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The Preston Guardian
Saturday November 13 1852

Burnley
Caution to Innkeepers

At the petty sessions, held in the Court House, on Monday last, James Shackleton, Innkeeper, of the Oddfellow's Arms, and widow Grey, of the Turf Tavern, were each fined 40s. and costs for permitting drunkenness and disorderly cinduct in their houses, on Tuesday, the 26th of October. For several petty sessions held previously, several publicans and beer house keepers have been mulcted in different penalties, for having disorderly houses on week days as well as Sundays; and a number of individuals have also been fined 5s. and costs for being drunk, &c., and in default of payment have been placed in the stocks. We mention these facts, as many landlords, and other persons entertain the idea that the police or the magistrates have no authority to punish persons for being drunk on week-days, but only on the Sabbath. Mr. Carswell, the superintendent of the police, and the members of the force generally, deserve and obtain great credit for their viligance of late, and we trust they will persevere in their efforts to suppress drunkenness and immorality. They will be supported in their endeavours not only by the magistracy, but all the friends of virtue and good order, indeed by all whose good opinion is worth having. We trust that they will next direct their attention to the the numerous gangs of pigeon-flyers and gamblers (principally youths) who infest the outskirts of the town, and rob their parents or employers to obtain money for the purpose of betting and laying wagers, &c.

Thunderstorm
Yesterday week, between four and five o'clock in the afternoon, the town of Burnley was visited with a more tremendous thunderstorm than has been remembered by "the oldest inhabitant," which continued for about an hour and a half; but we have not heard of any damage being sustained in this immediate neighbourhood, with the exception of the sails of a windmill, at Deerplay, near Bacup (the highest village in Lancashire), being shattered to atoms, by the electric fluid. Several persons were standing near the mill at the time, but escaped unhurt. The storm was general throughout the forests of Pendle and Rossendale, a very hilly, rugged, and picturesque district.

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Mel

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