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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... _ 1100 eals are prepared forfdistributionto. the exhibitors wil at the Great Exhibition. chi John and William Griffiths, colliersI, were recently killed by yei falling down the shaft of the Great Oak Collfery, near Mold. Me The Viceroy of E~gypt is expected ?? Marichster a visit glbi on Tuesday or Wednesday next.I The anniual contest of the Ngtional Iil Association comn- soT xnenced on Tuesday ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4628 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... |I l || Heavy snow fell in Paris on Friday. a The necessary permission has, been granted to revive the Shedden case in the House of Lords. Convocation of the province of York has been further f prorogued to Tuesday, March 18. c The three prisoners charged with the Russian Bank forgeries were further examined at the MMansion House, t London, on saturday. They were again remanded. s The ...

Published: Wednesday 12 February 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5512 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... COR iRESPONDEINCE. THlE TRADES' PROCESSION. TO TUE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. S~ic-Looiugoverthe uil Recrdsof 1822, 1 find each trece pblihedthe ame ofthoe wh dieh1~edthe duties of he lile o waden bt dd nt d soin .hope they wil in 1812,for it is ineresting to on vr ol hoiles, and Aug. 28, 18I2~ A CARPE NTER. SHOP ASSISTANTS AND THE GUILD. TO TiII; EDITOR OF THlE PRESTON CHRONIOLE. Sia,-I ...

Published: Saturday 30 August 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1856 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

GARDENING OPERATIONS

... (Frosi the Ga,'dene-s' CIbsroinicle.) CONSERVATORY, &c.-If not already done, prune and' train climbers in this and other houses. Passion flowers, bignonias, and similar plants which make long annual shoots, should only . have- their branches thinned and1 slightly shortened, but others, as combretums, for instance, May be spurred in. Kennedyas will soon be showing bloom, and what training they ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1455 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

THE POLLING

... THE POLLLNG:.-K .A- I1 Yesterday morning, at, an early houi,. the active memni hers of the electioneering staffs of the two candidates were astir, looking after tbe men who had to perform. the real work, which would itake two or thre& minut , for which they had been put down as cavassYrS or runners fur eight or ten days. But this coloeraso employment of voters was far too 'slow for the ? ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1164 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

HOUSE OF LORDS.—YESTERDAY

... HOUSE OF LORDS.-YESTERDAY. Inv UYMPTARR AWfl TRET O -- LBY B~cITIsH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TLGp~ The Lord Chancellor took his seat at five O'clock. Viscount DURGANNON gave notice that, on Fridgy he should ca.11 attention to the case of I5saaeTayilor, d'toote man, convicted at York nassizes of freboniousl pantwo gther powder in a house at Rtoth~erham 25yplcnggn Numerous petitions were ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 780 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LANCASTER

... . THREATENING LANGUAGE,-On Saturday last, John. Horiby, of 81kerton, a blacksmith, in tbe employ of Mr. C. Baynes, of Lancaster, was brought before the county magistrates, at Lancaster, charged with using threatening language towards his wife, Esther Hornby.-The Bench ordered Hornby to find sureties to keep the peace for six months, or be imprisoned for that period. INqUEST. -On Saturday last, ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 426 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... _ I _ _ __ _~ _ _ . = I THE HIGH SHEtIrFe.-We understand that Sir James P. Kay-huttleorth, Baronet, of Gawthorp Hall, will be high sheriff of this county for the present year. EARLY, PIR E.-At Mr. Robert Cookson's, Clif- t ton-street, Lytbarn, a large number of primroses may be C seen in full bloom. t REPRRSENTATION; or ST. JoHN's WARiD.-The election B of the mayor as an alderman causes a ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6088 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: News 

ORMSKIRK

... IMplRTAN' RAILWAY CAsSE.-On Tuesday at the Ormnskirk Cntv CourtJ Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes, of Hyde, Cheshire, sued ohn esii, out-door porter at the Southport railway station, fr Xo the value of a box containing dresses, jewellery, ic., wbi clb lad been lost while in his charge. From the evidence it peared that in July last Mrs. Barnes visited Southport, and 2aterher address had been written on ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1217 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—YESTERDAY

... H:OUSE OF COMMONS.-YESTERDAY. 2-he Speaker took the chair at one o'clock Mr Ayrton took the oaths and his seat for the Kirkealdy Burghs, in the room of Colonel Ferguson, resigned. The hon. member was introduced by Mr. Brand and Sir W. Dunbar. PRIVATE BILL LEGISLATION.-CoD. WilsON PATrEN, in moving the consideration of thereportoftheseleetcom- mittee for the revision of the standing orders ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1807 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN NEWS

... RUSSIA. The official journal (orteler-a Post) of the 20th -of JuT, publishes a despatch from Dunaburg, a city on the line of railway between St. Petersburg and Warsaw, which an- nounces that a great conflagration, in which more than one hundred houses were burned, took place on the 18th. FRANCE. Paris, Sunday.-The Moniteusr of today publishes a decree suppressing the journal L'O1Uaagais. The ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1686 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE & GARDENING

... AGL{ICUI1'URE & GARDENING. SOLDIERS' GARDENS.-In the late encampment at ft Chalons, which has been broken up during the past week, ti we learn that the soldiers have been encouraged to rear al and cultivate vegetable gardens all around the camp, on a i w plan tried experimentally on a limited scale s'mo two r( years back. So successful have the preseut arrangements proved that they are to be ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1713 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News