28 Sep 1867
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1867
Page
1
The notice instructs sending orders by mail with payments from $1 to $20 via Post Diceonfers or registered mail at the sender's risk. It recommends drafts or express for large sums and lists WS, Engravings, and share quantities with prices including 9 50 23 60 69 00 90 00.
The Riverside Institute in Burlington County New Jersey forms a board of trustees including prominent Pennsylvania and New Jersey citizens. George A. Cooke & Co. of Philadelphia appointed as receivers to manage funds for the Washington Library Co to support education and maintenance of orphaned children of soldiers and sailors.
The text presents a fragmented poem about incremental progress and rebuilding. It repeats lines about one step followed by another and mending rent, wall, and snow, suggesting a metaphorical process of repair or ascent with chained small actions.
A German correspondent recalls a summer on a Kurile Island with Kopichineki, a Russian botanist. They dive in a bell to study bones and sea life, encounter a megalosaurus like creature, and a fatal attack on Kopichineki. The narrator survives and recounts the terror and aftermath, ending with reflections on prayer and spiritual application.
The excerpt reflects on the sanctity of early prayer and the formation of character through childhood faith. It contrasts humble supplication with grand liturgy and notes the growing trust in divine will as life begins, then moves to the vow of marriage and the need for divine blessing to crown the union.
Madame Necker recounts a tale of Ahauret of Geneva known for his calm temper. A servant tested him for thirty years by failing to make his bed, each time he replied calmly and finally acknowledged no great consequence as he grew used to it. The servant confessed the plot.
A somber meditation on how human nature and childhood joy shape the fighting spirit of humanity. The piece contrasts public indifference with a parent’s deep grief after a child’s death, noting the emotional toll, the loss of comfort, and the意义 of intimate sorrow amid life’s indifference.
A reflective monologue on human nature and moral guidance. The speaker argues against deceit and praises practical virtue, noting folk wisdom and personal discipline. He muses on honesty, wealth, and the consequences of character in everyday life.
In the Liberal Christian, Rev. Dr. Bellows recalls a rough wagoner on the frontier who led bands of men with strict rules based on gentleness. The man forbade drinking and fighting, using contracts and moral influence to enforce discipline and curb profanity without any violence. He demonstrates a powerful method of leadership through kindness and accountable example.
A country couple visiting the city asked for syrup in a soda and demanded quills instead of the syrup of squills. The druggist warned, but the pair drank the drink, grew sick, and the husband cried for a doctor as they staggered away four miles from home. The tale ends with a vow to shun the quill syrup.
A Presbyterian elder recalls dreaming of judging a minister at heaven’s gate after a quarrel. In the dream the minister welcomes him, but he wakes to find the elder dead from sorrow. The tale ends with a moral about pride and forgiveness amid grief.
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