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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 ...

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 EXTRAORDINARY STORY

... EXTRAORDINARY STORY Mr H. Woolbridge, the labour master at Hamblcdon Union Workhouse, Surrey, who is serving with the 7th Mounted Infantry, has written a letter to the master of the workhouse stating that the Boers have cut the surnames out of the head-stones ...

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 ...

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 ...

e * Reprinted by permission of the Editur of « Soottish Notes and Queries,” from the ies of articles bearing ..

... his wife at 86, he had to go to the workhouse, a fund was raised by Mr Pearse to get him out of it. and he was comfortably lodged witha farmer for some years. But ho was not happy. He drifted back into the workhouse, where, at all events, ho had plenty ...

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 ...

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... conveyed to the Manchester Workhouse last Tuesday, under circumstances which have been already reported in the newspapers, After ‘hearing the evidence-of the medical officers and other officials cennected with the workhouse, the follow- Ing resolution ...

JOHN WESLEYS ‘METHOD OF CURING

... to go into the Bechnal Green workhouse to be confined. He then left her, and enlisted as a soldier in the UIth Rifles, Wit ness, who bad been able to grt vo work at her trade for several months, then went into the workhouse and gave birth to a child. Se ...