New School Books and Primers Highlighted by Publishers
A selection of educational titles is praised for classroom use including a graphical Primer and The Geography of England by Mr Lawson. Macmillan offers Physics and Chemistry primers edited by Balfour Stewart and Rostot, plus a Bible story for children by Brian Barrett. Curtis contributes an Elementary Geography of Great Britain and Ireland, lauded for its methodical approach.
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England
Lawson
Messrs. Macmillan
BalFour Stewart
Roscot
Messrs
John Charles Curtis
Great Britain and Ireland
Simpkins
Curtis
Labour-Laborer Strikes Stir Warwickshire and Regions
A Warwickshire Chamber of Agriculture meeting debated the labour question with resolutions urging coin payments and piece-work where feasible. Speakers included the Earl of Denbigh and H C Wise MP. similar gatherings in Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely condemned the agitation while Buckinghamshire labourers formed a union after hearers spoke strongly. Reports also note labourers quitting in Newton near Sudbury and spreading activity in Suffolk Dorset and other western counties.
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Warwickshire Chamber of Agriculture
Earl of
Mark Phillips
M.P
Manchester
G. F. Muntz
Cambridgeshire and
Isle of Ely
Denham
Uxbridge
Suffolk
Newton
Sudbury
Everal
Portia Towers
Dorsetshire
Foreign News From Europe and Americas Warms to Reform
Prince Frederick Charles arrives in Constantinople as other dispatches report the Belgian king thanking Gladstone for Belgium's independence remarks. Savonarola monument funds. Oceanus steamer disaster on the Mississippi leaves sixty dead. France to bombard Madagascar. Grant re election opposition in New York. Gould profits from Erie stake. France abolishes passports. Morse memorial services planned. Barp murder in Gironde region. Canadian Parliament opens with immigration and railway plans. Persia famine relief progress. Prussia school inspection law standoff. Pope Pius IX greets foreigners and prays for nations.
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Frederick Charles
Prussia
Constantinople
Bolsano
Tyrol
Innspruck
Gladstone
Belgium
Victor Emmanuel
Savonarola
Oceanus
Mississippi
Cairo
Madagascar
Toulon
Ile de la Réunion
Matave
Grant
New York
Horace Greeley
Schurz
Trumbull
Jay Gould
Erie
Gould
France
Tuy
Professor Morsz
United States
Professor Morse
House of Representatives
Washington
Wholsale
Gironde
Barp
Bordeaux
Prince of Wales
Persia
Bombay Gazette
Shah
Mirza Joosoof Khan
Paris
Fulda
Spreen
Pius [X
Italy
Germany
Arene
Austria
Ireland
Poland
Holland
America
Zimes
Permissive Bill Meeting and Excerpt on Alabama Question
A major Exeter Hall gathering supports the Permissive Bill with Sir Wilfrid Lawson and other advocates set to speak. Borough meetings follow for Permissive Bill Associations. Mr Bright sends a letter on the American Case to Cyrus W Field, criticizing Geneva Tribunal submissions and urging restraint.
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Exeter Hall
Wilfrid Lawson
Bart
M.P
Joan Briaut
Alabama
Bright
Cyrus W. Field
New York Evening Mail
Crystal Palace Music Meetings Attract Wide Interest
The Crystal Palace National Music meetings attract many applicants from distant provincial societies. The 15th is the deadline to lodge applications at the Crystal Palace. Rail fares are reduced from June 26 to July 8 for competitors. The Crystal Palace Company provides transport from London. Dr William Smith will edit A Primary History of Britain and an Elementary English Grammar free of political bias for schools with diverse denominations.
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United States
Crystal Palace
London
the Palace
Crystal Palace Company
Tur
The
Atheneum
William Smith
Britain
Odd Bits From Bromley to Barum in 1870
Miscellaneous Victorian clippings feature early singing at Bromley Kent, a giant Mississippi steamboat allegedly led by a woman, a quarrel over epitaphs, and milk quality stats for London dairies. Also notes Carlyle as a verse writer, a Pope dinner with a royal cat, and a Devon tale of Bishop Temple seeking a license to hire a publican’s cart.
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Bromley
Kent
Mississippi
Milk Journal
London
Versailles
British Medical Journal
Tux Porst
Journal de Rome
Princess of Wales
Daily Telegraph
Moretto
Carlyle
Thomas Alexander
Chelsea
Thomas Carlyle
T. Carlyle
Alexander
Exeter
Temple
Torrington
Devon
Barnstaple
Bideford
Newton Tracey
Boniface
Preate
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