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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1864
Page
1
The notice states rates of ten dollars and fifty cents yearly or one dollar twenty five cents for six months paid in advance. Three dollars annual rate if payment is delayed to year’s end. Single copies five cents. No paper stops until all arrears are cleared unless the publisher allows.
The Great American Tea Company, dedicated to tea, begins roasting and importing coffee named French Breakfast and Dinner Coffee to satisfy customer demand for first hand coffee supply. Prospective buyers can request a circular by mailing their address to the company at 35 and 37 Vesey Street, New York.
General orders authorize forming six companies of the Veteran Second Rhode Island Regiment for one year with Lt Col Jenckes to organize. Each company includes 1 captain, 1 first lieutenant, 1 second lieutenant, 1st and 2nd sergeants, 4 sergeants, 8 corporals, 2 musicians, 1 wagoner, 64 privates. Bounty totals 200 dollars per recruit with installments at entry six months and one year. Adjutant General Edward C. Mauran urges public support to avoid a draft. The notice also promotes a local advert for a wide stock of bevacva at Westminster Street.
Poem laments a home emptied of children and the ache of sleepless nights. The speaker recalls dresses and gaiters, notes the stillness, and longs for the children’s faces. The verse ends with a plan to follow the Good Shepherd to verdant pastures.
This excerpt retells a fable where Nature distributes lifetimes among creatures from ape to man. The dog receives eighteen years, the ape ten, and man ends with seventy, with the earlier years passing swiftly as labor and burden grow for each. The tale comments on happiness, toil, and the perceived value of human life.
A Philadelphia Quaker hatter hosts a neighborhood hub where a disruptive lunatic interrupts Sunday meetings. The man proclaims peace yet mocks the ceremony, provoking a troupe of youths who eject him as he laughs at his own bluster. The scene ends with the offender expelled.
A fragmented verse laments a perilous sea voyage as waves rise and night darkens the horizon. The speaker calls for divine deliverance and the light of peace from Jesus while facing death and seeking guidance on life’s voyage.
Poem laments wartime burdens and national resolve. A speaker praises continued support for the war, pledging fiscal vigor to sustain conflict and honor freedoms from Maine to Texas, while imagining European conquest funded by American currency.
E P Brownell advertises stoves ranges tin ware and wooden ware at 133 Thames Street with pumps lead pipe irons sinks pans grates and linings. Job work and repairs offered with prompt service and custom tin running.
The advertisement promotes Sanford's Challenge Heaters designed to warm spaces with pure air, offered in brick portable or fireplace forms for homes, churches, hotels, depots, and more with or without registers. It claims to be the most powerful heater and a top fuel saver, backed by testimonials from citizens and professionals. Sold by John Gladding at 3d Thames Street.
John Gladding & Co offers a vast selection of stoves furnaces and related goods on Thames Street. Mammoth or Globe Heaters Cosmopolite Gas Burners air tight radiators and ventilators and a wide range of shop office and parlor stoves are advertised alongside stove linings tin ware and related items in a September 26 notice.
A Presbytery party on a winter night seeks hospitality with Judge Blank and hears a tale of a family grave. After a child's funeral a ghostly visitation appears in night clothes, shocking the narrator into fear until the creature vanishes back to its bed. The narrator recalls nearly leaping from a window to escape the uncanny sight.
The text argues that study of human nature is essential to guide life from infancy to maturity. It praises self knowledge as the key to virtue, justice, wisdom, and faith, urging every person to study themselves thoroughly before pursuing broader truths. It emphasizes the eye and nerves as sensitive to touch and notes human destiny hinges on inner understanding.
A reflective column argues against Buckle styleism noting that great individuals like William the Silent Napoleon III Alexander the Great Julius Caesar and Charlemagne shaped vast eras. It maintains a belief in a higher power guiding history and that both helpers and hinderers serve a larger plan.
A reflective piece compares icicle formation to thoughts forming slowly from a single drop. Clear water yields a beautiful long icicle sparkling in the sun, while muddy water produces a foul appearance. It argues that pure thoughts create a lovely soul and happiness, while impure thoughts lead to deformity and wretchedness.
The lines present a moral inquiry asking who is teachable mighty rich and honored. It contrasts self mastery with wealth and public praise, suggesting teachability and self discipline as true honors beyond riches.
The piece discusses the Garden of Eden as defined by Moses, noting obscurity and landmark references. It traces four rivers: one to the land of Havilah with gold and gems, another named Cush, a third named Hiddekel toward Assyria, and a fourth named Euphrates, with the source radiating into four directions.
A correspondent reports Gen. McPherson was killed July 22 near the Augusta Railroad line two miles east of Atlanta as the Army of the Tennessee fought a Confederate assault. He was struck through the right lung and spine while riding the line of the Seventeenth Corps and died instantly. His body was recovered by aides and sent to safety after a charging counterattack to recapture a battery and retrieve his remains.
A prisoner of war at Johnson's Island advertises for a substitute to take his place in the military prison. The request seeks a 30 year old moral person with no poetry writing, offering army rations and strict retirement for an indef inite period. Contact Block 1 Room 12, Johnson's Island, over three years. Nearly $4,000,000 has been sent to Ireland by emigrants.
A letter from Nancy describes a trade in Chinese children at Hong Kong’s Sainte Enfance asylum run by St Paul nuns. Mothers sell infants for money with prices cited, while divorced fathers claim life and death control over offspring leading to child relinquishment.
A reflection on gift solicitation and the contrast between pompous self promotion and effortless, generous giving. The author warns against flattery and staged virtue, urging donors to support causes with quiet, lasting generosity rather than spectacle and pressure. Be temperate to diet. Our first parents ate themselves out of house and home.
A satirical editorial imagines printers gathering scattered money owed by many tradespeople. It urges immediate collection to prevent unpayable bills and envisions an address summoning dollars in all forms to unite and support the printer as he works to uphold credit and independence.
A Brussels letter describes German trained dogs pulling loads in wagons and wheel-barrows, lifting milk, wood, butter and other goods. The piece contrasts such efficiency with American underuse of canine labor, noting dogs steer, draw, and halt carts while drivers rest or drink, with few incidents of dog–driver intoxication.
Historic anecdotes recount clergymen in lively sermons. Bishop Aylmer wakes sleepers with a Hebrew Bible reading while Dr. South mocks King Charles with a calm rebuke. Fuller, amused, notes hymn time as congregants nap despite sermon prep.
An English gentleman keeps a lion as a tame pet and naps with his hand hanging over a couch. The lion licks the hand drawing blood, awakening the sleeper who realizes the beast he shelters is a lion. He shoots the animal, illustrating folly and the moral danger of indulgence turning deadly.
The New York Tribune notes coal prices fall from 13 to 18 shillings a ton to 11 to 12 shillings wholesale. It cautions the public not to be misled by mock remedies and asserts the need for accurate guidance in buying winter fuel.
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