[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 21 Feb 1824 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 21 Feb 1824   (p. 2, col. 6 and p. 3, col. 1 + 6)     [continued] 

 

Several publicans and others have been convicted, at Whitehaven, in penalties of £5 each, for having Scotch whiskey in their
possession. A painter of that town was also fined £5, for painting on canvas without giving notice to the excise of his intention,
and £5 for painting on canvas without having a licence. Mr. Henry COLLINS was the person; and he declared before the magistrates,
that the officer who informed inticed him into painting a piece of lobby cloth, after several calls, which he said he wanted for a
particular purpose. If this be correct, such a man is no longer worthy of serving the King. 

 

There is now on Derwent Isle, Keswick, the property of Gen. PEACHEY, an apple tree in full bloom, and upwards of 40 blooming roses.
This is another proof of the mildness of the season. Derwent Isle, however, is a little Paradise, and may be considered as an
exception to the general rule of nature. 

 

The Carlisle Harriers will cast off, on Monday, at Newby Toll-bar; on Wednesday, at Westlinton; and on Friday, at Raughtonhead; each
morning at eight o'clock. 

 

Maximum and minimum of the thermometer, in Carlisle, for each month of the past year, as communicated to the Monthly Magazine, by
Mr. PITT:—Jan. 45—11. Feb. 48—12. Mar. 54—25. April, 56—31. May, 71—38. June, 64—39. July, 64—44. Aug. 66—43. Sept. 66—35. Oct.
61—28. Nov. 54—27. Dec. 51—24. Annual mean, 45.9. Total rain, 35.51 in. Total days of rain, snow, &c. 208. 

 

The utility of the Whitehaven patent slip is uncommonly great: it is scarcely ever unoccupied. There were three vessels upon it at
once, at the beginning of the present week. 

 

By the population returns of 1821, it appears that, since 1811, the proportional change in the occupation of 10,000 families, in
Cumberland, was in agriculture 276 less; in trade and manufactures 101 more; unproductive, an increase of 175.—Westmorland, in the
same period, decrease in agriculture, 22; in trade and manufactures, an increase of no less than 591; ditto, unproductive, 569. In
Cumberland, the increase of population is 15 per cent.; in Westmorland, 10 per cent. 

 

On Monday se'nnight, a large boar, the property of Mr. John SMITH, of Kellbank, Gosforth, was killed; and the reports of his
extraordinary size drew together a concourse of people, anxious to gratify their curiosity with a sight of the "bristly monster." He
was what the gentlemen of the fancy would call a "good taker," for he was not "floored" until he had received twenty-five strokes of
the butcher's blocker.—He weighed fifty-three stone three pounds, and was considered one of the finest animals of the kind in the
country. Within the last few months he ate 96 stone of oat-meal, besides a large quantity of potatoes and milk. 

 

On Thursday, a brood sow, belonging to Mr. Wm. VETCH, butcher in Jedburgh, littered 22 pigs. 

 

The sentence upon Mr. SUMNER, of the True Manxman, found guilty of a libel on Mr. Deemster CHRISTIAN, is a fine of £100, and six
months' imprisonment. 

 

By a late decision in the Court of King's Bench, a poor widow at Sunderland has come into possession of property to the amount of
£10,000! 

 

We were last week incorrectly informed that Dr. STORRY, of Annan, had been detained for trial on a charge of bigamy. He was merely
detained till an investigation had taken place, and dismissed on the Thursday, the charge not being substantiated. 

 

The Bishop of Chester has licensed the Rev. Henry TULL, of St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, to the chapel of St. George, Kendal, on the
nomination of the Rev. John TATHAM. 

 

On Friday week, as Mr. PEARSON, bookbinder, of Newcastle, was proceeding from his own house to make a call in Westgate-street with
his child in his arms, the infant took a fit of coughing and expired instantaneously. 

 

Rumours having been spread in this neighbourhood, that the resurrection-men, foiled in their endeavours to obtain a sufficient
number of dead bodies, for the use of the surgeons, were employed to kidnap living subjects, to make up the deficiency, the minds of
the credulous have been filled with alarm; and some young wags taking advantage of this, provide treacle plasters, which they stick
on the mouths of servant girls and others whom they find in the streets after dark. Several females have been thrown into hysterics,
by this treatment, the perpetrators of which might be more usefully employed on the tread-mill.—Newcastle Courant. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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