Carlisle Journal November 30, 1855 News Items........Page 1

News Items........Page 1

A FARMER AND HIS FAIR FRIENDS,    OR A DAY'S FROLIC. A Saturday or two ago, a young farmer drove a damsel in a gig, from the neighbourhood of Thorp, to Durham hirings;  and in Claypath, ambitious of the admiration of the cathedral cits, he applied the whip smartly, to put mettle into his horse, but only succeeded in throwing the poor brute down and smashing his vehicle.  The animal, previously valued at £40, was sold the same day for £5.  Well  !! the luckless Jehu, (who, with his fair companion, escaped unhurt), having hired new servants and sold his corn at 22s. a boll, adjourned with some friends to the Hat and Feathers, where they had a glass together. Our hero then got leave to drive home a cart, freighted with four ladies;  and on the road he sung them songs - told them stories - and emptied them into a ditch, into which he accompanied them ! The poor ladies reached  home at midnight, with veils, bonnets, dresses, &c., all clarted with mud, and tattered and torn. ============================================================ STRIKE OF TAILORS IN SUNDERLAND ... It appears from the local papers that the journeymen tailors of Sunderland to the number of 100, are at present on strike. Their weekly wage has hitherto been 24s. but in consequence of this high price of provisions they requested, an advance of 6d. per day, which the masters agreed to give, and the dispute has arisen through a difference in the " logging " of the time by which the pay is regulated. The masters wish to adopt the Newcastle " log ", which the men repudiate, as it would virtually, they say, reduce their wages 3s. per week, since their fellow unionists in the town only make one guinea per week, and would have to work about eighty hours to reach the 27s. ________________________________________________________________________________ PROFLIGACY AND PAUPERISM.  - A case was brought before the Sunderland Board of Guardians, last week, where it was shown that an able-bodied pauper, whom they ordered to be turned out of the workhouse, had married a wife two years ago, when she was worth £1,000;  but that, through the grossest extravagance in eating and drinking, and pleasuring, he and the whole of his family had in that short interval been reduced to absolute poverty.  They had driven about the country in cabs and carriages, living in tiptop style while the cash held out;  and the spend-thrift actually confessed to the board that £237. 6s. of it went to pay a publican and eating-house keeper's bill in the town of Newcastle !  The fellow was particularly impertinent to the board, and asked if they thought 6s. enough to support him and his family for a week. "Sunderland Herald" =========================================================== NEWS ITEMS. AMOS MUNRO.   In our last, it was stated that a strange story was afloat in Whitehaven and Carlisle respecting AMOS MUNRO, the brother of the young man executed at Carlisle for the murder of MR. TURNER. The story was to the effect that he had cut his throat, after making a confession of complicity in the awful crime.  It was known at the police station, and was pretty current in Whitehaven the previous Thursday, and for a longer period in Carlisle. It is satisfactory to learn that it is altogether void of foundation.  AMOS MUNRO to this day is alive and well, and has not the slightest intention of either doing himself harm, or of implicating himself in the crime for which his misguided and unhappy brother suffered. "I know not who originates these reports," says he, "reports that are as false as they are wicked.  First, they represented me to be going about Cockermouth and other places seeking work, and unable to obtain it;  when from first to last, thanks to MR. CARMICHAEL's kindness, I have never been a single day off work in Knockmurton pit.  Now they have me laying hands on myself, after confessing what is not, and never can be true.  Destroy my character by false insinuations they may, but they can never destroy two things - my conscious innocence and peace of mind." "Whitehaven Herald". ____________________________________________________________________

 

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