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... THE BLIZZARD OF 1881 When Week St. Mary was Cut Off TRAIN IN SNOWDRIFT A correipondent writing from Chelsea to the Daily Telegraph on Real winters, says: January, 1881, I was reading for a Cambridge examination with the Rector of Week St. Mary, a more ...
... YEARS AGO—1881. Devon and Exeter Hospital.—At today's Committee patients wers discharged, of whom 11 wer cured, received benelit, G for non-attendance, and one at his own particular request; also, were admitted, among whom five had accidents. Exeter Pannier ...
... 50 YEARS AGO—1881. Lieut.-General Sir Frederick Robert*. G.C.8., V.C., will leave England to-day to assume tho command-iu-chief Madras* ❖ At the Exeter Diocesan Conference the Rev. Alfred Langdon moved That the Conference of opinion that iinmediato ...
... 50 YEARS AGO—1881. There is new law respecting Italian nobility. Any person may uow become a prince on the payment 30,000 francs, a duke for 25,000, or a marquis for 20,000, a count for 15,000, viscount for 10,000, and lesser titles for 5,000 francs. ...
... 50 YEARS AGO—1881. Eddystone Lighthouse is on the er«, of completion, thfe contractor having finished his work six months befora the expiration the time specified.! This is the right sort of contractor. The Jews in llussia.—The Emperor received a deputation ...
... YEARS AGO—1881. D.V.E.—The annual prize shooting took place at Clyst Valley Range. The; weather was very unfavourable to good shooting, there being a strong chopping wind blowing from the right rear. The ranges were 200, 500, and 000 yards, seven shots ...
... 50 YEARS AGO—1881. Mr. Justice Lindley will be sworn in a« a Lord Justice of Appeal on November 2nd, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge. ❖ ❖ New York. Friday.—The New York Herald reports the wreck of steamship on the Mississippi, in which about thirty men ...
... 50 YEARS AGO—1881. Disastrous Floods. During Saturday night the rivers Wye, Monnow, and Troth? rose rapidly and submerged large tracts land. The waters were etill rising l»6t evening. Intensive prevail in and around Buckingham owing to the recent heavy ...
... 50 YEARS AGO-1881. Cattle Disease in Devon. The returns for the past week show an increase of in the number of sheep affected with scab, viz. A fresh outbreak 24 at Bradworthy, 55 at Tavistock, and recovery of at North Taw ton. The following is a list ...
... 50 YEARS AGO—1881. Conservatives claim a majority of 362 on the new names altogether), added to the West Somerset Register, This is a piece of newa that will not thankful for. ♦ ♦ ♦ On Saturday evening a largo portion the wall of Launceeton Castle fell ...
... 50 YEARS AGO—1881. A strange story from people of were, ef bvsily engaged in discn&sing a strange affair which has recently a light. It appears that about A pjjC«» man, named Avery, native j very good position i» 1 ' and went to Australia* his wife behind ...
... 50 YEARS AGO-1881. all k.cow that a prophet honour in his own country. ' what remarkable instance of of that Scripture proverb has oC . in to our greai Francis Drake. From a el ',> published in the Daily appears that in the village 01 $ burg, in Baden ...