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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1870
Page
2
The Bristol Phare comments on Napoleon III and the plebiscite as a calculated move to bind the public to his rule. It warns against liberal division and praises the empire while urging moral and legal reforms, including defense of woman’s dignity and public virtue.
The piece warns that courts increasingly accept insanity pleas in murder, risking a breakdown of law as vigilante justice grows from jealous responses in domestic disputes. It critiques the idea that marriage and woman’s rights undermine vows, urging the law to preserve home rights and social order.
The article notes rising American travel to Yosemite and across the Continent to California. It highlights new books by Fitz Hugh Ludlow Col Meline Street and Dr Hayes from Houghton and Co Cambridge describing exploration and adventures from New Mexico Adirondacks Mount Marcy to polar seas.
This territory, described as rich in iron, coal, gold, silver and copper, with a mixed population around 100,000, is seen as on track to become a state soon.
The revolution spreads nationwide after Barcelona falls. Government forces still control Cero, Maracaibo, Laguayera, and Puerto Cabello seaports while Gen. Blanco presses at Caraceas. President Monagas is anticipated to depart the country.
Two singular clashes arise in Singapore and India as a Malay man buries himself alive seeking prophecy while a king’s similar attempt is thwarted by police. The incidents highlight dramatic pursuits of religious or royal authority.
Three young Chimpen have been sent from New York by the American Missionary Association to Howard University in Washington to complete their education and have renounced paganism.
Navy Department orders two life floats of a new design for each vessel. Each float consists of two rubber cylinders ten feet long and two feet wide, filled with air by a bellows. They are two feet apart with a linked platform and gunwale between them. Each float purportedly holds fifty persons, and will be lashed between two life boats to resist sinking if submerged.
The Sunbeam of Boston was totally destroyed by fire on March 31, seventy miles from Talcahuano while en route from Iquique to New York. Captain Chadwick commanded the 798 ton ship built in 1865 at Chelsea. The crew survived and cargo included copper. ownership lies with A Hemenway of Boston and insured largely on State Street.
A Lawrence Journal correspondent reports Col. A. Payne and M. C. Stapleton of Monticello exchanged threats and weapons after a drinking quarrel. A shot and a knife attack followed in a dark room injuring Stapleton and Payne. both survive but with poor prospects for recovery.
The item notes Mormons meet by moonlight for military drill and town plans plant a vast forest of 5,000,000 trees each year. It mentions other assorted curiosities including stamps with poisonous green ink and various international notes.
Reports from New Haven describe Yale students firing a college outbuilding defacing the chapel. cushions, Bible, and an iron seat were taken or damaged as part of the rowdy incidents that night.
The Bristol Hotel estate on State Street will be offered at auction on Thursday next, 19th inst., at twelve o'clock noon unless previously sold at private sale. The granite walls are going up for another addition to the National Rubber Company's buildings. the new room will measure about 150 by 55 feet.
Footing of the horn at the ash market foot of State street last Tuesday drew lovers of what Tallman of Portsmouth called aristocratic fish, signaling that soup had come.
After years of service the Artillery flagstaff finally fell to last Sunday’s wind. The Providence Warren and Bristol Railroad depot was broken into on Tuesday night and about nine dollars stolen from the ticket office, with fifty dollars left untouched in an envelope. Local groups held elections and installations, including Excursion Corset Bank officers and Bristol Light Infantry leaders, plus I O G T lodge officers installed by Deputy G W C T S A Almy and other posts with names such as Ellery W Greene, Julizg Dunbar, Joseph L Almy, and Mary Redfern.
Real estate transactions list several parcels sold in town for various sums including 2000 and 6500 with buyers and sellers named. The Annual Meeting of the Home for Destitute Children met in Memorial Chapel with Rev I S Jones presiding and remarks from Tiffany and Brownell.
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