The Last Thing out in American Sectarianism. "Jehovah's Band"—a Sect of Puffing, Blowing, Whistling, Shouting, Jumping, Wrestling, Rolling, and Kicking Religionists in New Jersey
Evening News · Monday 20 June 1870 · page 4
GREAT religious excitement exists in Macopin, twelve miles from Paterson. A new religious society, called "Jehovah's Band," has been started, supplanting a favourite station of the Methodist Church…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charitable Concert in Aid of the University. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 June 1870 · page 2
SIR,—Allow me to record my most indignant protest against the proposed concert, for the purpose of buying chairs for our well-endowed University. I have delayed writing in hopes that there would have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The University Concert. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 June 1870 · page 3
SIR,—Your correspondent "M. A." is indignant that the proceeds of the concert to be held in the hall of the University on Saturday next are to be applied towards furnishing the hall…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Amateur Concert
Sydney Punch · Saturday 9 July 1870 · page 10
Trove gives no preview of this one. Open it to read the story on the page.
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Belle of the Ball Room
Sydney Mail · Saturday 16 July 1870 · page 11
I saw her at the county ball. There when the Founds of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet in that old hall Of hands across and down the middle…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Royal Academy Exhibition of Pictures. (From the Athenaum.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 July 1870 · page 6
So far as our opportunities permit us to form a judgment of the character and quality of this Exhibition, it is about on a level with the average of its forerunners, noteworthy on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Time-ball at Newcastle. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 July 1870 · page 5
SIR,—As the Estimates of probable expenditure for 1871 will soon have to be laid upon the table of the House of Assembly, I have to request your permission to draw attention to the notice in the Government Gazette dated July…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Black Band
Sydney Mail · Saturday 23 July 1870 · page 10
The violence of the speeches and addresses of the " Black Band" during the period of unlimited licence allowed during the fortnight previous to the fifth day before the day of voting has been such us oven the Republican papers…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Our Amusements. Royal Adelphi Theatre
Sydney Punch · Saturday 23 July 1870 · page 7
ON Saturday the burlesque of Richard III., with five Richards, was performed as announced. The inclemency of the weather militated considerably against the attendance, but those who were present appeared to thoroughly enjoy the fun. Mr. Roberts and Mr. Welsh,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Theatre Royal, Adelphi
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 30 July 1870 · page 3
The production of the "Lass of Lancosliiro" at this theatre, has proved a success—although considering the ndmirablo manner in which it is mounted and performed, thE attendance has not been At all commensurate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Afternoon Concerts. (From the Observer.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 August 1870 · page 3
A FOREIGNER glancing down what may be called the epicurean columns of the Times, crammed with invitations to concerts, picture galleries, al fresco gardens, dancing places, &c., might well protest that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Circus Band Torn to pieces by Wild Beasts
Evening News · Friday 9 September 1870 · page 3
The Middletown (Missouri) Banner says: The little village of Middletown was lately thrown into a painful fever of excitement, on the morning of Mar 12, by an awful catastrophe, which occurred to the band…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Masonic Ball
Sydney Punch · Saturday 10 September 1870 · page 7
THE brethren of the mystic tie, determined not to be outdone amid the general festivities, gave a grand ball at the Masonic Hall on Tuesday last. The stewards are to be congratulated upon the entire success of their arrangements, as well as upon the very tasteful…
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Empire · Monday 12 September 1870 · page 3
THE Middletown (Missouri) Banner says: The little village of Middletown was thrown into a painful favor of excitement, on the morning of May 12, by an awful catastrophe, which occurred to the hand…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Exhibition Pictures. Class 481—Professional Landscape. To the Editor of the Empire
Empire · Thursday 15 September 1870 · page 3
SIR,—Please allow me, through the medium of you valuable columns, to ask a question to which I am anxious to receive an answer. Supposing Victoria here after to hold an intercolonial exhibition, and to offer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farewell Ball to Commodore Lambert. (From the Wellington Evening Post, September 2.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 September 1870 · page 6
THE farewell ball given by colonists now in Wellington to Commodore Lambert and the officers of the Australian Squadron, took place last night, and was a most brilliant success, a little overcrowding being the only drawback…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Bachelors' Ball
Sydney Punch · Saturday 17 September 1870 · page 10
1st Young end Very Pretty Girl: WHY IS IT THAT WE GET NO PARTNERS THIS EVENING? 2nd ditto : DON'T YOU KNOW, DEAR, THAT THERE'S A COUNTRY HEIRESS IN THE WAY? 3rd ditto : WELL, I NEVER ! I THOUGHT THE GENTLEMEN PREUERRED LOOKS TO MONEY. 1st ditto: AH ! MY DEARS WE LIVE AND LEARN. MONEY HIDES A VAST AMOUNT OF UGLINESS…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A Circus Band Torn to Pieces by Wild Beasts
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 September 1870 · page 22
THE Middletown (Missouri) Banner says: The little village of Middletown was thrown into a painful fever of excitement, on the morning of May 12 by an awful catastrophe, which occurrea to the hand…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The Guard of Honour and the Civil Service Concert. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 September 1870 · page 3
SIR,—His Excellency the Governor is to be present at the Civil Service concert to-night, and the Volunteer authorities have ordered a guard of honour for the occasion. What is there in this concert that makes it of such special…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death from the Blow of a Cricket Ball
Evening News · Friday 23 September 1870 · page 3
Everyone who reads about cricket known already that poor Summers has died of concussion of the brain, caused by a blow which he received from a hall at Lord's, in the M.C.C. and Nottingham match on…
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