[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 18 Oct 1823 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 18 Oct 1823   (p. 2, col. 3-5)     [continued] 

 

On the evening of the 10th inst. Jackson TODD, and his wife, publicans at Workington, were apprehended, and taken before J. C.
CURWEN, Esq. on suspicion of passing forged notes on the Commercial Bank of Edinburgh. Whilst the depositions were reading, previous
to their commitment, TODD's wife, who was at the farther end of the table, sprang forward, and made a snatch at a note lying before
the Agent for the Bank, and got it into her mouth, and before the constable could force it from her, she had completely destroyed
it. There was a second note, which was not within her reach, and on which the commitment was founded. The prisoners were conveyed
next morning to Carlisle jail, and the parties bound over to prosecute. 

 

A few days ago, as Mr. John HARTLEY, son of Milham HARTLEY, Esq. of Rosehill, was riding along the New Road, on his way to
Whitehaven, his horse ran off with him, and rushed forward with such impetuosity, that he actually leaped over a cart which stood at
the entrance of the town: Mr. H., however, had previously disengaged himself from the animal. 

 

M'MULLEN completed his undertaking at Keswick, of walking 165 miles in 48 hours, 25 minutes within the time, although the weather
was very unfavourable. 

 

On Saturday, the 27th ult., a wager was made that a son of Joseph MIREHOUSE, of the Wheat Sheaf, Egremont, only four years of age,
would run a mile in 20 minutes. The youthful pedestrian started, and, to the astonishment of every one, accomplished the task in 12
minutes. 

 

A Mr. HENDERSON, a native of Cumberland, accomplished the BARCLAY match of a thousand miles in a thousand hours on Thursday, at
Atterton Park, Hants, for a considerable wager. This is the second person who has done it since Captain BARCLAY, although many have
tried and failed. Mr. HENDERSON walked over a half-mile piece of ground, and the greatest uncertainty he felt was in the fifth week,
from swollen legs; but it went off, and he won cleverly. 

 

We understand the journeymen stocking-makers in Dumfries, have struck for some days past, and that not a loom is now going in
Dumfries.  

 

A few days since, a person called at a house in the neighbourhood of Cockermouth, and found four sisters, three of whom were
knitting and the other was sewing, whose united ages were 310 years. 

 

In the belly of a herring bought in Ulverston market last week, by Mr. James ROBINSON, of the Gill, a copper farthing, something
less than a shilling, was found; upon one side of it, in the centre, were the initials W.P. around which was the word "Farthing;" on
the other side, "Pro Bono Publico." Date, 1757. 

 

On Wednesday morning the 8th inst. about half past ten o'clock, a fire was discovered in the stables of Mr. Thomas SCOTT of the
Black Swan Inn, Kelso, in which were two of the horses engaged to run at the races, namely Sir Henry and White Rose. They were with
difficulty got out, and Sir Henry was so little injured as to be able to run the same day; but the filly was considerably the worse.
This looks like design. 

 

A society is forming in Lancaster, whose object is to establish a school, upon an extensive scale, for the education, at a cheap
rate, of the daughters of clergymen whose livings do not afford the means of provision for their families. The chief mover in this
benevolent undertaking is the Rev. W. CARUS WILSON, vicar of Tunstal. 

 

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Dumfries.-Nithsdale Local Militia: William Newall MAXWELL, Esq. to be
Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, vice DE PEYSTER, deceased. Dated 26th Feb. 1823.-Annandale and Eskdale Local Militia: Major
CARRUTHERS (of Denby) to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice MURRAY, deceased. 

 

James M'KISSACK, a young man of 22 years of age, fell over the quay, and was drowned in Douglas harbour on Thursday night week. 

 

Extract of a Letter from Workington:-"The inhabitants of this town have lately been much amused, about five or six o'clock in the
mornings, by a drum and fife beating and playing round the town very lively tunes, for the purpose of procuring all the shearers Mr.
CURWEN could collect upon the Schoose farm. The desired effect was produced, for the young lasses followed the music in great force,
sometimes the number employed at once amounting to three or four hundred people. Upon entering the field they were marshalled into
companies of forty each. About eight or ten active females immediately came forward as captains, with each a different coloured
flag, mounted upon a long staff. The companies proceeded to work with the captains at their head; and as the whole must move
together, the more expert and active the leader, the more the honour: thus the work was done in the most expeditious and regular
manner, and had the appearance at a distance of a regiment of soldiers. Mr. C. was in the rear, mounted upon his charger, and the
whole scene produced, as the painters say, a fine effect." 

 

 

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