27 Oct 1866
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1866
Page
1
A Royal Decree dated August 20 18f4 extends auties for six months to all Cuban Custom Houses. Issued by the Spanish Vice Consul in Boston Charles J Fales acts as agent for Connecticut and other parties.
A solemn autumn lyric reflects on October as a heart’s month. Faded leaves strew summer’s bier while winds moan and red sunsets fade. Time and Death loom as gloom encircles the year’s dreams, like withered leaves sleeping in darkness.
In Harmouth, Joe Barton a respected fisherman and his son Johnny lose the Saucy Jack in a storm after Johnny saves his father from a gun tragedy. The County Bank then stops payment causing deep anxiety among the town’s fishing community before the Sausy Jack returns with both aboard, exhausted but alive.
Joe Barton, once ruined by bank troubles, finds solace after saving his ailing son Johnny. Johnny dies after urging his father to keep their shared secret and face life with courage. The tale ends with reflections on fate and a note on northern sleep superstition.
A long excerpt reflects on forgiveness and not delaying wise acts. It cites Aunt Dorothy as a cautionary tale of putting things off to tomorrow. Irish character is praised in a Rev. Day letter, noting Dublin’s splendor and contrasting squalor with European capitals.
The essay asserts that Prof. Benjamin Pierce, a pioneer American mathematician, shows the sun will supply caloric energy for 30,000,000 years, enough to sustain life on earth. It jokes that future descendants frozen deaths are too remote to affect present happiness.
A reflective literary excerpt recalls Benedict Arnold as a difficult boy in Norwich. It notes his early cruelty to animals and as a youth he inspired fear, while recounting 1781 Norwich New London fire and Arnold’s later provocation of locals.
A guide lists simple rust prevention using three parts lead and one part resin on iron tools, hot nails quenched in water, and a method to sharpen nails. It describes making a wagon jack from boards, lifting a loaded wagon by a wheel spoke and axle, drawing rusty nails with a hard blow, and preserving a gun by corking the muzzle and keeping rubber near the tube when idle.
The guide explains gathering dry berries, separating from stems, mashing, and fermenting with water. It details quantities for sugar and aging in casks or jugs, and offers alternatives for small batches. Elderberry juice is praised as a winter stimulant when pure and wholesome.
The article records John Bright explaining how he prepares speeches by outlining key topics on a card and pacing his delivery. He emphasizes knowing exactly how to end a speech, saying the final sentence is half the art and many speakers falter by not closing well.
The piece argues dress signals character from modesty to vanity and recounts a humorous Lima dining room scene on the Battle Mismi railroad where a waiter offers only twenty minutes for dinner and a customer jests about half a dollar and various currency notes while the waiter searches the bank.
On a Cincinnati bound train Professor Hamilton of Hagestown Indiana attempted to raise a car window. After failing he broke the pane and paid one dollar then paid a second time to fix the air whimsy. The conductor relented as the professor asked for another airful.
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