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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1875
Page
1
A Clifton Bank night break in on January 10 yields thirty thousand dollars stolen. A detective follows a diamond clue to a jewelers and a ring displaying a missing stone leads to Emily Baker. The cashier, driven by gambling debts, confesses after arrest and reveals the plan.
A reader quips that a man takes borrowing too far by asking for our esis, implying an overreach in seeking help or credit. The remark uses terse humor to critique impractical demands and questions the limits of lending.
A concise meditation on how love narratives unfold through brief letters rather than long prose. The piece reflects on intimate communication as a potent record of relationships across time.
A miscellany note reflects on human traits and morality. It suggests those who chase praise less deserve it and proposes that early piety may lead to early death. The piece advocates condemning bad traits by practicing good deeds.
A farmer's family and friends are shocked by his laziness and by the contrast with the abundant yield of his wheat and barley. The piece urges readers to scatter benefits and even to spread flowers for fellow travelers in this wonderful world.
The quote reflects on death as less terrible than a heartbreak caused by estrangement in a once loving relationship, where memories linger as former feelings fade and sympathy dissolves. It contrasts final loss with the fading bond between two people who once shared deep understanding.
The sea is described as the largest cemetery where sleep is undistinguished by rank or wealth. All graveyards elsewhere show symbols of distinction, but the ocean makes kings, princes, and peasants equal in death.
A reflection on honesty as a deep guiding principle rather than a convenient policy. It asserts that true honesty comes from the inmost soul and resists petty fraud even when bigger gains depend on it.
A compact reflection on how gentle, holy words in everyday talk plant seeds of goodness. The speaker likens them to seeds carried by birds that later bloom in barren places, bringing beauty to a lonely landscape.
A reflective line explains that a man’s spirit stays restless unless engaged in noble pursuits. It argues knowledge strengthens the mind and preserves the heart’s purity, warning indolence leads to mean, low endeavors.
A poetic reflection on the power of smiling to brighten life, comparing a smile to twilight between laughter and sobriety and labeling a face unable to smile as incomplete, like a bud that cannot blossom.
The text warns against counting on friends or ancestral name for success. It urges reliance on one's own exertions and asserts that unwavering determination paired with decisive character outperforms even the best friend. It cautions that many waste youth hoping for help from others and that wealth alone does not avert hardship.
The passage reflects on how childlike thoughts fade with time and how unconscious learning forms most knowledge. It notes we recall learning to read and write but not learning to speak or distinguish colors. It asks who can recall the first intentionally concealed thought, marking it as a pivotal life epoch.
A moral reflection on the cruelty of flaunting wealth to the poor. It condemns entertaining topics when addressing the indigent and criticizes boasting about health, houses, and land in the presence of those lacking basic comforts. The piece urges compassion over ostentation.
A lady with eleven children speaks of the next world while a skeletal stocking basket becomes a haunting symbol in her room. She quips that stocking duties may end after midnight as a servant jokes about barefoot pictures of Angela.
A reflection on flowers contrasting glittering blooms with rich color and shallow sweetness to sober, purer blossoms. The essay argues some people resemble flashy flowers lacking intrinsic sweetness, while others offer genuine harmony and worth through true cultivation of character.
A historical sketch recalls Frederick of Prussia favoring unions between the two sexes to form giants, with anecdotes of mismatched marriages and social pressures. The piece argues common sense warns against class and caste breaches, urging marriage within one’s social circle.
A lyrical reflection on a garret as a graveside of memories. The narrator lists relics of a faded life a cradle, bedstead, chair, wool reel, portmanteaus, and a spinning wheel, all symbols of past ages and vanished occupants. The portrait blends decay with hint of past rituals.
A writer recounts a foundling sparrow rescued as a fledgling and nursed by a servant girl. The bird grew with the family reaching three to four years, returning daily to feed from the nurse’s mouth and visiting up to 237 times in a single day to take sustenance for its broods.
The Christian Union praises the Hue brothers printers for training their apprentices with a full course of study in their factory recitation room. The approach laws labor rights rhetoric by teaching skills, reducing barroom hours, and curbing skilled-labor shortages. Apprentices become capable constructors and inventors, repaying education costs.
Lieu tenant B stationed at Gibraltar on guard notes in his report nothing extraordinary since guard mounting after a fellow officer falls to his death from a 400 foot precipice. He defends the line saying if the fall had not killed him he would have found it extraordinary and would have written it.
A twofold paper spread, sandwiched with calico or chintz, offers a light alternative to heavy bedding. Made from soft paper, it is placed between the blanket and counterpane for warmth this hard winter.
A Charlestown state prison convict carved a pair of tiny ivory hands with red rose between the thumb and forefinger. Each shows cuffs with sleeve buttons and black ivory dress pieces, worn as charms. The pieces sold for two dollars to fund books and pamphlets, a plan the prisoner preferred to involve the state.
Samuel Lover cites bulls arising from word misuse and misidentification in Irish anecdotes. He parades cases from a watchman’s evidence to a girl approving a lover’s miniature, noting limited knowledge and wartime price shifts as humorous causes.
An old saying notes that character does not depend on diet. The ass eats harsh, prickly plants like thistles and nettles, yet remains the dullest of animals. This vivid image contrasts nourishment with intellect.
A concise remark arguing that every defense of liquor drinking mirrors the drinker’s downfall. The line presents a moral stance about temperance and self-discipline without additional context or attribution.
An editor declares that if he cannot find anyone to credit a two word boast, he may fairly boast that he has no creditors. This quip highlights the editor’s self reliance and sharp tongue amid modest wealth or debt concerns.
The record states that hydrophobia has never been known to occur in Cyprios and Egypt, indicating a historical absence of the disease in these regions or populations.
A historical note cites Dr de Bellesme describing a scorpion captured and exposed to concentrated sunlight. The insect allegedly enraged, raised its sting, and killed itself within about thirty seconds, challenging the myth that scorpions cannot self-inflict lethal wounds.
A Paris shop reports annual sales reaching half a million pairs of wooden shoes, highlighting the enduring demand for traditional footwear in the city.
The report notes both William Shakespeare and Raphael died on the anniversary of their births, linking the two historic figures by this coincidence and reflecting on their enduring literary and artistic legacies.
Rates for notices are set at 1.00 per square for a week and 0.03 per square for each additional insertion. Twelve lines or less equal 4 squares. Special notices for marriages and deaths cost double. Transient ads paid in advance. Yearly contracts offered on reasonable terms. Yearly advertisers limited to their own editorial business. Ads must be submitted by Thursday noon for next issue. Obituaries and political notices charged as advertisements.
The Journal of Chemistry laments neglect of farm implements costly machines like mowing and threshing gear rusting in winter. It urges annual care, winter storage, and a farmers' society with power to seize neglected tools on any premises to prevent waste and preserve useful property.
A recent English writer argues lime in the body causes early gray hair and urges avoiding hard water for drinking and in tea coffee or soup. He suggests softening water by boiling and cooling it as a beverage. He also offers a hair dye mixture of one part dark rum three parts olive oil and one part brandy to be washed in each morning, claimed to turn hair black safely.
Public laws of January session 1875 chapter 435 amend Section 29 Chapter 230 of the General Statutes. It adds that breaking down injuring or destroying monuments markers lines or grades on town lands or streets is punishable by up to one year in jail or a fine up to five hundred dollars. Repeals all inconsistent acts. Takes effect on passage. Joshua M. ADDemnax, Secretary of State.
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