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... TOWN TALK.' fEY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.] IVBJA is in every one's mouth. How times have altered! Once no cared to read anything about it except the yellow-faced old fogies at Cheltenham, who, having lived there almost all their lives au 1 grown gray in the service of the Company, loved to uaak anc read about the spots where they had acted as legislators or heroes. Each mail brings gloomier ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2071 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... ENGLYNION J XR. WILLIAM THOMAS, (AlwÐ Morlaia), Teiynwr, Merthyr, yr IJ el4.,ÛliAJdd virth clmareu 'r Delyn \deir-ret, ya Eitieddjod ■einiol, .J.<tdar, Qorj-henhaf Y 7fed, 1857. Diairigen da ei ymgais,—yw William Thomas, (Alaw :>1odais) ¡ O! Kwvnol yw sain ei lais, Y yw a glywais Sain ei delyn svlii swvnawl,-—i'n meddwl, Maeddodd —bn fycklutfawl! Yn rhwydd iawn fCirdd rhoudwn fawl A f'o ...

ABERGAVENNY

... CAUTION TO PERSONS LYING IN OUTHOUSES.—A tramp of the name of Joseph Bush, was brought before W. Williams, Esq., charged by P.C. Burgis with having been found lying in an outhouse, on the premises of Mr. Prichard, farmer, in the parish of Llanvihangel Crucorney. The charge was proved, and he was committed as a rogue and vagabond to the house of correction for 12 days, hard labor. THE WEATHER ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 171 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

NEEMUCH

... We have been favoured with a copy of the following letter from a ladv, the wife of a Bengal officer My beloved Brother,—It has pleased God mercifully to spare all our lives; and though unable to give you at this moment any re- gular account of our past trials and wonderful escape from the hands of the blood-thirsty heathenish insurgents, yet I will not let my first moments of peace pass ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 992 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

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... BREACHES OF PROMISE. YARNELL V. MOODY.-At the Midland Circuit an action was brought by Miss Yarnell, a dressmaker, against Mr. Moody, the captain of a trading boat from Boston to Butterwick. The acquaint- ance commenced in 1851, and after a short time he began to court her. The acquaintance went on until 1855, and then the defendant married another woman. The following is a specimen of the ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2561 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... Private George Garrett, 93rd Highlanders, was tried by a court-marshal at Chatham garrison on the follow- ing charge: For when he was a prisoner in the main-guard loek-up, he called Lieutenant Gortou of the 29th tegiment, who was the officer of the guard, a recruit officer, and, taking up his shoe, threatened to throw it at the said officer. The prisoner was tied up to the halberds and ...

CARDIFF WATER WORKS COMPANY

... MOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Seventh Ordi- li nary Annual GENERAL MEETING of the Cardiff Water Works Company, will be held at the Offices of the Com- pany, in Charles-street, Cardiff, on MONDAY, the 24th day of -r?US. '^le Chair to be taken at 1 o'clock precisely- I he Books of the Company, for the transfer of Shares will be closed from and after Saturday, loth August, till Thursday, 25th ...

THE INDIAN MAIL

... SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 4. The Colombo arrived at Southampton this morning with the heavy portion of the India and China mails. Her dates were, Alexandra, July 23; Malta, 26 and Gibraltar, 30 She brought 15ft.passen- gers, among whom were Sir William and Laay Lead, ami Lacy Caroline Fox. Her cargo consisted of 2,577 bales ol Her Majesty's ships Tartarus and Carado.c were at Alexanana, and the ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 341 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE XISRIDTJ^ISR

... THE [TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH TO THE GOVERNMENT]. DEATHS OF BERNARD AND LAWRENCE—DIFFI- CULTIES AT DELHI-FALL OF CAWNPORE-DIS- ASTER AT NEEMUCH-MUTINY IN THE PUNJAUB —RISING AT HYDERABAD. ALEXANDRIA, August 20th, 1857. The Bombay arrived at Suez yesterday morning, bringing dates from Bombay to the 30th of July. The latest date from Delhi is July 14, at which time the rebels still held that city. ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 275 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

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... CORN-MCHANGE. WEDNESDAY, JULY 29.-The supplies this week are very short, both British and foreign. The whea trade to-day IS exceedingly dull, with a very thin attendance of buyers; and consequently almost nothing doing, and prices are nominally the same as on Monday i-«g.i' v ey mu ...

POETRY

... THE AKBAR, FRIGATE. TUB writer of the following liues* went to the East Indies on board this ship, in the year 1801; and, after serving in her through various cruizes about the Eastern and Pacific Oceans, left her at Madras, in the beginning of 1808. During that time she was called the Cornwallis; but when her Parsee builder, the celebrated Jemsatjee ^Bomanjee, constructed a line-of-battle ...