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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1869
Page
2
A 19th century reflection on city life warns that urban bustle erodes health, morality, and family life. It argues that the metropolis corrupts religion, promotes vice, and strains both body and mind as crowds chase wealth and fast living. The piece cautions that rapid urban wealth exacts a moral price.
The Belfast Age notes winterkilling thinning shore town grasses to two thirds of last year while interior towns see better crops nearly as heavy as last year. Potatoes and grain look fine, corn remains small and backward, and fruit prospects are unusually good.
The Providence Journal notes two thirds of U S prints come from New England with Massachusetts and New Hampshire printing up to 95 000 weekly. New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania total about 90 000 weekly. Three large firms could print half the national output. The great Methodist camp meeting at Roundlake New York drew 12 000 on Sunday. Kentucky wheat crop expected to exceed previous years.
July 10 1869 Boston plans outline a national musical organization to unite societies under a common head. Two delegates from each society would attend a convention at Music Hall on September 22 1869 to draft a constitution and elect officers. The movement aims to foster musical taste and moral improvement across the country. Philadelphia burglary reported with extensive theft and packed items carried away by thieves' wagons during the early hours.
Portland reports say a thunder storm struck the Ford dwelling at Porter injuring none but fatally killing Charles W Day in a room where lightning struck overhead. In Cornish the Chick house was hit killing Orin Chick and Miss Annie Eastman as the bolt ran down the chimney into a lower room where four children were sheltered.
telegram from Mobile reports the death of William Jeffers of Pawtucket after he fell from a hotel window in Mobile. son of William Jeffers, a noted engine maker, aged about forty, left a wife and three children. He had gone to Mobile two weeks earlier with a steamer built at the family manufactory.
Hempstead Long Island town owns about 7500 acres of unimproved land along the Long Island Railroad twenty miles from New York. A T Stewart offers 412500 for the tract and says in a letter he would spend millions to parcel the lands for settlers and erect buildings to attract a desirable population and taxpayers.
In Tompkinsville on Tuesday morning a drunk shoe maker named Juln Roach cut the throat of his employer's twelve year old daughter Emma Halington and then killed himself with the same knife. Both died. Roach is said to have been drinking at the time.
Bishop Rendall has settled in Colorado and serves as rector of St. John's Church in Denver, assuming duties after moving west.
The Rutland Herald reports Vermont sheep farmers face a long downward wool market. First quality wool averages 38 cents per pound, leaving half of last summer’s clip unsold and many secondary clips undisposed. Much wool remains stored on farms and would fetch fifty cents. farmers sell sheep at low prices to invest elsewhere, causing broader hardships.
The Ctica Herald critiques Andrew Johnson after a Tennessee college address. It argues that had education been available to the nation’s youth and especially the black population, the country might have avoided parts of his public life. The piece urges funding and rudimentary schooling for every youth.
A cable telegram reports growing political agitation in Lisbon and government efforts to prevent an outbreak amid nearby Spanish upheaval. Observers note Portugal’s proximity to Spain and the potential for contagion.
Eight years ago Western New York leaders debated a railroad to California. One man bet another $100 that a rail line would reach San Francisco within ten years. A written agreement was signed, and the skeptic must pay if the goal is not met.
The Glasgow Chronicle reports an annexation movement forming at Durham on the fifth inst and notes rising annexation sentiment nationwide. The trend crosses both Confederate and anti Confederate factions, with reliable information from various regions confirming widespread growth.
Two passenger locomotives built by William Mason in Taunton will depart this morning for Sacramento over the Pacific railroad under steam. They are the longest such engines ever sent this way in the United States. The trip will be conducted by Frank Leavitt and William Winchester.
A late session rule in the Providence Conference requires every candidate for membership to affirm abstinence from tobacco during the trial period and to pledge future abstinence, allowing tobacco only for medicinal purposes. This has sparked some excitement among tobacco-chewing brethren.
A severe wind and hail storm struck Lake Lincoln and West Fork townships in Iowa last Friday morning. Hundreds of trees were uprooted and numerous glass panes broken. The new Methodist church in Lincoln township was toppled, and Rev. Mr Hamilton, sleeping alone, was not knocked senseless for several hours.
A novelty marabont parasol covered entirely with down evokes a snow bank carried over the bead and draws curiosity as a quirky fashion item.
A wide array of brief items reports on travel and shipping milestones, political notes, local curiosities, crimes, weather, and cultural tidbits. Mentioned are Capt Lott of the Cunard steamship Russia, Newport social scenes, temperance in Maryland, cholera cases in New York, and rail accidents near Boston.
The Cincinnati Times reports on a proposed renaming of national ships by Secretary Borie and notes Congress alone can authorize a ship’s new name. A Bridgeport street encounter features a boy and a dog with a muzzle prompting a quip about hoops skirts.
Local report notes two baseball games scheduled on the Common next Tuesday. Details on teams or start times are unclear in the fragment.
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