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County Hospital.— Punch having been appointed Commissioner enquire Into and report upon state of this ..

... Punch's faithful companion Toby accompanied bim, and immortalised his name following the example of an Illustrious Governor in killing the last of the hospital cats. The animals the neighbourhood, Punch is sorry to say, rebel at thla distinguished act, exclaiming ...

Published: Friday 02 May 1845
Newspaper: Stamford Mercury
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 844 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... repairs ; and Mr. Masters, jun. the son of the builder, had ordered his men to put up scaffolding, which they [])erformod on Monday. 'lli‘mre were two large scaffold poles more then were necessary for the work, and Mr. Masters, jun. said they should not ...

Published: Friday 27 September 1822
Newspaper: Drakard's Stamford News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3051 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Hertford assize, Friday last, die persons charged with the murder Mr. Wente postponed until Tuesday the 6th ..

... melancholy accident happened Norwood, Middlesex, where the church is building. There were a great number of men standing upon a scaffold, nearly sixty feet from the ground, when a large stone, weighing upwards of a ton, was raised by means of a pully: it was ...

Published: Friday 12 December 1823
Newspaper: Stamford Mercury
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1610 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

***Letters from Martinique, received by a.vessel arrived at Plymouth, state that accounts had reached that ..

... summary vengeance these criminals, who expatiated their perfidy on the gallows during the night, and were publicly exposed on scaffolds the ensuing morning, as warning the disaffected. Private letters of the Ist inst. from Holland give the leading features ...

Published: Friday 08 September 1809
Newspaper: Stamford Mercury
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 855 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Court of Sewers. —On Wednesday last, a court of sewers to hear appeals against drainage rates was held in the

... meadow, and there coursed and killed a hare. was convicted in the penalty of 22., with 12. Is. 6(2. costs, and had notice given him of being surcharged in double duty of 82. Is. 8(2. for having sported without a license to kill game. Alford Petty Sessions ...

Published: Friday 19 November 1847
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Chronicle
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1078 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Railway Intelligence

... fearful character happened on Thursday week, to an express train on the Manchester and Leeds Railway, by which two persons were killed, and several others seriously injured. The facts are described as follows :— The train left Manchester at one o'clock for ...

Published: Friday 24 September 1847
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Chronicle
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1935 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

On Sunday last, the lie v. Geo. Rigg, 8.A., curate of St. Peter-in-Eastgate, preached an excellent discourse in ..

... south side of Lincoln cathedral ; it is supposed to be the same that was disturbed about two years ago, when erecting the scaffolding for the admirable renovation which has been made of the eastern transept; on that occasion, a quantity of hair cloth was ...

Published: Friday 03 June 1842
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Chronicle
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2640 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Harvest.—Harvest operations have been busily carried on the neighbourhood of Stamford during the past week. ..

... eighteen hours' continuance not one human being was at all injured out of a population of persons, nor any kind of cattle killed. The oldest inhabitant, a female years of age, affirms that she cannot recollect any storm so alarming. The only circumstance ...

Published: Friday 18 August 1843
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Chronicle
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4013 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. GRAND CRICKET MATCH AND DREADFUL ACCIDENT, NEAR SHEFFIELD

... persons were killed on the spot, and between 40 and 50 more or less maimed.’ T'he above paragraph is copied from the Shefticld Iris, blished the morning after the accident occurred 3 but we g::vc great pleasure in stating, that no person was killed on the spot ...

Published: Friday 06 September 1822
Newspaper: Drakard's Stamford News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1346 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Sunday and Tuesday's Posts

... rea-*uiled, diiven from the ground they had gained, and chased to the distance of league from the field battle, with the of killed and wounded; the loss of the Spaniards did not exceed including two officers k.jied d wound d. The Cortes have voted 'inks ...

Published: Friday 24 September 1813
Newspaper: Stamford Mercury
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1269 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

STAMFORD : Printed and Published by and for the Proprietor, JOHN DRAKARD

... was cross-examined by Mr. O'Connell.— They killed them ell, he said, and if ‘the counsel himselt was there, or Major Carter, or any one else, they would be killed. He would go up to his kinees in blood—would kill Major Carter with pleasure, and who knows ...

Published: Friday 23 April 1824
Newspaper: Drakard's Stamford News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2865 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... that he had mme. He told her that he for her,” and deliberately t above the right eye. He d the trigger to the latch of w of killing himself; butin er drink of grog, loaded his - of the bed where his bleed{)laced his gun between bis little above his left ...

Published: Friday 09 November 1827
Newspaper: Drakard's Stamford News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 866 | Page: 1 | Tags: none