... ROW AT A WORKHOUSE. At Salisbury, on Tuesday, seven able-bodied paupers were committed for trial for having broken 700 panes of glass, and committed other damage to beds and bedding, besides threatening and violently assaulting a porter, and killing a ...

... AN IRISH WORKHOUSE SCANDAL. A report disclosing a. shocking state ef things was, on Saturday, presented by a committee to the Portumna Guardians. The women's dormi- tory and nursery of the workhouse were described as being in a filthy condition. The hospital ...

... THE CHESTER WORKHOUSE SCANDAL. At the last meeting of the Chester Board of Guardians a letter was read from the Local Government Board respecting a pauper named Kirkham, who died from exposure to the cold, and at the inquest some severe remarks were made ...

... MURDER IN A WORKHOUSE. An inmate of the South Dublin Union Work- house, named Margaret Johnstone, aged 55 years, was killed on Saturday evening in a quarrel which occurred between herself and another inmate, named Anne Taylor, about the same age as the ...

... 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 ...

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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 ...