London Cabs and the Coming Era of Public Carriages
The article argues for reform to end cab monopolies and welcome superior omnibuses and cabs. It compares London with Manchester Edinburgh and Paris, notes better regulation and stand provisions overseas, and urges humane treatment of cabmen while anticipating improved service and status with new rules and more cab stands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Metropolitan Omnibus Association
London
Manchester
Edinburgh
Paris
London Cabman
Leech
Convict MP O Dono van Rossa and prison letter rules
The Pall Mall Gazette notes O Donovan Rossa elected as MP while in Chatham Convict Prison. It describes strict prison rules banning letters, except rare permitted exchanges, and explains Rossa and Fenian convicts are kept apart from dockyard workers and must attend schooling as part of penal servitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M.P
O’donovan Rossa
Tipperary
Chatham
Ireland
O'Donovan Rossa
Rossa
Pall Mall Gazette
Insurrection Fears Led Ireland Precautionary Troop Dispatch
The Pall Mall Gazette reports government action after private tips of possible Fenian unrest. Seven flying columns under picked officers were ordered, troops arrived in Kingstown and other ports, and detachments distributed in Leinster and Connacht.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pall Mall Gazette
Lord Strathnairn
Ireland
Kingstown
Kilkenny
1St
King’s) Dragoon Guards
Carrick-on-Suir
Cahir
County Tipperary
Cork
Limerick
8Th Hussars
Derry
Plymouth
Devonport
Fecia
Howley
Tipperary
Keogh
Corydon
Dublin
Hornidge
Castletown
Clements
Longford
Bole
King Harman
Daily Express
County Meath
Dowland
Gunsmith
Dame-street
Parkinson
Arranquay
Duke of Manchester
Duke of Abercorn
Lord Lanesborough
Lord O'Neill
Lord Templetown
Prince of Wales
Scotland
London
Punishments at Leeds Assizes and Oyster Shell Fish Rise
The Jash sentence carried out on eight gazotters by Mr. Justice Lush at Leeds assizes. A Paris report notes a new shellfish the palourde rising in popularity as a cheaper oyster substitute sold at sixty centimes per litre. An American tale tells of a New York bound express where a moonlit headlight caused a mistaken collision scare and a conductor jokes about the moon’s light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Lush
Leeds Assizes
Paria
Halle
Stonan
Indianapolis
New York
Luna
Also Mentioned on This Page
State OF Ireland
Mr. Gladstone
House of Commons
House of Lords
Claud Hamilton
Alexander
Crown of
England
Lord Abercorn
Presbyterian Church In
Mr. Bright
Treasury
Lord Bective
Mr. Peel Dawson
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