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IRISH OUTRAGE IN NEW YORK

... dreadful affair has been committed to-day in O'Donovan Rossa’s Office. One Captain Phelan, who was the superintendent of the workhouse in Kansas City, received some time ago a written request to call at O'Donovan Rossa’s office. He accordingly did so, and ...

SHOCKING DEATH OF A LUNATIC. AN accident of Friday at the ij infirm & most character occurred on ary attached

... SHOCKING DEATH OF A LUNATIC. AN accident of Friday at the ij infirm & most character occurred on ary attached to the workhouse of St George-in-the-East, A man aame: d Coghlan bad been admitted to the infirmary, He was allowed to go iato the day-room, ...

AN UNGRATEFUL SON

... was sum- moned before the magistrates at Stratton, to show cause why be should not support bis aged mother, cow in the workhouse by whom he bad been brought up. The de- fendant’s solicitor admitted the relationship, and that he was possess-d of ample ...

EXTRAORDINARY CASE

... that every care bad been taken of it. A feeding: bottle was in the room. The relieving officer removed the child to the workhouse, where, however, it died on the 18th alt. Margaret Marley, the Jaodlady of the house in question, said tbe prisoners teck ...

A GHASTLY LIST

... meets her death in the same fashion. A poor house- Ednuu dies on the very day that he had brmbt imself to apply at the workhouse for admission from exhaustion. poeumonia, and heart disease. accelerated by exposure and want. A poor man, of whom nothing ...

THE CAMPBELTOWN COURIER—SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, i=7¢

... Louis XVIII. and Charles X. ) “,ADY MACBETH” IN THE WORKHOUSE.— At Clerkenwell Poliog-court, Loridon, Ann Baker, aliis * Lady Macbeth,” was charged with creating a diatarbance in St. Pancras Workhouse, wilfully breaking seven panes of glass, and violently ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1876
Newspaper: Campbeltown Courier
County: Argyll, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1354 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CROFTERS. CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST

... of the Liverpool Caledonian Association, enclosing information from the Liverpool workhouse and telling me that two families of fourteen persons were then in the workhouse, who came from North Carolina and were gui'R:o Stornoway on Saturday ror Princess ...

and Tused to make a few pence. It wasn’t so bad if father had been kind. But he was dreadfully

... tc bear up, and she took me to the workhouse, and at the workhouse the matron spoke to me and I was taken in. ‘I was confined on the Monday, and I had a dreadful time of It. They were very kind to me at the workhouse. I had lots to eat and drink, and they ...

Published: Saturday 22 May 1875
Newspaper: Campbeltown Courier
County: Argyll, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 756 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

GAMBLING HELLS IN DUBLIN

... AND SEE-SAW. The Guardiaus who the Workhouse gway, In Dover’s famous town, Pulled. for repairas, the other day, Their Mortuary down, About a yard acjicent flang Its mouldy relics lay, Wherein the dull eyed Workhouse young Pursued their dreary play. Rejnicing ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1876
Newspaper: Campbeltown Courier
County: Argyll, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 748 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OBAN

... followed the example of Bodyke. It was more manly for these men to go to prison for defending their homes than to go to the workhouse after tamely submitting to | ;:-m ?; Davitt lln:l into un:‘?odnon : views to Home Mr Gladstone, mh said, was the nr:’nn ...

Published: Saturday 09 July 1887
Newspaper: Campbeltown Courier
County: Argyll, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WHAT BECOMES OF WORN-OUT SEAMEN?

... allow. Biace its foundation in 1867, it has thus helped 1010 poer old seamen, who, else, must have ended life in the dreaded workhouse. 230 are now cor:- rdn;fwmmfl These men epend their ives 10 arduous service at sea, and in trying climstes; whereas, we, safe ...

A SAD END

... accorded to him, aud four soue time be mauaged to cke out an exiatenes, but two pears ago want aml destitution drove n to the workhouse at Westminster, to which inatitu- tion he bas been admitted thrice during the last 18 months, On Friday night two men over ...