Abolition talk and Irish murder in late 1860s notes
The excerpt cites a parliamentary move by Mr. Charles Gilpin to abolish capital punishment amid cross-party opposition, plus a fatal shooting near Ballydged, Tipperary, where Thomas Dwyer allegedly killed Baker over an ejectment dispute. It also reports Overend and Gurney legal actions, a Mendip Hills storm tale, and Royal Polytechnic offerings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Gilpin
Gilpin
William Ewart
Dumfries
Dumfries) Or That, of Messrs
Charles Neate
Johin’ Wildes
Messrs
Jones, Morley
Henry Richard
Ireland
Thareda
Baker, JP
Ballydged
Thomas Dwyer
Re Baker
Pagsing
Havin
Thom Divyer
Etha Tenant
Dedenged
Overend
Gurney, Ann Co
H. H. Gurney
R. Birkbeck
H. G. Gordon
W. Rennie
H. F. Barclay
J. H. Gurney
Overend and Gurney
Mangion House
T. Gabriel
R. Carden
B. Phillips
Alderman Cotton
Thomas Fowell Buxton
John Henry Gurney
Henry Edmund Gurney
Barclay
John Lubbock
Birkbeck
Kirkman Daniel Hodgson
Gordon
Robert Gillespie
Rennie
Howell
Court of Chancery
Thre Menore Hills
W. Barclay
Bristol
Mendip Hills
Axbridge
Miggion
Qheddar
Usk
Royal, Polysgemhic Institution
Pepper
Professor Pepper
Thomas Tobin
Mr. Home
George Buckland
Buck
Various European and imperial notes from ancient times
The article lists multiple brief items including sale proceeds of the Marquis of Hastings library at £5000, two lightning deaths in South Wales, a fashionable American cough, the Imperial Review folding, a French estimate of New Year gifts at 400,000 francs, two deaths at Weem Perthshire from a chapel collapse, 800,072 Metropolitan Railway passengers over six days at Christmas, December rainfall above average, and London telegraph notes citing Sir Richard Mayne's death in Santiago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marquis of Hastings
South Wales
America
Imperial Review
Weem
Perthshire
Metropolitan Railway Company
London
West Indies
Richard Mayne
Santiago
Twins seek expert opinions on separation risk
The Tun Stamesz twins, recently arrived in Europe, consulted Professor Syme of Edinburgh who says the two trunks share a communication and separation would almost surely be fatal. Sir James Simpson echoes this conclusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tun Stamesz
Europe
Syme
Edinburgh
James Simpson
British Medical Journal
Lord BrouacHam
Hart Grey
M. D. Hill
The
Times
Lord Brougham
Lord Grey
Mr. Hill
Lord Althorp
Northamptonshire
Brougham
House of Commons
Yorkshire
Chicago and
St. Louis
Chicago
Southern
Tremont
Births Marriages and Deaths Notice Recap
Births for December 29 at Woodville Queen of Rev H Sturt with a daughter. A list of marriages from September 1868 to December 26 across Dunedin Isle of Wight Wigan London Worstead Newton Abbot and other places, naming couples and their parents. Notable entries include Mirams Houghton Poundall Fowler Scovell Arnold Mellins Oswin Colebread Cole Feltham Cross Greenacre Casley March Paterson Young Gridley White.
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Sturt
Woodville
Dewsbury
H. Sturt
Mirams—Houghton
Dunedin
New Zealand
D. M. Stuart
William Mirams
James Miramas
Melbourne
Victoria
Amelia Ann
B. Houghton
Dunedin. ” Poundall—Fowler.—December 16, At St. Peter's
Eaton Square
Fuller
Charles Poundall
Board of Trade
Annie Margaret
George Fowler
Pimlico
Scovell—Arnold
Independent Chapel
West Cowes
Isle of Wight
Fisher Clarke
W. P. Scovell
H. M. Customs
Jane Arnold
Porchfeld
Jos. Sayer
Melling—Oswin
Hope Chapel
Wigan
William Roaf
William Mellins
Pemberton
Jane Maria Oswin
Ince
Colebrook
Cardnell
Congregational
Bexley Heath
John Adey
Silas Colebrook
Unlurch
Mary Anne Margaret Cardwell
Mayland
Essex
Cole—Feltham
Trinity Chapel
John. Street
Adware-road
T. Jones
Blackheath
John William Cole
Lee-green
Jane Mary
William Feltham
Stowmarket
Cross—Greenacre
Baptist Chapel
Worstead
Birkenheid
R. H. Lundie
James Pateram
Liverpool
Agnes
William Young
Yetholm
Roxburghshire
Gridley —White
Arley Chapel
W. Lucy
George
Joseph Gridley
Caroline
George White