Carlisle Patriot, 11 Feb 1826 - Local News (2)

[petra.mi...@doctors.org.uk]

Saturday 11 Feb 1826   (p. 2, col. 4-6 and p. 3, col. 1 + 6)     [continued]

 

We understand that Mr. SPENCE, the improver of bad writing in a few lessons, is now teaching in Penrith, whe [sic] he continues to receive a very large share of public patronage. All those who have been under his tuition are perfectly satisfied with the degree of improvement they have made. We hear it is Mr. SPENCE's intention to visit Carlisle in a few weeks.

 

The body of John GRAHAM, of Allonby, who fell overboard the Ann, GLAISTER, on the 10th of December, was found on Wednesday last, near Bankend, about a mile north of Maryport.

 

Lord Howick, son of Earl GREY, and the Hon. Henry Thomas LIDDELL, eldest son son [sic] of Lord Ravensworth, are both candidates to succeed the late Mr. BRANDLING in the representation of Northumberland.

 

His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, with a most honourable deference to the opinions and feelings of the independent interest of the county, does not intend to exercise his decided influence upon this occasion.—Tyne Mer.

 

The carcase of a calf was seized on Saturday se'nnight, by the constables of Appleby, from a man called METCALF, and burned in the public street, as carrion. The owner will likewise, in all probability, be fined by the Mayor of that Borough for offering such villainous stuff for sale.

 

The typhus fever is now very prevalent in Appleby and neighbourhood, and many persons have died in it.—A brother and two sisters, called NEWTON, have died in it at Crackenthorpe.

 

The Lord Bishop of Durham has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Thomas SINGLETON, Rector of Elsdon, and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, to be Archdeacon of Northumberland, in the room of the Venerable the Archdeacon BOUYER, deceased.

 

After being suffered to go at large from the night of the attack to the 3d inst. three of the vagabonds who attempted to rob Mr. J. PORTEOUS, and his companions, as stated last week, were apprehended on Tuesday, and committed next morning to the county gaol, at Dumfries. Their names are RUDDICK, IRVING, and CORRIE.

 

On Friday morning last, was taken by Robert KERSS, fisherman, at Trows, near Kelso, the largest salmon, perhaps, ever caught in the Tweed. In length, it was three feet eleven inches and three quarters; its extreme girth was two feet four inches and a half; and its weight fifty-eight pounds. Though not what is termed a clean fish, it was in good condition, and when in its best state, it must have weighed at least ten pounds more.

 

A man named LOGAN, about 60 years of age residing at Hensingham, put a period to his existence on Monday afternoon, by suspending himself with his handkerchief from his bed-tester.

 

On Saturday morning last, the body of Ann, the wife of John SCOTT, was found drowned in Harrington Beck, a little below the brewery. An inquest was held in view of the body, on Monday, before W. BRAGG, Esq. Coroner: verdict "Found drowned."

 

The body of Mrs. COWMAN, late of Whitehaven, was found upon Duddon sands on Sunday morning by Mr. Joseph PARK, of Millom, who had the corpse (upon which was found cash to the amount of £113) immediately conveyed to his house. Mrs. COWMAN perished along with her husband and the whole of the crew of the Mary, except one man, off Liverpool, in November last.

 

Great quantities of char, in an unseasonable state, have recently been taken out of Windermere and hawked about the streets of Kendal, at a cheap rate. This is the way that valuable fisheries are destroyed.

 

Last week a young man named Joseph SANDS, employed in the quarry on the south side of Whitehaven harbour, was so much crushed by a stone rolling upon him, as to occasion his death in about two hours after the accident.

 

The infant daughter of John ECCLES, of Dalton, near Burton-in-Kendal, was last week burnt to death, by its clothes taking fire, having been carelessly left in a room with two other children unable to take charge of it.

 

The Kendal Fancy Union Combination, after a distressing existence of three months, expired on the 1st inst. The men have returned to their employment;—that is to say, such of them as can now obtain any.

 

On the 1st inst., the new road from White Moss to Grasmere was opened, and the Good Intent coach, which runs between Kendal and Whitehaven, passed over it for the first time, preceded by Mr. BOLT, the surveyor, Mr. NEWTON and Mr. PARTRIDGE, commissioners, the undertakers, labourers, &c. The Ambleside Union Band was in attendance.

 

 

[to be continued]