Saved by a Panther on a Mountain Tramp
A hunter’s trek in September yields abundant game then sudden storm. He seeks shelter and finds a dry, cave like den in the mountain to endure the downpour and rest after a day of successful hunting.
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1876
Page
1
Pigeon Roost Foils Avalanche and Panther at Mountain Cave
In a perilous night siege, a man and a panther shelter in a cave as an avalanche seals the entrance. After hours of struggle the man discovers a skylight through a pigeon roost, which provides a path to freedom and salvation for both. The pigeons remain safely fed as night roosts wane and dawn breaks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laat
Bristol
RB. L
Dr. Dodson
Dodson
New York
Carolinas
Southland
Ruste
Folly of levity in work and words
A quip on how levity can turn a man into a tool, noting labor is noble yet timing matters, especially after a man has just finished heavy labor like carrying two tons of coal with a basket.
Informals and presidential contests recounted in 19th century notes
A newspaper excerpt describes winter Informals hosted by a homeowner for 10 to 40 guests with open houses, no formalities, refreshments limited to simple offerings, and a detachable, rotating gatherings plan deemed unnecessary. It then surveys five presidential elections where state votes could have altered outcomes, noting close results and the pivotal role of New York and Pennsylvania in several elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams
Jefferson
Madison
de Witt Clinton
Pennsylvania
Virginia
New York
Andrew Jackson
House of Representatives
Polk
Clay
Henry Clay
Cass
Taylor
Buchanan
Lincoln
New York Tribune
Locusts as Historic Food Across Lands and Cultures
The article surveys locust eating in Arabia Turkey and beyond, detailing Bedouin harvesting methods drying boiling and frying practices. It notes Locusts as common sustenance among Bedouins Turks Moors Hottentots and even Dr Livingstone who grew fond of them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John the Baptist
John
Arabia
Turkey
Russia
Livingstone
Our sight as the most perfect human sense of perception
The passage extols sight as the finest sense offering vast ideas, distant perception, and enduring activity without fatigue or satiation, highlighting its central role in human experience.
A Safe Ruse Promise of Kindness and Truth
A short moral vignette advises wandering through places with no claim on permanence while seeding kindness truth and friendship. Such seeds from the roadside may yield rich harvests later in life.
Parable of a Tree of Life and Unpriced Treasures
The passage compares Bethlehem to a mighty tree offering fruit for the hungry, shelter for pilgrims, a jewel casket to be worn, a telescope revealing distant things, a treasure house of valuable goods without price, and a broad calm river where birds sing and children are joyful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingdom of Heaven
Wealth Is Not Happiness in American Life
The speaker argues wealth fails to bring joy and warns against chasing riches. They cite Vanderbilts Astors and the Stewarts, contrasting gaudy riches with the happiness found in a quiet home, loving spouse, and wholesome family life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vanderbilts
Stewarts
Astors
The Quakers Dmmnishine.
The London Catholic Register laments shrinking Quaker numbers in England. It notes about 20 000 adherents, a fraction of the past, attributes decline to fashion changes and loss of distinctive dress while praising some noted Quaker figures of Penn Barclay and Naylor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Catholic Register
England
George Fos
Penn
Barclay
Naylor
America
Birds cause lighthouse glass damage during spring and fall
Keepers along coastal lighthouses face nightly bird impacts in April and October. Ducks strike panes with force, shattering heavy glass and sometimes wire screens fail. A St Augustine light keeper reports 20 to 50 dead birds daily, totaling about 100,000 yearly across the coast, with nocturnal migratory flights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. [Augustine
Fla
Flavor of an egg and its production notes
A writer explains that most egg flavor comes from the yolk and that hen diet affects yolk color and albumen. Feeding barley and rye to laying hens alters egg content, with eggs described as easy to consume and nutritious for the brain due to phosphorus.
Animals in a cyclone aboard Ossipee wrecked crew recount
A Key West correspondent describes the Ossipee's cyclone experience. Cats vanished before the storm, Daniel the pointer showed fear, hens and turkeys lost appetite, two pelicans rode the vortex, and a parrot enjoyed the ride by talking and whistling. Personal property damaged. the ship looked dilapidated after. Debris from other vessels observed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Key West
Baltimore American
United States
Ossipee
Daniel
Pleasures of the Deep Sailor Boy Finds Hard Life at Sea
A Detroit boy ships as a grenhorn on a lumber schooner after reading The Pleasures of the Deep. He endures harsh sailing, late nights, and strict discipline, returns battered yet humbled, and asks to work hard at home for the winter while preferring farm life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Samhaw
Toledo
Jane
Farmer's wife buys Mulligan Guards music box for daughters
In Blind Gulch a farmer's wife travels to town with $500 hidden in a handkerchief to buy a music box for her girls. After inspecting pianos she declines funeral tone, chooses a richly carved square grand style and settles on The Mulligan Guards box with a cheerful tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Blind Gulch
Mulligan
Beauty and snuff box incident during sermon scene
Steele remarks on Flaville and others who displayed a snuff box during a sermon. Flaville pulls out her box mid service and offers to men nearby and invites the church-warden to take two pinches as she drops her contribution into the plate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steele
Flaville
Indian couriers of the West endurance feats described
A New York merchant shares a West note detailing Indian couriers who transmit news by rapid, endurance ridden journeys. After feasting and dancing they ride day and night for five days, delivering army updates to distant tribes and spreading intelligence well before commands arrive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Army
Credit Beginnings Between Astor and Stranger Trader
The stranger trader Mr K seeks credit from John Jacob Astor, who offers terms if the goods are found in his store. After initial bargaining, Astor grants credit and the two merchants trade, fostering a long relationship that helps Mr K rise as a leading New Bedford capitalist, per Church Union record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Astor
Mr. K
New Bedford
Mr. A
John Jacob Astor
Hartford Pulpit Story of a Minister and Rum Trade
A Scribner November piece recalls Dr. Strong a Hartford pastor famed for charity and a weekday role in a rum firm. When the firm failed a sheriff pursued him, he hid at home and appeared in church on Sundays to lead worship, avoiding arrest by custom. Different legends cite arrest and escape within “limits” to reach his pulpit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Strong
Scribner
Absence of Mind Shifts to Candlelight Kiss Incident
A country editor recalls a case of absence of mind where a girl, after a delightful evening, politely exits and in bashful trepidation blows out the candle then draws it behind the door and kisses it. The anecdote captures rustic humor and wordplay on romantic mishaps.
Facetious visitor quips about whisky in village shop
A facetious person browses a village shop and, when told no whisky is kept, replies that it would save him steps if whisky were sold there.
Fires in Bedrooms
The author argues against sleeping in cold rooms and advocates open fires in bedrooms to improve ventilation and airflow. He claims a fire helps release gases from the skin and allows an open window, while noting high coal costs but deeming the fire essential despite expense.
Remarkable Fish Reproduction and Natural Population Control
A historical piece notes eggs per fish species reaching thousands to millions. It cites trout two thousand, salmon ten thousand, shad thirty thousand, herring hundreds of thousands, sturgeon seven million six hundred thirty five thousand, cod nine million three hundred forty four thousand. It mentions New York's sturgeon egg experiment and claims only a small percent hatch but enough mature to meet world needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Commission
Shocking grave scene at Scranton funeral ends in chaos
At a Scranton suburb funeral a crowd gathered as the coffin was lowered. Drunken pallbearers clumsily managed the rite and two men fell into the grave, struggled there, and were pulled out by sober attendants. The burial continued with the coffin lowered as the event ended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Penn
Notice of Marriages In Out West Paper Styles
A paper notice explains marriage announcements will vary by bride cake items and editor attendance. Small type for no cake, large type for cake, gloves or favors, and illustrated poetry for added items. When the editor attends and kisses the bride the notice will be very prominent with fitting verse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Floating Houses and River Life in Bangkok Siam
The narrator describes Bangkok as a wonderful city with 70 000 houses built on bamboo rafts along the river. A vast flotilla of ships, junks, and boats fills the waterway on both sides of the wide stream, extending as far as the eye can see.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bankok
Siam
Rates and rules for Advertisements in the newspaper
Rates listed for ads at $1.00 per square for one week and 95 cents per square for each additional insertion. Short notices up to twelve lines count as a square. Marriages and deaths paid as notices with double rates. Prepaid for transient ads. Yearly contracts offered on reasonable terms. Yearly advertisers limited to immediate business. Entries due by Thursday noon for next issue. Religious obituaries and political notices treated as ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sa Ali
William Pitman and the Schoolhouse Revenge
In a log schoolhouse a pupil named William Pitman escapes through a broken wall and is flogged by teacher Mr Simes. The boy later floods a tank to trap Simes, then rescues him after a bargain not to strike again. William deems Simes a perfidious scoundrel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schooisoy
William
Mr. Pitman
Mr. Simes
Pitman
Bill
Simes
Steel Iron Clads Ordered for British Navy
The admiralty contracts six steel corvettes to be built on the Clyde for service in China, the Pacific, and near colonies. They will sail at about 20 miles per hour with 14 guns and double teak bulwarks, engines installed on completion within two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiralty
Clyde
China
Pacific
Webster and the Driver in a Midnight Stage Ride
Senator Webster recounts a night journey from Baltimore to Washington in a stagecoach with a driver who feared peril in a dark woods. The driver, surprised by the identity, exclaimed relief upon learning the traveler was a fellow public figure, not a highwayman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Tom
The Caronia Palm of Brazil Yields Edible, Industrial Uses
The carnovia tree, a palm flourishing naturally in Bahai Rio Grande do Norte Brazil, offers root with sarsaparilla like properties, trunk fiber, and a Maizena like flower. Its pulp is palatable, roasted oily nuts substitute coffee, young trunk yields wine and vinegar, gum, wax from leaves, and mature wood suitable for musical instruments drain pipes and water conduits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bahai
Rio Grande Do Norte
Brazil
Young officer under Wolfe dies and returns to battle
A young army officer under Wolfe languished from a lung abscess and took sick leave. He vowed to rejoin his regiment for the upcoming battle. A shot entered the abscess, opening a discharge that saved him. He recovered and lived to eighty years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wolfe
Down in the Mouth Catarrh Remedy Advertisement
An 19th century style ad proclaims catarrh as the climate’s scourge, urging Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy for early cure, with Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for later stages. It promotes The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, a 900 page clothbound book, $1.60 postpaid, from World's Dispensary Buffalo New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Sage
Dr. Pierce
Common Sense
World's Dispensary
Buffalo, N. Y
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