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... stated by Fox, tU.P, that in Eiighud one man in three, and one woman two, arc obliged sign their names with marks when are married. A meeting of the Canada Company was held on Monday; after some discussion, a motion agreeing dividend at the rate of six ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1850
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1242 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE DOUBLE WEDDING

... few of the young men who had seen her. Many had sighed and wooed, but in vain. Mary was bit of coquette, and in no hurry to marry. She appeared to be determined to enjoy for a while, in maiden meditation, fancy free, her empire as queen of hearts. What ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1850
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2730 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

England

... islands, to succeed him on his throne, should himself die childless. This, however, is but remote probability, as lie is married, and is only thirty-four years of age. Two children whom he has already had have died. The largest of tlie islands over which ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1850
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6018 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Foreign Intelligence

... commission to bring me out a wife of the following description :—Not less than six feet, blue eyes, and auburn hair. lam either to marry her, or pay forfeit of 10,0' JO dollars. 1 do hope, as soon as the country is a little more settled, about ten thousand first-rate ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1850
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2173 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Foreign Miscellany

... delicate. must leave the reader to suppoi-e what the confession was. The dying person was about the same age the Count, and had married an old man. At his debut in the diplomatic career the Count had passed several years in that capital, where he had formed ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1850
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3550 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OLIVER AND BOYD'S EDINBURGH ALMANAC, 1850

... that'she at length was the means of accomplishing his deliverance from a watery gra%e. The man thus providentially rescued is married, and the father of an infant family. It would be well, we think, the public feeling, created by the heroic deed of the girl ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1850
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2196 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MR DUNCAN, THE AFRICAN TRAVELLER

... impossible to induce the negro to work, and this idea will be found pervading his volumes. As it so happens Mr Duncan never was married, he cannot have left a wife who is but poorly provided for. He has, however, left an aged mother, who was entirely dependent ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1850
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1993 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

England

... calling of charwoman. She is the mother of 13 children, all married, and great-grandmother of 13. Miss Frances Bolton, aged 75, on the contrary, has a great aversion to matrimony would not married to ride in a gilded chariot. It was only hist year a gentleman ...

Published: Wednesday 23 January 1850
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3806 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Scotland

... messengers were despatched pursuit of them in every direction. They were overtaken in Glasgow, but too late, they having been married some hours. They endeavoured to persuade the young husband to resign his bride; but as he persisted in his determination, ...

Published: Wednesday 23 January 1850
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 785 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE EDUCATION QUESTION

... of educationists any of every description. We have already expressed it as our opinion that these local boards would be so marry scenes of strife and contention over the whole land, and would soon be found be unworkable. But independently of this, the ...

Published: Wednesday 23 January 1850
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 626 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Literature

... farmer in Himyre, came off victorious. Kelton.—A bonspiel took place betwixt the married men and bachelors on Carlinwark Loch the 10th curt., wdien the result was follows: Married Men—Skip.*, Rev. S. Cowan and Mr Hewetson. Messrs Moffat and Grierson ; each ...

Published: Wednesday 30 January 1850
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4719 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

England

... classed with those whom the proudest memorials have been raised. —(Great applause.) A Blasphemer's Death.—On Saturday last, a married woman, residing Friars' Fields, named Sarah Morgan, was observed with her infant in her arms, near her own house, disputing ...

Published: Wednesday 30 January 1850
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4437 | Page: 2 | Tags: none