Carlisle Patriot, 03 Jul 1824 - Local News (2)
Petra Mitchinson
Saturday 03 Jul 1824 (p. 2, col. 5-6 and p. 3, col. 1-2 + 6) [continued]
Saturday evening last, about six o'clock, a circumstance rather extraordinary in the sequel, and from which fatal consequences were at first apprehended, occurred to three of the labourers employed upon the scaffold erected in building the boundary wall of the new gaol, in this city. Directly underneath that part of the scaffold where the men were at work, there is an excavation in the ground, near the foundation of the wall, at the bottom of which is a well of considerable depth. Two of the men who were serving the builders, having carried up some large stones on a hand-barrow, threw them carelessly down, the force and weight of which caused the scaffolding (sustained in part by supports let into the wall near the top) to spring the three or four top layers of masonry; the scaffolding therefore fell, and three of the men were precipitated from a height of from 25 to 27 feet, accompanied in their descent by 12 large planks and several stones, some of them weighing from two to three hundred pounds each. It fortunately happened, however, that men, stones, and mortar, all fell into the water; the two latter undermost, on account of superior gravity; and the planks chiefly falling across the mouth of the well, did but little comparative injury. One of the men received a blow from a plank in the descent, which has for the present weakened his back and disordered his shoulder; but he was able to walk home with assistance. The second merely was bruised in his arms and legs; and the third was rescued from among stones, timber, &c. standing in the well up to his neck in water. There were two other men on that part of the scaffold when it gave way: one of them made good his retreat to a firmer footing, and the other dexterously laid hold of the top of the wall, and remained suspended by the arms till assistance was rendered. Had the top layers of the wall followed the scaffolding, (and they were very near doing so,) the whole three must have been crushed to death.
On Friday se'nnight, a fine full-grown sturgeon, measuring seven feet in length, and three feet round the thickest part of the body, was caught at Rockliff by some fishermen: it weighed ten stone five pounds, and was retailed by Mr. FORSTER, fishmonger, of this City, at 4d. per lb.
The Whitehaven papers says [sic], that the large sum fraudulently abstracted from one of the Banks (JOHNSTON, RANEY, & Co.) of that town, has been recovered.
M'GREEVY and MADGIN, two men who were burnt by a slight explosion in Saltom coal-pit, Whitehaven, last week, have since died.
There were great rejoicings at Dissington, last week, on account of the marriage of Miss WALKER, of Gilgarron.
A correspondent thus writes to us:—"Mr. J. G——, of C———l, near Wigton, having a very valuable horse which he thought would be more valuable for a little physic properly administered, applied to a man of medicine for a dose, which he readily obtained. The renovating compound consisted of sulphur and other drugs, to be made into a liquid before administration. But the horse was not willing to admit so unsavoury a potion into its mouth; and kept its jaws hermetically sealed, notwithstanding some no very feeble efforts to compel it to extend them. At last an expedient, a most wise expedient, suggested itself to one of the doctors; nothing less than pouring the medicine into the poor horse's stomach by way of its nostrils!! Presto! No sooner proposed than done; and many were doubtless the thanks which the happy contriver received for his ingenuity. They also poured into the nostrils warmed ale, mixed with pepper and other et ceteræ, by way of washing the dose properly down! This caused an immediate inflammation in the cerebrum, of which the tortured horse lingered three days, and expired in great agony; to the no small surprise of the sapient drenchers, who up to that time congratulated themselves on having discovered a new mode of administering physic!"
Mr. Robert TRIMBLE, of Broadmoor-house, parish of Westward, has an ewe of the Cheviot breed, which, on the 16th of April last, yeaned a fine strong, healthy lamb: and on the 19th ult., two more lambs, equally strong and healthy: The whole three now follow and are nurtured by their dam, who seems greatly attached to her young progeny—a rare instance in the history of nature.
Dornock races and rural sports take place, as usual, on Friday the 9th instant; with this anticipated difference—that the attendance will be more numerous than for many years past, if the weather prove fair, as the diversions are expected to be of a very superior order.
The following is a copy of the answer of the late Lord Bishop of Chester, to the Address presented by the Clergy of the Deaneries of Kendal and Lonsdale:—
"To the Clergy of the Deaneries of Kendal and Lonsdale. My Rev. Brethren: I have read your valedictory Address with the warmest feelings of affectionate regret. The assurance that I bear away with me the esteem and good wishes of the clergy of my late diocese, is the most gratifying return I could have received for all my anxiety and endeavours to promote the interest of themselves, and of those committed to their care. I feel, most sensibly, at this moment of separation, that the tie which binds together a bishop and his clergy, is of a peculiar and hallowed nature. For twelve years we have been fellow-labourers in the vineyard of our Lord. After such an intercourse, I need not observe, that it is with a most painful effort, I now say—Farewell. But before we part, accept my gratitude—my affection—my respect. And be assured, that whilst memory holds its seat within me, I shall never cease to pray for the happiness, temporal and eternal, of the clergy of the diocese of Chester."
Sunday, the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells made his first public appearance in the cathedral of the latter city. His lordship was preceded by the mayor and corporation from the palace to the cathedral, where he was met by its members, in their robes of office, and led by them to his throne.
The Lord Chancellor has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Henry LAW, son of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, to the Archdeaconry of Richmond, in the diocese of Chester. He has also appointed the same gentleman to the rectory of West Camell, in the diocese of Bath and Wells, voided by the late incumbent under the provision of 57 Geo. III.
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