[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 13 Jul 1811 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 13 Jul 1811   (p. 3, col. 2)

 

John NICHOLSON and John LITTLE have been fully committed to stand their trial at our assizes, charged with having stolen a horse
from a person near Rosley. 

 

On Sunday last, Richard BROWN, servant with Mr. Joseph LAZONBY, of Oughterby, was drowned while bathing in Boustead-hill creek in
the Solway Frith,-a most dangerous place for bathing, but much resorted to by strangers. Within these few years there have been
several similar accidents in the same place. 

 

A reward of 20gs is offered for the discovery of the person suspected to have murdered the Irishman who was found dead near Cargo,
as mentioned in our last.-See Adv. 

 

We have since learned, that Henry M'ANNALLY and John THOMPSON, cattle dealers, well known in Belfast, met and conversed with two men
supposed to be the deceased and the suspected murderer, on Sunday, the 30th ult. about 8 miles west of Carlisle; and they described
the old man as unable to speak good English. Both had shabby blue coats on, and the young man, who, it is feared, has committed the
murder, was stiff-built, of a red complexion, and had reddish whiskers. 

 

The severe thunder storm that did so much damage in the county of Dumfries on Monday se'nnight, (as mentioned in our last) also
visited the north-east part of Cumberland on the same day. In the parish of Bewcastle the peals were tremendous:-at a place called
Coldside, the electric fluid struck a tree which it nearly rooted up, and killed a sow at a few yards distance. The rain descended
in torrents; and in some places, hailstones resembling masses of ice lay in great quantities upon the ground. 

 

The feat lately achieved at Newbury, Berks. as noticed in our paper of the 29th ult. (wherein a sheep was shorn, and the fleece
spun, wove, dyed, &c. and made up into a coat on the same day) has been reckoned a surprising instance of active exertion. -
Something similar occurred some years ago in this neighbourhood, which will not be deemed inferior to the one recorded.-An elderly
woman, belonging to Bleckhall, about two miles distant from Carlisle, bought a quantity of wool in the city, returned home, spun it,
knit it into a pair of men's stockings, came again to Carlisle, and having found a purchaser for her article, drank the produce in a
public house before her less industrious neighbours had completed their regular day's work. 

 

 

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