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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 

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 

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 

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 neighbourhood thrashing machines worked by horses Pr as were out of date, and steam-engines were as plentiful as of in blackberries.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 

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 

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 

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 

METROPOLITAN MEMORANDA

... Nicholas, says, or rather insinuates, De Custine, and now sonse other De Custine will supply you with reasons plentiful as blackberries (in their season) why Alexander the Second has paid the same compliment to Nicholas. Meanwhile, the question under discussion ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2757 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LANCASTER ASSIZES

... degree p'oisonous. -In cases of purging and vomiting I Ii might recommend blackberry wine. Buttermilk porridge would e Irritate the stomach still more If taken either In blackberry wine r or mussels. I do nutthink either antimony or arsenic leave tho t ...

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 

LOCAL LITERATURE IN THE LAST CENTURY

... The Farmesr. . The Lark' eshrill niote. e, 6. Platos advice. 7. Old Boreas. ?? When the rosy b morn appearing. 9. Betty Blackberry.l Onsomeofithe ,y title pages there appears, after the impriot, l Preston5. printed by B. Sergent, in the Market plaoe; ...

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