[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 28 Dec 1816 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 28 Dec 1816   (p. 2, col. 5-6 and p. 3, col. 1 + 6)     [continued] 

 

A Correspondent communicates the following curious fact.—A certain man in Carlisle, began to chew Tobacco at the age of 16—since
which time, up to the present, he has used, upon an average, one ounce per week, and he has now attained his 66th year; he therefore
must have consumed the enormous quantity of one hundred and sixty-two pounds eight ounces, avoirdupois. 

 

The Subscription at Alston Moor, to Employ the industrious Poor of that parish, has been very liberal, amounting to upwards of £300.
For the last two months, from fifty to sixty men have been employed in repairing the roads, opening the ditches, &c. and still
continue at the same employment; so that shortly we may expect the stigma to be removed, which has many years laid against that part
of the country for the ill state of repair in which the roads were kept. We strenuously recommend to the notice of the Gentlemen of
Alston, as soon as they have finished their own part of the road, to compel adjoining parishes to complete their's; especially the
road over Hartside, upon which great quantities of corn, and other heavy articles, are conveyed. 

 

Some years ago, the following act of intrepidity was performed by a Miner in Alston Moor:—A pump in a Mine called Rampgill having
gone wrong, the Mine quickly filled with water, and it was necessary, to clear it, either for a man to dive down to put the pump in
status quo, or that the place should be worked to, at the expense of some hundred pounds. In order to do the former, the person had
first to go down ten yards in depth of water, and then six yards horizontally, before he reached the spot where the accident had
happened.—One of the workmen, a very resolute man and a good diver, determined to attempt this, but he failed in the first instance,
thro' mistake; however, in the second essay, he succeeded, and thus cleared the mine, saving his employers the great expense they
otherwise must have been put to.—The London Company of Miners, the Owners, rewarded this intrepid fellow with 10s. 6d. for his
daring action!! 

 

On Tuesday last, Mr. W. HARRISON very generously presented the Prisoners in Appleby Gaol with a Fat Sheep and Four Gallons of good
Brown Stout: and on Wednesday (being Christmas Day) Mr. T. LAMB, of the Crown and Mitre, gave them a good Dinner, well cooked and
ready for the table. 

 

The Subscription for the relief of the labouring poor, &c. of Whitehaven and its vicinity, goes on with great spirit.—The Earl of
Lonsdale has contributed one hundred pounds towards the fund. In aid of this benevolent plan, there was a Concert in the Theatre on
Monday night. 

 

Amongst the intended improvements at Whitehaven, is—the great enlargement of the Harbour, a work, which must, of course, occupy some
years in completing. Another is a Marine-school, to be erected in High-street, St. James's, for the education of sixty boys; to be
admitted at the age of seven, and remain for five years.—Another is, a convenient Court-house, to be built in a vacant plot of
ground near the head of Lowther-street, accommodated to the purpose of holding, yearly, one of the four quarterly sessions of the
peace for the county.—The fourth is, a suitable Assembly-room and Concert-room, in Catherine-street. 

 

We hear from Keswick, that on the night of Monday last, they had a very heavy and continued rain there, accompanied with strong
winds which nearly cleared the mountains of snow and swelled Derwent Lake to a greater height than it has been for the last two
years. Last week, the snow lay so deep, in consequence of being drifted, in the village of Watendlith, in Borrowdale, that it was
even with the out-fences; in order to prevent the sheep from invading the inclosed grounds, the inhabitants of the village were
obliged to assemble en masse, and cut the snow away. 

 

A list of the Company who have visited Mr. CROSTHWAITE's Museum at Keswick since the 22nd of October, 1816: 

 

Mr. C. RAY, Mr. J. DICKSON, Mr. J. REED, Mr. T. PARKER, Mr. and Mrs. HODGSON, Miss BROWN, Mr. E. W. JACKSON, Miss L. GRAY, Miss M.
WILD, Mr. W. FRIS, Mr. and two Misses KINNEAR, Mr. C. ROBSON, Mr. J. HILES, Mr. T. RAVALD, Mr. T. TOLSON, Mr. J. FISHER, Mr. T.
BARNES, Mr. H. KITCHIN, Captain W. MAIN, R. N., Miss WILKIN, Mr. L. E. FALLOWS, Mr. Mr. [sic] J. CROOKDAKE, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. DIXON,
Mr. G. ELIOT, Mr. L. and Miss BETTLESTON, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel RYLEY, Mr. G. TODHUNTER, Mr. J. and Mr. W. PATTINSON, Mr. I. PEARSON,
Mr. S. NICHOLSON, Mr. and Mrs. BENN, Mr. Wm. JACKSON, Mr. I. HODGSON, Mr. I. FEARON, Mr. FEARON, Mr. J. FEARON, and Mrs. FEARON, Mr.
John HODGSON, Miss A. FLEMING, Mr. Isaac HODGSON, Mr. and Mrs. LEWTHWAITE, Mr. Thomas SANDERSON, Mr. TOWNSEND, Mr. Samuel GRUNDY,
Mr. H. PRATT, Mr. Thomas BRISTO, Mr. T. SHEPPARD, Mr. Daniel WEAVER, Mr. I. RIDLEY, Mr. I. HUDSPITH, Mr. I. and Mr. Thomas WALTON,
Mr. Walter LAIDLAW, Master James and Master Henry PEARSON. 

 

A vessel is now loading at Newcastle for Bombay. 

 

On the 19th inst. the Pleasant Hill, of Dublin, William MORTAL, master, sailed from Whitehaven, coal-laden, for Dublin, but was put
back on the 23rd nearly at low water—on the 24th was a total wreck, and very little of the vessel saved. 

 

The Princess Charlotte, M'KEAN, from Whitehaven to India, arrived at Batavia the 25th July last—all well. 

 

 

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