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AGRICULTURAL ITEMS

... Corporation. This is the third City Com. a pany that has contributed a similar sum. c Mt. CHARLES DICiENS.-The Daily Telegraple t of Saturday says:i-Mr. Dickens is suffering from e no distinct ailment, and to all appearance he is t perfectly well. Yet ...

Published: Friday 30 April 1869
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 1672 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE

... scheme of the directory yesterday was a fall in the price of Midland stock, of from 5 to 56 per cent. CHA BLES DIcKENs IN AMERICA.-Mr. Dickens presented himself to an American audience for the first time (since his arrival upon his second visit) on Deeember ...

Published: Friday 20 December 1867
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 3431 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LOCAL AND GENERAL

... House of Commons, in his sermon at the Savoy Chapel, on Sunday, spoke of the death of Mr. Charles Dickens, and said that, strange as it might sound, Mr. Dickens had by his writings done essential service to the Christian Church. There swas a punity and ...

Published: Tuesday 14 June 1870
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4052 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE REWARDS OF LITERATURE

... £2t,800;o The V icar of Bellhianpton, flaph the Heir, The Enstace Diamonds, and The Prime Minister, each £2,500. Dickens, at his death, left £80,000, a considerable slice; of wvhich caie from hooks. The stipulated paynient for his first great ...

Published: Thursday 29 December 1887
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2026 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... that case was Mr. Dickens, a son of Charles Dickens. Mr. Dickens startled the Court by calling Mr. Pickwick, whereupon it obviously occurred to the learned Judge to say that Pickwick was a very appro- priate witness to be called by Dickens. ...

Published: Monday 05 March 1888
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3015 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA AND LORD PALMERSTON AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY

... set fire to the work- house. They pleaded guilty, and were committed for trial at commission. A COOL AND DARING ROBBERY AT ROTHERHAM.-A robbery, exhibiting much coolness and daring, was on Monday forenoon perpetrated at the Ship Hotel, in the occupation ...

Published: Friday 09 May 1862
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 6339 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LOCAL AND GENERAL

... HoIsson, h Tarnton, 3: E. Scott, bi Robinson, 2; B. H IWend, b Dickens, 56; S. France. c Darnte,, b Ivy. 34; H. Horner, ran oert, 36; lion. (L. Lascellies, rcn out, 1; AV. Wright, c. Ifalton I Dickens, 2; A. Faewkes, feg before wicket, 20; Denison, c Robinson ...

Published: Tuesday 22 July 1862
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2056 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LOCAL NEWS

... Middleton's promises aboit the time of the robbery, and c the crickest bat and ten pileone were silbseqtiently found t under the bed they occupied. Time prisoners also absconde de very shortly after the robbery was di-coveied. Tie blagis- e trates intimated ...

Published: Saturday 06 November 1858
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1811 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE LEEDS MERCURY

... vindictive proceeding against Mn. CHARLES DICKENS, the distinguished novelist, has just conic to light through an investigation made before the ?? istrates atRochester. On Saturday night it was expected that Mr. Dickens would proceed in his carriage from ...

Published: Wednesday 18 June 1862
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2465 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE ACCIDENT TO THE IRISH MAIL

... fire. Mr. Littler announced that at the proper time he should be able to show most conclusively that the narrative of Mrs. Dickens was entirely without foundatiun. Mr. Uniacke Townsend, a passenger in the train, said that the collision was but a slight ...

Published: Friday 04 September 1868
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 3510 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LOCAL NEWS

... was given by tile gentry of' Ksrry to the directors Of tice sceiicmany aced Sir Charles. The Lord Lieutenant was Present.I ~*The Cork Couus~ti-etioct says that Mr. Dickens reat- sty lieed £226 in Cork by six hours' reading. A church-rate was last wveelc ...

Published: Thursday 09 September 1858
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1847 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LOCAL AND GENERAL

... afternoon, in the Council Chamber of the Town Hall, at which it was unanimously resolved that, as the next visit of Mr. Charles Dickens to Liverpool will be the last occasion on which he will appear there in his public capacity, advantage be taken of the ...

Published: Saturday 12 December 1868
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3764 | Page: 5 | Tags: News