07 Dec 1878
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1878
Page
1
A reflective verse explores the transient nature of life with imagery of sunshine shadows fading, autumn entombing, and buds transplanted to a higher home. It contrasts joy and grief, light and darkness, suggesting trials deepen thought of heaven and remembrance remains fragrant of immortal bloom.
In a sunlit early November town Agnes Carroll finds a starving man at her gate. She shelters him, learns he is Harry Morton, a once impoverished law student, and his renewed vigor wins her affection. After a dramatic burglary night, Morton leaves to honor duty, while Agnes and Morton join in marriage with Carroll as partner, ending Percy Bell’s hopeful pursuit.
A gaunt tramp with a sly left-eye stoop seized a spring-poetry machine and ground out a verse about a political life in search of money. He imagines crawling into a small deep hole and pulling it shut. The line reads as a biting political parody.
The column extols Hop Bitters as the key to health and beauty for women, asserting cosmetics alone cannot achieve good health. It urges readers to try a trial as proof and directs to another column for more details.
A collection of maxims on virtue and restraint. It contrasts good breeding with security against ill manners, urges making the best of one's conditions, and warns against pride, deceit, and closed inquiry while valuing sincerity and self-control. It includes reflections on asking questions, wealth, and extracting value from misfortune.
A quip from President Nott on marriage counsel urges couples to ignore the chase for happiness. He frames happiness as a shy nymph that arrives only when pairs attend to their duties quietly.
The American Newspaper Reporter argues selecting matter is a skilled task. It defends editors who curate content, noting interest, morality, and usefulness rely on good selection. One editor cannot produce a full paper alone. multiple minds improve the product.
This reflection urges readers to keep a daily log of worries to see their real impact. It suggests tracking origin and outcome of annoyances to avoid wasting temper and to cultivate forgetting. The piece extols the arts of forgetting and overlooking to keep life focused on pure and gentle thoughts.
A king teaches his son a practical lesson by setting a hall table with toys and treats and forbidding a backward glance. The boy gathers a load, discards some, yearns for what lies ahead, and returns with broken toys. The king advises cherishing the present, enjoying each day, and not regretting the past or chasing future joys.
Instructions from a rural paper on long term cabbage storage using deep soil fill and a pitched roof, plus a method for keeping winter apples into May using shelves or barrels at 40 to 50 degrees. Also commentary on country life and social refinement to improve manners and community ties.
Charles Gilbert, imprisoned in Connecticut for 14 years of a life sentence for the 1864 murder of Henry Cadwell in New Britain, now claims his father Jonathan Gilbert and Charles Parsons killed Cadwell to seize his money. He says he and his father pursued and murdered Cadwell after a desperate struggle, and his tale aligns with police notes, shedding light on overlooked details and the tracks found in the snow.
Russian newspapers report romantic entanglements between Turkish prisoners of war and Russian women in several towns. At Charkoff a Russian girl dressed as a Turk mingled with returning Moslems and was detected on numbering the group. In Poltava a noblewoman insisted on following a Turkish officer to marry him. A departure scene at Poltava required police intervention and orders to curb such demonstrations in the future. Crowds of women, including schoolgirls, gathered on platforms to bid tearful farewells, embracing and kissing the departing prisoners. the schoolgirls were expelled.
French schoolmistresses harsh methods of discipline are described with cases of children burned on hot stoves or beaten on bare feet with onions. A Calais incident reports Sister C restraining a child as three boys walked past to pull her nose, causing injury.
In a Paris restaurant a snob and a gentleman sit together. The snob finishes dinner and lights a cigar blowing smoke over his coffee. The gentleman rises and politely asks if he may eat while the other smokes.
A longtime teacher, after half a century of steady work, attributes her sustained general health to spending afternoons outdoors. She treats nervous weariness not by resting indoors but by enjoying fresh air and light activity outside.
A Boston schoolteacher threatened to hold an unruly boy fifteen minutes after school. The boy replied with a witty plea, saying he’d prefer half an hour because she is the prettiest teacher in town.
A London World excerpt relays Dickens laughing at a Harriett Martineau anecdote. In Tynemouth a polite lodger sends goose slices to a sick upstairs neighbor. Betty delivers a note from Mrs. B asking Mrs. A to disseminate her goose in her own sphere, ending the luncheon.
A country teacher misreads a shy pupil who proclaims I am a dunce. After a tense exchange the boy reveals his full name Isaac May Dunn. The teacher uses the moment to urge accuracy in pronunciation and issues a caution to the class.
In Baltimore Mr. Moony denounces church fairs calling grab bags betting on popularity and church lotteries he compares to gambling and laments ungodly choirs. He says better to preach in a barn than in a church funded by such activities and criticizes hiring unchristian singers and a drunk gregh who reoffends.
A Connecticut story describes a western tragedy where a displaced boy, son of a man killed after an elopement with an Indian chief’s daughter, is found two years later by his Connecticut grandmother who buys him with groceries and plans education and home life to shape his future in the dusky Dakotian world.
The celebrated physician urges fresh air and open windows for lung patients. He warns against closed room air and likens it to bathers drinking the water they bathe in. He endorses Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purga tive Pellets and notes the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo for treatment.
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