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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1873
Page
1
A centuries old beech near a village is famed for granting dreams to those who sleep beneath it. A weary journeyman lies down, dreams of a peaceful family life, and awakens to a shepherd confirming the tree's claimed truthfulness. The tale emphasizes belief in the beech’s powers and a cautious warning about chasing dreams.
A journeyman under the Dreaming Beech marries the Crown inn daughter after a year of service, while a beech lore yields dreams that come true. His wife learns the truth about the beech and their love is restored, as the tree itself claims no power over fate.
A compact collection of maxims on virtue and finance. The piece contrasts false modesty and despair with prudent living, noting money makers and savers differ in behavior, and likens life to a city full of blind alleys where one must avoid dead ends.
A quotation from Jeremy Taylor asserts two paths to paying debts: boosting income through industry and expanding savings through thrift. The line frames financial prudence as the balance of productive effort and prudent spending.
A concise reflection notes that thoughts arrive via unseen avenues and depart through ones not openly chosen, attributed to Emerson. The aphorism meditates on mental pathways and the unexpected sources of ideas.
A philosophical line contrasts knowledge with faith, stating knowledge begins with the particular and is endless and formless, making it dreamlike and opposite to faith. The idea presents epistemic limits and the tension between concrete particulars and belief.
A reflective line notes that in all waters some fish swim against the current, and in every community there are people who delight in opposing others.
A reflection on stimulant use as a master over its user. The text argues artificial boosts make a man lose control of himself, creating dependence on the stimulant as a tyrant servant. It warns of brain disease and the absence of understanding or pity from society for those afflicted.
Dr Arnold argues that sustained work is needed while able but age or weakness makes labor a painful burden. He asserts old age should be tranquil and childhood playful, with steady, peaceful mornings and evenings, and only mid day heat justifying labor. He condemns excessive headwork at life’s extremes as out of place.
Reading transforms households by brightening atmosphere and spirit. Ambition grows among boys as they discuss people, places, books, past and future, while girls gain knowledge duty and pleasure. The family evolves with intelligent members entering public life.
A reflection on modesty as essential to virtue and beauty. The piece contrasts the alluring violet and moonlight with the rose, arguing modesty adds radiance to the face, protects womanly character, and prevents the melancholy end of vanity. It likens lack of modesty to a faded flower and praises maiden blush as Christian virtue’s paint.
The piece warns that eating while worn out strains digestion like a steam engine with low fire. It advises rest and small, simple sustenance such as tea, broth, or bread, then gradual refeeding. Emphasizes mothers teaching children this rule to prevent feverish nights and illnesses.
The traveling train of the empress of Russia is described as a house on wheels with eight saloon carriages, dining and drawing rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, and hammocks to mitigate vibration. Servants, from butlers to engine-drivers, accompany it, a relic formerly used by Napoleon III for Lyons journeys after reconstruction.
A frosty morning on a farmyard shows cattle instantly erupting into mutual kicking after a cow nudges a neighbor. The scene prompts the mother to recall how one cross word can start a family quarrel, teaching children not to retaliate and to avoid trouble.
Rev H W Foote urges the community to revise living standards and not equate money with virtue. He calls for wise simplicity, frugality in appearances, generosity in substance, and public example to preserve conscience and self respect.
In a suburban town near the Hub an infamous parsimonious family kept boarded up windows filled with old rags. A pedlar offered to swap a new glazed set for the ragged sashes, buying the rags to resell and profiting from the deal.
Rev Prof pine resigns his chair in the theological School at Gambier Ohio. The faculty becomes entirely vacant with Prof Tying as the only remaining member. Enrollment fell to two last year, prompting calls for a new order to save the seminary and its endowment as a key feeder to the Episcopal Church.
Granville A Miler about twenty, worked in Providence, climbed Mt Monadnock from the Vermont side promising to dine at home. When he did not return, searchers used lanterns, bells rang aloud, and he was later found exhausted and prostrated on the mountain slope.
A Bangor letter mocks Gov Hersey and Gov Coburn as wealthy self made men with scant schooling. It recalls a boast about a gas burner rich house and a misread inscription for a soldiers monument. The writer notes a Bangor Mayor and a hospital appointment misstatement from Washington.
A young man sought a job at a major New York dry goods house. Later he helped an old apple seller on Broadway near Astor House, picking up apples and quietly moving on. Months later the firm learned his good deed earned him the position, showing how unseen kindness is noticed by others.
Mr Keevs of Baltimore, grieving a lost son in the White stage disaster, questions the safety of horses and driver, and the car's loading. He sought private conveyance after Crawford's denied him, citing the system of stage monopoly hindering travel through the mountains.
A young backwoods woman aboard a Cairo to New Orleans steamboat asks if her face is dirty after an insulting waiter places a towel by her plate. She reveals she has tossed three towels under the table, yet the waiter repeats the action. Her aunt sits nearby as the scene unfolds.
A punning stroll in a suburban churchyard leads a witty observer to a nameless grave. He suggests an epitaph reading Waiting for the last jump as a sardonic jab at the notorious gambler and card sharper Mr R.
A gentleman advertised for a servant who did not mind confinement and who had lived sometime in his last place. A applicant who had borne confinement there for several years answered. His last place was in Sing Sing.
An estate advertised for sale highlighted the beauty of the setting the rich soil and mild climate. An addendum was added to boost value noting there is no lawyer within ten miles of the places.
A six page letter from a Western New York woman describes a failed invitation picnic after her mailed invitations were sent to the dead letter office for only one cent postage rather than the required two. She protests the rule and argues recipients would pay the due postage if given a chance.
An Albany Press sketch recounts Amos Pillsbury in 1830 becoming deputy at Connecticut State Prison. Scott, confined fifteen years for resistance, attempted murder with a sharpened razor but, after a shaving by Pillsbury, showed remorse and reformed until a later escape and murder. He was hanged in Hartford the next year.
A Montana Territory Post Office visit by a special agent leads to far western humor and chaos. In Iron Rod the office mixed saloon, post office, and money exchange as a crowd rifled letters, burned and tossed the bag, and one man declared Bill Jones would run the office next week. The bartender sent the box away with a kick and the agent fled, leaving the office discontinued. A church anecdote follows about rebuking misbehaving parishioners, recounting a joke about calling a laughed-at man an idiot.
Sarkis bears a small eyebrow scar and an onlooker quips about chicken pox. Simkins replies that the scar is worse than chicken pox it is the mark of the hen peck.
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