[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 23 Nov 1822 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 23 Nov 1822   (p. 2, col. 6 – p. 3, col. 2)     [continued] 

 

William RENKIN, carter to widow WELSH and Sons, lately fell from a cart on the Langholm road, and has since died of the injury,
leaving a wife and three children. The deceased was an industrious and sober man; and his destitute family are deserving objects of
the warm and ever-active benevolence of Carlisle. 

 

Our second Martinmas hiring-day, on Saturday, was as much overstocked as the first, and wages, as a matter of course, were very low.


 

Yesterday week, Keswick was visited by a violent storm of thunder, hail, rain, and wind, which did considerable damage. About eleven
in the forenoon, Mr. John PEARSON's fishing-boat, which had been previously drawn ashore on the margin of Derwent Lake, was seized
by a whirlwind, and driven quite across the race-ground, over crow Park, a distance of three hundred yards, and an elevation of
forty feet above the level of the Lake: of course, the boat was broken in pieces. A few hours afterwards, a chaise was carried by a
sudden gust of wind, or rather a whirlwind, nearly round Keswick market-place, and driven against a saddler's shop window, belonging
to Mr. BANKS, with such strength as to force the glass and framework both in together. The shopman was actually pitched from the
bench where he was working, and thought an earthquake had taken place in the town. On the evening of the same day, several cows were
killed by lightning at Whitrigglees, near Torpenhow, while standing in a byer; the fluid entered through the crevices or air-holes
in the wall. 

 

Mr. Jos. MAYSON, draper of Keswick, was out after the hounds on Wednesday last;—in going through a plantation, he raised a woodcock,
and his activity was such that he actually caught the bird in his hat, and brought it into the town alive. 

 

The amount of deposits, in Whitehaven Savings Bank, is £17,264 9s. 5d., paid by 585 persons. 

 

On the first day of Michaelmas term, Mr. SCARLETT moved an arrest of judgment on the issues found for the defendants in the question
relating to the north side of Workington-harbour (as fully reported in this paper last assizes), and the Court ordered the verdict
to be turned into a special case, so that the validity of the two pleas on which the defendants obtained a verdict, will be argued
and finally decided on the point of law. 

 

The Earl of Lonsdale's gamekeeper lately shot near Melkinthorpe, three hares, respectively weighing, 14½lbs., 12½lbs, & 10½lbs. 

 

On Sunday morning, the 10th inst., the lifeless body of John HODGINS, a respectable farmer in Lonan, Isle of Man, was discovered in
a fishing-boat, opposite the North quay, Douglas, with several cuts on the face. It is not known how the unfortunate man met his
death; perhaps he fell over the quay. The Coroner's jury returned verdict of accidental death. 

 

The practice of sheep-stealing lately so prevalent in the Isle of Man, is reviving. Many farmers are obliged to guard their flocks
by night. 

 

A young woman, whose aunt keeps a small grocer's shop at Shotley Bridge, Durham, has been in high repute as a preacher amongst the
society of Methodists called Ranters. The multitudes which have lately been assembled at that place and the neighbouring villages to
hear her, are almost incredible. The powerful and impressive manner in which she is said to deliver her sentiments, is in the first
style of enthusiastic ardour—such too is the rapidity and volubility of her speech, so vehement and animated the effusions of her
extemporaneous harangues, that she has not only attracted the admiration of her hearers, but has induced them to believe that she is
actually influenced by the Spirit of inspiration. A few days ago, our female predicatrix was taken suddenly ill, and so alarming
were the cries she uttered, that her aunt was induced to call in her nearest neighbours to assist her in examining into the cause of
her malady—but the violence of her disorder was such, that no relief could be given, and they at length determined to send for the
neighbouring apothecary, at Ebchester—but before he arrived, the pains of her disease had subsided, and the throes of the patient
were changed into the cries of an infant female. What adds not a little to the interest of the tale is, that this young Ranter is
found to be the offspring of a near relation, who has also acquired no small celebrity by his eloquence as a preacher of the same
society. What effect this may have upon the itching ears of the enchanted populace of Shotley Bridge and its vicinity, we know
not.—Durham Advertiser. 

 

The return of the keelmen to their employment (observes the Newcastle paper of Tuesday) now appears an event of so much uncertainty,
that it has ceased to be a matter of calculation. As long, indeed, as they remain at large, and are at liberty to pursue other
avocations more lucrative, nothing seems more improbable than that they should voluntarily come to fulfil their engagements. 

 

 

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