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  2. A Pleasant Place for Judges.

    An ex-Judge, Mr. George G. Barnard, has just died in America, and the papers of 30th April furnish a memoir of him. He was one of the many American Judges who mount ...

    Article : 616 words
  3. Wedding at Raymond Terrace.

    On Tuesday last, a wedding took place at Raymond Terrace. The bridegroom was Mr. John Richardson, of the firm of Richardson and Scully, of Raymond Terrace, and the ...

    Article : 158 words
  4. RUSSIA. THE REIGN OF TERROR.

    Paris, April 29.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Univers says:—The police are openly arresting people by batches at all hours of the day, whereas apprehensions ...

    Article : 201 words
  5. CALIFORNIAN MAIL EXTRACTS SCOTTISH ANCESTEY OF MR. GLADSTONE.

    In view of the forthcoming contest for Mid-Lothian, Mr. A. Mackenzie, of the Celtic Magazine, has written a long letter, showing from genealogical records that "Mr. ...

    Article : 258 words
  6. Driving the First Pile of the Collaroy Bridge.

    The first pile of the Collaroy Bridge was driven on the 27th of May, by Mrs. Clive, of Collaroy station, who graciously undertook the task; and right nobly did that lady perform ...

    Article : 173 words
  7. WANT AND MISERY IN BOLIVIA.

    New York, April 26.—The Sun's correspondent at Panama says:—"A terrible famine is raging in Bolivia. The cloisters of the Convent of San Francisco, at ...

    Article : 223 words
  8. EXTEAORDINARY DEATH.

    At Invern, on Tuesday, April 15, a fisherman came by his death in an extremely strange manner. Having had some spare hours waiting for a tide to go sea fishing, he ...

    Article : 92 words
  9. CO-OPERATIVE CONGRESS.

    The annual congress of co-operative societies opened on Monday, April 14, at Gloster. Professor Stuart, of Cambridge, who presided, said the danger to co-operation lay in the ...

    Article : 288 words
  10. THE WEST OF ENGLAND BANK.

    A Bristol correspondent telegraphs that £127,000 has been paid by the shareholders of the West of England Bank in respect of the first moiety of the call made upon them, ...

    Article : 82 words
  11. The Drought Period.

    Do any of our readers remember, in history, a similar wide extension of droughts to that which has occurred within the years since 1874 to the present time? We cannot. ...

    Article : 277 words
  12. West Maitland Police Court. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18.

    Dr. R. J. Pierce attended at the West Maitland Police Court, and disposed of one case. CHARGE OF OBTAINING MONEY BY FALSE ...

    Article : 133 words
  13. STEEL IN THE NAVY.

    The naval shipbuilding firms have been invited to send in tenders for the construction of a new troopship, and as the Constructive Department are warmly in favour of steel as ...

    Article : 99 words
  14. THE NEGRO EXODUS.

    St. Louis, April 29.—The Coloured People's National Board of immigration of this city, of which the Rev. Moses Dickson is President, has received information that ...

    Article : 236 words
  15. ARSENICAL DOLLS.

    A shopkeeper in a small place not far from Berlin bought a doll dressed in a green muslin frock from a pedlar for his child, aged one year and a half. The latter repeatedly put ...

    Article : 124 words
  16. THURSDAY, JUNE 19.

    Four cases were set down for hearing—two custody and two summons cases. The bench was occupied by the Police Magistrate (Mr. Addison), and Mr. John Pearse, J.P. After ...

    Article : 572 words
  17. THE SAGACITY OF TAME RATS.

    My rat Jimmy was very fond of sweets, so much so that he was constantly stealing my sugar. I remember upon one occasion I was taking a cup of tea in my bed-room, and the ...

    Article : 394 words
  18. Love as an Investment.

    Love is the only thing that will pay 10 per cent. of interest on the outlay. Love is the only thing in which the height of extravagance is the last degree of economy. ...

    Article : 564 words
  19. THE MURDER IN MOSCOW.

    Explanation has been received from Moscow of the motive which led Mdlle. Prascovie Katcka to shoot M. Bayrasehevsky in a drawing-room at that city, under the singular ...

    Article : 133 words
  20. Rough Shoeing Horses.

    The Scientific American has been doing good service by calling attention to the need of some plan whereby a [?]ough surface can be temporarily given to a horse's shoe in slippery ...

    Article : 485 words
  21. ATTEMPTED MURDER OF THE ACTOR, EDWIN BOOTH.

    Chicago, Ill., April 23.—While Edwin Booth was giving the soliloquy in the last act of "Richard II," at McVicker's Theatre tonight, a shot was fired at him by a man ...

    Article : 736 words
  22. A FRENCH HABRON.

    A case of an innocent man being condemned for another's crime, even worse than that of the young fellow Habron, has just transpired in Paris. It is as long back as ...

    Article : 126 words
  23. LOCKED-OUT PAUPERS.

    The Mayor of Dorchester has been in communication with the Local Government Board on a curious point. It appears that several paupers armed with tickets from the county ...

    Article : 177 words
  24. DISASTROUS FLOOD AT HOUSTON, TEXAS.

    Chicago, Ill., April 26.—A dispatch to the Times, from Houston, Texas, says the flood in that city yesterday was the most destructive in the history of that city. The water rose ...

    Article : 156 words
  25. THE HIGHEST HOUSE.

    A Colorado correspondent of the Boston Jornal writes:—"The United States Signal Service Station at Pike's Peak is the highest signal station in the world; it is also the ...

    Article : 463 words
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