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... s|)l,sal, and, moreover, it has been found that grey iHs shabby sooner than the other colours, and ac- 1 urea a Bort of workhouse look which is neither i(Ja8iI1g nor soldierhke. MOST DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—In a collision p'11?'* 0C(;urred on the 8th inst ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1862
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 5946 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

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... their being treated as malcon- tents, and dismissed from the asylum. Scholefield re- turned to Atherton, and was in the workhouse there for six months, and then undertook his remarkable walk to London. About Midsummer last the Governors of Henshaw's Asylum ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1862
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1706 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

-------- -THE QUEEN'S OPINION ON THE ALBERT MEMORIAL

... showed that the pressure was felt by all classes, but especially small farmers, shopkeepers, and labourers, the extent of workhouse relief being no test of the amount of real pauperism. He simply stated facts, he said, and left the responsibility to the ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1862
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 4203 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

HORRIBLE AND EXTRAORDINARY TORTURE OF A CHILD

... eleven years of age, very thinly clad for such a time of year, and in a state of great exhaustion, was brought to him to the workhouse, and, on examining him, he was quite shocked at finding an iron manacle, weighing upwards of two pounds, made fast to his ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1862
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 616 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE DOMESTIC SERVANTS OF OLD ENGLAND

... inevitably come to find them utterly penniless, victims to the frippery of a foolish fashion, with no shelter beyond the workhouse, no home beyond the heartless streets. ...

Published: Saturday 22 March 1862
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 448 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

(far Janbon Correspmimtf

... accomplished in the time. Somehow or other-order or chaos—confusion or completion-the great ugly building (which looks like a workhouse, a barrack, a conservatory, a dwelling-house, a lunatic asylum, and a gatekeeper's lodge all rolled into one), will no doubt ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1862
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1782 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

OUR LABOURERS' COTTAGES.!

... this radical defect. Illness with the poor man means bitter poverty, scant wages, cruel dunning, and perhaps the dreaded workhouse or starvation. It means to the country increased poor- rates, more vicious pauper children, and more hereditary beggars. ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1862
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1127 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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... the issue of the Delhi prize-money, and also the amount expected to be paid. I am at present an inmate of the St. Giles's Workhouse, through poverty and the rheumatism (which I got when at the seige of Delhi). I am, therefore, sir, solely dependent on the ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1862
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 6908 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A NEWSPAPER EDITOR

... entering the stack—he had been concealed without food or drink for a fortnight. He was then removed by the police to the workhouse hospital, where, in consequence of the swollen condition of his feet, his Wellington boots had to be cut off. Owing to privation ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1862
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1295 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW AT BRIGHTON

... adjoining it on another barrel, and in front of both a hamper of oranges, and in the rear of all sweet-stuff enough for a workhouse. Such is a sample of a review stall, and of what the hearty appetites of the rollicking labouring visitors can dispose of ...

Published: Saturday 26 April 1862
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1115 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

A PLEA FOR THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN

... which is loudly called for in the laws for the protection of women:— The interest now shown in the poor girls brought up in workhouses, and in all those who from other cir- cumstances have not had a fair start in life, induces me to address you, hoping the ...

Published: Saturday 26 April 1862
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 605 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

CO' YOU HELP US A BIT?

... out-door relief 5931. 3s. 6d., being an increase over the corresponding' week of last year of 452l. 18s. 4d.; in place of the workhouses only containing 554 paupers, they now contain 971, being an increase over the corresponding week of last year of 417, to ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1862
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 961 | Page: 4 | Tags: News