02 Sep 1876
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1876
Page
1
A Richmond, Virginia man suspects a servant girl of small thefts. He hides a jointed toy snake in a bureau drawer. The girl screams upon sight, claims the snake, and he accuses her of theft, then she avoids the drawer. No further items are missed.
An elderly clergyman, fond of funeral rites, is asked to lead a double service for two sisters who died within hours of each other after eighteen years in the same house. Though eloquent, he learns they had kept a peace-less feud, even a board partition dividing their apartments for twenty years.
The text contrasts nature’s vast resource needs with human skill, noting that while nature requires many quills to form a goose, a man can fashion a goose from a single quill in minutes.
Esther Gray, trapped as tides flood a sea cave after a cliffside outing with friends, is rescued when Paul appears as a living savior. He dives from a boat to reach her, reveals he survived a shipwreck, and they reunite amid relief. The tale ends with their return to shore and renewed hope.
A coastal party led by Kate and Dr. Gray explores the Grotto or Devil's Oven, a submarine cave at low tide. They arrive in Mount Newport, witness a mermaid cave with pink coralline floors, emerald pools, and vivid marine life as their first expedition unfolds.
Dr. AfcCosh compares drifting with the stream to spiritual ease and asserts that true independence and inner rise require breaking earthly attachments. He warns that efforts to love God and maintain a heavenly temper are hindered when affections drift downward like a current.
Dr Barton, with Dr Nash, comments on two heavy folios about Worcestershire antiquities. He notes deficiencies and asks Nash if he is a justice of the peace. Nash confirms, and Barton advises sending the work to the house of correction.
A compact meditation on growth through mis steps and enduring love. It contrasts public triumphs with private sorrows and suggests character forms from repeated errors and eternal affection.
A reflective remark on how pride influences harsh behavior and strict judgment toward offenses, suggesting a pervasive pattern of self-righteous rigor in moral assessment. The observation frames social conduct as driven by pride rather than empathy or mercy.
A thoughtful aphorism notes death as the liberator for the free, the physician for the incurable, and the comforter when time cannot console. It frames mortality as ultimate remedy beyond medicine and time.
Advice urges soft handling of strays through love and persuasion. It values kind words over harsh measures and suggests gentle reconciliation can win back the lost more effectively than force or wealth.
The text extols memory as a major human faculty with strong potential for growth. It argues that proper training can unlock substantial value for the individual through improved recall and mental discipline.
A reflective piece asserts true life awakes when souls hear their own voice in others. It suggests books aid growth but personal life and love ignite genuine awakening.
A call for unity across religious factions as they confront vice, ignorance, misery and crime pervasive in communities, urging focus on shared duties and constructive action.
A compact reflection on life spanning youth to old age and death as awakening. The piece traces inward growth with each stage, contrasting youth fantasies, adult disillusion, and the final awakening beyond life as proposed by Sir Walter Scott.
A moral reflection on fate. The text argues that a person is subject to fate only through inner resolve. With basic philosophy one bears pain and infirmities, while deeper philosophy helps endure reverses, fear of shame, and the final calamity of death.
A reflection on life’s progression, comparing tomorrow to today advancing along a river toward the sea. The passage argues that hours pass and become the remainder of life, with time seen as a perpetual flow rather than distinct days.
Carlyle argues that people are not driven to heroism by ease or reward but by a need to do noble and true deeds. Even the humblest soldier finds honor not in pay or sweets, but in living as a God made man and proving worth under God.
A reflective meditation on how beauty and goodness endure beyond death. The speaker asserts that the loved infant or saintly being continues to live in memories and the good work they inspired, turning even death into a source of beauty.
A reflective meditation on living with broken hopes and hidden sorrows. The author argues that life forces us to bear our own burdens alone, gathering fragments of blessings to endure and find a modest, healthy humanity despite loss.
A reflective piece extols the family physician as a near divine agent guiding life and death within homes. It portrays the doctor as impersonal yet intimate, a trusted guardian negotiating pain, neglect, and family secrets, while acknowledging the limits of medical science. It contrasts faith in medicine with belief in a higher power.
A Detroit Free Press tale describes a drunken woman staggering through a street her wild eyes matted hair and strange thoughts. Passers by recoil as the scene shifts to a boy who consoles her reminding her she has a son awaiting at the gate and she vows to go home.
A London Lancet report notes widespread narcotic abuse in modern society and easy drug access in countries with lax shop controls. It cites laudanum in English industry, chloral in West End women’s work aids, and morphin disease in Germany, urging moral treatment and early steady work for recovery.
Mrs. Swissholm warns that a dangerous secret must be kept from the mother. The note suggests professional thieves live comfortably by taking things easy, hinting at caution for someone facing a troubling disclosure.
The article notes overlaps in state origins of U S presidents and candidates. Hayes and Grant both hailed from Ohio, Lincoln and Grant from Illinois, Washburne linked to Grant’s town, Conklin and Seymour are brothers-in-law from Utica, N Y. It lists multiple presidents from Virginia and Massachusetts and comments on New York’s single president. Tennessee produced three presidents, including two Andrew J's.
In Pittsburgh a nurse and doctors treated a narcotic overdose with a galvanic battery. A mistaken patient believed himself a ward keeper, awakening angry after the shock and warning the staff to stop their experiments. The Gazette notes the event occurred in Pittsburgh.
The Grenelle water well in Paris, sunk 1800 feet deep, has supplied 500000 gallons daily at 120 feet elevation. Water rises from eastern higher lands and flows through cavernous, rock-filled beds beneath Paris, over 12 miles from the halt mountain region. The borehole breached impervious rocks, releasing a vast seasonal volume that has persisted for two decades.
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