[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 14 Feb 1824 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 14 Feb 1824   (p. 2, col. 6 and p. 3, col. 1-2, 5 + 6)     [continued] 

 

Committed to Carlisle gaol from the Public-office, on Wednesday last, William ALLISON, charged on the oath of J. ATKINSON,
tallow-chandler, Carlisle, with feloniously stealing and taking away three half-crowns, from the shop of the said J. ATKINSON. 

 

The weather still continues extraordinarily mild. Short days and a lack of vegetation are the only appearances of winter. On
Saturday and Thursday considerable quantities of rain fell. 

 

Last week, the Grain markets suddenly took a long stride upwards; this week they are as generally on the decline, almost to the
extent of the sudden advance. The average, however, keeps comparatively low on account of the large quantities of low-priced grain,
particularly wheat, which constitutes a great proportion of the regular supply. In Carlisle market, on Saturday last, while some
Barley sold for 10s. a bushel, other examples fetched 20s. Cattle keep up; pigs maintain their elevation; and good horses bring the
sellers almost what they may please to ask. 

 

The person who really plundered the mail-coach of the Stockton Banks' portmanteaux, is supposed to have passed through Carlisle;
consequently, the fellow who posted it from Boroughbridge in such great haste, must have been a decoy. The clerk put the
portmanteaux into the coach as soon as it arrived at Stockton; and while the horses were changing, stepped into the inn for a few
seconds, and before he came out the property is supposed to have been stolen; but he did not discover the theft till he reached
Sunderland. There are yet no further tidings of the offender, although every exertion has been made to discover him. 

 

George HASTIE, whom we mentioned in our last as having disappeared, is not yet numbered with the dead. It appears that George, for
some private reasons, no doubt, has merely sounded a nocturnal retreat, and marched off! He is now in Liverpool.—Whitehaven Gazette.


 

The following paragraph from the Stamford Mercury affords further particulars of the elopement to Gretna Green, noticed in our
last:— 

 

"At a quarter past eleven on Saturday night last, Mr. F. ROBERTSON (nephew to Mr. ROBERTSON, manager of the Lincoln Company of
Comedians) and Miss TINDALL, only child and heiress of Joseph TINDALL, Esq. of Greenhill, Grantham, started from the latter place on
a trip to Gretna Green. The young lady took a lover's leap out of the window of her father's house into the arms of her swain. A
carriage was in waiting, and away they drove to consummate an ardent attachment of seven years' standing. The lady was not missed
until the breakfast hour on Monday. At about ten o'clock, her father, accompanied by a gentleman who is said to wear the willow, set
off in a chaise and four in pursuit; but as the young couple had ten hours and a half start, they arrived uninterruptedly at the
Temple of Hymen beyond the borders, and were united indissolubly at one o'clock on Tuesday morning. The happy pair were expected
back at Grantham yesterday, to receive the congratulations of their numerous friends, and the acknowledgment and benediction of the
bride's forgiving and wealthy father." 

 

Mr. STORRY, surgeon, of Annan, was apprehended on Wednesday the 4th instant, on the warrant of the Procurator Fiscal, on a charge of
Bigamy; and the result of a precognition held by the Sheriff-substitute on the succeeding Friday was, that that magistrate ordered
the accused to be detained for trial. The particulars have reached us; but we forbear publishing them at present. 

 

The body of Mr. TAYLOR, coal-broker, Dumfries, (whose disappearance we noticed in our last) has been found in the Nith. 

 

A pig was this week killed (bred and fed by Mr. Jos. NIXON of Sandsfield) of the following weight and dimensions, though only 15
months old:—Weight, 51st. 10lb.; length from snout to tail, 7 feet; girth, 7 feet. Its weight, at Martinmas, was supposed to have
been no more than 18st. 

 

On Saturday, John PAXTON, butcher, Maxwelltown, killed a fine fat lamb, six weeks old, bred at Fleurs, parish of Penpont, and
weighing about 20 lbs. The carcase was sold for 7s., the quarters being about 1s. 9d. per lb. 

 

Mr. WILSON, of High House, near St. Bees, has an ewe which yeaned two lambs on the 4th inst.; the same ewe yeaned on the 4th of Jan.
last year. 

 

Maximum of the Thermometer at Kendal, for the month of January, 48°; Minimum, 24°.—Quantity of rain fallen, 3.908 in. 

 

The proposed sweepstakes for horses belonging to the Cumberland and Westmorland cavalry, to be run for at the next Kendal races, is
likely to be completed. 

 

Old Elvet, city of Durham, is about to be laid down on the plan of Mr. MACADAM. 

 

Dr. Reid CLANNY, of Sunderland, has in the press, a treatise on fevers. 

 

The Sunderland Flint Glass Company have commenced a table service of glass for the Marquis of Londonderry. The patterns fixed upon
are of the most costly description, and the service will be much more valuable than that executed for his Lordship in 1822, which
cost 1000 guineas. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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