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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1873
Page
2
The piece warns that France faces an unsettled future after the resignation of M Thiers and the elevation of Marshal McMahon to the presidency. It accuses monarchists of seeking an imperial restoration to gain absolute power, risking national prosperity and prudent leadership. The author laments foolish self-interest amid political crisis.
A moral call against labor violence and general strikes. The author argues workers lose when tools are laid down and profits shift to capitalists, warning that violence harms both sides and risks retribution. He stresses sympathy for labor but rejects violent methods.
A Halifax letter reports 428 bodies recovered from the Atlantic wreck with 118 passengers unaccounted for. Nearly a dozen cabin passenger bodies remain missing as divers search unexamined state rooms, though no bodies are expected there as passengers reportedly moved to the deck before danger.
The Postmaster General warns that using postal cards for obscene matter is illegal under U S law. Writers face fines from 100 to 5000 dollars for each offense as the practice spreads for notices and messages.
The General Assembly met in Newport with Governor Padelford presiding. In the House Edwin Metcalf was elected Speaker and Lt Governor Van Zandt won a 62 vote majority over Ballou with Turner proposing unanimity. Bristol Warren boundary changes dominated debates as acts passed or postponed.
Henry W. Draton, a Jersey City baker, convicted in the United States District Court at Trenton, has paid 10,000 dollars into court to settle the case.
The Postmaster-General states plans to improve mail service in the South. He intends to upgrade postal car service and increase, possibly double, postal delivery in Southern states to provide better facilities.
The Philadelphia Ledger reports a steady coal trade with strong demand and firm prices. Reading Railroad announces a 10 cent per ton toll increase beginning June 2, aiming to keep prices stable. Port Richmond week shows 44 000 received vs 57 000 shipped, leaving 33 000 on hand. Vessels available. rates steady at 135 to New York, 210 to Providence, 260 to Boston. Delaware and Hudson Canal Company also boosts June tolls by 10 cents per ton.
The essay argues for a nontraditional fiction that avoids standard plot devices and conventional endings. It questions the necessity of marriages deaths and climactic rescues in novels and suggests a radical, life-like alternate approach, referencing Snow Bound as a distant model. It also notes the impracticality of such a work gaining readers but calls for novelty in fiction. Postal Camps. We find in our exchange papers opinions on the postal cards experiment and possible one cent letter postage. The Boston Journal notes cards can be mailed for one cent and suggests letters might follow. It discusses potential increases in postal business and calls for careful watching of the experiment’s results. te President Grant has issued a proclamation sustaining Kellogg in Louisiana.
The Great Tornado in Iowa ranked among the most destructive hurricanes in U S history. It swept away obstacles and forced residents to seek shelter in cellars, underscoring the value of cellars for homes on the open plains of the West where high winds are frequent in spring and summer storms.
A match game at base ball will be played this Saturday afternoon between the first and second lines of the Bristol Base Ball Club.
The ladies of the State Street M E Church announce their annual Strawberry Festival at the Town Hall on Thursday evening in June. Proceeds support church endeavors.
The regular monthly meeting of the Town Council and Court of Probate will be held in the Council Chamber on Monday next at two o'clock in the afternoon.
There will be Y M C A meetings tomorrow at the Asylum at 10:30 AM and on the Common in the evening at 6:00 PM if pleasant.
The body of a seaman who perished off a vessel in Warren river was found afloat about two miles north of Kelley's Bridge on Friday of last week. An inquest was held in Barrington.
Mr Edward Hoffman the pianist and composer begins piano forte instructions in Bristol next Tuesday June 8 continuing to October 1. Terms and further particulars may be learned by application at Easterbrooks News Store.
A large number of citizens rode the Steamer Border City to Newport on Tuesday Election Day and returned home at night pleased with the visit, though a dense fog marred the day.
Measles run through the town mainly mild, with a recent severe case in the south stirring smallpox rumors. Dr. Drury attended the patient and quickly set the matter at rest.
Legislation resolving a long pending dispute between Bristol and Warren has been disposed of as the bill to annex part of Bristol to Warren passed both houses by large majorities.
Messrs M T Bennett Jr Co of Fall River plan to convey coal to this town in barges using elevators built on the same Lawton Coal-mover principle described in an earlier issue.
With spring arriving, lecture bureaus send circulars and Lyceums seek prominent speakers. The Christian Association plans to secure four superior courses for the coming season, signaling an active cultural schedule ahead.
The Congregational Church and the Parish of St Michael's agreed to unite during repairs. Rev Locke led the morning Episcopal service and Rev Lane conducted the afternoon services. The church was well filled at both services.
F Hodgkinson will lecture in Town Hall Sunday evening at 7:30 on The Influence and Operation of the Holy Spirit Biblically considered. The event is free.
Several cargoes of sugar, coal, and other goods are now being discharged at the Phenix Sugar Refining Company wharf, indicating a strong likelihood of a rapid resumption of business at the establishment.
On Tuesday morning children playing in the yard behind the late Mr. Carrington P. Munro's residence on Hope street set rubbish ablaze. The flames reached a wood shed and fence but were quickly put out with a few buckets of water, avoiding a wider alarm.
Fishermen report abundant catches in our harbor waters with shad, bass, squeatly, herring, soup and other varieties. Over a thousand shad were hauled in at once, and tautog are large and plentiful, signaling a strong menhaden season ahead.
James W. May, Esq., a distinguished Charleston lawyer and son of the late John May, died after a long illness in Charleston on the 20th met aged 53. He practiced law before his illness and was considered a promising young man with many sincere friends.
Special commissioners report to the Rhode Island House supports transferring a northern Bristol segment to Warren. Warren would pay Bristol 1500 dollars for the district schoolhouse and gravel lot. Bristol would lose a small border area while retaining soil fertility and scenic value, nicknamed the Queen of the Narragansett.
VERICUS recalls Bishop Cheverus preaching at St Michael's Church in 1817 after Bishop Griswold invited him. The small, cloaked visitor spoke rapidly to a large audience and spent days visiting leading families, amid post 1815 gale and religious revival period and a financial crisis.
The belfry long anchored to the Richmond Manufacturing Company's Steam Mill has been detached and moved to the tower. The operation, described as mid air removal, was completed under the supervision of Henry Munro, the company carpenter, with the belfry now perched atop the new tower.
At a Friday meeting the Zerrahn Choral Union elected F. G. Morley as president W. S. Andem as secretary D. A. Manny as treasurer Hiram Frisbie Jr as librarian and F. G. Morley Samuel Pitman and A. A. Munroe as executive committee for six months. On the following Monday Samuel Pitman was named Musical Director for six months and presented with a black walnut baton engraved Presented to Mr. Samuel Pitman by the Zerrahn Choral Union May 26th, 1873.
At a Wednesday meeting the Hydraulion Engine and Hose Co No 1 elected new officers for the year including Foreman Spencer Rounds and 1st Assistant John V Lewis Jr Others named were 2d Assistant James N Bullock Clerk Charles V Perry and several leading noses and axemen positions Norwich and Bishops notes praise Bristol bishops and local clergy lineage plus a brief health tonic ad for Williams Extract Jamaica Ginger and Peruvian Syrup.
An old advertisement extols Dr. Pierce World Dispensary medicines as superior to unskilled preparations. It urges readers to request a printed case questionnaire, lists Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya as a top tonic, and promotes Calisaya tonic to prevent fever and aid recovery, with dealer notices and addresses.
The speaker contends that life governed by self rule breeds corruption beyond death. Araminta seeks a heart in her lover, but finds only broken promises in marriage. The text notes the ease of praising men after death, when they were silent in life, and claims virtue revives strikingly from the grave.
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