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THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 18RO. THE LOSS OF THE STEAMER BORUSSIA. STORY OF ONE OF THE SAVED. The Board of Trade

... THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 18RO. THE LOSS OF THE STEAMER BORUSSIA. STORY OF ONE OF THE SAVED. The Board of Trade have directed that an inquiry shall be held into the circumstances attending the loss of the steamer Borussia, belonging to the Dominion Line. Nothing ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 2404 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PRACTICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE TAY BRIDGE CATASTROPHE

... submitted to the Town Council on Flour, 59 ! Monday first. The following are the uames o£ the West. Un n- candidates put on the short leet:- Futurez - f William Bain (44), Lieutenant, Edinburgh eity June detii Police 'of Cotton, J.~ Gordon Shirrefs Gordon of ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6604 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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... . alinost always , yau 4 regaruin ^ storios ' witli a purpose , whether they are hot more successful'in' drowning the story than iii effecting th 6 purpose . 'The writer wants to tell us about Queensland and Bush'life , a taste which he is evidently ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3104 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OSNERAL RETROSPECT FOR 1879

... days to live, we hear of the overthrow Skocubsi, and have some reason flatter ourselves that this is the last episode of the story we are now to outline. On January Cth, Lord Chelmsford was appointed to the supremo charge in dealing with the Zulus. His ultimatum ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2118 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... lire of Lea' graadtavoer v-reuoies the bulk of the volume, toe satentido anaiya.s by ilort Kranse being a eoaoparattuly -short paper, well tranalatrd from a German scientific joormial Il The Ocoits tiqepierd A I'sstersi Csas4y By ?? itsecsot' Lte Petrel: ...

AFGHAN WAR

... had been taken of this interval. The pe of She: r is a huge rectangle, the long sides of which are about 2200 yards and the short sides al t 1200 rds long. Only the south and western sides been completed when it was first andeventhese had already fallen ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1809 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE AGITATION IN RUSSIA

... THE AGITATION IN RUSSIA. THE story of the quarrel between the Czar and the heir-apparent remains unconfirmed, and now wears a certain legendary air about it, but, like other legends, it hay at least this element of truth in it, that it expresses in the ...

DUMFRIES AND THE SOUTH

... It-relates incident that came under the personal obaervation of Mrs Mliinnon. when re• siding in Liverpool. It is the old, old story of a gradual declension front a good estate to one of sin and shame and suffering, through the negkit of religious observances ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: Daily Review (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5717 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

s«al and iUtrirt gews

... scokin’ till yo get has to mourn the death of one of its leading men, Mr William Sinclair, who died on Sunday morning, after a short illness. Mr Sinclair was a fisherman and boat- He first started boat- cline his youth. and afterwards he re- moved fo Duncansbay ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1832 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MARK TWAIN AT THE GUILDHALL DINNER

... MARK TWAIN AT THE GUILDHALL DINNER. That quaint and original genius, Samuel L. Clements —Mark Twain—told a story at his own expense while breakfasting with a journalistic friend, which is t»o good to be lost, and which, by his consent, is now published ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: Stonehaven Journal
County: Kincardineshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 907 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Heel consideration of hone affairs. | ’ ’•nent politicians hare bee' elsewhere in bt

... 13th of March the Duke of Cownsfobt married Princess Louise Mikoaiut of Prussia. The Qcux on the 35th of same month left for short stay at the Italian lakes. On January 2d the Thunderer explosion took place, and during the year destructive colliery explosions ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 392 | Page: 2 | Tags: none