Carlisle Patriot, 20 Aug 1825 - Local News (3)
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Saturday 20 Aug 1825 (p. 2, col. 3-6) [continued]
The Bishop of Chester will hold a confirmation at Whitehaven on Tuesday next.
The execution of Isaac CHARLESWORTH, for highway robbery, took place at York, on Saturday morning, at ten o'clock.
A Reward of £100 is offered by the Lords of the Treasury on conviction of each and every person concerned in the late riot at Sunderland. Though the peace has not been broken at Sunderland since the fatal occurrences of the 3rd inst., the differences between the seamen and their employers still continue, and there is as little prospect as ever of their termination.
On the 12th inst. a violent quarrel took place at the Custom-House, Newcastle, between Mr. EDGECOMBE, Collector of the Customs at Newcastle, and Mr. PITTS, the Inspector General, which ended in a challenge sent by the latter, but the former answered that he was perfectly ready to go to the field, yet would not provide himself with any weapon of offence or defence; and Mr. PITTS immediately proceeded to post Mr. EDGECOMBE in the Exchange News Room. Both parties were on Monday bound over before the magistrates to keep the peace.
Last week, a young woman in the service of the Rev. Dr. COLVIN, minister of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, was killed by falling on the sharp end of the broken shaft of a rake, as she was sliding down from the top of a hay-stack which she had been building, and against which the rake stood. It pierced through the lower part of the unfortunate young woman's body into her bowels. She died in a short time in great agony.
Within the last eight days, a bullock belonging to Mr. Geo. LOWTHER, of Dornock, was stolen from one of the parks of the Stapleton estate. This is the fourth animal that has disappeared from Stapleton-parks this season.
The lately published regulations on the subject of Quarantine, do away with all fears that Government intends any hazardous experiments. Ample caution is observed. All vessels coming from the Mediterranean and Western Barbary, on the Atlantic, bound for the ports of Carlisle, Whitehaven, Lancaster, Preston, Liverpool, Chester, Beaumaris, Isle of Man, and any creeks or places belonging to or within any or either of the above ports, perform quarantine at Brombrough Pool, or in Milford Haven.
On Thursday se'nnight, Mr. George HODGSON slaughtered a calf, nine weeks old, which weighed 50 lbs. 7ozs. per quarter. It was bred by Mr. SHEPHERD, of Breeks Hall, near Appleby.
On Wednesday last, a man, calling himself, John BLACK, a native of Carlisle, and a woman, calling herself Mary BLACK, pretending to be his sister, were apprehended at Kirkcudbright, and sentenced by the magistrates to 14 days imprisonment in the jail of that burgh, fur imposing upon and improperly obtaining alms from different individuals. He alleged that his wife died of typhus fever in Belfast in May last—that he himself had just recovered from the same fever, and that he had four young children dependent upon him for support. When asking charity, at one time he was a journeyman bookbinder, and at another he was a journeyman watchmaker unemployed, as best suited his purpose; and on their examination, they confessed that the story told by them was altogether false—that the certificates which were found upon them, were fabricated or forged—that Mary BLACK was not the sister of John BLACK, but a woman with whom he had cohabited for several years—that her name was Mary KELLY, and that she was a native of Ireland.—Dumfries Journal.
On Saturday last the four-horsed stage-coach left Lancaster for Ulverstone about three o'clock in the afternoon, the tide then serving for crossing the sands of the bay of Morecambe, which it is necessary to pass in order to save a circuitous route of nearly thirty miles. The coach was loaded both with passengers and luggage, and, as it is stated, rather too heavily on the top. On entering the ean, or stream, which is about half way over the sands, the current was found unusually strong, the wind also blowing at that time extremely fresh. From these causes the horses moved forward with much difficulty, and when in the centre, the coach, with its cargo, went over. Happily the passengers all gained their footing, and after great efforts to preserve their lives, reached the bank. The coachman, with presence of mind, set to work to release his horses, and succeeded in cutting the harness so as to extricate three of them, but his knife broke in his attempt to liberate the fourth, which, with the coach and luggage, was carried out to sea. Behind the stage coach, a carriage with four horses followed, in which were two ladies, who, seeing the catastrophe, uttered the most piercing screams for help: the drivers, however, prudently kept on a steady course, and, though the current and the wind were so violent as to threaten the most imminent danger, the carriage, not being loaded at the top, was less exposed, and fortunately reached the opposite bank in safety.
At a court of general gaol delivery, held at Castle Rushen, Isle of Man, on the 10th inst. John KENNEDY was convicted of forgery, and sentenced to transportation for life. John COTTIER and James CALDWELL, were found guilty of felony, and ordered to be transported 14 years. Wm. GOWAN, charged with forgery, Isaac DIXON, tried for sheep-stealing, and Ann ROSS, charged with forgery, were respectively acquitted.
The legislature of the Isle of Man has passed a bill, regulating the admission of persons to the Monks Bar, which is completely overrun. In future there is to be a £50 fine and five years service to confer eligibility.
The Rev. Geo. TOWNSEND, M. A. Domestic Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Durham, is to succeed the Rev. Dr. HAGGITT in the Prebendal Stall, Durham.
The earliness of the harvest this season will occasion the land to be cleared of all sorts of pulse and grain, before the season of Partridge Shooting will commence: the birds will therefore have no asylum for retreat, to preserve them from the ravages of the night poacher. In order to prevent nightly depredations, it is strongly recommended (by those who have tried the experiment) to catch one bird of each covey, and, after snipping off the point of one of the claws, to let it go immediately in the same field in which it was taken; a necessary precaution, in order that the bird may have an opportunity of again associating with its former companions. The wounded bird will ever afterwards take wing at the smallest noise; and the rising of one bird, it is well known, will instantly occasion the springing of the whole.