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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1860
Page
2
A critical essay contrasts political calls to arms in American campaigns with real war terms. It argues the frequent militarized language inflames public mood and inflates rhetoric, citing examples from Venezuela Mexico and Italy to show how elections resemble wars and distort democratic processes.
The Rhode Island Teachers Institute concluded after two days of lectures on Normal Schools English language study and teacher vivacity. Dr Cadony spoke on intellectual progress while Rev Northup and Mr Kendall presented on education history language study and the means of knowledge. Dr Lewis demonstrated a new gymnastic system praised as beneficial for public schools and teachers. resolutions thanked Bristol hosts and organizers and urged physical exercises in schools.
The report notes a highly variable Georgia weather pattern from Saturday noon through Thursday. It describes warm, humid conditions then a heavy northeast rain squall, a fifteen degree thermometer drop, followed by cool and blustery days. Indoors the thermometer showed four degrees warmer on Monday and Tuesday with clear, cool, pleasant weather, then Wednesday brought rain and a strong northward westward wind. A front lawn tree and several branches were damaged but no major harm was reported.
The Maine returns show the Republicans victorious across the state including Governor and state officers, congressional and legislative seats. The result signals a broader trend with Republican gains similar to Vermont and Maine allied to Lincoln and Hamlin.
Governor Sprague and Rhode Island officials joined Ohio leaders in Cleveland for the Perry memorial ceremony. A procession of fifteen military companies and 30,000 spectators attended as Gronaz Bancnorr delivered an oration and Dr. Asnex Parson recounted Perry's Lake Erie exploits. The eight foot statue rests on a seventeen foot pedestal, funded by private citizens, and features a bas relief of Perry transferring his flag from the Lawrence to the Niagara.
At about midnight Friday David Irish fell from a barn window on Wardwell Street. He was so badly injured that his life was despaired of. Yesterday reports indicated he was near death. Trish is identified as a native of Portsmouth and has died at the Wolf House with Mr Vara Son since it opened, though his habits were not as correct as they might have been.
Discussion urges securing lecturers as winter approaches. Questions whether measures for arranging a course have begun and whether local young men should organize, noting likely strong support if undertaken.
Fragmentary report notes Col Ward planning two days in camp at Stone Bridge. The text mentions artillery units and readiness actions with references to impending duties and timing around midweek.
A Republican meeting in Warren on a Saturday evening featured Hon. Thomas G. Tur, Dr. Preston, and others. The report notes a Canadian connection and mentions the Prince of Wales visiting, with an incident of a carriage being drawn from a depot by two labeled animals.
In a bantering transcript the court hears charges against a man identified as Le for a shooting at an asylum site. Justice Manto presides in the rand town session with an aut town panel and arguments heard prior to a ruling.
In Mr M Burgess's garden a common grape vine yielded ripe fruit about three weeks ago. A fine cluster presented on Thursday was fully ripe and exceedingly sweet. The vine appears a week in advance of others of the same species in town.
Messrs Swan Brawer Tillotson issue the 69th edition of the Fathers Almanac. Readers welcome its familiar format and usefulness, noting it resembles an old friend.
The narrator describes a first post shipboard walk at Blackwall and a ride up the Thames highlighting crowded river traffic, a captain signaling from a boat, peculiar water color and odor, and reflections on urban sanitation fears while observing dockside life and vessel details.
The narrator reflects on a voyage including sympathy for Portland delays and critique of a vessel's grandeur, then shifts to a London river journey. He notes the ship’s size against its practicality, and describes the bustling approach to London Bridge with the throng and steam of the metropolis.
The Louisa County vote to take stock and issue bonds for 100000 in a railroad scheme led to the Supreme Court enforcing payment by innocent holders while no benefit accrued. Writs have been served on many farmers, risking ruin. the hardship falls on innocent bondholders rather than the speculators behind the scheme.
A Republican meeting on the Brandywine Battle-Ground Westchester Pennsylvania drew about five thousand Wide Awake and drilled club members. Bayard Taylor presided. speeches by John Kerman and others followed. A torch procession from surrounding towns brought four thousand torches. The event was billed as the campaign's largest and most handsome parade.
Fragmentary OCR text shows scattered terms like coats pipes and references to a mine and political terms. Names and clear events are obscured, leaving only disjointed fragments and ambiguous phrases. The readable bits offer little coherent narrative or identifiable entities for a solid summary.
Reports detail the Lady Elgin steamship collision with the schooner Augusta off the coast near Winnekah. Many passengers from Mitwaukee including Union Guards aboard the doomed vessel, with estimates of 300 excursionists and 98 saved, while debris and lifeboats drift as rescuers search the shoreline.
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