Carlisle Patriot, 26 Jun 1824 - Local News (2)
Petra Mitchinson
Saturday 26 Jun 1824 (p. 3, col. 2-4 + 6) [continued]
A few days ago, as Mr. BIRKETT, of Calder Bridge, was walking through his fields, he observed an adder of common length but of unusual thickness, basking under a hedge; Mr. BIRKETT immediately killed the reptile, and had the curiosity to open its belly, when he found two whole birds of the sparrow kind, one of which was alive when taken out, and lived for a considerable time afterwards. A very large adder measuring three feet three inches in length, and one inch and a half in thickness, was last week killed in the neighbourhood of Ulpha, by Henry TYSON, of Crook.
On Saturday last, at two o’clock, the infant son of the Hon. W. LASCELLES was christened at Harewood House, London, by his Grace the Archbishop of York. The sponsors were the Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Countess of Harewood.
The Mayor of Kendal has issued an order for dogs to be kept carefully up, during the hot weather; and men have since been enforcing the regulation with pistols in their hands. Considerable alarm has been excited within these few days in the country between Lancaster and Kirkby-Lonsdale, by the appearance of a mad dog, which made its escape from the former place, where (in consequence of fears which it seems were too well founded) it was tied up. It came on Sunday to Burrow, then wheeled about, and was seen at Bentham on Tuesday; on Wednesday it was killed at Tatham Fell. It is impossible to ascertain what number of animals it may have infected. It is known, however, that it bit seven dogs and a cat, in the neighbourhood of Burrow, most of which (including a valuable greyhound belonging to F. PEARSON, Esq.) have been destroyed. At Bentham it entered an inn; but the inmates, though frightened, were not hurt. Another dog was seen at Kirkby-Lonsdale on Wednesday, exhibiting symptoms of hydrophobia.—Kendal Gaz.
The hay-harvest is becoming general in most parts of the North of England and South of Scotland: the crops, except in particular situations, are very light.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Westmorland: Kendal and Lonsdale regiment of local militia, John MOORE, Esq. to be lieutenant-colonel; William Waltham ATKINSON, Esq. to be major. Westmorland yeomanry cavalry, Thomas Morland WILLIAMSON, gent., to be cornet, vice, Richard STEVENSON, resigned.
A meeting in aid of the Church Missionary Society, was held in the Town-Hall of Appleby, on the evening of Wednesday last, the Rev. Jos. MILNER in the chair. The principal speakers were, the Rev. Chairman, the Rev. Mr. WARNE, the Rev. Mr. HARTLEY, the Rev. W. C. WILSON, vicar of Tunstall: T. BRIGGS, Esq., R. S. STEPHENSON, Esq., and Geo. HALL, Esq., also took part in the proceedings; and the audience was very numerous and unanimous. It was agreed to establish a society for Appleby and neighbourhood, in aid of the London institution, under the presidency of the Rev. Jos. MILNER; and resolutions were adopted, calculated to impart to the new association the desired efficiency. We regret that we are this week unable to insert the detailed report which has been forwarded to us. On Sunday last, a sermon was preached at Appleby church, in behalf of the same cause, from the 73rd Psalm, verse 16; after which, a handsome sum was collected.
A young man named KITCHEN (an apprentice to a carpenter), was killed on Thursday week, at Great Strickland, Westmorland, while assisting in loading a timber-waggon.
A dispute has arisen between the Corporation of Appleby and the Earl of Thanet, with respect to the right to a piece of waste ground, sold by the former a few weeks ago, for building upon. The purchaser was in considerable progress with the erection of a dwelling house, when lo! on the morning of Saturday last, the servants of his Lordship came down from the Castle, and paid an unwelcome visit to the place in question. They immediately commenced the destruction of mortar and masonry; and in about twenty minutes the work of spoliation was sufficiently complete, to the no small vexation of the person (Mr. Jos. BURROW) who bought the property. The dispute will, in all probability, be set at rest by legal decision.
On Monday last, Mary RATSON, servant to Mr. Joseph BELLAS, of Sleaston House, near Kirkbythore, was committed to the house of correction at Appleby, for 10 days' hard labour, in consequence of leaving her servitude without any cause.
On Friday the 18th instant, the Chancellor of the Diocese held his annual visitation at Appleby. The Rev. Mr. ROWLANDSON preached the sermon, from the 6th chap. Galatians, and 11th verse. The charge was of great length, and replete with sound theological reasoning.
The Rev. Francis METCALFE, M. A. rector of Kirkbride, in this county, has been presented by Sir Wm. STRICKLAND, Bart., to the vicarage of Rigton, in the east riding of Yorkshire; vacant by the resignation of the Rev. John STRICKLAND.
The Rev. Geo. MACKFARLAN, M. A., fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and vicar of Shudy-Camps, Cambridgeshire, has been presented by the master and fellows of that society, to the vicarage of Gainford, Durham; vacant by the death of the Rev. J. BLACKBURN, M. A.
CITY COURT.—A trial came on in this Court, on Monday, before the Mayor, Aldermen, &c. (W. HARRISON v. John PRITT, jun.) which excited some attention. The plaintiff, late a partner in the Robert Burns coach, residing in Carlisle, sought to recover of the defendant (son of Mr. PRITT, of the King's Arms, Lancaster, a partner in the same coach), the sum of £52 for board and lodging, and £9 money lent. The plaintiff's witnesses having been examined, Mr. PEARSON, for the defendant, endeavoured to prove that the plaintiff was not a partner in the Robert Burns, but merely horsed it, and that his client had advanced for him upwards of £52: on cross-examination of the defendant's bookkeeper, however, and the production of a way-bill or settling sheet, there were at least 'symptoms' of partnership, and that the money advanced belonged to the company, against whom the plaintiff professes to have a demand amounting to £76. The Town Clerk summed up, and desired the Jury to consider whether the money paid by the defendant for the plaintiff, belonged to the copartnership or not? If they were of that opinion, the verdict, he said, should be given for the plaintiff. If they should be of opinion that HARRISON was not a partner, and that the money was paid on individual account, then their verdict must be for the defendant. The Jury, after forty minutes' consideration, returned a verdict for plaintiff—damages £40.
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