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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... dialers, tobacconists, and undertakers, each 2. Total of bank- rupts, 1,298. A workman who was altering the gas-pipes of a ship la Aberdeen, last week, found the skeletons of two rats, one of which held in its teeth an old halfpenny, covered with an ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4326 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... our churchyard. A gentleman of Manchiester, who, it appears, had formerly resided in or about Penworthain, having by death lost a somi, felt, anxious to inter his remains at Pen. wortham. Now, without consulting us, the legal guardians of the churchyard ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3837 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ADJOURNED ANNUAL SESSION

... one oseinber'fromuenelt of thre sixteen-u tveisoits of the County ; and thteriefore a Coni- sidtintile amount of time wras lost before the first meeting oif the esustoittee after these aiipointiiients taltngg place. lie wouimimi ibt thirow out a Caution ...

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... RrADY AND PieulBknNfG FOR SEuvicu.-The following is an aggregate statement of sailing ships and steamers now ready or in the course of repair for sea service:- Ships of the line ?? ?? 32 50-gun ?? ?? 14 44 and 80-gun frigates ?? , 6 Sloops, brigs, &c ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8760 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... luring the day, for the receipt of stamped or unpaid letters. . l ?? FAIR CIASUALITIEs.-An elderly man, a visitor to the fair, lost, or was robbed of, 42 sovereigns in gold, on Thursday last, in the neighbourhood of Molyneux- square. The man was so drunk ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7466 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... breaking up, and only one man (Samuel Greggs) saved out of the thirteen left on hoard when the ship went on that bank.. Captain Bursley, who stuck so nobly to his ship, perished along with the remainder of his crew. The goods is the lower hold will probably ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5834 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... the arm. A PnoVITABLEI TaANsACrIoN.-Some Jtime ago, a Liverpool merchant purchased 45000 worth of American flour, so as-to ship It at a cost of 22s. perbarrel. He sent it to California, and, as it reached San Francisco at a favourable juncture, it sold ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 11804 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

PROTECTION AND FREE TRADE

... and unprecedented occurrence took place on board the AI- shire, a ship belonging to Mr. Warren; of Honnaditch, on her homeward voyage from CalWuttsi, in May last. Shortly after the ship had crossed the line, Captain Browne, the master, had occasion to ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1961 | Page: 2 | Tags: Commerce 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... Navigation Laws. Those laws are now repealed; yet Sunderiand was visited this week by an a gent of a Hlartlepool ship-builder, to engage thirty Ship- wrights for two years at the current rate of wages.- Gateshead Oberver. RRoBnnaY oF GOLD, &Gt., raoM A WATcHr ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 13659 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN

... 14 feet draught going through, and we drew little more than 15 feet. Shapng-tsai had boasted that he would go where English ships dared not follow him. This vaunt I determined to belie. We reached Hoi-how on the 13th, and found the Governor- general Ho ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2455 | Page: 2 | Tags: News