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Crimes and Casualties

... Kingstoue, near that city, and various damage has been sustained oy timber in different parts the county.- The Belfiist Northern Whig says that a farmer belongiug to Saintfield, the county Down, when standing in the cattle market, was struck by lightning and ...

Published: Thursday 26 May 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2699 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Imperial Parliament

... the Board of Charity Commissioners. At considerable length the hon. member denounced the Board as a gross Whig job, its office as a perfect Whig snuggery. It not only entailed a considerable charge upon the country, but owing to the reckless profligate ...

Published: Thursday 23 June 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3538 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A large emigrant ship was wrecked off the Irish coast on Thursday, but the passengers, to the number were rescued

... but the passengers, to the number were rescued by a steamer. The vessel was bound from Liverpool to New York. The Northern Whig states that Mr. William of Belfast, has set aside £10,000, to be called the SortKo Trust, for the material, intellectual, and ...

Published: Thursday 04 August 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

General News

... fellow in the church to ruminate over the inconstancy fickle woman, and doubtless hoping ** better luck next time. —Northern Whig. The Metric System.—An Act of Parliament has just been printed to render permissive the metric system of weights and meaiures ...

Published: Thursday 18 August 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4513 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Advices from Alexandria state that money is in great demand there, owing to the large sums sent into the interior

... do their duty. They must, therefore, rely upon themselves# Such language a3-this must considerable mischief. The Northern Whig of Wednesday gives-the following description of the results the rioting, witnessed in the hospitals :— The scenes witnessed ...

Published: Thursday 25 August 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3424 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Crimes and Casualties

... Neal Fagan, who was wounded on Weduesday, while struggling in the mud aud the second of a boy named Murdoch. The Northern, Whig states that there has been 147 people injured with gunshot wounds, of which seven have already been fatal. There must have ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3767 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Death of the Duke of Cleveland.—The Duke of Cleveland expired on Wednesday afternoon at o'clock, at his seat, ..

... the greatest danger. The deceased peer died without issue, and his brother, Lord Harry G. Vane, succeeds to the title. A New; Whig Peer.—There is a rumour in political circles .that prior to the next meeting of Parliament a new pOtar will be created in the ...

Published: Thursday 15 September 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 408 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ECONOMY AND RETRENCHMENT

... ECONOMY AND RETRENCHMENT. Many of our readers will remember the leading principles of government enunciated by the Whigs on their accession to office in Retrenchment, and Non-intervention—aud how faithfully they redeemed their pledges and justified the ...

Published: Thursday 01 December 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 860 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

(Obituary. Death a Companion of Sib Walter Scott.— Mr. James Skene, Rubislaw, Aberdeenshire, died at Frewen ..

... and up to 1841, under the Melbourne Ministry, was Chief Secretary for Ireland, where he was universally beloved. When the Whigs came again to power in 1846, he was appointed Commissioners of Woods aud Forests, and succeeded Lord Campbell as Chancellor ...

Published: Thursday 08 December 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 480 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

(Dur 'l’he Rettlement of a matter which portendwi ww, a species what will call quasi -satisfaction. felt that ..

... Canada the great Republic. The Conservatives are trying hard get up a charge ~{ Federal sympathy against what they tenna the Whig Government; and, tell the truth, the aspect of affairs none the most promising the world. Recently it has been fully proved ...

Foreign and Colonial

... Andersonville to Millen have been again removed, and are now supposed to be about forty miles below Savannah. The Richmond Whig, speaking of the evacuation of Savannah, says that the last of Hardee's troops crossed the river at 3 a.m., and proceeded in ...

Published: Thursday 19 January 1865
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3666 | Page: 3 | Tags: none