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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 ...

()UR rflwm and our workhouses are filled with gvpl. ruined through drink. Our judges attribute the majority of ..

... ()UR rflwm and our workhouses are filled with gvpl. ruined through drink. Our judges attribute the majority of the crimes committed to the ssme cause, and our people are now thoroughly convinced that some radical cure must be found to reduce this national ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1892
Newspaper: Campbeltown Courier
County: Argyll, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 640 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

“When I left the workhouse, Thursday fortnight after baby was born, I didn’t know what to do. It was twelve

... “When I left the workhouse, Thursday fortnight after baby was born, I didn’t know what to do. It was twelve in the afternoon, and I went begging at all the oorners, but I coumldn’t get a halfpenny. Baby was with me all the time, and taking all my strength ...

Published: Saturday 22 May 1875
Newspaper: Campbeltown Courier
County: Argyll, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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 ...

LADY JOHN MANNERS AND TOOTHLESS PAUPERS

... zaar to raise funds for a chapel in the Melton Workhouse, showed how possible it is for • lady witu all the means of comfort and luxury to put herself spit. matically iuto the place of the inmates of a workhouse, and, as it were, feel their lohelinesa, their ...

PETTICOAT RULE

... lamplighter has been appointed. PAUPER BECOMES OFFICIAL. A young kl:nan who entered gu(Bucks) Workhouse as a pauper now been appointed assistant to the workhouse master, % INFANT'S TRAVEL RECORD. A Hull child can claim the infants’ travel record. She was ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1924
Newspaper: Campbeltown Courier
County: Argyll, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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 ...