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AGRICULTURAL MEETINGS

... arts of no mean character, where, fifty years ago, it was a proverbial taunt to the natives, that they could not get even a blackberry to ripen. ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1620 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

POETS AND POETRY

... a sofa. Can it, then, be said, with any show of truth, that the elements of poetry are not as common and as plenty as blackberries 2 All art is poetical; and a taste for art redeems man from the sordid selfishness which is sure to gather round him during ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1851
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4007 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... their entrance into the fourth field from the road, Mrs. Salter was taken suddenly ill, when in the act of gathering, a few blackberries, and expired almost in- stantly. She was previously in delicate health. The 8 distracted and disconsolate husband immediately ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1851
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1772 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... petticoat was of white silk, trimmed with Flite tulle and white ribandis. Her Majesty wore round ber head a wreath composed of blackberries and diamonds. TIrE Two ARTIIuRs.-The Duke of Wellimgton will complete his 83rd year on May-day, and Prince Arthur Patrick ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1852
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7942 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... community. Be aware of the wolf in sheep's clothing. You will have Free-traders and professors of liberality as plentiful as blackberries until after the election; but rest assured that, if you send a majority of this new-fangled material, Lord Derby will mould ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1852
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2519 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

DESCRIPTION OF CANADA

... made), ironwood, sassagrass, &c, besides many trees, such as pine, oak, &c., found in England. Black and red raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, straw- berries, and grapes grow wild in abundance, not so good as the cultivated ones. English thorn fences ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1852
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1450 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

ELECTION OF CORONER

... be poured on at first. Blackberries are extremuely useful in cases of dysentery. To eat the berries is very healthy ; tea made of the roots and leaves is beneficial, and a syrup made of the berries is still better, Blackberries have some times effected ...

Published: Saturday 13 November 1852
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6103 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... the effects of eat'lu tie root of a poisonous plant, which the children had gathere while out in the fields seeking for blackberries. THF BISHOP OF MANCHESTER has been officiatng the Bishop of Durham at several confireatieno latelg for the diocese of the ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8479 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

BLACKBURN

... Fanny Fold, and avas drowned. The deceased had crept through a hedge which overhun~g the -v. maoutha of the pit to gather blackberries, and slipped over Its the bank at theother side. Verdict, Accidental death.p id JUBILEE OF TtOE BIBLE SOCIETY AT PADIBAm ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3419 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MR. MECHI ON THE FARMING OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE

... neighbourhood thrashing machines worked by horses Pr as were out of date, and steam-engines were as plentiful as of in blackberries. ?? believed that his expenditure was re- t a., munerative, and that if they were to see his crops this th a- year they ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1854
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1608 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... afternoon last, the deceased went along the canal side, in company with two other children, for the purpose of gathering blackberries. When they arrived at the new lime kiln, the deceased, whilst trying to'catch some of the insects that swim on the surface ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1854
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3561 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE WAR

... to accounts of successes is pleasanter employment than to hearken to excuses for fail- ure, which arealways as plenty as blackberries,but If ever a man could justify his inaction, we are convinced that Sir Charles, Napier will be found to be that man. In ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1854
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1279 | Page: 4 | Tags: News