Bristol Phoenix in Bristol, Rhode Island

Various 19th Century News Items Across the Nation

A broad collage reports on diverse 19th century happenings including an elderly Mr. Fruit in Illinois, floods in Tuk India, large migrations and gold hunts in Australia, a timber contract in Iowa, religious equality in France, a death in Wheeling, a Wisconsin judge sentencing his brother, Michael McGrathi's death in Salem, and sailors' pocket money, with notes on Virginia migration, a burglary in Maine, a liquor disposal by Fall River police, gale damage in New York, a haunted Lynn house, a Wakefield barn fire, South Africa diamond hunters, a biting simile by the Georgia Sun, Garibaldi monument humor, Olive Logan and Wirth Sikes marriage, an Indiana editor's medical dismissal, oyster cargoes to Britain, a Springfield policeman's duty and declined reward, a Curacao Negro revolt, Chinese youth education plans, a Bay Mills agent’s suicide, and Jesse R. Grant's paralysis.