29 Sep 1866
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1866
Page
1
A 1866 poem from Robinr Nest expresses grief for a mother buried at home. The speaker vows to honor her resting place, noting her escape from war’s hardships and urging not to disturb her sleep. The verses contrast a son’s enduring sorrow with a mother’s peaceful afterlife.
A fragmentary elegy honors Rev. John Pierpont as a patriarch of nature and poetry. The verse imagines nature weeping at his death with rivers, leaves, flowers, and summer altered by grief. The tone blends melancholic imagery with tribute to the poet’s enduring bond with the sylvan world.
On a March night in 1807 Marshal Lefebvre jails sentinel Jerome Dubois after rescuing Lisette Vaillant and her child Natalie in the Neb rung peninsula. Dubois then charges a battery to help win a battle, is pardoned, and promoted as the siege ends.
A historical reflection cites science and Baggs Ninth Bridgewater Treatise to claim human words and deeds leave lasting marks. It states air carries every sound and action across oceans, changing atmospheric movement within a day and recording all whispers forever.
A reflection on readers missing real life tragedies around them as daily scenes of distress unfold unseen beneath the surface. It contrasts fiction’s dull pages with the harsh cries and wrecks of people amid street life and crowded pursuit of greed and desire.
Sir Ashley Cooper examined a mortally wounded man in a private room and inferred the pistol was fired by a left handed person. He identified an obvious suspect, his friend on the premises, leading to arrest, trial, and conviction for the murder.
A brief humorous Q and A presents prompts about duties and insights. It asks what a farmer needs to assist him a blind man’s delight a peace making counsel nations as greatest abomination fire as the gravest terrifier.
A storm scene with an acorn cup catching a rain drop and a robin drinking to refresh, inspiring a poet to write a rejoicing chant. The chant travels to comfort the sorrowing and sick, as the blast is praised as part of a divine plan bringing light through unseen channels.
The passage counsels placing trust not in wealth rank or worldly pleasures but in a sober righteous life. It admonishes considering death and the judgment to come, urging steadfast virtue over vanity and fashionable living for a meaningful existence.
A framed sketch from an old Gloucestershire manor extols the true gentleman as God’s servant and world’s master. Virtue guides his business, recreation, rest, and reward, with charity, temperance, hospitality, and discretion directing every room and relation.
A fragment discusses candle physics noting that capillary action moves melted tallow up the wick, enabling combustion. the wick’s burning is not essential to light. It also mentions small annoyances from unkind words and a German priest blessing crops, remarking prayers alone cannot replace manure.
The Chicago Douglas monument rises with a circular base fifty two feet wide and two and a half feet high, stacked by a smaller platform and a twenty foot thick sepulchre chamber holding the sarcophagus. A bronze door, pedestals, a tall column, and a colossal statue of Douglas crown the site with life sized marble figures and symbolic panels illustrating Westward progress. The first section is half done and the tomb nearing completion with arches and draped floral adornments.
A social tale recounts a nervous man warned about a rumored ear biting mania. The warned man, drawn toward a roaring ear sound eighteen inches away, is startled when another attendee suddenly shouts Bite off my ears and strikes, shocking the crowd.
A recently issued counterfeit five dollar note fools experts with meticulous execution. Key differences from the genuine are subtle. for instance the phrase three years after rate nearly touches Treasury Department on the counterfeit, while genuine notes show a small clear margin. Hartford references note a slight scratchy appearance and near-contact text as the main distinguishing features.
The RichMond Times quotes friends of the President warning of civil war and burning clashes, suggesting the North must endure purifying storms. The piece argues chastening has been selective and that the North’s foul spirits may be used as instruments of Heaven for its purification.
The report states the Allied force in Paraguay has about 80,000 troops left from an original 52,000, a misprint likely, and notes three months eight days to advance seven miles. It predicts reaching Ascension with mortality advancing to roughly 54,000 losses.
The report lists state by state ore production estimates, noting California with twenty five million units and Montana eighteen million, Nevada sixteen million, Idaho seventeen million, Oregon eight million, Colorado seventeen million, with other sources totaling about five million.
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