News Items.............Page 2 - Cumberland and Westmorland Newspaper Transcriptions

News Items.............Page 2

DISAPPEARANCE OF A YOUTH FROM FARLETON, WESTMORLAND.

The village of Farleton and the surrounding district have been in a state of much excitement for the last few days, owing to the disappearance of a youth between 16 and 17 years of age, from the service of MR. CUMMINGS, Ellers, Farleton.

It is rumoured that on the morning of his disappearance, some angry words passed between him and one of the sons of MR. CUMMINGS, who used him somewhat roughly, while attending to his work in the stables.

The youth afterwards went out, apparently with a view of repairing the hedges, taking with him his axe and mittens, but he never returned, nor have any tidings whatever been heard of him since.

The river has been searched in every direction, and the canal, which runs close by, has been repeatedly dragged, but nothing has been found to indicate whether he is dead or alive.

He had not a farthing of money when he left, though his half year's wages were due. His parents, as may easily be imagined, are great agony of mind.

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COLLECTORSHIP OF NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.

MR. JOSEPH BALDWIN, who, for the last ten months, has been the Comptroller of Customs at Liverpool, has just been promoted to the Collectorship of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

The income with its sundry emoluments, is understood to be worth about £1000 a-year.

"Sunderland Herald"
[The salary considerably exceeds £1,000]

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ABSTINENCE FROM SUGAR.

Many families in the town of Barnsley, and the inhabitants of entire hamlets in the neighbourhood, have resolved to abstain from the use of sugar until prices are reduced.

This resolution has already caused a large diminution in the sales of that commodity by the Barnsley grocers.
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A HERO FROM THE BALTIC.

On Wednesday evening last, CAPTAIN F. SCOTT, of her Majesty's ship "Russel", arrived at his seat, Harecroft, Gosforth, from the Baltic.
We are glad to state that the gallant captain is in excellent health and looking well.

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TEA PARTY AT HALLSTEADS.

On Tuesday last, the scholars attending Watermillock Sunday and Day Schools were, with their teachers, MR. BROWNRIG and MISS SHANNON, entertained, according to annual custom, by WM. MARSHALL, Esq. M.P., and his lady, at Hallsteads, one of his seats on the lake of Ullswater.

The chidren, about 80 in number, assembled at one o'clock, and enjoyed many pleasing recreations and diversions for upwards of two hours in the beautiful grounds around the hall, MR. MARSHALL himself cordially joining in all their amusements, whilst MRS. MARSHALL and a few friends and neighbours, who had been invited to partake of luncheon and to participate in the festivities of the day, looked around on the assembled group and their harmless gambols with pleasure and delight.

Amongst those present, we observed A. F. HUDLESTON, Esq., Hutton John; MISS DOWBIGGIN and MISS MACDONALD, nieces of LORD PANMURE, of Waterfoot; the REV. THOMAS LOWRY and MRS. LOWRY; MRS. CASTLEHOW; MRS. and MISS RUMNEY; MASTER C. B. LOWRY; and MRS. BROWNRIG.

The day was exceedingly fine for the occasion. Before the party proceeded to the hall where tea was to be served, the children assembled on a certain locality in the park to hear the echo, and at a signal given by MR. MARSHALL certain ejaculations previously agreed upon were uttered forth from nearly a hundred voices in one simultaneous chorus, and which were re-echoed back from the opposite mountains to the no small surprise and delight of the children.

The party then entered the hall, the walls of which were decorated with rich festoons of evergreens, and bouquets of flowering shrubs depended from the ceiling, whilst the tables were covered with sandwiches, rich fruit cakes, and other dainties (interspersed with fruits and flowers), of which the children partook to their hearts' content.

After the repast was concluded, music, singing, and dancing commenced, and when the evening shades began to prevail, each child, highly delighted with the kindness and urbanity of MR. and MRS. MARSHALL, was about to return home, but previous to their departure, three hearty cheers were given for MRS. SPRING RICE (late MISS MARSHALL) and her sister, who while resident here and in Patterdale, had devoted so much of their time, not only to the scholars of the Sunday school, but also to the older and poorer inhabitants of the district.

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TRINITY CHURCHYARD.

At a Privy Council held at Windsor on the 21st instant, an order was issued for the closing of the churchyard of Holy Trinity, Caldewgate, Carlisle.

Burials are to be discontinued (with certain exceptions) on and after the 1st of Dec.; and no new burial ground is to be opened in the parish without the previous approval of one of her Majesty's principal secretaries of state.

The exceptions are............

"In now existing walled graves, in which each coffin shall be embedded in powdered charcoal and separately entombed;

and in now existing family graves which can be opened to the depth of five feet without the exposure of remains;

and in graves not nearer to the church than now existing graves, to be made five feet deep without disturbing soil which had been buried in, and in which one body only shall be interred."

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