20 Oct 1866
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1866
Page
1
Poem recounts loss of a child named May in spring. The speaker laments her death and keeps memory alive with a country grave, a marble tablet, violets, and a lonely room. The voice describes missing May in dawn prayers and daily routines, hoping for her return though she is gone.
A narrator recalls a Parisian trio Madame de Lorgerel, Descoudrates, and a youth who confesses love with a yellow rose bouquet. A letter hides a heartbreakful secret revealing Noemi Amelot’s long marriage to Lorgerel and how a youth’s bold plan altered two lives.
A satirical Havre paper cites a Frenchman’s statistics on talk, claiming a middle aged man speaks about 100 words per minute and 29 octavo pages per hour, totaling 600 pages weekly and 52 volumes yearly, while the female speech figure eludes even rough calculation.
A Baltimore tale recounts General Wool leading the Middle Department during the first Maryland invasion. On the Frederik turnpike he stops at a toll gate and warns the keeper to shut the gate against Stonewall Jackson and fifty thousand rebels, promising personal accountability if any pass.
A Philadelphia court arraigned two men charged with burglary. A professional thief, noting their desperation, paid a prominent lawyer twenty five dollars to defend them. The lawyer reported the charge included five pounds of butter and several quarts of milk, prompting the professional to urge, Let the fellows go up. If they stoop to stealing butter and milk they deserve all the judge can give them. Buy up the twenty five dollars and go to the judge and tell him to give them another year.
During a sermon at Eithans Kent a military officer in dress uniform interrupted the rector’s reflection on the text Who art thou He announced he was an officer of the 17th Foot on a recruiting party with his wife and family and sought acquaintance with local gentry and clergy
The excerpt offers a humorous Western definition of a Yankee as a lively, self delaying and self lying figure who pries into everything. It highlights traits like piety propriety notoriety and temperance society while portraying him as a noisy but ambitious character pursuing civilization across distant regions.
In a rustic exchange a gentleman asks a nepro how far to a neighboring town. The nepro replies with a broad grin that it's roughly fourteen miles, adding a quip about Massa Jimmy's boss. The passage closes with a pun about a duck under water and divers reasons.
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