14 Jun 1879
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1879
Page
1
A poem speaks of loved ones lost and the afterlife. It contrasts grief with the belief that beauty endures and darlings live in the summer land beyond the sea. The verses describe yearning, vanished hands guiding toward a heavenly home.
A July veranda gathering at Miss Isabella Spooner’s home centers on Mrs. Montgomery Montague, a charming widow, and her imagined blue eyed boy. The group fawns over her poetry and charm until Wellington October reveals the widow’s ruse, exposing no child and a Chicago pork pie maker’s wife. Captivated by hope, Captain Hottop proposes, but truth unmasks the hoax.
A Rome anniversary on April 2 marks 2632 years since Romulus founded the city. The Forum glows with Bengal lights in red and green, while the Colosseum remains off limits due to excavations. Spectators from Rome and abroad view the illuminated Forum, recalling Julius Caesar Augustus and Marc Antony once treading the Sacra Via.
A concise Mothers guidance recommends Dr Bull's Baby Syrup for any babyhood disorders and urges immediate use. The advertisement lists a price of 25 cents and frames the product as a remedy to common baby ailments.
A collection of aphorisms contrasts wicked living with fear and duty. It argues dissipation harms the mind, warns against surrendering liberty for safety, and reflects on happiness, temper, and the value of tenderness in women. It frames passion as unruly and tenderness as noble.
In Ballintogher Ireland a bishop tests a boy during confirmation and jokes about creation. The boy, Roger Mulroony, later becomes a famed professor of mathematics and philosophy at the College of Ballintogher Stratford Times records his remarkable transformation from a joking youth to a bright genius.
In Paisley about fifty years ago an eccentric precentor named Anderson swapped pulpits with a wealthy church to test a genteel congregation. He announced lack of tune in three attempted hymns and finally prompted the audience to sing after trying a fourth tune.
At a London annual tea and supper for Pastor's College supporters Mr Spurgeon recalls enemies once numerous but now quieter. He notes letters of sorrow from church leaders and high churchmen, praising him despite his harsh assessments. He says praise lowers him while abuse raises his spirit in confrontations.
A newspaper correspondent describes the Supies, a 350 strong isolated Indian tribe near Colorado with a fertile Cataract Valley. The cliffed 3000 foot trail limits access, yet the Supies are pastoral traders, raising corn and livestock and sharing blanket commerce with Zunis and others, using sacred bonds and buckskins for payments.
A letter from Wheeler Martin to the Providence Journal recalls the May 19 1780 Dark Day in New England noting the unusually forward spring but correcting a New York writer’s claim about April. He describes candlelight at 11, the roosting fowls, yellow green grass seen through smoke, and a family Bible verse read by candlelight. The piece also recounts northern lights, the great December 1779January 1780 snow event with four feet of snow and eight to ten foot drifts, sea freezes, and residents freezing to death during that harsh winter.
A Russian cavalry general, famed for concealing his identity, hosts a surprising dinner near Husum. He invites a miller and wife, learns of his supposed elder brother, and then reveals himself as the long‑lost sibling. The tale ends with the general proudly guiding his soldiers to the mill and their birthplace.
The Boston tran script notes a winter act by several young ladies from a South End church who led a sewing school at the Children's Mission on Tremont street. After a season of music and singing, they treated the girls to oranges, cake, and candy, prompting a pupil to exclaim heaven is like this.
A humorous plea poems a newspaper printer to not suspend delivery citing tight budgets and the need to stay informed. The piece links a subscription and prompt weekly paper to social standing and daily life, concluding with a mock digression about court dwarfs and historical curiosities.
A couple on the Hand-street Bridge feigned a suicide to avoid toll, after the young man claimed the woman aimed to die by her own hand. The toll-keeper and police were deceived, papers ran with sensational detail, but the pair crossed the bridge safely.
In a Court Journal column a humorous Army anecdote recounts General Roberts capturing a Mongul so dirty that two Tommy Atkinses scrubbed him with brushes and black soap for two hours. They stopped in disgust, realizing the Afghan had another suit of clothes after all.
Gov. Gear of Iowa declined to grant a pardon to a convicted rum seller, expressing sympathy for Newton but emphasizing the harm whisky brings to wives and children and stating the petition cannot be granted.
The notice outlines advertising rates and terms: one inch for one week costs one dollar, with each extra week adding twenty five cents. Twelve lines nonpariel type equals one inch. Special notices before marriages and deaths double rate. Transient ads must be prepaid, yearly contracts offered on reasonable terms, yearly advertisers limited to their immediate business, and ads must be handed in by Thursday noon for next issue.
The Citadel of St Petersburg, nicknamed Petropaulovskaya Krepost, sits opposite the Winter Palace on the Neva on a marsh island. It housed many state criminals including Munnich, Biron, Ivan V, and Princess Tarakanoff who, by tradition, drowned during the 1824 flood. A tiny hut nearby is claimed as Peter the Great’s first house, built in 1701. The fortress church marks where Romanovs have been buried since the 1700s, except Peter the Great who rests in Moscow. Each spring a commander crosses the river to the Winter Palace, presenting a silver cup to the czar who fills it with silver.
A humorous anecdote recounts Arthur O Shaughnessy, protege of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, who sat on rare South American butterflies. He glued wings to bodies, creating new species and provoking scholarly uproar before Bulwer intervened. The incident led him to study natural history seriously and become a respected curator.
Cor. of N Y Tribune praises San Antonio for its cosmopolitan mix of nationalities, German influence, well run city, good police and schools, and comfortable social life for Northern families, noting military presence enhances cultured social environment.
In a Nashville Tennessee home a five year old girl Louise with black eyes and golden hair asks Miss Annie for citron after seeing she shared treats. The mother warns against begging yet Louise climbs upstairs to convey a desire and ends up with citron. The vignette comes from the Nashville American.
Benjamin Singleton known as Pap Singleton leads the exodus movement. Described as a small mulatto man with gray hair, he was born a slave in Nashville, worked as a cabinet maker, and endured over a dozen sales before escaping. He fled to Canada, then Detroit where he ran a boarding house and refuge for fugitive slaves during the war.
The St. Clair Courier cites a New York analysis by Prof. Chandler finding no objectionable content in Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Sage's Catarrh Remedy. It defends the inventor against the label quack and notes the English Press endorses and recommends these family medicines for firm satisfaction.
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