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FOOTBALL SKETCHES

... wish to sweet the lives those over whom may have influence we would bid them nhun both as callings. The football game and the Whig and Tory game are both excellent as games. are Bridge-whist, and Ping-pong. But when we try to exalt either into something ...

Notes and Queries

... read some old newspapers printed in Taunton, but I have forgotten if either of tho following was the list:—* 4 The Independent Whig, published by Mr. Trcnchard, MP., in The Taunton Journal established ]7?5 ; The Taunton Herald, puNish««d 1794 Taunton ...

Notes and Queries

... the Duke of Moirmouth was proclaimed king at Taunton. T.N. 1403.—01 d Newspapers.—ls not Pica in naming The Independent Whig Taunton newspaper? Is he not- confounding th.s with Taunton papers because Mr. who con- tributed the journal, was also connected ...

CUTTINGS FROM THE COMICS

... has just beeu held in Argentina, the week end being selected as offering greater conveniences busy men. From the Xorthern Whig: ner father was , who died some years ago, his widow having died brokeu heart previously. JuGGPnNAUTiGAL.—Unfortunate Cyclist ...

LATEST NEWS

... threatened. bloodiest fighting has taken place m the cf Fu-iiioaK. whiff Ktuopatkin tryiug to keep intact his iihC retWa*, * whiG* >-■ threatened. It believed that the Japanese will succeed in cutting the railway north of Mukden, On the west General Oku ...

Notes and Queries

... he-ard of Fouthwood's Charities— Enquirt. CORRESPONDENTS' REPLIES TO OUERIES —Taunton Journals - Far from the Independent Whig being published at Taunton, I have a copy of ray own. which has on the titlefago London. Printed by W. Wilkina. for J. We ...

MY SKETCH-BOOK

... Baron, who was John Campbell, and rose to the Lord Chancellorship of Great Britain. John Campbell was politician, and sat as a Whig for Stafford, Dudley, and Edinburgh successively, his services to his party being rewarded by the Solicitor-Generalship ana ...

TAUNTON & ITS TOWNSMEN

... agreement; for whilst bis Whig colleague, Popham, headed the pod] at General Election of 1784, obtained that position for the Tories that of 1790; the reouft the 1 pall, after a spirited contest, was:— Hammet (Tory) 291 Pophaan (Whig) Z 257 (Wtig) ~ ...

TAUNTON & ITS TOWNSMEN

... Rot. John Ward was born at Warwickshire, in March, 1713. His father, mercer and draper, had to leave his ancestral home, as Whig ideas—which meant supporting the House of Hanover—were most unpopular in that town. He Nuneaton, where suffered further financial ...