Carlisle Patriot, 10 Sep 1825 - Local News

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Saturday 10 Sep 1825   (p. 2, col. 3-4)

 

Since Wednesday evening, we have had some heavy showers of rain, which impede the operations of the harvest field; but in all parts of the country those labours are nearly brought to a conclusion. The grain was never in finer condition.

 

On Wednesday last, an inquest was held at Maryport, before Peter HODGSON, Esq., coroner, in view of the body of Capt. Geo. FLETCHER, of the merchant service, who put a period to his life on Monday, by hanging himself. Verdict, temporary insanity.—On the same day, an inquisition was held at High Bank Hill, parish of Kirkoswald, on the body of John THOMPSON, aged 62, found dead in bed at that place on Tuesday morning, without any marks of violence on his person. Verdict, died by the visitation of God.

 

Mr. BROUGHAM has been enjoying the amusement of grouse shooting in Westmorland after the labours of the northern circuit.

 

All the Custom-house officers of Workington have been removed to Newcastle, and officers from that town have succeeded them.

 

The Hon. H. HOWARD, eldest son of Lord Morpeth (now Lord Morpeth), will be candidate, it is said, for Yorkshire at the next election.

 

A rather genteel Black man, six feet high and upwards, has lately practised some swindling tricks, and committed a robbery in an inn, at Whitehaven. He tells a story of having fought under Lord COCHRANE.

 

The Rev. J. FAWCETT, curate of Kendal parish church, has been licensed by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese to the perpetual curacy of Natland, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. T. MACKERETH.

 

The famous horse, Thundercliffe, belonging to Mr. MARGETSON, of Kirkby Stephen, that won the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry Cavalry Cup at Penrith races, in October last, and the Cavalry Stake at the present year's Kendal race, besides various matches, &c. died at Penrith on Monday the 22nd ult. of a pleurisy, caught by being imprudently travelled on a wet day from Keswick races, where he won the latter day's plate, in capital style. By the ready consent of Mr. DENNISON, the occupier of the Penrith race-course, Thundercliffe was interred there, in his skin and shoes, within the race-ring.

 

Six reapers, two men, two women, and two boys, one day last week cut, bound, and stooked ninety stooks of corn in the short space of four hours, in a field belonging to Lady William GORDON, of Derwent Water Bay, near Keswick.

 

The little farmers of the Isle of Man are again by the ears on the subject of green tithes.

 

Herrings are become more plentiful in the Isle of Man. They have lately fluctuated from 5s. to 3s. per hundred.

 

Two men, James BARKER and John DAWSON, miners, who reside at Hilton, actually loaded their guns with ball, and pursued Mr. GREEN's balloon for the purpose of shooting at it! Its flight, however, was more swift than they had calculated upon; they therefore had no opportunity of carrying their intentions into effect. A young married woman called was so alarmed at the sight of the balloon that she became quite frantic, and called out to a man on horseback, and desired him to gallop on to Murton, and tell the folks there that the world was going to be at an end. "Ise gallop nin," says honest George IDLE, for that was his name, "its ower fine a seet. Lord bless us! its as big as six hay-stacks!!

 

The town of Appleby has not experienced a greater improvement for many years than the paving of the street between the town-hall and the Cloisters, which is now in progress. There is still a great want in the place, viz. a few lamps: 16 would do; the utility of them would be great, whilst the expense would be comparatively trifling. Many respectable inhabitants have expressed a wish to subscribe to such an undertaking; and the matter only wants setting about.

 

On Tuesday the 2nd instant, Mr. COULSON of the preventive service, Mr. ELLIOT, tidewaiter at Seafield, Mr. WILLIAMSON, exciseman in Annan, and Messrs. MARSHALL and GILCHRIST, excisemen, Springfield, made a seizure of between 25 and 30 gallons of whiskey from five smugglers on the Scotch side of Sark Bridge, and within less than a quarter of an hour from the time that the smugglers had left the spirit cellar at which they bought it. The whiskey was in bladders, and was conveyed to Annan strung across the back of a horse hired by the revenue officers, who also succeeded in apprehending four of the smugglers; but the fifth, a well-known Irishman, having on the first alarm thrown down his load, ran off at a pace that rendered pursuit hopeless. The other four were lodged in Annan jail. Three are said to be from Carlisle, but the fourth is a Scotch Borderer, of connections that immediately procured his liberation on bail.

 

The new Bridge over the Avon, in the neighbourhood of Hamilton, on the Carlisle line of road, is now completed. The mail coach from London, crossed it on Wednesday afternoon, but the ceremony of opening has been deferred till another day. The improvement on that part of the Carlisle road is, by the completion of this bridge, very considerable. The narrow turn at the old bridge and the steep and severe pull along the side of the Park wall of his Grace the Duke of Hamilton, are, by the new line of road, prevented from annoying, endangering the safety, or checking the speed of carriages and passengers. The whole line to Carlisle is now finished. The milestones, we learn, are also nearly completed, and the road from Glasgow to Carlisle is to be measured forthwith, and the milestones planted in their proper stations.

 

Rydal Chapel, Westmorland, a most beautiful little structure, erected and endowed at the sole expense of Lady LE FLEMING, was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on the 27th ult. On the following day, Sunday, his Lordship preached in the forenoon at Ambleside, and at Bowness church in the afternoon. The number of persons confirmed in Westmorland during the visitation was unusually great.

 

The remains of a young woman of the name of IRVING, who died at the back of the hill below Annan, were interred in Dornock church yard in the following extraordinary manner:—She had long lingered under a disease, the nature of which she herself and her friends at least believed was never ascertained by any of her medical attendants, who, she therefore apprehended, would use every means to get her body into their possession, to open and inspect her bowels, &c.; but so abhorrent was this idea to the poor girl, that she could not rest satisfied until she got her friends to promise that they would have her grave so constructed as to render every effort to seize her body abortive. To fulfil this, the grave to the height of between from 20 inches to two feet from the bottom was lined with hewn quarry stones, closely joined to each other, and of the exact shape and dimensions of the grave, and bound to each other at the top with strong iron cramps, well and deeply fixed in every stone; a strong iron bar, running the whole length of the grave, and resting on its middle was all grooved into the head and foot stones, and a number of iron cramps rivetted into the stones on each side of the grave, were firmly attached to this longitudinal iron bar.

 

The Dumfriesshire calendar this autumn is extremely light. The Justiciary Court sits on Saturday the 17th. James HENSY or HENSEY, accused of assault, with intent to ravish. Samuel RUTHERFORD, shoemaker, Lockerby, assault. Nathaniel DUNSEATH or DUNSCAITH, carter in Dumfries, deforcement and assault.

 

The Commissioners of the Revenue Inquiry, of which the Right Hon. Thomas WALLACE, M. P. is Chairman, are visiting the northern parts.

 

The young Duke of Buccleuch is enjoying the sports of the field at Drumlanrig Castle.

 

A new pier is intended to be built near the mouth of the Nith, which is to form a harbour accessible at all times of the tide.