[list-cumbria] Cumberland Pacquet - 23

[Nev Ramsden]

Whitehaven  - March 23 - 1775. 



Wednesday the 15th instant, Mr .John Wilkinson of Setmurthy, a remarkably stout young man, by indiscreetly applying his head to a loaden cart, to prevent its over setting, as he was driving it along some sloping ground, had the misfortune to have his spinal marrow broken, which occasioned his death the day following. He was a regular attendant on Devine Service; upright, and un-blameable by all, except the malevolent, in his intercourse with the world; of invariable sobriety, and great good nature.



A few days ago was married, Mr. John Todd of Aspatria, to Miss Margaret Dobinson of West Newton, an agreeable young lady with a fortune of £1000. [ or £186,000 in 2024 ]



Last week was interred at Hesket in the Forest, Isabella Lambley, aged 88 years; it may be worth remarking that thee of her brothers and one sister still survive, whose ages together amount to upwards of 360 years.



Last Sunday morning died at Winscales, nigh Workington, in an advanced age, Mr John Smith, many years an inhabitant of that place.



Last Wednesday the coroner’s inquest sat upon the body of Jane the wife of Pavey, one of the workmen at Seaton Furnace; they brought their verdict - Lunacy. It appeared that this this unhappy woman, on some slight quarrel with her husband, came to Workington in the morning, and calling upon an acquaintance who was at breakfast, was invited to take a dish of tea with her, to which she immediately sat down; after drinking on cup, she took a paper from her pocket, containing a quantity of Mercury, which she called a physic; this was mixed with another cup of tea, and drank it up. It began the baneful operation instantaneously, and put an end to her life in less than two hours.



A correspondent, who desires us to observe that the numerous and genteel congregations which are to be found frequently, and in particularly every Sunday evening, at the Meeting house in St. Michael’s Lane, evince no bad taste in this town, considered as a people; The discourses delivered by Mr. Fenwick being in their moral tendency truly rational, [and] perfectly consonant to the doctrines of the established church.



Last Tuesday afternoon, as an itinerant Italian was proclaiming in Lowther street a magnificent exhibitions of Magic Lanterns and other curious performances, which he announced to the public, alternatively in broken English and with the sound of a bad trumpet, a large bull dog ( possessing it seems no taste for Italian music) made a leap at the unwary musician, but very luckily caught hold of the offensive instrument; a violent struggle ensued, in which the Italian must certainly suffered, had not a sailor, resolutely stepped up, and by choaking? off the dog, gave him an opportunity of favouring the bye-standers with an exhibition omitted in his catalogue: not performed by slight of hand, but by swiftness of foot.



We are advised from Alnwick, that a few days ago, in the North of that place, near the Abbey, a piece of fine meadow ground, 100 yards long, and 14 yards broad, sunk above 14 feet, and apparently still continues sinking; it is on the side of the river, and there are some coal pits adjoining

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