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The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-07-30 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

PARLIAMENT AND -TOILERS OF THE  SEA."  PLIMSOLL'S NOBLE INDISCRETION. If Mr. Plimsoll's offence last week against the rules of the House of Commons was emparallelled —as Mr. Disraeli said in the history of that House, the earnest sympathy with the deep feeling and the noble object of the member for Derby which has been 'everywhere manifested is quite as unparallelled. Devoured as it were with the fire of indignation which raged within his breast, that all effort to protect the lives of sailors should be jauntily tossed aside as of little moment for another year, while a worthless Agricultural Holdings measure, that could well wait, was preferred, it is not wonderful that this man who feels with all a father's and with all a brothees love. the constant and preventible murder of hundreds of seamen, broke the bounda of Parliamentary etiquette, and frightened out of their arts the votaries:of conventional decency, who are not likely to lose their heads through having too much "beast." Give us a man who can thus dare to brave all the terrible sneers of Mrs. Grundy, and who is rather frightened that the people's House of Commons should be wilfully deaf to the people's cruellest vrrongs. Well might Mr. Plimsoll, when in the lobby of tho Mouse of Commons, exclaim, Do you call this the people's House! It is not the people's House." His great offence is that he said he I Double the above i —miums will insure ..C.OO, was determined to unmask the villains both in three til co the amount £l5O, and four times 4200. and out of the Hourle. No scene could be more The Premium, mar be raid fortnightly, or rronthly. and special .1-angel:lent, may be made for anntad dramatic, more terrilda in its intense inter,tt Important to Centre Patients. Advice by Letter Grctin. ' pavnicuts. than this min bretking thr,mg oco h fear a DR. BARNES may be consulted per.sonany ..I:nrther parstierlars. with tables of liuraisce rby letter, in sal private and ot dentud ! Stegnevs to slut all M . w Meal .and ants. may be .0,1 " What will people say," and in a righteous muse en Me the be St m Nervous enterers who ,rantert t ',dm (Mee of tlm Society. Or Of the I.:strict Argenta rebuking to their teeth those who cooed no more Lill, he will, ou receiving a deeeril don of their e'!! —.A. T. Niglitingale. High-street. Eil,ton J. HOBOS closing a stamped envelope for repl.:, be ready to trice ins Pou h F. Patten Blueshinc, ' f • tl for men s Ives an lot . stone, tm oriuion upon the nature of the cave. and Vac prim:lbw of t i "7.. WilleimalCrou. Da I. sea beach. What an electale shock ran treauseat necessary to effect a perfect cure. Ranley, letteas through the Commons at en this impeachment jolUir':, Address Da.BARNES, 48, Lansdale-square, Barnan try ter , , High-street, Portobello ; London. N. ex. hall Wood lof the manhood of some in that House ,was anti=  &e. C. F. can also arrange for Balloon Ascents, Dieof Fireworks by competent artistes, Brass an String Bands to any number of performers. Address all letters-18,
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-03-05 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.  On Monday, at the Divisional Petty Sessions, held at Wolverhampton, Messrs. S. Cartwright, G. L. Underhill, and N. Ironmonger being on the bench, Samuel Barks, an elderly man, was charged onreinand, under the Vagrancy Act, with unlawfully gambling in a train on the London and North Western Railway. —Mr. Barrow defended.—lt appears that a sailor named Mackenzie was travellling from Bristol to Edinburgh, aml at Birmingham the defendant and one or two other men got into the compartment in which he was seated. gho sailor, who was the worse for drink, pitched some money on the three-card trick, and lost £7. He said. had not the defendant prevented him betting on one occasion, he shonld have staked 4:i and won £lO. The defendant won three times. At Wolverhampton he complained to the guard, and the defendant was arrested, his companions having meanwhile got away. Nathan Brown said the defendant, on being accused, counted his money, admitting that he had won three times; but the result of the game had been that. whereas he had £29 when he left Birmingham, be had then £l3.  -31r-.-iiaripw. for the defence. contended that his client was Wfollow-victim of the sailor's. He called Mrs. Jane Barber, of 36, Barfordatreet, Birmingham, where she had carried on the business of a provision dealer for twenty years. She V. 1.1 now a widow. Had known the prisoner for about twenty-five years, and until four years since he curried on the business of a wholesale fish salesman. He was a man of independ• ant means, and on the death of his wife he realised come property. He lodged with her, and When he left home she gave him in gold. He generally carried a lot of money. He bad a lot of buildings when ho buried his wife. He was a wholesale fish merchant, dealing with Jersey and other places. After some consultation, Mr. Cartwright mid the Bench were disposed to remand the defendant in custody until Saturday. He would remain a Stafford fork week, until enquiries were made as to his antecedents and general character. Mr. Barrow said he was prepared to find bail to the extent of .25.000 if it was required ---any amount of ball. It was not a murder can, --(laughter). Mrs. Barber : I will telegraph. and get any amount of bail.  i he licneh consented to *cosset two sureties in £5O each. the bail being certified by Mr. Glossaop, bead of the Birmingham police - .A eting an the suggestion of Mr. Barrow. Mrs Barber amid she could go to Birmingham and obtain the req trod bail and certifiste. Defendant woo detained until the reault of Mrs. Barber's efforts were known. She tendered herself an one of the sureties. and wan accepted conditionally upon Mr. tiloeiop'd certificate being iiatietactory.  The Right Hon. B. Disraeli will give a .eries of dinner parties, during the Parliamentary session, at his official residence in Dowing-etreet. The Premier has issued cards for a dinner on Saturday nezt.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1901-05-24 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

SYNOPSIS.  "A Weaver's Dowry " is a story of Lancaehire mill life in the year 1271, the period when the operatives were agitating for what was known se the 'Twelve o'clock Saturday." Interest in this epieode is now revived by • new agitation in textile circles, the object of which is to close all textile factories by Act of Parlament at twelve on Satnrdays. A conference of employers and workmen with me,nbers of Parliament has recently been held to discuss the proposed Bill on this subject, and the matter will be before Parliament at the time this stir is pnbilialung. Upon this historical and np-to-date background, which affords opportunities for studies of mill life and character, showing how the heroine and hero, a weaver and piecor respectively, are pereectited by their superiors in the mill (a vory common practice), there is a romantic interest eentreing round the biding and discovery of a sum of £20,000, and a love interest in the machinations of the villain of the piece against tbe hero and heroine. _ _  _ The dtory proper is prefaced by a prologue, met in dramatic form, which givs the circutustaucea connected with the withdrawal of .1..'20,000 from his investment by a Manchester merchant. named Thomas Dighton. in the year 1801. Dighton is alaruied at the trade and political prospects of the time, aud be hides this inns in a trench he has dug on the Moss near M,,idleton Junction, half.way between 3lanehester and Oldham. The key to the hiding place is given to but daughter, Sarah Dighton, a young woman of seventeen, In the form of a cryptogram. It becomes known that Dighton has withdrawn this £20.003; his house is atteclied by thieves; his daughter flies for help. In hex absence Dighton is murdered and his house bred. In Chapter I. "Owd Sally," an old lialf.witted lady of nearly ninety, the butt of ail the boys and girls in the neighbourhood—whose only protectors have been the heroine, Aenes llildreth, who lives near, and the hero, Jack Holt, a piecer by trade--sustains injuries from barns which prove fatal. Jack Holt breaks open her cottage door and extinguishes the flames. Agnes Iliiireth volnuteers to stay with the old lady iss nurse. The shock has restored Old Sally's memory, and in Chapter 11. she proves to be Sarah Dighton, and she tells Agnes of the buried, treasure, and gives her the document relating to the hiding place. She also makes Agues the heiress to her property, and advises her to let Jack Holt share in her good fortune. Previous to this Agnes has had only a very casual acquaintance with Holt. She has been courted by Arthur Bannister, the in-icie manager for the firm by whom Agues is employed. From here the story develops in a very exeit!ng and novel manner, and the for-theme of the hero and heroine will bs followed with growing ieterest.  The district within whiuh the larger part of the anion of the stiry occurs is familiar with a large dumber of oar readers, and the author's descriptions will enable the locslity to be recognised, thus imparting a vastly added interest to this romantic story.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1908-03-13 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

LAM. hhire and environs.  Textile workers and others who desire it will find an explanation of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1907, with practical directions how to proceed in order to secure Land, in a penny pamphlets by Mr. Philip Snowden, M.P., entitled "Back to the Land," published by the Independent Labour Party, 23, Bride-lane, Fleet-street, Loudon, EC. • • • • "The Hanger Line," by Bart Kennedy. London: T. Werner Laurie, 13, Clifford's Inn, Fleet-street, price is. Pippa, "who winds silk the whole year. round to earn just bread and milk," is made by Robert Browning to exclaim, "God's in His Heaven' all's right with the world." Mr. Bart Kennedy is sure that God lives in Heaven, "despite what anyone may think, or do, or say," but he is as intensely emphatic that very much ia wrong with the world, and that God -will avenge the "sordid and horrible crimes against the workers of England," which tho author Jaya bare in a series of sketches of the drabbest side of life in the Metropolis chiefly. The leading place is given to the case for the unemployed. The P,. employed Workmen Act is described as "a formidable and cynical document that mocks those who suffer." and members of Parliament are set down u.s"Thugs and Anarchists," who are "holding a knife to the throat of England." The capitalist is pourtraved as a Herod, who "murder, children for money." "England must check these rapecioua wolves and blood suckers of employers, or Li:gland will be smashed and broken. These employers are traitors to the country. They are, selling it o Judas sold Christ, for money." It will be ,ern that our author is hardly in a reasoning mood, and a realistic first-hand picture of the appalling mi-ery that: unemployment creates, where it can be seen at its worst, is rendered the less effective by extravagant postulate... The remedy, according to Mr. Kennedy, is to take away any man's right to own the land, one by one to kill unjust privileges, and to preserve the individuality of men. But he has no detailed plan to offer. Socialism is dismissed as the trust system writ large." The author is hard on aliens, whom lo regards as a curse, ignoring this brotherhood of Man, and forgetting what we English issuple owe to foreigners, both past and press-island not least as regard the textile industries of the country. It, describing the f)overty and the misery of the Itunrry and workletat, Mr. Kennedy is an artist in prow. Ile ponrtrays what he h. himself stern , and his book, despite its bletnishe,, claims dtte atter, t  An inexpensive and more durable substitute for the hot-water bag is a hot eaodhaFt- The may be had by making a bag of the draw-string type out of pretty (laurel or any material that may suggeet itself, and then filling it when needed with hot sand. Besides being economical—for a household could have a down of these at little co.it--thev have a cuiihioney " feeling that the hot-water hag lacks. It might he added that it hold, the heat quite 1141 long as its prototype.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1914-10-09 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

CARDROOM COUNCIL AND THE WAR.  CRITICISM OF THE GERMAN  SOCIALIST.  GOVERNMENT AND ROUSING.  NECF,SSITY FOR CHEAPER LOANS.  On behalf of the Execntive Committee of the Cardroom Operatives' Amalgatnation, the secretary (Mr. William Mullin) writes as follows in the quarterly report:— " Six months ago we pointed out that the American cotton spinning trade was not in such a flourishing condition as we had reported it to be three months before. Last quarter it had gone from bad to worse, and the outlook was dark and far from promising, but we never anticipated it becoming no black by our country being drawn into such a brutal, fiendish, atrocious, inhuman war as this country is now engaged in. and no epithet can be too strong to huri at the heail. of the brutal, vain poltroon Kaiser of Germany, who is very largely responsibly for their murderous war. Now that we are embroiled in the war, until though it is musing to sacrifice the best blood and youth of our oountry, there can be no withdrawing from it until the power that caused it is irreparably broken and scat treed. German Socialists Criticised.  " We have for years lived in an atmosphere of expectancy. and almost fear, of war between our country and Germany, but that feeling haa often and constantly been relieved by the expressions of greetings given by the German delegates who have attended our Trade Union Congress., and who repeatedly have affirmed they and the whole of the united workers of Germany worked for the solidarity of the workers of the world, the upliftin' of struggling humanity, breaking down the power of those who alone benefited by wars, and giving the full power of government into the hands of the masses. and destroying the power of the classes. We admit they, ienlarge extent. have obtained privileges they had not 20 years ago. They do, to a limited extent, participate in the governing of their country by having a number of working clam representatives in the German Reichstag, btu their professed love for the solidarity of ths workers: of the world vanished like vapour in the air when war against France was spoken of in their Houses of, Parliament. They forgot their expressions of love for all mankind. They went wild to fight for Fatherland, no matter what hellish cause demanded it. To have offered to fight. in a good came would have been manly and patriotic, but, to go wild with enthusiasm because a mad .Hohensollorn desired to inert... Ids vain and powerful authority by declaring war against other nations with whom the workers themselves had no quarrel, axe rank idiocy. It shows the value and worth of mouthing expreigions of fraternal greetings a.nd goodwill, and we should try and benefit thereby. In spite of their expressions to the contrary. they are fighting for German Imperialism, and all that power implies. But we have too long enjoyed a liberty not enjoyed by any other nation in the world, that prevents nn ingly becoming serfs and vassals under the German yoke.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1897-02-05 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

WEI. 3 sontenoed to be detained in the Tell) both until the 28th Jwinszy ensuing, than to suffer death on the gibbet by the hands of the ,lommen executioner, and his body thereafter given for dissection. . _ .  its so-called- Wii(i was acquitteJ, t verdict of notproven being givsti ii her case. For five weeks the oondenmcd man had to await his doom; then, in the presence of 25,000 people, oii a scalehl erected in the Lawninitricet, Iturke expiated the horrible crimes he had committed. He had previously confessed to the perpetration of or participation in, no less that sixteen murders for the sake of the sum paid for the bodies of his victims, but it was generaliy believed that the number stated was far less than the reality.  His accomplices, though eveutually they escaped out of Scot lead, dui not get away vithou;: being in terror of their lives. _ _ _  lfaro was sent by the authorities to England by a COSLOIJ, but being recognised by one of the passengers. he was mobbed ou arrival at Durnfrio4, and had to seek safety in the local gaol, ..vbeace ho was driven forth at one in the morning, and so eticanad into England. Two dayt before Burin's execution, Mrs. ffe.re was liberatrd from Carlton Hill Goal. The streets were covered with snow, and, as soon as she was recognised, she was pelted with snowballs, only a feeling of sympathy for the helpless infant she carried in her arms preventing the mob frozn pro. ceeding to extreme measures. l'he police inter. fared, and far safety 'onkel her iip, where she remained until dusk, when she left the city. A fortnight afterwards she was in Gli4a7 ,w, where she had more than one. narrow escape hem the mob, but at leagth was sranggled ch board the Belfast steamer.  Helen M'Dousgal fared no better, for her relatives in Stirling would not harbour her, and she, there101'2, tramped into England, and, being recognised in Newcastle, was driven from the tom:.  But there are other charaaters hi the gory deserviug of mention before it is brought to a close. The death of Burke and the disappearance of his niece Jessie had such au effect upon Laird Maceluff that he led a quiet, exemplary life after his return to Thistlecien.  Daft Jamie, before falling, into the clutches of Burke and Hare, had male known the fate of Jessie to her erasin Mary, who was so mush terrified therchy that she yielded to Graham Camp. bell's entreaties to allow their marriage to take place, and to have a long honeyinom in England. They were thus absent daring the whole time of the Burke trial and for noarty three months after. wards. and Mary liked England in well that she had no wish to reside permanently in ticotland. After emelt inquiry, Graham Campbell checevered where the body of Daft Jamie badliten -interred,  after Dr. Knox and his students bad acne with it, anti over the grave Mary erooted a !dam tombstone, as a token of gratitude to the nurnory of one who, though deficient in itrvelloct, hia been able tl render her at) iinsatiruabh service, and but for which she would have been "The Doctor's Victim."  To b, on:•:arled)
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1897-06-04 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

OOO. ln *auger ow route will be from Liverpool to Quebee, and f. tinue to Montreal- in winter from Liverpc'' Halifax or St. John's at the option of the col:n The VCBSCIS are not 'allowed to call at any fr'-' port.  .01 The Midland Railway Company, by an order / isBnedi have increased the holidays of their tote; men from three to six days per year, serll*o granted three days holiday every year with Sol draymen, porters. messengers, and others, previously had no holiday. They have decide: begin the increase of three shillins.s per granted to foremen of the shunting and Yar pa.rtment in July, instead of three months la-='  ituUy 3,,roa2ised.  "You in  Karl,l for preferr those adve possession, have it az fore it oug But that of forfeitin had I seen ray possesi give it up by its meal rne too ha ex plain,.l t  - " " I will ; breach of t tent to wai reasons for  " I thin!i Feltner, al "Very r  "And $o the lady " I sine( Jenny. If upon me, si Karl had minutes n annonneed Mr. Peltne  "He we clothes are The visit and apolog as almost a _ _  "Ibeliet of Man rt bowed in ro " That it "Did Mi  Jenny hc why should  'rThe oa offering a value, and seen the ad "Pardon nlnaions. do with Hu staff—,, "Then h refer to? either of th Feared, but "In his further, sir  "When c "After si OD gagernenl  And the adviser of intimating eight. Karl can relieved. He recx courteously produce leg only by pro "If I bi the ring \ sufficient?'  "The all, her posit for " She is t she prefers a London I "If you' oommnnica my possessi promise tha satisfies me her."  And, thoi to be conter Karl Pel and was inh without givi Hermann heart in Ge 'his last vi ILicliten NE girl on accc prospects, b impossible had experii anger the r him to soni that she w implored h her family The resnl In less ti ring, the mined—to a Wrote to hir " When v not much m I am going The impa wnd met ha He bad  Fvero marrif they went ti  ICC° stipren As Henn  "We live ;ether. I  /welt in th 4 the stopidil Never was 1  lever has h, ourely bun iated with The wear 3ermann S previously.e German gii ,e. and she kne fate was to ' For four , Canterbury, rounding cc with wild fli music. Bu end came. In a prel thedral ci ng first shc Karl Pelt he terrible  A the ring would be gr tble and of Ghat her set tiy the thou bad been in  tragedy. But Pelt realised. It  lown the "  14.1ways—feft she had not  the paper ac "Murder g that ck gam with " Henna' girl who, fc now horrib gave me of 1 ,vish he had luld only  m hasten
The South Staffordshire Examiner. — 1874-09-12 (Wednesbury, West Midlands, England)

ICTSGBLIT.) The merry brown bares mumetiMping Over the cre-t of the hill, Where the clover and corn lay sleeping Under the moonlight still. Lap,ng late and early, Till under their bite and their tread The swedes, and the wheat. and the barley, Lay authored, and trampled, and dead. A poacher's widow sat sighing On the side of the white chalk batik, Where under the gloomy tirwoods Oue =vet in the ley throve rank. She watehed,a long tuft of clover, *lea.; rabbit or hare never ran; For.its.hlack our haulm covered over  The blood of a murdered man. She thought of the dark plantation' And the hares and herliushand'sbiood, And the voice of her indignation Bose up to the throne of God. "I am long past wailing and whining— I have wept too much in my tife ; I've had twenty years of pining As an English labourer's wife. A labourer in Christian England, Where they cant of a Saviour's name, And waste men's lives like the vermin's For a few more brace of game. There's blood on your new foreign shrubs, squire; There's blood on your pointers' feet; There's blood on the game you sell, squire; And there's blood on the game you eat ! You have sold the labouring man, squire, Body and sonl to shame, To ;ay for your seat in the House, stair°, And to pay for the feed of your game You made him a poacher yourself, squire, When you'd give neither work nor meat; And your barley fed hares mblid the garden At our starving children's bet; When packed in or e reeking chamber, Man, maid, mother, and little one. lay; While the rain pattered in on the rotting lwide-bed And the walls let in the day; When we lay in the burning fever On the mod of the wild el iy floor, Till you parted no all for three months, squire, At the cursed workhouse door. Can your lady patch hearts that are breaking With hanufuls of coal mid rice, Or by dealing out flannel and sheeting A little below coot-price You may tire of the jail and the workhouse, And take to allotments and schools, But you've run up a debt that will never Iht repaid 131 i by penny-clab rules. In the season of sham I sadness, In the dark and drt. lay, When scrofula, gout, a .  Are eating yo'in'r race u„ When to kennels and liver. :diets  You have cast your dung! bread, And, worn out with liquor ~i harlots, Your heir at your feet lie; dead ; When your youngest, the :nearly-mouthed rector, Lets your soul rot asleep to the grave, You will find in your God the protector  Of the freeman you fancied your chive." She looked at the tuft of clover, And wept till her heart grew light ; And at last, when hrr,pa,,,sion was over, . •  Went wandering into the night. Bat the merry brown litres came leaping, Over the nplunds still, Where the clover and corn lay sleeping Ou the side of the white chalk hill.