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... with their request to give them beer three o'clock in the afternoon. It appears that in order to make the most use of the short days, Messrs. Taylor and Scouler caused their men to cease work minutes to half-an-hour before time, and then gave them the ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1867
Newspaper: Sherborne Mercury
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 5180 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE GREAT FIRE AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE

... matchwood, and ran rapidly across to the ladies' retiring room. whence it spread upwards and into the Assyrian Court, which in a short time it com- pletely destroyed. It is curious that, although it had been checked in its passage across the build- ing by the ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1867
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3162 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

NEATH AND BRECON

... NEATH AND BRECON. The extension to connect this line with the Brecon and * Merthyr system has been completed, and in a short time 1 the railway will for both and traffic. By the completion of this extension new route will Is* opened from Swansea, Llanelly ...

THE CUMBERLAND PACQUET, JANUARY 1,1867

... accompanied by Miss Williamson and the Rev, A. Ewing, ot Trinity Church. Every child in the schools was also presented with story book. After the distribution of the prizes, the Rev. A. Ewing delivered very affectionate address the children. Some kind lady ...

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1867

... rector of St. lof oil from shale, a material found in profusion near the uty hat West. ironstone seams, and which, a very short time , was I St. N. P. uty 9.9 M. I:E.IT .c.,w Si, -MALTDN MONDAY thought to be not only valueless, but an actual Warm- 6p ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1867
Newspaper: Express (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 8447 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

VIGILANT'S ROTE-BOOK

... Humbly submu any other information I may have had, the mere fact of an o*ner having backed a horse for large sum at a very short price is in itself sufficient evidence—sufficient at least for all reasonable and unprejudiced people—that the owner had at ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1867
Newspaper: The Sportsman
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2591 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... notice of fresh supply of silk pocket-handkerohiafa ’prentioa had joat brought from the store-room for hia inspection, gave Sir short nod, and bustled out the ahop. ”Impudent, bat interesting, confound him!” exclaimed the meroer, aa looked after him, and pondered ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1867
Newspaper: North Devon Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4616 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... foilhloeirediaoreassr.dto the P w ou h nc en y l asktr d him the w Pri ba he .r watrtt; amount of the rating of the premises. Mr. Short° but be gave no reply. Primmer thee snMed towards sugetkted th it sn effort should be made t get more the front door, and on ...

THE BEDFORD TIMES & BEDFORDSHIRE INDEPENDENT, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 186 T. serious fire took place at Greenhithe ..

... some 20 feet. She was much burnt and cut about her person, by the fall, and notwithstanding her dreadful suffering she made short work of it in getting into the back yard, and knocking the rear of the house of a next door neighbour, Mr. Poole. She so got ...

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY I

... matchwood, and ran rapidly across to the ladies retiring room. whence it spread upwards and into the Assyrian Court, which in a short time it completely destroyed. It is curious that, although it had been checked in its paaaage across the building by the cotton ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1867
Newspaper: Express (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4873 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS

... General, and the election would be suspended until after that event. We dont profess to know what truth there may be this story. Sir i' Stafford Northcote will at the County Sessions tomorrow, and too happy to inform those his constituency of North Devon ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1867
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3694 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SUNDAYS STATIONS WEEK. DATS I & p.m. 6.35( 6.471 7. 7 4.52! 5. 5.10 arriving in London at 9.40. »i

... inspect the face of the country in the intervals of more fascinating studies of physiotrnomy. I heard some talk of a great elm a short distance from the locality just mentioned. Let us see the great elm,” —I said, and proceeded to find it, —knowing that it was ...