Carlisle Patriot, 03 Sep 1825 - Local News (2)
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Saturday 03 Sep 1825 (p. 2, col. 5-6 and p. 3, col. 1-2 + 5-6) [continued]
On Thursday last, Mr. CARRUTHERS, clerk to Mr. BLOW, attorney, Carlisle, met with an accident which it is feared will prove fatal. Returning home on horseback from the country, his horse ran away with him, and losing his seat in the saddle, was dragged a considerable distance by the entanglement of his foot in the stirrup.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY has again announced at Lancaster his determination not to come this circuit any more, and he has done it in a way not connected at all with any squabble between him and Mr. BROUGHAM.
On Monday last, the Magistrates and Council of Dumfries, and the two Clergymen of the place, made choice of Mr. William ARMSTRONG, mathematician, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the lamented death of the late Mr. WHITE. Mr. ARMSTRONG was Mr. WHITE's assistant for a considerable time before his death.
Thursday week, being the day on which William Constable MAXWELL, Esq. of Nithsdale, attained the age of 21 years, the tenants of that Gentleman, on the barony of Carlaverock, celebrated the event with more than ordinary rejoicing and festivity.
The weather continues most delightfully propitious for the harvest, which now draws towards a conclusion, especially around Carlisle.
His Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick arrived at the Coffee-House, in this City, on Sunday, from the Lakes, and on Monday morning proceeded northward, for the purpose of joining his brother, Prince William. After visiting the principal cities and seats of manufacture in Scotland, (as they have already done in England) they will make a tour of the Highlands.
We hear that a discarded lay-canon of Carlisle Cathedral has been distinguishing himself, in conjunction with a stranger, by prevailing upon a great many of the spirit-dealers in this city and neighbourhood to accommodate him with so small a quantity as a pint of rum, and then laying an information under the statute! This is one method of making a penny; but it is to be hoped that the higher powers will mark their sense of the baseness of such informations by remitting the penalties. We have heard, indeed, that this is generally the case in instances where guile has been used to entrap the unthinking vender.
James LOSH, Esq. Barrister, commenced his inquiries, as arbitrator in the case of LOWDEN v. NIXSON, at the Court-Houses, on Thursday, in open court. The result cannot be known for some time to come.
During the last two weeks the demand for shearers at Penrith has been so great, that 4s. 6d. per day and dinners have been given for but indifferent hands. A great many yeomen having now, however, brought their reaping to a close, wages are of course daily decreasing.
The Commissioners for the relief of insolvent debtors, have chosen their several circuits for the autumn: H. R. REYNOLDS, Esq. chief commissioner, takes the Northern, and will be in York on the 4th of November; Richmond and Durham the 10th; Newcastle-on-Tyne the 12th; Berwick-on-Tweed the 14th; Carlisle the 16th; Kendal the 19th; Lancaster the 22d.
The following specimen of orthography has been handed to us as a curiosity. It will be seen that a father has lost his son:—
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A Correspondent informs us that at Skelton church, on Sunday the 28th ult., he had the pleasure of witnessing the distribution of 38 Bibles, 38 Common Prayer Books, and 35 Whole Duties of Man, by the Rector, the Rev. Tovey JOLLIFFE. This is his twelfth benefaction of this kind, and makes the number, since 1813, consist of 383 Bibles, 383 Common Prayer Books, and 320 Whole Duties of Man.
On Friday morning, as a band of shearers, male and female, were proceeding in a cart to Lowplains, to work for Mr. MACHELL, the vehicle was accidentally upset near the bottom of the hill at Carleton, and a woman who lay undermost was so seriously hurt that her life was for a time despaired of. Another woman was wounded in the arm by a sickle with which she came in contact in the fall.
The Earl of Lonsdale has subscribed five guineas to the Workington racing fund.
It is in contemplation at Whitehaven, to bring water into the town, and to increase the number of common sewers. Similar improvements are among the wants of Carlisle.
Before Lord LOWTHER left Whitehaven, last week, his Lordship surveyed the projected continuation of the turnpike-road from Calderbridge to Ulverstone and Lancaster. The completion of this work would be of great service to that part of the country.
On Wednesday last, the trustees of this harbour held a meeting—present the Earl of Lonsdale and Lord LOWTHER, and the greater part of the trust. Mr. MATTHIESON, we hear, had applied to the Noble Earl to reinstate him in his contract for building the pier, notwithstanding he had a few days previously signed an agreement abandoning the undertaking. This application we understand was not acceded to by the trustees. The new diving bell and apparatus for the use of the pier arrived here last week by the Iris, London trader, from Mr. RENNIE's works, and Mr. RENNIE himself is expected in Whitehaven in the course of a few days.—Cumberland Pacquet.
Three innkeepers of Whitehaven were last week convicted, in various penalties, for suffering persons to tipple in their houses on the Sabbath-day. At the same time, a person was fined five shillings for being drunk in the streets in the forenoon of Sunday the 21st ult.; and a young man of the name of William WOOD, was convicted of having indecently exposed his person in the streets, with intent to insult certain females, and was sentenced to three months hard labour on the tread wheel in Carlisle gaol.
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