... REVOLT AT PRESTON WORKHOUSE. Last week, before the county magistrates, at Preston, Thomas Farror and Richard Gerrard were charged with murderously assaulting the master and clerk of Preston Union Workhouse. The prisoners were insubordinate and incited ...

... LOVE IN A WORKHOUSE. The Warrington Guardian gives the following account of a somewhat amusing episode which occurred at a meeting of the Runcorn Board of Guardians, held last week :—Towards the conclusion of the business a man. named Fitzgerald, a painter ...

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... THE WORKHOUSE OFFICIALS AND THEIR BEER. The adjourned application of the Workhouse officials to be allowed an equivalent in money to the value of the beer consumed by them annually, was then further considered. Mr. W. Williams (Little Cross) thought it ...

... A WORKHOUSE MASTER'S FAMILY. The Warwick Board of Guardians, on Saturday, discussed a difficulty which doubtless also exists in many other unions. The master and matron were appointed some dozen years ago, without incumbrances, at a joint salary of ...

... SHOREDITCH WORKHOUSE SCANDAL. This case was concluded after five days' trial before 3aron Pollock and a' special jury, at Guildhall, on Dec. i6th. The plaintiff was Mrs. Mais, a short time ago matron at the Sboreditch Worshouse, and defendant was Dr. ...

... WORKHOUSE. Never before yraa such a sight of misery and distress witnessed as that exhibited at th« workhouse of the Kanturk Union on Saturday. Long before the hour for the sitting of the board the reception hall, or what is known as the front house ...

... ALLEGED MALPRACTICES AT THE ABERGAVENNY WORKHOUSE. A meeting was held yesterday, at Abergavenny, of a Committee appointed at the last meeting of the Board of Guardians, to investigate certain charges of ill-treatment to sick paupers, brought forward last ...

... WORKHOUSE MASTERS AND REFRACTORY PAUPERS. A case, which has excited much notice among Yorkshire poor law administrators, was decided by the Leeds Stipendiary Magistrate on Tuesday- Mr. Scholes, the task master at the Leeds Work- bouse, caught an old pauper ...

... USE OF ALCOHOLIC STIMULANTS IN WORKHOUSES. At a Conference of Guardians, held at Brighton, Mr. Robert Patching, chairman of the Brighton Board of Guardians, read a paper on The Use of Alcoholic Stimulants in Workhouses. He contended that a great portion ...

... A CLERGYMAN IN A WORKHOUSE, At the Malmesbury County Polic9 Court, before Mr. C. R. Luce, the Rev. Peter Henry De Low, late rector of Luckington; Wilts, but now a pauper in the Union Workhouse at Malmesbury—he having been sent there under an order of ...

... THE WORKHOUSE STORES. -TAKING STOCK. The Master submitted a report to the Board, stating that he had, during the past week, gone minutely through the whole of the stock, made up the books to the present tirae, marked all the goods that were in the store ...