[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 01 May 1824 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 01 May 1824   (p. 2, col. 3-4 + p. 3, col. 6)     [continued] 

 

At the Sessions for the East Ward of the county of Westmorland, held in Appleby, on Monday last, the Rev. Dr. SATTERTHWAITE in the
chair, there were no prisoners for trial, and only three parish appeals-Crosbyravensworth, removants, Appleby respondents, order
confirmed: township of Burgh-Sowerby and township of Winton, order quashed: Great Strickland and Penrith, order quashed. 

 

On Saturday last, 2 quarters of oats were seized by the Corporation officers of Appleby, from a farmer, whose measure was
insufficient. This, it is hoped, will operate as a caution to others. 

 

Mr. Thomas BACKHOUSE, of Sanden-house, in the parish of Holm Cultram has an ewe, 5 years old, which has produced thirteen lambs in
four years. 

 

By an examination of the workmen employed in Messrs. GANDY & Sons' mill, at Kendal, it appears that the late fire was occasioned by
overheating the stove-pipe. 

 

Mr. LITT, author of 'Wrestliana,' is about to publish, in monthly numbers, 'Henry and Mary,' a local tale, illustrative of the
peculiar habits, customs, and diversions of the inhabitants of the West of Cumberland during the greater part of the eighteenth and
preceding century. 

 

Mr. GREENE was last week returned for Lancaster without opposition. 

 

Lieut. Licket FELLOWES, of the Isle of Man, (son of Capt. FELLOWESS [sic], was run over by a gig, in abruptly turning a comer, on
the evening of the 15th inst., near Ballasalla, and soon afterwards died of the injury received. 

 

One the late revenue resolutions proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer was-"That upon the exportation of slates which have
been brought coastwise from any port or place in Great Britain or Ireland, there shall be allowed a drawback of the whole of the
coast duties which shall have been paid on such slates." 

 

On Wednesday the 21st ult., a plantation of young trees caught fire on part of the Brown Muir, belonging to the Duke of Buccleugh,
in the parish of Middlebie. This accident was owing to the imprudence and incaution of a man who had on the preceding day set fire
to a moor-field, which he farmed in the vicinity of the wood, and to the wind shifting when the flames of the burning heath in the
field were at their height. The plantation was well inclosed with a stone dyke; but it is uncertain whether the wood took fire from
the sparks that were blown over the dyke, or whether the fire was communicated to it through some of the conduits at the bottom. It
was not, however, till Friday morning, that the flames could be extinguished. The loss sustained is very considerable, though
variously estimated; perhaps we may say that the trees have been either totally destroyed, or more or less injured, over an extent
of between twenty and thirty acres. 

 

On Friday evening, as a little girl was proceeding down the Manor Chare, Newcastle, with a cup of oil of vitriol in her hand, a
bladder, kicked by some boy, bounded against the cup, and scattered its contents upon a young woman with a child in her arms, both
of whom, it is feared, will be deprived of sight. 

 

The King's birth-day was celebrated at Dumfries with great spirit. The old festival of shooting for the 'siller gun' was revived: it
was won by Mr. Alex. SELKIRK, butcher. 

 

On the evening of Wednesday last, our illustrious townsman, Dr. MORRISON, delivered an excellent sermon at the chapel, in the High
Bridge, in this town, for the benefit of its funds. His text was from the 4th chapter of Daniel, and 32nd verse: "The Most High
ruleth in the kingdom of men." At the conclusion of his discourse, he took occasion to observe that 30 years before he was in the
habit of attending as a humble listener to others in the chapel in which he was then preaching. It was then his practice to commit
portions of the sacred scriptures and hymns to memory, and he besought those parents and their children who heard him to follow his
example. The congregation was unusually great, and many individuals were obliged to go away without hearing any part of the
discourse, while others remained in the passage and on the stairs, anxious to obtain a sight of the object of so much
curiosity.-Tyne Mercury. 

 

A few weeks ago, a very fine vein of superior antimony was discovered near Keswick Lakes, about a mile from Bassenthwaite, which
promises to be a very profitable speculation. 

 

A year-old ewe, the property of Mr. William LOWTHER, of Dornock, dropt three lambs, one day last week, which are all well and
thriving. 

 

At a public sale, a few days ago, at Breech-hill, near Annan, potatoes sold from 4s. to 4s. 9d. p. cwt. 

 

On Saturday last, the brig Robert, of Harrington, from Ireland, struck on a rock off Douglas point, Isle of Man, during a fog, and
in a few minutes became a total wreck; crew saved. 

 

 

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