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The Mahdiats have made a desert of Western Abyssinia, sold thousands of Christians into slavery, and butchered ..

... The Mahdiats have made a desert of Western Abyssinia, sold thousands of Christians into slavery, and butchered thousands in cold blood. Three-hundred houses have been destroyed, and one hundred and seventy lives lost by a volcanic eruption on island in ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1889
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 590 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

All Souls' Church, Manchester, took fire Sunday Before the lire could put out, considerable •jhnnage was done ..

... has forwarded to the Secretary of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society the sum *»f 50,000 francs out of the fund of 300,000 francs g'ven to him by Pope Leo XIII. for his anti-slavery ission. The announcement of this donation was contained in a letter ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1888
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 417 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

The principal source of the evil smells that periodically afflict the House of Commons has been traced to ..

... anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British colonies an important meeting took place on Friday week in the London Guildhall, at which the Prince of Wales occupied the chair. Resolutions in support of the Anti-Slavery Society and all efforts to extirpate ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1884
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 266 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MR. FORSTER, M.P., ON THE LIVERPOOL ELECTION

... gentleman said we could not leave Egypt until it was in better state than when we entered it; and that we must see that slavery was completely destroyed. In regard to Madagascar he believed that when the facts were put before the French nation an appeal ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1882
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE AT CHIO. THREE THOUSAND KIELED AND INJURED

... massacre in 1H22, when from one hundred and twenty thousand to one hundred and thirty thousand persons were massacred sold into slavery by the Turks. It also claims to the birthplace of Homer. The terrible effects of the earthquake are shown in telegram from ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1881
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TERRIBLE AND WHOLESALE MASSACRES

... witnessed. Wives and families had been captured in numbers, and in cases where they were not killed, they were sold into slavery by their conquerors. ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1889
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 199 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE BARONESS BURDETT-COUTTS AND THE SOUDAN

... should exist. A movement for the suppression of slavery associated itself naturally with the Anti-Slavery Society, whose secretary, Mr. Allen, has always attended our meetings, and I believe that the Anti- Slavery Society has already moved in this matter, and ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1885
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1000 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LITERARY

... have declined to have anything to do with the now celebrated work but that he happened to be an enthusiastic opponent of slavery. So little did Mr. and Mrs. Stowe think of the book that Mr. Jewitt could have obtained the copyright from them fora equal ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1883
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A SLAVE STORY

... A SLAVE STORY. A very beautiful and touching story is quoted by Mr. Charles Allen, of the Anti-Slavery Society, in a letter to the Times the subject of the public sale of slaves at Tangier. A newspaper published in that city relates how a short time ago ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1883
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 223 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SMOKING TEETOTALLERS

... violated pledges. They urge, moreover, in support of their view the confession of multitudes of smoking drinkers' that the slavery of the pipe is much more difficult to break free from than that of the pot. In 1876 the national drink bill reached its ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 1883
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 262 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

COMMITTAL FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT

... communicato with or kiss the boy again should meet him. His lordship did not believe that man who had sold his children into slavery would suddenly become so affectionate towards lad of fifteen. Shaking hands and kissing would not have been such breach of ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1883
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 274 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WEST WILLOUGHBY

... reme >ibenng that we are kin/ the great cuise freedom. let persevere, till shall have bani~-h°d fro.n oir village ignoran-e, slavery, and poverty ; wh ,: n our enlightened lightening smoking par ia nent will the wonde - and our land : when education shall ...

Published: Saturday 11 December 1886
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 216 | Page: 3 | Tags: none