Carlisle Patriot, 05 Nov 1825 - Local News (2)
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Saturday 05 Nov 1825 (p. 2, col. 5-6 and p. 3, col. 1 + 6) [continued]
In consequence of the late transactions at Whitehaven, the master shipwrights of that port, and of Harrington, Workington, and Maryport, held a meeting at the Black Lion Inn, Oct. 27, Thomas HARTLEY, Esq. in the chair, when they unanimously agreed to the resolutions which appear in another page of this paper; namely, not to employ any men at all connected with the Unions; but to induce those men to release themselves from the trammels of such pernicious societies, they at the same time agreed "to raise the general rate of shipwrights' wages in Cumberland, from 22s. to 24s. per week." And the masters express an earnest hope "that the shipwrights will not hesitate at once to conform to these resolutions, in order that the shipbuilding business of the county may continue to be conducted with that character and respectability which it has hitherto maintained, and that peace and good order may be at once restored to society." This, as a Whitehaven paper justly observes, "is in the true spirit of conciliation and generosity; and who for a moment could have supposed that the men would have been so blind to their own welfare, and the best interests of the trade, as to suffer themselves to be turned aside from the self-evident path of duty? Yet this is the case; and instead of embracing the handsome and honourable offer of their employers, by which they might have pursued their occupations in peace, competency, and comfort, the terms proposed to them have been characterised as most insulting and degrading, and rejected with contempt! Shipbuilding therefore at this port (and probably at those to the northward) is for the present at a stand, except so far as it can be carried on by apprentices, for we are informed there are very few men, if any, who have not entered the Union. Even those who were hitherto employed by Messrs. BROCKLEBANK, as unconnected with the confederacy, were so incensed at the determination of the master-builders, that no sooner had their resolutions been made public than four of them joined the Union, at an expense to themselves, for admission, of nearly five pounds each man!" It would be quite impossible to account for this infatuation, were we not all aware how foolishly men will act from the force of example, and when the passions are inflamed by fancied wrongs, or anticipated good; or when ignorance and laxity of principle is worked upon by evil counsellors.
The Annual Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Meeting, at Cockermouth, took place on Thursday evening, Oct 27th, when Mr. John RICHARDSON was called to the chair, who, with the Rev. Messrs. LEVELL, HAGUE, and HUDDLESTON, addressed the meeting, and communicated a variety of interesting information respecting the success of their missionaries in various parts of the world; after which a collection was made in aid of the funds, which with the preceding receipts for the current year, amount to nearly £60.
At Great Braithwaite, near Keswick, on Saturday evening the 23d ult., a child sixteen months old, son of William KENDAL, of that place, was so dreadfully burnt that it died on the Tuesday afternoon following. It appears that the mother had left the child asleep in bed while she went to the village; in the mean time it awoke, got up, and having gone too near a candle that had been left burning in the room, set its clothes on fire. The shrieks of the child were heard by a neighbour, who instantly went into the house to ascertain the cause, and discovered the little sufferer in the situation just described.
A woman of the name of MYERS, aged 76, was found dead on Saturday week, in a field at Roosecote, in Low Furness. It was evident from the bruised and lacerated state of the body, that her death had been the work of violence, but by whom, or in what way, was at first a matter of doubt. It was soon, however, fully manifest, from various circumstances, that the perpetrator of the horrid deed, was neither man nor woman, but a Ram, (which was not far from the body when it was found, still gory from his work of destruction,) by which she had been attacked on her way home, and from her infirm state had not been able to defend herself against the savage ferocity of the fleecy murderer. An inquest was held on the body, before Wm. BLENDLE, Esq. and a deodand of five shillings laid upon the ram.
A boy of the name of MAWSON was drowned in the mill dam at Roughton Beck, near Ulverston, on Tuesday week. He and a companion were gathering haws from a tree which hung over the dam, when he unfortunately fell in.
A few days ago, James SAYER of Knock, late of Stainmoor, was fined by the Mayor of Appleby, John HAMMOND, Esq., for selling butter which was short weight. The butter (25lbs.) was seized and given to the poor.
A goose, the property of Mr. John MURRAY, of Oulton, near Wigton, has, within the present year, reared two broods of young ones, and has laid ten eggs towards the third, which, however, were sold in Wigton market.
A potatoe root was taken up in the garden of Mr. DIXON, draper, Appleby, a few days since, containing 50 potatoes, six of which weighed 5lbs.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle, has been pleased to appoint the Rev. William WALKER, of Slingsby, to be one of his Lordship's Domestic Chaplains.
We understand that the workmen, under the superintendence of an eminent geologist from Whitehaven, who have been boring for coal on property in Overton, near Lancaster, belonging to Messrs. HIGGIN, of Lancaster, have this week found a stratum of coal, 4½ feet thick.
Mr. NELSON, of Kendal, has a little Arabian stallion, six years old, under thirty inches high.
The Lord Chancellor has been pleased to place Thos. Butler COLE, Esq. of Kirkland Hall and Beaumont Cote, Lancashire, in the commission of the peace for the county of Westmorland, through the recommendation of the Right Honourable the Earl of Lonsdale. The Lord Lieutenant has also appointed Thomas BUTLER COLE, Esq. a Deputy Lieutenant for the same county.
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