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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1893
Page
2
The Bristol Paani is entered at the Post Office in Bristol as second class mail matter with postage paid by the publisher for subscribers in the United States and Canada.
Eleven barges brought 8 841 tons of coal into Providence harbor Saturday. A Massachusetts accident buried a Lonsdale victim at Olneyville Sunday. A Groton hunter killed a 250 pound seal on Pine Island.
A thrilling story of Mexican ranch life by Maurice Kingsley titled Tio Joan will appear in Hansen's Magazine for February. Frederic Remington provides several striking illustrations for the feature.
A Jamaqua freight on the headlog road near Shamokin Pennsylvania broke a wheel causing a wreck that damaged fifteen cars. A Shamokin coal train then collided with the debris destroying four more cars and the engine.
An op ed humorous line imagines Jay Gould living to Vanderbilt oil age and amassing 600 million dollars, claiming he would own a first mortgage on the earth and be first president of the Milky Way Rapid Transit company, a facetious measure of wealth.
Mrs Catharine Sharp widow of John G Sharp a soldier of the war of 1812 died in Philadelphia Sunday within two weeks of her 115th birthday She was described as the oldest pensioner on the rolls of the United States government
Senator Proctor will introduce a bill establishing a great National University in Washington under government control, reviving a long-held idea that was a pet hobby of his predecessor, Senator Edmunds, for many years.
Julian Ralph’s second South paper to appear in Harper’s Magazine February titled New Orleans, our Southern Capital. It promises a graphic city portrait with entertaining observations on social and commercial life, fully illustrated by W I Smedly.
A twenty four inch gauge MKA railroad begins construction in North Carolina from Hot Springs near the Tennessee line to Laurel River twenty four miles away. It will traverse rugged terrain and farming districts to extract timber from about seventy thousand acres, with a mogul engine built for the line.
A travel diary recounts a German Black Forest peasant wedding reached by lane from a village inn. The couple greet strangers warmly, with a lavender wedding favor, ale and wine, a five piece brass band, and lively dance led by Anton the driver. A four leaf clover story ends the vignette with a cautionary note from a gendarme about trespassing signs.
Rev James Sibree’s account to the Royal Geographical Society details Antananarivo’s transformation from a straw and wattle settlement to a bustling capital. The hilltop city now boasts stone and brick buildings, impressive palaces, a high court, and extensive missionary schools educating about one hundred thousand children, with commerce and governance centered in the heart of Madagascar.
The card describes a German Christmas season from Golden Sunday through New Year. Fraulein’s gesture about gold slipping away, crowded shop windows, lively street booths, nativity figures, and seasonal foods like sausages and matzah. Adults and children exchange gifts, sing carols, and partake in customs. A New Year’s Eve church service, hot punch, and a candle boat fortune game close out the festive week.
As the clock neared midnight we gathered to toast the New Year. Germans and friends exchanged warm embraces and kisses with near pathetic fervor. We stepped onto the balcony and heard wishes from distant houses and a street below as the starry sky spoke back with the cry Prosit Neujahe.
Candlamas Day coming next Thursday and the Bristol Whist Club ball at the G A R Hall. The January thaw follows a long cold spell. Union Defenders day on February 13. Rev W S Woodworth to preach at Advent Church. Col Samuel Norris departed for New York and Liverpool aboard the Majestic. Wampanoag Encampment officers installed. Mr and Mrs Henry F Card celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary at 143 High Street with many gifts. R D Palmateer, Waterford NY, long editor of Waterford Advertiser, now supplies material for another column advertisement.
The sale and exchange of tickets for reserved seats for the Concert in the Lpworth League Lecture Course at the Town Hall on February 9 begins at McNay's room this Saturday morning at 8 o clock. Tickets cost 35 cents.
A prairie chicken feather cloak from the far west will be shown at the coming Exposition. The five foot shoulder wrap uses delicate feathers from one bird, bordered with otter fur, representing ten years of work. The piece highlights home-made handicraft and royal prestige. The Press offers to pay travel for fifty teachers to the World's Fair in Chicago, covering lodging and meals. Also noted is a quartet music arrangement by Isaac Doues, priced at 10 cents.
Harrer & Brothers near completion of several fiction works including William Black's Wolfenberg a short story collection A Golden Wedding and Other Stories Ruth Mclinery Stuart Katharine North by Maria Louise Pool Lime and Revenges by David Christie Murray From One General on to Another by Henry Seton Merriman The New Peterson February issue features improved illustrations and an array of stories and articles such as The Evolution of comic Opera La Perdida by Gertrude Atherton Art in Mikado Land by Robert B Graham One Clergyman and One Suburban Serving-Maid by Joseph Kirkland Annagal Jane Perkins Her Skull by Dufield Osborne and more with departments by Minot J Savage Mary E Mumford Ella Higginson and others Subscription two dollars per year Petensus Magazine Co Philadelphia
Harper's Magazine February to include a historically rich article by John B. Shiples on Bristol during its peak in the age of Cabot. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, the piece links the old British port to early English discoveries of the Western Continent, offering American readers special context.
Severe weather helps shrink general business across branches while winter stocks clear and spring orders rise. Domestic trade stays above last year, yet exports drop in three weeks of January to 8 592 861 from New York, imports stay heavy with 3 919 130 more than last year. Markets jittered by Congress actions including anti option and inter state pooling act repeal debates amid easy money and rising collections complaints.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore of Melrose Mass gave the third Epworth League course lecture in Town Hall on Thursday evening. The subject was A Dream of To-morrow. A chorus of about twenty singers directed by John B. Pollock accompanied the program. The audience filled the lower floor and praised the lecture and singing with heavy applause.
It pledges invigorating effects from a blood enriching tonic as comfort for enduring cold weather. The copy frames past sufferings as forgotten and promotes the product as superior medicine from Ayer's.
In the presence of Rev HWA Stevens Buffintonoo of Warren and Bristol witnessed Frances Spooner daughter of Wisin Elo. Also Wheaton Wilkisson at Bradford Wheaton and Peter Pode tera of Briato witnessed in a related ceremony with G McClellan.
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