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... SMALLPDX AMONGSP CANAL BOATMEN. Mr. George Smith, of Coalville, Leicester, writes as follows to the Daily News:— I have travelled and seen a great deal in my time, but never during my life have I seen such a sickening sight as I saw this afternoon at ...
... Saturday evening, was an open craft of three tons burthen, mooed by four oars. There were 22 passengers on board besides the boatmen, the passengers being all farmers and their wives returning from market in Youghal. A strong ebb tide was running in the estuary ...
... band, Who live upon our rivers, And have no home on land. In lanes the wild rose groweth, The violet neath the tree, — The boatmen in their cabins The flowers but seldom see. For them no walks at even, Across the sloping meal; No schools receive their children ...
... Merridale-road on the day named, and when near the farm of Mr. Jeavons they met five rough-looking fellows who appeared to be boatmen ; upon coming up to them, one of the five threw a handful of lime into the face of Hulse, and then ran away the direction ...
... to where the fatality took place. ALLEGED ILOBBEDE OF IRON.—At the Police Court, on Saturday, Wm. Emery and Edward Evans, boatmen, were committed to Sessions on a charge of stealing a quantity of iron, belonging to Metiers. Tolley and Jones, Gold's Hill ...
... convicts, Ac. in prison. It was desnable that other trades should be selected by the visiting justices. THE EDUCATION Or BOATMEN'S CIIILDREN.—In reply to Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Cross said that by the lest Census the floating population WWI 29,500 persons ...
... same time ordering the defendant to return to his work and pay the compensation claimed. Thomas Baines and Isaac Stevens, boatmen, were fined 20s. and costs each for wasting the water of the canal at the Penkridge Lock. WELLINGTON. POLICE COV&T.—Tuesday ...
... Arrived within fifty yards of th e shore a m ile to the north of tho lightheutwa. Tho had bw considerably rougher, and the boatmen were grwitly to palling their boat ashore at this spot, And It wee considered unsafe for Grill to get on the shore alone owing ...
... special interest in Our Canal Population, and we have the hearty good wishes of canal companies, directors, canal managers, boatmen, and their wives. To those—if there be — who seek to annoy, obstruct, and delight in keeping this useful class of our labouring ...
... following day, it must be admitted that the special arrangements came rather late in the day—Mop/air. BISHOP SELWYN'S TO THE BOATMEN. —The Bishop of Lichfield has chosen as the first missionary to the canal population of his diocese, the Rev. R. M. Graham ...
... claimed and costs. POLICE COURT.—Weanesday. (Before I. Spooner, Esq.) A DRUNKEN TRlCK.—Benjam. Jackson and Geo. Willett, boatmen, and Daniel Givinett, puddler, were charged with wilfully damaging a warehouse at Tipton. Prisoners wo further charged with ...
... If the man in the moon.keeps a dog, we should say it was a skye-terrier. ' ' • Be careful in roaking a bargain with boatmen--they .re accustomed to craft. . _ . _ :111 be round this ;ay in a minute, as: the Second hand said to the e endulum. Mr ...