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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 01, 1869
Page
10
A London paper notes debates over Mr Peabody’s faith and states executor Mr Head’s claim he died Congregationalist. Professor Pepper offers a Christmas ghost show at a popular recreation site highlighting spectral illusions and aims to counter spiritualist beliefs for juvenile audiences.
Notes record rising emigration from iron and coal regions to America and Australis, talk of block system adoption on major railways, and the Carnatic mail steamer inquiry ending with nine months captain suspension. Odd items include a Rio de Janeiro tale of an anaconda, a waggish bottle label prank, schooling humor, and a Marine blue fashion note from French journals.
Births include Mrs Woodman Hill Gosport on November 18 and Mrs Clarke at The Villas Bridgnorth on November 23. Marriages record Spinks Goodworth Bradford November 17, Buckingham Throwher Sydenham November 18, Webber Cole Brigg November 19, Ludlow Forbes Ham Surrey November 20, Thompson Hollywood Ince Workington November 22, Thatcher Cleverly Bristol November 22, Rhodes Thornton Morecambe November 24, and Mirth Ironmonger Poultry Chapel London November 24.
The notice records the marriage of Martha Eliza Pearsall-Wrighat to Louies Wright at Queensquare Chapel Brighton, with ministers Rev Paxton Hood and Rev J Spencer Pearsall officiating. The groom is eldest son of Thomas and Elizabeth Meadows Smith of 49 Eastcheap, BC.
The issue department notes show total circulation and securities for the week ending Nov 4. An advertising block promotes Holloway’s purifying digestive pills claiming to restore health by stimulating digestion, liver function, kidneys, and bowels for a natural standard.
Market notes from London on Monday November 29 show limited demand for English wheat despite large overseas arrivals. American wheat rose 1s per quarter while other foreign varieties held. Flour dull. beans stable. peas and malting barley fell. Oats declined. cargo demand modest. Smithfield meat market steady for prime stock, dull otherwise. Metropolitan cattle imports, 12 471 head, with high quality Scots and crosses priced 1s 6d to 5s 8d per stone. Irish cows cheap, large numbers from Lincolnshire and Scotland among arrivals.
Reports from Covent Garden on prices and sales across provisions fruit and vegetables including oranges lemons hot house grapes and pineapples. Butter bacon shipments from Ireland and foreign ports cited with steady or lower quotations. Hops barley and potatoes noted with domestic and imported supplies and varying demand.
Advertisements describe wonders and curiosities including ghosts, Amsterdam exhibition visits, peculiar period people, relics of Maximilian, and a powerful electric light show. The Royal Polytechnic concert and acts feature Herr Angualphi, Misses Campbell, and Herr Schalkenbach on electric organ. Admission is one shilling.
Bloomsbury Chapel marks its twenty first anniversary with three special services on December 5 and a social meeting on December 8 at Hanover Square Rooms. The church will present a testimonial to Rev W Brock D D for his ministry since opening. Communications to James Benham 50 Wigmore Street W Treasurer of the fund.
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