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Birmingham Daily Post

... out to sea Nvith half their proper crews, and prophecies of the decadence of English naval supremacy were as plentiful as blackberries. It turns out that all these depressing assurances were. the merest creations of disordered fancy. Instead of relinquishing ...

Published: Tuesday 28 January 1862
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4160 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES. BOROUGH OF BIRMINGHAM. THE BIRMINGHAM IMPROVEMENT ACTS. NOTICE is hereby given, that ..

... on e quarter of a hundred; Pears, sixteen pounds or Peck ; Plums or Damsons, eighteen pounds weight Quart Raspberries, Blackberries, or Elderberries, six of each, of six pounds weight: Strawberries, six quarts j (Broad), Kidney Beans, and French Beans ...

Published: Saturday 24 May 1862
Newspaper: Aris's Birmingham Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1316 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

IJtiblif flotict#. BOROUGH BIBMfiiGHAM. THE BIRMINGHAM~IMFROYEMENT ACTS. VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that is ..

... hundred ; Pears, sixteen pounds weight or one peck: Plums or Damsons, eighteen pounds weight or one peck; Raspberries, Blackberries, and Elderberries, six quarts of each, of six pounds weight; Strawberries, six quarts; Beans (Broad), Kidney Beans, and ...

Published: Saturday 24 May 1862
Newspaper: Birmingham Journal
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1859 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FREDERIC DOUGLASS ON THE AMERICAN WAR

... and without appeal; while there is alrealy a pretty general impression that medals, having been nearly as plentiful as blackberries, are not as precious as ptearls, and the giving more will cheapen distinctions yet futher. As for taking any away that ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1862
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1537 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

WESLEYAN CONFERENCE

... visited Cornwall, and not far from where the writer of this paper is now sitting is the lane where he and John Nelson picked blackberries, of which they made a meal, there being no person who would venture to entertain them after preaching. The county was then ...

Published: Wednesday 06 August 1862
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 938 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SCRAPS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS

... John would certainly think themselves hardly used, in this era of liberty, when locomotion is cheap and girls are plenty blackberries, they should not to pick their spouses, at least , among a hundred fair ones. It is only on the pinnacle of the pyramid ...

Published: Thursday 28 August 1862
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 4206 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE BIRMINGHAM DAILY GAZETTE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1862

... and left only a blank canvas in the frame. Mr. T. J. Barber contributes two pictures, one (183) being Dr. Primrose taking Blackberry the Fair,” and giving the abstracted! look of the good simple doctor, and the shambling gait of the old horse, with great ...

Published: Friday 19 September 1862
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 6348 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Birmingham Daily Post

... 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: Article | Words: 2662 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE BIRMINGHAM DAILY GAZETTE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1862

... Lafayette last year for some six months, because his children raised upon a pole, a r«g through which had been straining blackberries! Some neighbour, who was at enmity with him, started the report that he bad raised ” a secession flag,” and suddenly be ...

Published: Tuesday 30 September 1862
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 3343 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE IANCASHIEC DISTRESS

... some notable news. Scandals,” which are usually received with considerable relish an amiable public, seem plentiful as blackberries—at least, there are three cases,” all clear and well defined, like the scents at Cologne, being discussed at the present ...

Published: Friday 21 November 1862
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 4149 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE BIRMINGHAM DAILY GAZETTE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1862

... public sentiment, but when we come discuss the means of effecting the object, differences of opinion crop up as plentiful as blackberries in autumn. The judicial mind reverts to transportation, and the majority of the public favours the idea. Mr. Addeelet considers ...

Published: Friday 12 December 1862
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 4070 | Page: 3 | Tags: none