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... without intermission, continued with terrific grandeur. It is reported here that two womeu of Hatherleigh, who were picking blackberries, were struck dead hy the electric fluid. Many of our townsfolk, and others our adjoining parishes, bad tbat day taken a ...

Published: Thursday 28 September 1848
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 579 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... can send a letter thousand miles for and buy a week's reading for twopence. We publish oooks faster than brambles bear blackberries, and produce P la ys as fast as the French write them. We can feed P » on ninepence halfpenny a day, and make artificial ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1846
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 571 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Army.— bare teen with great satisfaction, says the' Times, announcement of the intention' of Government for ..

... good-shaped cobs, and best ponies, were sold freely at good prices, some forest ponies making £ 8 each down to £3. Blackberry Jelly. —Blackberries (which are now aeascn) make a delicious jelly finer favour than that of any other fruit It made in the same manner ...

Published: Thursday 23 September 1847
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1456 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Honiton.-M. Catford was elected last week to the office of town counsellor, vacant the death of Mr. F. D. Wheaton,

... plenty. BucKFisTLEIGH. —The miscreants who fired the church last week are not detected. Monster brocolies are plentiful as blackberries at Michaelmas. Mr. C. Furneaux has white one measuring inches in circumference. In answer to an inquiry on the subject ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1849
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 687 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A CASE FOR LORD DEVON

... one. My father gives me ten acres out his fifty ; Nelly and I squat upon the little patch of land, get children plenty as blackberries. When the Mancipation Act comes, the franchise is riz, and I am turned adrift as a beggar. Reporter. Come, come, Tim, sorrow ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1844
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 727 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

O E T R Y. ' SLANDER. whisper woke the air, Scarce heard, 'twas mutteT'd low, Yet barb'd with

... shady lanes, where rustic swains may roam and court 1 ; and truant urchins birds' nests seek where The hip and haw, the blackberry and nut may grow. Methought some years had pass'd a .-ay ; and the ner.- Of Free was upraised and flaunting in the breeze ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1846
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 775 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

“THE TIMES” AND THE CASE OF DR. ROOKES

... misrepresentations in about as many lines, now we come to the wdful lies. They, too, are as thick in this little paragraph as blackberries September, and may be thus enumerated :— —That Dr. Rookes had for years past been living a life of open and abominable ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1849
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 836 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT

... poor man with one leg escaped by a miracle losing that one, and as it is much hurt; a lady much cut, aud bruises are like blackberries. As soon saw sufficient people attending the wounded, 1 sent an old gentleman, with a terribly crushed hat, one wav with ...

Published: Saturday 25 October 1845
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 830 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

gave judgment against the defendant he would be shot; he, however, did not shrink from deciding upon the case. A

... Tartar was sent from Constantinople on the 11th to act against the pirates in the Archipelago. A little boy was gathering blackberries, near Millport, a few days ago, along with his schoolfellows, when he fell over a precipice to the depth of 108 feet, unnoticed ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1849
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 798 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A fair Excuse. —One of the Jury at the Devon Sessions I Tuesday requested to be excused from serving. The

... ours, in the possession of a sailor, at Plymouth. If this war should continue, Chinese Rarities will become as plenty as blackberries; for the celestials seem to take to their heels on the slightest symptom of an attack, and to leave their jimcracks to ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1842
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 914 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

POETRY

... you'll only do this- Give us but a fair field for our labour. MOrMes. We no charity ask, &c. Douglas Jerrold's Newspaper. BLACKBERRY. ...

CONDENSED INTELLIGENCE

... tail, and weighing neatly four pounds, was killed by two policemen in Swansea, the other day. The vermin showed fight. Blackberries are very abundant this year. The editor of the Liverpool Times says that the wife and children of a labourer on his farro ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1846
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 922 | Page: 4 | Tags: none