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  2. LATE BUSINESS HOURS.

    We have been repeatedly requested to so-Hypocrites licit for that valuable class, the shopmen of our city, the extension of privileges now generally enjoyed elsewhere. The hours of ...

    Article : 2,192 words
  3. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.

    The efforts of the American abolitionists require to be seconded in the United Kingdom as well as in the United States, and we learn that the cause of the poor slave is being very ...

    Article : 947 words
  4. CREDULITY AND SUPERSTITION.

    A short time ago a fellow went about the streets of Huddersfield, professing himself to be a " curer of smoky chimneys," when the wife of a labouring man, in Quay-street, being ...

    Article : 165 words
  5. SUPERSTITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

    In the back settlements of the parish of Margaret Rothing, a young man, who lives with his mother, had been for some time prievously afflicted with intermittent fever and ...

    Article : 186 words
  6. SUPERSTITIOUS CUSTOM.

    In several parts of Suffolk, the following singular practice is resorted to upon the master of a house dying where an apiary exists. No sooner has the domestic calamity taken place ...

    Article : 92 words
  7. SLAVERY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 266 words
  8. FORTUNE TELLING.

    An unhappy woman, not ten miles from Kirk Michael, who had been married for many years, but, like Rachel, was childless, met with an Irish female fortune-teller about twelve ...

    Article : 188 words
  9. THE WEATHER AMONG THE CELESTIALS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 words
  10. HORRORS OF THE MIDDLE PASSAGE.

    Just as we reached New River, in the early grey of the morning, we came up with a singular spectacle, the most striking one of the kind I have ever witnessed. It was a camp ...

    Article : 360 words
  11. A MAN WITH A RIGHT NAME.

    Mr. Severe was rightly named he was a crual man. I have seen him whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at the time ; and this too, in the midst of her crying children, pleading for thier mother's release ...

    Article : 113 words
  12. A SUPERSTITION OF 1845.

    At the execution of Ellison, at Bodmin, in August last, it was noticed that there was a very active demand for pieces of the rope by which the poor wretch was suspended, for each ...

    Article : 328 words
  13. HOW SLAVES BEING PROPERTY ARE TENDERLY USED.

    Mr. Gore once undertook to whip one of Col[?]ne Lloyd's slaves, by the name of Demby. He had given Demby but a few stripes, when, to get rid of the scourging. he ran and plunged into a creek. and stood there at ...

    Article : 167 words
  14. NOT A HORSE-BREAKER BUT A GLAVE-BREAKER.

    My master lent me for one year to a man named Edward Covey. Mr Covey was a poor man, a farm-renter. He rented not only his farm but the hands with which he tilled it. Mr Covey had acquired a very high ...

    Article : 857 words
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