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FOREIGN NEWS

... FOR',EIGN NEWS. I AME RICA. ARRIVAL OF THE MORAVIAN. Tho Canadian maiI steamer Xloraviam arrived at Liver- 1)110, on Tuesciay evening. New York, 2jii,1 December, Morning.-Presitlent John- son had revoked the military order, prohibiting corporal punishment in the department of the South, on the ground that it was an utnwarrantable interference with the civil laws. The Lower House of the ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1457 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

GREAT REFORM DEMONSTRATION AT BLACKBURN

... | . ~ ~ - . 1 _ _ , On New Year's Day, the reformers of Blackburn and the neighbourhood assembled in the town of Blackburn to show-to the government and the people of this country that any impression that may be entertained as to an in- difference on the subject of parliamentary reform by 6t6e working classes is unlounded, so far at least as that part of the country is concerned. The ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2476 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN MISCELLANY

... ?? AAi . - d ?? -f ^^1,1 I-AV AA^A ?? a nne ricr ?? ox golq brive been discoverod in the county of IHastings, Calnada \Vest. Of course the dis- covery lias deligihted the Canadians. Thle Kinc o ?? left Florence on the 24th Deeemb.er, to splicl the Cblistmnas fctes at Turin. Prince Amadteus, Siconi ston of Hlis Majesty, bad previously arrived at V~enice. President Johnson having issued a decree ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1463 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

LCANSTER

... LANCASTER. I kftn ; & P.( -r , . _ I lRn. R. A. CRoss ON CL1IME AND EDUCATION.-In his cbarg to thc grood jury at t he Lancaster quarter sessioes, ?? Monday, Mr. R. Assheton Cross, the newly-elected crairma, s aid that the calender told the same sad story as it ever had done, and most likely would continue to tell- oat of vicealone, but ofvicalmost invartiably accompanied by ignorance, wichir ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 465 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

GARDENING OPERATIONS

... -AREINGQ~PERATI NS G aA X D7E N l v wR&TION So. I I I - .1 - . - (Frromz the Gardeners' Chronicle.) FLOWERn GARDEN AND PIANT HOUtSES.-Lgt neatness prevail in every department, Lawns should be carefully 1ookeid over and cleared of dead spray from trees, worni. casts, &o. Walks should be freed from weads, anI well rolled-operations which in the majority of cases require atteation rather than ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 718 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Borrowed Crifles

... 539mTalu£ 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 

THE FYLDE

... THE FYLDRE. ?? _ . _ WESLEYAN TEA PARTY.-The annual Ma party in connec- tion with ?? Chapel, Garstallg, was held on Ne7 Year's-eve, when about 150 persons ,at low to tea. The chair wa taked by Mr.' Arn, Of Churchtown. Addresses wore delverd b seera fiens iterperedwibh singing, and a (~ASTAO PTTYSnsroa.-Tesesesions were held at the Twn Hal, Gaetang on T~nrsdy lat, before Majr Lonlitlb and . C. ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3131 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... |1 I On the 17th insttnt the judges of the three courts will ---ouse errir spring e teuiL,. The Board of Trade has established at the Liverpool Mercantile Marine Office a deposit bank for the reception of seaaen's money. Three lads were sliding over a pit near the potteries at the south end of Liverpool, on Thursday, when the ice broke, and they were drowned. A strike has taken place at the ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4323 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

SALMON FISHERIES COMMISSION

... ?? I ADJOURNED INQUIRY AT PRESTON. The Commissioners appointed to inquire as to the legality or otherwise of fixed engines, weirs, mill dams, &c., in the salmon rivers throughout the country, re- sunmed their investigation with regard to the river Ribble in the Guardians' Board-room, in this town, on Thursday. The Commissioners were-Jas. Paterson, Esq., chairman, Major Scott. and Captain ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4235 | Page: Page 6 | 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 

THE FYLDE

... TH E F Y L - D j,,. NEW 3fAGISTRTr,.-,pj,, C;h,'Incall_ Womisa, I t Id.3 - .1 _f?L- - , . ,y)nllsell to ;dd t the un ancellor of the Duchy has °f U0l gl to thv .e corini~ssion ftb ?? tl', a c Of the peace the namee dieo~~crt hem 0%e rbltce ot ooblel or thre pettyeee- v blh tie (lfl O rp bl t ?? i sonn s sets, o iy two tigallone haig Ieoultod Inagsatras0 in the Rcv. \r Pnda dderl 0'.Qt ?? Net ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1705 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News