[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 02 Sep 1815 - Local News (3)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 02 Sep 1815   (p. 3, col. 1-5)     [continued] 

 

We are glad to observe, that the spirit of improvement has found its way into the thriving and handsome village of Dalston, near
this city, by the removal of the old ruinous school-house, which stood directly before some of the most elegant houses in the
place.—A new one, we understand, will be erected on the green, than which a more airy and convenient situation can no where be
found. 

 

A cow, belonging to Mr. James JOHNSTON of Wampool, calved a bull calf on Monday week, and on the Saturday following another: which
are both fully grown, and living. 

 

Robert SCOTT, of Dalston, has at this time, 9 young chickens, whose mother was herself circumscribed within the bounds of an
egg-shell on the 6th March last: on the 7th she was hatched, and has since that time become the careful mother of 10 young ones,—one
whom died.—As nothing exists without a cause,—we conjecture the reason of this precocity to be, the bird's being fed to excess, and
with the best of food, within doors, as it was a great favourite with the family, on account of its having been the only survivor of
a whole brood; and little doubt can exist, but the same natural phenomenon would again occur under similar circumstances. 

 

The Rev. Thomas RAMSHAY has transmitted to the Westminster Waterloo Association, Thatched House, London, the sum of £54 19s. 2d.
being the collection in the parish of Brampton, in aid of the fund for the relief of the British soldiers, &c.; and also the sum of
£5 12s. 7d. being the collection within the parish of Nether Denton, for the same purpose. 

 

At a meeting held in Penrith, on Thursday last, for the purpose of taking into consideration the expediency of establishing a school
on the Madras plan, it was agreed that subscriptions should be entered into; and after a very liberal contribution, the meeting
broke up with a fair prospect of having its objects fully accomplished. 

 

HOAX.—The inhabitants of Penrith were on Tuesday treated with one of those specimens of refined wit vulgarly called a hoax. They
were invited by public advertisement to witness an exhibition of fire-works; and as, according to the vulgar adage, "one fool makes
many," a very large assemblage took place to witness the flight of the fiery dragon, flying horse, and other wonders of the
pyrotechnic art. However, after straining their optics for a considerable time at "airy nothing," the gaping multitude departed,
fully satisfied that the whole had evaporated in smoke! 

 

ACCIDENT.—As John HORNSBY, a resident in Raughton, was digging in a gravel pit, on Thursday, it fell in, and killed him upon the
spot. He has left a widow and five children. 

 

SPORTING.—According to reports from the moors, the brood of moor game, or grouse, has been greater this season than remembered for
many years past, notwithstanding the practice of burning the heath. On all the moors it was calculated there were nearly as many
sportsmen as birds; but on the preserved ones, though the weather, from the rains, was not favourable, the destruction of game has
been very great. 

 

The Earls of Lonsdale and Thanet, Lord LOWTHER, Sir J. SENHOUSE, E. HORNBY, Esq. M. P. &c. are at the head of the list of Stewards
for the Westmorland and Cumberland Musical Festivals, the profits of which are to be appropriated to the Clerical Fund and the
Dispensaries. 

 

A person in this county, about 45 years ago, lost three £5 notes. He lately received a letter from a man, describing himself at the
point of death, stating that he, with two of his brothers, had picked his pocket of the money whilst he was asleep; and begging him
to come over to grant the penitent his forgiveness, and to receive his share of the booty. The person who had been robbed complied,
received the promised dividend, and the other died a few hours after. This is a strong illustration of the "compunctuous visitings
of conscience." 

 

Mr. SADDLER was to ascend yesterday from the Bowling-Green, Newcastle, in a grand baloon [sic]. 

 

The Anglim, BELL, of Maryport, is arrived at Bowness, from America, with fir timber. 

 

On the passage to Ireland, on the night of Tuesday the 22d ult. during very thick weather, the Prosperous, PENNIMENT, of Whitehaven,
and the Lowth, PEARSON, of Workington, ran foul of each other, and the latter immediately sank. There were 12 persons on board, six
of whom were saved. The sufferers were Capt. PEARSON, and two boys belonging to the ship; Capt. CRAGG, of Workington; and a woman
and a child, passengers. 

 

Carlisle harvest hiring, on Saturday, was extremely well attended: reapers obtaining for the month £3 to £3 10s.—Upon the Sands
there was a great show of cattle; but so little was the demand, that by far the greatest part were driven away unsold. 

 

It is gratifying to observe the generally excellent appearance of all kinds of crops, though the wheat, in some districts, is
somewhat affected with the mildew, and corn in a few places laid by the rain. As a striking instance of the luxuriancy of the
season,—at a piece of ground, a little beyond Newtown, near Carlisle, which in the beginning of this year was uncleared (it having
been a plantation); oats are now growing from six to seven in height, and on one of which, promiscuously plucked, were counted 217
full-grown ears. 

 

The last Appleby fair was well attended. Many sheep and lambs remained unsold; above double the quantity of skimmed milk cheese ever
before known was exposed to sale at this fair, and fetched from 28s. to 37s. per cwt. of 112lb. 

 

 

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