PENRITH HERALD, October 24, 1874 / LOCAL & DISTRICT NEWS.

[Barb Ontario Canada]

LOCAL & DISTRICT NEWS.

 

 

THE “LONG FIRM” SWINDLER, Ridgeway, has been sentenced at Carlisle, to seven years penal servitude.

 

THE LORD LIEUTENANT. – The RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF LONSDALE arrived at Whitehaven Castle on Tuesday morning last by the 11.20 train, and left for Lowther Castle by the 2.40 p.m. train.  VISCOUNT LOWTHER has been staying at Whitehaven Castle for the past fortnight.  

‘Whitehaven News’.

 

BREAKING A WINDOW.  - Last night a woman resident in Penrith, in coming down Castlegate, lost her equilibrium as the effect of previous strong potations, and in falling rushed against the plate glass window of MESSRS. SEATREE, a length of which she sent in with a crash.  The value of the ‘square’ which was about 9 feet high, is something like £8.

 

LONGMARTON RECTORY. – We understand the valuable Rectory of Longmarton, vacant by the resignation of the REV. EDWARD HEELIS, has been conferred upon the REV. HAY McDOUGAL ERSKINE, vicar of Woburn Sands, Bedfordshire.  SIR H. J. TUFTON is patron, and the living is said to be worth £1,000 a year, or thereabouts.

 

CORN STACKS ON FIRE. – On Monday morning two little boys, named JOSEPH BIRBECK and JOHN BAYLIFFE, who had been playing with a box of matches in a field at Maulds Meaburn, set fire to three corn stacks, the property of MR. JOHN ATKINSON, of Crosby Ravensworth.  The stacks were soon discovered in flames, and the police, with the help of some of the villagers, got them under, but not before half of the stacks were destroyed.  The damage is estimated at £4.

 

A COW WITH A WOODEN LEG. – MR. MILES WILSON, of High-Lowdore, in Borrowdale, had several young cattle grazing on the fell behind his house.  Somehow or other two of them fell from a considerable height and came rolling down amongst the rocks.  One of the animals was killed outright;  and the other escaped with its life, but had its hind leg broken.  MR. DANIEL BRIGGS, veterinary surgeon, was called in, and he at once amputated the limb, and has replaced it with a wooden one.  The animal is now walking about and doing well.  This is the third operation of the kind that MR. BRIGGS has successfully performed.

 

CLEVER ESCAPE OF A DESERTER. – On Friday week, a deserter, wanted at Liverpool, was caught at Carlisle and a sergeant and private were deputed to accompany him to head-quarters.  They left Carlisle for Liverpool shortly after midnight, the deserter being handcuffed to the sergeant for safety’s sake.  On the journey the escort fell asleep, and the deserter abstracted from the pocket of the sergeant the key unlocking the handcuffs.  He then robbed either one or both of his ‘guards’, got his own ticket, and on the train arriving at Lancaster about 3.15 on Saturday morning, he left the carriage, both the sergeant and the private being asleep on the seats.  He then hurried to the station door, gave up his ticket for Liverpool, alleging that he had a relative to see in Lancaster, and that he purposed going forward by a later train, and so he escaped.  When the sergeant and private were afterwards roused for their tickets, they were amazed to see the state of affairs, and quite dumfoundered to learn that the bird had flown.  The unfortunate sergeant will very likely have to forfeit his stripes for the loss of his prisoner.

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barb, ontario, canada.

[Petra Mitchinson]

That deserter is going to go far (as opposed to his so-called guards)!!! I wonder whether they managed to catch him again?

 

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LOCAL & DISTRICT NEWS.

[Barb Ontario Canada]

Good question.  Too bad they didn’t name the people.

I’ll keep my eye pealed; there’s a lot of Lancashire news

in these Penrith Heralds !

 

>>>>>>Petra Mitchinson

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