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... joal gopits. Taa THIRTEENTH ANNuAL ExBInmoN of the Derby- cb shire Agricultural Society promises to be fully equal fe to any previous show, and will in every way be descry- ing of public patronage. An entry of one hnndred and 3 fifty head of cattle, one hundred and fourteen horses, and two hundred and eighty sheep, is sufficient a guarantee of the lively interest taken in the show by aR the ...

Published: Wednesday 10 September 1873
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1548 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

HOUSE SEWAGE AS A SAFE AND MOST VALUABLE FERTILISER

... HOUSE SEWAGE AS A SAFE AND MOST VALUABLE FERTILI$ER. le is 1o a d LB ~o )r 7, .2 10 t. .0 1, lo it t. We is 10 n d y y I- n 1. A S. d le 10 So many letters have reached us asking so earnestly for our opinion whether the use of house sewage is likely to produce disease either in man or animal partaking of the crop to which it is applied ? that we insert this answer to all our querists thus ...

Published: Wednesday 10 September 1873
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1689 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

Latest Intelligence

... I jaitsi IntfIlioturtf The Vienna correspondent of the Manchater Guardias states that during the visit of the Emperor of Germany to St. Petersburg, a convention was agreed to, in virtue of which Germanyundertakes not to interfere with Rusaias designs in the East, and Russia undertakes to remain neutral in the. event of another war between France and Germany. The St. Petersburg journals are ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1873
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 395 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE TICHBORNE TRIAL

... FIFTY-FOURTH DAY. The examination of Mr. Chabot on the question of hand- writing was continued on Tuesday morning. lMr. Chabot expressed his certainty that the handwriting of Roger Tichborne, was different from that of 'the'defeondait; and that the defendant's end Arthur OrtOi's wbritingwrass the same. Aided by photographic copies of the letters and . Rotuments, tho w-itnese pointd 'ont with ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1873
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 779 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

ECCLESIASTICAL

... EccuLEsIricAL. I ~CONVOjCATION OF YORK, On Thursday. Convocation for tho Province of York met for busiriss in York Minster, the Archbishop of York pro- I siding. The President said that before going to the object of the meeting, viz., the consideration of the licence from the I Queen and the letters of business received authorising them to proceed with the consideration of the subect of the ...

Published: Wednesday 05 August 1874
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1277 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... ?Lax?cspou? ence. MR. J. C. COX ON THE IORNS OF A DILEMTMA. hli - parts that none wifl trust,si Wit that can creep,, and pride, that licks the dll~t. 1 1 'Ocii, I 'retioga to the( Matirces. en) ,1111 TIM tli I iiO 1'riTHE I)Fcvcv: lI'ltiClUY. Sir-o iiri'i the li-ter tc,!is writtil) ?? yin Printto liast,~ 5ek ,,tiin ]idilts lin1,1eiiei H~imi it is ?? nimll taisk tol Place sii all ordrltiovi i ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1874
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3150 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

MIDLAND RAILWAY

... AIDLANI') RAILWAY. - - v M Y. LOCAL. ALTEIIATION or TIRAINS, MAY. 8.20 anm. *:xprlloss d,(,1donl (St. ancijerais) tI Lcice.ster, Not- tinghain. Ifliby, Slhefti.Id, Leeds, L,ake District, and Scot- laud, will leive at 8.i5 ntm. liotwecti Derby and Lveds. 8.10 .nm. Derby tt, Leed 's wiil la at 8.20 a.nm. and dis- continuestoppi ng at Dore. Itvlitchlivf, EIccesall, and lheley. 10.20 nI Dlerby to ...

Published: Wednesday 29 April 1874
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

FOURTH CORPS D.R.V

... .IiVUUD.ILI ?? 0 iJ.Q. Y . IHANICAP CIIAI.I.NOE Crr.-The eighth competition for Captain Harvey's Cop was shot off on Friday, the 17th inst., the conduitimos beitng that tile cup should become the pro- perty of the mailn winning it the greatest nimber of times in eight coipolitions. Private Atkin was the one to succeed first in winning it twice, Serjeant Bland winning it for the second time ht ...

Published: Wednesday 29 April 1874
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 554 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

SUNDAY MORNING IN BETHLEM

... 'Liko Bedlam itself, is an expression often employed to at sigttily a scene of wild uproar aind contusion, and in the to form and general arrangements of this timeo-honoured insti- tution there are no wanting indications that in years gone )y by the sinifle may have been not altogether at bad one. to This *rmorning, however, nothing could possibly be more a; inept. There is at faint rumable ...

Published: Wednesday 19 August 1874
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2622 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

A DISORDERLY MEETING AT DERBY

... On Tuesday evening, the 19th inst., aL meeting was held at the Derby Temporance Hall, under the auspices of the society which advocates the nece=st of stopping the sale of liquors on the Sabbath, the latrpart of which was characterised by groat tumult and noise, The Rev. Ernest I Boys opened the meeting by prayer, and Dr. Ooi,r., thle chairman, then Addressed a few remarks in preface. He ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1875
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2595 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

POLITICAL CHICANERY

... f John Bull being very prone to sharp, and sometimes not quite fair, criticism of the institutions under which be lives, 1 perhaps his mind may be tranquili=ed by a comparison of these with those existing in the United States, where in the opinion of a certain class, universal perfection has been reached. It will be merely necessary to premise that we r have drawn every item of the following ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1875
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1704 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: News 

EXPLORATIONS IN THE PEAK

... .. . I ?? - - - - -l ?? -- :1_ A nua ?? be At the last meeting of the Literary and Philosophical S5. Society, a paper on a descent into Eldon Hole, Derbyshire, be was read by Mr. Rooks Pennington. Near the road from - Buxton to Castleton, and about four miles from the latter mr. place, stands Elden Hill. It is a bleak bare mountain, one bo of the higheat of the grassy eminences of the ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1875
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1643 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News