The Bowtun luminary, Tumfowt telegraph, un Lankishire lookin-glass

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ...JAspien, Market-street, Charley; P. Scrymgeov, Market street, St Helens; J. Blackshaw, Middle H& gate. Stockport; Willis Knowles, Marketsl., Hydt. John Poole, Moor street, Ormslcirk, John dough, W esthoughton, un seUera. J. T. Staton. Printtr. Bowker's Row. Boiton TH' ELECSHUN. Т1Г elecshun o two members to serve in Perliment for th' "greight un enleetent burrow o Bowtun" is oer; un, contrary to wot we expected, th' Tories have manisht to c»rry their mon, un Captain William Gray is neaw M.P. Whibt we connot deny that we're soary ut this should be th' case, we're not so soft as to cry, loike Jimmy Tubbles when th' dug run away wi his buttycake. Ith course uv eawr loife we'n met wi plenty o disappeighntments un crosses, un we'n lernt to look fillo3ofically on wot connot be helpt, un to make th' best o wot we connot awter. If th' Ten Peawnders o Bowtun will that a ltaddikal shall be sent to Perliment to vote for reform meashures, un a Tory to vote ogen um, un so make th' representashun oth burrow a nullity; if they will that one shall be yoked to th' car o progress to poo it forrud, un another yoked to th' other eend to poo it backurts, un so stick it fast just wheere it is; why we mun be content at present to say "so be it:" but we'n not sitch poor hopee uv a re-acshun comin as to dolefully ding eawt "so let it be." Toryism is mooar a thing oth past, than a thing oth future. In owd Betty Fletcher's days it wur in its proime. Sin then its kept givin way un softenin deawn before th' advance uv knowledge, good sense, un liberal sentiment; un, if there's truth in human progress, it mun, ith lung run, dwindle deawn to th' dimenshuns uv a feawthin candle, un then pop eawt its leet. Its summat un extraordinary that th' C...