... BONFIRE NIGHT. All round the bonfires blazing, Keeping up old customs dear. Young and old around them gather. With a hope to meet next year. Brightly shines the waving fsuthogs A« it’s carried and fro: Plain are heard (he cheers of gladness Simple hearts ...

... BONFIRE NIGHT. , Os flatnrday night last the usual cuntom of lighting ' huge bonfires in the centre of the streets. and in close proximity to thatched houses, was duly observed in ' Sligo. and towards midnight blame after blase, in many instances a ...

... MIDSUMMER CUSTOMS. BONFIRE NIGHT LEGENDS. : Midsnmmer Day, ss we regard it, occurs 'upon the twenty-fourth of June, the festival ‘of St John the Baptist. In former ages the B ptist’s feast was celebrated by bontires and ‘torchlight processions, but as ...

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... Bonfire Night. A STORY OF ST. JOHN'S EVE. By T. M. HIM.; M.P. No, little care I what gaves.rise to the honoured custom of bonfires on St. John's Eve, nor whether it be Christian or pagan; ell! know is that observance ever brought inn and frolic in its ...

... FALSE ALARM. u (Uted that on Thnrtday night, the eve of St. John, and commonly known ai bonfire night. piece of lighted tnrf was thrown over the wall of the military barracks. The nearest sentry duty—of whom there are nightly orer a dozen round the walls ...

... annoyances upon head of complaints had been already made to him. While he was not dispose I interfere with such an old custom (Bonfire night) which was looked us occasion for public amusement the magistrates should on the other hand guard against danger annoyance ...

... pulpits with the Rev Mr Mayne, who occupied the pulpit in Ballaghameeghan. Boarian NIGHT.—The traditionary usage of 'Bonfire Night' was observed in the usual way on Sunday night la,t. The whole country around from Drumeliff to hills around Bilauorhamilton ...

... Beigid. Fart 11. CAMERON OF LOG KIEL. THE STORY OF PRINCE CHARLIE’S MOST CHIVALROUS HIGHLAND FOLLOWER. With a Portrait. bonfire night. A TALE OF ST. JOHN’S EVE. T. M. Hkaly. Also Poems, Paragraphs, Sketches Grave and Gay, and a variety of useful and en ...

... was abusing: her he was blind drunk in bel, for the truth of which be called upon the Police to corroborate, as it was bonfire night, and, us » matter of course, he would not be sober on such un oceason. ~ The magistrates disregarded the alibi, and fined ...

... they refused to tell, whereupon he summon then:. Defendants said they were *.ways in the habit of lighting it, as it was bonfire night. When directed they pat it out, The chairman said when they wanted a bonfire, they have it in a held. Defendants did not ...

... inserted ou it, for which he was fined 6d and costs. John Casey (butcher) imprudently arrested several glasses grog last Bonfire night and conveyed them under escort to the police barrack. The court would have permitted John to pay 5s and costs, only that ...