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A PEEP INTO THE litinDt WORKHOUSE

... A PEEP INTO THE litinDt WORKHOUSE. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. sap the adage. Tempted by the eemi-sommer weather of last week I took • stroll as far as those prodigious buildings occupied (as the master of the establishment afterwards ...

Published: Wednesday 20 February 1884
Newspaper: Eskdale and Liddesdale Advertiser
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1902 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OFT TO Tad Thew whom God bath joined together let no man put Sin*. We have sold the hitt Ben,

... ours nose a helping thought can gain. But the sot who boozes hardest the pot-booze porch before, Nay mock, Work finds the workhouse, and so sloth can do no more ! My temper's none the sweetest, and the first, Yet you seemed to love me dearer but the more ...

ONE PENNY. MILLINERY. MI.RS HUNTER rempeotfupy inti . matee that she has wow ready for tompectson a varied and ..

... exteuding backwards to David street. coosi.tiog of 3 SHOPS and a PRINTING-OFFICE, with DWELLING HOUSES above. and a Yard Mid Workhouse hehiud, presently occupied Iry Messrs Wslt.•r Wilson. Stationer; Joseph Anderson, Watchmaker ; William I.:astou. Ural.. Dealer ...

VILLAGE SPORTS

... slavish and joyleas life, with neither hope nor gladness—unremitting toil and drudgery, ' week in and week out,' with only the workhouse in prospect for old age, would not argue a Christian-mindat contentment and devout submission, but rather a degraded ignorance ...

A bees coin manufactory was discovered in Man. chaster on Saturday morning. By an explosion of petroleum in ..

... already been got. Simms or BURNINO.—The determined suicide of a female inmate of the Liverpool Workhouse Asylum wee repotted at a meetinw of the Workhouse Committee on Thursday. She beaks away from the custody o en attendant in the yard on Wednesday night ...

Published: Wednesday 21 August 1889
Newspaper: Eskdale and Liddesdale Advertiser
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1011 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A CUP OF

... afforded to the minority by the removal of the snow from the highways and streets ; but the overflowing condition of the workhouses and the universal stagnation of trade bore eloquent testimony to the tyranny of old Father Christnisa in an uncongenial ...

Published: Wednesday 23 December 1891
Newspaper: Eskdale and Liddesdale Advertiser
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 568 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

N ZWCASTLITON

... taken advantage of and much appreciated. HIGHWAY BOARD.—The usual meeting of the Long• town Highway Board was held at the Workhouse on Tuesday, under the presidsacy of the Rev. M. R. Graham. Mr Martin Sutherland reported that the amount expended on the ...

Published: Wednesday 28 December 1887
Newspaper: Eskdale and Liddesdale Advertiser
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1302 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... Mary congratulating the members on the success of the S co tt, weaver, aged 22 years. dinners recently introduced into the workhouse, At West Street here, on the 27th ult. James 57 years. saEnidoinnrdriaariestohatdhebeesanviortces i ti v e es c i w from ...

THE ESKDALE AND LIDDESa

... THE ESKDALE AND LIDDESa the magistrate diacharged the poor creature, and sent him back to the workhouse a hence he had issued ; while he directed a summons to lone against the master. When the case was heard last week the evident* of the lad, and of ...

TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY

... Garnet Wolseley testified in favour of abstinence for the army. Ex Bailie Lewis found that of 607 inmates of the Edinburgh Workhouse 407 had been reduced to pauperism in consequence of drink, while not one of the inmates was a total abstainer. Lord Napier ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1883
Newspaper: Eskdale and Liddesdale Advertiser
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 683 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ANCIENT ROME

... brings misery and crime and wretched poverty to thousands of limner, in city, village, and hamlet, and fills our jails and workhouses with criminals and paupers, and but for evil habits and centime need never be known. This we may note in the I tounyhrook ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1883
Newspaper: Eskdale and Liddesdale Advertiser
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 679 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE EASTERN QUESTION

... Dalmeny, Charles Uerrish, a pauper, 70 years of age, excented at Devizes on Monday for the murder of another old inmate of the workhouse. Atuoug the rejected candidater for the (Alice of cbief-4.wnstable for Birwiughaw, iu the place of Major Bond, at a salary ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1882
Newspaper: Eskdale and Liddesdale Advertiser
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 902 | Page: 3 | Tags: none