Coal at thirty-four shillings a ton in the height of summer. It is impoitalble to exaggerate the signincanoe of this fact. A rise of six shillings in a fortnight, and proportionately on all the inferior qualities, warns us that, as the season wanes, and autumn precedes winter, we shall have something approaching to a fireside famine-the bitterest affliction, save one, .that can befal the poor. For, let bread be scarce, let clothing be dear, let employment be skck, the bit of fire in the grate, ?whentheeast wind or snow is outside, constitutes a last orainb of comfort for the wretched, fiat, in looking at this subject, it will not do ...
Article : 2,549 wordsA terrible tragedy took place in ISermon- | dsey, on Sunday, aman named William Edward ! Taylor having murdered the woman he was living with as his wife, and also a child aged five years, besides inflicting fearful injaries on a boy aged thirteen-nnder circumstances of peculiar atrocity-the criminal eventually having made a determined attempt to destroy himself. The man has been known for a long time past as a thorough desperado. He is a wholesale dealer in old iron and other metale, ...
Article : 2,795 words" The . New York Herald" and Dr. Livingstone.-At the annual meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, held on the 27th ult., the president observed that, "at the opening of the present session, Sir Henry Rawlinson had learnt that an American gentleman named Stanley had paused up from the coast at Bagurnoyo into the interior, with a view of communicating with, and, if necesatry, i relieving Dr. Livingstone. There was a certain vagueness at the outset, about Mr. Stanley's oliject and ragout ces, which was exceedingly puzzling. Venturing to put the ...
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The Newcastle Chronicle (NSW : 1866 - 1876), Tue 3 Sep 1872, Page 4
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