MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS

... pineapples. to 8s; melons, to ; and shaddocks, Is to each ; hothouse grapes, 3s to 8s ; and foreign, 9d to Is per lb. ; blackberries, 3d per pint ; filberts and Kentish cob nuts, to 9d per lb. ; walnuts, 2s 6d to per hundred. Flowers: cut roses, Is ; ...

Published: Monday 03 November 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1080 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

IRVINE CATTLE SHOW

... Irrose; 3d, Thomas Markwortb, dil- po wiDning. Smooth-haired terriers-bit, BanId Steveneon, w le Irvine Mains; 3d, William Blackberry, Eglintun; Sd, Jsmes ?? h Binning. Townend; 4th. Mrs Logan, Wateride. Dog of any elf otber breed-Iset. l'rovest Paterson; ...

ments'which have recenUy taken place in the

... ” with violoncello accompaniment by Mr M'Hardy. Mr Drurie gave a very good rendering of the song “ The Lanes where the Blackberries grow.” The quartette “Sir Knight, Sir Knight” deserves favourable mention, though the two ladies’ voices did not form good ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1879
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1013 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DB ' ATE . OP THITEEV . DR ' . INGBAM . TTNST

... multitude of people we ' heard of who have turned the corner of ninety years I And the children are as thick aa , bees or blackberries . Dr Ingrain , in whose pulpit I preached , and in whose honse we lived some three or four days , ia' in his 96 th year ...

Published: Tuesday 04 March 1879
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2206 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

IT _cannot be denied that _there are _points of _o-sinularity _between Dr Guthrio and Sir John _yalstaff , _but ..

... _for details _, and he did not give them . He _did not _say with falstau * that _, though details _were _as _plenty as blackberries _, I would give no man one ; _but he acted in the spirit of the old _knight _, and left his _audience in the dark as ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1871
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2099 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ONCE upon a time it would have been an act of daring profanity , in tlus part of the island

... Winchester , and shook in their shoes . Happily or unhappily , that time has passed away . A Bishop is no longer a rarity . The blackberry , not • the black swan , is now the appropriate similitude , tlie Episcopal dignitary liaving become , comparatively , as ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1878
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1743 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Is the world sufficientl y aware of the alarming rate at which romance is dying out of it 1 The

... water-kelpies ; in the woods , elves or dryads , just as tjie soil happened to be Greek or Gothic , were found as thick as blackberries , and the caverns of the earth , after Vulcan and his myrmidons had been put to flight , were filled with trolls and other ...

Published: Friday 22 September 1876
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1910 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ICE AND THE TYPHOID OUTBREAK

... H. Pritchard, • coloured boy, 17 years old, committed an assault upon • young German girl, who had gone out to gather blackberries in Baltimore county, about six miles from the city , and ravished her in a most brutal manner. Both were arrested and committed ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1873
Newspaper: North Briton
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1217 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A DARING PRUSSIAN SPY

... imitate—tho military phenomenon who shot Pmssiana like sparrows, and to whom the helmets of bis enemies were plentiful as blackberries—should now turn out j to have been nothing but a Prussian spy, must far towards exhausting the fund of Parisian credulity ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1871
Newspaper: Alloa Advertiser
County: Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1084 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LIFE IN THE BACKWOODS OF CANADA

... loaded with berries and wild fruit—ph o ne and ebonies. The rasps are thick in July. also strawl-erriem, gooseberries, blackberries, cranberries, thimbleberries, and a lot more that are hard to name. Our cereal crops are F.fe,ani Black Sea wheats. barley ...

Published: Friday 25 February 1870
Newspaper: East of Fife Record
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1182 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

many sheep farms in Otago more rabbit hunters than shepherds are employed. Sir Augustus Clifford, Usher of the ..

... farmer dashed across a frozen creek, and the tramps, following, broke through, but got out and chased the fugitive through a blackberry patch, across a forty acre stubble field, over another hill, down a ravine, across a stump field, and finally they overhauled ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1877
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1148 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FEBRUARY

... was the pi sad at I the rut eta. iisa cab lees at the Sent the yard. Thou potpie Me peering the bows. Asa, awed bed amid% blackberry-vials, is net as mush the it le Thu Mood by rad the dry ewe% the ;sad weddi r l a t=out. We a& the sad with is wide °Week ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1878
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1179 | Page: 3 | Tags: none