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... conten-i against a great deal in his district, for. the infamous COpperheads, Syinpathisers with the South, were us thick as blackberries, and he often felt as if he would like thrashing a man to 1ef a Christian virtue, that he might have the privleg. of digging ...

Published: Wednesday 06 May 1863
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1647 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

AMERICA

... the ap- pearance of tbh applcnt. If decently apparelled they will extract $10 or $20; i a poor person wishes to get a few blackberries to eke out a sub- sistence by selling them about the streets, $1 is the charge. I know a British subject who is now negotiating ...

Published: Tuesday 12 May 1863
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 764 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... clover), Trifeli un officinale (melilot), Mentha v iridis.(spear mint), Ballota nigra (black hore- hound), ftiuesfruticosaa (blackberry), Rlubsidseus (rasp. berry), Ioeria amirar (common candytuft), Ulex Europa us (common furze), Plzantago ladceelata' (ribwort ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6493 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGNCE._

... Sunday . Plfternoon, a boy named John Wright, aged about 14, adl his little sister, aged only three years, Vere gathering blackberries adjacent to th6 Parr Copper Weor;s, and near to the Sankey Brook, in Parr when the Child dropped her basket into the brook ...

Published: Tuesday 06 October 1863
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 3821 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... them that ?? fears were groundless A sad accident occurred at St. Helens on Sunday even- ing. Some children were picking blackberries on a breok side, when the basket of one little girl, named Whittle, fell into the water. The child was trying was trying ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5819 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FOOT NOTES THROUGH DORSET AND DEVON

... climb after it, a feat not at all cal- culated to make you happy if you are wearing knicker- bockers, and there are any blackberry plants in the fence. A sharp walk of a mile brought me to the intelligent man, whose kindness had saved me from a weary ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3223 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FOOT NOTES THROUGH DORSET AND DEVON

... After walking two or three miles down the muddy, but very beautiful, lane, occasionally stopping to gather a few ripe blackberries, or to inhale the perfume of some little wild flower, a still narrower lane led away sol thwards. A small sign-board informed ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3220 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FOOT NOTES THROUGH DORSET AND DEVON

... prisoner in Bedford gaol. Up hill, through th, some Devonshire lanes, in one of which a sturdy-legged of girl was gathering blackberries. Of course I spoke fr to her, and was answered in a dialect broader even than we the Dorsetshire. I had better not attempt ...

Published: Saturday 12 December 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5686 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CHRISTMAS PANTOMIMES, &c

... like a hen stealing?-A cock robin (robbing). When auliggar dies, what do his frieads, -the other' niggers -Why they go a blackberrying (burning). to be sure. ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1863
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 6704 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... that ripe blackberries are now frequently to be found in the hedge-rows in this part of Devonshire and the borders X of Somerset. On the last day of the old year a youth I called Nelder, of this town, picked a very fine bunch of . ripe blackberries on Exeter-hill ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1864
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 10035 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S LAST JOKE

... and laughs as heartily as ever. At his reception one evening last week in the White House the negroes were as thick as blackberries in Jersey. Among them was a coloured barber named Burke; be was an applicant for an office in the New York custom house ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1864
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 520 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

TRAVELS IN MARCH OF RECREATION

... too near t and too common to be worthy of notice.' It is an age of C Bibles in penny numbers; and you must not pluck a p blackberry from the roadside hedge; for does not the SI sacred volume prohibit all manner of work upon the la Lord's day; but you ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1864
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2417 | Page: 3 | Tags: News