Carlisle Patriot, 04 Feb 1826 - Local News (3)

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Saturday 04 Feb 1826   (p. 2, col. 6 and p. 3, col. 1-4 + 6)     [continued]

 

The Whitefish, Fishers, on the north side of the Solway Frith, say the prospect of the Spring Salmon fishing has a very unfavourable appearance.—It is not by such bills as Mr. KENNEDY's, (says a correspondent) that it will be ameliorated.

 

On Sunday last the 29th Jan., a very bold and dangerous operation was performed in the Infirmary, Dumfries, on a woman of the name of Isabel FISHER, aged 38. As the case was one of those which up to a very recent period were supposed to be beyond the reach of surgical aid, the medical officers attached to the Hospital communicated with Dr. LIZARS of Edinburgh, who has lately acquired great celebrity for his skill in excising tumours from the abdominal cavity. Accordingly, that gentleman, who was the first to conceive the idea of so bold an experiment, lost no time in repairing to Dumfries, and the operation was performed at one o'clock on the day mentioned, in the short space of twelve minutes, and with the greatest possible skill and dexterity. The tumour, which was of the cancerous kind, appeared to be as large as a child's head, and weighed 4½lbs. During the last seven years the tumour has been forming, which accounts for the great size to which it had attained. The patient, though warned of the dangerous nature of her situation, heroically resolved to run every risk, and such was her fortitude, that not a groan escaped her during the whole operation.

 

On the evening of Thursday week, Mr. J. PORTEOUS, horse-dealer, on his return home from Annan market, was attacked within a mile of Annan, forced from his horse, and beat in a cruel manner, by three footpads. Fortunately Mr. PORTEOUS' cries brought to his assistance two neighbours, who were also returning from the market, when two of the robbers made off and were pursued by Mr. PORTEOUS, and one of the men who came to his assistance. The other was detained for sometime by Mr. IRVING, miller at Kirtlebridge, who was at last obliged to quit his hold, having received a severe blow on the forehead from a stone which the robber held in his hand.

 

On Thursday evening, Mr. Benjamin ORMANDY of Haverrigg, Millom, lost his way on Duddon Sands, when returning from Ulverston market, and next morning was found drowned.

 

James Penny MACHELL, Esq. of Pennybridge, near Ulverston, is nominated high sheriff of Lancashire, in the place of John HARGREAVES, Esq.

 

Tuesday night ten valuable horses were burnt in the stable of Adam WALKER, Esq. of Mellendean, Kelso.

 

A Country Paper states, that in one of the Courts of the Isle of Man, a suit was commenced for the tithes of cock and hens—two eggs being demanded for the former, and one for the latter! If this is not a "cock and bull tale," it was a fowl proceeding.

 

The "vend," of coal in the river Wear, during the year just ended, amounts to 502,043 chaldrons; the largest quantity ever disposed of there in the same space of time.

 

The whole mystery of the late run upon banks has been solved by Mr. IRVING, of the Caledonian chapel. It portends the coming of Antichrist!—Globe.

 

The men employed in the different potteries on the Tyne and Wear have struck for an advance of wages. One of the principal points in dispute is the price claimed for making tea-pots.

 

By an Act of Parliament, 13 Geo. 3, the season for killing partridges and pheasants expired on Tuesday. Any person detected under a violation of the above act, subjects himself to a penalty of twenty pounds for the first offence, and thirty for the second.

 

It begins to look as if Newcastle was to be the regular thoroughfare for the transmission of human bodies from England to Scotland. On Thursday last, a box of a suspicious description arrived there by one of the coaches from the south, addressed to a person in Edinbro', and on being opened it was found to contain the corpse of a little old woman, the whole weight of the package not exceeding 9st. 3lb. The surgeons of the Modern Athens must be much in want of subjects for dissection, if such a personage be considered fit to be sent from one country to another, to be cut up for the advancement of science. A coroner's inquest, of course, was held on the body, and it has been since interred at the Ballast Hills.—Tyne Mer.

 

If our Scottish distillers have acquired new customers in England, they are likely to lose not a few of their old ones at home. The late reduction of the duties on rum, has increased the demand for that article even among the poorer class of our countrymen, and we are assured by a spirit merchant in this town, that in so far as his retail trade is concerned, he actually sells as much rum as whiskey. Reduced rum at 8s. the gallon, can be retailed at three-pence per gill, and the working classes, aware of this, are again evincing a predilection for a beverage to which they have been strangers for a number of years.—Dumfries paper.

 

The Kendal Fancy Union men still hold out; but they must soon surrender at discretion.

 

Launched at Workington, on Saturday last, from Messrs. Thomas PEILE and Co.'s yard, a fine new vessel called the Valiant, 229 tons per register, built for Capt. BRAGG.—From Mr. Wm. WALLACE's yard: a new vessel called the Tyne, 112 tons per register, built for Capt. THOMPSON.—From Messrs. WALLACE and Co.'s Patent Slip: the Fortune, Capt. VAUGHAN.

 

Cork, Jan. 24.—Yesterday morning the brig Nymph, of Workington, which sailed from Montreal for Liverpool on the 26th Nov., was towed into Cove, by the Lee, steam-vessel, Capt. STOREY, which had been sent for from sea by Capt. MILLS of the Albion, from Liverpool to Cork. The Albion fell in with the wreck 7 or 8 days before, and occasionally took her in tow, but was sometimes obliged to cast her off, in consequence of the weather, until Thursday night, when the Captain dispatched a whale boat, with which he fell in off Kinsale, to Cove for the Lee steam-vessel, which accordingly went out at four o'clock, A. M., and fell in with the Albion and the wreck near the Poor-Head; she immediately took the latter in tow, and brought her into Cove at about 10 o'clock A. M. When the Albion first fell in with the wreck, the latter had lost her Captain and Mate, who had been washed overboard. The survivors experienced the kindest attention from Capt. MILLS, to whose exertions may be attributed the preservation of their lives, and the property on board the vessel.