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Bristol Phoenix

Location

Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America

Date

Jul 22, 1882

Page

2

Terrific storm damages Pittsburg with fatalities

A severe wind and rain storm hit Pittsburg Pennsylvania on July 17 causing widespread destruction including fallen fences and trees roof damage to homes and injuries to several people. One man died as a result of the incident.

Pittsburg

Mrs Lincoln Dies in Springfield After Illness

Mrs Lincoln widow of the late President Lincoln died in Springfield on Sunday night after a long illness. She suffered a paralysis shock Saturday evening and remained in a comatose state until death.

Lincoln President Lincoln Springfield

Liberal fusion ticket endorsed by Alabama Republicans

In Alabama the Republican party supports the Greenback and Independent fusion State ticket forming a union of Liberal elements against the Bourbons. The color line is fully abolished and Republicans back a liberal movement led by native white ex Confederates to secure fair emissions, free schools, and protection of life property and political rights.

Alabama Republician Party Fusion

Interior Department swamped by 800 clerk applicants

The Interior Department in Washington faces a flood of 800 clerk applicants to Secretary Teller. Applicants, old and young, grave and gay, fill the waiting room as the secretary refuses personal interviews and directs seekers to file their applications.

Interior Department Washington Teller

Grecian Legends and Daily Life from Ancient Greece

A BRISTOL PHENIX item recounts ancient Greek contributions to literature philosophy and art, noting Homer Sappho Pindar and dramatists, philosophers like Aristotle and Socrates, and describing public games, education, marriage norms, attire, and daily meals across four meals a day and veiled women with scarlet and purple dress.

Bristol Phenix Greece Homer Sappho Pindar Mechylus Euripides Sophocles Menander Thucydides Isocrates Demosthenes Herodotus Xenophon Pythagoras Plato Aristotle Zeno Epicurus Socrates Ita Rivera

New York Letter Reports Crime and Unrest Across 1882 City

From Our Own Correspondent dated July 18 1882 details diverse urban issues in New York including an elderly mariner turned janitor who devised a gas pipe fishing line machine to steal hundreds, dismissals of two failing tellers, illicit pool selling moving to Long Island City with ongoing conflict, a burglar alarm misfires ending with a goat, a theft spree at Hon Hugh Hastings’s bank and a bank watchman, and foreign politics sparking stock market indifference. It notes Egyptian intrigue affecting markets, potential conflict from strikes, immigrant labor tensions with Italians arming and clashes resulting in drownings, militia training near Beecherville, westward migration, and a Kansas land offer to attract settlers. Ravix.

New York Tom Gotham Long Island City East River Bluecoats Hugh Hastings Commercial Advertiser Egypt Beecherville Hudson Times Kansas Ravix

Notable Women Across States Highlight Progress and Activity

A round of brief notices features Mrs. Mary Jones who helped arm soldiers at New Orleans dying in Baton Rouge. Ada M. Bittenbender heads Nebraska suffrage columns, Miss Mattie Evans earned over 350 dollars in railroad case work, and Oscar Wilde’s engagement rumor is said to be unfounded. Mrs. Furnas reports silk worm success in Nebraska while Margaret Campbell promotes suffrage and lecturing. Mary McGill runs Oswego Kans daily and weekly papers. Violetta Swearenger is invited to speak for Madison County tax paying women at the courthouse cornerstone ceremony August 1. The R B Hayes painting is placed in the green parlor, and Roy notes temperance women’ voting power alarms liquor interests.

Mary Jones Oscar Wilde George Furnas Brownville Nebraska Margaret W. Campbell Massachusetts American Korean Suffrage Association Mary McGill Oswego, Kansas Violetta Swearenger Anderson Ind Madison County New Court House

Address by Col Daniel R Ballou on Decoration Day 1882

Limited printed copies of Col Daniel R Ballou's Bristol Rhode Island address from Decoration Day May 80th 1882 remain at Wm H Buffington drug store. Copies available at small expense. The pamphlet includes the Roll of Honor read that day.

Daniel R. Ballou Providence Town Hall Bristol R. I Wm. H. Buffington

Supreme Court session on Bristol water supply lands

A special session of the Supreme Court for Bristol county will be held in the Court House this morning at 103 o'clock to hear the taking of lands and rights for a water supply for Bristol and Warren. The hearing covers diverting and damming water, piping to mains, and appointing commissioners to appraise damages to current landowners.

Joseph Tradell Mott’s Lane School Street No. 2 Justice Court Supreme Court Bristol County Trudell Court House Bristol Warren

Prize scheme with scattered figures and prizes

Fragmented OCR notes list various prize amounts and counts with mixed symbols and letters. Several figures appear as D. 2000, 2,000, 1,600, 900, 20, 000, and totals like Prizes D25,000 2,873 Blanks. No coherent story, but indicates prize distribution details and blanks.

Daniel Bradford Ee Royal Dimand William Throop Jun E Lemuel W. Briggs Charles Shaw Plymouth

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