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Poetry. THE WORKHOUSE NURSE. Takk that child upon your knee ! Desert infant, let it rest All night upon your

... Poetry. THE WORKHOUSE NURSE. Takk that child upon your knee ! Desert infant, let it rest All night upon your hreast • Sine aoftcnintr lullaby • Shield it from tin- tempest wild lie mother to the child. It is not noble’s son, Not noble, -bom above All ...

A Paying Pat per.—Thomas North, an in mate Leighton Hu/.zard (Bedfordshire) Union Workhouse, who six weeks ago ..

... zard (Bedfordshire) Union Workhouse, who six weeks ago received notice that he had become entitled to largo fortune on the death his sister in America, has just died at age of eighty •seven. had elected to remain in the workhouse, paying fur his main* tenauce ...

WOMEN DEFYING ARREST

... the week New Ross workhouse. Messrs Wall and Nolan, two of the viee-Guardians recently appointed by the Local Government Board in place of the elected Board, which had been suspended, made an order for bidding inmates the workhouse to speak or associate ...

BUTTERINE-TUE NEW LAW

... square; and retail packages are to be labelled so to avoid deceiving the buyer. Murder Workhouse Master.— On Tuesday morning Mr Weldon, the Master of the North Dublin Workhouse, was attacked his own office by two male inmates, who would have murdered him but ...

STRANGE POORHOUSE INCIDENTS

... where being ill and in great poverty, he was sent to the above-mentioned workhouse. His remains were privately interred at his native place. Another strange story of this same workhouse is that of an incorrigible old dipsomaniac, who was a perfect plague ...

Helpful to Peterhead

... gardening and painting, which io many workhouse* is done the inmi'es. When work was to be none, was found desirable to grant beer to the inmates an inducement to them perfo m the duty. In the interests the workhouse the Guardians might well have suspended ...

“dynamite abroad.”

... they should in a body to the Magistrates and ask them feed them. If they refused, the miners ought to fill the prisons and workhouses. This action would bring the masters to their senses. namite, the speaker said, was abroad, and before many days the Scottish ...

ENGLAND’S ARMY OF TRAMPS

... ambulate the country to the national disgrace. Living by begging ami petty theft, says the Earl of Meath, they pass from workhouse to workhouse without intention of seeing or accepting work ; they are parasites the body politic, demoralising and degrading all ...

ABERDEEN

... WARMING AM» VENTILATING Mansions, Private Houses, Greenhouses, Churches, Schools. Otlices. Banks, Buops, arehouse». Workshops, Workhouses, Asylums, ami Public Bund ...

Literature

... opportunities of knowing what ia going on at the work-houae, through the meetings, open to ratepa* ers and reporters, at the work-house and the Testry, and through the reports in the local newspaper*. But the Poor-Law administration docs not exterminate distress ...