It must have been a very slow news day - note the "clever" filler articles! It's still hard to understand why advertisements ask for persons with "unexceptional" characters. WEST BRITON AND CORNWALL ADVERTISER 17 OCTOBER 1851 ADVERTISEMENTS TRURO, PENRYN, and REDRUTH TURNPIKE ROAD SCRAPINGS Notice is hereby given that a Public Survey will be holden at the Town Hall, Truro, on Wednesday, the 22nd instant, at Two o'clock in the Afternoon, for letting the Scrapings of the several Roads of this Turnpike, for one year from Michaelmas day last. JOHN TIPPET, Clerk to the Trustees of the said Turnpike, Dated October 8, 1851 .... VERY IMPORTANT NEWS! REDUCED RATES OF CARRIAGE BY TIMES COACH The Proprietors of the above Coach, have much pleasure in announcing to their numerous kind friends, that they have made arrangements with FORD and CO, whereby they are enabled to bring goods from London to Falmouth at the following reduced scale of charges. Between London and Falmouth Lbs. s d Not exceeding 7 .............................. 1 6 14 ............................. 1 16 28 ............................. 2 6 42 ............................. 3 2 56 .............................. 4 4 84 .............................. 5 6 112 .............................. 7 8 These rates of carriage cannot fail to tempt the trading community of Cornwall to patronize the "Times Coach" and as this is now made a daily conveyance no delay can possibly take place. All goods must be ordered from London thus: - By Ford and Co. , Blossoms Inn, Lawrence Lane; 2d. only will be charged for porterage on delivery in Cornwall. N.H. If parcels are wanted with great dispatch they must be marked by Mail Train to Exeter thence "Times Coach". By this mode of transit (if not exceeding 7lbs. weight) 2s. 6d. only will be charged; heavier parcels proportionably low. PROCKTER, LENDERYOU, and CO, Proprietors ... SHEEP LOST LOST, At Summercourt Fair, on the 25th of September, FOUR SHEEP, marked S.L. on the off hind quarter, and with a hole in the near ear. Any one having found the same by applying to Mr. SAMUEL LOBB, Ethy, near Lostwithiel, shall be handsomely rewarded, and any one detaining them after this notice will be prosecuted. Dated October 15, 1851 ... TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS T. MARTIN, Chemist, Druggist, &c., is in immediate want of an active and respectable YOUTH as an APPRENTICE. He will be treated as one of the family, and every opportunity afforded him of obtaining a thorough knowledge of his business. A Young Man in the Drapery Trade, may hear of a Situation by applying as above Camborne, October 14, 1851 .... WANTED A SITUATION as (thorough) in-door servant, where a Boy is kept; or Single Handed out of Livery; understands Brewing, and has Eleven years unexceptionable character. Address, A. B., Mr. BEARE's, Printer &c., Penzance Dated October 16, 1851 .... THE WEST BRITON - Truro, Friday, October 17, 1851 - PRISCA FIDES The Great Exhibition has closed its life; it is now while we write as it were lying in state, and the funeral obsequies are to be performed on Wednesday. For the last week the crowds have been unprecedented, nearly one hundred and ten thousand persons have day after day filled almost every crevice of the building. On Saturday an immense crowd was collected, and between four and five o'clock many thousands entered the building, anxious to be there at the close. As the hour of five approached all the compartments were deserted and the crowd filled the nave and galleries. Exactly at five all the organs pealed out the National Anthem, every head was uncovered, every voice joined in the chorus; and at its close the applause from tens of thousands of stamping feet rolled through the building with a strange rumbling sound not unlike that produced by ........ Amidst hearty cheers and the clanging of every bell and gong in the place, the company slowly retired, and the portals of the building were closed on the public. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE FALMOUTH ATHENAEUM - On Friday last, Mr. JOHN MARRACK, of Penzance, delivered a very interesting lecture to a large and respectable audience, on the "Progress of Knowledge", which gave great satisfaction and called forth a unanimous expression of approval. TEETOTAL HARVEST WORK - The fourteenth annual public supper on the completion of harvest was celebrated at Bodmin on the 7th instant. Thirty teetotal labourers were gratuitously provided with a sumptuous repast, at which about seventy persons sat down. The speaking was afterwards continued until nine o'clock, to the delight of a very numerous audience; the masters and men both testifying that the labours of the harvest could be quicker and easier accomplished without intoxicating drinks than with them. Three thousand acres of hay and corn are cut and saved annually by teetotalers in the district around Bodmin. ALMANACK FOR THE PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE - We have been favoured with a sight of a most ingenious contrivance by Mr. RICHARD GRAY, a working miner, in Gwennap. Its object is to enable any one who uses it to discover at once the day of the week and month in any year either past, present, or future. This almanack is contained on a single piece of board, one part of which is moveable, and its arrangement is of the most simple and easy kind. This is in fact its great recommendation; other contrivances of the same kind having generally been very complicated in structure and difficult to use. The general utility of this ingenious little contrivance must at once be obvious. In a lawyer's office in particular, we should think, it must soon become indispensable. Its great recommendation is that, while it occupies no more room than a common sheet almanac for one year, it has this peculiar excellence that it can never become out of date. We are accustomed to speak of "an old almanac" as one of the most useless articles existing, but the almanac before us can never become an old one. The merit of the contrivance, as we have already said, is due to Mr. Richard GRAY. It is printed by Mr. TREGASKIS, of St. Day, who has also improved and simplified its arrangement in some points. At the meeting of the Cornwall Polytechnic Society last week, prizes were awarded to both of those gentlemen for the ingenuity they had displayed in its construction. TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE - Among the newly elected Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, we observe the name of Mr. WESTLAKE, son of the late Mr. JOHN WESTLAKE, of Lostwithiel. Mr. Westlake took his degree in 1850, when he obtained double first class honours, being sixth wrangler, and sixth in the first class of the classical tripos; he was also a scholar of his college. The election took place on the 10th instant. SALE OF WRECK - The "San Giorgio's" hull and materials were sold at Scilly on the 9th instant. The hull fetched GBP 200, and materials about GBP 100. The hull was purchased by Messrs. DAVIES, WEYMOUTH, and CO., and we understand that she will be refitted, and so soon as possible proceed to the East Indies. Her name will be changed to "The Lion". THE PIG AND THE MIRROR - As some persons, not a hundred miles from Falmouth, were lately removing some household furniture under the rose, a large chimney glass was put in a field, where there were some pigs and cows. The animals knew not what to make of the brilliant novelty, and after gamboling around it innocently for some time, a valiant black porker rushed at his likeness, and found himself in a ditch, a conqueror, surrounded with the shattered fragments of glass and gilt frame. FOWEY PASSAGE AGAIN - On Thursday week, on Crart, the omnibus proprietor, coming to Bodinnick at his usual time, he found the gate about eight or nine feet wide, locked, when he procured a saw and cut it in two. Thus this affair stands at present. To set the matter straight, it will be requisite to go to the superior court, as it is a question of right. CORNWALL COUNTY COURTS - Truro - At the monthly court on Friday last, there were thirty-six cases entered, including two summonses after judgement. In the case of GUNDRY v. TRUSCOTT, heard at the September sitting, judgement was given for plaintiff, for GBP 2. 18s.4d., the difference in the value of the hay at the time of the breach of contract and at the present time. - A defendant named NINNES was committed for thirty days, for contempt of court, in not appearing on summons. - The case of HENRY IVEY v. RICHARD IVEY was the first which has come before this court, of an infant defendant. The action was brought under the 92nd Rule of Court, by an elder brother against his infant brother for payment for board and lodging. It appeared that the plaintiff had taken the defendant into his care and maintained him from brotherly feeling, and that afterwards the defendant ran away, got into work, and lodged with another person who received his wages as remuneration. The case was dismissed, there being no proof of legal obligation in the defendant; but the Court, according to a provision in the 92nd Rule, appointed a guardian for the infant-defendant. The Court rose as early as three o'clock. CORONER'S INQUESTS - The following inquests have been held before Mr. Gilbert HAMLEY, deputy coroner; On Friday the 11th instant, at the parish of Linkinhorne, on the body of JONATHAN HARRIS, who was working in the 15 fathoms level of West Phoenix Mine, on the preceding day, and, having lit the safety-fuse for the purpose of blasting some rock, he made a signal to men above to be hauled to grass. The men proceeded to lift him by the usual means of a horse and windlass. In his ascent he perceived that he was in danger of striking his head against some boards at the 4 fathoms level, and called to the men above to stop pulling, but they could not succeed in doing so in time to prevent his being struck. On coming into collision with the boards, he fell out of the kibble down to the 15 fathoms level where he pitched just as the rock which he had fuzed was blasting, and he received such injuries from the explosion that he died in a few hours after being brought to the surface. Verdict, accidental death. On the following day, at Callington, on the body of a little girl named TREGIMBLE. There being a report that the child had received a blow on the head in the market, coupled with the fact that she had died rather suddenly, an inquest was thought necessary; but it appeared from the evidence that the child, from her birth, had been delicate and subject to asthma, and now and then appeared almost suffocated and scarcely able to breathe. She had been under the care of Mr. HENDER, surgeon, who had always stated she would die suddenly. She had received a blow on her head in the market, by accidentally striking her head against one of the standings, but was not much injured by it. The jury was perfectly satisfied that she died from natural causes and returned a verdict accordingly. On Wednesday, the 15th instant, at the parish of Poundstock, on the body of a man washed ashore at Widemouth, and supposed to be the body of the person who fell over a cliff at Tintagel about three weeks since, but the friends were unable to identify the body. It had on one boot, a shirt, and a sort of smock frock. There being no evidence concerning the matter of his death, the jury returned a verdict of found drowned. At Fowey on the 11th instant, on the body of THOMAS LEE, aged 79. It appeared that the old man, on the previous Thursday evening, had gone to a common privy on Albert Quay. Nothing more was seen of him until next morning, when his body was found to have fallen into the pit behind. Whether he had been seized with a fit or had fallen asleep, and afterwards been stunned by his fall, did not appear, but when dragged from the escape hole next morning about ten o'clock, he was quite dead, having received several bruises which were supposed to have been occasioned by the dashing of the tide. A verdict of accidental death was recorded. Julia Mosman, OPC for St.Austell,Charlestown, and Treverbyn Website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staustell W. Briton newspaper transcripts at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad Please visit the OPC website at http://cornwall-opc.org

Hi Julia "Unexceptional character" was used to mean "not open to objection or criticism". Meriam-Websters dictionary says commentators have said that use was incorrect but notes "the 'incorrect' sense of 'unexceptional' is more than 75 years older than its 'correct' sense." Jason jwmos99@msn.com wrote: >It must have been a very slow news day - note the "clever" filler articles! It's still hard to understand why advertisements ask for persons with "unexceptional" characters. > >

Not 'unexceptional', 'unexceptionable'. Meaning one could not take exception. J On 2 Aug 2010, at 09:28, Jason Austin wrote: > Hi Julia > > "Unexceptional character" was used to mean "not open to objection or > criticism". Meriam-Websters dictionary says commentators have said > that use was incorrect but notes "the 'incorrect' sense of > 'unexceptional' is more than 75 years older than its 'correct' sense." > > Jason > > > > jwmos99@msn.com wrote: > >> It must have been a very slow news day - note the "clever" filler >> articles! It's still hard to understand why advertisements ask >> for persons with "unexceptional" characters. >> >> > ------------------------------- > Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com > > Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription > information http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-GEN- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message