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STAFFORDSHIRE

... MAY KEEPERtS TAKE D00S WITHl 'sHe'. ence At thle Stafford Assizes last week, before Mr. Baron Mlartiot, slrap Aaron [-arrison, 3S, crate maker, John Yardley, 48, miner, thle Philip Hyatt, 35. miner, and Henry Johnson, 28, no occupa- taute tiou, were charged with night poaching on the I Ith of Novem- few ber. on lands of the Duke of Sutherland, at Tittensor, Ins the A parish of Stone.-Mr. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1862
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2409 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

VARIETIES

... O.. ltht -P AA --f ?? 9 is not in brutes that we find most brutality. Wby are two t's like hops? Give It up? Because they mlt beer better. Kvery woman's rights are marriage rites; every traitor's ra~?s, funera4 rites. Wby is it easy to break into an old man's house ? Because hiu,7it isbroken and his locks are few. Anadvertiser in one of the papers says that he has a cottage DP 1t containing ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1862
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 675 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

STAFFORDSHIRE

... rd UJTTOXETER. at PRINCE CONSORT'S MEATORJAL.-Steps are being taken do here for popularising the Subscriptions to this national object. ri A public meeting has been called by the churcbwardens, e; when it was expected that a local committee would be ap. IL ray pointed for carrying out the object. ag PosT-orirtcz AcERaATrONcS.-A public meeting of the in- in habitants of the town, was held at ...

Published: Wednesday 07 May 1862
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1977 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

COURT AND OFFICIAL

... The Queen remains in privacy at Balmoral. right An intimation appears in the London GazeUe that the taxer Queen will this year hold no levees or drawing-rooms. peal Ladies and gentlemen going abroad, who may wish to the attend foreign courts, and who would, had circumstances steal permitted, have been presented to Her Majesty, may pap have certificates from the Lord Chamberlain, by apply- this ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1862
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 797 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE ASS STORY

... f TO THE EDITORt OF THE ?? 1RUL for- Sir-Mr. Massioglhan, In thre recent dsuso ~Cuc Property, read from a pamphlet a story aouta hrc aly who was said to have ridden on V clergyman tained, as soon, as I could, a copy of i his church. I ob. ub, Reviewer Reviewed, Sowler andp Sofs tanhester~t IThen to wrote to Ur. Thomas, who had made08 t nheestteren atheud Dur derifield. His reply I give you ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1862
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2528 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: News 

THE MIDLAND RAILWAY

... thi The following is the Directors' report:- The directors have to report that the receipts from the several branches of traffic for the past half-year, as compared with the aff corresponding half-year of 186l. have been as under:-Coaching, of 333,9.58/., showing an increase of 9,9431.; Merchandise, 421,4181., tht showing an increase of 4.0321. Minerals, 212,280?., showing a de. crease of 38 ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1862
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1386 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LIEUTENANT MAURY ON THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE

... DI I 5 LIEUTENANT -MAURY ON THE AJIERICAN g . I STRUGGLE.' Lieutenant Maury, late of the United States' navy, author of the celebrated work, The Physical Geography of the Sea, and a staunch supporter of the Southern Con- federacy, has written a letter .to the French Admiral De Chabanuo, on the origin, conduct, and prospects of the war in America. It id without date; but was written after the ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1862
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 941 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE CURE FOR CRIMINALS

... TIHE CURE FOR CRIMINALS. - - 4- . V aa*AAT>- r..- . The report from the Reformatory Committee for the County of D)erhy, presented to the Court ot Quarter Sessions last week, was a very suggestive one. During the year just dead there have been twelve juvenile offenders sent to various Reformatory Schools from this county, and the total amount paid towards the maintenance of juvenile criminals ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1862
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 922 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE

... AGRICULT'UiRE. weather is v-. . 1. 5LLULJLI UIk. In Austria the weather is very ufvual.adtepieo 'St grain is rising it, all parts of thle ,tpire.favoablet and the price of st Vienna ?? cut in all parts of ite country. atdevery et seconid day there is'a thunderstorm, wvith lottg-contitnued atdl heav, rain; in fact, this sumititer is one of the coldest and wettest that ban ever been knovn in ...

Published: Wednesday 23 July 1862
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 712 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

STAFFORDSHIRE

... THE Assizza.-The commission of assize for this county was opened on Monday. Mr. Justice Byles and Mr. Justice Blackburn, on arriving from Worcester, proceeded to the Shire Hall. and thence, having opened commission, to St. Mary's Church, accompanied by the High-Sheriff. H. Killick, Esq., and the usual body of javelin men. The sermon was preached ky the shefiff's chaplain, the Rev. T. Killick. ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1862
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 896 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

COTTON IN JAMAICA

... ,..x~nv~kj*the _ TO THIE EDITOR OF THE DERBY MgRCtUeV. Do Sir-Fourteen bags of cotton grown by the Jamaica Cotton the Company in Jamaica have been sold by Mesars. Stead, Bri. Na thers, Liverpool. and Mesars. B. Smith, and Sons, at Alan- me cheater, at Is. 6d. and 2s. 3d. per lb., and a bag of each is ext now being spun by Messrs. Dobson and Barlow in the wit western annex of the International ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1862
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 749 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE DERBY GRAMMAR SCHOOL

... Oppressed with a sluggish trade and a dimmed Ref prosperity, Derby has somehow or other managed to coa take a great moral and intellectual stride. Without Ji ostentation, and almost silently, its Grammar School- in t once the fount from which its best sons drank inspir- to ing draughts of knowledge, but in later years merely his the wreck of a nobly-freighted ship-has speedily, Tes and as if ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1862
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1039 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News