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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1869
Page
1
In 1821 Captain John Buckson of Seekonk Rhode Island faces murder charges after his wife Nancy Buckson is found strangled and buried in a forest grave. A shipboard arrest follows as circumstantial evidence mounts, with Buckson denying guilt until a spectral return hints at his wife’s return.
Eighteen years after a woman vanished and a body was found, investigators conclude the cottage housed a burglary and possible murder by accomplices. The body’s clothing and jewelry matched Mrs Buckson, though no definitive identification or murderer has emerged. Rumors linked the crime to Englishman Collins and his wife, but lack of solid evidence prevents closure.
Moral exhortation to mothers on shaping a child's destiny through daily conduct, words, and examples. It compares a mother’s influence to writing eternal truths on a child’s mind, noting impressions endure beyond time and even death. Emphasizes prayerfulness and seriousness in upbringing for heaven and immortality.
A历史 account recounts six to six hundred years ago on the Thames island meadow at Runnymede where Iron-clad friends of freedom met King John and won Magnaharta the great charter of liberty. It says the clause promises no arrest or punishment without legal judgment of peers or law, stressing habeas corpus as a cornerstone of constitutional rights defended through bloodshed and parliamentary acts.
Two young brothers in western New York owned a silver bull's eye watch gifted by their father. They split custody and the key, and to wind it they overhauled the watch until it stopped. They removed a hair curled inside, thinking it the fault, but the watch remained broken and the memory endures.
The passage critiques vanity in judging others, noting some compare themselves to rivals with distorted, green tinted view. It argues true assessment requires self forgetfulness and impersonal regard, while some people insist on superiority and seek subservient peers instead of equal peers.
Peter Cartwright, long serving Methodist Episcopal elder, writes from Pleasant Pros about his jubilee and discharge from labor before Lincoln conference. He recalls his wife born August 8 and their sixty-one years of traveling life, noting lack of disciplinary support yet preferring his hardships to anything else.
The passage extols systematic observation as a practical knowledge source. It notes observation aids in guiding behavior, supporting family life, preventing errors, easing discomforts, and remedying defects. It argues for its indispensability to business, society, and especially statesmanship for wise administration.
The piece celebrates the human hand as a tool given by God to do much more than other creatures. It notes twenty nine small bones and joints that open and close, highlighting how hands can hold carry lift pull pick dig wash sew write wring knit and countless other tasks, urging against idleness.
Reports from sea soundings describe a vast continuous bottom mass at great depths, regarded as a single animal covering miles. It is thought to be the globe’s lowest life stage, subsisting directly from minerals, with names like Bathybias proposed in speculation.
A poor dejected youth watches anglers on a bridge and longs for fish to sell. An old fisherman offers a deal to land his line in exchange for a short favor. The youth learns to seize opportunity, casting for himself rather than wishing for luck.
Rural notes report a Winds grower Mr W Bailes describes a lime treatment to peach trees infested by borers. He observed blossoms and fruit set despite early leaf issues, applied lime around the stem and soil, and noted improved fruit ripening. He prefers spring application before growth but allows timing flexibly.
A historical note details an early method to stupefy bees using chloroform placed near hives. A table stands ten feet away with a shallow dish of chloroforne then covered to prevent bee falls. After about twenty minutes the bees lie stupefied on the table while the hive is treated and later replaced, with bees recovering without apparent harm.
A Prairie Farmer writer urges focus on corn variety improvements arguing that prioritizing this could yield a hundred million more bushels within three years on current cultivated area. He stresses the need for earlier varieties to boost yields.
The Tur Germantown Telegraph recommends selecting open sun spots for five days exposure to sun, digging deep, and heavily enriching soil with decomposed compost to support roots when surface moisture fails. Small oval beds ten to twelve feet wide with pot towers can yield continuous mass and flowers even in dry summers. Rose beds fare best with few hardy, blooming varieties rather than mixed delicate types. Larger yards allow broader displays of cultivated taste.
A public note recommends a homemade fly killer mix of half a spoonful black pepper one renapositil of cream and a teaspoon sugar. When placed in a troublesome room the mixture is said to chase away house flies, claiming it will not cost much to try.
Market gardeners who seek the most effective manures, regardless of cost, purchase little of putto and bi chemical fertilizers. They rely on compost made from vegetable refuse, creating soil conditions akin to freshly cleared land with dense timber.
A fragmented correspondent's note describes washing cattle with a mixture of soft soap rain water and common salt. It mentions applying the solution by rubbing and hints at effects on livestock and crop growth, though the text is garbled and unclear. The passage references a farmer and observations of plant and shrub growth.
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