19 Oct 1872
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1872
Page
1
In the Shenandoah era, a Union officer guards the Hastings farm near Winchester as battles rage. He falls for Kate Hastings while Col LeVille, a Confederate commander, wins trust, aids his escape, and later marries Kate in a stealth ceremony, binding fate and frontier loyalties across enemy lines.
A collection of short pieces on nature’s safeguards and providence, then a Rural New Yorker excerpt about Tim Jones and farm life. It contrasts daily miracles in nature with economic realities and ends with a humorous tale of a planter mistaking swamp mud for a snake and injuring his toe.
The piece argues that happiness stems from honest labor not leisure. It criticizes wealth as a false guarantee of contentment and warns idleness and luxury hasten decay. Labor, not idleness, lengthens life and gives purpose, while misanthropy undermines wellbeing.
A reflection on reading elevating all social positions. If one can read, they join the world’s best company, converse with great minds, learn to live wisely, and avoid past errors. Reading promises companionship, satisfaction, and personal growth anywhere.
The article argues education rests on active growth not mere storage of facts. It emphasizes physical, mental, and moral training as essential to securing true development.
Government funded investigations under the British Association of Science describe a simple dredge method to sample sea bottoms. At depths over three miles divers record new and rare marine species with bottom temperatures near 36 degrees. The sun warms surface water to about twenty fathoms, while the Gulf Stream extends heat to 500 to 700 fathoms.
The article argues writing for publication should be driven by emotion rather than money. It warns money minded writers produce poorer work and cites a Hebrew anecdote about money influencing a portrait’s value. It notes only a few are inspired by profit and still create true thought.
The annual education report notes 1871 ends with 6,914 schools and 1,021,700 on rolls, up from 6,806 and 998,999 in 1870. Average daily attendance rose to 859,199 in 1870 and 363,850 in 1871, despite population loss due to emigration.
A dialogue between a customer and the shopkeeper exposes a fine point of rural credit. The customer asks How's trade and the proprietor replies gently cash trade is dull. Betsey Nipper bought tea on trust until her speckled pullet lays.
A Virginia judge known for strict honesty scolds a doctor over a bill for medical attendance. The doctor offers one line item and refuses to itemize charges. The judge denies knowledge of the bill and reframes it as an item by item account. The exchange ends with the doctor remarking on accountability in all deeds.
The article argues coarse foods like bread from unbolted flour support digestion while refined diets lead to weakness. It cites a dog surviving on wood and leather, trials with gelatin and thin soups failing, and notes rich eaters rely on doctors and medicine. It contrasts poor families with crusts of brown bread and affluent neighbors spoiled by luxury.
An army officer visiting a relation swears in front of a child. She says she doesn’t like to hear her cousin swear, and asks why he does it if he knows it is wrong. He admits the reproving moment came from the child and should have prompted better conduct.
Sheridan enters a seated committee chamber and, noting no vacant seat, bows and asks if any gentleman will move that he may take the chair. His wry expression signals a humorous challenge to assume leadership.
A playful inquiry questions whether belief in suppers implies superstition, exploring language and meaning behind the phrase while noting potential wordplay rather than firm judgment.
A saying notes that anyone who lives only for themselves is a mean person. It contrasts selfishness with higher ideals of community and duty.
The London Saturday Review discusses Asiatic Tartar women of the upper class, noting their aimless lives focused on dress and indulgence. It details lavish costumes, veiling, jewelry, cosmetics, and a secluded existence kept by family and husband. It contrasts English extravagance with Tartars’ constrained freedoms and questions whether enlightenment brings discontent.
The Piute people near the mines are depicted as avid gamblers, often gathering in groups of forty or more to play cards for money and gold coins. Women are noted as sharp players, with a squaw and her brother identified as top gamblers in camps near this area and Gold Hill. A Fort Churchill tale shows a boy losing every asset, then his hair in a bet, ending up head shaved and ridiculed by the camp.
The Stockton Delaware Republican recounts a man who preserved grapes by packing in dry sawdust in buried nail keg containers. After months underground the grapes remained sweet and fresh, suggesting a cheap method for spring supply and potential profitable new business.
A lady trusted in camphor for her outfits and wore fur capes and muffs for years. The camphor powder left a lasting odor, dulling the fur gloss and aging the fur. A fur-dresser confirmed the gum camphor had rendered the furs valueless.
An Irishman’s will names his wife as sole property holder, divides the remainder between his eldest son Patrick and Dennis, with any residual share possibly going to Terrence McCarty.
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