... Mother in the Workhouse. At the Penarth Police Court on Wednesday morn- ing, the magistrates being Messrs Batchelor, Thornley, and Trrys, Wm. C)x was ordereg to contribute 2/- towards the upport of his mother, who was in parish receipt of 4/- weekly. ...

... Jt tsrumoured that a gentleman who once held an honoured position in Peuarth, isnow a pauper ia a workhouse. Wanted, a schoolmaster. who has leisure time after schoolhuurs, to give lessons in spelling, for in the window of a certain house in John Street ...

... dissenters from the Church of England, a meeting house (this use is confined to England). 5. A name given to a printer's work-house, said, to be so designated, because printing was first carried, on by Caxton in a chapel attached to Westminster Abbey. ...

... considering he's off his head already. Union is strength, as the pauper, who was too weak to stand, said when taken to the workhouse. You may talk about your Beethoven's sonatas, your .Bask's fugues, your them , a of Wagner, your melodies of Mendelsohn, ...

... twenty years ago, the attention of the Legislature was drawn to the excessive consumption of stimulants in workhouses, and Cardiff Workhouse was no exception to tho Tole. In the year 1869-70, the year before he took office, 167 gallons of beer, 498 pints ...

... about four octock in I felt on faint aml sick with hu mar rehin ng I began to have sundiy thopyht= of would ive me .me- the workhouse, at least t thing to ent, | thought dolefully, the tears slowly running down my 1 had i to the extreme limit of the ls, and ...

... father, startled out of all official dignity by the spectacle. Take the child away this minute, one Of you! Carry it to the workhouse, and request the doctor to attend to it immediately A shrill scream broke from the prisoner as Inspector Sharpe attempted ...

... ie a fast. to ony | gow ral fy man to hear, fur with an tir - “for tt ib be. you doing here?” ex ** Mies Pion out to 8 workhouse; I they take mein, I’ve wo where «'se to go, and ite very cold With a muttered exclamation he my in a few minutes we in a ...

... circumstances, it may be summed, for to become the bride of Mr !tont ohs had to pus from the portals of the Leighton Buzzard workhouse. This was a eurium entrance into the connubial state, but sassy marriage s even more remarkable heve been ed. In 1869 a maa ...

... was the brother of Mr Lovett, senior, who formerly kept the Windsor Hotel. He was taken ill, and had to be taken to the workhouse, where he has been ever since. His brother and sister-in-law sent to his lodgings and got his things, to take care of it ...

... Victoria's reign. local administration was then detailed; of the organisation of supy banks, the system of ladies visiting the work-houses, and read- ing the Bible to the inmates; of the clubs for -cuntry excursions, of the labour burean, of the concerts iven ...

... them to degradation and shame; in our hospitals the cases treated are too frequently the mini+ of drink ; oar prisons and workhouses tell sad tales. It is a dark picture-- not one ray of sunshine to brighten or illumine the scene• How Esst to grapple with ...