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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1876
Page
2
Readers parse debates on Hayes Cox and Republics versus monarchs with references to Grant and anti Indian rhetoric. The pieces compare partisan temps, threats of fraud, and college critiques as editors note strife and public trust.
The city shows five century old walls and eight gates with towers, the Turia reduced to a canal, and Moorish irrigation turning arid land around Valencia into highly valued fields. Farmland yields crops year round with olives, dates, and citrus. canals and wells move water by oxen driven wheels. The night watch chants the time in the city quarters as a candid serenade to the hours.
The writer describes Valencia as crowds thronging to the vast bull ring, the largest in Spain, with five cent seats. He notes the street life, carriages like funeral hearses, and colorful Spain in motion from street vendors to fashion details and vivid costumes.
An 1876 New York piece recalls the holiday rush at Macy’s and Stewart’s, the crowded counters, and festive displays. It also comments on shoppers, clerks, and social scenes, noting diverse depictions of holiday life amid baubles and charity.
Eight leading New York theatres joined to stage a grand matinee raising about 13000 for a shared fund. The piece reports on fireproofing trials by Dion Boucicault, a soda-treated canvas method, and a London Varieties scare after two boys shouted fire. It notes sleighing season arrivals and a last sighting of Commodore Vanderbilt.
The Brooklyn disaster adds to debates on public building safety. The piece argues for laws with penalties to enforce safer architectural and building practices and for rapid egress measures to reduce panic during fires.
Providence notes a preacher, Elder Joseph Brown, will deliver morning and evening sermons at Advent Chapel tomorrow. A brief social issue hints at price disputes between buyers and merchants affecting local business and rest for merchants. The week features Augustin Daly’s play Piquo at the Providence Opera House with nightly performances and a Saturday matinee.
Sunday school festivals were held through the week at Baptist Methodist and Congregational churches with cake fruit and prizes named as rare enjoy ment. St Michael's Sunday school festival planned for Monday evening and Union Course at Town Hall featured Hon Henry B Anthony and Hon John Turner with Gen Burnside in attendance. The second lecture by Hon Lamper G Arnold on Arctic Europe scheduled for Thursday.
The town hailed the Tuesday Town Hall performance by Mr. Henderson's Providence Opera House troupe of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Laneryan starred as Uncle Tom with Clark as Gumption Cute, Presten gq as Aunt Ophelia, and Chambers as Topsy. the cast earned high praise.
John Sayer of this town died at the State Asylum for the Insane on the 24th inst and was brought home for interment. He was about sixty, son of the late Rouse P. Sayer, once an active businessman and Methodist member. For twenty years he suffered epilepsy and insanity, living in asylums the last decade. Funeral held Thursday from his sister Mrs Elizabeth Cobb on Franklin street with services by Rev F Edson of State Street MM E Church.
Captain Samuel Wilson of the schooner Flight, a South Kingstown native who spent twenty years in the coasting trade, died aboard his vessel in Warren harbor on the 24th inst of typhoid pneumonia. He was laid to rest in Peacedale after a funeral with a United Brothers Lodge I O O F delegation.
The column details Oliver Hazard Perry born 1795 Newport who died of yellow fever in Port of Spain Trinidad on August 23 1619. Six years later Congress arranged for his remains to be returned aboard the Lexington captained by Shubrick. Newport held a grand public funeral December 4 1826 with military parades from Providence Bristol and Newport, a ceremonial hearse, U S Marines pallbearers and a flags at half mast tribute in the harbor and cemetery.
A Bristol town record recounts a grand funeral with four white horse drawn hearse and naval bearers. It includes a census analysis showing 53 316 school aged children, 39 104 in school, and high absentee rates, urging enforcement of free public schools.
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