[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 07 Feb 1824 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 07 Feb 1824   (p. 2, col. 5-6 and p. 3, col. 1+6)     [continued] 

 

The weather still continues unprecedentedly mild:—to judge from the aspect of vegetation generally, one would say Spring has already
commenced. Bats fly about; the polyanthus, primrose, and various other flowers are in full bloom; and many shrubs are putting forth
leaves. We are afraid, however, that these appearances will betray the young gardener into premature preparations, and lead to the
loss of some of his early spring crops. 

 

Depth of Rain fallen in Wigton in the year 1823, as accurately measured by Mr. W. SIMPSON:—January 1.71 inches; February 2.37; March
1.56; April 1.64; May 5.22; June 1.73; July 4.21; Aug. 4.90; Sep. 4.98; Oct. 3.92; Nov. 2.01; Dec. 3.12,—total 37.37 inches, being
4.21 inches less than in 1822. 

 

In the House of Commons, on Tuesday, new writs were issued for Dumfries, to elect a member in the room of Keith DOUGLAS, Esq.
appointed one of the Lords of the Admiralty; also for the borough of Weymouth, Mr. WALLACE having accepted the office of Master of
the Mint. Both will most likely be re-elected. 

 

An uncommon sensation was created in Kendal, on Thursday week, by the accidental death of a charming little girl, about six years of
age, named Eliza HALL, daughter of Mr. HALL, of Everton, Liverpool, corn-merchant, and grand-daughter, by her mother's side, to the
late Captain ROBINSON, of Penrith. She was going to visit her grandmother, Mrs. ROBINSON, of Penrith, under the care of her maternal
aunt, Miss ROBINSON. About three o'clock on Thursday afternoon, the parties started from the coach-office, Kendal, by the North
Briton coach. By accident, the opposite door to that by which they entered had been shut, but not secured; and just as the coach
started, the little girl leant her weight against the door, which instantly flew open. The accident was so instantaneous, that the
attempts of the passengers to catch her by her clothes were fruitless, and she fell under the hind-wheel, which passed over her
head, and literally crushed it to pieces. Miss ROBINSON, the girl's aunt, was carried into the King's Arms in a state of
insensibility. A coroner's jury sat on the body in the evening, and returned a verdict of accidental death, and a deodand of one
shilling upon the wheel. 

 

On Saturday week, the Rev. Thomas TODHUNTER, of Knaresdale, having partaken rather too freely of liquor at a country wedding party,
fell to the ground on his way home, and was found dead near his own residence. He was in his 61st year. 

 

The boy whom we mentioned in our last as having been bitten by a mad dog, at Cleator, continues in a favourable way; so that
well-grounded hopes are entertained that the virus had been completely extracted. Several sheep, in the same neighbourhood, have
died after exhibiting strong symptoms of hydrophobia: it is supposed they had been bitten by the dog which attacked the child. 

 

On Saturday last, Mr. ARMSTRONG, of Whitehaven, extracted a needle, an inch and a quarter long, from the arm of Miss FISHER, of
Lower-Church-street, Whitehaven, which she had swallowed upwards of two years ago. 

 

Mr. James LOCKE, has been appointed, ad interim, to the united offices of comptroller and lamping-surveyor of the Port of Dumfries. 

 

A very serious coach-robbery took place early on Saturday morning last, at Stockton. Mr. John DOBSON, Clerk in the Tees Bank, was in
the York and Shields mail, on his way to the latter town, having under charge, a leather portmanteau, containing six parcels and a
pocket-book, in which were Newcastle, Shields, and Scotch notes, to the amount of nearly £5000, two memorandum books, and London and
country bills to the amount of nearly £3000—all the property of the two Stockton Banks. A person had travelled by the mail, as an
outside passenger, to Stockton, where he quitted it; and there the robbery is supposed to have been committed. He was, in height,
about 5ft. 8in. wore a drab great coat and dark coloured under-dress, and had with him a small purple bag. It has since been
ascertained that this person walked, immediately after leaving the coach, directly to Catterick Bridge; there he took a chaise for
Boroughbridge; thence he proceeded to Wetherby, Leeds, and probably to Liverpool, in which town he most likely lies concealed until
he finds it convenient to proceed to Ireland or the Isle of Man. He arrived at Mr. STOTT’s, Boroughbridge, about one o’clock on
Saturday afternoon, (says a hand-bill which has been circulated, offering a reward of 200 guineas for his apprehension); had on a
brown top-coat, drab-coloured or blue trowsers, blue coat, white stockings, and his shoes were dirty, as if he had walked on the
road. He was in a very great hurry to get forward, and asked the boy who drove him, if he could not go a nearer way to Leeds than by
Wetherby, and desired him to make all possible haste. He slept a great part of the way in the chaise; had a purple bag with him, and
when the waiter put it into the chaise, he felt two or three parcels within it, answering the description of those stolen—so that
there can be little doubt as to the identity of the fugitive. We hear that the Clerk was getting out of the mail, and had the
portmanteau on the seat; and while holding the door in his hand, the thief got off with the prize, unperceived, by the other door! 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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