The Blackpool Herald. — 1877-02-16 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

MALODY. to the church on Saturday night, accompanied by Once there was a herd boy. two locksmiths and a force of police, and the doors Now this was wrong of him, because good boys were forced open, though not without considerable should be seen and not heard. 'difficulty. The Bishop's apparitor and the now ..Though only a little herd boy, he was much heard curate afterwards took possession of the building. when he was nigh, and he herded much when he Mr. Plimpton, one of the churchwardens, asked for, was afar off, and obtained, the names and addresses of those For when he went to herd the herd the herelmard engaged in the operation, intimating that legal proJ him herd them. ceedings would be taken againstthem. He also rHe used to herd them with hurdles, but the herd stated that measures would be adopted against the r heard him without hurdles, because of the herdi- inspector in charge of the police„ for allowing any norm of his herding. person to break into the church. No disturbance ,For one day he heard a gurdy; took place at Sunday's services. , ,And the gurdy he heard was a sturdy gurdy—in AMERICAN WAY TO THE Pos.—There is onlyone fact a hurdy-gurdy : feasible plan for reaching the North Pole. A suend he girdled that gurdy, and he herded that cession of camps should be made from Smith's gurdy • and the hurdled herd heard how he hut- Sound northwards at intervals of half a mile from died it: one another. In each of these camps two or three nd after that, whenever he herded his herd, he men, provided with a years' rations, should be Ml the herd heard, and were hurdle-gurdled to the , burning in the kitchen w hurded his hurcly-gurdy, placed, with instructions 0 Keep a lamp constantlx, hurdle-gurding of -the hurdy-gurdy. was opened at Barrow on Monday on the bod f far as intlowexapsioaeet. beacon7ho dfeor8,11)::d. i lated explorers, ana to keep the eidewalk swept as SUICIDE OF A LIOw7-snip.gEmpgit_Ait inquest Samuel Gay, captain of the Morecambe yo to reach the Pole would then have an uninterrupted series of half-mile stations all the way to his place _lightship, of destination. He could warm his fcct it one sta. the next camp. Tilt tem, lunch at another, and sleep at a third. Thns, which lies in the Irish Sea off Morecamue Day. About a week ago the captain with his crew relieved to a passing vessel, and a b safe and easy stages, he could reach and discover ape l ayi nv the dhaeel twthraeuye s wt ,raayy distanceei in mate signalled l tile Pole and return to Smith's Sound without the i lightship,oc deceased wlasas t f\oVuenddn esicliaanyg hanging nii nagh, i satcanbinine given vhaeirnst 1 is do i rueexncpdtilooounrbe t er witha rope round his neck, and quite dead. The and all the difficulties which are now insuperable ashore. The inquest was adjourned to the 2nd of difficulty. ed Barrow from Smith's Sound to the Pole intohalf-mile walks, tugboat was despatched and brought the dead body March for the production of witnesses from the which Arctic exploration should be conducted, and half uf lad iliv ailneisi nh , a lightship. The deceased had only held his post since I t is a wonder that no one has hitherto thought of November. t.—New York Times.