[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 20 Dec 1823 - Local News (3)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 20 Dec 1823   (p. 2, col. 4-5 and p. 3, col. 1-4 + 6)     [continued] 

 

The Governor of Lancaster Castle is applying the tread mill to a profitable purpose. A power loom has been affixed to it; and the
cloth woven by it is said to be excellent. 

 

On Friday the 5th inst., part of the men employed at Kenton Colliery, about two miles from Newcastle, were seen bringing to bank the
worn-out horses of the pit, a description of animals deserving the tenderest treatment, if length and severity of services form any
claim to regard. These faithful but debilitated servants had no sooner reached the surface of the earth and seen the light of
heaven, than they were driven to the brink of a mass of burning coals close by, and thence, for the purpose of destruction,
precipitated into the flames!-Tyne Mercury. 

 

It is perhaps not generally known that Miss BROWN, to whom Captain PARRY is so much attached, is the daughter of Mr. BROWN, the
proprietor of the colliery of Jarrow, in the County of Durham. 

 

Extract of a letter from a native of Cumberland resident in the United States of America to a friend in this county, dated
Philadelphia, Oct. 11, 1823:-After mentioning that some members of his family had been ill, the writer observes, "But we are highly
favoured, compared with many of our neighbours and countrymen. This quarter is very sickly at this time, and has been so for the
last two summers and autumns, especially in the country. For these few weeks past, the bills of mortality in Philadelphia have been
very great; the number of deaths in a week, upwards of 100; one week 126; and the last week 139: the usual number in the winter
season is about 50. The cholera morbus and dysentery are the diseases which carry most off at this season of the year, and the
sufferers are chiefly children. Among grown persons, bilious, intermitting, and remitting fevers are the prevailing complaints. You
have no idea in Cumberland how sickly these climates are; the fever and ague are the commonest pest. Trade of every description is
as bad as it can be we think. Every vessel that leaves this port for Liverpool, calculated to take passengers, is full of Radicals,
bound homewards; the last two packets that sailed had upwards of a hundred steerage passengers. The British Government cannot do
better than send these enthusiasts in politics to this country; if they have not the means themselves it would politic to furnish
them; for, besides doing these infatuated persons an essential service, there is no doubt that three fourths of them would return in
two or three years, if possessed of the necessary funds, and become the best subjects in the kingdom. (This admission is the more
valuable as coming from one who, when he emigrated, thought England no longer a land for the working man.) A young man of the name
of B--, a weaver from your place, has called on us; he says he is going to write home; he is well, but we think he will give no very
flattering account of America. We have had a fruitful season. The crops, generally speaking, are abundant, and provisions fall in
price, although they are yet a little higher than you have them, especially potatoes, which are 2s. 3d. sterling per Winchester
bushel." 

 

The bodies of two men and a boy were cast on shore very near to each other, on Sunday morning, between Parton and Whitehaven. The
oldest appeared to be from 45 to 50 years of age-forehead bald-had a light blue stocking marked with the letters J. M. with dark
blue. The other man had on a pair of grey pantaloons, flannel shirt, and very narrow stripe checked shirt; sandy hair, and large red
whiskers inclining to the mouth. The boy, about 14 years of age, had very red hair. The bodies did not appear to have lain long in
the water; and the features all strongly resembled each other; though their faces were much cut by concussion against the rocks;
their clothes were also torn to tatters. On the following morning, the stern and keel of a boat were found near Whitehaven, with
"Rambler of Belfast, John MULLON," painted inside, so that there can be little doubt but the three persons beforementioned belonged
to her. 

 

Early on Sunday morning, as two young men were journeying along the road, near Cockermouth, they observed two men approach them,
each with a bag over his shoulder, which they immediately threw down and ran off. On examining the bags, they were found to contain
four quarters of a sheep, together with the head, fat, &c., and a small chopper. The sheep appeared to have been newly slaughtered,
and from the manner in which it was dressed, the fellows must have been well skilled in the trade. The sheep had been taken from a
field belonging to Mr. WOOD, of the Globe inn, Cockermouth, where several depredations of a similar kind have been committed, every
year, for five or six years past. 

 

On Tuesday week, as three men belonging to the ship Cumberland, of Maryport, mentioned in our last as having been driven on shore in
Bootle Bay near Liverpool, were in the act of getting up a chain cable into a boat, the boat was overbalanced and upset, and they
all met a watery grave. 

 

Mr. E. BOWNESS, of Workington (agent to Mr. CURWEN), observes, in a letter to the Whitehaven papers, "I will venture to assert, that
it is possible, by adopting certain means, to introduce almost any quantity of pure air into any coal pit or mine whatever; this
properly conducted, in any situation, would be a complete remedy of the daily increasing evil, and afford a more sufficient and
safer light to the collier. Much more may be said on this subject, and I would be proud to explain the practicability of this, if
required by any coal proprietor." This is a proposition the same in nature, and almost the same in terms, as that of Mr. LESTER. Why
not describe the plan at once, if such a service can be rendered to humanity? 

 

The first steam-engine in the county of Westmorland was erected a few days ago at Kendal, by Mr. BERRY, ivory comb maker. 

 

The pleasant little town of Ambleside is about to be lighted with lamps. 

 

Committed to Appleby gaol, Ann, wife of Thos. ATKINSON, of Warcop, husbandman, and Jane, wife of Wm. ATKINSON, of the same place,
blacksmith, for stealing 15 cotton handkerchiefs, in the parish of Bongate, the property of M. J. W. DIXON. 

 

In the course of the last week, the foundation of the National School for girls was laid at Kendal. It will merely be an addition of
52 feet in length, to the National School for boys. 

 

Humshaugh, a village 5 miles north of Hexham, contains about 170 inhabitants, of whom there are ten whose ages average 82 years, and
seven others 72: thus making a tenth of the population average nearly 78 years. 

 

The officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the Northumberland and Newcastle volunteer cavalry, have presented to C. J.
BRANDLING, Esq. their commanding officer, a magnificent golden vase, weighing 300 ounces, 'as a testimony of their respect for him
as an officer, and of their sincere regard and esteem for him as a man.' 

 

On the night of Wednesday week, the steam saw mill of BROWN & Co., Newcastle, was consumed by fire: the flames also communicated to
a hay-stack, and destroyed about eleven stone of that article. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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