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PONTYPOOL

... reaped a fair share. Theatrical booths were few in number, but nut, orange, and ginger- bread sellers were as plentiful as blackberries, and the new swindle of selling a penny purse full of money (?) for a shilling-a transaction in which none but the greatest ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1864
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 920 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

EPITOME OF HEWS. --

... for tres- passing in a wood belonging to the Misses Starkey, of Hatton-hall, and taking therefrom, on the 4th of October, blackberries (wild brambles) of the value of 6d., or there- abouts. The gamekeeper stated he had cautioned the de- fendant more than ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1864
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1611 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EPITOME OF NEWS. -

... was 26,621, with 8,520,303 tons. A large Scotch pearl was found the other day Inverury. It- was about the size of a large blackberry, .weighed twenty-three grains, and was ro'und and perfectly pure. It was sold for £34. Scotland, says a contemporary, is ...

Published: Saturday 09 July 1864
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2772 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

::fUWUffl BOMCB COUTKE

... Edward Gardner there; he was picking blackberries; he gave me David Morgan's name.— Cross-examined, —The three men were in their working clothes I bad seen Morgan before that day.—Edward Gardner,-l was picking blackberries on Davies's land on the morning of ...

ABERDARE

... —Ann Jones and Elizabeth Jones were charged with trespassing on Messrs. Nixon and Co.'sland, in Mountain Ash, gathering blackberries. Fined 6d. and ltd. damages and the costs.- Moses Rowlands was charged with assaulting William Lawton. Defendant is managing ...