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MOB LAW IN SOUTH CAROLINA

... TWO MEN HANGED. The Paterson (New Jersey) Guardian of the 7tb inst. says; We have just learned of a horrible outrage com- mitted by the pro-slavery parly in South Carolina, whereby two men, well known in their vicinity, have been sacrificed to the mob violence of that institution which is the sum of all villanies.' The names of the murdered party are Andrew Ackerman and — Barfcolf. Both have ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 402 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE FORTHCOMING CENSUS

... The Schedules for taking the census according to the provisions of the act passed in the last session of parlia- ment, and which received the royal assent on the 6th of August, 1860, are now in the course of distribution to the superintendent registrars of the United Kingdom, previous to general delivery to every householder to make the proper return. It intimates that. persons refusing to ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 506 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

ABERGAVENNY

... match was played on Monday, the 19th inst., between Major Rolls' eleven, (Monmouth), and the Abergavenny Club. Monmouth commenced the innings, and obtained 49, of which Smallwood obtained 22 not out Biadshaw 12, and King 9, in good style. Abergavenny then followed with the very large score of 267, of which r. Rosher contributed 62, by a six, 2 fours, 6 threes, 8 .wos, and 14 singles; G.Jones ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 704 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

- --A MYSTERIOUS MARRIAGE

... A MYSTERIOUS MARRIAGE A Russian man-of-war sncboreel one day at the entrance of the fiorde. Denmark was at psace with all countries, so its appearance excited no remarks. The fishermen of the village examined it through their glasses, and then thought no more about the matter. The parson went to his bed as usual, when suddenly he was awakened by armed men in masks standing round his couch. ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 340 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE COSTERMQNGERS OF LONDON

... This quaint account of the ancient Billingsgate ladies answers exactly to the costermongers and their wives of the present day, who are just a3 careless and improvi- dent; they are merry over their last rope of onions, and laugh over a basketful of stale herrings. There is a colony of these singular people in the Lower-road, Islington, where (in Ward's-place) a student of human nature may ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 431 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... THE SPANISH BouBBONS.—The news of the fearfully sudden deaths of the head of the Spanish branch of the House of Bourbon, the Count de Monte- molin, anel of his consort, at Trieste, on the 12th and 13th inst., has given a shc-ck to the imagination of men as encouraging the notion that so many disasters follow- ing one another so rapidly and visiting in such various ways the members of one ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 404 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

ABERGAVENNY

... iTOWN HALL.—WEMTMDAT. [Before the Hon. W. P. RODNBY, Rev. JAS. FAEQTTHAR, and J.C.Hn.i,, T.DAVlEs, and F.H.WILLIAMS, Esqrs. QUARBBLSOMB NBIGHBOU K8.—Thomas Dempsey and Margaret* hia wife,, were charged with having, threatened and abused Richard Probert, at Llanarth, on Sunday, the 26th of May. From the evidence of prosecutor it would appear that, on the morning in question, he caught the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1019 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

EPITOME OF HEWS. o

... EPITOME OF HEWS. Meteoric dust occasionally falls on the decks of vessels in the middle of the Atlantic. Besides a variety of mineral oxides, it has been found to contain as much as per cent. of organic matter, and often infusoria. Experiments lately made at Pittsburg, U.S., on the strength of iron compressed by cold rolling, show that the operation imparts to this metal a strength of about ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1701 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

CAERLEON

... CHARITY SCHOOLS—The annual meeting of the Trus- tees of Caerleon Charity Schools, was held on Thursday, August 1st. Ten boys and ten girls were of age to go out, and ten boys and twelve girls were admitted in their st-ad. Above 200 children partook of tea at 4 o'clock, in a field adjoining the school house garden, aft -r which they amused themselves with various games until nine o'clock, when, ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 84 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

THE EVENING CLASSES AT KING'S COLLEGE

... When these classes were opened there were, as there still are, evening lectures given by the Young Men's Christian Association; but these do not attempt systematic instruction, or the formation of classes in which there can be established any close personal relations between those who teach and those whom they are teaching. There were also at Crosby Hall excellent evening classes open at very ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 721 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

PONTYPOOL

... MONMOUTHSHIRE RIFLE VOL UNTEJfRS,- We under- stand the Second Battalion of Rifle Volunteers in this county, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Bird and Major Butler, and composed of the following corps— 6th (Hanbury), Captain.Commandant Steel; 6th (Mon- mouth), Captain King; 7th (Newport Borough), Captain. Commandant Cathcart; 8th (Usk), Captain Relph; 9th (Abergavenny), Captain Hill, are ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

HUNGARY

... PESTH, APRIL 1. Count Apponyi, Jndex Curiae of Hungary, will return to Vienna to-morrow. The opening of the Diet will most probably take place on Saturday next. ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 28 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News