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... fell consequence/. Oar the engineers immediately called him roll the railway into the inside of the road, the engine being then going back to the place from which had been moved. The deceased rolled two or three yards before it, but both his legs were caught ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1840
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4420 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

State of Trade.—Since our last report hare improvement to iiieiitiou in any one branch of our cotton trade ; a

... gentlemen, enthusiastic sportsman, of Warrington, was sitting in the parlour with his mother, when there came a bird fluttering to a branch opposite the window, and pitched upon that for its resting-place. The young sportsman was immediately seized with ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1840
Newspaper: Blackburn Standard
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7906 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

COMPANY THE RECEIPTS for the Spring Quarter are the possession of the Agent ready for delivery by applying to Mr

... peculiarly happy The author’s style is exceedingly anecdotic and amusing and the work promises to be redolent of fun THE SPORTSMAN FOR MARCH 24 Norfolk-Street Strand The ptesent is the third number of new Series of this popular periodical and we hail with ...

HtiU'g‘®i?tgtftal Select SONNET ON OLD BROOM man kick’d Exalted into nothing— I presume luckless wight is Henry ..

... Judah’s heights around That at the portal of a tomb Roman guard patrolled new-made grave against whose mouth mighty stone rolled Slow tramped the guard hollowly the armour’s heard all still upon the hill and note vine leaf siirred j The neighbouring city ...

VARIETIES,

... curdy. Although fresh salmon is generally sought, and is generally esteemed, a day's hanging is a manifest improvement.— • sportsman in Ireland. THE PASSING OF THE PRESF:NT CORN LAW, IK • 1615.-6th March: Great outrages have been committed against the members ...

Published: Monday 18 May 1840
Newspaper: Liverpool Albion
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 11642 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

RE opENING OF EaTON HALL AND THE GROUNDS. —We are happy to learn that our noble neighbour, the Marquess of

... the companion of Royalty, and both Bishop Heber and Mr. Sheridan have spoken of his superior talents with admiration. As a sportsman he was well known to foxhunters as a man of great judgment in the * noble seience ;’ and, on one occasion, alter having for ...

Published: Friday 29 May 1840
Newspaper: Chester Chronicle
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7876 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... of domestic tranquillity by warring upon the antlered denizens of the waste. Besides a preference for other weapons, the sportsman, necessarily habituated to a bow of feeble range, grew mistrustful of its powers in more serious contests—those mightier ...

BEATRICE MERGER

... blacked his boots, waited at his table and finally, as he assures us, told him such a story of her childhood as would have done honour to the natu- or the ral and happy invention pathetic humour of Sterne. is the beginning of it :— My father died, said ice ...

Published: Friday 31 July 1840
Newspaper: Chester Chronicle
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4289 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

the Archbishop of Canterbury The former I'r-'late averred that the Bishops had been trepani.e«l into ..

... the advantage of an illuminated clock, and advancing as it is in the general march of improvement, it is hound for its own honour to set •.bout removing this badge of inferiority I Appi.fby Assizfs. —This day is the commission- day for the commencement ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1840
Newspaper: Kendal Mercury
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 4141 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

F.NNERDALE RACES

... that he has, by acting thus, gained Ihe icputaiion ol coward and we woutd hintalsoto Tomlinson that bought prizes reflect no honour upon him, and that in luture the more ha trusts to his power and the lets to his pocket (be belter it will be for bis lame ...

PRESTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1840

... £8 in copper had been e taken away. Various articles of drapery were disturbed It but nothing of any amount, except a few rolls of ribband, was to taken from the ?? house of Mrs. Eceles, of the t' 'Watering Trough Inn, Water Lane, was also robbed of about ...

Published: Saturday 03 October 1840
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 13603 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER

... street have just Williams's library in Red- been removed thence, and are at their office in ith the Registration Commissioners, Rolls’ yard, Chancery. The commissioners are empowered to receive, at any time Previous to the 9th of Noven. ber, any non parochial ...

Published: Friday 30 October 1840
Newspaper: Chester Chronicle
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2022 | Page: 3 | Tags: none