Carlisle Patriot, 23 Jul 1825 - Local News (2)

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Saturday 23 Jul 1825   (p. 3, col. 2-4 + 6)     [continued]

 

Since last Saturday, we have experienced a very great degree of heat in this neighbourhood. Monday last was apparently the hottest day, on account of an uncommonly still atmosphere; but Tuesday was really so, the thermometer in the shade standing at 82°, a higher temperature than has been known in Carlisle for seventeen years past. The grain harvest approaches rapidly; and never was there a finer prospect both as to quality or quantity.

 

On Tuesday last, as a female servant of Mr. THURNAM's was passing down Rickergate, she fell at that most awkward part of the footpath near Mr. JAMES's shop, and broke her leg. We are told by a person residing immediately opposite to this dangerous place, that three or four persons weekly (on an average) meet with accidents there; and we think that the Commissioners for Paving and Lighting should endeavour to lessen the abruptness of the slope.

 

Amongst the visitors at Allonby, we observe: Mrs. and Miss GARFORTH, Rev. Mr. LINTON and family, Captain BACKHOUSE and family, Mr. and Mrs. COATES, Mrs. and Miss BOUCHER, and Miss GILES, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. REES, Miss MAXWELL, Misses HEYSHAM, Miss GRISDALE, Mr. HALTON and family, Rev. Mr. THOMPSON, Mr. HANNAM, &c.—Departures:  Sir S. GRAHAM, Sir Hew and Lady ROSS, Mrs. CUST, Mrs. HALL, Rev. Mr. COLLINSON, Misses JOHNSON.

 

The remains of the late James FORSTER, Esq. arrived in Carlisle, from Penrith, on Monday; and on Wednesday morning they were interred at Stanwix.

 

On Tuesday last, one of the finest samples of new barley was sent to our office, for our inspection, that we ever beheld. It is part of a field of about two acres, which Mr. George RAYSON, of Aglionby, cut last Saturday; and he will offer a few bushels of it for sale in Carlisle market this day.

 

In consequence of the very high price of Butcher's meat, produced chiefly by speculation and forestalling, many families have adopted the practice of abstaining from animal food one and two days in the week, in order to restore a due equilibrium by temporarily lessening the demand. The example is certainly worthy of imitation; for if the rich need not follow it on their own account, the poor have a claim on their aid in this particular, especially when they consider that the late extreme advance has not been produced by scarcity, but by the tricks of monied dealers, who care not for the public, so that they are enabled to feather their own nest. We all know what is to be effected by the mere cry of a rising market.

 

We extract the following paragraph from the Manchester Courier:—

 

A Turn-out Cotton Spinner.—John WARBURTON, a simple looking young man, who stated himself to be a Carlisle cotton-spinner, and to have been only three weeks in Manchester, was charged (at the police-office) by Mr. HYDE, grocer, of Piccadilly, with having been found on his premises about half past eleven o'clock on Saturday night. From the "round unvarnished tale" which the poor fellow now told the Bench, it was evident that he did not go there with any felonious intention, but for want of a better place to lie in. Mr. NORRIS told him that he had committed an act of vagrancy and had rendered himself liable to three months' imprisonment; the Bench would, however, discharge him, with a strong recommendation to get into work again as soon as possible, and thus prevent the necessity of sleeping in out-houses or in the open air.—This poor simple young man is probably the dupe of the Carlisle "Union." He is not the first of the Carlisle spinners, too (as we learn from the Carlisle Patriot) whom his brethren at Manchester have suffered to be in such distress as to incur the pains and penalties of the vagrant act. Will nothing ever open the eyes of these deluded men to the folly of their combinations?

 

We understand that WARBURTON has since returned to Carlisle.

 

On Tuesday week, an inquest was held before W. BRAGG, Esq. at Brigham Limekilns, on view of the body of William CURLETT, who was accidentally killed by a blast from the limestone quarry. It appeared that the deceased was in the act of blasting, and the powder not igniting so soon as he expected, he went up to the place to apply a fresh match, when it suddenly exploded, and part of the stone struck him on the head and killed him—Accidental death.

 

Tuesday last, the 19th July, was the anniversary of George the Fourth's Coronation. The flag was displayed at our Castle.

 

The vagabonds who molested the poultry-yards this season, have renewed their depredations in different places on the Border-line from Dornock to Gretna. Mr. G. LOWTHER, of the former place, Mr. BAXTER, of Green, and Mr. James LITTLE, of Niven Hill, are among the sufferers. The formation of an Association to suppress every species of petty larceny is in contemplation, with every prospect of success.

 

The gardens about Appleby have been this year, as is usual at that place, pillaged by a set of young urchins, who, disdaining darkness, commit their depredations at mid-day with as much composure as though they were making free with their own property. A person who had suffered by these little rogues, complained to the parent of one of them, and told her that her son did not take the fruit and pease fairly before him. "Indeed he would be a fool," said the mother of so hopeful a scion, "If he did not take the best he could lay his hands on, when he was amongst them! and if ever you come with a complaint of this kind again to me, depend upon it I'll kick you down stair!"

 

On Tuesday afternoon, in consequence of drinking with a fellow waggoner, in passing over Stainmoor, William LONGSTAFF, aged 39, driver to Mr. Wm. HARRISON, carrier from Stockton to Penrith, by neglecting to lock the wheel on descending, about 200 yards above Brough, was thrown down, and the wheel passed over his thigh—which was so lacerated and broken that no prospect of benefiting him by amputation or other means could be looked for—mortification took place almost immediately, and he died the following evening. The body became so offensive that it was speedily interred, after the inquest had been held by R. STEPHENSON, Esq. Coroner for the East Ward of the County of Westmorland. What lives might be saved by the new line of road, as surveyed by Mr. WATSON, lately!

 

 

[to be continued]

 

 

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82° at my house is a cold front!

 

Sarah in Texas

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I think the climate in Texas is slightly different from that in Carlisle…