PUBLIC TESTIMONIAL AND DINNER TO PROVOST GUTHRIE OF BRECHIN

... Council. But, sir, you were not to be so easily parted with. Town Clerks may resign, and Town Clerks may be found as thick blackberries. (Laughter.) But when chief magistrates resign they are not so easily replaced. Tt occurred to the citizens of this city ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1859
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
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BARONY PAROCHIAL BOARD

... BLUNDER.—A nearly poisoned last week near the town of Sevenoaks, in Kent, by eating the berries of night-shade in mistake for blackberries. On reaching home he appeared in a state of extreme intoxication. This was afterwards followed by great delirium and total ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1859
Newspaper: Glasgow Courier
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
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THE PLAGUE OF PACKMEN

... Deeore,—Deputations are now all the go everywhere. Nothing can be done without deputation, and luckily depot* are plenty as blackberries. Our cootemporare of the Ado York Herald has been visited by deputation from Pone. - keepek; which he thus describes gentlemen ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1859
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
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DUFFTOWN

... That comforts an' elevates man— corn, potatoes, an' curlies, Grow rich in the Fiddichside lan'. Oar iorests o' deer an' blackberries. An' go wans, an' in the braes; Wi' cowslips an' sweet singing birdies, An' hippins an' fine sappy slaes. itiar cocks o' ...

Published: Friday 07 October 1859
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
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HOUSE OF REFUGE

... assistance would he gratefully received. There was resisting this appeal, and presents of 2s. and 2a 6d. were thick as blackberries. In one street alone •to sot lew thin 20a«—ifenridb JLdvwtim. The Martello Tow**.— Two sixty-eight pound guns hare been ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1859
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
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C(K'HIN CHINA

... the Royal Speech to be delivered at the opening of Parliament was agreed to. As these productions have been as like as blackberries for many years, and as the even- tualities looming at home and abroad afford an unwonted opportunity for variation, we ...

Published: Thursday 03 February 1859
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
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NEWS OF THE WEEK

... was nearly poisoned last week near the town of Sevenoaks, in Kent, by eating the berries of Night-shade in mistake for blackberries. In Russia a malady has broken out among cattle, and caused extensive ravages. In the district of Dama 302 oxen out of ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1859
Newspaper: Dundee People's Journal
County: Angus, Scotland
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LAST WISH OF A MOTHER

... rushy bed, Little eyes that love to look Up the trees and in the brook, Tiny feet and dew-lit eyes, Should not find his blackberries.— An extraordinary circumstance took place at Oshaway, Canada, recently, a mare giving birth to three healthy foals. Strange ...

after which became remarkably garrulous, and in a conversation with the French Minister in London gave ..

... administrates. THE FORM MACKENZIE ACT. letters, and lectures, fee and against this Act and its operation are plenty as blackberries, end on both sides there is not a little of curious and i•eonoluive argumentation, well as whet appears erroneous views ...

Published: Saturday 12 March 1859
Newspaper: Arbroath Guide
County: Angus, Scotland
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litcraturt

... commercial crises were among the things that would not be. Those were the days indeed! of Saturday straying*, birds'-nesting, blackberry hnnting, of pic-nic parties, and fanuhouse visiting, and all the little delights which follow each othee so closely is ...

COUNTY OF FORFAR ADVERTISER

... halfpenny for some bread Wit day. Another, a singularly how, .lea erawing•lM,per. has Wel walked up front Bristol, living on blackberries and by the way. and getting a little work now and than A tenet palling. Him mother, the only elan.e hr ever knaw, died ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1859
Newspaper: Arbroath Guide
County: Angus, Scotland
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L I T LITERATURE

... travel written such person as we have spoken as the right sort of a travelling uc books of travel are not quite plentiful blackberries are said to in the proverb. Season after season, records of visits other lauds issue from the ever-teeining cress not worth ...