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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1865
Page
2
Fragmentary readable lines mention Bristol Dhenis and SuthersYarequate with phrases about preservation and transmission. The text appears as a historical newspaper fragment dated Saturday morning September 23 1869.
The piece argues for racial equality, noting prejudice stems from norms and servility perceptions. It analyzes postwar white and black progress, urges granting suffrage to educated freedmen, and cites loyalty to government as justification while warning against reinstating white supremacy. It also discusses cotton markets and agricultural shifts after emancipation.
The article notes cotton cultivation improving since plantation reforms, with Worth Garolin workers starting last week in August and a good yield not harmed by the cotton worm. On September 7 a shipment of about twenty five bales left Alexandria for New York, the port’s first in four years. The report mentions a plogue near Albany as an invention.
The article warns of cholera approaching from the east and urges readiness through temperance, cleanliness, and sanitary enforcement. It cites Gen. Butler's laws in New Orleans as a model and calls for removal of filth and proper premises sanitation to mitigate or prevent outbreaks.
The London Star publishes a July 20 1865 letter from President Andrew Johnson to Mr G F Comfort of Berlin. Johnson says he will govern nationally not partisan and condemns using power for partisan ends. He praises the union’s wartime endurance and aims to prove popular government’s global appeal.
The Newport News reports a special meeting of the City Council on Thursday evening the fourteenth instant. Mayor Cranston read a communication as the two boards began their convention outlining the next steps or actions.
City records announce the death of James C. Powell from the 2d Ward aged 43. Powell a prominent builder born in Bristol Rhode Island and active in Bellevue Avenue houses, served as Alderman since 1859 and leaves a wife and five children. The council adopts resolutions praising his service and requests funeral attendance and memory on records.
The Times mocks the Fenian revolt as a farce while Britain sends regiments to Ireland to maintain order. The piece predicts a shift to portraying the movement as a bloody threat to English life and warns of the paper retracing prior Civil War rhetoric.
In Ution Telegraph an obituary notes Dr Horton of that city lost two children months ago. On Tuesday he died himself. On Thursday his ten year old daughter fell ill after a mistaken geranium dose thought to be jasmine. The mother, unaware of the error until the girl gasped I cant breathe, died. Father and daughter were buried together, leaving a widow in mourning.
Sir William Hamilton professor of astronomy at Dublin University and Astronomer Royal of Ireland died near Dublin on the 2nd of the month. He was sixty. He devoted himself to science from youth and was appointed astronomer royal in 1827 and knighted. He authored many treatises on astronomical mathematical and philosophical topics and held a first class rank among scientists for over thirty years.
The Cornite notes steamships from the north bringing large cargo to Charleston while freight is turned away at New York. Local grocers report strong business and anticipate a larger trade with the opening of new railroads.
The world population is estimated at 1 300 000 000 by Europe’s statistics authority M Disteriei with 25 percent Christian. Half of Christians are Roman Catholics, about 162 500 000, and 1864 wafer counts suggest 30 000 000 communicants.
Ten weeks after his disappearance from his city home Charles Eaton returns last Friday emaciated and mentally altered. He reports living on Wigwam Hill during the entire absence and says he subsisted on turnips green corn apples and other provisions obtained from the fields.
A rapid collage of world events and local misadventures. Cholera ravages Constantinople with massive death tolls while crime violence and curious happenings populate Brooklyn and Boston. A balloon ascent, a bank thief, highwaymen, and political shifts color a busy period.
A 1815 diary recounts the September gale that wrecked the Bristol harbor causing ships to drift ashore and flooding Thames street. It laments fading Town figures and landmarks as Bristol, then 2400 residents, grows to 5000, and notes the impending departure of those who lived through the disaster.
The Eagle Bank of Bristol Rhode Island was chartered in 1818 and began business that year. Charles DeWolf Jr served four years as first president before moving to Portsmouth. Robert Rogers became president in 1822 and served since, aside from a three year gap. James E French has been cashier since 1846. The bank remains trusted, with intact capital and a large surplus.
The Bristol county Supreme Court term wrapped Saturday with verdict on the Lewis E Simons will. Two divorces were granted or withdrawn, and motions for new trials were filed in several cases including Luther vs Bullock and Warren vs Card. A real estate sale error was corrected involving the D Wolf family holdings at Poppasquash and D Wolf's wharf.
The fragment notes a unusually warm Friday the 5th with subsequent cold three days later causing aaboole to be dismissed for lack of room warming arrangements. It also advertises Selee's Hair Life as tested and superior to rivals, sold by J N Burgess.
The town publicizes all marriages and deaths reported by responsible persons and offers free publication. If couples wish secrecy they must send notice. otherwise the newspaper publishes most marriages and deaths to avoid losing friends by death or marriage.
The DeWolf Louse estate, managed by Administrator James H. Parsons, sold Saturday for 7900 dollars to Edward D. Colt of Hartford Connecticut, grandson of Gen George DeWolf. The property will undergo repairs and be converted into a private dwelling.
Town Council plans to finish the sidewalk work on Lope Street to aid many residents who frequently use the path. The project aims to improve safety and convenience for citizens walking along that route.
The Philadelphia Press reports a peaceful settlement of wage disputes in the Lackawanna coal region. The accord should prevent coal withholding and keep prices from rising, as it is not in the trade’s interest to push prices up.
William Barber of Chemung county, exhibitor at the New York State Fair, was badly bitten by a rattlesnake last Thursday. He cured himself by drinking four quarts of whiskey to counter the poison. The same snake had bitten two others. one died in three hours and the other survived due to the whiskey treatment.
The Hartford Post reports that Andrew M Mahan, an Irishman in Collinsville, was severely injured when a belt caught him in a shop. His hand and arm were lacerated and two ribs were crushed against his lungs, with fears of fatal internal injuries.
A note describes a group of minstrel performers touring Georgia. The text mentions they are genuine and present a concert, reflecting local entertainment life of the period.
The ad extolls Phalan perfume Night Blooming Cereus made from their large flowers. It contrasts Fy' Painting’s Heart of the Andee with Phalan’s fragrance aroma, claiming the Eden vale scent is realized in the Phalan product and is sold widely.
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