Extraordinary striped bass catch by Montauk Point firm
On November 18, the Blackford Fishing Company of Montauk Point Long Island caught about 4000 pounds of striped bass. Most fish weighed 50 to 75 pounds and many more escaped. The majority were females with unripe eggs. An international naval and submarine engineering exhibition is planned in London in April 1882. Prizes will reward life-saving shipwreck devices and unique sea faring inventions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackford Fishing Company
Montauk Point
Long Island
London
Sammy
Europe
Bristol
Sammy Slocum
T. B
Toronto Globe
London Lancet
Massachusetts
Peabody Medical Institute
W. H. Parker
M. D
Balfinch Street
Boston
Mass
N. B
New American Ocean Liners Aim to Sail to London in Five Days
A New York project led by Jacob Lorillard plans pure passenger steamers to run New York to a British port in five to five and a half days with no freight. The ships would be strong, safe, carry only passengers, and be as luxurious as floating palaces. A bold claim of success is made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jacob Lorillard
London
Pullman
Arctic Ocean swallows Jeannette funds and gossip of Gotham
New York’s December 27 1881 column recalls James Gordon Bennett’s Arctic expedition money vanishing with the Jeannette. The piece mocks the search, notes Delong and Chipp’s Arctic service, mentions D I I Hayes’s death, and lampoons Dan Sickles’s fatherhood and Vanderbilt’s unwed daughter. It also reports Newark’s city auditor defaulter scandal, Crooked Brooklyn politics, and calls for reform and beheading of corruption.
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New Yor
Arctic Ocean
James Gordon Bennett
Pole
South Pole
Delong and Chipp
Juniata
Cuba
Virginius
Brooklyn Navy Yard
St. Mary
D. I. I. Hayes
Siberia
Dan. Sickles
National Guard
Gotham
Charley Spencer
Vanderbilt
New York
James Watson Webb
Know Nothing
Courier Journal
Bennett
The
Herald
Newark
Brooklyn
Commonwealth
United States
Raprx
Town notes and events from the week
Uncle Joe bays the introduction of water into the town this week a grand success. The new road from Union to Burton streets has been properly graded and presents a fine appearance. The Town Council and Court of Probate will meet Monday at two oclock. The Young Peoples Literary Society postponed its Thursday vestry event due to bad weather. The Congregational Sunday school held its Christmas festival with readings songs and an address by Rev Stevens. Hazel Kirke in Town Hall was postponed to January due to New York engagements. Mr W Woodward Providence teacher will hold a free drawing exhibition at the Byfield School Saturday morning open 9 to 12.
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Newport
New York
Havana
Capes
Delaware
Con
Sth Avenue
Central Park
Bristol
Uncle Joe Bays
Noyes Place
Union
Burton Streets
Young Peoples Literary Society
State Street M. E
Congregational Church
Stevens
Hazel Kirke
Town Hall
Madison Square Theatre
Frank N. Scott
New York State
W. Woodward
Providence
R. I. School of Design
Byfield School
St. Michael's Church
Trinity Church
D. G. Frost
Quintinus Saxpay
St. Amichael's Church
Baptist Church
Advent
Mietz
River Point
St. Mary’s Church
Sheppard Jubilee Singers
Andrew J. Sherman
Rubber Works
John F. Crump
Sherman
Sam
Theodore McCarty
Shoe
The
Jones F. Stoughton
McCarty
Calender Room
Jonathan Adcock
Col
James Coggeshall
Adcock
Henry Wilkinson
Allen M. Munro
Rubber ‘Works
Frank Hoar
George L. Locke
Andrew R. Trotter
National Rubber Company
Philip Coyle
Isaac F. Williams
Michael McKeon
Williams
Sacer Fuxity’ Pryor
Grocod Viata
Citi Eng
Hope and
Constitution Streets
Mr. Pearce
RB. I
Benjamin Pearce
New Bedford
Mass
Franklin Pierce
H. J. Pitman
Bristol Hotel
State Street
Providence, Warren and Bristol
Pearce
Abby
Pearse
William Pearse 2d
Walter Pearce
Hartford
Courier
Schoonmaker
Creek Locks
Ulaler Co
N. Y
David Kennedy
Rondout
Arctic Jeannette Seaman Henry Diman Warren Local Resident
Henry Diman Warren a seaman aboard the Arctic steamer Jeannette, reported crushed in the ice north of the Siberian coast, is a native of this town. Son of the late William Warren, his mother later remarried Salmon P. Burdick of Philadelphia and now resides there. Relatives in town await word of his safety. his name appears in the missing cutter crew list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ae Henry Diman Warren
Siberian
William Warren
Harry
Salmon P. Burdick
Philadelphia
Young Warren
Signal service reaches Bristol by telephone link
The Providence Daily Journal reports an alliance with Mesars and Herreshoff to transmit storm warnings to Bristol by telephone. Signals will rise from the Herreshoff shop staff, 125 feet high, visible across Narraganset and Mount Hope Bays. A red flag with a white center signals storm risk. a white flag with a black center marks offshore high winds. The system is ready to start at the first opportunity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence Daily Journal
Herreshalf
Bristol
Journal Office
Herreshoff Manufacturing Company
Bristol Village
Genial bachelor sought for Bridge man in Connecticut
A post office note from last Tuesday describes a shy, elderly bachelor living in Bridge, Connecticut. It invites a willing maid to cheer his home and win his heart, with directions past Fairfield Avenue to locate him if he remains alive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Barnes
Bridge Connecticut State
Fairfeld Avenue
Lixty
Five
Christmas Services Across Bristol Churches and Festivities
The Bristol area marked Christmas with morning prayers and Holy Communion at St Michael's and Trinity, plus lively Sunday school programs at multiple churches. Donations for church renovations totaled $51, and a notable reception at Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Codman’s home featured music by a Providence band. A Christmas ball and a slate of presents and ceremonies highlighted the holiday observances.
Pioneer Texas merchant Wardwell dies at sixty eight
Mr J E Wankewein born in Bristol and raised in New York rose from errand boy to prominent hardware house collector in Texas. He settled to manage wild lands bought after debts, converted with Rev Dr Lewis, joined Congregational Church, married twice, five children from first wife, no children from second, died at sixty eight in remote Texas region. The note accompanies local library additions and a science experiment on plant growth by Prillieux.
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Jegeming M. Wankewein
Corpus Christi
Texans
Benjamin Wardwell
Bristol
New York
Joon
Texas
Wardwell
Dr. Lewis
Congregational Church
Lothrup Sturgis
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Kirkwood
John Paul Jones
Germany
England
Bge
Boston Light Infantry and Veteran Corps
Mechanics Charitable Association
Huntington Avenue
New England
Boston Light Infantry Armory Fund
P. 8. Gilmore
Jerusalem
Abdul-Aziz
Henry
Bradford Duries
Fall River
M. E
St. Michael’s
St Michael's
Arthur Codman
Mount Hope Bay
Arduene
Artillery
Hood
Bristo
Pune
Cor
Ida
Assonet
Rogers Free Library
Shepard & Company
M. Prillieux
Burlington
Dakota
Ea Cnad
Providence Furniture Company
Rhode Island
Spicers & Peckham
Providence Furniture Co
Broad
Mathewson Street
R. I
Parker
J. Monroe Taylor
Presley & Greene
7Th Street
Washington, D. C
Sanford
Rts
Parsons
Dye
Voltaic Belt Co
Marshall, Mich
Ocldtly
Chas. N. Crittenton
Geo. C. Goodwin &Co
T. S. Shipman
Hope
High Streets
Ay DE
J. C. Gallup
Hope Street
G. B. Crane
Franklin Street
Store Corner High
Bradford Streets
Del
WM. H. Richards
Odd Fellows Building
Bradford Street
Colwell & Cult
Colwell & Colt
L. B. B. Colt
Francia Colwell
Samuel P. Colt
Westminster Street
Mr. Colt
Reek
William N. Titus
Braddord Streets
J. H. Young & Co
Maine
Tierman Canfield
East Side
Byfield
Constitution
Dr.hooker
Benson-Kelton
Owen A. Benson
Ida May Kelton
Titus—Gracia
Waldoboro
William N. Titus, Esq
Frances Gracia
Grinnell— Borden
Walter F. Grinnell
Tiverton
R. J
Mercy D. Borden
Westport
Taylor
Mary Rus
William R
Harriet An
Walker
Mainnie Walker
George H. Pearce
Pierce
Swanzey
Betsey Pierce
Paine
Phoenix Marine Journal
Port of
Canonicus
Orswell
Durfee
Gannon
Fannie
Wm. Marvel
Dyer
Laputa
Ricketson
Witch
Carey
Schr
Helen Mar
Ward
Elizabethport
Seth Paull
SDAY
Whale
Eldridge
Prudence
Teazer
Darling
Cole's River
Marvel
Orsweil
Franklin
N. N. Cole & Son
National Eagle Bank
A. M
J.G. Watson
First National Bank
M. Gennett
Alnut Woo
Perry
C. W. Faulkner
Mr. McCoy
John Real
F. L. Young
Emmy Brene
Nellie M. Fanning
Margaret Ae Jennie Whipple
John B. Pearce
William McCormick
Elizabeth McCormic
RK. I
Constitution Street
Martha J. Manchester
Fe Howard Manchester
William A. Manchester
Francis Bourn
Lemuel A. Bishop
Town Bridge
Flope Street
Jacob Babbitt
Samuel Smith
Leas
Westany
Charles Pepper
Patrick Hammell
Samuel D. Wardwell
TNEF
Byffett
W. Woodwarkd
Celestial Tea CO
Westminster St
Love Rocks
Valley Streets
Nope Street
North Cemetery
Bristol Neck
Allen M. Newman
Charles A. Johnson
George W. Easterbrooks
Jal Wr
Freedar
Naddre
Delaware Ave
Phila
Stan’s Stratena
Guiteau
Egente Outfit
Liberal
Hupparp Bros
Ln Federal Stract
Bostan
Royal &Mo
Renee Eel Orton
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