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... several streams (there are eight as far the valley has been explored), forming waterfalls, which for height and beauty stand unrivalled. The most remark able of these, the Yosemite Fall, conies into the valley on the north side and falls at one leap 2,355 ...

Published: Friday 28 January 1859
Newspaper: Armagh Guardian
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3586 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

EUROPEAN LETTERS. HENRY W. BELLOWS, D.D. SOT “S™V. 9. >e«7. , Url.,he. tk* lh; „. ( burst out the violent

... an- ■ 4 ennset a couple hours- That ‘TofSe in the midst of which the Flitch'’ hangs its scarf mist, reminds rLly of the Yosemite valley « its gene? though wanting m beauty.— ral featur , ° , q,. f the Yesemite is tTthal Staub-bach.” although it S SS”«»d ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1867
Newspaper: Armagh Guardian
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1035 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

UNFINISHED STILL

... with them ; and that is fan 1 rum Young men, I appeal to you—what is it for a man to get drunk.? Come with me to the Yosemite Valley in California. Yonder stands that mighty rock, El Capitan, a mile away. It seems in this clear, dry atmosphere as if you ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1887
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1047 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Revid*

... whose little world of small intermit levee and quarrels, hatred sod friendships, has palmed ave.). The writer on the I Yosemite Valley continues his interesting account of nature in that glorious land; and the article entitled Our Naval Arms appears at ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1890
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 904 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

A WIFE AND A POLICEMAN SHOT

... Zambesi are but 100 ft., but the enormous mass of water gives it a grandeur su , it is said, the majestic Niagara. In the Yosemite Valley there is said to be • fall of 2550 ft., but this is broken into three leaps, and the volume of water is not equal to that ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1891
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 567 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE RESTLESS RHODES

... at Brighton, and changed only one or two words in the subsequent delivery of it. A wens occurred at a meeting of the Yosemite Valley Commissioners last week, when *ld John Hutchins, the passer of the famous begged piteously for the privilege of living ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1895
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7491 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

EPITOME OF NEWS

... ewe-lins Yeast Shasta. sad Hum the remaining 14.000 ft. to the summit. Her subeareat ascest of the Cloud Rest Peek the Yosemite Valley also Mtasoted some &steatite. Ye- &WMr used, ia his eloquently suggestive way. to decline to atesuipt to agarprel vast ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1895
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3798 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

STAGE COACHES HELD UP

... STAGE COACHES HELD UP. From Fresno City (California) comes the news that a highwayman robbed five Yosemite Valley stage coaches in succession near Ahwahnee on Saturday night. He wore a black mask, and had sacks tied about his feet to prevent the leaving ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1906
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

The Story of a Pet Snake,

... killing 92 men, and losiog 20 killed. A telegram from Fresno City, California, states that a Lighwayman robbed five Yosemite Valley stage coaches in succession pear Ahwabuee on Monday evening. # With play after play failicg, and theatre after theatre ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1906
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 483 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

PRINCE FUSHIMI'S VISIT

... owner. were paid indemnity at the rate of £26 a head. The highest waterfall in the world is in the Yosemite Valley, Mariposa Co., California. The Yosemite River drops over precipices 2,800 ft. high in three separate plunges, of which the Ant is a sheer ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1907
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2056 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A PYJAMA PARTY

... of Mr. Galen Clark, in his ninety-sixth year, California has lost the man who had done more than any other to make her Yosemite Valley known as one of the wonders of the world. It was in 1857 that he discovered the Mariposa Grove of sequoias, otherwise ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1910
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 380 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

STORIES OF AN ARTIST

... couple of days in the Yosemite galley. a Mr. Brown tacked himself on to him on the way there. He cross-examined him most minutely. even to the price of his garments. and discovered that he was an artist. The first night in the valley. at dinner, he asked ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1912
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: 2 | Tags: none