This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. Xater Daps. URING the past two centuries of its existence the town of Colinsburgh has moved on in the quiet tenor of its way. Such troubles as the rebellions of 1715 and 1745 scarcely did more than cause a ripple on the surface of its life. It has suffered a good deal of late years from ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. Xater Daps. URING the past two centuries of its existence the town of Colinsburgh has moved on in the quiet tenor of its way. Such troubles as the rebellions of 1715 and 1745 scarcely did more than cause a ripple on the surface of its life. It has suffered a good deal of late years from the agricultural depression, but it has never felt the fluctuations of trade in the same way as the cities and commercial centres have done. At the time of the Reform Bill in 1832, when the measure was being discussed in Parliament, demonstrations were made by some of the inhabitants, and a drum and fife band marched between Colinsburgh and Kilconquhar. When the Bill was passed a public dinner was held in Kilconquhar in honour of the occasion, the tables being spread in the school playground, and the Colinsburgh men marched down in procession, carrying their knives and forks in their pockets. The school children imitated their elders, and paraded the town with a tin pitcher and a penny whistle for music, but this gave offence to the ruling powers, and the threat of a sound thrashing from the teacher chilled their juvenile enthusiasm for politics. Among the later inhabitants mention may be made of John Scott, descended from Covenanting ancestors in Newburn parish. He was at one time farmer in Balbuthie, as his father had been before him, but he was more successful as a raiser of turnip seed than in making the farm profitable to himself. He was a great reader until blindness came upon him, and he was exceptionally well read in theology, his views on some points, though generally accepted now, being then in advance of his time. He published a treatise on the evidences of the Christian religion, which had a wide circulation, and also several...
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