storm threat prompted ballast drops and ascent to seventeen thousand feet. Injuries followed for Mons. Godard, Col. Latham, Mr. Bellview, and others as doctors from Waynesville tended them.
An account of a balloon descent led by Mons Godard ends with a violent crash into a cornfield and tree, injuring several, as the party seeks help from Mr George Smith and his men. The survivors are cared for at a farmhouse while a physician is summoned.
Pennsylvania Gazette reports a theft from Benjamin Franklin’s house including a Sagathee Coat shirts stockings breeches hat shoes and a white thread wig. The thief is described as William Lloyd an Irish schoolmaster about 30 tall and slim, last seen wearing a light coat red jacket black breeches and an old felt hat. A reward of thirty shillings plus charges is offered for his capture and delivery to justice by B Franquin.
Fragmentary quotations reflect on covetousness sleep and memory in ancient and modern thought. Lines cite moral observations on marriage ceremony gratitude and social manners, noting vanity and reciprocity in human relations.
A disjointed 18th century style reflection on a tormented wife lamenting lost luxury and care, followed by brief antiquated notes on Britain Russia Turkey policy in 1768 and quirky anecdotes about an alarm bedstead and a Brooklyn observer’s cistern tale.
A narrator recalls leaving France for America with dreams of freedom. A porter seizes a trunk, a confrontation ensues, and a Know Nothingslabelled man asserts the new land is free. The speaker fears remaining in a land where “everybody do shart” and longs to return to France.
An old farmer praised for prudence and integrity faced a selectmen meeting question about his son's omission from the jury list. The official reply stressed the office’s need for discretion and rights protection, noting the son’s deficiency in those traits. The scene showed measured, impassive debate over local civic duties.
A fragment from a religious reminiscence recalls a dying man’s remark about the land of the dying and the land of the living. The text ties in with a sermon-like reflection and mentions Boston publishers Sears & Co and a $20,000 transaction amid brief notes on a New York epidemic.
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