Frome Storm Dims Streets And Damages Crops
A Saturday storm brought heavy snow hail and rain lasting nearly an hour. Darkness forced gas lighting in Frome shops and early potatoes were said to be destroyed in places.
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Frome
Bank of England
Margaret Diblanc
Old Bailey
Madame Riel
Millholme
Skipton
Yorkshire
Captain Martyn
Silas Martyn
Mr. Rowe
Bessie Tremaine
Eliza Hawke
Sheffield
Maidstone Journal
Kent
Maidstone
Edmonds
Newent
Baron Bramwell
Gloucestershire
Bass Smith
Jeanette Edmonds
Mr. Edmonds
Foreign items from across the world report disasters and political shifts
A survey of international bulletins notes Madras cyclone victims including Europeans, floods in Vellore, Swiss plebiscite results, and Pope’s 80th birthday. Other items cover Thiers and the gambling revival, opium issues in the United States, Canadian Pacific Railway plans, Vesuvius effects, and France’s financial strains.
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Madras
Washington
Sumner
Senate
New York
Baltimore
Duke of Aumale
Orleans
Thiers
Paris
Saxony
Poland
Bombay
Vellore
Berne
Switzerland
Count d’Harcourt
Papal
Pore
Germany
Prince von Hohenlohe
Holy See
Pius IX
Antonelli
Hohenlohe
Prince Bismarck
Gastein
Berlin
Varzin
Foreign Missions Committee
English Presbyterian Church
China
Alexander Thomson
Swatow
Rona
Ava
Amoy
M. Thiers
France
America
Philadelphia Ledger
United States
West
Kentucky
Canadian Pacific Railway
British Columbia
Dominion
House of Commons
Ottawa
George Cartier
Lake Nipissing
Lake Huron
Pacific Coast
Vesuvius
la Bella Napoli
Illustrated News
Pliny
Nature
William Chambers
The
Scotsman
Bank of France
Precaution Against Cholera and Local Notices
The Metropolitan Asylums Board seeks a six month loan of the Dreadnought amid cholera fears. Sir Titus Salt gifts 420 copies of Words of Comfort for Bereaved Parents to 409 London City Mission agents and leaders. The Peculiar People plan a conference after a guilty verdict and judge’s warning in Kent and Essex.
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Metropolitan Asylums Board
Zancer
London City
Titus Salt
Saltaire
Bradford
William Logan
Glasgow
George Hurry
Kent
Essex
Bank Holiday Notices And Cambridge Petition On Contagious Diseases Acts
A Cambridge petition urges abolition of the celibate army, invoking the Contagious Diseases Acts and militia defense, while London notices report on Whit-Monday closures, a new dressmakers' Assistants Benefit Society, Mill Hill School exam success, and Royal Geographical Society remarks on Livingstone and Stanley's status with telegram credibility debates.
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London
Emily Faithfull
Stock Exchange
Lloyd’s
Corn Exchange
Fire and Life
Manchester
Net Place Society
Finsbury Chapel
Moffat
Mundella
M.P
Healy
New Orleans
Milll Hill School
Mill Hill
Kingdom
Weymouth
University of London
Cambridge
Sheweth
Great Britain
Channel Islands
France
England
John Doyle
Guernsey
Livinestone
Royal Geographical Society
Henry Rawlinson
Livingstone
Stanley
Sir Henry
Buller
Kirk
Abydos
Wilson
Bombay
Free Church
Sydney Smith and the Scarcy Memoir Excerpt
A fragment from Robert Chambers memoir recounts a Scottish remark on study and labor. The narrator notes their own hard work and Scottish humor, while a visitor wittily suggests the corkscrew as the tool to unlock fun, highlighting cultural differences in wit.
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Sydney Smith
Robert Chambers
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