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SOUTH DEVON

... ' - ' TEIGNMOUTH. A meeting of the burial Board vas held on Tuesday, when James Letbridge was appointed lodge-keeper at the cemetry, vacant by the death of William Woodley. His salary will be ,£10 per-annum. In eonsideration of-the destitute condition in wlibb)tl46 tidgty of the (lits'keper i loefg, 'a graitaif of. fifty ebillings was,,voted to her, in additipn !oj the quarter's salary due on ...

Published: Thursday 13 May 1858
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2205 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c

... A large factory at Glasgow, six stories high, and be containing 84,000 spindles, has been destroyed by fire str Ientailing a loss of X90,000, partly covered by insurances; and throwing 400 people out of employment. The factory D belonged to George Grant and Sons. se SUICIDE AT LONDON BRiDGE.-On Friday morning b a most determined suicide was committed by a respectably- Tb dressed female, named ...

Published: Thursday 25 November 1858
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2609 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE LATE RICHARD FORD

... ?? ?? ?? ?? I - There are few persons consected with letters and arts, or the social life of London, who will hear without concern of the death of Richard Ford. He died on the first of this month, in the 62nd. year of his age, at his house at Heavitree, near Exeter. His various tastes and accomplishments, his large and keen sympathies, genial nature, and social position, had brought him hito ...

Published: Thursday 09 September 1858
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2374 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE EPITOMIST

... Lord Chief Justice Cockiburn has been eiipov-ij~ isrod and line in the trout preserves of Loid atlf~~sf Btroadllands.e Vancouver's Island now boasts, of a ?? I the Victoria Gazelle. Of course, its sole toldes ?? '11' Fraser river. Mr. Sheridan Knowles, the cluilnent diramaiist, i8 a said to bie in a dying state, only faint hi-pe,, linig tnitl,un I of his ultimate reeovery. a The Receiver of ...

Published: Thursday 02 September 1858
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1910 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEA

... The mother's heart is the child's schoolroomi. A BEAUTIFUL TcOUoneT.-AVhen engineers 'would bridge a stream, they often carry over at first hut a single cord. Witl cthat, next, they stretch a wire across. Then' strand is added to strand, until a foundation is laid for planks; and now the bold engineer finds a safe footway, and walks from side to side. So God talces fsnm us somne golden ...

Published: Thursday 28 October 1858
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2613 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

GENERAL NEWS

... le _ S be The Grand Duke Constantine arrived at Paris on _ I Monday, and visited the Emperor at the Tuileries. in Mr. Spurgeon at a tea meeting last week said he ed never could make himself heard in churches, and therefore in could easily see that the Devil invented Gothic nrchitecture I L , DR. PUSEY MARRIED.- A correspondent of the pr to Wakfy Regiser states that it is confidently asserted ...

Published: Thursday 23 December 1858
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2258 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE CONVICT BARWICK

... The exeoution of this unhappy young man is fixed for t Friday next, at nine o'clock in the morning, and not at eight, as reported last week in the Gazene. In times past, twelve v o'clock was the hour appointed for public executions, but in c departing from this Custom the High Sheriff has, we think, exercised a sound and very wise discretion; and if the time r for the sickening and dreadful ...

Published: Thursday 08 April 1858
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1059 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

VARIETIES

... What is the difference between a ship and hen? The hen lays one egg, and the ship lays to. Sir, said an irascible man to his opponent, sir, I believe you are either a deist oran atheist. Wrong, sir, was the rejoinder, I am a dentist. BETTER EXCUSE THAN THE CAT.- John, did you find any eggs in the old hen's nest this morning? No, sir. If the old hen laid any, she mislaid them. ...

Published: Thursday 08 April 1858
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1138 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEA

... MISOELLANEA. Southey says, ih one of his letters:- I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more tempting. In like manner I make the most of my enjoyment; and though I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles, I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others. LORD ...

Published: Thursday 11 March 1858
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1797 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

LOLA MONTEZ ON BEAUTIFUL WOMEN

... I Hope Cbapel (says the New York Times of February Oth) was thoroughly crowded on Wednesday night, to the last Inoh of its capacity, and a little over, with an audience, among whom were many fashionably dressed ladies, attracted thither by~ the fame of Lola MonteE and her renowned lecture on Beautiful Women. Immediately 'she appeared on. the rostrum,.she was greeted with a burst of applause ...

Published: Thursday 11 March 1858
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2346 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

INDIA

... IN-: XDIA. EUROPEANS 'KILLED BY THE MUTINEER Europeans killed by rebels in India, as prepared at the 'v Foreign Office, Calcutta, and which. is ldated 23rd INovember. * The naueiethusgiven are:- ' Colonel J. Platt, 23rd *N.I, Indore, I st July,; shot, down;1 Captain J. Pagan, 23rd N.I., 'Indore, lst July, sbot down; a Major A. Harris, lst Light Cavalry,.Indore, lot Julyi,way- laid;- Mr. ...

Published: Thursday 14 January 1858
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3388 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

THE EPITOMIST

... to The nave of the chapel ill Dover Castle is used as in a coatl-yard. it, Five Peers, formerly Masters of the Royal Stag le Hounds, and other Peers and gentlemen, have presented a to handsome piece of plate to 'Mr. Charles Davies, Huntsman of le the Queen's Stag Hounds, as a minar of his `high qualiflca- *d tions as a sportsman, his gentlemanly bearing in the hunting rs field, and his long ...

Published: Thursday 26 August 1858
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2669 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News