... St. Luke 8. did odd jobs*for people the market, and relied upon their generosity for food. Mr. Bros remanded the lad the workhouse for week. IMPUDENT THEFT. Henry Carter, 66, store-keeper, of Hospitalstreet, Birmingham, was charged with steajing King’s-cross ...

... thrill by their trusted leaders, only to themselves suddenly robbed of their lile-savioga, and driven to face the dreaded workhouse in spite of all their praiseworthy endeavours to make some provision for their old age. Ninety per cent, of these sulierers ...

... frequent occur- rence. January, 1899. —In this month Mary' Curry (1), aged 102 years, was an inmate of the Mile End, Old Town, Workhouse. Mrs. Mary Hudson (2) bom on Christmas Day, 1796, was living, “hale and hearty,” with her daughter at Weston Point, Cheshire ...

... London Police-court with bigamy. The prisoner was apprehended as coo sequence the second wife having gone into the Islington Workhouse. Her husband was eoughl for with a view to contributing to her mainteiiaacc, and then the bigamous marriage was discovered ...

... memorable. More remarkable even than the things the century has created are those which it has swept away. Tue gaols, asylums, workhouses, and hos- pitals of the country r •••• : were. not so very : comae • many years ego, • * AND W DISEASE. i public disgrace ...

... summoned show cause why should not contribute to the support the child Mary Wordsworth (whose present address the Hackney Union Workhouse), of which she alleged him the father. The defendant did not appear ; but Mr. Rushy, who appeared for the Hackney Guardians ...

... appeals arc all pressing : THE GOOD WORK AT FARNINGNAM AND SWANLET. To provide for boys a home without the shadow of the workhouse clinging to it—a little home where the matron is a real mother, and the cottage as pretty and comfortable a one as you will ...

... either place him in a home of rest or to increase his pension to be sufficient for ' him to live on, and so save him from the workhouse. I hope Tommy will shortly realise the benefits of beinj handed over to us when discharged from the Arraj Hospitals. — Yours ...

... ilh Eenendor. Ind' hog., who peados was possible. Mr. Russell strongly Sof Brigade ; Capt. C. 0. th e don of the pres•ast workhouse systein in the Leicestershire Reg.. to be Ire • . P Cardew, K.C.M.G.. Governor -Chief, Sierra Leone. Damn= Si. Mr. P. J. ...

... THE POOR. la the same month Mr. Must©, the Master Rt. John’®-road Workhouse, submitted important statistics to tho Guardians showing that our indoor poor were no longer able-bodied, but old people driven in their families end their days the charge the ...

... behind, Who did not in true bountifulness find Support enough from their own lib Val store, To keep his darlings from the workhouse door. Lest, then, the doubtful compliment recoil us who slay on Britain's peaceful soil. Think of warriors' widows, children ...

... to find Doyle, a warrant was MWttl for his arrest. Afterwards bis wife became chargeable, and subsequently she left tha workhouse with the children. About the middio of December Doyle was arrested. After a deal of trouble his wife hud been tound, and ...