Bristol Phoenix in Bristol, Rhode Island

Various Notes From News Afloat In 19th Century America

A compilation notes a young man in Springfield Ohio dying after a whiskey bet, a Vermont fair promising nearly $5000 in premiums at St Johnsbury in September, a cottage to let, and Haverhill Gazette publishing engagements. It also mentions Manton mill in Rhode Island as the country’s largest cotton mill, Kilpatrick’s tour stirred by Democratic reports, Wilmington trade affected by watermelon price and cholera remedy, Pike's Peak weather superintendent job, immigration patterns of Poles among tailors, Maine apple crop heavy with propped trees, a New York manufacturing firm idolising Hindus, Henry Carpenter addressing constituents, Harry Hibbard of New Hampshire dying in Massachusetts, and Carthage Indiana women wrecking liquor stores after protests.