09 November 1844 Local Intelligence/Cumberland - Cumberland and Westmorland Newspaper Transcriptions

09 November 1844 Local Intelligence/Cumberland

BURGLARY. - On Tuesday night last some scoundrels broke into a cottage on
Ullswater side, known by the name of BRAY'S Cottage, belonging to a
gentleman of that name, who resides at Preston, by whom it was used in the
summer season for a few weeks residence. The thieves had taken various
articles and departed unobserved. When the robbery was discovered the next
morning, intelligence was immediately sent to MR. MARTINDALE SCOTT, of
Penrith, who commenced an active search among the lodging-houses in the
town, and succeeded in apprehending the parties with the plunder in their
possession, and they are now in the House of Correction. A house in the
neighbourhood of the one plundered, belonging to MISS SISSON, has been twice
attempted to be broken into lately, and it is
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FIRE. - On Thursday evening, the 31st ult., a fire broke out in the charcoal
blacking mill in the occupation of MR. JOHN PARKER, at Newland Bottom, near
Ulverston, and so rapid was the fire that before the engine could arrive
from Ulverston the building was nearly consumed. with the exception of the
water-wheel everything has been consumed. It is not known how the accident
took place.

FIFTH OF NOVEMBER IN ULVERSTON. - The usual demonstrations in commemoration
of the above day took place in Ulverston through the means of subscriptions
for that purpose. The bells of the Parish Church rang a merry peal in the
evening, and at seven p.m. the effigy of the notorious "GUY FAWKES", which
had been prepared for the occasion, and which was mounted on horseback,
perambulated the town, headed by the Ulverston brass band, which played some
very popular airs, &c., followed by some thousands of spectators, after
which he was taken to the top of "Hoad", where an immense pile of
combustibles was made, and he was there placed in the midst. Fire being put
to the pile, it soon reached him, and being full of combustible matter, he
was blown into the air amidst the plaudits of the assembled crowd. There
was a beautiful display of fireworks, &c., and the same was carried on with
good spirit until a late hour.

MAGISTRATES' OFFICE, ULVERSTON. - Friday, 1st inst., before W. GALE, Esq.---

    CAPT. STUART, one of the notorious gipsy tribe, and who claims to be
descended from royal blood, and who has been a captive of the Ulverston
police officers at least a score of times, was charged by INSPECTOR DAVIDSON
with drunkenness the preceding evening. He begged pardon, which was
granted, on condition of his leaving the town immediately, and he departed
entreating a blessing on the worthy magistrate for his kindness.
    JOHN COWARD, better known by the cognomen of "Complaints", was charged
by the master of the Workhouse with refusing to work, and other misconduct.
Being an old offender, he was committed to Preston House of Correction for
six weeks.

Thursday, 7th inst., before M. AINSLIE, Esq., and REVDS. C. R. GRAHAM and J.
BALDWIN......

        An order in bastardy was granted on THOS. ROWLANDSON, of Cark, to
pay 1s 6d per week, 10s. for the midwife, and the costs of the application
to MARGARET WATSON of the same place. MR. SYKES appeared for the
application, and MR. J. P. POSTLETHWAITE for the defence.
        An application made by MARY MOSSOP, of Coniston, for an order on
JOHN HULLOCK, of the same place, was dismissed.

A BULKY VISITOR. - On Thursday evening in last week, a fine specimen of the
common whale, thirty-three feet in length, six feet across the tail, and
weighing upwards of eight tons, was stranded at Poulton-le-Sands, near
Lancaster. It was first seen floundering in shallow water by a fisherman of
the name of WOODHOUSE, and is conjectured to have been driven on shore by
the high winds. It has proved a perfect " God-send " to the finder, having
yielded about three hundred gallons of oil. Though alive when it reached
the shore, the finny monster presently gave up the ghost.

DEATH BY DROWNING - DREADFUL DISCOVERY. - Between six and seven o'clock on
Sunday morning last, as one of the men-servants of MR. JAMES WAINMAN,
farmer, of Hampon Green, Elell, was watering the horses at a pond near his
master's house, he noticed part of a woman's cloak projecting above the
surface of the water, some five or six yards from the side. He immediately
acquainted MR. WAINMAN with the circumstance, who immediately went to the
pond, accompanied by several of his men, for the purpose of dragging out the
supposed cloak.
    To the inexpressible grief and astonishment, however, of MR. W., they
dragged out his mother, who, it appears, had been at his house the whole of
the day preceding, and quitted it about seven o'clock in the evening, for
her own lodgings at a farm-house only a few roods from her son's residence.
    On her road home she had to pass along a cart-track in the field, on
each side of which was a pond, and it is supposed that she had accidentally
slipped into the one in which she was found, as the night was very dark.
    The deceased, who was a widow, and upwards of seventy years of age, had
frequently gone home in the dark alone, always refusing company. An inquest
was held on the body on Tuesday last, a vedict of "Found drowned" returned.

AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH. - The family of MR. PETER LATHAM, of Millgate, Wigan,
were awfully shocked on Sunday morning, by the discovery that MISS HARRIET
LATHAM, a young lady about twenty years of age, had died suddenly in bed
early in the morning.
    The deceased had been subject to fits, and it is supposed that, as she
went to bed in her usual health, she had been again attacked, and had thus
met her death.
    She was found by a servant, with whom she slept, lying on the floor by
the side of the bed, with a portion of the clothes wrapped round her, and
quite dead. Her nose had been bleeding, and appeared to have been bruised
by the fall. She was supposed, when discovered, to have
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