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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1886
Page
2
The Boston Post editor Col Charles G. Greene dies Monday morning at age 82. The report notes his long tenure as founder and editor of the paper until 1875.
John Milne notes Japan has 129 volcanic peaks with 51 still active. The highest is Fujiyama near Yokohama, just over 12,400 feet, likely not extinct as once believed.
In Elizabethtown Pennsylvania about 11 o clock Tuesday night two shocks of earthquake followed in quick succession. Buildings swayed enough to rattle doors and windows.
Dr Heim of Zurich suggests rocks' pressure deforms fossils and may have caused Agassiz to overestimate the number of fossil fish species in older rocks.
General Neal Dow endured a $20 000 loss through his nephew cashier Gould, a serious misfortune for the Prohibition leader. Years earlier Dow’s associate Rev D B Peck caused a $100 000 defalcation as State Treasurer. Dow remains hopeful and unruffled at 82.
In a British Association paper Mr. W. H. Preece describes a method locating a fragment of a needle in his daughter's hand. A fine magnetized needle suspended over the hand indicated the fracture site, and the steel fragment was extracted after cutting at the marked point.
State constabulary seized four wagon loads of liquor including hard and soft drinks at East Greenwich on Saturday. A raided man smashed bottles and jugs before officers entered. Four casks of lager and a barrel of cherry rum were left for police.
The plan would place the great telescope at the disposal of distinguished astronomers for certain hours each day, inviting visiting specialists to tackle unsolved astronomical problems with the world’s most powerful optical aid.
The Rhode Island Institute of Instruction votes to hold the annual meeting in October or November each year. The next meeting will be in Providence at Music Hall on October 28 29 and 30. A change in meeting time is noted and further details will follow.
The Yale Peabody Museum adds 75 meteoric stones and 72 meteoric irons to its collection, totaling 147 specimens weighing 1956 pounds. The largest is a 1635 pound iron from Texas in 1814, with other big finds in Stockholm, Copenhagen, the British Museum, and St. Petersburg.
The Garfield chamber remains unopened in the White House since 1881. Reports say President Arthur feared the room and the current occupant avoids it to keep the somber silence. The piece argues removal of curtains and sealing the apartment would not harm its history or usefulness.
From Our Special Correspondent in London the writer describes arrival in Liverpool after a long voyage, customs delays, and a hotel breakfast. He tours the Exhibition shipperies displays from Waterbury watches to American icons, notes fashion and society portraits, and quotes London views of Yankee swagger and diamond queens at the Stockton.
A letter from Lucerne recounts the five hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Sempach with three days of fetes from July 3 to 5. Torch lit processions, a presidential carriage, and cantons in medieval costumes accompanied by flags and bonfires filled the city with patriotic pageantry and night illumination. The writer describes crowds, a theatre night, and the grand Hotel National blaze of fireworks, calling it the finest Fourth of July they ever spent.
The German Admiralty plans to employ an expert from Krupp to photograph projectiles in transit recoil of gun carriages and armor penetration. With projectiles averaging 1500 feet per second the work requires delicate apparatus and skilled manipulation to capture the action.
In the west of Scotland waves move heavy rocks for miles and flood the shores with evidence of immense power. Observers note blocks weighing tons cast inland as waves grind away coastlines, slowly altering continents and islands. A tangential ad touts Salvation Oil at twenty five cents as a cough remedy.
The Marchant engine is hailed as a practical solution for reclaiming boiler heat. Tests by British engineers report fuel of around 2.5 pounds of Welsh coal per indicated horsepower per hour and claim potential daily savings of $5000 for a single steamship company. The condenser is also said to enable locomotives to travel 1000 miles without extra water.
The text reviews the October Magazine of American History with essays by John Dimitry on A King’s Gift and Charles K. Tuckerman on Lincoln and Colonization. It notes Mary Audubon’s Kentucky earthquake piece and other Civil War studies, praising the publication. It also advertises Ayer’s Sarsaparilla and Hair Vigor as hair and blood cleansing tonics.
Regular court meeting scheduled for Monday at ten o clock. Town Council holds monthly session Monday at two for sermon by Rev Geo L Locke at St Michaels. Will T Davies of Chicago a Bristol native visits town over Sunday. Rev H Hikcock of Thompson Conn to preach Sunday at 2 30 p m in First Baptist Church. District Court holds brief session. no business. Bristol Grays beat Providence Grays 11 to 7 on the Common last Saturday. Banquet by Bristol Light Infantry for B L I Veteran Association set for Friday at the Infantry Armory. Pastor of new Christian Church continues Sabbath sermons on the book of Revelation with Sunday talk on the Seven Seals.
At the Providence convention Hon A O Howard was named to represent the First District and Arnold B Chase for the Second District as nominees for the next U S Congress.
Beginning October 3, Sunday services include Sunday school at 10 30 a m preaching at 2 30 p m and the evening service at 7 1 Is Friday evening meeting will commence at 7 o clock.
Thursday morning the garden on Pierce avenue yielded a large bunch of Improved Concord grapes weighing three quarters of a pound. The fruit was raised by Mr. F M Ennis.
A complimentary concert featuring vocalists and instrumentalists, led by Mr. W. M. Hutchinson of the National Band, will be held in Town Hall on Wednesday evening. The Bristol Cornet Band practices near High and Bourn streets, recently purchasing a new bass drum. James Brady Jr. visited Fall River on business related to a complaint against the steamer Empire State. Andrew R. Trotter, Rhode Island Diocese delegate, left for Chicago for the General Convention of Protestant Episcopal Churches.
A 14 acre property with a near new single story house barn and out buildings on the west side of Metacom avenue adjoining Broad Common road, once occupied by Joseph Ball and mortgaged to Bristol County Savings Bank by John H Angier, sold at mortgagee’s sale by auction for 1825.25 dollars. A special town meeting in Town Hall next Thursday at two pm will consider funding for enforcing liquor laws and may authorize an appropriate appropriation. The call is signed by Town Council members and twenty one others.
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