Carlisle Patriot, 12 Nov 1825 - Local News (3)
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Saturday 12 Nov 1825 (p. 2, col. 5-6 and p. 3, col. 1 + 6) [continued]
On Tuesday evening, the London mail was nearly an hour beyond her time in reaching Glasgow. The delay was, we learn, occasioned by the upsetting of the Mail Coach from Liverpool to Preston, in the neighbourhood of the latter place. No serious consequences ensued. This is the fourth time since the mails commenced running at the accelerated rate that we have heard of the coaches being overturned near Preston, which makes us conclude that there is something wrong on the roads in these parts, which ought to be looked after and repaired. The regularity with which the London Mail reaches us since the acceleration, is truly wonderful. Notwithstanding the long dark nights, stormy weather and heavy roads, as heavy as they can at any time be throughout the season, except when covered with deep snow, it does not vary above a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes, and seldom so much in a run of 496 miles, completed, all stoppages included, in 45½ hours. Last evening, however, the mail was nearly two hours beyond her time, not reaching this city till seven P. M. The principal detention was in Derbyshire, from very heavy snow. Also, there is a considerable depth in the mountainous districts in the North of England, and a good deal in the Highlands on this side of Moffat, but nothing in the latter quarter sufficient to impede the progress of the mail.—Glasgow Courier, Nov. 10.
In a garden belonging to Jane JEFFERSON, of Wigton, a pear tree was planted on the 28th March, 1825, it blossomed in the spring, but it brought forth no fruit. It blossomed again on the 26th of September. The tree does not exceed a yard in length; and has only three branches; one of which, about 18 inches long, has 53 pears on it; another, 20 inches in length, 35 pears; and the other, 12 inches, has 20 upon it. Some of the fruit measure one inch and a half in circumference.
Thomas RAY, of Harris, near Whitehaven, has been committed to prison at that town, for breaking into, and robbing of various articles, the shop of Messrs. TODD, ELLIS, and Co. He entered by the roof on the side of the Patent Slip yard, and when in could not again get out, and so was caught in a trap of his own making!
Five men, of no ordinary stature, went lately into a public-house in Maryport, and it was not long before the enlivening glass inspired them with the idea of ascertaining their own collective weight, which was immediately put in execution, and found to be 102 stone, 14lb. to the stone; but a person present observed, that the weight of three gentlemen, standing together within the ring at the wrestling at Carlisle races, would certainly amount to 70 or near 70 stone.
A girl about five years of age, belonging to John IRVING, Blencogo, lately fell into a vessel of boiling water, by which she received considerable injury; but she is now in a fair way of recovery.
A gentleman in Penrith during the last week plucked a branch of strawberries in full perfection. They were presented to the Amicable Society, as a dessert for the annual dinner, on the 5th of November, at the Fleece Inn.
This has been a remarkably good year for grazing. Cattle, of 40 stone weight, bought under favourable circumstances in Spring, and put on good grass, age now worth eight pounds more money than at that period.
COURT OF DELEGATES, NOV. 8.—BRISCOE v. BRISCOE. This Court sat yesterday for the first time this Term, but did not prolong its sitting beyond twenty minutes. Doctor LEE, in the suit of BRISCOE v. BRISCOE, which is one for separation by reason of adultery, complained of the great delay which had been unnecessarily created in bringing it to a termination. It had been now before the Court for several years, attended with very heavy costs, and was as yet undisposed of. The Learned Gentleman concluded by moving that the Registrar be directed to lay before the Court, previous to its next day of sitting, an account of the costs and expenses of this suit in its various stages. The motion was acceded to, after which the Court adjourned.
Annan, Nov. 7.—A distressing and fatal accident happened here today. The stones used for building the new bridge now erecting, are got from a quarry about half a mile from the town, and are floated down the river in a long open punt, which requires two men on board with poles, and one or two on shore with ropes attached to the punt, so that its speed may be regulated according to the strength of the current, at pleasure. The river being much swollen to-day, it became difficult to manage her, and in passing through one of the arches of the temporary bridge, she struck against one of the pillars; the sudden concussion caused it to fill instantly with water, and the two men were precipitated into the river. One of them was soon got out by catching hold of a rope thrown in to him; but the other, a poor Irishman, was hurried down by the current, and though two excellent swimmers plunged in to his assistance, he reached the bridge before they got hold of him, and it is supposed got fixed betwixt one of the pillars of the old bridge and one of the new ones, where he sank and perished.
Monday, the body of a female infant, newly born, was found between the Old and New Bridges, on the Dumfries side, and on the very edge of the Nith. It was dreadfully cut and mangled about the throat and face, and a desperate wound had been inflicted on the inside of the mouth towards the gullet, and as if all this had not sufficed to extinguish life, the back bone was broke and dislocated by main force!
Lambton Park Meeting.—There appears to have been, if reports speak correctly, a great diversity of amusement at the late Lambton Park Meeting. In addition to racing, the horse-whipping of one groom, and the cutting-down of another, who had hanged himself, but not effectually, to avoid the anger of his master (both grooms having been detected in mal-practices), are spoken of. A duel, it is said, was also likely to have taken place, but the interference of friends prevented it; but the most entertaining occurrence was the extinguishment of the gas lights, while the gay party were engaged in the "mazes of the dance" at the "Castle," as the Durham Chronicle (no doubt by authority) now designates the building so long known as Lambton Hall. Some wag, it is believed, turned off the supply of gas and thus instantaneously involved the whole company in impenetrable darkness; the joke, however, it is said, was not relished by the Head of the House—p'sha! Castle, we mean—who, it is added, offered a reward of ?1000 for the discovery of the offender. We abstain from particularising the reports which are prevalent as to the jockeyship displayed at this meeting; but one sporting gentleman, we understand, was so disgusted with what he witnessed, as to declare that he had closed his book for ever as regards Lambton Races.—Durham Advertiser.
The Crown, Wm. RAE, arrived at Liverpool from Carlisle on the 9th inst.; and the Isabella, ASKEW, on the 10 instant.
Serious apprehensions are entertained for the safety of the ship Martha which sailed from Barbados on the 23d of August for Liverpool, and has not been heard of since. There were three passengers on board.
The sloop Dumfries, of that port, Mr. WILLIAM, master, sailed from Liverpool with a cargo for Dublin on the 10th Sept. last; she has not since been heard of, and it is feared she has gone down with all hands.
Monday morning week, during a gale of wind from N. W. the sloop Endergally, Matthew WALLACE, master, of Cambletown, laden with kelp, drove on shore near Kirk Santon, in Millom. About an hour before she struck the crew were observed to take the boat and leave her, but had not proceeded far when it upset, and the whole perished.