Volume 2, Number 36
The poor of Pillgwenlly, a highway robbery, a man falls off the high pavement on Stow Hill, Whitby Place, an English Slave Driver, crimes in 1838 and a gravedigger keeping graves open to fit more bodies in.
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Volume 2, Number 35
A Grand Evening Concert, The Storm King's Dream at the Theatre Royal, diseased meat, beer house offences, telling lies, robbing a sister, and Prince Arthur visits Caerleon.
Volume 2, Number 34
The state of the footpath between Caerleon and Newport in 1848, police, or the lack of police, in Pill, the Newport Journal of Gems, a gaudy nymph, salubrious and desirable Maindee and the 'Friars Field Cannibal'.
Volume 2, Number 33
A brawl on Commercial Street, stealing a pig's cheek, the Market Gate, Brynglas House for sale in 1842, the Friars house for sale in 1793, the disgraceful state of the streets and the dangerous docks.
Volume 2, Number 32
A fire on Skinner Street, confusing house numbering, a careless gipsy, stealing glasses from the Windsor Castle pub and summer fashions at the Gold Boot shop on Commercial Street.
Volume 2, Number 31
An unprofitable public house, a mischievous glass of brandy, an accident with a revolver, a tamping mason, stealing meat from a shop window, an evening with Charles Dickens and visiting a stationery shop in 1884.