Carlisle Patriot, 25 Jun 1825 - Local News (2)
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Saturday 25 Jun 1825 (p. 3, col. 1, 2, 5 + 6) [continued]
An inquest was held on Tuesday last, before R. S. STEVENSON, on the remains of Mrs. CLARKE, of Brackenthorpe, who was found dead in bed. Verdict: died by the visitation of God.
On Thursday week, Charles O'NEIL, who at Westmorland assizes, in August last, was convicted of having robbed the spirit cellar of Mr. BLACKADDER, Templesowerby, and ordered to be transported, effected his escape from the keeper of Appleby gaol, whilst stopping during the night at the Cross Keys public-house, in Gainford, Durham, but on the following night was apprehended in a field, at a short distance from that place, by some men who were on the look-out for him, and was safely delivered to the keeper, who immediately set off with him to London.
On the evening of the 15th inst. the man who is confined for striking Baillie IRVING, as formerly stated, made an attempt to escape from the jail at Annan, and nearly succeeded. Just as Mr. Joseph ROXBURGH, the keeper of the jail, had unlocked and opened the outer door, in paying his usual visits to the prisoners, he was unexpectedly attacked and twice so violently struck by the ruffian, that the latter had no difficulty in rushing into the street; but Mr. ROXBURGH having immediately given the alarm, the culprit was instantly pursued, soon overtaken, and lodged in the Black-hole.
On Tuesday evening last, John LINDSAY, an out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital, and butcher in Annan, was committed to jail for an assault upon his wife that, it is feared, will occasion her death.
Affecting Circumstance.—Between William KELLY, a well-doing tradesman, and Helen HENDERSON, a respectable servant, a tender attachment had subsisted for years. Both resided in the parish of Urr, and, little anticipating the calamity that followed, they, with joyous hearts, fixed their wedding-day for Friday week, the 10th current. A number of mutual friends were invited, and the ceremony was to be performed at Meikle Dalbeattie, the residence of the family with whom the bride lived, and who were desirous of paying her every attention. On the Thursday preceding she became suddenly indisposed, and, on some one asking her to lie down a little, touchingly replied, "Yes; but it must be in a soft place, for, oh! I feel as if I should never rise again." In the course of the day she became worse, and a doctor having been sent for, he declared the complaint to be of a serious nature, and indicated from the first his fears as to the issue. Next morning the wedding party began to assemble; the worthy clergyman also arrived; and then, alas! the house of joy was unexpectedly turned into the house of mourning. The unhappy bride, whose sands of life were well nigh run, was humanely made aware of her situation; the heart-broken bridegroom was also warned that death was in the cup; and, amidst the tears and sobs of all present, they were mutually interrogated whether, under such an awful dispensation of Providence, the proposed ceremony should proceed or be delayed. A question so trying was, perhaps, never put under similar circumstances; and after communing with their own hearts, the bride expressed a wish to close her eyes as an affectionate wife, the bridegroom to discharge the duty of a sorrowing widower, by laying the head of his betrothed in the grave. This resolution added not a little to the agony of the scene; the mournful party approached the couch of the dying woman; the divine favour was most pathetically invoked amidst many interruptions from hearts that seemed ready to burst from the bosoms they agitated; the bridegroom grasped the burning hand that was languidly extended in token of assent; the worthy clergyman pronounced a blessing, and in faltering accents made those one whom in less than twelve hours death had severed and sundered for ever. We cannot dwell on what followed. The eyes that affection had for a moment lightened, gradually waxed glazed and dim; the bridal-bed because the couch of death; and she who, but a day or two before, had been rejoicing in prospect of conjugal felicity, was stretched a lifeless but lovely corpse, before many of the wedding party had resolution to tear themselves from a scene so distressing.—Scotch paper.
On Wednesday the Dumfries-shire regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry under the command of Colonel M'MURDO, assembled at Dumfries, for eight days training and exercise. On Monday there was a race for a cup, and one for a sweepstakes of three guineas each. The following is the state of the race: For the Yeomanry Cup—Mr. SYME's brown horse, 1 1; Mr. STEWART's bay mare, 3 2; Mr. TULLOCH's bay mare, 2 3. Won easily. Three others started, but were not placed. Yeomanry Stake of Three Guineas each. Mr. SYME's brown horse, 1; Mr. J. HOPE JOHNSTONE's ch. horse, 2; Mr. BELL's chesnut horse, 3; Mr. MURRAY's chesnut mare 4. This was an excellent race, and was lost principally, it is said, through inattention and over security on the part of the rider of Mr. HOPE JOHNSTONE's horse. The regiment, which has received a considerable accession of young recruits since the last time they were in quarters, was reviewed and inspected on Tuesday by General Sir Paulus Æmilius IRVING.
The petitions of the following Insolvent Debtors will come before Mr. Commissioner HARRIS, in this City, in July next:—Thos. GRAHAM, late of Carlisle, labourer. James WELSH, late of Longrigg, parish of Bromfield, farmer. Sarah TIFFIN, late of Cockermouth, shopkeeper. Joseph DAVISON, late of Catlowdy, labourer. William Mac CORMACK, late of Warnell Fell, lime burner. James FORSTER, late of Craigburn Well House, parish of Stapleton, labourer. Peter O'HARE, late of Brampton, hawker. Jos. CRONE, late of West Newton, labourer. John M'GRAW, late of Carlisle, labourer.
The Alliance of Workington, from London, was spoken with on the 1st inst. in the Atlantic, all well.
There is at present on the stocks, on the Wond Sands of Dumfries, a something intended, it is said, for navigating the deep betwixt that place and Whitehaven, &c. for coals. It is not easy to give a better description of this miniature Columbus, than to state that it is like a tea chest with the broad side up, or rather, perhaps, the box of a common wheelbarrow. The projector of this machine seems perfectly confident of its answering the purpose of a coal carrier above all other vessels. The bottom consists of a number of planks of common Scotch fir, nearly two inches thick; across these are laid, perhaps 18 inches separate, a number of pieces of timber, about four inches square, which are nailed together at the corners to similar pieces for the sides; these form the ribs of the ark. The stern is perfectly square; and we are told she is to have the benefit of two rudders, one at each corner.