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... ATTFMPT ON THE LIFE OF A CLERGYMAN. The quiet village of Musbary, about three miles from c this town, was on Sunday morning last thrown into a v state of painful commotion by the report of an attempt t having been made, in open day, and in the public d thoroughfare, upon the lives of the respected rector of to that pasish, the Rev. George Tucker, and one of his t daughters. A person known as ...

Published: Thursday 16 August 1855
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 786 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT CREMORNE

... A melancholy accident took place on Monday night at Cremovine-gardens which will excite a painful sensation throughout the country, involving as it doss injuries, more or less serious, to about 20 men of the Grenadier Guards. Mr. Simpson, the proprietor of the grounds, bad announced a grandfete, representing the capture of the Mamelon and rifle pits by the allied troops before Sebastopol. As ...

Published: Thursday 16 August 1855
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 952 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

IMPROVEMENT COMMISSIONERS

... a SPECIAL MEETING. bee g A special meeting of this body, convened for ate purpose agr of considering the propriety of purchasing a piece of ground 1 adjoining the cemetery, beloogieg to Mr. G. Baker, orhis B a mortgagees, was hell at the Guildhall, on Thursday last, Mr. W. Hooper in the chair. the The Cemetery Committee recommended that the piece of Bo ground in question, for which ze475 was ...

Published: Thursday 16 August 1855
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 921 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

TRACTARIAN CLAP-TRAP.—GENERAL SUMMARY

... TRACTARIAN CLAP-TRAP.-GENERALI I SUMMARY. I (DEDICATED TO THE PARSHIONEBS OF ST. MARY cHOll.) ,b A wine merchant requires but a small sample of wine ot to prose tbe quality of any quantity Confined within a . y, given spae, I trust I hve given a ?? sample of I the Rev. H. Newland's leotures on Tractarianism, to prove them to be permeated with olap-trap; and I hope the C sample I have furnished ...

Published: Thursday 29 November 1855
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4579 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

CAUTION TO THE BENEVOLENT

... - . . _x as.: ofn-1- nTll,~h. The Bath and C'Iiellnham Gazelle of this week publishes the following:- A-.M IMPOSTER'S ADVICE 'O .A FRjEvD.-Tbe following letter was picked up at our Railway station on Saturday. It ic, as our readers wvill see, a most extiaordinary document, and will give An idea of the exteut to wrhieb the kind-hiearted are imposed on by the specious and hypooritical statements ...

Published: Thursday 01 November 1855
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 988 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

INSPECTION BY HER MAJESTY OF WOUNDED SOLDIERS

... HER MAJESTY OF l1~ D SULDIERSa I - ?? fflnd Prince -13 mornrlg }Her Majesty anot 'rince th 4?:WeS e;n Oun from WVindsor, and afterwards th A3'?t Arrovel inAI 11 station to the Bricklayers' le, . ai of tbe North Rent Railway, whence a re ; r ted at eleven for the Strood terminu tb hua! r. of the '1st Regiment received Her WI ' 3r'° Ie a vas also signalized by a Roya tV H.!V r. pur battery. The ...

Published: Thursday 06 December 1855
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 791 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

SOUTH DEVON

... DAWLISH. AN OpEr ADVOCATE OF PUSEYISN.-Cnrate. Manley preached at the chapel of St. Mary on Sunday morning (last week), snd in his sermon strongly enforced upon his besrer; the. propriety of bowing towards the communion table as they entered and retired from the church. His, remarks on this subject were considered so offensive by many of,tbe Protestant attendanta thattheyinmediately quitted ...

Published: Thursday 06 December 1855
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2396 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEA

... It is not calculable what may be ac comilished in | everytbiug in life by moderate beginnings and judicious perseverance. i Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There tire foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not tonch or meddle with it; there are more foolish people weho, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and inangled for their pains; and there ...

Published: Thursday 08 March 1855
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1333 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

SCRAPS FROM PUNCH

... L J A parent who strikes a child is like a man who y strikes the water-:-the consequences of the blow are sure to A fly up in his own face. ti There are fools who cannot keep a secret. Their d excessive greenness, like that of new wood, makes them split. d Reform is an omnibus that's always just going e to start. I Friends,like Tumblers in frosty weather, are apt to fly at the first touch ...

Published: Thursday 26 April 1855
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 788 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

GENERAL NEWS

... SUICIDE OF A CLEEGYMAN AT CANTEIUBURY. The Rev. John Peachey Francis has committed suicide by shooting himself in his study. LiEnPooL ELECTION.-Mr. Ewart -was on Welldnesday returned for Liverpool-the numbers being --Ewart, 0,i,90); BIonham, 4.221. On the same day, Mr. E. Antrobus was elected for Wilton without opposition. The Monnioutlishire Militia has been for some tine past conducting ...

Published: Thursday 05 April 1855
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2503 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

A STRANGE TRAFFIC

... ,A STRAfGE TRAFFIC. ?? ?? L akAtL@ n o ^. rn his Evesirngswiththe Ronanists, an excellent com- panion volqme to that . deservedly popular work, Evenings with the Jesuite, the Rev. Hobart Seymour records an ox- traordinary instance' of that traffic in masses and indulgences for which the Church of Rome is so notorious. He was himself an eye-witness of what he describes., There are, he ...

Published: Thursday 25 January 1855
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 794 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

SOUTH DEVON

... TEIGNMOUTH. A very handsome stone altar-piece has just been cntea~es at the new Catholic Chapel in this town. VL;EFUL KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY.-On Tuesday, the MLh inst., a lecture will be given by the Rev. J. Martin, M.A., cftAlwlisb, On the olsracter and times of Martin Luther. PAMETEnY.-Oit Thursday last a vestry meeting ,U Iheldi in each pariab, for the purpose of antborising the fwial Board ...

Published: Thursday 25 January 1855
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1187 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News