... WORKHOUSE MUTINY. Ten stalwart men were sent to gaol for fourteen days at Maidenhead on Saturday for mutiny at the workhouse. They were given a pound of calunn apiece to pick, but they declined either to do the work or take their discharge. When they ...

... WORKHOUSE SCANDAL Limerick city magistrates held a special sitting for the hearing of charges of conspiracy and corrupt practices in connection with election of a medical officer to Limerick Workhouse hospital last March. Four defendants— McJ. Hewett ...

... TO AVOID THE WORKHOUSE. A pathetic story of the struggle of a man and his wife to keep out of the workhouse was told at an inquest at St. Pancras on Saturday, on Edwin Reed, a ship's cook, who died in the parish infirmary. The widow said her husband was ...

... WORKHOUSE ROMANCE. The romantio marriage of a member of the local board of guardians and an inmate of the workhouse will, it is stated, shortly take place at Hull. The future bride's father was formerly a well-to-do man in the city, but since his death ...

... WORKHOUSE CENTENARIAN. Taken to the Chichester Worklibuse 100 years ago as a babe, Mrs. Eliza Parndell recostly celebrated her 100th birthday in the house. As a child she remained in the workhouse until she was old enough to go out into service, and a ...

... all their lives, our old people should constantly be compelled to come into the workhouse before they died. He had nothing to say against the administration of the workhouses, but they involved loss of home, loss of independence, and the sundering of the ...

... HONEYMOON IN WORKHOUSE. Two inmates of the Newport, Monmouthshire, Workhouse—William Stevens, aged M, and Harriet Charlotte Johnson, a widow, aged 61—were married on Monday at St. David's Church, Bettws, near Newport. The couple were married without fee ...

... WORKHOUSE ON FIRE. Great alarm was caused on Sunday night by an outbreak of fire at the Isle of Wight Workhouse, near Newport. It originated in the bakehouse, and the flames soon founs their way through the roof of a portion the building. The children's ...

... WORKHOUSE ROMANCE. A workhouse romance was reported from Rollesby, near Yarmouth, where the rector of the parish, who is chairman of the guardians, informed the board that a gentleman bad selected one of the inmates of the workhouse to be his wife, and ...

... WORKHOUSE GRUMBLERS. Complaints by paupers of the treatment they receive have of late considerably increased in number. All that the grumbler has to do (remarks the City Press) is to address a letter to the Local Government Board bringing an army ...

... WORKHOUSE SEWAGE. Meows. Balfour soot in the estimate for this work, the figures of whit*, were they published, would surprise the ratepayer. Salt/TM/7 Present—Messrs. N. Sturges (in the chair), Hard ing, J. H. Robinson. Young, and the Rev. H. F Chipperfield ...

... MARCH TO THE WORKHOUSE. West Ham unemployed marched in large numbers to the workhouse. Their leaders interviewed the Guardians, suggesting that there should be a conference with the Unemployed Committee, with a view to mitigating the distress which prevailed ...