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IMONMOUTHSHIRE RAILWAY

... THE ROAD TO THE NEWPORT BARRACKS. [TO THE EDITOR. SlR|Tr¥lg0.rer'Ld in fecent numbersof your useful paper, several letteFf; calling the attention of the authorities of the town of Newport to the state of the streets and roads in and near the borough, I beg to say that if the person or persons whose duty it is to look to such roads, would condescend, once in six months to observe the road ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1851
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 443 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

.. POETS' CORNER.

... BIRTHS,MARRIAGES,a DEATHS. öIRTHS. On the 22nd instant, at Newport, Mrs. H. J. Davis, of a son. On the 21st instant, the wife of Mr. John Handy, of Cam- bria Place, Newport, of a daughter. On the 2lst, at Risca, the wife of Mr. James Llewellyn. tailor, of a daughter. On the 19th, the wife of Mr. David Jones, Dowlais of a daughter, under the successful influence of chloroform, iudi- ciously ...

Published: Friday 27 June 1851
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 437 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

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... ADVERTISEMENT.—Frampton's Pill of Health.-For Bilious or Sick Headaches, Indigestion, we whole train of symptcms arising from a weak st^». °r 'vitiated bilious secretion, these pills are pre-emmentlysuccessful, t r costive_ ness, either habitual or temporary, and for elderly persons will prove that can be taken. They are used with the!f^.a.ntaPe by either sex, and will therefore prove an ...

Published: Friday 12 September 1851
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 912 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

WOMAN'S SMILE

... COXB tell me, ye sages, who revel in themes, That ages have made antiquity's own Come tell me, ye dreamers ot world-mending schemes, Which from thought into fancy's bright vision shave grown— Will the rust of the past, or all learning's lore, Dispel the mind's gloom, or our moments beguile ? Will the draughts that ye quaff from philosophy's store, E'er glad ns, and cheer us, like dear woman's ...

Published: Friday 12 September 1851
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 211 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY

... CHURCH EXTENSION. Quee„f The Marquess of Blandfoj111 °stateof spiritual des- praying her to take into considers Wljes with a view to L titution now existing in En«'?a measures for the relief of the directing the adoption of f the extension of the pam spiritual wants of the people, an j|rawn from the resources Cbial system, by the help ^'chmay eneral intro- of the Established Church itself.■ ...

Published: Friday 04 July 1851
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2365 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LONDON MARKETS, due

... LONDON CORN EXCHANGEjMonday Afternoon,Jun*Iflf Somewhat increased supplies of English wheat were on sale in the leading country markets held on Saturday. Fine samples moved off slowly. at about stationary prices; but 101t and middling qualities commanded very little attention, For foreign wheat,there was scarcely any inquiry nererthelpn thq quotations were mostly supported. In barley and malt ...

Published: Friday 04 July 1851
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 434 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

WHISPERINGS OF :THE MISTLETOE

... WOULD ye know where I hie when the chilling blasts blow- When the bright face of nature is covered with snow When the cycle of time, in its onward career, Conveys to each sense that old winter is near- When the hoar-frost comes on, with its white created train, Eking fantastic shapes on each window pane— When the pitiless storm leaves its ether bed, And unsparingly breaks on each shelterless ...

Published: Friday 26 December 1851
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 295 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

CARDIFF

... FIR. THROUGH A CARELESS SMOKER.—A fire recently oc- curred 00 the premi8el belonglog to Mr, Daniel Evanl, of AI Grove, by wbicb, about 300 sacks of potatoes, a quantity straw, and other property, were totally consumed. It appears that the fire originated by one of the workmen having fallen asleep in ihe baro, with a lighted pipe in his pocket. The poor fellow had a nairow escape for his life, ...

Published: Friday 26 December 1851
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 684 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE FEUILLETON OF THE MERLIN. NO. 36

... Stv IZqbevt. A GOTHIC AS NARRATED BY DR. NATHAN DRAKE, IN HIS LITBRARY HOURS, ON A TRADITION STU.L EXISTING AT HOCHESTBR. [CONTINUED FROM oun LAST.] We immediately rushed to the Medway, and beheld the light on the western turret of Gandulph's Tower, burning with tenfold brightness. Awe struck at the sight, we wandered on the banks of the stream, musing on the tate of our companion bat were ...

Published: Friday 19 September 1851
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1542 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE CHASE

... THE TREDEGAR HOUNDS will meet on Monday, April 7th, at Tredegar House; on Wednesday, April !)th at Castletown; and on Friday, Ilth, at Bassaleg Garth each day at half-past eleven o'clock. THE MONMOUTHSHIRE HOUNDS will meet on ? ?'?y, April 7th at Crowneld; and on Thursday, 10th, ?oamouth Cap, each day at half-past ten o'clock. ...

Published: Friday 04 April 1851
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 57 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

NEWPORT TOWN HALL.—WEDNESDAY

... Magistrate present-—Henry J. Davis, Esq., the Mayor. CAPTURE OF SIIIP-ROBBEIIS. Donald Ross and James Taylor, who were of that class termed 'Rodneys, or turnpike rodd sailors, were charged with stealing a gold watch, with gold chain, key, and seals, four Prussian ctins, a jacket, a pair of stockings, a pair ol tron-ser-, a velvet waistcoat, and a cap, the property of Charles Mitzlaff. mate of ...

Published: Friday 28 November 1851
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1073 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Tredegar County Court

... MosT IMPORTANT JUDGMENTS. In our last number we very briefly announced, that just pre- v:ously to going to press, we had received the judgments delivered by J. M. Herbert, Eiq., the County Court Judge, at Iredegar, in two truck informalioDS, sustained by the Anti- l ruck Association of ihe above place. We now give them ineitenso. HENRY FLOYD v. JOHN WEAVER. This IICIIOD is brought to recover ...

Published: Friday 28 November 1851
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2835 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News