MISCELLANEOUS

... the old year,a youth called Nelder, of this town, picked a very fine bunch of lefl. ripe blackberries on Exeter-hill ; and on New Year'S flay ite- several blackberries and a fine bunch of ripe ones were also Ifound sn the hedge-rows near the Oltery-road ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1864
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4522 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE

... nced by the attractions of a first-rate military band. Now, this is all changed. Amateur companies are as plentiful as blackberries. The smallest country town boasts a fit-up Theatre in its Music Hall. Two or three gentlemen of decent education perform ...

Published: Sunday 06 March 1864
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1638 | Page: 10 | Tags: News 

THE PRESIDENT TELLS A STORY TO A COLORED BARBER

... jokes and laughs as hearty as ever. At his reception one evening last week in the White Iousn the negroes were as thick as blackberries in Jersey. Among them was a colored barber namedt Burke; lie was an applicant for an office in the New York Custom.house ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1864
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1601 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S LAST JOKE

... and laughs as heartily as ever. At his reception one evening last week in the White House the negroes were as thick as blackberries in Jersey. Among them was a coloured barber named Burke; be was an applicant for an office in the New York custom house ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1864
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 520 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

ANECDOTE OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

... and laughs as hearty as ever. At his recep- tion one evening last week in the White House the negroes were as thick as blackberries in Jersey. Among them was a coloured barber named Burke; he was an applicant for an office in the New York Custom House ...

Published: Sunday 27 March 1864
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 510 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

PONTYPOOL

... reaped a fair share. Theatrical booths were few in number, but nut, orange, and ginger- bread sellers were as plentiful as blackberries, and the new swindle of selling a penny purse full of money (?) for a shilling-a transaction in which none but the greatest ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1864
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 920 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

TRAVELS IN MARCH OF RECREATION

... too near t and too common to be worthy of notice.' It is an age of C Bibles in penny numbers; and you must not pluck a p blackberry from the roadside hedge; for does not the SI sacred volume prohibit all manner of work upon the la Lord's day; but you ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1864
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2417 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE POLITICAL EXAMINER

... north would have been with Mayors tand Corporations as innumerable as inevitable, and babies to be fondled as plentiful as blackberries; and mobs of tens of thousands scrambling for the shaking of hands. Imp-handle could bear it. In three weeks Garibaldi ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1864
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7907 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE ANTI-MALT TAX CONFERENCE

... repeal of the Malt-tax now NN ?l- multiply on all hands; indeed as Sir John Falstaff hail, ing says, they are as plenty as blackberries, and we 4th, A are willing to render them even 1on compulsion, if a ti7 Om needs be, for the purpose of convincing the ...

Published: Wednesday 11 May 1864
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2079 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 13

... where one law was made for the rich and another for the poor; where places, sinecures, and pensions were plentiful as blackberries in summner; where the great body of the people were excluded from the suffrage; where State Churches wrung their revenues ...

Published: Friday 13 May 1864
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2682 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EPITOME OF NEWS. -

... was 26,621, with 8,520,303 tons. A large Scotch pearl was found the other day Inverury. It- was about the size of a large blackberry, .weighed twenty-three grains, and was ro'und and perfectly pure. It was sold for £34. Scotland, says a contemporary, is ...

Published: Saturday 09 July 1864
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2772 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

GENERAL NEWS

... enjoys goad hesith. . . A lar e Scotch pearl was found the other day at.In- t, verary. It was about the size of a larget blackberry, -weighed e: twenty grains,.. and was round and perfectly pure., It was r said forXX £3. - r J. C. . ; .I S Tho wife of ...

Published: Wednesday 13 July 1864
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 5349 | Page: 3 | Tags: News