[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 24 Apr 1824 - Local News (3)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 24 Apr 1824   (p. 2, col. 3-6 and p. 3, col. 1 + 5-6)     [continued] 

 

A person calling himself Dr. THWAITES, who has lately been distributing hand-bills in Carlisle and neighbourhood, styling himself a
water-doctor, and professing to cure every disorder incident to the human body, attended (for the benefit of the public, of course,)
at the George Inn, Brampton, on three successive market-days, and succeeded in obtaining considerable sums from several credulous
persons for his medicines, which, it is needless to say, were worth nothing. On the last day of his presence there, he had a
companion; and they contrived to run up a bill of 23s. (including 12s. borrowed of the landlord); they also obtained cloth for two
pair of trowsers, of a Yorkshire clothier who was in the market; and in the evening they decamped, leaving all unpaid. They were,
however, quickly pursued by the landlord's son, Mr. John GRAHAM, currier, Carlisle, and overtaken about three miles from Brampton.
They told him they would return in the following week and settle; but he insisted on immediate payment, under the penalty of a good
drubbing for non-compliance, and being a powerful man, and provided with a trusty cudgel, the Doctor found himself compelled to hand
over the reckoning, but went off with the poor Yorkshireman's cloth, to play similar tricks, no doubt, in other places. 

 

On Saturday last, the body of a new-born female child was found in the church-yard of St. Nicholas', Whitehaven, sewed up in a bag;
and had probably been thrown over the wall by its inhuman mother to avoid detection. A Coroner's inquest was held on the body in the
afternoon, when the medical gentleman who examined it, stated his belief that the child had been dead born; and the Jury, in
consequence, returned a verdict of found dead. 

 

An inquest was held at Whitehaven, last week, last week, before Peter HODGSON, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Samuel SIMPSON, aged
seven years, whose clothes caught fire in the absence of his mother, and the child died soon afterwards. Verdict, accidental death. 

 

Extract of a letter from Keswick, dated April 21:-"A grand exhibition of Chinese Fire-works, comic recitations, songs, &c. (which
excited in the good folks of Keswick great expectations), was to have taken place here this evening, in the assembly-room, by a
person calling himself Signor NERVONI, from Vauxhall, London, (pretty well acquainted with Carlisle, we rather suspect); but the
fellow turns out to be a swindler. After disposing of a number of tickets for ready cash, he made his exit, not a little to the
mortification of his dupes, among whom was his printer, &c." 

 

A correspondent, speaking of the stone lately found in taking down Borrowdale Chapel, with the date 1125 on it, observes: 'It is
said that Borrowdale, or some part of it, paid tithes to Furness Abbey, in Lancashire. That Abbey, according to HUTCHINSON, was
founded in the year 1127; and if the inscription on the stone be the date of the Chapel's erection, it is of course two years older
than the Abbey. Cockermouth Castle is supposed to have been built soon after the conquest; namely, 1066. Borrowdale Chapel, by the
formation of its roof, appears to have been originally thatched.' 

 

The Rev. Edward IRVING has been lately engaged in opening a new Scotch Church at Birmingham, called St. Andrew's. 

 

On Sunday last, a female Ranter from Gateshead, named PORTEOUS, preached two sermons in a barn at Chester-le-Street. 

 

The act for repairing the old and making several new turnpike roads in the neighbourhood of Alston Moor, which were surveyed last
year by J. L. Mc'ADAM, Esq., has received the royal assent. 

 

Early on Saturday morning last, some malicious person set fire to a young plantation belonging to James MAXWELL, Esq., of Kirkconnel
about five miles from Dumfries, on the way to Newabbey. 

 

Hugh CAMERON, a fine boy, eight years of age, had lately attended the Sabbath School of Waterbeck. Last Sunday he did not return
home to Eaglesfield as usual, which alarmed his parents. That night, all Monday, and the forenoon of Tuesday, the neighbours
searched every corner in vain, when, at length, they found his lifeless remains in a marble quarry at Blackwoodridge, Middlebie. 

 

Kirkby-Stephen Races took place on the 13th and 14th, and were numerously and respectably attended. Sir Philip MUSGRAVE, subscribed
handsomely himself, named a horse for the races, and promised to continue his contributions yearly. The day was fine, and sport
good. 

 

The long continuance of the present mild and spring-like weather bids fair for an early harvest. We anticipate the best results from
such seasonable auspices. Agriculture is very forward in all its operations, and if we may guess from the great quantity of seed
sown, and the extent of arable cultivation, we may expect plentiful returns.-Isle of Man Paper. 

 

Thomas ATKINSON, a pitman, has been committed to Durham gaol, charged with murdering Henry CURRY, another pitman, at Birtley, last
Saturday evening. The parties had squabbled in a public-house, and ATKINSON, having behaved ill, was put out; and while endeavouring
to get in, the deceased went out to him by the back-door, and near it was struck by the prisoner, (who was tipsy) with a stake or
deal board, so severely on the nose and mouth, that he expired, without speaking, in less than an hour. 

 

Among the improvements at Newcastle, Blacket-street is to be removed, to make room for an elegant new square. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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