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FOREIGN NEWS

... AMEkRICA. Fi N wYr, (11 A elaetic T'eleyi-uai.) wi 2~1wYrMonUav ?? 13'7. Sterling cx- nlll -1axeolLondlon, Ib~l. .5.20 United States Bonds, 108; tli Zinuts, 1 16; Elile, 67.' Cotton :Nidilliing Upland, 34~,c. 1Sa T'lle lion-i steaniship Cila, of 4N'w Yor!k arrived out IPk ARRIVAL OF THE 1AUS9TR-LASfAN. 'rho A ustrai'W 'iia- jr ved at Qimon .~tw oi Tu'r.5ay. N~w Yoik, 9thI ,luai-vit, ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3307 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

BLACKBURN

... BLACKI3.URN. E31BEZZLEMiENTS.-On Saturday last, a young man, named Joshua Baxter, a traveller for Mr. W. Johnston, draper and tea dealer, was committed to the House of Correction, for trial, for embezzling 10s., his master's pro. perty.-Ot, Moudao, a man, named William Phillips, who had been apprehended in Blackburn, on the charge of embezzlingsome money, the property of a Court of Ancient ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 674 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN NEWS

... AMERICA. PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND CONGRESS. Tho Times has received from its correspondent at Wash- ington the following ?? assel resolution directing committee inquire into offences president hundred eight ayes, thirty-eight noes. First Pt impeachment. Radicals determined press it. Presi- nt vetoed Negro Suffrage Bill. We read it thus:- = The House has passed a resolution directing a committee ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1271 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

A REVOLT IN A FRENCH PENITENTIARY

... A A REVOLT IN A FRENOH PENITENTIARY. || On the 3rd of October last, the Penitentiary of the Le- vant, the largest of the group of isles known as the islands of Hvyres, a reformatory where young boys are trained to husbandry, rose in open revolt, and fourteen boys were literally roasted alive by the ringleaders. On the 24th of September sixty-five Corsicans who had been confined at St. Antoine, ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 845 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Borrowed Crifles

... 539mTaluĀ£ Criffe . . . e - 1 . L - - - When are wives not wvives ?-When they are masters When is a blow from a lady welcome ?-When she strikes you agreeably. What kind of office does a doctor's door-plate resemble -A siqn o' csm'e (sinecure). Lady Montague said, aM My health is like old lace; I patch it in one place, and it breaks out in another. Whence did the autho- of Whittington end hid ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1230 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE PROPOSED REDUCTION OF WAGES. MEETING OF COTTON OPERATIVES

... The proposed reduction of five pet cent. upon the wages of cotton operatives of this localit~y meets with great opposition, and those who will be affected by it say that it will not meet the commercial difficulty, and that the best course open is to work short time until the markets have recovered from their present state of depression. On Wednesday evening, the Preston Branch of the North of ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1006 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

DARWEN

... [ _ DARWVEN. i I SUDDEN DUEATH.-Thomas Smith, farm servant, in the employ of Mr. N. Green, hunter, Standhill, Hoddlesden, Over Darwen, died very suddenly on Sunday morning. ?? doceaed had never complained of being unwell lattended to his duties as usna, in Saturday last, and re- tired to bed about nine o'clock. About one o'clock on Sunday morning, Mrs. Green was alarmed by the groans of the ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1035 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

Borrowed Crifles

... I v: . tile l 3ttOr O 3U t T r -f . I , er u like London? -It is in the midst of o red on board ship like a necklace'? a *cLral yai .l~rn ' 01rr7oon like a revolution ?--There is 4 e'retablho Origin ?? he is Why sbo~ld a pixclly o (pair). tus ?? 6. ~ alch~N make good 1rifle volunteers. \ 00 ll ?? t cL d tle Pleases about things; btit beit as he Pleases. a relet not ul wrote to his sweet. U. ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 777 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE FISHERY COMMISSION AT PRESTON

... I_ In another part of to-day's Ch0ronicle will be found a report of the proceedings before the royal commission for inquiring into the legality of a mill dam at Low Moor, Clitheroe, belonging to Messrs. Garnett and Son. Sub- joined is the decision of the commissioners respecting it, whi2h was delivered yesterday afternoon, at the board- room of the guardians. Mr. Jordan, barrister, was present ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3655 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

BURNLEY

... B URNLEY BoY KILLED.-INQUEST.-On Monday, an inquest was held at the house of Mr. Parker Day, the Garrison Hotel, before Mr. H. U. Hargreaves, on the body of Charles Groves, aged twelve years, son of John Groves, stone- cutter, ot Pendle-view, Burnley. The deceased was a jinney-tenter, at Burtle Hills Colliery. On Friday morn- ing week he was sent with a message to the Hapton Vale Colliery, ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 578 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

THE WAGES QUESTION

... - THE WAGE$ QUESTION. Last Saturday we reported a meeting of operaties in the Weavers' Institute, Lawson-strieet, on the previous Thurs. day evening. The deputations then appointed to confer with the masters' committee on the question of a reduc- tion of wages met on Monday evening, at the Weavers' Institute, to report the result of the conferences, The. general effect of the reports submitted ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2956 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

... I| LATEST INTELLIGENCE ll [BY BRITISHI ANWD IRISlt MAGNETIC TELI]GRAPH.] London, Friday. THE ACCIDENT AT REGENr'S PARK. Four more bodies have been found this morning in the Regent's Park water-. GENERAL NEWS. Captain Mark Huith, for many years general manager of the London and North-Western Railway, died this \Mr George Poulett Sc rpe, M. P. for Stroud, announces his intended retirement from ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 835 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News