Diverse Developments From 19th Century Notices
Emma J Cleland appointed master at Barrington. California endures severe sand storm with many prostrations in Cleveland amid aurora. Massachusetts votes on liquor licenses 252 against, 73 for. Real estate from Hon William Beach Lawrence estate near Ochre Point sells massively since his death. Grand Committee elevates George M Carpenter Jr to Associate Justice after Potter’s death. Mrs Wetmore, in Paris, takes own life over marriage rumors. Providence Tool Company suspends payments. creditor meeting planned. Pompeii fountain beauty surpasses previous finds with Venus rising on a shell. Ballou’s Magazine May issue praised for illustrations fashion stories humor and poetry. published by Thames & Talbot. Trench’s The Study of Words spotlighted as essential reference. 30 cent price through J Fitzgerald Co. New York.
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Richard Chenevix Trench
Trench
J. Fitzgerald & Co
4Th Avenue
New York
From Our Own Correspondent New York Letter 1882
A New York dispatch notes a trunk of whiskey found at police headquarters after a mob demanded release for an imprisoned man. It covers fraud by a China firm on letters of credit worth about 4 million, Ida Greeley’s death and her work with her father Horace Greeley’s letters, labor strikes in building trades, rising costs for housing, and a charity donation by John F. Slater to support black education. It also mentions reunions of Confederate veterans, a meeting with the Chinese ambassador, and a new Chinese couple in the city.
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New York
New Yong
China
Hong Kong
Horace Greeley
Ida
Colonel Smith
the Tribune
Darkey
John F. Slater
Norwich
Conn
New England
Amoskeag and
Webster
Mass
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Rann
May Hanorrs Magazine opens new serials and features
Hanorrs Magazine for May highlights the start of a new serial by William Black and the conclusion of Constance Fenimore Woolson's Anne. It includes richly illustrated pieces by Abbey, Reinhart, Juengling, and Chase, plus notable essays on Spanish and Austrian culture, poetry by Edwin Arnold and others, and varied editorial content.
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Reinhart
Juengling
Chase
W. H. Beard
Austria
Mary Alice Seymour
W. H. Gibson
Stedman
London
Edwin Arnold
Ada M. E. Nichols
Louise Chandler Moulton
McGibeny Family to Stage Town Hall Entertainment
The McGibeny Family will present a charming show in Town Halls Tuesday evening with tickets available at Mr. Geo Easterbrooks. Also tomorrow at State Street M E Church Jonah's Umbrella will be the evening topic with an afternoon theme Time for ploughing and sowing.
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McGibeny
Gale
Geo. W. Easterbrooks
Jonah
State Street M. E
Town of Bristol Council meeting records and history notes
The Bristol town council convened in the council chamber with full membership. Isaac F. Williams was elected president and John P. Reynolds secretary. multiple standing committees were appointed, jurors selected for the May term, and town officers listed. Also recorded is the Byfield church and town records on highway grants and a Kickemuit correspondence note on regional spring farming and historic Native occupancy.
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Bristol
John 8. Lawton
George A. Bush
Williams
C. Wardwell
William H. Spooner
Court of Common Pleas
William O. Manchester
John J. Christie
William J. Miller
Seth W. Thayer
Nathaniel Gladding
Walter B. Reed
Charlies F. Paine
Richard H. Dunbar
Seth Paull
Frank M. Ennis
Robert N. Church
Edward T. Baldwin
Chandler H. Coggeshall
Town Crier
Eugene A. Fish
Philip B. Bourn
Spencer
Rounds
John F. Munroe
Culler
Thomas J. Usher
J. Howard Manchester
Lewis B. Waldron
Richard 8
North Burial Ground
Henry Goff
Johns
Ingraham
William F. Bowler
George W. Simmons
George E. Davis
James Tobin
William H. Simmons
Josephus Gooding
Nathan Warren
Bennett J. Munro
State Street
Charles Street
Church Street
King’s Street
John Walley
Nathaniel Byfield
Stephen Burton
Nathaniel Oliver
Boston
Suffolk
New-England
Jno. Walley
Walley, Byfield, Oliver & Burton
Walley
Byfield
Oliver & Burton
Wood-street
Charles-street
Walley, Byfield, Oliver & Barton
Second year begins at State Street M E Church
Rev Edwin F Jones begins his second year as pastor with flowers displayed at the pulpit and a pillow bearing Welcome on the communion table. Workmen uncover bones while digging a gate-post trench on Hope street near Franklin and Oliver, likely a long buried Indian skeleton. Henry Thiele suffers a serious fall while boarding the Richard Borden, hits head on the wharf cape, is rescued, and treated at home.
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Edwin F. Jones
State Street M. E
Hope Street
Franklin
Oliver
Henry Thiele
Richard Borden
State and
School Street No. 1
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The
Bristol Phenix
Emma J. Cleland
Barrington
California
Sarah Brooks
Newport
Liverpool
Massachusetts
William Beach Lawrence
Cleveland
Ohio
William Fitz
Burrillville
Second Baptist Church
East Providence
General Assembly
George M. Carpenter, Jr
Supreme Court
Elisha R. Potter
Mre. Wetmore
Paris
Marquis of Anglesey
Cable
Providence Tool Company
John B. Anthony
Edged Tools &O
Pompeii
Venus
Cupid
Anereid
Scupid
Ballou’s
Thames & Talbot
Hawley Street
Maas
Connecticut Mutual
V. Y. Journal of Commerce
Josiah Pitkin
Chelsea, Vt
Hood
Ayer
Celestial Empire
Doctor Bush
Presley & Greene
7Th Street
Washington, D. C
Bt. George's
Mark
National Rubber Co
Charles E. Preston
Advent Church
Rubber Works
Charles E. Wilmarth
Providence Herald
Rha Rose Randish Lodge D. of R
Providence
Reba Lodge D. of B
Mary L. Whedon
D. A. Whedon
Juniper Hill
Congregational Church
Bristol Veteran Association
Messrs
Charles A. Waldron
George O. Eddy
James T. Phelps
H. M. Howe
George H. Pike
John H. Adams
Bristol County
Warren
Providence Journal
George H. Norman
Norman
Scuoon Costarer
Byfield School
Henry Crocker
Parmenus Skinner, Jr
Charles J. Rogers
Parmenas Skinner, Jr
William N. Titus
P. Skinner, Jr
Otis Munro
Annie Parks Waldron
Mattie Miller
Rogers Free Library
Aikin
Queen Elizabeth
Zuyder Zee
Esau Runswick
Fiord
Martineau
Miss Alcott
Bprroz
Kickemuit
Kirkemuit Spring
B. M. Simmons
Fall River
Tia
Taunton River
Mount Hope Bay
Taunton
Bristol Hiall ScHool
Ava Close
Annie Scanlon
Nora Leahey
Hattie Dimond
Nota Leahow
Hattie Monroe
Fales
Edward Whitington
St. Mary's Toran Ansulrence Society
Chains of Officers
Michael McKeon
Thomas Dwyer
Henry J. Campbell
James O'Donnell
Peter Dermody
Michael Flynn, Jr
Quennis F. Scanlon, Jr
DC. J. Rogers
William Dwyer
Thomas Downey
Michael Lavender
John Duffy
William Reagan
Wistar
Dr. Bush
Walnut Leaf
Chas
N. Crittenton
Geo. C. Goodwin & Co
Relly
Dye
Ilustra Amphiiet
Voltaic Belt Co
Havi
Mich
Arcturus
Ian Sat
Cranston
RB I
Bradley
Ezra Warrington
W. N. Buffington
Colwell & Colt
Frm
L. B. B. Colt
Francis Colwell
Samuel P. Colt
Westminster Street
Mr. Colt
Jes
Hope and
Bradford Streets
J. H. Young & Co
R. I
Maine
Herman Canfield
Misses
T. H. Shipman
Mopo
High Streets
J. C. Gallup
G.P. Barnes
Kingsley
Kingley
Simmonsb—Ramieres
K. Dexter
Henry A. Simmons
Rachel Ramieres
Miller—Pierce
William House
Otto Miller
Hattie B. Pierce
Frances Wright
Allen G. Wright
Greene
Joanna Greene
Benjamin Greene
Abner Midget
Goff
Julia Goff
Patten
Eliza Bridgham Patten
William 8
Reed
Sarah Reed
George Reed
Ashley
Leonard Ashley
Phoenix Marine Journal
Port of
K. Borden
Mason
Falliver
Schr
Republic
Gladding
Greenport
Idle Hour
Herreshoff
A. F.lowe
Ellis
Elizabeth Port
C. V. Perry
R. Borden
Niantic
Wescott
Prudence
Whale
Stowe
Rk. Borden
Schr Whale
John Lake
Providence Steamboat CO
Ivotice
Bradford Durfee
D.C. Lawton
Thames Street
High
Usher Brothers
Michael's Church
Dward S. Babbitt
High Street
Rhode Island
Elias S. Ballou, Jr
H. Cooley
John Ford
Joseph W. Winslow
Johanns Christina
Jenny McQuaid
Ida Peterson
John B. Pearce
Connecticut
Life Insurance
Jetin
Hartford, Conn
Jacob L. Greene
Joan M. Taylor
W. G. Anser
D. H. Weats
Ash
E Nave
Mathewson Street
Providence, R. I
Providence Furniture Co
United States
Potter and Company
Dorrance
Nassau Bt
Walt
Pascare
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