[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 29 Nov 1823 - Local News (1)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 29 Nov 1823   (p. 2, col. 6, and p. 3, col. 1+6)

 

The Bishop of Chester preached twice in this city on Sunday last: in the forenoon at the Cathedral; and at St. Cuthbert's at night;
in both instances to numerous congregations. On Tuesday his Lordship entertained a select dinner-party; and on Thursday morning, he
set out westward for the purpose of consecrating Workington and Moresby new churches, and a piece of burial-ground at Whitehaven. 

 

The appearance of the 'last home' of a young person recently interred in Stanwix church-yard, raising a suspicion that some of that
tribe of marauders known as resurrection-men had visited it, the grave was yesterday opened, and the coffin lid found to have been
violently torn off, thus confirming suspicion; but it is supposed that the rapid state of decomposition in which they found the
body, was the cause of its being permitted to rest in peace. The circumstance has naturally excited a considerable local sensation. 

 

The Rev. Thomas WILKINSON, A. B., of this City, has been admitted a Minor Canon of our Cathedral. 

 

DEMPSTER, the unfortunate man who swallowed the knife, continues in a desponding state of mind, and is rather worse in bodily
health, though he has hitherto felt no acute pain. Some medical men think he may live several years: but it is probable that mental
anxiety will alone terminate his existence in a much shorter period. 

 

On Sunday night, the waggon warehouse of Mr. SAUL, situate in the Horse-Market, Carlisle, was broken open, and robbed of various
goods, valued at nearly one hundred pounds. The premises, we understand, were of a very insecure kind; and the wonder is, not that
they were now robbed, but that they had not heretofore been plundered. There is no trace of the offending party. Indeed, since the
discontinuance of the regular police, the detection of offenders, or the recovery of stolen property, is a thing not to be expected.


 

A few days ago, a respectable person of this City, had his waistcoat pocket picked of five sovereigns, while attending a female
friend to the door of one of the night coaches. 

 

On Monday evening, about seven, a man named BROWN, not very sane, ran from the Broadguards, Caldewgate, to the Market-Cross in this
City, in a state of nudity, for a trifling reward proffered by some persons who knew the condition of his mind. They are to blame,
of course, more than he is; and we shall publish their names and places of residence should they be so foolish as to cause a
repetition of the scandalous experiment. Poor BROWN had previously made similar exhibitions in Caldewgate, by day-light; but the
journey into the city was reserved as the crowning feat. He is not, however, entirely faultless, as he has sufficient sense to know
right from wrong in so plain a matter. 

 

Committed to Carlisle gaol, on Tuesday last, by the Rev. T. RAMSHAY, James NELSON, apprentice to a joiner and cabinet-maker, at
Brampton, charged with stealing from the Central school of that place, a quantity of copper coin and a Johnson's Dictionary, the
property of Joseph COULTHARD and Charles LITTLE. 

 

The Carlisle Harriers cast of on Monday the 30th inst. at Red House, Kirklinton; on Wednesday the 3d Dec. at Carlton Hall; and on
Friday the 5th Dec. at Moorhouses, Carlatton-each morning at 8 o'clock. 

 

An Exciseman resident in the neighbourhood of Carlisle, lately seized, on some luckless wight, two bladders of whiskey, which he
carried home and laid up in safety, as he thought, for the night, intending, of course, to convey them to the proper depositary: but
under the cover of darkness, two marauders, in the shape of mice, came and nibbled a hole in each bladder, and the mountain-dew had
disappeared ere morning, leaving nothing but a smell behind!-During the past week, we hear, large quantities of this liquor have
been seized by the officers, on its way to Carlisle, from Gretna. On Thursday evening, several boys rooted out a nest of six kegs of
whiskey in the dunghill of Widow WELSH and Sons, near Water Lane, and some weavers speedily conveyed one of them into their shop,
bolted the door, and fell to; in the mean time, news of the mishap reached the ears of the owner, who expeditiously removed the
residue, but did not succeed in rescuing the captive keg, the contents of which were speedily swallowed. 

 

There was a good show of cattle again on Carlisle Sands, on Saturday, but the demand was not quite so lively as that of the two
weeks preceding; there was not, however, any declension of price worthy of mention. 

 

The Earl of Lonsdale and the Hon. Col. LOWTHER are at Cottesmore, and Lord LOWTHER is in London. 

 

The byre and stable of John WATSON, of Dodbeck, between Dumfries and Annan, having been entered at night by some dastardly villain
or villains, who cut off the tails of a horse and cow, a reward of twenty guineas is offered by the procurator-fiscal, and a like
sum by the Marquis of Queensberry, for the discovery of the offenders or offenders [sic]. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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