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THE FAMINE IN INDIA

... and berries from trees; and that every night hundreds of poor 'wretches skulk about the streets of Caroor, picking up what wretched garbage they can collect; that the coolies are so weak that, when they first come to the Public Works Department for ...

Published: Tuesday 18 September 1866
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 745 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE VOYAGE OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH

... them, and a salute of 21 guns was fired. Honolulu is a fine place for amusements. Fruit grows in abundance, and you might pick and eat as much as you like on the plantation. They are ael in a con- fusion now (Friday, July 30) on deck, getting in sheep ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1869
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 665 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

WIGAN DISTRICT

... present. ROBBERY IN A BEER-ROUSE. - On Tuesday last, Michael Sullivan was apprehended in Hindley, on the charge of having picked the pocket of John Unsworth, at the Bridge Inn beerhouse, Ilindley, on the same day. police constable Banks, on receiving ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1273 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE AUSTRALIAN DIGGINGS

... now abandoned, linen hanging out to dry, horrid stenches from butchers' shops and holes into which they have flung their garbage, Along the valley to the left grows a smooth sward. What there is, however, to indicate gold here more than in a thousand ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2531 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ABROGATION OF THE CLAYTON-BULWER TREATY

... The great voyager describes the in- habitants as in all respects a rude savage people, de- vouring rav flesh, fish, and garbage ; negro in colour; going about naked, and much given to sorceries and barbarous superstitions. For many years after its discovery ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1858
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1747 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

A PILGRIMAGE WITH A LIVERPOOL RENT COLLECTOR

... andthafrizend addressed said Yes,k ingthatscongsr inthe-question. Going throughse verahnl-smig~ streets--thedayaswarmdthod rf garbage xmowte tb3 nostrls-hey came to an-openspae the old siteof crazy houses, anld on this a numxber of great hulking fellows with ...

Published: Thursday 29 May 1890
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1728 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OLD MISS HALL, THE MISER

... The broth a. -as of a ?? more i %va. extraordinary nature. It consisted of a substratand of i ife. lights snd fish ofihl, picked up at the flihmomnger'o end the Y apt utoher4 flavoured by the iutroductioul of a profua2in Y nd of half-decomposed vegetables ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1855
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4486 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

ST. FRANCIS AND THE FRANCISCANS

... the walls, there stretching out their bony hands to I clutch the almagiver's dole, or failing that, to pick up shreds of offal from the heaps of garbage-to these St. Francis cames On the 3rd of May, 1220, the first band of Franciscans landed in England ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1889
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2439 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... until one, two, arid three the followhing day; and in the meantime the children would steal out of the room and pick up laany sort of garbage, hones, &j.. that had been thrown away Le during the day. The last week In January I msde application to the ? ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1856
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2507 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LIVERPOOL LIFE:

... from home, and had of for many Facets been living on his wits-stealing where he could, aand solemtimes sustaining himself by garbage from about the m3rkets, When apprebended he had ] been several weceks from hone, and denied that he had any parcnts living ...

Published: Monday 08 December 1856
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3251 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MELBOURNE AND THE DIGGING THEIR PRESENT CONDITION

... rickety, and maesif construction, and yet in full activity. In the yards of the sl~aughter-hiouses pigs are revelling among the garbage, drag- ging about large lengths of entrails, or devouring them in a manner that makes thle stranger inwardly vow to abstain ...

Published: Saturday 27 August 1853
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2735 | Page: 11 | Tags: News