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A WORKHOUSE ROMANCE

... A WORKHOUSE ROMANCE At the Gireenwich of (taardians on Friday quite @ omantic incident occurred. A few weeks ago a half- starved, ragged little girl, two years of age, was fonnd on a litter of shavings at 41 Hales Street, Deptford, with ber mother ia ...

TBI M AKA6&MENT OF WORKHOUSES

... TBI M OF WORKHOUSES. A reform io the management of oar workhouses similar 1 Co sow proceeding reepeol of prisons, is probably i 'for question ts beset with many including that of the relative functions of local and imperial taxation. And yet it is.to ...

()UR rflwm and our workhouses are filled with gvpl. ruined through drink. Our judges attribute the majority of ..

... ()UR rflwm and our workhouses are filled with gvpl. ruined through drink. Our judges attribute the majority of the crimes committed to the ssme cause, and our people are now thoroughly convinced that some radical cure must be found to reduce this national ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1892
Newspaper: Campbeltown Courier
County: Argyll, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 640 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

“When I left the workhouse, Thursday fortnight after baby was born, I didn’t know what to do. It was twelve

... “When I left the workhouse, Thursday fortnight after baby was born, I didn’t know what to do. It was twelve in the afternoon, and I went begging at all the oorners, but I coumldn’t get a halfpenny. Baby was with me all the time, and taking all my strength ...

Published: Saturday 22 May 1875
Newspaper: Campbeltown Courier
County: Argyll, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

VAGRANCY IN INDIA

... prison walls: ufi 29 were left in the workhouse, a number which seems to be normal, for 24 were in the workhouse at the beginning of the vear. Frem these returns we gather that there are always abont 24 men in the workhouse, and that the numbers above that ...

AN AGED BIGAMIST

... Coventry. When was appointed Master of the Coventry Workhouse in IS-43, I found him then jq the workhouse with this wife (pointing to an old woman who appeared Couri). Some lime afterwards they left the workhouse. At that time there was the name of Ward in the ...

SOUTH DONEGAIL ELECTION. Result of the Poll :—M‘Neill (N), 4604 ; Munster (U), 933, THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN

... Bau?to&q&mhudnd pounds rent of Auxilisry Workhouse, near Cashel, which the local guardians bave refused to Fy. The Local Government Board bad obtained Parliamentary granot, and the Judge held that the Workhouse rent came within the meaning of the grant ...

LADY JOHN MANNERS AND TOOTHLESS PAUPERS

... zaar to raise funds for a chapel in the Melton Workhouse, showed how possible it is for • lady witu all the means of comfort and luxury to put herself spit. matically iuto the place of the inmates of a workhouse, and, as it were, feel their lohelinesa, their ...

OUTRAGE BY SPANISH PIRATES

... subject. WORKHOUSE jution. Bow-ilmt, London, miserable-looking being, named Reynolds, who scarcely able crawl into with the aid of a stick, hu been charged before Sir Tfaoau* Henry with tearing op clothes supplied him the St, Gilea'e Workhouse authorities ...

AND HERZEGOVINA

... through a bitter winter night, within a few yards of a workhouse door. Yet this is a bire statement of a circumstance which has been twice before the Lambeth magistrate. The woman applied at the workhouse in the usual way, and was sent for an order to the ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1879
Newspaper: Campbeltown Courier
County: Argyll, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 576 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE SCENES AT IRISH EVICTIONS

... correspondent telegraphs :—The families evicted at Gweedora, County Donegal, were on Monday night conveyed in carts to the ‘workhouse by a Government inspector and relieving officers. At ten o'clock the evicted people assembled together, and eighteen conveyances ...