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  2. Advertising

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  3. PRESENCE OF MIND.

    As a traction engine was descending Chatham-hill, says on English paper, the brake gearing suddenly snapped, and the engine became unmanageable. The driver was thrown off ...

    Article : 110 words
  4. BRITISH LABOUR NEWS.

    DURING the week a dispute arose between the contractors for the New Victoria Law Courts at Birmingham and the stonemasons, which involved the important principle of ...

    Article : 431 words
  5. STEALING A BIBLE.

    DAVID LEWIS WILLIAMS , formerly clerk in holy orders, was brought up in custody at Cardigan Borough Police Court recently, charged with stealing a Bible from the ...

    Article : 84 words
  6. PORT OF LONDON.

    THE entries from oversea ports during the week ended May 22 numbered 181; tonnage 107,000 tons. Number of steamer, entered in, 147; while clearances of vessels with ...

    Article : 134 words
  7. Diabolical Outrage.

    A DIABOLICAL outrage is reported from the Dinorwick quarries near Carnarvon, Wales. An engine-driver on firing up in the morning, found the engine starting on down an ...

    Article : 142 words
  8. A Dangerous Sentry.

    SOME excitement was caused in the High-street, Staines, shortly before midnight by the extraordinary conduct of a private of the Army Service Corps while acting as sentry ...

    Article : 140 words
  9. The Remains of Waterloo Heroes.

    THE remains of Lieut-Col. the Hon. Sir Alexander Gordon, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, and of Captain the Hon. Hastings Brudenell Forbes, of the ...

    Article : 107 words
  10. Imprisoned by Mistake.

    THE curious case of disputed identity, that of William Thompson, a writ of habeas corpus to bring up whom, addressed to the commander of the Duke of Wellington, was ...

    Article : 222 words
  11. Britain's Smallest Possession.

    LAST year the revenue of Heligoland, with its population of something over 2000, was a trifle over £8000, and the expenditure something over £7000. Since 1887 there has ...

    Article : 137 words
  12. Terrible Explosion.

    THE Umbria brought intelligence of a terrible explosion which occurred on board the whaling barque Seafox at Quimena on the 1st of March last. The ship had put into ...

    Article : 110 words
  13. Good for Newspapers.

    THE strike of the Westphalian coal-miners has brought the grist at least to one mill—namely, that of the owners, of newspapers. The German papers were lately crowded with ...

    Article : 93 words
  14. Religious Excitement.

    A MAN named Harry Truss, of Kilburn, was present at a Salvation Army meeting held in the Harrow-road. The captain assured the congregation that unless they were prepared ...

    Article : 315 words
  15. Leap from an Express Train.

    A DESERTER from the 68th (Durham) Regiment, now stationed at Bradford, leaped from the express train, whilst passing Eastwood Station, on the Lancashire and ...

    Article : 153 words
  16. A Waterloo Veteran.

    MR. BRUCE WILSON, late of the 79th Highlanders, and one of the few survivors of the Battle of Waterloo, has died at his residence in Perth. He enlisted in the regiment as a ...

    Article : 148 words
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