[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 28 May 1814 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 28 May 1814   (p. 3, col. 3)

 

For some days past we experienced all the rigours of winter, the weather being as severe as is generally experienced in November or
December. The hills were covered with snow, and even in less hilly and exposed situations, in the neighbourhood of Carlisle, the
ground was on Tuesday covered with snow to the depth of four inches.-The weather has since become more fine and seasonable. 

 

We last week mentioned that adult schools had been established at Bristol, &c. and that the most happy consequences were likely to
result from them. We have now the pleasure of being enabled to inform our readers, that an adult school has been formed at Wigton,
in this county, which is attended by twenty-nine females;---and that, in the villages in the neighbourhood of Carlisle, additional
Sunday Schools are in a state of formation. 

 

DANCING.-Mr. YEWDALE's ball was held at the King's Arms, Wigton, on Thursday se'nnight, which was numerously attended by a genteel
audience. The manner in which his pupils performed the various new and fashionable dances were highly applauded, and reflected
credit upon the preceptor. 

 

John HAMILTON, Esq. whose death was announced in our last obituary, served the office of High Sheriff for Cumberland, in 1799; and
was many years one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of the county. When Britain was threatened with invasion, he commanded the Whitehaven
corps of Volunteer Artillery. Sincerity, integrity, and loyalty, were traits in his character. 

 

A few days ago, the workmen employed in making some repairs and an enlargement of Clifton Chapel, in the parish of Workington,
discovered, a few feet below the surface of the ground, a human skeleton, quite perfect, with a tobacco-pipe stuck under the right
arm, and one of the legs a little bent from the knee. It is not known that there was ever a burying-place at this chapel; and, from
many circumstances, it is generally concluded that these remains have been deposited there without being inclosed in a coffin. 

 

It has, we believe, been resolved by Government not to disband the Local Militia, but, by some further legislative regulations, to
make it a still more effective constitutional force. 

 

We regret to state that canine madness has again broken out among the dogs in Newcastle; some of which have died mad, after biting
several persons, and many of their own species. 

 

 

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