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THE FAMINE IN INDIA

... and berries from trees; and that every night hundreds of poor 'wretches skulk about the streets of Caroor, picking up what wretched garbage they can collect; that the coolies are so weak that, when they first come to the Public Works Department for ...

Published: Tuesday 18 September 1866
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 745 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE DENIZENS OF THE DEEP

... seeking whom l he may devour. These gluttons are the scavengers of navieF, following ships in the South Seats, picking up l odds and ends of garbage, andl sometimes a tit-bit-n .stray sailor. No wonder, then, that sailors denounce . them. In substance, Jarl ...

Published: Tuesday 05 June 1849
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 922 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

A PILGRIMAGE WITH A LIVERPOOL RENT COLLECTOR

... andthafrizend addressed said Yes,k ingthatscongsr inthe-question. Going throughse verahnl-smig~ streets--thedayaswarmdthod rf garbage xmowte tb3 nostrls-hey came to an-openspae the old siteof crazy houses, anld on this a numxber of great hulking fellows with ...

Published: Thursday 29 May 1890
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1728 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OLD MISS HALL, THE MISER

... The broth a. -as of a ?? more i %va. extraordinary nature. It consisted of a substratand of i ife. lights snd fish ofihl, picked up at the flihmomnger'o end the Y apt utoher4 flavoured by the iutroductioul of a profua2in Y nd of half-decomposed vegetables ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1855
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 4486 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... until one, two, arid three the followhing day; and in the meantime the children would steal out of the room and pick up laany sort of garbage, hones, &j.. that had been thrown away Le during the day. The last week In January I msde application to the ? ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1856
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 2507 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LIVERPOOL LIFE:

... from home, and had of for many Facets been living on his wits-stealing where he could, aand solemtimes sustaining himself by garbage from about the m3rkets, When apprebended he had ] been several weceks from hone, and denied that he had any parcnts living ...

Published: Monday 08 December 1856
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 3251 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE HEALTH COMMITTEE AND THE WATER CLOSET QUESTION

... they were, the ?? of a *demoralising, ubgradinig,, barbarous social systemn -msanipulators in picking and. sorting every pos- sible kind of filth and garbage, anud praotically dealers'in the humiliating, form of humnin excres- ment1 as they saw from time ...

Published: Monday 21 January 1867
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 4121 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

News and Observations

... many opportu- lre nities of knowing the situation of the labouring poor, are wit- neases e to dredful scenes. All sorts of garbage ae soldsto tben and food is devoured with eagerness which no gentleman would allow his do g to touch. The rancid scrapings ...

Published: Friday 03 December 1830
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 5144 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... in human shape, which are engendered by the '00 corruption of all large coinmunities,..beirngs which fatten ra- upon the garbage and offal of human passions, and pass ile their lives in the congenial ensploymente of' maligning, hg traducing, and vilifying ...

Published: Friday 15 May 1835
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 6931 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

EXECUTION AT CHESTER

... insufficient food, and at t~imes L 'obeaten with dreadful severity. The poor boy had often I been seen by the neighbours picking up garbage and t ~jeating it to satisfy his hunger, and even going to the I pigs' trough and devouring eagerly such refuse as the ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1856
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 9044 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

LATEST AND TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

... strange object floating on ct water at some distance from the vessel, he fortu. idely hove to, and ultimately succeeded in picking 0is at proved to be a mariner, bore up by a plank 4 Ed drifting along with the sea. The rescued sailor tt n stated that his ...

Published: Monday 14 July 1862
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 7458 | Page: 7 | Tags: News