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... with a striking engraved portrait of the late Right Hon. Geo. Canning and good plate, an illustration of Burn's poem of Halloween. As to the Females in Fashionable Costume, they i are a group of the most wretchedly-executed things we have ever witnessed ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1832
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1808 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

intelligence. * The ftcconots from Med rid stetc s,A itnL, the Senate Toted on tint BUI for teetering the un»ld

... eot. moose far in 'he nostrils to come exactly between the poor eni• eyes. It i« believed that the bad been there since Hallowe’en, the pig was ree “•>•» st that time, without taking meat, and ***' ,loc « unwell, and not tbriviuz. —Pcrttuhirt ddetrtiter ...

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... it to Mr P Burke 2/. 7s. Gd., and wit rson paid the porter 5s., J 1 ur- Gd. and | Margaret, wife of Hare. —Remembers last Hallowe'en 1 and his wite, slept in witness's Pca n- whentwo persons, Gray hey Cat from Burke's, who asked tha t sbe would give th ...

LITERATURE

... creditable, being two good plates, designed as illustrations of Burns'celebrated poems, The Cotter's Saturday Night, and Halloween ; a specimen of the Carnation richly coloured, and two well-executed coloured plates of Ladies in the most fashionable costume ...

Published: Saturday 15 September 1832
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2063 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE LATE HORRIBLE MURDERS IN EDINBURGH. TO OBTAIN SUBJECTS FOR DISSECTION

... washing her short gown ; it was white 't.'iped. (Identified the bed-gown.) Wito'cln 3 « Connaway's between eight and nine and Hallowe'en night. There were Connaway and Wlfe WiUi2, n Burke, and John Broggan, lad wh om he did not know, the old had «n en M'Dougal ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1829
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2527 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CHRISTMAS EVE

... season of omens, and usages exist for ‘gathering its auguries” having a resemblance tethose practised in acribed. Scouland at Halloween, which we have elsewhere de- OLD AND POPULAR CUSTOMS, * Domestic and religions rite Gave honour to the holy night: The damsel ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1846
Newspaper: Wiltshire Independent
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2763 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

of Macazine. Oct. : or Hallow E 31.—Many old day, which tet Bom of these custome seem to be the

... of 3 and probably now, where veg-nieco ledge of belief that them birth. The merely a source of amusement to thove who of Hallow-e’en are at present, it may be eupposed, Tre ILLUMIRATED October. @ Servant.—To those who are accus- tomed out their 3: the ...

Published: Thursday 31 October 1844
Newspaper: Dorset County Chronicle
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 3965 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Appointmbnti

... givß to oar view. The sea-girt city fair. He paints, and lot appears Or sad, or sober well deserves wreath. Who painted Hallowe’en.'' Mark where the sisters three, The lovely graces stand; gorgooß* colouring. From AayneUs’ Iklthful hand. Ha wakes our ...

THE DORSET COUNTY CHRONICLE AND SOMERSETSHHIE^G^

... and resolved returning to Ulasgow; but, she and her ion were both poor, this was to done by begging. On the morning before Hallowe’en, she was asking chanty in a grocer’s shop. There she was seen Willtam Burke, an Irishman, , who represented to this unsuspecting ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1829
Newspaper: Dorset County Chronicle
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 5881 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Southgate District of Roads

... the unfortunate and beat them out of the house. Let such persons, however, keep good watch upon their cabbage gardens next Halloween The mote important doings of the guixards are of theatrical character. There is one rode and grotesque drama which they arc ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1843
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
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DOMESTIC AMUSEMENTS Merry Christmas ! f little :M And their bearers ward you’d their little They’ve all cannot ..

... night of omens aud that practices exist for gathering its auguries having resemblance those of our northern neighbours at Halloween Many beautiful and some solemn superstitions belong to this night and the following morning It is stated Sir Walter Scott ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mirror
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 11810 | Page: 4 | Tags: none