... d inmates of the workhouse. The deputation pointed out that the ratepayers tupon the occasion of the last audit of the parochial accounts had objected to the expenditure for drink given to pewter, in health employed in the workhouse, as contravening the ...

... REACTOR! CONDUCT IN THE WORKHOUSE. Honors Morgan. an elderly woman, was ch;ried with refractory conduct in the Newport Workhouse, and assaulting the porter named James Price.—lt appeared that the prisoner strua the prosecutor in the face, and used very ...

... NEWPORT UNION WORKHOUSE. On Friday evening the Harvest Festival was held at the pretty little church in the Newport Union Workhouse, Stow-hill. The lace was most beautifully decorated with the choicest fruit, flowers, and vegetables, and presented a grand ...

... 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 ...

... SUICIDE AT THE NEWPORT WORKHOUSE An inquest was held at the Newport Union Workhouse, on Wednesday, before Mr W. H. Brewer. coroner. on the body of William Bartlett, a pauper inmate, 80 years of age, who committed suicide by cutting his throat at 6.30 ...

... 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 ...

... A WORKHOUSE MYSTERY. A man who for the pest two years haa been an in, mate of the (Kent) Workhouse, under the assumed name of Wilton Howard, has just died suddenly from heart disease. He was evidently by birth and education • gentleman, and his conduct ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...