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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1857
Page
2
English papers report the Telegraph Company plans another attempt this fall to lay a transatlantic cable. Optimism remains that October offers the best window for success, with past trials strengthening confidence despite prior disappointments.
A circular named The Benefactor is circulated to lure the young and unwary with promises of good reading while urging lottery investments. It claims to offer superior content but instead pushes chance schemes and vague assurances of secrecy, exploiting gullible readers and encouraging risky ventures.
The piece questions a publication from Vanity Rail Jersey City and its impact on New England readers. It notes the September Supreme Court term begins in town and calls for securing appropriate winter lectures, stressing timely action to obtain quality lecturers.
Parishioners of St Michael’s Church held a surprise farewell party for Rev Mr Trapnell on a Thursday evening. Friends gathered at his home after a message inviting him to visit, lighting the gas for a bright welcome and greeting. Ice cream and refreshments followed, with a freewill offering of about 300 to 400 dollars donated to the rector before his departure to the far West.
The Warren Baptist Association meeting at Westerly from September 6 to 9 reports 37 churches, 29 pastors, and net membership gain of 277 through baptisms, letters, experiences, and restorations. The next session is planned for Providence with Rev. N A Reed delivering the opening sermon.
The 29th annual fire of the Ameri cab Institute will open at the Crystal Palace in New York City on Tuesday, September 15, and run until Wednesday, October 23.
A lively local week features a Hop at D Wolf House and a Temperance Meeting with spirited crowd and notable dancing among women. Newport Artillery excursion gains warm welcome from Gen. Maueran. A surprise party at Rev J Crapnell Jr’s, and a Warren exhibition of female horsemanship with a wagon accident. Armory Ball closes the week. Gov Gardner nominated by two Boston conventions, with Alexander DeWitt as Lieutenant Governor and John H Clifford as Attorney General unanimously chosen.
A citizen letter urges Bristol and Newport to replace the risky sail and oar ferry with a steam ferry. The author claims current ferries are inefficient and dangerous, proposing a steam vessel costing six to eight thousand dollars, with stock at 25 or 50 dollars to fund the upgrade.
An archival note discusses the appeal of a steam ferry project, outlining purchase costs and incidental expenses for its establishment. The author argues that travel demand grows with service improvements, predicting that any invested sum would yield a reasonable return as the enterprise develops.
The Royal Mail steamship Europa arrived at Halifax en route to Boston. Dispatches from India report Delhi held by mutineers on July 14 with heavy losses and massacres at Cawnpore, and British efforts to retake key garrisons. Parliament prorogued. telegraph plans discussed. Atlantic Cable sale considered. Liverpool market active with high demand for cotton and steady provisions.
The Directors plan a second attempt in October after recent trials. They believe repair methods and rejoining the cable will render the project a success. The experience reportedly confirms the original difficulties were not insurmountable and progress is rapid.
A cold snap spread across several states with frost observed in Auburn New York Concord and Manchester New Hampshire Worcester Bangor and along the Kennebec River. Frost appeared on low grounds sidewalks and countryside as temperatures fell Sunday night into Monday.
A party of twenty five or thirty Italian or gan geinders left Philadelphia last week for Europe. They took with them a sum sufficient for each one to purchase a homestead in this native land.
The forty-eighth annual meeting of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was held at Beneficent Congregational Church on Broad Street starting at four pm. President Frelinghuysen presided. Reports covered year ending July 31 1857 with extensive mission expenditures across many stations and incoming funds from donations legacies and interest. The Morning Star voyage to Honolulu Marquesas and Micronesia was noted with stock certificates issued for Mission School Enterprise.
The trial of Mrs Gardner indicted for the murder of her husband at Hing ham Mass entered week two in Plymouth. The jury retired after she earnestly maintained her innocence but failed to reach a verdict, necessitating a retrial.
A letter writer recalls Madame Lagrange on her western journey accompanied by a sophrand a tenor a baritone a pianist a parrot a mocking bird one husband and three dogs, detailing the eclectic entourage.
The Newport Supreme Court made the injunction against Tie Tiverton Bank permanent and appointed Wm. H. Dart as Receiver. The bank president returned from New York with assets seized from a cashier, said to have been pledged for raising funds. About $30,000 was surrendered by a broker who held them as collateral. the nature of the asset portion remains unclear.
Police from the 14th Precinct arrested seven counterfeiters including John Capet Henry Sharp Jack Crape and four others. Large sums of bogus 3 notes tied to the Marine Bank Providence were found on arrestees with Capet at large. Some prisoners carried 319 684 dollars. Philadelphia origin bills linked to Hudson County Bank offenses. other prisoners named Robert Constantine Frederick Sibech William Cozens and Just Unsworth. An earlier Detroit prison insurrection left two convicts at large, later recaptured, others subdued.
The William Wolfson, a 373 ton vessel built at Philip Chace's yard, was launched last evening. Owned by Charles Child, Exq., she will be commanded by Capt. Taber and join the Drome in whaling service. The note appears in the Warren Telegraph.
Puitangupura on September 9 records the suspension of iron merchant Stephen Colwell. Reported liabilities total 300000, assets cited as 1000000, with the notice detailing the financial action and creditor concerns.
Jehae bed Norton captain of the whale ship Ocean of Warren, was held to bail in 1000 at Providence for landing goods clandestinely to evade revenue laws. The ship was seized. evidence showed liquor bear skins and small items aboard carried by the captain who claimed no intent to evade the law.
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