[list-cumbria] Cumberland Pacquet - 33

[Nev Ramsden]

Whitehaven  - June 1   - 1775.



Last Friday Morning a coal pit at Scalegill, nigh this town, took fire; three men were dangerously burnt; one of them is since dead, and has left a wife and eight children. Another of them is so dreadfully hurt that his life is despaired of; the other, it is hoped will recover.



We hear from Egremont, that fine grass-butter was sold in that market last Saturday, at four pence a pound.



A correspondent from Keswick in forms us, that there are now living very comfortably together in that place, three widow gentlewomen, whose ages added together amount to 233 years.



We hear from Charlestown, (South Carolina) that the ship - Happy Jannet, Capt. Pettigrew, of and from Dunbar, which arrived there on the 12th of February, laden with coals and potatoes, consigned to the master, (although leaky) was obliged to put to sea again on the 28th, without having landed, or sold any part of the cargo.



Two vessels have arrived here since our last, with a number of passengers, intending to embark here for America.



Upwards of 200 people from Strathspay, arrived at Glasgow last week, bound for New York.



The affair of the Raven, mentioned in our last, has terminated very happily; through the means of a little mercury, the bird has refunded the guinea, and put an end to all disputes.



We are advised from Carlisle, that Sir James Lowther Bart., has written to the managers of the races there, that they may have the King’s 100 guineas to be run for this year with their other prizes; and they may fix on the time as soon as they think proper.  ---  They expect a whole week’s diversion.



Formerly Foxes were so numerous in the Isle of Mann, that a law was made, offering a reward for destroying them: this was so well observed, that in a few years they were entirely exterpated from thence. Another law was then framed (and is still in being) inflicting a severe punishment on any person who should land one of those destructive animals on the island: which has been so strictly adhered to, that none have appeared there in the memory of the oldest in habitant now living, till last Saturday, when one which had destroyed upwards of twenty sheep, was killed on Snafell . When this intelligence was transmitted to ?, the Governor had ordered the skin to be sent to his seat at Castle Town.



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