[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 17 Apr 1824 - Local News (3)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 17 Apr 1824   (p. 2, col. 5-6 and p. 3, col. 1+6)     [continued] 

 

On the night of the 9th instant, two vagabonds were detected in the act of stealing a quantity of poultry belonging to Mr. DONALD,
of Scirone, parish of Gretna, and were committed to take their trial for the offence. 

 

Mr. LAWRIE, of Carlisle, (says a correspondent,) has given the requisite security for building Annan bridge, after have got a
mistake in his first contract rectified, by which he obtains an addition of £400. He has also taken the temporary wooden bridge.at
£500. 

 

The corpse of GORDON, one of the men lately drowned with FERGUSON, in the Solway, was found yesterday week, and buried, on the
following day, in Annan new church-yard. 

 

On the afternoon of the 4th inst. Robert THOMSON, a shopkeeper and publican at Annan, under pretence of coming to Carlisle to
purchase articles of grocery, absconded, no one knows how or whither, till Wednesday last, when advices were received by his friends
that he was about to sail from Gravesend for America, to join his two sons already there, one of whom was a shoemaker at Dornock,
and he also clandestinely went off leaving a wife and two children, of whom he has not since taken the least notice. The country is
well rid of such persons. 

 

A huge red and white spotted two year old bull was exhibited in the stables of Mr. DOVE, Crown Inn, Dumfries, last week. He is the
son of Comet, the wonderful animal which belonged to Sir James GRAHAM, of Netherby. It is calculated by competent judges, that he
would weigh at least 135 stone. He measures 14 feet 3 inches from the tip of the tail, and 9 feet 10 inches from the rump to the
snout; is 9 feet in girth, 29 inches across the loins, and his breast stands 16 inches from the ground. 

 

A Horticultural Society for Northumberland and Durham is about to be established, under powerful patronage. The science is not so
well understood in the North of England as its great importance demands. 

 

There were no fewer than thirteen funerals at Sunderland, on Sunday week, principally children who have died of the measles. 

 

MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY.—Presbytery of Dumfries: Rev. John WIGHTMAN, Rev. George GREIG, Rev. John CROCKET. James CONNELL, Esq. of
Conheath, ruling elder.—Presbytery of Lochmaben: Rev. Alex. JOHNSTON, Rev. Jacob WRIGHT, Rev. Thomas GIBSON. J. J. HOPE JOHNSTONE,
Esq. of Annandale, ruling elder.—Presbytery of Annan: Rev. James YORSTOUN, Hoddam; Rev. Wm. H. MONCRIEFF, Annan. Wm. GRIERSON, Esq.
ruling elder.—Presbytery of Kirkcudbright: Rev. Wm. GILLESPIE, Rev. John M'LELLAN, Rev. Thomas TURNBULL. David WELSH, Esq., W. S.
ruling elder.——Burgh of Stranraer: Sir John DALRYMPLE HAMILTON, M'Gill, of Cowsland, Bart. ruling elder.—Presbytery of Stranraer:
Rev. Mr. WILSON, Stranraer, and Rev. James FERGUSON, Inch, ministers. John DONALDSON, of Auchairn, Esq. W. S. elder.—Presbytery of
Kelso: Rev. Ninian TROTTER, Sprouston, and the Rev. James HOPE, Roxburgh, ministers. Mr. George DUNBAR, Professor of Greek in the
University of Edinburgh, ruling elder.—Burgh of Jedburgh: Mr. William BELL, W. S. ruling elder. 

 

At a meeting of Presbytery, held at Annan last week, a complaint from the Rev. D. HAINING, assistant to the Rev. W. H. MONCRIEFF
there, was taken into consideration respecting Dissenting Clergymen being permitted to preach in the parish church; and it was
resolved that, in future, no Dissenter, should be permitted to enter that pulpit.—The Presbytery at the same time had under
consideration the case of irregular marriages, with regard to which they entered into an unanimous resolution to enforce the laws
and practice of the Church. They declared their decided disapprobation of the custom adopted by one of their number of rebuking the
parties fined by the magistrates for irregular marriage, although neither of the parties belonged to the parish, and very frequently
not even to the communion of the Church of Scotland, or to the kingdom. This prostitution of church censures they expressly
prohibited. Nor was this all: They enjoined their clerk to correspond with the magistrates of Annan, and the justices of the peace
within their bounds, representing the impropriety of their lending the sanction of their authority to marriages irregularly
contracted; and empowered him, in the name of the Presbytery, to deal with these authorities for the entire suppression, so far as
they are concerned, of a practice so destructive of good morals, and of the best interests of social and domestic life. If it be
true, as it has been currently reported, that some of the magistrates of Annan have, within the very short period during which this
practice has prevailed among them, given the sanction of their authority to bigamy and other irregularities, no one will allege that
the interference of the presbytery was uncalled for.—Dumf. Cour. 

 

An ewe belonging to Mr. MILLS, in Eastwood of Southwick, Dumfriesshire, produced a lamb on the 1st of March, and, to all appearance,
it had come to maturity, but was dead. The same ewe again, on the 2d April inst. nearly five weeks afterwards, produced four other
lambs, two dead and two living, which, like the first, also all appeared to be full grown. One of the two lambed alive is since
dead, but the other is living and healthy.—How do Naturalists account for this? 

 

Mr. CRIPPS's bill, "for the better employment of labourers in agricultural parishes in the winter season," proposes to enact that
"churchwardens and overseers shall assess weekly parishioners rated in the relief of the poor; that the rates may be altered; that
overseers collect assessment; that persons employing men or boys be exempt from assessment; and that the rate be distinct from other
rates, and intituled The Labour Rate. Justices in petty sessions to hear and determine disputes. Forfeitures, if not paid, to be
levied by warrant." 

 

The Sarah, M'CLELLAN, arrived at Bowness, from Whitehaven, on the 9th instant, with soap waste. The Eden, W. LITTLE, from Carlisle,
arrived at Liverpool on the 11th instant. 

 

The Langton, ASHLEY, sailed from Liverpool, on the 6th instant, and struck on a rock near Tuskar on the 10th, when she instantly
went down—crew saved. This vessel belonged to Maryport, and was bound to Newfoundland with a general cargo. 

 

 

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