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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1886
Page
2
Reports indicate Mr T V Powderly has been re elected Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor. The item notes his continued leadership within the organization.
The article portrays Mrs. Colt as a quiet middle aged widow with aristocratic bearing. She dresses in black silk with diamond rings, keeps gray hair in massive coils, and her brother Mr Jarvis and her sister's husband Mr Nicholas Beach run the late inventor's business.
The Executive Committee grants B W Dinsmore Co. to prepare a succinct entertaining history edited by John J Garrett for the inauguration programme. The work will be a complete typographical souvenir of a major international event.
A daily Japanese paper critiques Christian practices and questions religious influence on social ills. It ponders whether food adulteration and bank defaulters align with church membership and whether humane paganism could better face such issues without moral pretensions.
Frank Leslie's Sunday Macazig opens with Powell's Leaves from my Life on Rogers and Jerrold. The issue features The Still-vex’d Bermouthes with twelve Bermuda scenes, Salem Past and Present, a portrait of Charles Villiers Sanford, Throndhjom Cathedral, De Pauw University and Greencastle views, plus The Tapestry Room and Paulina endings.
Prof J Norman Lockyer estimates 40 to 50 million stars detectable with current optics while 6000 are naked eye visible. Major Powell maps the United States coast chart accuracy, hydrophobia incubation averages three to four months with rare long delays, and ancient dentistry found in Roman Etruscan skulls. A novel railway in the Pyrenees uses a single rail and Siemens electrical motors to haul ore seven miles with a descending train powering the ascent.
A new inquiry into the Sunda Straits eruption estimates ejecta at no less than ten cubic miles and speeds surpassing the strongest guns. The plume reached about thirty miles high, with explosions heard over a fourteenth of the globe and an atmospheric wave circling the Earth in thirty six hours.
A discussion notes that refining a ton of gas coal yields 1500 pounds of coke 20 gallons of ammonia water and 140 pounds of coal tar. Distilling coal tar provides pitch creosote heavy oils naptha orange naphthalene napthol alazarin solvent naphtha phenol aurine analine toluidine anthracine and toluene with saccharine derived from toluene being extremely sweet.
It is predicted that magnesium lighting will become common within five years as costs drop from $40 to $8 per pound through a German process. A moderate wire can produce light equal to seventy five steering candles, costing about as much as gas, without costly mains. Magnesium lamps burn ribbon fuel by clockwork feeding, with no danger to electricity.
A Dublin professor extended a catalog of British Isles earthquakes to Europe for an earthquake map. The study notes two main systems: explosive shocks along sea-coast volcanoes and mechanical quakes along mountain ranges. Earthquakes cluster near lines of crustal weakness and cooling shrinkage.
The advert asserts many causes may gray hair but Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer will restore natural color. It claims over twenty years of enormous sales and reports no recorded failure.
Mr Henry B Tanner of Buffalo visits town. Mr and Mrs Julian L Herreshoff plan a Europe trip in Germany. Elder Charles Goodrich of Chelsea will preach at Advent Chapel. Cyrel N Chaffee injured a finger. Dr G A Pike treated him. An adjourned Bristol county Supreme Court term opens Thursday. Herreshoff Co builds a launch like Henrietta. St Marys T A Society joined Father Mathews birthday celebration in Newport. Visiting clergy preached in town churches. Republican electors caucus for First Congressional District in Armory. Frank and Lewis Waldron returned home from Michigan. Children’s Home reports October donations including blankets grapes and money.
At Byfeld School the regular School Committee meeting saw eight members present with Samuel Norris Jr presiding. The superintendent reported good school condition and high attendance. the treasury balance stood at 4737.10 dollars. The board closed public schools October 28 and 29 for a Providence Teachers Institute with seventy five cents per day for attending teachers. Bills from the Finance Committee were ordered paid. George A Arnold was tasked to print five hundred copies of school rules and regulations.
Mr Ozawyorp H Woop eldest son of Thomas and Sarah Wood died after a long illness at his residence corner Hope and Oliver streets aged 64 years and 6 months. A farmer and gardener by trade, he was a quiet industrious citizen and leaves a wife and many relatives. The Mount Hope Circle met at Mr Wm Spooner’s residence for October with readings and talks on geology and nature. The Town Council held a special meeting to repair gutter and crosswalks near the Depot and Jail, appointing committees to act.
Obituary notes David Waldron of Bristol who died October 8 1886 at eighty five. He was a lifelong Methodist and a local businessman involved in shoe store grocery coal and state affairs. He served as Assistant Assessor in 1863 and was a town councilor trustee of the Bristol Institution for Savings and church leader. Funeral at State Street M E Church featured choirs and hymns, with interment at Juniper Hill Cemetery.
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