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... held at Bolton on the body of Wm. Smith, aged years. Deceased and several other lads were in Heaton Saturday gathering blackberries. Two or three of them had crossed the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, and deceased was about to follow, when train was ...

Published: Tuesday 28 September 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1546 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WIT AND HUMOUR

... have been pretty drunk. Whether the stone hits pitcher or the pitcher hits the stone, it is always bad for the pitcher. The blackberry is so named because it is blue in order to distinguish it from the blueberry which ia black. If yon pretty daughter, you ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1617 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

WIT AND HUMOUR

... the lady present. Irishman says he can sse no earthly reason why women shonld not be allowad to become medical men. The blackberry is so named because it blue, order to distinguish it from the blueberry, which is black. Authors are spoken of a=i dwelling ...

Published: Saturday 14 August 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1553 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

NEWCASTLE BETTING, TUESDAY

... Myren had been sent to fulfil his engagement in the Newton Cap caused offers of 20 to 1 against him to be as plentiful as blackberries, and even at that price the Newmarket horse was friendless. Details:— ThiCHETWYND PLAIE of 1. for tw . that aot woo up ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1880
Newspaper: Sporting Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1612 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

C ORRESPONDENCE. en Lette bri. fl 8 intended for publication shonld be written as if Y aud concisely as sible

... It is then ure d tresses. for stuffing horses’ collars, sofas, chaira, and mat- The vines grow in around these oaks. The blackberry is alao very plentiful, and the figs, [shonld think, are the largeat and best grown. The peach is very plentiful; I was ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2850 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

MURDERS

... engaged in procuring further evidence. Some clothesI including trousers, jacket, and waistcoat, found hidden under some blackberry, bushes in a corn field have been identified as having belonged to the deceased. A quan- tity of plate. also stolen from ...

SALGAMA CONDITA

... Aladd m garden, through all the gamut of red and yellow, from pale strawberry syrup, through ruby currant jelly, to Ethiop blackberry jam, and from strawcoloured nectarines to orange marmalade and flamecoloured pomegranates! Then the dried fruits of the ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4944 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Miscellaneous

... the deceased accompanied a , number of other persons to the mountains above Port- - madoI f or the Sake of gaetherin c~ blackberries, and be- came separated from her1n friends, who thought she had left for home in advance. d t she did not I Fiiedn thatu ...

Published: Saturday 25 September 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5464 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

HICKETTS HOLLOW

... deliberating, tall woman emerged from the woods which skirted the turnpike, an doffu P road. She had basket filled with blackberries on her head, while an empty tin pail, stained with the same fruit, hung her arm. She moved too fast for me obtain a sight ...

Published: Saturday 25 September 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6426 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

M'INTYRE'S FALSE FACE

... from nice dark eyes, said— Alrick jumped out and chased me just as I was goin' to blow the horn for supper, and rubbed blackberries in face. He the roughest boy. I guess I'd make him stop, said Idella. The pursuer, somewhat later, having made toilette ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 10518 | Page: 4 | Tags: none