Carlisle Patriot 19 July 1844 19 July 1844 Small News Items

19 July 1844 Small News Items

ENORMOUS PIKE.        On the evening of Saturday last, as a man was fishing from the bank with a minnow in Bassenthwaite Lake, his bait was taken by a large fish, which, after some play, threatened to break the tackle, when the fisherman contrived to give him a coup de grace with a stake having a large iron nail in it. On being landed, the fish proved to be a pike of unusual symmetry, and beauty of colour, measuring 44 inches in length and weighing twenty-eight pounds. ****** THE LAKES.        The Royal Hotel and other Inns at Bowness, the Ferry, Low Wood, and at Ambleside, as well as most of the lodging-houses on the banks of Windermere, have for some time past been much thronged with fashionable company, embracing many noble and distinguished visitors. The same fact may be stated of the Lake District generally. ****** FIRE - DAMP.        A slight explosion of fire-damp took place in the Dog Kennel Pit, Ewanrigg, near Maryport, on Monday morning, when two men were burnt - one severely but the other only slightly. It is fortunate the accident did not occur when all hands were in the working, and we trust that this warning will not be lost on those who may be unprovided with the Davy Lamp.        Explosions of the fire-damp are of such a rare occurrence in the coal mines about Ellenborough and Dearham, that the usual precautions against these alarming events have long been regarded as unnecessary. ****** COTTON.        From the weekly report of the Liverpool cotton market, the stock in that part now exceeds one million of bales (1,002,920), being the largest quantity stored there at any one time, and exceeding the stock of the corresponding period of last year (which until this week, was the largest on record) by nearly 40,000 bales. ****** Dr. RIGG, of Woodrow, near Wigton has become an annual subscriber of one guines to the Cumberland Infirmary. ******        The new Roman Catholic Cathedral Church, in Newcastle, it is now expected will be opened with great pomp and ceremony on the 20th of August. ******        We learn the the Committee of the Cumberland Wrestling Society in London have fixed their autumn meeting to take place on the 5th of August next, and the arena made choice for the sports of the day is Chalk Farm. ****** CHEAP PASSAGE.        The Tyne River steam boats, adopting the penny postage principle, are daily carrying passengers from Newcastle to Shields ( a distance of eight miles ) for a fare of three farthings! The consequence is that a population of the district is in a perpetual state of locomotion. ****** MAGISTRATES OFFICE, COURTS, CARLISLE JULY 13. Present: Major WILDE Major MACLEAN Major WILSON W. HODGSON, Esq. W. N. HODGSON, Esq. Rev. J. HEYSHAM        William WOOD of Howrigg, was summoned by James SHAW for non payment of wages for clearing the soil of a quarry, and for refusing to allow him to finish his work. It appeared that the dispute arose as to the distance to which the soil should be carried, the complainant not carrying it as far as was agreed upon. After a patient hearing the magistrates directed the complainant to finish the work according to his contract

 

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