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Sporting on the Moors

... INVERNESS- SHIRF,The 12th of August, says a contemporary, came in breezy, bright, and sunny-as fine a day for the moors and for trying one's dogs as pould be desired. The air was fresh and bracing, with just enough of wind to blow away the smoke from the guns, and give the birds plenty of scent. The demand for moors has been almost unprecedented. Had there been double the number to let they ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 961 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

EXTRAORDINARY ACTION FOR SLANDER

... At the Bristol assizes a case was tried in which the plaintiff was a Miss Leete, and the defendant a farmer, named Stogdon. The action was tried before Mr. Justice Willes and a special jury, and the declaration alleged that the defendant had imputed that he had had carnal intercourse with the plaintiff, whereby she had been treated with less kindness and hospitality by her friends, and that a ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 893 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Hide Market

... LEAD ENITALL. -H i(les.-Price s 561bs to CI lbs, 2|d to 3,1. 64lbs to 721bs, 3d to 3Jd; 72!bs to SOlbs, 3d to 4d; 801bs to 8Slbs, 3Jd to 4d; SSlbs to 961bs, 4d to 4jd; Horsa hides, 10s to lis 6d; Calf skins, light, 2s Cd to 4s ful), 7s. BERMONDSEY.-Sheep skins, polled, —s to —3 -d; Downs, -s — d to —s; Lambs, 3s to 48 3d; Shearlings, 23 Bd to 3s. ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

Outrages in East Tennessee

... The Memvhis Bulletin gives an account of some outrages in East Tennessee, and, among others, records the following:— In the month of January, 1863, at Laurel, N.C., near the Tennessee border, all the salt was seized for distribution by Confederate commissioners. Salt was selling at 75 dols. to 100 dols. a sack. The commissioners declared that the Tories should have none, and positively ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1381 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

USK

... GLASCOED BAPTIST CHAPEL.-On Wednesday, the 5th inst., a public meeting was held at the above chapel, when about 300 friends sat down to tea. The tables having been cleared, several suitable pieces were sung by the choir conducted by Mr. S. Evans, New Inn. Very appropriate addresses were delivered by the Revs. D. James (student at the Western College, Plymouth), T. Williams (Pon- theer), and G. ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS AT ZARZYN

... CRACOW, AUGUST 15. The insurgents attacked and dispersed three com- panies of Russian infantry and a squadron of cavalry ion the 8th inst, at Zarzyn, in the Palatinate of Lublin. Two hundred Russians were killed, and one hundred and ten taken prisoners; the litter, however,-were sent back. The insurgents captured 200,000 roubles in this engagement. I ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 62 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

MURDERS IN FRANCE

... The Court of Assizes of the Gard has been engaged during three sittings in trying a man named Domergue, aged 47, on a charge of having murdered, in the night of 23rd of October last, M. Blanc, a woollen-draper, residing at Pont-St. Esprit. On the morning of the 24th, the body of the murdered man was found lying i his shop, dreadfully mangled by several blows with an axe, any one of which would ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 854 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

FUKESAL OF LORD CLYDE

... With no pomp and with little ceremony, but with every mark of respect, the remains of Lord Clyde were on Saturday morning laid by the side of his gallant friend, Sir James Outram, in the nave of Westminster Abbey. It is already known that in compliance with his own request, that his funeral should be quietly and unostentatiously con- ducted, arrangements were made by his friends that he should ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 704 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

ASSAULTING A LADY OF TITLE

... At Marylebone-street Police-court, James Johnson, aged twenty-four, upholsterer, 40, Upper Marylebone- lane, was charged before Mr. Yardley with being drunk in Great Cumberland-street, and' cutting the riding habit of Lady Algernon Chichester.—Lady Chichester said: I was riding on Thursday afternon in Cumberland-street, on horseback, and had my habit on; and that fellow (the prisoner) rushed ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 422 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

TOWN TALK

... BY OTTB LONDON CORRESPONDENT. Our readers will understand that vie do not kold,oursehes ^responsible for aur able Correspondent's opinions. + DKATU has been yery busy with a series of char- acters celebrated in different ways. The public have perhaps been most astonished by that of Sir Cresswell Cresswell, who looked an active man of between fifty and sixty, was seventy-two, and seemed to have ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 965 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Fashionable Intelligence.,

... Fashionable Intelligence. The little boy who threw a summersault in the nur- sery eventually caught it. The gentleman who publicly cut a dash has apolo- gised. The person who boiled with rage is now simmering on the hob. The artist who threw up his' foreground is'better. The public lecturer who dwelt upon a topic has changed his residence. The gentleman who saved the mark has been pre- ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 240 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

MONMOUTHSHIRE ANTIQUARIAN ASSOCIATION

... MONMOUTHSHIRE ANTIQUARIAN ASSO- CIATION. The annuil gathering of the members ofthisassooation took place within the ruined walls of Llangibby Castle, on Wednesday last, at which upwards of one hundred of the gentry of the county were present. Among the company we observed Lord and Lady Tredegar, Sir George and Lady Walker, O Morgan, Esq. M. P., T Cordes, Joseph Latch,, EJ Phillips, and J ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 735 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News