17 Aug 1878
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1878
Page
1
The notice outlines advertising charges of 1004 dollars per inch for one week and 25 cents per week for each subsequent insertion. It specifies type, line counts, advance payment, and contract terms. It also notes restrictions for yearly advertisers and that notices including marriages obituaries and political items are billed as advertisements.
A long narrative blends a moral on rest and labor with a bustling dinner scene ending in an impromptu marriage. Aunt Castlethorpe orchestrates vows and a $1000 wedding gift as Jerome Mordaunt wed Ruth Nottindale amid guests and a sharp audit of accounts.
Mrs Castlethorpe accuses her nephew Jerome Mordaunt of deceit over eight hundred dollars in debts and a jewelry loan while planning a dinner with lawyer Andrey and multiple local creditors to test his intentions and mend a broken engagement with a poor boarder’s daughter.
A collection of maxims and reflections on self discipline prayer perseverance and virtue. Quotes from Goldsmith Spurgeon Rochefoucauld and others exhort doing tasks well pursuing hope enduring trials and improving character through deliberate effort.
A conservative church revived its weekly prayer meeting through quiet leadership. A member mobilized 30 to 40 peers, organized singers, and invited all to the next gathering. The room filled, the singing united, and the minister found renewed inspiration.
A reflective line contrasts prosperity with fears and disasters and argues adversity carries comfort and hopes alongside it. The statement emphasizes resilience and balance between hardship and optimism.
A late Quebec garrison chaplain famed for extemporaneous preaching faced a prank by officers sending him an anonymous challenge to preach on any text. He accepted and opened with a sermon based on Second John verses 5 and 6, underscoring the commandment to love one another.
A historical note claims the Mosque of St Sophia in Constantinople remained fragrant because the mortar used in 538 was charged with musk and it has stayed potent for centuries. The piece frames this as a wonder of perfumed architecture and enduring scent through time.
A fragment shows a tense exchange where Mapa asks about lifting a dog by the tail and accuses cruelty. The other speaker retorts they carried a child by one arm across a gutter, implying a charged confrontation.
A long narrative intertwines a Parisian-educated frontier figure and his migratory life with his western daughter and a tribal truth seeking leader from France. The second piece chronicles Ararat’s two peaks and the 1840 earthquake that erased the Armenian village of Achurri, ending its monastery and Christian rites on Noah’s famed mountain.
A foreign correspondent notes a Gatling gun and a Mitrailleuse on the quarter deck of the French war vessel Richelieu. He praises American taste in machinery, saying the Gatling gun appears jewelry like beside the dull French piece, its steel and brass flashing in the Mediterranean sun.
Miss F E Willard writes that the Prince of Wales is misread in America. Despite early handicaps he is frank, generous, and popular with Londoners. His kindness, magnetic presence, and solid judgment define his reign and distinguish him from other royals.
The Empress Josephine loved dress and was courted by milliners who framed costly gowns. A robe of Indian cashmere with gold roses impressed Napoleon who refused it. Madame Bourrienne bought it and ruined the Bourrienne fortune. Queen Victoria admired a lace gown priced at eight thousand francs but bought one for three thousand. An American merchant later bought the original dress for a New Orleans lady.
A gentleman handed Bismarck an album to inscribe. He quoted Guizot about pardoning and forgetting. Bismarck replied that he has learned to forget much and to seek forgiveness for himself.
A South Carolina minister rides through a region where innkeepers cannot collect payment from clergy. He eats supper and breakfast without prayer or grace and, upon being charged, is told by the innkeeper that though he is a clergyman he behaved like a sinner and must pay.
In Charleston a visiting minister named Newell angered a refined audience with a blunt sermon on slavery. He mocked racial hierarchies, sparking offense as he challenged the city’s pretensions in a church full of mixed-race attendants. He did not receive another invitation.
A high ranking colonel hosted a friend, the colonel of the guards, in Buckinghamshire. The guest’s bloodhound escaped and entered the bedroom, forcing the colonel to endure the dog’s ferocious stare for over half an hour to avoid an attack. The tale cites lions kept at bay by resolute gaze and notes a similar anecdote of prolonged self defense until feet blistered on a scorching rock.
A London Times correspondent notes Madrid is testing improved electric lighting in a public square using six opal glass globes on tall lamp posts. The light is steady and readable for 30 to 40 yards, with low glare. Berlin synagogue lighting is also described, and Paris tests suggest electric light costs for large buildings may be cheaper than gas at scale.
General Butler asserts he is a Sunday-School graduate, a statement framed as a significant setback to the Sunday-School system. The claim highlights tensions between military leadership and church-based youth programs in the era.
Before you begin heavy spring work after a winter of relaxation use one bottle of Hop Bitters this month to prevent ague bilious or spring sickness. Save time sickness and expense by using Hop Bitters now. See other column.
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