Curiosities of Street Literature. Various

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION.

       A COLLECTION OF “COCKS,” OR “CATCHPENNIES.”

       DIVISION I. A COLLECTION OF “COCKS,” OR “CATCHPENNIES,” STREET DROLLERIES, SQUIBS, HISTORIES, COMIC TALES IN PROSE AND VERSE.

       HORRID MURDER, Committed by a young Man on a young Woman.

       CRUEL AND INHUMAN MURDER Committed upon the body of Captain Lawson.

       The Life, Trial, Execution, Lamentation, and Letter written by the unfortunate man James Ward,

       SHOCKING RAPE AND MURDER OF TWO LOVERS.

       FULL PARTICULARS OF THIS DREADFUL MURDER.

       THE COMMITTAL OF W. THOMPSON,

       A REMARKABLE PUNISHMENT OF MURDER.

       THE LIFE, TRIAL, CHARACTER, AND CONFESSION OF The Man that was Hanged IN FRONT OF NEWGATE, AND WHO IS NOW ALIVE! WITH FULL PARTICULARS OF THE RESUSCITATED.

       THE LIVERPOOL TRAGEDY.

       THE MASSACRE OF THE WHOLE OF THE PASSENGERS AND PART OF THE CREW OF THE SEA HORSE, On her Homeward Passage from Sydney, and the Plunder of 18,000 ounces of Gold by the Murderers.

       FULL PARTICULARS OF THE HORRIBLE & DREADFUL GREAT FIRE IN LONDON.

       AN ACCOUNT OF THE FATAL THUNDERSTORM,

       THE SCARBOROUGH TRAGEDY.

       THE NAKED TRUTH, OR DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND,

       EXTRAORDINARY & FUNNY DOINGS IN THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD.

       THE LOVE LETTER,

       ALL FOUND OUT AT LAST,

       THE YORKSHIRE KNIGHT, OR THE FORTUNATE FARMER’S DAUGHTER, IN THREE PARTS.

       A FULL, TRUE, REMARKABLE, & PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THE FAITHFUL LOVERS.

       THE FULL, TRUE, AND PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THE DREADFUL QUARREL

       AN ACCOUNT OF THE DREADFUL APPARITION

       FULL PARTICULARS OF THE HORRIBLE AND DREADFUL CATASTROPHE WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD, LAST NIGHT.

       THE SECRETS REVEALED, OR THE FASHIONABLE LIFE OF LORD & LADY —— WHO RESIDE NOT ONE HUNDRED MILES FROM THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD.

       ELOPEMENTS EXTRAORDINARY.

       FUNNY LOVE AFFAIR, ALL ABOUT THE ELOPEMENT THAT TOOK PLACE THIS DAY.

       WONDERFUL, JUST, & TERRIBLE JUDGMENT ON A BLASPHEMER,

       STRANGE WARNING TO A REPROBATE PUBLICAN.

       APPARITION OF A GHOST TO A MILLER, TO DISCOVER A HIDDEN MURDER.

       PARTICULARS Of a Singular and Curious Circumstance Which took place at the House of a well known FORTUNE TELLER, With the strange appearance that was witnessed,

       FORTUNE TELLING AND ITS RESULTS.

       Strange and Wonderful Account of the REV. JOHN MILLER, MINISTER, OF THE CITY OF BATH, WHO REMAINED IN A TRANCE For Four Days and Nights,

       THE FEMALE SLEEP-WALKER.

       A DIALOGUE BETWEEN DEATH AND A SINNER.

       THE RAILWAY TO HEAVEN.

       RAILROAD TO HELL, FROM DISSIPATION TO POVERTY , AND FROM POVERTY TO DESPERATION.

       PRETTY MAIDENS BEWARE! A LOVE LETTER from SARAH to CHARLES.

       THE VERY PRETTY MAID OF THIS TOWN, AND THE AMOROUS ’SQUIRE, NOT ONE HUNDRED MILES FROM THE PLACE.

       THE FULL PARTICULARS OF “TAKING OFF” PRINCE ALBERT’S INEXPESSIBLES. IN THE BOROUGH COURT OF REQUESTS.—THIS DAY.

       BATTLE OF PEA SOUP, FOUGHT ON THE FIFTY-TWELFTH DAY OF ROTTENSTICKS

       The Full & True Particulars