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Bridgnorth Beacon Articles

Below is a list of all the articles and advertisements which appeared in the first issue of the Bridgnorth Beacon, dated 1st October 1852. The transcriptions can be viewed by clicking on the titles.

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Articles:

1. Notice to Advertisers.
2. Advertisement - Stationery
3. Advertisement - Publication
4. Advertisement - Drapery
5. Advertisement - Bookseller
6. Births, Marriages and Deaths.
7. Notice to readers and correspondents.
8. Bridgnorth Beacon - Our Title
9. Bridgnorth Beacon - Our Objects
10. Report on the Morfe Flower Show.
11. Opinion on emigration for gold-hunting.
12. Report on the harvest.
13. Local Information - Grammar School, Choral Society and Philharmonic Society
14. Local Information - School-masters' Association
15. Local Information - Quatt School
16. Local Information - Religious & Useful Knowledge Society, Mechanics Institution
17. Local Information - Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, etc.
18. Local Information - Sanitory state of the town.
19. Local Information - Militia
20. Local Information - Cholera, and the Fair
21. Petty Sessions - Conviction of Hawker
22. Police Reports - Non-payment of poor rate calls.
23. Police Reports - Drunkenness
24. Letter to the Editor
25. Letter to the Editor
26. Letter to the Editor
27. General Information - England - Politics and the death of the Iron Duke
28. General Information - England - the Advantages of Free Trade.
29. General Information - England - A Royal Teacher.
30. General Information - England - Proposals for new ocean vessels.
31. General Information - Ireland - Erin go Bragh
32. General Information - Ireland - Tenant right.
33. General Information - Ireland - An Irish Mother (a pig tale).
34. General Information - Scotland
35. General Information - America
36. General Information - America - Christianity among the Jews
37. General Information - America - Drinking pact.
38. Ecclesiastical Information
39. Ecclesiastical Information - Methodism, Convocation and the Vicarage of Shiffnal
40. The Press - The Duke of Wellington
41. Literary Extracts - Advice to Theologians
42. Literary Extracts - Fasting Extraordinary (An account of the process for electing new Bailiffs)
43. Literary Extracts - Habits of a Man of Business.
44. Poetry - Introduction.
45. Poetry - The Buried Flower
46. Poetry - The Nightingale
47. Serapiana - Random facts and information.
48. Serapiana - Prescriptions for moods and fits.

    Serapiana.

    PRESCRIPTIONS.

     Though no doctor, I have by me some excellent prescriptions; and as I shall charge nothing for them you cannot grudge the price. We are most of us subject to fits; I am visited with them myself; and I daresay you are also. Then, now for my prescriptions:—
     For a Fit of Passion.—Walk out in the open air. You may speak your mind to the wind, without hurting anyone or proclaiming yourself to be a simpleton.
     For a Fit of Idleness.—Count the tickings of a clock. Do this for one hour, and you will be glad to put off your coat the next, and work like a negro.
     For a Fit of Extravagance or Folly.—Go to the Workhouse, or speak with the ragged and wretched inmates of a gaol, and you will be convinced—
      "Who makes his bed of briar and thorn,
      Must be content to lie forlorn."
     For a Fit of Ambition.—Go into the churchyard, and read the tombstones. They will tell you the end of man at his best estate.
     For a Fit of Envy.—Come to the Bridge of Allan or some other place of the kind, and see how many who keep their carriages are afflicted with rheumatism, gout, and dropsy.
     For a Fit of Despondency.—Look on the good things which God has given you in this world, and promised in the next.
     For a Fit of Doubt, Perplexity or Fear.—The following is a radical cure, which may be relied on, for I had it from the Great Physician— "Cast thy burden on the Lord, and he shall sustain thee."—From an album at the bridge of Allan.

49. Serapiana - Anecdote on annexation.
50. Serapiana - Anecdote on the rewards of honesty.
51. Serapiana - An unfinished ode, and printer's notes.

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