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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... 5th instant, aqd totally demolished the large buidhin, ?? it supplied .with motive power., The house wii. veiy., large- 'si stories high, and massively built; but sue *as.the enormous force of the-explosion, that eye-witneosse',say; the whele pile was lifted ...

Published: Thursday 28 February 1850
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2404 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

GENERAL NEWS

... decline giving insertion, however, to the detailed account furnished us, as it no means instructive, and we understand the story is denied by at least one party concerned, as a fabrication. Bristol Times. A Miserly Lady.—About three weeks ago, a maiden ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1850
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1425 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Original TRUTHFUL CHIMES r. POOR LAW RHYMES. Seest thou man that is hasty his words? lliere more hope of

... Mrs. Bird thus of her speaks: 1 the g? rl very well; 1 don't think she'd story tell; She minds (he children, and the. pigs. But since th it — She has stolen figs, And stories told, and is grown idle; Iler tongue, tear, cannot bridle.'' This Mrs. ...

Published: Thursday 07 March 1850
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 1297 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Local Intelligence

... percent.; and £ arrears of interest; against which is set-off of £ balance in the treasurer's hands; leaving the debt something short of£ 38,000. The estimated expenditure for the current year is £ 3,233. AVith respect to the Ilfracombc Local Trust, the committee ...

Published: Thursday 07 March 1850
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2302 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... This magazine opens with a continuation of The Ladder of Gold, not a mere driblet, some stories to be continued are given, but about forty pages. The story, though not unexceptionable in its moral, is still very superior to many of the modern school ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1850
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3089 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GORHAM versus THE BISHOP OF EXETER

... That ancient Rent he groan'd and sigh'd, And said, Good sir, to you A story I will now confide, j W hich is both sad and true. As was musing, somewhat vext That subjects ran so short, ' Whom I should double thong the next; (Well! it jolly sport) For one ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1850
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 589 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY

... Dunbali, so that he has taken the goods two miles less distance, and charged Mr. Streeter 5d per ton more. There was a peculiar story touching this affair—he was building for tbis company, on their own land they undertook to carry his goods for nothing. Mr ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1850
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 13719 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Uarirtiea

... sleeves and half-way down the figure was of striped silk, a splendid shawl was wreathed gracefully «mund the loins, and rich short jacket was thrown over the rest rifher attire ; her feet were thrust into embroidered slippers, but the Sernnceof bergait was ...

i , - [Mahch 14.1850. I ATTVIk AND PLYMOUTH A> ni>tttr 6 . . WEST 0F GLAN —i '■ r-’--

... ’have expressed their approbation thereof. menwhopropounded which parts which consist of (fevp- consti- paix.” . , A i« a short or easy thatshe cod.i pursue no policy fatal to her own interests ;; i S^A?n™i . ...

©rigtital BAKING IX THE BARNSTAPLE UNI OX. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ' NORTH DEVON JOURNAL.' Sih, —The Egyptians of

... founded facts. Ist I do not think that the poor report so favourably of the' bread' as Rate-payer observes. I remember a short time since some complaints being made to me respecting the bad quality of the bread, and upon instituting the proper inquiries ...

Published: Thursday 14 March 1850
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 8173 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A Scotchman Tarred and Feathered. —Amongst the speakers, at a recent meeting of the Massachusetts Antislavery ..

... tarred and feathered, and banished from the State ; the whole of which sentence was duly executed. Mr. Edmonds related his story with great simplicity and impressiveness, and was listened to by the audience with marked manifestations of sympathy.— Pe ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1850
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 537 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS

... kind ; but Judge Lumpkin will be satisfied with nothing short of retractation, and '' expression of regret for the wrong inflicted on an unoffending people. The Hull Advertiser relates a story of a substantial tradesman of that place, a widower, who ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1850
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1201 | Page: 6 | Tags: none