... WORKHOUSES AND THEIR KEEPERS. By M.J.R. We take from a Swansea contemporary the following intereating article on the workhouse problem. The writer, whose name is represented by the initials given above, formerly resided in Merthyr, and had many friends ...

... CHRISTMAS AT THE WORKHOUSE. Our lent fortunate brethren at the Workhouse were not allowed to nee Christmas peen without its being properly kept. An in previous yeatrinthe Guardian,, made arrangements for providing a enbatantial dinner. The teat took ...

... TOBACCO AND SNUFF IN THE WORKHOUSE. THE proceedings of the Guardians on Saturday last were enlivened by tobacco and snuff! Not that the potent, grave, and reverend signiorswho com- prise the Board indulged in the pipe of peace, and dipped into box or ...

... EMIGRATION AND WORKHOUSE CHILDREN. EMIGRATION systematic and on a large scale has proved a blessing to the world; and fostered and encouraged by all legitimate means, it will con- tinue a blessing, particularly to the poor. It opens up to them avenues ...

... CONTRACT FOR WORKHOUSE SUPPLIES. THE Guardians &sire the Supply of Side of Ikvf aud leg eat ellra to the ramp. Iluttoia—Meat, out door %Hyphen. !tread. ...

... TREDRO AR WORKHOUSE Sim—As most of your renders are aware, a raneeue service is held regularly at Obeid.ee institution every Sunday. It is conducted alternately by the different Nencoeforioist ministers and preaches. of the town and district. Now, in ...

... house of this good lady, and if so, why was it necessary for him to leave the milk at the workhouse, and for a b iy to be em- ployed in carrying it from the workhouse to Miss Wood's re- sidence. We know there is pleuty of milkmen, and sometimes half a dozen ...

... SUDDEN DEAN AT THE WORKHOUSE. On Tuesday last an inquest was held at the Merthyr Workhouse on the body of Elizabeth Harris (ell), widow of the late Henry Harris, who used to carry un the business of a contractor at Dowlais. The deceased, who died suddenly ...

... THE UNION WORKHOUSE QUESTION. PROPOSED ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS, SCHOOLMASTERS AND MISTRESSES FOR THE WORKHOUSES. The President of the Poor Law Board has obtained this Session the appointment of a Select Committee of the House of Commons, to Inquire into ...

... conduct the Sunday services et the Workhouse are soppnied to do the visiting for the ensuing week. The duty of sisiting does not often to fall to a minister's sham, and it it not unreasonable to expect him to tint the Workhouse coos or twice during his Wm4i ...

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... STARVATION AND WORKHOUSE INHUMANITY. The investigation into the circumstances attending the death of Mrs. Caroline James, was resumed on Monday, at the Champion Tavern, Weymouth-terrace, Hackney-road. It was alleged that deceased, who was forty-two years ...