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FOREIGN MISCELLANY

... FOREIGN MISCELLAN Y. ?? - - . .. . I . I -. Wild boar bunting is being carried on with great suc- cess in the forest of Orleans and in other parts of France. Servia is moro warlike than ever in her popular tone and outward seeming. Troops are being reviewed, commis- sions granted in hundreds, and drilling carried on without remission all over the country. The Vienna Gazepte calculates that as ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2000 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE

... ' THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND has caused notice to be given to his tenantry on the Trentham estate, Staffordahire, that such of them as sufered loss by the cattle plague before the compensation clauses of the Cattle Plague Act came into operation will have the half of such losses made good at the expense of his grace. - THE ABSUtBDIT of some of the cattle plague regulations was prominently brought ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1234 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

TO VENICE AND BACK

... 1 : TO VENICE MAD BACK . - No. X. On Saturday morning, September 15th, `ive left Venice.- We were up early,. 'and before breakfast egjoyed a walk isi the garden of our hotel,' on the bailag of ?? Oanal,`and noted the picturesque palaces and otherbaild- ings, skirting the famed streanm. It aea`bdat five o'clock, for we had arranged to leave at 'sii, and the morning air was realypleasant and ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3074 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

MR. BRIGHT AND HIS CRITICS

... THE CHRONICLE. PARSTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1867. ?? . ?? ?? ?? ?? .. ?? ?? ?? Us~stnel *e---s;snxrsad n- I f 1_ _ Eivery public man must make up his mind to be blamed as well as praised. People think so differently from, and come to conclusions so opposite to, each other, that it is pretty certain that what extorts the admiration of one person will be held up to severe condemnation by ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1806 | Page: Page 4 | 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 

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 

BLACKBURN

... I Iot w : I ACCIDENT TO ALDERMAN BAYNES.-On 'dondoY iah this gentleman and his son sustained a noslihp 5ICi might easilyr have been attended with grave ?? Driving along the Preston New Road, their boroso heO wras closely crossed near Northgate by a horocroan. Tbe driving horse took fright, became restive, bioks on the shafts, and upset the vehicle with its OccoPantsr ,t however, came off ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1866 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... I The inhabitants of Sheffield are again petitioning the government to make it an assize town. The dead body of a newly-born child, packed in brown paper, was found on Wednesday among the misdirected parcels at the Brighton railway station. DESTRUCTION OF AN ANCIENT CHURCH BY FIRE.- The parish church of Croydon was burnt down on Sunday. The building seems to have been utterly destroyed, but ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2181 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

AFFAIRS IN SPAIN

... I - . - AFAIRS IN SPAIN. It does Englishmen a great deal of good to look beyond the limits of their own country, and see how other lands aregoverned. Even the inhabitants of the British islands have not everything that they wish for; there are many laws which they desire to modify or re- peal. But when they take a survey of the empires, monarchies, and republics of Europe, there is not one ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1647 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK

... On the night of the 24th November, the British barque Coya, of London, from Sydney, bound to San Francisco, was totally wrecked near Point Ano Nhevo, about 60 miles to the southward of San Francisco, and of the 29 souls on board-but three succeeded in reaching the shore alive.-Mr. George Byrnes, the sole survivor of the pas- sengers on board the ill-fated vessel, says that on the 23rd of ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 676 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

DEPARTURES FOR JANUARY

... IDEPARTURES FOR JvAUpl ~1- - Arro Irs =\1 ToB3rACSiuN, ACCRINGTON, Buoiy ?? - 6.035 mixed, 8-15 8-50 9-10 10-50 11-25 A 1.3 i0 6-16 -30 7-30 mi, *9-15 A.-On Sund i ' 2.15 6-15 *7-30 A, all ?? To A crig ` ' 9 *>,ij ToBLAOHBUBlNJBUBNIecYCOLNa l ] 3 ?? AD LwfS.-645 mix, 8-15 8.50 9-10 16 1-40 2-0 4-0 5-15 7-30 A. -On Sundays : .5,ii 4 ti, A. all ?? Colne only.) E J To CH0BL3Y, BOLTON, AND ACI ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1721 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News