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... some excellent. casts of fruit and foliage from nature, prepared as art studies for schools. The list comprises apples, blackberries, hops, sunlowers, and lilies. The colour makers are well represented by a very at- tractive display, in which most of the ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 1862
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1259 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MERTHYR LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... prize matches on the Merthyr ground, that the shooting was ex- ceedingly good. Bull's-eyes and centres were as plentiful as blackberries in October, and the chief misses were in the shortest, or 200 yards' range. This shows how judiciously a few prizes operate ...

Published: Friday 12 September 1862
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 790 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE DISTRICT

... appeared that the deceased was taken out by an elder sister Mary Evans, who with some other children were going in search of blackberries. They strolled away as far as the Glyndurris pond, the property of the Glamorganshire Canal Company, the water of which ...

CASE OF COLONEL WAUGII

... from Marseilles, Lucca, and elsewhere, speaking of the infirm state of his health, and medical certificates as plenty as blackberries. A state- ment, signed by Messrs. Linldater, states that the bank- rupt was one of the directors of the London and Eastern ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1176 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

OUR MISCELLANY. --

... anecdote of the Warrenton Rifle Corps. One day he told us that a countryman had come into camp with a quantity of blackberry pies. Blackberries in America are a much finer fruit than those ripened by our faint English sun, and are quite popular in their ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1752 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE PROSCRIBED IRONCLADS

... the apple of discord has been thrown in its midst, and heart-burnings and ill-feelings promise to spring up as thick as blackberries in autumn. Penarth occupies neutral ground. It does not enjoy any form of local government, and is in some respects a proof ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1863
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1132 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

.LL AN DOUGH

... that On Monday last, ahout 11 o'clock, the deceased had gone out with some other children from the neighbourhood to gather blackberries on the side of the Clynmul pond; deceased's tin jack fell in the pond and it is supposed that in trying to pick it up he ...

PONTYPOOL

... reaped a fair share. Theatrical booths were few in number, but nut, orange, and ginger- bread sellers were as plentiful as blackberries, and the new swindle of selling a penny purse full of money (?) for a shilling-a transaction in which none but the greatest ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1864
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 920 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

EPITOME OF NEWS. -

... was 26,621, with 8,520,303 tons. A large Scotch pearl was found the other day Inverury. It- was about the size of a large blackberry, .weighed twenty-three grains, and was ro'und and perfectly pure. It was sold for £34. Scotland, says a contemporary, is ...

Published: Saturday 09 July 1864
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2772 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

::fUWUffl BOMCB COUTKE

... Edward Gardner there; he was picking blackberries; he gave me David Morgan's name.— Cross-examined, —The three men were in their working clothes I bad seen Morgan before that day.—Edward Gardner,-l was picking blackberries on Davies's land on the morning of ...

EPITOME OF HEWS. --

... for tres- passing in a wood belonging to the Misses Starkey, of Hatton-hall, and taking therefrom, on the 4th of October, blackberries (wild brambles) of the value of 6d., or there- abouts. The gamekeeper stated he had cautioned the de- fendant more than ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1864
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1611 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ABERDARE

... —Ann Jones and Elizabeth Jones were charged with trespassing on Messrs. Nixon and Co.'sland, in Mountain Ash, gathering blackberries. Fined 6d. and ltd. damages and the costs.- Moses Rowlands was charged with assaulting William Lawton. Defendant is managing ...