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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1884
Page
2
A Bay County, Michigan notice indicates the care of the poor is being awarded to the highest bidder. The fragment hints at public welfare contracting and bids by local authorities.
Reports detail a maritime tragedy near Gay Head with 103 lives lost from a 130 passenger crew on the City of Columbus. Cause remains disputed amid conflicting statements from investigators and survivors.
An exchange notes that four of the five largest towns voted no license, as temperance forces led by colored churches and charitable societies gain strong support and surprise at their effective work across the state.
Postal authorities estimate more than six million new postal notes will be needed in the coming fiscal year. Planned changes include a brighter color replacing dirty yellow and more prominent figures. Notes are produced in New York.
Messrs. Carlisle and Morrison toured Philadelphia aiming to ease tensions between free traders and protectionists within the Democratic party. A complete compromise seems unlikely, as attendees gauge the power of powerful business interests and the likely congressional resistance.
Senator Hull of Colorado opens with a claim that electric letters may soon be cheaper than steam. Senator Edmunds asserts constitutional government power to build lines and opposes buying existing ones. The committee will hear telegraph companies and study the issue from all sides.
The article notes Inness has finished a Niagara panorama, the third large canvas by an American artist after Church and C. H. Miller. It highlights differing viewpoints of the falls, cites Ruskin praising Church's work, and retells the Appelles anecdote about art’s veil.
The Senate approved a million dollar Mississippi river improvement appropriation and the House passed it after debate. The House also considered patent law and a post road system, while the Senate finished new rules and adopted them with minor changes. A Capitol liquor rule sparked remarks as senators recounted a longtime restaurant scene and a shift to beer only, replacing intoxicating with spirituous and malt in the code.
The dead letter office in Washington reports odd items sent by mail including a jar of snakes a centipede a lizard a bottle of pain cure to Queen Victoria and a Hog snake. An annual sale of curious things will occur soon with a catalogue available from the Dead letter office Washington.
From Our Own Correspondent New York January 22 1884 reports social bursts across the metropolis as Old Guard and Knights Templar events proceed amid festive excess. It notes Bartholdi statue progress and Mrs Martha Lambs celebrated city history book, plus a rise in burglary and church thefts. Washington Letter covers capital receptions at the White House Cabinet and Congress, glucose tax debates, Porter claims, and partisan maneuvering ahead of the 1884 campaign.
The February issue features Abbey's frontispiece engraving The Bible Reading for Black's novel Studith Shakespeare, Rev E P Roe's Nature's Serial Story, and Joseph Hatton's opening paper with illustrations. It includes Miss Woolson At Mentone, Farnum A Winter in Canada, Higginson American History progress, Mason on Ruysdael with engraving, Terra-Cotts by Oakey, Thorne David Poindexter, Sophie Swett The Topham Meadow Lot, Glimpses of Emerson by Mrs Fields, Sims Lydia Mackey and Colonel Tarleton, and Thwing on The National Government and Education, plus lively editorials.
Be Elder E. RB Wood of Exeter will preach in Advent Chapel on Sunday afternoon and evening. The remains of Mrs Ellen Phair were brought here for interment after dying in Philadelphia at her son in law Wm Liming's home. A Miss Ida M Buxton Woonsocket will lecture on Temperance in Town Hall on Thursday evening January 31st under the WCTU.
At an adjourned town meeting the council examined and allowed bills against the town. Health Officer Philip B. Bourn is charged $69.85 and Surveyor Thomas C. Church of District No. 12 is charged $33.85. bills referred to Audit.
Work at the Rubber Works is paused on boots, shoes and gallora while operating sections run on shortened hours. Management hopes for a quick restart as many workers fear idle time in mid winter.
Andrew J. Pitman son of Wm Henry Pitman of this town survived the wreck of the steamer Columbus by clinging to the rigging for about 11 hours. He arrived Saturday and stayed until Monday before traveling to Brooklyn on a brief family visit.
A program titled Sicawill be staged at Music Hall on Monday evening February 4 featuring pianoforte recitals and readings. Louis F. Mitchell, pianist, and Miss Anna J. Larrabee, elocutionist, will perform. Tickets may be reserved via the advertising columns. early seat securing requested.
Annual report shows 2 567 entitled users up by 217 and 1 537 more volumes circulated totaling 26 948 with a daily average of 874. Volumes added 442, current holdings 7 337. Temperance talks set for February 7 in Town Hall with Rev Marcus Ames and Hon John B Finch addressing effects of alcohol.
The Bristol Warren and Barrington Directory 1884 has been delivered to subscribers. It covers Bristol county with a systematic street directory maps for the county and town plans of Bristol and Warren, listing governments institutions and societies. Copies are for sale in town by George W Brooks and Paul Pare, price two dollars.
United Brothers Lodge of this town entertained Hope Lodge No. 4 of Providence and Daughters of Rebekah members. about 225 guests arrived by special train at 8 pm. The banquet was at Infantrys Armory Wood Street with decorated halls and flowers. speeches by prominent members followed, and visitors left on an extra train around midnight.
The Rev Onanies J Roaxas longtime pastor of St Marys Bristol died after a lingering illness at his Wood Street parsonage aged 41. He served Bristol School Committee and leaves a Stamford Conn mother and three brothers and a Bristol sister. The funeral was at St Marys Church. Mrs Cockesnath widow of Captain Henry Coggeshall aged nearly 90 died at Cedar Grove East Providence and was buried in North Cemetery Bristol Neck after services in East Providence.
In Bristol on Thursday February 7 Mr John B Finch of Nebraska will address the temperance issue with noted power. Rev Marcus Ames will lecture in the afternoon on the effects of intoxicating drinks as seen at the State Farm. Bristol Temperance League arranges the event asking crowds to attend the Town Hall for the lectures in Bristol Providence and Newport.
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