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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1895
Page
2
A Connecticut country editor offers guidance on dealing with readers who challenge what a paper prints. He urges calm, self blame when needed, and dignified firmness, stressing that editors should stand by their opinions while apologizing for real mistakes. He cautions against overreacting to pressure and warns against chasing popularity.
The English team remains undeterred by Valkyrie’s lucky break and rides high in the cup race. Defender would get a chance in 1896 to prove her speed if offered, with ample funds and challenges from the homeland.
The measure, designed to push biennial elections, failed showing public resistance to entangling party politics. Opponents say a straightforward biennial election provision would have been wiser, and warn the defeat offers a lesson. Biennial elections will await another voter verdict.
Brigadier General Elisha Dyer resigns as Adjutant General of Rhode Island after compiling the 1861 report. Frederick M. Sackets is named as probable successor, with the resignation to take effect October 31 unless Governor Lippitt changes plans.
John Shapely, Johanna O Connor, Alice Osborne, and a Dr Herman Canfield crewed a 23 foot sloop named Thistle for a drunken spree. They were arrested after Dr Canfield found the boat adrift and the occupants asleep in the cabin. They face drunkenness charges with possible adultery or theft claims looming.
A special Probate Court session heard arguments over the will of Mrs. Hope P. Walker who left most of her estate to the Bristol Old Ladies' Home. Her brother Nathaniel Munroe contests the will while witnesses including Sarah F. Wood and Hannah Gladding testified. The matter may rise to the Supreme Court after further proceedings.
Mails close at 6 35, 9 20, 12 20, 8 40 and 5 50 a m. Mails open as nearly as possible at 9 am, 2, 5 20, 7 25 pm.
Typhoid fever hospitals in Bristol report Seth Paull Jr recovering enough to ride out. a Bristol Neck child remains ill. The town notes a heavy rain, church services by Rev Reginald Howe and Rev A E Carpenter, local adverts, a new steam winch, and updates on schools, stores, and social events at Trinity parish and the Baptist Sunday school.
J Augustus Miller quits as organist at Mat thewson Street M E Providence and from Sept 29 becomes organist and musical director of the First Congregational church. He forms a quartet with Dora Bosworth Gertrude Talbee F M Dimond and J B Burgess. The choir sings first next Sunday. A lawn party by the Suprema Associação do Divino Espirito Sancto continues at the Artillery armory nightly through Monday with guests Lafayette Guards Bristol Light Infantry Burnside Drum Corps and King Philip Steam Fire Engine Co No 1 attending. Tomorrow night Dreadnaught Hook Ladder Hose Co and two Portuguese societies will attend.
On Tuesday a freighting sloop Dauntless unloading stone for the new sea wall at the slip off Church street suffered a derrick failure. A line snapped, derrick collapsed onto deck and rigging, injuring two crew members and causing damage. The derrick had already broken down the previous day.
Lovett's Boston Stars, a high class quartet, appear Monday evening in the Opera House under James F. DeWolf Camp No. 8. The troupe includes Ber the Brewer, Clara Warner, Rose Garritz, and Frank Reynolds. A Wilmington Ohio lecture association president lauds the program as entertaining and well rendered with Frank Reynolds praised as an excellent humorist.
A Florida editor faces a criminal libel suit from a local baseball umpire. The complainant warns that a win would amount to discrimination in favor of the wealthy, noting the editor’s poverty and limited means to publish insults. Lawyers nationwide await the outcome amid broad editorial hostility and court scrutiny.
The text argues that the public knows little about local merchants businesses. It says advertising should only excite curiosity and that salespeople should complete the sale. It stresses relying on direct selling rather than full disclosure in ads.
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