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Borrowed Cristies

... *and headed it, A wretched attempt at wit. A New Orleans papcr of last January boasted gold was as pentiful there as blackberries. The editor forgot to tenl how abandsut bhlacehberies are in Nowv Orleans in midwinter. IsIMPARTIAI.11Y.- This is a vcry ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

poetry

... nipping the fragrant buds, And the hedgerows where the wild rose threw Its balmiest odours, bathed cyrstal dew, Gathered the blackberry in thy boggart glen ; The strawberry ripe thine orchard yielded, when Thy cherry cheek'd young virgins stroll'd. When sunrise ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1864
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 652 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SHIPPING NEWS

... r ry ,n * over in February. nave for weeks been living on cucumbers, green peas, new potatoes, summer squashes, and our blackberries .being just gone, we are finishing up the last of the cur”rne Planl,,, ® We ftr w * itin for AKD THE Catholic Chdech.— ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1865
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 717 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY

... with black lace. The front has a half wreath of brown heath, and velvet leaves; in the inside the same flowers mixed with blackberries. Blond cap and green satin strings. A felt-coloured velvet bonnet had the curtain of blue velvet and white lace ; a torsade ...

BLACKBURN

... Care. Esq., of Manchester. On the 27th ult, ell the defendants came to me and asked if I would give them leave to gather blackberries. I told them I could not give them leave master bad told me to summon all trespassers. Tho ‘defendants then went out of ...

Published: Saturday 09 October 1869
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2764 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CONTEMPORARY PRESS

... thlat 'n Satorlnday afternoon, two Irish lads, aged respectively tvelve and ten years, went into the country | tgather blackberries 'rley wandered as far as Warley Wigomrn, where the prisoner resides, and began gathering hlackierries from a hedge which ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1865
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 896 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

NOTES OF THE WEEK

... been deserted his native followers, but had survived. Working Men’s Conservative Associations will soon bo “plentiful as blackberries” in Yorkshire. On Monday evening one was inaugurated at Kirkstall; and on Saturday the foundation of another was celebrated ...

Published: Saturday 14 December 1867
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1227 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

MINISTERIAL PROSPECTS

... Conservative operative was regarded ** Kara avis In terrls, nlgroquo cygno.” Now Conservative working men are plentiful blackberries. The working ok sics have learnt to prize tho Constitution, under which they live, highly ns it is prized those whose interest ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1865
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1314 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FOREIGN NEWS. AMERICA. (Times despatch.) THE BLOCKADE OF VICKSBITRO BROKEN.— A FEDERAL TRANSPORT SUNK, AND ..

... said had to contend against great deal his district, for the infamous Copperheads, sympathisers with the South, were thick blackberries, and he often felt as if would like thrashing man to be a Christian virtu*', that he might have the privilege of digging ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1863
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1290 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NATIONAL EDUCATION

... it-hate it as much as Falstaff, who wouldn't even give a reason upon compulsiorn, if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries. And so it is, more or less, with all of us. We like our own way, and don't believe in even doing a good thing, on compulsion ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1869
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1439 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE. “FENNY sTANNEII.s LAMENT. T:> Editor 'if the Herald. SlR.— Allow me. through your paper, call ..

... merely chll l Mr Daniel Dungbis Home, it you require nobody evidence but his own. Self-constituted prophets are “plenty blackberries.” Johanna Soutbcote imagined she lay in off the Shiloh. Mahomet persuaded hnnsclf, and at last persuaded other people, ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1868
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1365 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CURIOUS AND USEFUL

... put up will keep in a cool dry pantry for a year, and retain all its original flavour. Peaches, apples, pears, cherries, blackberries, plums, grapes, &c., have been preserved by this simple and economical system. SALUTATIONS AHONG DIFFERENT NATIONS.-The ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1868
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1596 | Page: 3 | Tags: News