... great annual fair, which usually fixes the price hops for the season, took place Saturday last. Sellers were as thick as blackberries, and prices, for the choicest sorts, did no* reach .CI. may quote business done as ranging between 655. and 785. ...

... d boys are busy in the woods. Gathering the ripe nuts, bright and brown In shady lanes the children stray, Looking for blackberries through the day. Those berries of such old renown ! trey mists at morn brood o'er the earth, Shadowy as those on northern ...

... : The morning mist and evening haze, Unlike the cold, grey rime, Seem'd woven waves golden air When I was my prime. And blackberries, so mawkish now, Were finely flavour'd then. And hazel nuts such clusters thick ne'er shall pluck again. Nor strawb'rtes ...

... —Several articles of silver plate were on Tuesday week discovered a hedge Lassington, Gloucestershire, by some women who were blackberrying. The plate turns out to be part of the proceeds of burglary committed six years ago at the house Dr. Marsden, Great Malvern ...

... against them for damaging a number of trees, the property of Lord Ward. It appeared they broke the trees while gathering blackberries. On refusing to pay the costs, to be fined Is. and costs, or 14 days. Trespass.— Leonard Wells, a respectably-dressed youth ...

... an examination made of the natural curiosities the Parish. There was little to interest the botanist, save abundance of blackberries, many the strange fungus tribe, and some few ferns. The •* bright, brief, autumn*! day, drew only too quickly to a close ...

... set the rick o» fire, and alleging as reason that hunger had driven him so, as he had for a long time subsisted only on blackberries ana turnips. He will be brought before the magistrates to-morrow. Jangle among the Bellmen.—A curious scene occurred at ...

... belonging to Mr. W. J, Norton, St. Sidwell's, Exeter, proof of the extremely ] mild season, and its prolonged continuance. Blackberries. —The hedges and woods in the neighbourhood of this city are this season literally covered with b'ackberries, and hundreds ...

... which are known, but also the richest fruits, such as the apple, pear, peach, plum, apricot, cherry, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, ire. ; namely, that no fossils of plants belonging to tbis family bave ever been discovered by geologists! This he regarded ...

... The offence took place on Friday last at Harber Hill. Several girls, varying from seven to ten years old, were gathering blackberries, prisoner met them, and after talking with them for some time, proceeded to the offence complained of, until taken into ...

... jumping out of their carriage and making themselves as small as possible. Ascents of Mont Blanc are getting almost as common blackberries. The Rev. Christ. Smyth, one of the curates of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, has lately ascended to the highest point of Monte ...

... Robinson, a travelling draper, of Doncaster, has been found iv a ditch near Sheffield, two children who were gathering blackberries. It bore themaiksof severe injuries, and near the place a pool of blood was discovered, and marks upon the grass as though ...