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 

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: | Words: 520 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE. ]

... beautiful; but walking for a month with bitter rain for half the time between hedges, even when illed with wild flowers and blackberries, is not to a cul- tivated mind a permanently interesting occupation. In most counties of England a traveller might, fnr ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1867
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 521 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE CHASE

... at Halton East, x of near Bolton Abbey ;--each morning at eleven o'olock. ad fa! nd It is a remarkable fact that ripe blackberries are JX an now frequently to be found on the hedge-rows of Devonshire i ad and the borders of Somerset. 3 THE MURDERER LUKE ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1864
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 534 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

LORD HOTHAM'S RETIREMENT

... Liberal papers, it ] is doubtful if even Sir H. EDWARDS will seekl re-election. Rumours, however, are as plenti- ful as blackberries just now, and it will be s Safest, therefore, to content ourselves with the 5 certainties that Lord HOTHA31 retires from ...

Published: Friday 03 July 1868
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 617 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

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 

OUR LIBRARY TABLE

... Wimbledon. A BLACK OFFENCE. —-We understand that tha Jamaica Council have determined to prosecute any persons who are found black-berrying. THE HEALTH OF TEE METROPOLIS.—MUCH. TIRPRE may be looked for about the time of harvest invariably a sickle-y season. ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 573 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LONDIN'S VISIT TO WALES

... that John Evans, Aberdare, had, on the 31st August, wilfully broke three fences and trampled the grass, when in search of blackberries. Defendant was ordered to pay the damage, Is., and costs. ...

Published: Friday 20 September 1861
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 594 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY

... swarming with fish. I have been two or three times be- calmed there, and caught cod as big as donkeys and as plenty as blackberries. Upon that infor- mation Captain Rhodes acted. He had often thought of trying it, but it is a lonely place to go to alone ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 656 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE FOUR-IN-HAND CLUB

... the Warrenton Rifle Corps. One day he told us that a countryman had come into camp swith a quantity of biackberry pies. Blackberries in America are a much finer fruit than those ripened by our faint English sun, and are quite popular in their season. The ...

Published: Friday 07 August 1863
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1406 | Page: 6 | 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