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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1872
Page
2
The piece discusses Congress and the upcoming lawmaking, urging a gradual return to specie payments and a solid monetary base. It touches on frontier crime, Native relations, and the need for wise leadership, while praising Horace Greeley's journalism and anti abolitionist yet pro worker stance.
The article traces Horace Greeley from a modest beginnings in Vermont and Northern New York to his emergence as a tireless editor and publisher. It highlights his perseverance amid poverty, temperate habits, and strong will that powered The New Yorker and Daily Tribune, noting early misfit with party tactics and his ascent to later influence.
A Friday morning whirl wind about five miles north of Stonington destroyed a shed and carriage on Elias Davis’s property, damaged John Kavanaugh’s horse shed, and tore roofs from Alexander Palmer’s mill. Dr. J. C. Gallup witnessed the event, noting thunder and rain then calm before a roaring vortex lifting timber high into the air and draining a pond as it caused widespread havoc.
Medical officials at Gray's Hospital London report that a judicious choking could aid hysteria treatment. The note suggests that a measured strangulation might prevent murder by eradicating hysteria.
The piece denounces a royal aristocracy rebuking provincial sympathy with the government. It argues such ebullition is contemptible and that only education and free schools can curb arrogance, offering a path to peace and secure empire.
A New York judge's decision is labeled unconstitutional shielding sailors from land shark attacks. The writer laments the ruling as a caprice worse than law and fears sailors will again face harm and indignity, calling into question the protection once afforded to Jack.
The Supreme Judicial Court of Maine holds that an assignment of wages not yet due is invalid even with good consideration and despite written employer acceptance. The decision curtails a practice by tradesmen who used such assignments as security for goods.
The passage portrays native peoples as failing to advance with civilization as white forces enforce discipline. It laments decline of the aboriginal race and describes their removal as part of empire’s westward triumphs, portraying chiefs and warriors as relics of a vanishing culture.
The semi monthly praise meeting at the Christian Association rooms will be omitted this Saturday evening.
The O. M. G. Club holds a grand leap year party at Infantry's Hall on Wood Street next Wednesday evening.
A crowded Town Hall welcomed the Morris Brothers Minstrels for a Friday evening performance. The show drew a large audience eager for entertainment.
Rev. Percy Browne of Roxbury Massachusetts preached at St. Michael’s Church in an exchange with Rev. Geo. L. Locke on Sunday last. The visit highlighted a collaborative church program and regional clerical ties.
Snow began Thursday at noon and persisted through the evening, but measurements show less than two inches on a level by Friday morning. The light accumulation suggests minimal travel disruption and localized complaints about slick patches.
The Warren Artillery Company held a military and civic ball at their Armory on Thursday evening last. Arnold's quadrille band provided the music.
Metacom Debating Club plans to discuss next Tuesday evening whether revolutions aid or hinder civilization's progress. The session invites local readers to attend and weigh the issue.
A grand Christmas ball is announced for Town Hall on Wednesday evening the 25th instant. Music for the occasion will be provided by Baker Brothers quadrille band.
The interior plastering of the new school on the Common is finished and the demand for more mortar has ceased in the area.
Meetings will be held tomorrow Sunday at the Asylum at 10:30 in the morning and at rooms at 5:45 in the evening.
The Bristol Light Infantry under Lieutenant Quirk attended the funeral of Thomas Kelly, late a member, on Sunday last and escorted the remains to the Catholic cemetery on Crane's lane.
By request of music loving citizens the Polhymnian Quartette will repeat their concert given on the 5th. Arrangements are under way for the next concert to be held Tuesday evening December 31.
A speaker in our hearing last Tuesday morning claimed to be cold and pledged to do a job that afternoon but has since vanished. The testimony suggests he partly told the truth and partly did not.
Mr. Francis Murphy of Portland Maine lectured on temperance in Town Hall last Tuesday evening. A large attentive audience listened with interest as he related his own experience as a drinkist in a very effective manner.
A special town meeting is scheduled for next Tuesday at 3 p.m. in Town Hall to consider a proposed appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars for completing and furnishing the new school building on the Common.
Ge Rev. D. H. Ela of the Providence Conference Seminary East Greenwich occupied the pulpit at State Street M E Church on Sunday. After preaching he performed baptism for one candidate and admitted four persons to church membership.
Mr Wilfred H Munro of this town was aboard the steamer Sacramento when it wrecked on a reef near San Geronimo Island on the 11th. A telegraphic dispatch to his father John B Munro Esq announced his safe arrival in San Diego California Friday morning.
An airy young couple walking down Hope Street drawn attention as she finishes the apple he named. She reveals twelve seeds and asks who named them, he answers me, she giggles and calls out red hot.
Quarter-Master General Flagg will visit the town next Tuesday evening to inspect the Light Infantry at their Armory on Wood Street and the Bristol Train of Artillery afterward. Invited guests will join a collation prepared by Mr. M. V. Newton at the Bristol Hotel.
The lecture committee of the YMCA plans a Library Course of Lectures in January and February next year. Season ticket holders get a deduction from the next course’s price, and present or future members may buy tickets at reduced rates at the rooms. Net proceeds from current entertainments will fund new books for the library. Further details will follow.
Early Monday morning two men argued on Bradford Street near Wood. One man used profane words and tossed his coat toward the fence while preparing to fight. Captain Luther intervened and ordered them to move on, quieting the incident.
The final Y M C A entertainment features Hon John G Saxe next Tuesday at Town Hall. The renowned scholar and muse protege draws large crowds in New York Boston St Louis Albany Milwaukee and Rochester with a witty and vivid poem titled Yankee Land.
The sloop Hamilton at Steamboat wharf lost clothing belonging to Captain Wells in a Tuesday robbery. A Gipsey crewman named Charles Bowen, claiming Charlestown SC, was arrested Wednesday and confessed after state testimony. He received sixty days in Providence jail and $7 costs. The clothes were returned to Captain Wells.
Mr William H Anderson spoke on Empty Pockets warning against extravagance and needless debt. He urged balance between earning money and helping others, noting how small leaks drain finances and that honest gain should not override personal honor. The talk offered plain, practical advice for self restraint and civic responsibility.
The Congregationalist paper offers a premier chrome copy of Reinhardt’s Among the Flowers with a black walnut frame to new subscribers. Boston Transcript praised the image of a little girl watching a butterfly, and the note describes the paper’s strong editorial lineup and annual $3 subscription. A new Y M C A library addition and a Warren branch store expansion for David A. Pierce’s clothing business are also announced.
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