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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1886
Page
2
Mrs Mary Mann of Oxford New Hampshire celebrated her 101st birthday on November 26 with remarks from family and local friends. The milestone adds to a long life marked by community involvement and resilience.
The President eased several Treasury leaders as part of a broad reshuffle. The move removed nearly all Republican officials, signaling a major staff turnover at the department.
A recent communication to the French Academy of Sciences notes simultaneous brilliant auroras and meteoric showers, suggesting a probable connection. Scribner's Magazine announces its first issue date December 15 and reports Tileston and Hollingsworth will print its paper with their renowned plate paper.
In 1886 the United States Fish Commission distributed over 90 million young shad across U S streams at a cost under $20 000 About 6 million shad were harvested for market that season making about fifteen young fish released for every old one removed
St Pauls M E Church in Providence was nearly destroyed by fire on Sunday. Loss estimated at 10000 with 4000 insured. Fireman Nicholas B Duff suffered a fatal skull fracture from a ladder fall. Three other firemen injured. Rev E D Hall, formerly from this town, now pastors St Pauls M E Church.
A scientist reports no purely left handed race found though Pendjab natives and many African peoples prefer left hand. A criminology study shows 14 to 22 percent of convicts left handed, highest among classes only nine in a hundred. Democratic reformers lament Secretary Lamar’s Republican leaning private secretary, arguing it aids opponents and questions Democratic control.
A French naturalist reveals the so called house fly parasite is in fact a common cheese mite that clings to flies for transport. The mite adapts to hosts but reverts to its original form and multiplies on suitable feeding grounds, explaining cheese contamination even when distant from suspected sources.
Seven persons were admitted to full membership at State Street M. E. Church on Sunday with four probationers and three by letter. Also notes Hood's singing school opened in the vestry with about 60 to 70 students. The item mentions weekly supplements due to advertising pressure. Snow began Sunday morning with heavy fall totaling about 10 inches, followed by a second edition storm Tuesday bringing a foot or more of snow.
The Weber Lady Quartette of Providence will give a first class concert in Town on Tuesday evening. Proceeds support a laudable cause. Reserved seats available at Geo. W. Easterbrooks, Hope street store. Also notes the disappearance of a man named Geo. W. Easterbrooks who may have left town for the South.
Brief fragment describes a Thursday evening event at Canton Miller with visiting regalia groups B Infantry and B. Oli in uniform and a Fire Department closing night with tastefully decorated articles and refreshments accompanying music.
The Supreme Court met in the Court House on Saturday with Chi Durfee presiding and Lymah B. Bee ch as pro tem clerk due to illness. The divorce petition of John B. Herreshoff versus LLe-Herreshoff was resumed and denied after a brief consultation. A large crowd attended, and the court adjourned to meet again as required by law.
The Bristol town council conducted monthly sessions noting probate actions, executors approved with bonds, accounts of estate administrators examined and recorded, and notices issued. Adjournment set for December 20. A separate town council meeting reviewed bills, taxes, leases, and remissions and prepared for forthcoming year duties.
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