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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1871
Page
2
The piece endorses Senator Carl Schurz’s Chicago speech as a candid within party critique. It argues a dissenting voice can curb corruption and improve leadership, noting his ability to speak to Americans and Germans alike and urging leaders to listen to his considered cautions.
A young man named John, poor in dress and worn by fashion’s gaze, reads the crowd as judging him. Yet in truth many pass him unseen while minds venture far to distant ventures and their own concerns. His vanity, sensitivity, and humble scraps of finery shape a larger inner view than others notice.
The piece critiques Our John valuing money and social status over character. It urges slow growth to manhood, warns against vanity, and contrasts him with figures like Giles Denim and Mr Cash. A second passage reports a June hurricane at Zarate with flying stones, shattered roofs, and a woman and child lost.
A sharp editorial denounces the women's rights movement and its leaders, arguing against suffrage advocacy. It condemns Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as provoking female oppression and calls for their influence to fade as the piece questions gender equality and freedom of speech.
Clarence Fairfield muses on how attachment binds people to objects and even to an old hat. He argues that fashion change can feel like abandonment and that cherished items carry emotional weight long after usefulness fades.
On the north side of the Green Mountains in Effingham New Hampshire a natural ice house forms each winter supplying farmers with a cheap stock for hot weather. It rarely yields except during extended droughts.
A fifteen year old boy and a girl a year younger ran away with their parents in Bennington to Troy. They sought a clergyman for a marriage but all six refused, offering advice instead. The pair returned home by evening train, hopeful for a future union.
A July 5 typhoon off the Japanese coast sank six hundred native boats and killed over four hundred Japanese. Four steamers of Twimbly of Fogg & Co Shanghai were destroyed. Only foreigners to perish were officers and some crew of the Pride of Thames. An iron safe weighing over five tons was moved ten yards by the flood surge from a store entrance.
A Washington letter from Berlin quotes a prominent official suggesting German opinion sees Emperor William aging and weakening his hold. The correspondent notes German discussions favor a republic and foresee its eventual establishment in the empire.
In Marine City Michigan a young man walking with girls found a small frog. He held it near his mouth and the frog leaped away into a cave. The onlookers reacted with surprise and laughter as the amphibian vanished and the man reportedly changed color.
The Shanghai News Letter reports a Russian cattle plague spreading eastward through Chirs with depredations from the Pacific Coast to Waldstock. It may reach Corea and Japan, possibly entering America via the Aleutians and Alaska, with Dr Macgowan warning Washington authorities.
Weather foulness continues to hamper crops in Ireland and potato blight has appeared in some localities, signaling poorer harvests this season.
A mosaic of epigrams and reflections on youth work marriage education and virtue. It juxtaposes sayings about temperance liberty schooling fame and beauty with playful lines about a clerkship a mill and a sailor’s song. The tone is witty measured and moralizing.
A new crossing on the north side of State street across Hope is noted as a noticeable improvement. The ship St. Louis with Captain Hubbard sailed from this port for Philadelphia last Saturday morning. Rev. Dr. Blodgett of Pawtucket preached at the Congregational Church on Sunday in exchange with Pastor Rev. Mr. Lane.
A Metacom Debating Club notice invites members to debate next Tuesday evening on whether the United States is in danger from an aristocratic class. The prompt poses a direct civic question and signals a structured discussion among participants.
Rev J W Thomas of this town preached Monday afternoon at the National Advent Camp Meeting which began that day in Springfield Massachusetts.
There were no civil or criminal cases tried before the Justices Court at its regular Tuesday session. Judgments were rendered in several defaulted matters.
The Warren Baptist Association will hold its 105th annual meeting at Friendship Street Church in Providence on the 18th and 14th of next month.
Rev. William H. Hare of Philadelphia, Agent for Foreign Missions, preached at St. Michael's Church last Sunday forenoon and spoke to the Sunday School in the afternoon.
There will be no preaching Sunday at State Street M E Church as Pastor Rev E F Smith is out of town attending a camp meeting at Martha's Vineyard.
Peter Gladding, Esq., of this town, is staying at the Vermont House in Sheldon, Vermont. He left on the 13th inst. and is expected to be away for about three or four weeks.
A new steam yacht about forty feet long and seven feet beam was launched from John B. Herreshoff’s yard last Saturday morning. The vessel is about the size of the Julia recently built at that yard.
Rev. H. M. Jones of the First Baptist Church and Rev. W. Miller of the South Christian Church were both absent from town on Sunday last, leading to no preaching at their congregations. No substitutes were listed.
A large audience gathered at the Congregational Church Sunday evening to hear an engaging sermon delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association by Rev. Dr. Blodgett of Pawtucket.
On Wednesday next weather permitting the First Christian Society of Swansea will hold a clambake at Pearse's Grove. If storms occur the bake will move to the next fair weekday.
James E. French of the National Eagle Bank and his family left Monday for Campton Village in New Hampshire to stay two or three weeks. The report also notes a boy’s rescue from the river near a mill, large early rose potatoes, and a sale of stock from the late Commercial Bank and Bank of Bristol by auctioneer John H. Gladding, with William Bradford purchasing.
A clambake was held Friday in Johnsons Paradise under the auspices of Roger Williams Temple of Honor Providence with other local temples and Mount Hope Temple No 15. A Providence party traveled on the steamer Canconicus with the What Cheer Band, and a moonlight excursion around Beaver Tail Light was announced for Friday evening.
The Homeopathic physician Dr. H. W. Boynton will depart Bristol on Monday September 4 and establish an office in Woonsocket where he has secured space. He arrived about four years ago and built a large practice. He will be missed by many friends in town.
The Bristols and Unions will play a baseball match today on the Common at 2:30 PM for the champion bat offered by a Bristol team member.
A Bristol reader chides the Providence Herald editor for errors in squibs about local matters. The letter claims the editor mistook Bristol for Kent County and Warren for local sites, accusing mislocation of the Sugar Refinery and a repair shop.
Citizens celebrate a long sought school edifice as overdue progress. the School Committee has long discussed it, and the community anticipates a landmark facility that will boost education, health, and local wealth, marking a jubilee for free schooling.
Anthony Van Doorn of Brattleboro Vermont, aged seventy nine, was found dead in an outhouse at his nephew’s premises in Brattleboro between 5 and 6 am. A coroner’s jury ruled death by apoplexy. The obituary notes his cabinet making career, travel, and benevolent character. Town tax figures for 1871 list real and personal property totaling 5,045,700 with numerous property owners and estates paying over one hundred dollars.
The State House work progresses toward completion with notable exterior improvements. The tower and spire vane have been enhanced. Tomorrow evening a Union Temperance Meeting will be held in Town Hall with Rev. G. L. Locke delivering the sermon.
A divorced wife returns to her family and tells her husband that J. Monroe Taylor's Cream Yeast Baking Powder will remove their troubles. The claim centers on a kitchen remedy allegedly smoothing marital strife.
An advertisement urges readers to switch to Pratt's Astral Oil as a safe illuminating fuel free of explosive qualities. It argues the oil is not the cheapest but the safest and best. The ad also promotes Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders for horse grooming, recommended five times weekly.
A eastern state gentleman nearly had his leg amputated because of a right angle bend and stiff knee. After using Johnson's Anodyne Liniment briefly, his leg straightened and now functions as well as the other.
The ad promotes Dr. E Clarke s Vegetable Sherry Wine Bitters as a cure for female sickness. It recommends taking a wine-glass half full before rising and three or four times daily for delicate ladies and alcohol-related habits. Sold by all medicine dealers.
In Japan the wealthy offer prayers by slips of paper bearing money to temples, believing this ceremonial act fulfills religious duties while they return home without nodding or participation.
The Rev. Stephen H. Tyng of New York visits relatives in Newburyport. He preached at the Episcopal church last Sunday and recalled being baptized at that altar seventy one years ago, with confirmation and first communion nineteen years later.
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