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... Pisttllaiwras fnttflipre. CRIME IN CORSICA.—The Court of Assizes of Corsica has lately tried a man named Andreani, for four murders, committed under circumstances almost incredible. After serving some time in the army in Africa, he returned to his native village, and married a widow named Rossi, but as she was unfaithful to him he soon separated from her. He afterwards conceived a passidn for ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1859
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2513 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS SAY ABOUT NAP.'S LAST LITTLE GAME

... The ceded portion of Lombardy is as flat as a table, and has always been overrun whenever it has been attacked and by accepting it without the fortresses necessary to defend it, Sardinia has made herself a vassal of France, since whenever France frowns upon her, Austria may reclaim the cession at her pleasure. It is a poisoned and a costly gift.-Ecoiiontidt. And Kossuth-whose band is arrested ...

Published: Saturday 23 July 1859
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 957 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE POLISH PRISONER AND THE PINS

... The Paris correspondent of a German contemporary narrates the following:— A brooch worn by the Countess of K- has recently been the subject of conversation among the eminent company of Polish nobility who are now exiles in Paris Encircled by twenty brilliants upon a dark blue ground of lapis lazuli, and protected by a glass in front, may be seen—What ? A portrait? A lock of hair ? No neither ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1859
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 494 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

EPITOME OF NEWS

... BRITISH AND FOREIGN. They make short work of spies here (says a letter f i-om Alessandria). I hear that the priests are the head and front of the spy system certain it is t^py are generally dis- trusted by all classes, and one has already met the fete due to treachery. A proclamation cautioning persons against propa- gating false news has been issued in Paris. It is well known in the French ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1859
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1098 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

A MAORI LEGEND

... There is a high island in the centre of the Rotorua lake, called Mokoia. Many years ago there lived on this island a family of five sons and one daughter. Tutanekai was the name of the youngest son save one, and he was said to be an illegitimate child. In the village Owhato, on the main land, exactly opposite to where the family resided, lived a maiden of high rank and great beauty, called ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1859
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1952 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

--A FLEMISH LOVE PASSAGE

... A FLEMISH LOVE PASSAGE. Fanny sat straight on her chair, with her hands folded on her lap, and her eyes fixed on the fire, and Baptiste sat looking at her, and feeling a great deal too happy to be quite comfortable. When he saw the girl whom he had liked so long, and remembered that on the next day but one she would come and share this pleasant little home with him, his heart filled, and he ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1859
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 891 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

BATTLE AT MAGENTA

... GREAT VICTORY OF THE ALLIES. 20,000 Killed and Wounded. 7,000 Prisoners taken. The following was the first intimation of the affair received in Paris on Sunday, from the Emperor; to which we append the Austrian version:— FRENCH ACCOUNT. AUSTRIAN ACCOUNT. MAGENTA, June 4. MILAN, June 4. A great victory. 5,000 pri- The army is fighting in the Boners. The enemy has lost neighbourhood of Milan. ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1859
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 278 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Pktllammts fereral fttfos

... PRUSSIAN CHECK TO THE AVAit.-As long as Trieste and the Italian Tyrol are guaranteed from attack (says the Saturday Revieiv), the Austrian generals enjoy the enormous advantage of resting on an impregnable base. It is almost impossible that the great fortresses should be cut off from their communica- tions, except by an enemy operating on German territory. If Prussia and her allies can secure ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1859
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1746 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

A RECENT NEGRO HUNT

... An Indiana journal, the Vevay News, thus describes the search after, and hunting almost to death, a human chattel in that neighbourhood, who had escaped from bondage On Saturday night, Nov. 12, a negro man, the property of a gentleman of Woodford County, Kentucky, encamped at a strawyard on the farm of Mr. Samuel Leechruan, in Carroll County, and to protect himself from the weather built a ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1859
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 552 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

APPOINTMENTS FOR THE WEEK

... County Court, Monmouth .Monday, June 13, at tea. „ Pontypool Tuesday, „ „ Tredegar.Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday, Fairs:—Brynmawr, Monday, June 13; Monmouth, Tuesday and Saturday; Stow (Newport,) Thursday; Chepstow and Usk, Friday. ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1859
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 36 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

OPENING OF THE SESSION BY HER ,MAJESTY

... OPENING OF THE SESSION BY HER MAJESTY. lr On Tuesday morning Parliament was opened by her Most Gracious Majesty in person. Tle was fine; and, as is usual upon such occasions, a large concourse of persons assembled along the line of route from Buckingham Palace to Westminster. Shortly before two o'clock, the Royal arrived at the House of Lords, and the preliminaries eonnected with such ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1859
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 92 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE FRENCH EMPEROR AND THE SOLDIER

... A letter from Alessandria of the 29th ult. says Among the wounded in the hospital at Voghera, when the Emperor visited it, was a young soldier, who had been hit in the shoulder by a ball, which came out at the back. On his bed was a splendid gold lace sword- belt, and a large hat ornamented with cock's feathers, such as Austrian generals wear. In the melee at Montebello, the soldier happened ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1859
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 428 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News