Carlisle Patriot, 08 Oct 1825 - Local News (2)

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Saturday 08 Oct 1825   (p. 2, col. 4-6 and p. 3, col. 1, 3 + 4)     [continued]

 

On Monday last, John HAMMOND Esq. took the oaths as Mayor of the Borough of Appleby for the ensuing year.

 

Geo. FORREST, Esq. is chosen Mayor of Kendal for the ensuing year.

 

John LITTLE, Esq. is the new provost of Annan; Baillies, Messrs. B. IRVING, T. RULE, and E. IRVING.—Provost of Dumfries, John KERR, Esq.; Baillies, Messrs. James SPALDING, Jas. CREIGHTON, and Robt. THOMSON.—Lochmaben: Rob. HENDERSON, Esq. provost; Baillies, Messrs. J. WELL, T. BROWN, and Robert BRYDEN.

 

The weather continues remarkably mild for the advanced period of the season; the fields are as green as they usually are in April, and grass is astonishingly abundant.

 

A great variety of anecdote connected with the late ascent of the balloon is related. Among the crowd on Devonshire-terrace and the fields behind it, a great many persons saw neither car nor æronauts: they thought the latter were in the balloon, and strained their eye-balls to get a glance of them drinking their wine, through the illuminated silk!—When the machine finally descended, a country boy was sent off to the next inn in a great hurry to order a chaise. The poor boy was perfectly astounded. He ran into the house with open mouth. "A man," he exclaimed, "is just come down from heaven, and wants a chaise and four to carry him back again!"

 

HORSE-STEALING.—A notorious horse-stealer, named SNELL, was apprehended at Brough-Hill on Friday last. Finding the vicinity of London too hot to hold him, on account of his exploits, he made his way to the North of England, where he joined the Leeds gang of horse-dealers, and for some time past, it is shrewdly guessed, has carried on a very extensive trade in horse-dealing, otherwise horse-stealing, but he and his associates adopted such plans as to baffle all the police-officers who sought to detect them. He has been heard to say, that "if his head were not better screwed on for country-business than any Bow-street Trap, he would immediately sever it from his body." He did not confine himself to the South or the North, but visited all points of the compass, as chance directed, or according to the prospect he had of getting hold of the "prads." A short time ago, he stole a valuable gelding near London, and adopted the crude expedient of putting out its eyes and otherwise mutilating it to avoid detection, and afterwards sold the poor animal for upwards of £30 to run in common harness. The gelding, however, was subsequently found out by the owner, who offered £100 for the offender's apprehension, but although well known to be amongst his associates at Leeds, he avoided the gripe of the law, until that extensive and very respectable horse-dealer, Mr. HARRIS, caused him to be apprehended at Brough-Hill fair on Friday last; and after his identity had been fully made out, he was consigned to Appleby Gaol, until orders arrive from London for his removal nearer the scene of his principal exploits. Other rewards have been offered for his capture. He is allowed on all hands to be one of the most cunning and industrious of his profession, and is known to have been in close connexion with the most opulent and active rogues in all parts of the kingdom. When taken, no fewer than twelve of his servants and partners crowded around him with looks of sorrow and disappointment at being deprived of their counsellor and leader just in the very "nicking time" of so extensive a fair as that of Brough-Hill; and it must be confessed that Mr. HARRIS has placed himself in no small degree of danger by this laudable act, as the Leeds gang alone is supposed to consist of  at least two hundred desperadoes, who stick at nothing to gain an object. SNELL rode a good horse, well equipped with saddle-bags, &c.; and had in his possession about a dozen of new silk handkerchiefs, supposed to have been handed to him by some of his associates as a "fence." He was very well known to many persons in the North, especially about Carlisle, but none of them had the least idea that such a reward rested upon his head, or even that he was "wanted." In 1824, he had the audacity to steal a mare at Kirkbythore from a Nichol-forest horse-dealer; yet the impudent manner in which he did the deed saved him from suspicion.—So says a correspondent, and we congratulate our farming readers that the country is rid of such a pest.

 

A meeting of the master linen-drapers of Carlisle was held at the King's Arms inn on Thursday evening, when they unanimously agreed to close their shops at seven o'clock in winter and eight in summer.

 

A correspondent condemns, in very strong terms, the continuance of that disgusting and dangerous nuisance, near the Spring Gardens, the Dog-kennel, and expresses his surprise that those in authority among us do not cause its removal, or that some one living near does not indict it. "I wonder not," says our friend, "that typhus fever prevails in that part of the city; I should not be surprised if the consequences were still more deplorable. On Monday morning, as I was passing the kennel, about ten, a youth issued from its pestiferous gates with a cart-load of carrion, and though it contaminated the air, he proceeded with it through the streets—whither I cannot say; perhaps to some dung-hill or other receptacle of filth—but is ten in the forenoon a time for such exhibitions in our streets? I sincerely hope that something will be done to abate this crying nuisance."

 

After a sermon preached in the parish church of Penrith, on Sunday last, by the Rev. John FENTON, the vicar, from Psalm 96, verse 10, the sum of £15 16s. 10d. was collected in aid of the society for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts. That very excellent society having lately published a statement of its widely-extending and successful labours, which are only limited by the great exhaustion of its funds, it is hoped that the liberal example of Penrith will be followed in other places in this diocese. We are sure that no place is more alive to the interests of charity, and the diffusion of sound and pure religion, than our own city. (Correspondent.)

 

A rumour is in circulation of a woman having been murdered, this week, near Appleby, by two Irishmen; but as all our correspondents in that direction are silent on the subject, we conclude that the story is unfounded in fact.

 

A potatoe was lately taken up in the garden of the Rev. Mr. MATTHEWS, of Wigton, which weighed 2¼lb. and measured 22 inches in circumference.

 

The King has been pleased to appoint Vice-Admiral Sir William Johnstone HOPE, K. C. B. to be a Knight Grand Cross of the said Order.

 

 

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