Bristol Phoenix in Bristol, Rhode Island

A Mixed Bag of Early 19th Century News

The column surveys a wide-ranging mix of items from crime to science and society. It notes mackerel bait uses, a dramatic rise in coal deliveries, large cod catches near Block Island, and a deadly accident in Fall River. It also reports on floods of soup in Newport, a Dutch hotel clerk, a buried barn, and a Missouri murderer's confession offer. It covers church statistics, a Rhode Island fair plan, a child’s drowning in Portland, a Marshfield murder, wild basshoppers near Salt Lake, a Keokuk baseball mishap, a self-inflicted death in Alabama, clergy totals, a hasty East Rochester marriage, a printer’s suicide, Western anti-poverty sentiment, and a Fort Benton Sioux war denial. It closes with fire in Kemptville, frontier arms in Minnesota, Dolly Varden fashion, Seconnet Point trade, goats repelling rats, Jane Parker’s death from poisoning fears, and a bank robbery that yielded a net loss after security recovered.