LOCAL NOTES

... disappearing rare plants. They will find more thau they require for either ornament or study in plants that are * plentiful as blackberries.” ‘ The great political work of the moment is the registration of voters. In the counties this work is immensely increased ...

ANOTHER LETTER FROM THE GREAT EXPLORER

... tracts of pastureland as would mske your cowboys out West mad with envy, and right under the burning Equator we have fed on blackberries and bulberries, and have quenched our thirst with crystal water fresh from the snow beds. We have also been able to add ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1889
Newspaper: Lancaster Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1962 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NOTES AND NOTIONS

... NOTES AND NOTIONS. JUBILEE suggestions scem to be as plentiful aimost as blackberries are in autumn. Amongst the latest ideas which have been forwarded to us is the establishment of the half-holiday movement in Horncastle. The young people who are engaged ...

Published: Saturday 19 February 1887
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2152 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

... softer sex. The home plautations were drawn without a find. * Blow Hill ” was next tried with the same result, as was also “ Blackberry,” but reynard was not at home. On Friday and Saturday evenings of last week Roberts” and Archer’s Pautomime Co. gave pe ...

WEEK Da¥Ys,

... sufliciently general in a wild state to be worth taking account of ; and there remain therefore only the strawberry and the blackberry as really enjoyable common wild fruits. Schoolboys can cat sloes and erabs 1 but even they would be likely to draw the line ...

PARISH CHURCH HARVEST FESTIVALL

... of oats, barley, mountain ash berries, and !Lisu The font wa3s most elaborately decorated. Round the bowl was a frings of blackberry leaves and fruit, with a ring of corn hanging from it. Round the surface of the bowl was a very nicely-arranged belt of ...

SHOCKING MURDER OF A FARMER IN HERTFORDSHIRE

... 282 acres, and had a large num{er of cattle. Some clothes, inelu(lin% trouserr, {‘ncket, and waistcoat, found hidden under blackberry ushes in a cornfield, are now identified as having be- Jonged to the deceased. A large quantity of plate stolen from the ...

COMING AND PRESENT FASHIONS IN MILLINERY

... in Queen Anne-street, has some original bonnets composed of wire covered with silk wound round tightly, a silk or straw blackberry, as it were, at each intersection. All these bonnets are of the favourite beige shade, trimmed with brown velvet and lace ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1886
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2713 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

General Wews,

... a charge Greenwood fell to the ground, and on examination it was found that one of his legs was broken. Tk DANGERS 0F BLAckBERRYING, —Mr, Woodcock, at the meeting of the Liverpool Vestry, on Tuwla(, drew attention to the death of a child at M.\.ihu I ...

CORRESPONDENCE

... Mr. Skipworth called upon thej wife of one of the members of the Committee one Sunday afternoon and invited her to come blackberrying in his covert, in order as she supposed that she might use her influence with her husband in his favour in the case of ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1889
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2801 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SANDY

... them. The hedgerows are not | mun his feelings were bound up with Sandy, but he did Wuite o plentifully sprinkled with blackberries and | not care whether Sandy or Biggleswade won when he sloes as last year, although there is a good supply of the | read ...