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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1872
Page
2
A 1877 commentary argues that French republicans face a restless period under Thiers. It contends progress requires education and stable leadership, warning against impulse and mere desire for freedom without wise institutions.
The despatch of Horace Greeley's death strikes intelligent readers with sadness. Friends' attempts to conceal his insanity prove unnecessary as his long political and journalistic life ends. His memory will endure beyond politics and his influence will persist in other circles.
The passage argues that architectural beauty should not come at the expense of safety. It condemns placing a lumber yard atop a warehouse and warns that ornamental wood near tinder-like hazards invites fires. It urges using iron for beauty to reduce fire risk and protect wealth.
The piece accuses Jay Gould of using his power to manipulate stocks and undermine Daniel Drew in a deliberate scheme. It hints at past allies and rivalries, suggesting even Fisk might reveal fortunes and Gould’s entanglements, while asserting Gould’s continued deception.
The piece argues reform bears fidelity to public service and may block politicians from their favored schemes. It expresses hope that the President will support the reform and persist against opposition.
A report jokes about frontier depredations and aboriginal costs while recounting curious young gents seeking relics among Boston ruins. Guards guide them away with a greasy lesson from a can of oil, illustrating how zeal can lead to folly and mischief.
From our New York Correspondent Horace Greeley is dead and his final hours are recounted. The article notes his peaceful end at Pleasantville with family and friends present. It links personal tragedies—loss of a daughter and a betrothed—to the broader sense of grief surrounding his passing. Beecher’s remark about dying of a broken heart is cited.
The third session of the forty second Congress met in Washington as President Grant delivered his fourth annual Message. The message is described as carefully prepared and businesslike, presenting an encouraging view of public affairs.
In Fall River, an elevator at Merchants mill fatally injures Anna M. Hughes, 11, who dropped a knife into the aperture and was crushed as the elevator descended. The girl aided a poor family with a crippled son and a ailing father.
Empty Pockets at Town Hall next Wednesday evening. Elder E. R. Wood of Exeter will preach in the Advent Chapel tomorrow afternoon and evening. Bristol Y M C A holds its regular monthly meeting Monday evening next at 7:30 in their rooms.
A horse owned by Mr. Wm. M. Coit died on Wednesday after suffering from the epizootic, marking the first fatality from the disease in the town.
To Susan Cogan, a girl about fifteen years of age and an inmate of the asylum at Warren, was so badly burned by her clothes taking fire on Sunday last that she lived but a short time.
The Transformation Allegory of the Pilgrim or Life Illustrated was shown at Town Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday with audiences in attendance for each performance.
A Briston Lecture Committee event drew a full Bristol house for a varied program. Charles D Blake Providence piano solo opened the Polhymnian Quartet renditions and Solos by S B Spinning Pitman and Mrs Pitman received high praise. The Zerrahn Choral Union made its Bristol debut with a sleighing song and follow ups.
Mr Francis Murphy, a reformer and eloquent speaker, will lecture on temperance at Town Hall on Tuesday evening at seven thirty. Seats are free.
A party of Zerrahn Chort Union members and Polhymnian Quartette friends visited Mr. F. G. Morley at Hope and Franklin streets on Monday evening. Morley received a handsome upholstered easy chair as a surprise gift amid singing and social conversation. The Rhode Island Electoral College then met at the Court House to cast four ballots for President Ulysses S. Grant and Vice President Henry Wilson.
Wm H Anderson delivered the fifth Y M C A lecture titled Empty Pockets on Wednesday evening. His hour long talk illustrated money's power to elevate people socially and professionally with historical and contemporary examples. The hall was crowded despite cold weather and the audience responded with enthusiasm for a future repeat performance.
A prepared manual chronicles the church history from 1680, with three parts: Forms and rules, a full historical sketch and biographical notes, and a complete officers and members catalogue. A separate History volume complements the full manual. Complete manual price one dollar. history eighty cents. J. P. Lane, Pastor.
A digest of recent property sales lists multiple parcels in Newport area including a Mount Hope Bay tract sold for 15000 and other parcels priced from 25 to 5000. The Town Council and Court of Probate met, with appointments, accounts, inventories, and a public tomb bill list presented and approved along with street lamp and police expense entries.
The Metacom Desating Cius held its regular quarterly meeting on Tuesday evening and elected President F. F. Gladding Vice President D. A. Manay Secretary R. T. Pierce Treasurer C. V. Perry with M. H. Luther H. A. Monro and C. E. Kimball named to the Standing Committee.
Tar Mr. David A. Pierce is sole agent for this town for the Johnson hemmer. This hemmer is the most complete thing of the kind we have yet seen and is adapted to all sewing machines. It works in fine style.
The YMCA library welcomes new titles including Hoosier Schoolmaster True as Steel Poet at the Breakfast Table and Young America Abroad.
A notice calls a special town meeting for the afternoon of the 17th to approve an appropriation needed to complete and furnish the new school building on the Common.
Quartermaster General Flagg issues a circular to state military companies listing appointment times for annual inspection. Bristol Train of Artillery and Bristol Light Infantry inspection scheduled for Tuesday evening December 17.
The fragment questions if people wear ermine furred garments and cites the Democratic motto Hope on, hope ever followed by the proverb Murder will out described as exploded in New York.
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