[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 07 Feb 1824 - Local News (3)

[Petra Mitchinson]

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

 

The greatest anxiety has been created, during the last week, amongst the friends and relations of a man of the name of George
HASTIE, who has disappeared in a most mysterious manner. It seems that he was a pensioner on the navy list; and on Thursday
se'nnight he went from Arlecdon, where he resides, to Whitehaven, for the purpose of receiving a quarter's pay: he remained there
till Friday night, when, after purchasing some articles of grocery, he set forward to return home. Not having arrived on Saturday,
his friends set out in search of him; and, having ascertained that he passed Harris, a small village in the road to Arlecdon, after
dark, they proceeded to explore the moor; when, after a long search, they discovered a handkerchief, containing the groceries which
he had purchased, lying considerably out of the path, and about two hundred yards from an old coal pit, which is uncovered, and
without any railing or fence whatever. Suspicion immediately occurred to them, that the unfortunate man, in the darkness of the
night, and his ignorance of the road, had lost his way; and tumbling amongst the bogs and holes, had dropt his handkerchief, and a
little below plunged into the pit. As there is a firm, dry turf to the very edge, and a considerable quantity of water in the pit,
there is little doubt that such has been his unhappy end. 

 

We regret to state that Mr. James TAYLOR, for many years a coal broker in this town, has been missing since Friday evening last.
>From the nature of his business, a fear is entertained that he had fallen into the river during the darkness of the night, and
different boatmen have been employed in dragging the river for his body, but thus far unsuccessfully.—Dumfries Courier. 

 

On Thursday week, a person of the name of William PIRT, of Barkhouse, in the parish of Brigham, was convicted, before Thos. WYBERGH,
Esq., under the 9th of Anne, c. 25, of killing a hare in the night time, and forfeited the sum of £5, to be distributed as the law
directs. His brother paid the penalty immediately. The hare was snared in a field belonging to Sir F. F. VANE, near his park wall,
in the parish of Isell; and Sir Frederick’s gardener was the informer. A sack full of hares, from the same neighbourhood, was
exposed to sale in Whitehaven not three weeks ago. 

 

On Monday evening, two sons of Mr. Taylor GIBSON, of Newcastle, the one nine, and the other twelve years old, went with a lantern to
the privy in the garden, where, it seems, the elder had secreted a paper with gunpowder, and by their account, a few grains were
dropped upon the candle, the explosion of which extinguished the light, and in a few seconds the whole exploded, breaking the
bullion lights, shattering the door, two panels of which were forced out, and blowing up part of the ceiling. The shirt of the elder
boy was set on fire, and his clothes burnt in different parts, yet he suffered no further injury than a rather severe burn on the
right hand and arm, a slight one on the left by endeavouring to extinguish the flame, and a trifling scorch on the cheek. The
younger boy did not sustain the slightest injury.—Newcastle Courant. 

 

A gig, with two gentlemen in it, was overturned, on Monday night, near the bridge over the Kirtle, on the road from Annan to
Carlisle; the gentlemen were not materially hurt, but the gig could be driven no further. 

 

Sir M. W. RIDLEY, Bart. was installed Provincial Grand Master for Northumberland, last week, at Newcastle. Sir J. SWINBURNE
presided, and the company was numerous and brilliant. 

 

On Sunday night week, a private belonging to the 2nd Veteran Company, at Castletown, Isle of Man, fell from the quay, and was
drowned. 

 

SALMON.—For some weeks past, the most interesting of the "finny nations" that visit our shores, has ascended the Nith in unusual
numbers, and in clear bright weather, when the sun-beams seem reflected from their beautifully spangled skins, form an object of
great interest and curiosity to the occasional loungers about the Dock-park. On some occasions—that is, when the river is somewhat
flooded—these fish congregate in great numbers, immediately below the caul or damhead, alternately attempting to stem the torrent at
the gullet door, and overleap the barrier that separates them from the higher parts of the river. In these circumstances, the
poachers, as might be supposed, have not been idle. It would be wrong, we are aware, to repeat all the idle stories we have heard on
this subject: but what would our readers think of 60 large fish caught clandestinely in one evening? Report even adds, that there
has been an emigration of poachers from the English side, and this chiefly with the view of extracting the roe of the female fish,
which, in Carlisle sells at so much an ounce, being considered as the best bait for catching parr—a fish which is found in great
abundance in the Cumberland Lakes.—Dumf. Cour. 

 

Miss NIXON, the wonderful child, twelve years old, weighing 25 stone of 14lbs. and more than seven feet circumference, died at Bath
last week. She was a native of Cumberland—of the neighbourhood of Wigton. 

 

The brig Mona, of Maryport, Capt. Jos. ROBINSON, sailed from Maryport on Friday, coal laden, bound to Belfast. In the afternoon the
sea ran fearfully high, and about two o'clock the following morning a tremendous wave struck her on the starboard side, when off the
Mull of Galloway. which swept her long-boats and every article from the deck, and carried overboard a young lad, one of the crew;
and such was the force and violence of the sea, that another of the crew is considerably hurt. The Captain resolved to run for
Kirkcudbright, where they arrived on Sunday, and she will be forced to be discharged, as her cargo is shifted, and it is much feared
she will be found otherwise damaged. 

 

 

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