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... with a dozein suitors at her feet. Then the can- didates set to their work in good earnest. Speeches were as plentiful as blackberries. A score of people in want of amusement haad nothing to do but to shout in front of an hotel, and out casne a candidate ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1862
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2662 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE LEEDS MERCURY

... the Roman question. Theories for the settlement of this knotty question crop up in the foreign press as plenti- ful as blackberries, but they nearly all want every quality that would tend to make one put faith in their conclusions. The Inddpendance of ...

Published: Tuesday 07 October 1862
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2259 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE PROPOSED SUBSTITUTES FOR COTTON A PROBABLE DELUSION

... trespass, so called, d has been visited. On Sunday, a boy, the son of a oor widow, of known it respectability, was gathering blackberries in Middleton Wood, when a police-officer, who had either no better em- Vloyment or had been put on duty for the purpose ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1862
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1251 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

THE CLUE TO THE OFFICIOUSNESS OF THE RURAL POLICE

... impression of yesterday, I think I th can givo the reasons why the lad was so harshly dealt with. R, The proprietor of the blackberries, it seems, had offered a reward of LI1 for the discovery of any person found in the Sa3 wood at Middleton, and the writer ...

Published: Friday 10 October 1862
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1607 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE

... iorder. Amount paid and opsts 2s ed THORNE. MYSTEfiIousl)RATH.-On Thursday, October 16th, i ag come children were picking blackberries on the farm Lof H1. Godfrey, Esq, the Levels, near Thorns, they dis- covered at the bottom of 'a ditch the mutilated and ...

Published: Friday 24 October 1862
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 8353 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 22

... the steam ferries have been long tried and not found wanting in places where large and small ships are as plentiful as blackberries. Every craft on our London river has its fixed appointed stations and what seems chaos to the uninitiated is order and ...

Published: Saturday 22 November 1862
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3876 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

DEMOLITION OF EXETER CHANGE

... heavier firearms and more rifles, but in vain-an inability which to us in 1863, when rifles r and cannon are as common as blackberries, seems e astonishing. On the return of the proprietor the elephant was dead, having received between one and two hundred ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1863
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1651 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS

... leaves twine round the stelOS, elI orchideans let down their flower-laden tendrils to the * ground. Hero, tangled masses of blackberry, ?? a l biudweed grow luxuriantly. Strawberry plants sh°,t IP foot aud a half high from the soft wood earth, thousOn1 t7 ...

Published: Friday 16 January 1863
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 872 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... conten-i against a great deal in his district, for. the infamous COpperheads, Syinpathisers with the South, were us thick as blackberries, and he often felt as if he would like thrashing a man to 1ef a Christian virtue, that he might have the privleg. of digging ...

Published: Wednesday 06 May 1863
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1647 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

... beloved country. He had to e contend against a great deal in his distsict, for the infa- mirous Copperheads were as thick as blackberries, and he often felt as iff he would like thrashing a muan to be a Christian virtue, that lie minght have the privilege of ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1863
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3120 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

AMERICA

... the ap- pearance of tbh applcnt. If decently apparelled they will extract $10 or $20; i a poor person wishes to get a few blackberries to eke out a sub- sistence by selling them about the streets, $1 is the charge. I know a British subject who is now negotiating ...

Published: Tuesday 12 May 1863
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 764 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LOCAL AND GENERAL

... mention. The former was for a drawing ( by W.Young, of a nut shaping lathe, and the latter ri for a drawing in chalk of blackberries, by C. Gil- fh bert Leeds has now got two national medallions. tl METHODIST NEW CONNEXION CONFERENCE,. AT fl LEEDS,-On ...

Published: Tuesday 02 June 1863
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4204 | Page: 3 | Tags: News