[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 08 Nov 1823 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 08 Nov 1823   (p. 4, col. 2-4 + 6)     [continued] 

 

On the 25th ult., a match at wrestling took place in a stack-yard, near Great Stainton. The combatants were two athletic women, who,
after displaying several manœuvres, with astonishing alertness, laid each other head and heels on the ground, whence they were taken
in a state of insensibility, and, for several minutes, their recovery was doubtful.—Newcastle paper. 

 

The Warehouses of Mr. Caleb WILSON, tallow-chandler, Newcastle, were burnt down on Sunday morning last; but whether the fire was
accidental or the work of an incendiary is unknown. 

 

The following is from an Annandale correspondent:—"A young woman, aged 22, blind, and bed-rid for the last four years, whose bones
appeared to be marrowless, and her sinews shrunk up, and who, had she possessed the power of locomotion, might have been justly
called a walking skeleton, was lately, to the astonishment of the whole country side, delivered of a fine boy, plump and liverous
looking. Village gossip assigns, as the seducer, a solemn, grave-looking man, who itinerates the country on a cuddy-ass, and who, as
well as the mother of the child, is generally regarded in the light of a pauper."—Dumfries paper. 

 

The Dumfries Courier contains an estimate of the present year's crop in the counties of Dumfries, Wigtown, and stewartry of
Kirkcudbright, which is briefly as follows—Quality of all grain inferior to that of the last six years. The rye-grass bulked pretty
fairly; the second crop of clover generally failed; and though meadow hay was abundant, the floods have considerably reduced the
quantity before it was under cover. Wheat an average crop in bulk, but will turn out meagrely; two stooks, in general, go to a
Winchester bushel—about two-thirds of an average, and the quality very various. Barley in most places above an average crop, but
quality not quite so good as that of last year. Oats, on favourable lands, an excellent crop. Potatoes, on dry sandy soils, a fair
crop; on wet and low lands, nearly a failure. Turnips poor; plenty of leaves, but small bulbs, which will add to the value of spring
mutton.—By the beginning of December, the writer thinks good samples of wheat will readily fetch 9s. per Winchester bushel; price of
barley, for malting, he expects the average to be about 4s.; oats are now selling at 2s. 6d. to 2s. 10d. per bushel; oatmeal 2s. 4d.
to 2s. 6d. a stone. Before the end of next autumn he expects wheat to average 10s. 6d. a bushel, as the supply from Ireland will
fall off this year very considerably. In  respect to an advance in the price of cattle he is not very sanguine—even apprehends the
contrary, especially in reference to sheep. On the whole, however, he expresses a conviction that the prospects of the farmer are
now much better than they have been for the last seven or eight years, with the exception of those unfortunates who hold land by
lease, their lords insisting upon their bond—rare instances, we should hope; or, rather, imaginary cases. 

 

The Ellen of Carlisle, GLOVER master, bound from Carlisle to Liverpool, was wrecked on the night of Friday the 31st ult., upon some
rocks near the Isle of Walney, and in about ten minutes she filled with water and sunk. The crew were all saved, as well as a
considerable part of her cargo, which was not of great value. It appears, by an account received in Carlisle yesterday, that the
vessel has not received any serious damage.—ln the same night, a vessel, 80 tons burthen, belonging to PETTY and Co., Ulverston, was
lost within six miles of the Ellen, and all her crew perished. 

 

On Saturday evening last, the Minerva of Maryport, and Experiment of Workington were both upset off the point of the Airds Bank, by
the head of the tide, 4 feet high, which on that occasion rushed up the Nith with fearful rapidity. The Experiment was actually
rolled over like a cask three or four times, lost her masts, and was otherwise damaged; but owing to the exertions of the crew got
so far righted that she was brought up to Glencaple Quay on Sunday evening. The Minerva is still lying on her beam ends, and it is
feared will become a total wreck. Very fortunately no lives were lost; but the crew of the latter vessel were placed in such peril
that they had to save themselves by swimming. The cargoes of both vessels (coals for Dumfries) will be completely lost. 

 

The schooner Clytia, of Maryport, George TINNION, master, sailed from Maryport, bound to Dublin, with a cargo of coals, on the 30th
Oct., and on the 31st she struck on a rock called Ireland's Eye, near Howth Harbour. The master and crew were with great difficulty
saved, by the exertions of some men with a boat, who ventured at the risk of their lives and rescued them from a watery grave. The
vessel is a wreck. 

 

Among the great number of vessels lost or on shore, are the sollowing [sic]:—A Scotch smack (name unknown) lost at Cleaness, all
hands drowned. The broadside of a brig, and part of a boat-stern, with "Villager, of Newcastle," upon it, and on part of a new
top-gallant sail, "LIDDLE, South Shields, sail maker," has just come on shore on the Yorkshire coast. 

 

Sixteen vessels belonging to Shields, Sunderland, Whitby, Scarborough, and Yarmouth, are on shore near the Humber. 

 

The Jane, ASKEW, master, arrived at Bowness on Thursday last, with timber for Carlisle, after a stormy passage. On the 7th Oct.
spoke the Crown of Whitby, from London to Mirimachi, in lat. 45º 52', long. 52º 20', out 40 days, all well; two following days
easterly winds, which probably enabled her to complete her voyage. The Jane passed in the Irish channel, a buoy, supposed to have
been Braybank buoy, coast of Ireland, broke loose, Holyhead bearing E. by N. 

 

The Hero, of Whitehaven, sunk in Swansea bay. 

 

The Margaret Ann, BOWMAN, Dykes, ATKINSON, from Liverpool, and the Union, from Harrington, have arrived at Mirimachi. 

 

 

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