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... their peculiar value? Tlf Mr. Mactear’s erystals are what he thinks them to be, dinmonds may soon become as *“ plentiful as blackberries’’; and the historical gems of St. Petersburgh, Borneo, India, and England will become mere specimens of brilliant but cheap ...

PROVISIONS

... couple ; pigeons, 6s; pheasants, 63 6d to 7s : grouse, 5s to 6s ; partridges, 3s to 3s 6d per brace ; hares, 4s each ; blackberries, 24 and 34 ; damsons, 3d per 1b ; potatoes, 6d to 8d ; apples, 1s 3d to 2s per stone, GaxsporoueH, Tuesday.—Fowls, 3s to ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1898
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 639 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AGRICULTURAL NOTES

... asalthough T wag over a considerable extent of country on Saturday I enly saw two. I never venember seeing such a crop of blackberries in any year, In favonrad situations the be ries are turni=g black, buttho bulk a e yet red, hanging from tho trees at the ...

FIELD AND GARDEN

... of blackberries this year are some compensation for the dearth of plums. A month ago there seemed small chance of the useful hedge fruit ripening in the present seasop, but the ucusaal hext has brought, after all, an abundance of rips blackberries, which ...

It is ramoured that Sir Greaves,K.C.M.G. is to succeed the Duke ofemnught in his Indian commana. There has been a

... suddenly after eating a ?umlity of blackberries. He vomited violently after eating them, and the medical evidence went to shew that death was due to convulsions consequent upon diarrheea caused by eating the blackberries. According to statistics issued by ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1889
Newspaper: Lancaster Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1742 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

THE DECORATIONS IN THE CHURCHES

... decoration. The pillars were encircled with wreathes of ivy. The font was artistically ornamented by Miss M. Jackson with blackberry leaves showing their antamnal tints, and a eross of white everlastings, while fine sprays of ivy were applied to the pedestal ...

Pastures the varmint made good his escave, al- Tue spell is broken at last, and Belgrave St though e was

... Cotgrave to Clipstone u:m o & arowd to wiknges'3b. Moy Plantation, and finally hounds ran out of scent and —— lost near to on Blackberry Hill. The next customer CVYCLING has now commenced in earnest, the prohailed from Roe Hoe, and gave rather better verbial ...

SEASONABLE NOTES

... we have iron in a very marked degree, also in all the red and black fruits—to wit, red and black currants, raspberries, blackberries, &e. Those who suffer from poverty of blood would do well to make black currants their standard fruit. In cabbage, peas ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1899
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 878 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

wome and Gencval News

... measures are suggeated. —Spectator. A Bath farmer, William Fletcher, has been beating two youug ladies with a stick for blackberrying in his fields. Their backs were really hurt, painful, and much swollen. He does not appear to have been drunk, but wome ...

BELVOIR

... by Her Grace the Duchess of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle, on Wednesday next. The Annual Athletic Sports will take place at Blackberry Hill, in tbe afternoou, after tve distribution, and we have no doubt that, should the occasion be favoured with fine weather ...

SATURDAY, MAY 28TH, 1892

... SATURDAY, MAY 28TH, 1892. Dissolution rumours are almost as abundant as blackberries are on the brambles in August. The Radical newspapers each moraing profess | to have received special information which enables them to fix with certainty the date of ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1892
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 933 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MIDHURST COTTAGERS,

... Dish of Damsons.—No entries. Best Dish of Currants.—l, Edward Laurence; 2, J. Whittington ; 3, Matthew Ayliug. Plate of Blackberries (for Children).—No entries. Best Collection of Window Flowers (four).— Calob Waller. Best Nosegay of Wild Flowers—l, 8 ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1889
Newspaper: Midhurst and Petworth Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 1599 | Page: 5 | Tags: none