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... Gen- tleman who was very drunk, and carry'd him into an empty Houle in Grecn-ltreet,Leicefter-rields,aiid while he was aileep pick'd his Pocket o*^4o Guineas, touk'orf his Coat a-nd Waiitcoat, and made oft; fb that he Was frre'd to march oil' mthe Morning ...

Published: Sat 06 Aug 1737
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1206 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

banJ. Anil we ask if ever any King who swayed the BritUb sceptre possessed so large a share in the

... the owl, the scream of I the vulture, and the doleful croaking of the carrion | crows, from being dlsap|ioinled of their garbage[During his address Mr. Heron was loudly and frequently cheered.] Mr. Turner in seconding the resolution called upon the meeting ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1834
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1298 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

POLITICAL TALE OF A TUB

... upon him; another they hung up by the heels to make him disgorge; the remainder, after being pelted with rotten eggs and garbage, and kicked, buffetted, worried, and pummelled nearly to death, got off the estate, and never shewed face again during the ...

LOCAL NEWS

... Lane of that village, and who had for soine tiiae been in the habit of traversing Tweedmouth and this town picking up bones ‘ and other garbage from the streets, It is not unlikely that the misery of his condition, and the wretcheld and precarious means ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 6117 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Family Companion

... men, or the mere purpose of bravado, advanced some paces in their front, waving his sword. It would have been easy enough to pick him off, for the rifles needed no instruction marksmen in those days; but Stuart would not permit that; on the contrary, his ...

THE CHOLERA AT SUNDERLAND

... inhabited during all the intervening period, the occupant being an old woman, who picks up a livelihood someway or other by gathering rags, bones, and such like garbage, from the streets, middensteads, &c. The operations were about to be resumed on Wednesday ...

Miscellaneous News

... complicated lock, which be had himself designed, and which would, he said, baffle any attempt of himself or any one else to pick it. Colonel Aubrey, who appeared witness against the persons prosecuted for fitting steamers aid of the Sicilian insurrection ...

POETRY. THE OF THE SWINE ! Written reading Doctor's complaint to the Darlington Local Board, that they would ..

... shew no sign; You flag, and you spend, and you drain, But never expel the swine. Stench, grunt, and stench, From pigs on garbage fed, But wait a bit till the cholera comes, And puts you all in dread! Grunt, grunt, grunt, In the gloomy winter morn, Grunt ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1854
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 428 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

OXI' Xllli WKlilC,

... wild, coarse, reckless, ribald, generous book of old English humour! How savage the satire was—how fierce the assault- what garbage hurled opponent?—what foul blows were hit—what language of Billingsgate flung ; Fancy party in a country house now looking ...

Published: Friday 26 January 1855
Newspaper: Newcastle Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 2240 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER

... and smell. The broth was of a still more extraordinary nature. It consisted of a sub- stratum of lights and fish offal picked up at the fish- monger's and the butoher'Ls, flavoured by the introduc- tion of a profusion of half- decomposed vegetables ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1855
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1735 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE BERWICK JOURNAL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1856

... beaten with the most unnatural and brutal severity. The poor little fellow had been often seen by the neighbours picking up and eating garbage to satisfy his hunger, and even going to the pigs’ trough, and devouring eagerly such refuse as the pigs had not ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1856
Newspaper: Illustrated Berwick Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 5230 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS

... insufficient food,and at times besat- en with dreadful severity. The poor boy had often been aeen by the neighbours picking no garbage and eating it to satisfy his hunger, and even going to the pig trough and devouring eagerly such refuse as the pigs ...