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... Several items of district intelligence are crowded out by the length of our- Sessions report. Communications frotn Z, and A. A. are also held over until next week from the swne causet ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 36 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

Sailing: Directions for the Bark of St. Peter

... How to assure safe voyage and quiet quarters Unto St. Peter's bark in English waters, No wiseman here ? Try Manning is the cry: If that don't answer ? Then New-manning try. The Test of all Tests. ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 37 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE COMMISSIONAIRES IN THE CITY

... Since the recent jewel robberies in the city, fifteen of the principal firms in Cornhill, including jewellers and watchmakers, 'have joined together in availing themselves of the services of members of the Corps of Commissionaires, for the protection of their shops and houses at Eights and on Sundays, and a number of picked men have been assigned to that particular duty. Two go upon duty at ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 403 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

AMERICA

... NEW YORK, JULY 14 The War Department on Wednesday promulgated orders dividing the United States and Federal terri- tories into five grand military divisions, viz.-of the the Atlantic, under General Meade, with head- quarters at Philadephia; of the Ohio, under Sherman, at St. Louis; ofj he Gulf, under Sheridan, at New Orleans; of the Tennessee, under Thomas, at Nash- ville; and of the Pacific, ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 182 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

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... A Veteran.-Died, says a New York paper, in Cornish Maine, June 14, 1865, Mr. Abraham Day, of that town. He had attained the extraordinary age of one hundred and nine years and eight months, having been born in the town of Hackmatac, State of New Jersey, October 29, 1755. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary struggle as well as in 1812. He is re- ported as having been the proprietor of the ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

E MONMOUTH. J

... ABERGAVENNY. A PIC-NIC.—On Thursday a gathering of this descrip- tion took place at Coalbrook Park, which was generously lent lor the occasion by Capel Hanbury Williams, Esq. The affair passed off with eclat, though the weather, which was not altogether very favorable, no doubt prevented a great number from being present. THE 9TH MONMOUTHSHIRE RIFLE CORPS. A public meeting in connexion with ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2312 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

,I .PONTYPOOL.I

... RAGLAN. THE PBOPOSED GAS WOBKS.—The adjourned meeting upon the subject of lighting the village with gas was held at the Beaufort Arms Hotel, on the evening of Friday, the 21st inst., and was well attended by the most in- fluential of the inhabitants. The Rev. A. M. Wyatt was, as on the former occasion, voted to the chair. A practical gentleman of long experience in the construction and man- ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 441 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD

... The usual monthly meeting of this Board was on Tuesday. Present: Rev J. Joucs, (chairmall) Paton, Esq., (treasurer) and Messrs J. Pritchard, Evans, T. Hemming, Israel Morgan, J. Harris Pope, and W. Burgoyne, Mr Thomas, the secretary, read the minutes of last meeting, which were confirmed. The surveyor's accounts were examined and viz., J. Gunter, £ 3 Is 3d and W. Roberts, £ 2 6s S ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1865
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 157 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

MONMOUTHSHIRE QUARTER SESSIO-•

... MONMOUTHSHIRE QUARTER SESSIO- The general quarter session for this county was ope at the Town Hall, Usk, on Monday. Sir Thù Phillips, Q.C., deputy-chairman, presided. NEW MAGISTRATES. Robert Bateman, J. Jeffries Stone, and J. Richs1* Russell, Esqs., qualified as magistrates. JOINT COUNTIES LUNATIC ASYLUM. The question of the proposed enlargement of Joint Counties Lunatic Asylum was again ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1865
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1142 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

A CLERGYMAN CONVICTED OF AN ASSAULT

... The Rev. W. R. Scott, residing at 15, Woymouth- terrace, Hackney-road, attended at Worship-street, to answer a charge of assault preferred against him by William Hunt. Mr. William Cook defended. The Complainant, who conducted his own case, said that he was the foreman of the works now progressing for the construction of St. Michael's and All Angels' Church, leading out of Paul. street, ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 281 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. —♦—

... LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. THE Beemaster, Dr. Cumming, is again entering largely into the merits of the subject of bees. His letters appear in the Times, and his articles upon this subject are appearing in the Quiver. The subject is a very interesting one, and the articles in the periodical are very edifying as well as amusing. THE second volume of Lane's Arabic Lexicon, the great literary ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 813 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

OUTLINES OF THE WEEK

... THE news from America is not unimportant, at the same time much has to be -done before it can be said that the country is in a tranquil state, or that commercial prosperity has arrived at the same position as it had attained prior to the war. Presi- dent Johnson has issued a proclamation abolishing restrictions upon trade with the ports east of the Mississippi, putting them on the same footing ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1310 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News