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... 4d to fid per dozen ; grapes. Is fid per lb.; apples, 1* fid per tub; watonts, per 100; oranges, fid to Is per dozen; blackberries 3d par quart; turnips. per bunch; Kent cobs. Is fid per 100; celery fid head ; pickling cabbages, to 3d each; walnuts. ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1874
Newspaper: Western Daily Mercury
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 730 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE DANGERS AND DUTIES OF OUR DAY

... dementing. The latter replied that he didn't know—(renewed laughter). He (the lecturer) supposed it must have meant blackberrying—(continued laughter). The lecturer then entered into the origin and meauing of the words, Catholic and Protestant ...

Published: Thursday 05 November 1874
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1076 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE TRANSIT OP VENUS

... so ranch tbst ran away. Ho wandered along the fields and lived oonld, and was at length caught by tho police gathering blackberries and potatoes. The Bench sympathised with the lad, and tho waa adjourned in order that Messrs. Hanger might be communicated ...

Published: Tuesday 15 September 1874
Newspaper: Western Daily Mercury
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1028 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... I our fate's the same If he sball e'er Bnd me or you siok. Compliments to the fair sex are,, of course, as plentiful as blackberries in a Devonehire lane:- The world must now two Venuses adore Ten are the Muses, and the Graces hour. Such Dora's wit, so ...

allitstial listrespaltut

... mania, that something must be dose to provide against the spread of ehol.ra,..fever, or other disease. It reminds own of: blackberry season, which is a richly time for horses. Notwithstandiag the tdediod Offieer reports : There was so case of yowled fever ...

THE PLAGUE OF GRASSHOPPERS

... plums, and peaches were tn i touched, and whilst making desolate the raspberry bushes, they spared the strawberries and the blackberries. For lace curtains they displayed a singular fancy, and if a parlour window was left open thousands fluttered about the ...

Published: Friday 23 October 1874
Newspaper: Tavistock Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1398 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

VARIETIES

... with sheet-lead. Perhaps it al was the same man who saw a white blackbird sitting on a 38 wooden mile-stone, eating a red blackberry. [e A swell, while being measured for a pair of boots t, observed, Make them cover the calf. Impossible l ex- t.. claimed ...

DISTRICT NEWS

... the committee. BARNSTAPLE. Accident,—On Monday a little boy by the name of Routcliffe, living Pilton, whilst gathering blackberries fell from the hedge and broke his arm. He was takento the North Devon Infirmary, where he wasjattended Mr. Wallace Drew ...

SOUTH DIVON RAILWAY 00104121 Y

... Moors, Oook's (Noss, fell off a hedge on Saturday last, and dinlocated and•broke his ann. Ms had gone up to pick some blackberries. I FATR•ORDIVARY OP AGAINST Manna Bieutane.—On Saturday lest, the Bight Hoc. Lord PoMoore (In the chair), the Bight Hon ...

Published: Wednesday 26 August 1874
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 1433 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

... Harbour. Eleven men were drowned, and ten saved. WARWICK RACES—Saturday. Hunt Steelechase. —Roman Bee, 1; Despair, 2; Blackberry, 3—7 ran. Match.— Slander beat Lilly Dale. Welter Handicap.—Bothwell, 1; Anita, 2 ; Cora, —4 ran. The weights will ...

BBNTESCB ON M. REGKIEB

... jury, at Southampton, have retgrned a ver- dict of acctdental a leath in the case of a li nti f age, who, co's, being out blackberrying, called at an ac- ‘There, a little boy, scein, it, & gun— The cl a ‘ex, 'y loaded—commenced playing wit! apie 1, killing ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1874
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1586 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Trewman's Exeter flying Post

... such a step, we might soon find them, as good in quality as are those now brought against the Church of England, thick as blackberries on Autumn hedges. Ws protested while the general election was pro- ceeding against its being fought so very much over the ...

Published: Wednesday 13 May 1874
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1600 | Page: 5 | Tags: News