Bristol Phoenix in Bristol, Rhode Island

Deaths and notes from Maine to Ireland in a late 19th century column

A wide roundup reports George Weeks of Sidney Maine dying by his own hand at 77, plus other near-daily items: a private carriage in Newmarket once owned by Daniel Webster, the escaped nun deemed an imposter, Jeff Davis at a Cincinnati convention, and church union debate in New York. Also noted are a China canal claim, Massachusetts marriage ages from 1870, a pro Grant speech in Kentucky, Agassiz’s arrest in Montevideo, Spanish-Relations warning, a fatal injury to a shipmate, Border City Mills in Massachusetts with $800000 stock, a Warero revival in Massachusetts, vigilant Japanese police, a Papal audience, last October fires in Green Bay, John Merrill’s hanging in New Hampshire, and a Dublin musician’s Jubilee letter preview with a two-melody fantasia to include Yankee Doodle.