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PILFERINGS FROM PUNCH

... A TRUTH Fon BBoCE 0o1 BEACONSFZELD.-FirdWorks must be paid for. CUarOVS OPTICAL PHENOMiENoN. - (SeO the Home Secretary's Southport Oratioul.)-The Lqok1 of ^iaa.is ifb General,-By direct light, black as thunder; by Cross lightt, couldeao de rose. SIMgtA SIuiCsdUS. - The Maharsjah of A 3ar-a wotentate of Siinla, who onglit to be enconuteroc y the sabarajah of Nowar--has volunteered to eq.ailp ...

Published: Thursday 24 October 1878
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1646 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

BATH

... EMATL Porocir, Yi'5smimny--A trarap, named John Lee, was sent to 21days' hard labour for begging and assault- ing P.C. Nott, who took him into custody.-A lablourer, named Philip Laurbanr was fined 7s. 6d. and costs for being drunk in Hollowa on the 2nd inst.-A lad named Bristowe 2s. 6d. aud costs, for stone throwing.- Thos. Billings, a private in the Army of Reserre, wvas sentenced to 14 days' ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1878
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3382 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

TURKEY'S POSITION

... . TURREYS POWTIO.N. [FR1oM-UTI pLEA CORRESPONDENT OF THO TELEOREsrat1 The very artificial olive branch which the IranudDu'ke Nicholas and General Igniatieff presented to the Ottoman delegates having finally clianged hands, Turkey has an opportunity at last of examining hr-r position. She finds herself stripped of the richest and most siofitable of her provinces, attacked by Greece, troubled by ...

Published: Wednesday 20 March 1878
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1954 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... FOIVREI( ~ II N StLI ark, [REUTERI'S TELEGRAMSt.] ' heir' The THE WAR IN SOUTH AJ,0 !an CArE Towsi, MARCH 26iTH.-,Sandijjj thoir sidlerabicefore, isbelieved to be as ntirsY' with hieli the Pirie Bush as the nature of the e~ii~v IL* Several desperate attempts have Iinail 1 thaough the colonial lines, principally ?? 5I A sharp encounter to aeo h Hint Meuriniatn, betwoen te~entw o Ms55 force of ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1878
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1702 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

INSPECTION OF THE BRISTOL RIFLE CORPS

... I ,e annual inspection of the Bristol Rifte Corps on Vtsv a fitting termination to the week'si caping videlh the corps had experienced, for the opportunity h bad been afforded them of having frequent bi'on drills had well set them up, and enabled them ists most creditably before the reviewing officer. pate- the fact that there is at the present time a el proportion of young recruits in the ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1878
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1429 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

FESTIVITIES AT YATTON

... FESTIVITIES AT YATrON. .1 L - , , Yestorday, the whole of the village of Yatton was (il fef, the occasion being a day of festivitios at Henley. lO(lge, the residence of the respected captain of the Yatton Cricket Club, Mr. Tankerviile-Chamborlayne, a gentleman of great fortune, who has recently takeu up bi8 residence in the village. Mr. Chatiberlayne, whose ;,rent liberality has deservedly ...

Published: Thursday 04 July 1878
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1814 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE REJECTED OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL

... THE REJECTED OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL, Al U,.% V JU A VXt.M., Captain Mayne Reid, the novelist, writes to the Daily Telcgrcaph from Frogmore.bouse, Ross :-As it chances, I possess a rare and very remarkable variety of sheep- viz., jet black in colour, with snow-white faces and tails; the latter long and full-fleeced, as the brush of a fox. Of small size and perfect symmetryin shape, these ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1878
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1136 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... LANDLORDS AND TENANTS. ?? subjoined letters were crowded out of our Satur- day's impression.] Tro the Editor qo the Mercury and 1osf. Sin-Your correspondent, A Family Man, has con- trived to put down so much that is fallacious about farm- ing that his letter might be safely left as far as those are concerned that know. But many may read it who do not know, so that it ought to be answered. ...

Published: Monday 02 December 1878
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1067 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

THE REPORTED SUBMISSION OF YAKOOB KHAN

... THE IOwD SUBMISSION OF . 'Y.KOOB KHAN. l DAII.Y 1XEW2~ TsKgBoAMB5. :AIORE, SATuan Y.'-Thereprt that Yakoo 'EKhan bas made his submission at Jellalabad is confirmed. There bus been no further disaffection amongst the pathans or Afiredees in our pauks. Colonel Tytler's force returning from the BazarValley was attacked in the Khyber Paus by Afredees, and two soldiers of the 17th Foot were killed ...

Published: Tuesday 31 December 1878
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1398 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Bristol

... -L.4? 10 RIS itw rA APRIL 0, 1O - JIaUBTO aned ,9a - T RIDA .-PricO5 Of a fl ,Wth tonsY'. pplies drawn p~rineipall wrats. h e I ,it Ale frials are suficient LOT presenta. h n sergo of new crop Barbadoes has arrived at this port, gners' prodnee is in fair demannd, land the finer deserip, ions rather degrer. The Rev. W. Harrra~ve, Ts.A,, annaornceg tsvo ?? for ?? (Suneay), at Oakfeld.rond Chnrch ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1878
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2195 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

MANCHESTER UNITY OF ODDFELLOWS

... MMANClE.STERR UNITY OF PDDIFELL,,,OWS. THE AM.C. AT EXETER. The Annual Moveable Committee of the Manucibt3r'. Unity of Oddfellows, consisting of some 426 delegates, representing dyer 200 of the districts of the' Oder, including one in America and mauother in New Zealand, assembled at Exeter yesterday, for the 'transactiona of the business of the Unity. The Grand. Master of the Order, Mr. J. ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1878
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 5259 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

CHANCES OF THE CONGRESS

... ST. PrLTE:1SDunO(,, FsiD.v.-The sanguine expectations of yesterday about the Congress turn out to have been somewhat exaggerated or, at least, premature. It was believed that all the Powers would accept an invitatio! to a Congress to consider what .chasnges should be introduced into the Treaties of 1856 and 1871 in con- sequence of recent events, and that formula was supposed to have removed ...

Published: Monday 22 April 1878
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1329 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News