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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 

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE

... At the Liverpool Assizes was tried Charlton v. Prescott. The plaintiff in this cause was Ellen Charlton, a domestic servant, and the defendant was Peter Prescott, the station- master at the Oakes station, on the line between Turton and Bolton. The action was brought to recover damages from the defendant for a breach of promise to marry the plaintiff. Mr. Jones, in opening the case for the ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1144 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20

... „ „ „ Surrey, licensed victualler. — W. H. J. Randall, B' gurrey, builder and undertaker.—J. A Batchelar, Leate Caledonian-road, Islington, late of Fen- cThu^h:^ehcf syhirand i-^ance broker.-C. Webb, Drury-lane, and ChrisD street. Poplar, general salesman,—E. Simons, Ne vv- E-ate-street Citv, and Birmingham, lamp dealer and Italian warehouseman.—H. W. Stear, Bread-street, City, lace ware- ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

OUTLINES OF THE WEEK

... To speak of golden sunshine is poetry eleven months in the year, but plain matter-of-fact in time of harvest. Every ray of the sun has just now its money value, if our simple arithmetic could Calculate it, for the differ- ence between a good and a bad harvest is equal to twenty millions sterling. We are still, of course, without the data which would alone enable us to speak positively as to ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 623 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

jikLfSTRTA AND HUNGARY

... A SEMI-OFFICIAL, stateme t published at Vienna Saturday, contradicts the reports of an eventual chaBfff in the system of policy pursued by the Government, of any personal change in the Cabinet.. Dispatches received at Vienna from Agram state th9' the Croatian Diet had decided upon making represents tions to the Emperor, requesting the re-admittance the Diet of the deputies from the military ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 79 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

SERVIA

... WE hear from'Belgrade that Prince Michael opeu ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 89 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

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... Murder in Wiltshire.-The wife of John Hill, gamekeeper for Sir Francis Astley, at East Everly, Wilts, was found a few days ago near the dog's kennel, 1 not far from her dwelling-house, with her throat cut; s her neck and the lower portion of her face presenting marks of strangulation. The deceased's husband is ab- sent from home, and she was found by a male relative, who obtained the ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 561 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

FOREST OF DEAN.'

... FOREST OF DEAN. MURDEROUS ASSAUI.T ON A POLICEMAN.—A very fero- cious attack was made by a number of poachers on Sergt. Beard, of the Gloucestershire constabulary, on Saturday night last, the consequence of which is, that the poor fellow is now, up to the time of writing, lying in a very precarious state. It appears, as far as we can learn, that a farmer in the neighbourhood of the Speech ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 366 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

THE NEWS BUDGET

... — Mysteries of the Toilet.—In the Insolvent Debtors' Court, Rachel Levison, described as an enameller of ladies' faces, applied to be discharged on sureties till the hearing. Mr. Macrae objected, as the insolvent was a minor, and therefore could not legally petition under the Protection Act. The Chief Com- missioner said that point must remain over until the hearing. The insolvent was ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 4823 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

TERRIBLE BOILER EXPLOSION .AND LOSS OF LIFE

... TERRIBLE BOILER EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE. An explosion of a very dreadful character has just occurred at Messrs. B. and J. Groves' steam saw and planing mills, in Deverell-street, Dover-road, Old Kent- road. It appears that about twenty workmen were busy at their ordinary avocations, and Mr. J. Grove, one of the proprietors, was in the yard, when one of the boilers suddenly burst with a ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 709 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FRENCH AFFAIRS

... FRENCH AFFAIRS. THE Monitmr denies the report that M. Saint Georges bad been replaced in his post of director of the Imperial printing establishment for embezzlement in the finance department, and says:—The reasons for this change have nothing to do with M. Saint George's management of the establishment, upon the honourable character of which no imputation is cast. THE following diplomatic ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

^ GAME LAW MORALITY

... GAME LAW MORALITY. March we called attention to a case then tried at the Nottingham Assizes, in which a petty grocer, named William Mee, who had also acted as watcher to a Society for Protection of Game, brought an action for libel against the clergyman of his parish. Mee having been in company with five other men, watchers and gamekeepers, attacked by poachers in a wood on a dark mgnt, swore ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 673 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News