[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 07 Jun 1823 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 07 Jun 1823   (p. 4, col. 3-6)     [continued] 

 

During a thunder-storm of short duration, in the afternoon of the 19th ult., the electric fluid struck a lately-built house, the
property of James HODGSON, of Longdike, near Castle-carrock; it demolished the whole of the chimney-top, and sadly shattered the
pipe down to the randle-balk, which was iron, and filled the house with soot and dust from one end to the other, breaking a pane of
glass in each of the sash windows. It also carried off about a yard-breadth of the blue slate, and part of the gable wall, from the
chimney down to the side-wall, and scattered them over a field in front of the house, to the distance of about 70 or 80 yards; they
were all broken to shivers, but not by falling to the ground, as two pieces of the same slate were scarcely found together. The
family (consisting of four persons) and a neighbour were all in the house at the time, but received no further hurt than a severe
electric shock, which they felt for two or three days after. 

 

Yesterday week, as James FRANCIS, a boy of about 13 years of age, in the employ of Mr. KNOTT, was engaged in feeding the crushing
mill at Kinniside lead mines, near Whitehaven, one of his legs became entangled in the machinery, and his leg and thigh were
literally crushed to pieces! It was solely owing to the presence of mind and active exertions of one of the workmen, who happened to
be near the spot, and perceived the accident, that the sufferer's whole frame was not mangled in a similar manner. This workman
having turned the course of the water from off the wheel, stopped the motion of the machinery at the moment that another revolution
would have infallibly dragged in the whole body. In this dreadful situation did the unfortunate youth remain nearly half an hour
before he could be extricated, which could only be accomplished by means of wedging and unscrewing the rollers. The boy was taken
home (a distance of nearly two miles), and the following morning the mangled limb was amputated by Mr. MITCHELL, at the hip joint,
but the poor sufferer was too far exhausted, before the operation took place, to survive the measure, and he died in a few minutes. 

 

A person resident in the neighbourhood of Whitehaven has lately paid away in Kendal a considerable number of valueless bills: the
public should be on their guard. 

 

Mr. PITT's birth-day was celebrated at the King's Head, Appleby, by the Pitt Club of that town, with much spirit; but the attendance
was not so numerous as usual, owing to the absence of various members. 

 

A maid-servant named RUDD, has been committed to Appleby jail for a month, having quitted her service without just cause against the
consent of her master. 

 

Miss DRYDEN, a genteel and very respectable female, aged 22, principal assistant to an eminent milliner at Durham, drowned herself
last week, in consequence of a young man, to whom she was much attached, being about to marry a more favoured lady. 

 

On Tuesday week, as a girl named LYNN, aged 12 years, was looking at the mill for rolling iron, at Lumley Forge, Durham, the
machinery caught her dress, she was drawn in, and instantaneously crushed to atoms! 

 

James M'MULLAN has performed the pedestrian feat of walking 104 miles in 23¼ hours, at Morpeth, with ease. 

 

A butcher of Sunderland, last week overdrove a fat heavy swine to such a degree, that the hoofs of its fore-feet came off, and the
animal fell in the street, uttering most piercing cries: still the unfeeling fellow attempted to whip the tortured animal onwards,
but the populace interfered and prevented further cruelty. 

 

A countryman enquiring of a neighbour for the Magistrates at Appleby, having some business to transact with them, the following
dialogue took place:—Neigh. "Wia, John, what mak a law can ye want?" Count. "I want nowt at a' to de wi law, I want justice." 

 

So plentiful is the crop of wall-fruit likely to prove this season, that there have been thinned from one apricot tree in the garden
at Windleston, the seat of Sir Robert Johnston EDEN, Bart. near Durham, 7,524 green fruit, and there still remain on the same tree
1,812 fruit.—Durham Chron. 

 

The following singular law is said to be in force in the Isle of Man:—If a single woman prosecutes a single man for a rape, the
Ecclesiastical Judges impanel a jury; and if the jury find him guilty he is returned to the Spiritual Court, where, if he is found
guilty, the deemster (i. e. the temporal judge) delivers to the woman a rope, a sword, and a ring, and she has it in her choice to
have him hanged, beheaded, or to marry him. 

 

The smack Molly & Peggy, Castletown trader, BOUSTEAD, went on shore on Sunday afternoon, near Saltom, and has gone to pieces. 

 

Spoken at sea, on the 25th ult. the brig Dispatch, of Workington, from Londonderry for St. John's, N. B. in lat. 52, long. 20, out 7
days, all well. 

 

 

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