14 Mar 1874
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1874
Page
1
A devotional meditation on trusting God through loss and pain. The speaker faces trials and unanswered cries, yet resolves to accept divine guidance. Despite sorrow and detours, the text affirms faith in God’s sovereign purpose and grace as the traveler presses forward.
Mrs Hubbard plans an elegant surprise anniversary party for Sinclair Hubbard inviting society’s first names. She orders diamonds flowers and music while keeping him unaware. The scheme hinges on secrecy with Delmonico’s supper and Dodworth’s band ready for the evening reveal.
Mrs. Hubbard schemes to conceal a ruse from her husband Sinclair as three parlour staff giggle over a secret plan. The suspense builds during preparations for a five o'clock dinner and a late arrival of flowers and guests.
A couple hosts a lavish gathering powered by a misread surprise. Lizzie Hubbard and Sinclair Hubbard discover their guests and decor were sourced for both, as the uninvited mingle with invited friends and a chaotic dining room showdown ends in shared laughter and extra tips for staff.
A miscellany note extols charity as a blessing when it reaches humble places and urges copying virtuous traits seen in rivals. The passage praises observing superior qualities to imitate them and avoid faults.
A Channing message extols earnest fanaticism as more vital than cold rationality, asserting it stirs the soul's springs and quickens love reverence awe fear hope and joy rather than remaining detached and uninvolved.
A speaker argues the best gift is fostering independence in children. Education without this aim is of little value and money can become either curse or blessing. The core message is to give children enduring personal assets no one can take.
A short moral exhortation urges friendly greetings and sharing happiness. It advises smiling at familiar faces and spreading sunshine and flowers rather than hoarding joy, suggesting generosity of spirit improves neighbors and the community.
The excerpt warns excitable persons to avoid anger and not ignite dangers like gunpowder. It likens temper to ammunition, saying keeping calm under provocation reduces risk and builds resistance, a Beecher quote about self restraint.
A Scientific American excerpt argues that real thinking is active, organized work and criticizes teachers for not teaching study skills. It laments the rise of memorization as a substitute for understanding and warns that poor training yields wandering, slovenly minds unless mentored by capable educators.
Correspondent reports at the Republican state convention in Dallas Texas where Benjamin Williams a colored preacher known for calling out to his audience with Come to the rock is praised for his eloquence and leadership delivering a stabilizing speech in a moment of convention disorder. He is likened to Robert Collyer for his earnest dramatic style and is seen as a figure whose quiet life may yield meaningful results.
Henry Ward Beecher argues that all living beings belong to the Lord and deserve happiness. He urges teaching children to respect insects and other life forms, noting science expands humane regard for the under realm. An Irish woman counsels keeping a pig for companionship when lonely.
The essay argues that each person should resemble a bee cell with a soft connected side and a strong edge. People must be faithful and loving in every social role. Do not let selfish sharp corners pierce fellow humans on life’s crowded path.
The essay defines happiness as a deep interior state, not mere luck, and argues that true contentment requires a mind actively engaged through varied, meaningful work. Humboldt contends that individuals alone control their life’s value and must cultivate moral and intellectual growth to avert inner voids.
A Boston sailor preacher named Father Taylor is celebrated for lavish generosity. His daughter recounts a year when he gave away a fifty dollar bank note to a poor brother, returning without a receipt and trying to justify the act to his wife and herself. Her mother confronted him as he failed to prove the bill receipted. He claimed he met a needy superannuated brother and could not ask for change.
The ruling vice in Japan is drunkenness. It pervades all classes and is policed by public opinion, mainly affecting men. On the festival day of the third month women drink freely in harems, while lower-class women risk severe beating. upper-class women face worse consequences. The only liquor is sake, rice distilled, weaker than Chinese variants and sometimes adulterated with poisonous distillate. It is taken warm and some varieties are but not unpleasant. Most Japanese are unfit for evening business, and streets in Yeddo become unsafe in the afternoon due to drunken retainers.
Hitter of Advertising details rates for insertions at $1.00 per square for one week, 25 cents per square for each additional insertion. twelve lines equal one square. Special notices before marriages and deaths double. Transient ads paid in advance. yearly contracts on reasonable terms. Yearly advertisers limited to immediate business. Ads due Thursday noon for next issue. Obituaries and political notices charged as ads.
A suggested insecticide uses hot alum water to destroy red and black ants cockroaches spiders chintz bugs and other crawling pests. Dissolve two pounds of alum in three to four quarts of boiling water apply nearly boiling hot to joints crevices and shelves and add alum to lime whitewash to deter insects. A continuous chalk ring around sugar containers also repels ants.
Edward King in Scribner's extols Texas as a land of vast coal, copper, iron, and mineral riches. He notes 20,000,000 acres of cotton lands and strong agricultural potential. The piece praises Texas as a refuge after revolution, a stabilizing force for the United States, with future commercial power via a Gulf-facing route and a Pacific corridor.
An 1874 act amends chapter 189 to allow venire writs for extra jurors in term time. Jurors paid per day and mileage at ten cents per mile. travel from the summoning place. Act takes effect on passage, repealing inconsistent previous laws.
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