THE CONNAUGHT JOURNAL Galway, September 6, 1824 PROVINCIAL NEWS LIMERICK, SEPT 1. - Mr. Nimmo is engaged this week in projecting a road between the intended New Bridge in this City and Ennis. A Police Magistrate will be stationed at Tomgrany, County Clare. We understand that Major Warburton's brother is the Gentleman selected. The Bridge Commissioners, yesterday, received a letter from Mr. Secretary Gregory, acknowledging their invitation to the Lord Lieutenant to lay the first stone of the building, but his Excellency has not yet fixed any period for this visit. Shehan, the informer against the murderers of Mr. Crofts, and who escaped from the Police at Doneraile, died at Naddanulla, in the Brogga mountains, on the 12th ult. Thomas Spring Rice, Esq. M.P. left Limerick on Thursday for London, in consequence of the sudden and alarming illness of Lady Theodosia Rice. LIMERICK, SEPT. 4. - At the Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday, Mr. Brady, on the part of the Agricultural Society of this County, brought forward charges against different defaulters, for non-payment of money, lent them for the encouragement of industry. Warrants were issued against them. Fever is alarmingly on the increase in Limerick. Thursday, twelve persons were admitted, and the number in fever on Wednesday evening was 107. Yesterday evening five cars arrived here from Dunmore, laden with the apparatus for raising and depressing the diving bell. Yesterday a drunken fellow, living in one of the lanes of the Irishtown, on his return home from a mid day debauch, beat his son, who remonstrated with him on the impropriety of his conduct, with a heavy stick to such a degree, that it is feared his skull is fractured. The monster also knocked him down and literally danced on him! Yesterday, sixteen young boys on their way from the Foundling Hospital, James's-street, Dublin, to Shannon-grove, passed through this City. Thursday, Mr. Daxon's Giles and Mr. Kirwan's Hohenlobe, arrived in this City, preparatory to the ensuing Races; they are to remain a short time at Ballinaguard. It is expected that there will be a greater number of first rate horses this season than for the last five or six years. The high respectability of the Stewards will, we are confident, endure the utmost regularity and order during the week. DOGS - Thursday, a dog belonging to a man who usually takes his stand near the Skie & Hide Crane, West Water-gate, bit the horse of a carman severely. The carman states, that it is customary with the owners of this dog to set him at horses. Monday or Tuesday, a large dog in the island, bit a young girl named Margaret Lee; the wound at first seemed inclined to heal but has since begun to fester. These dogs ought, in the first instance, to be killed, and their owners fined the full penalty under the Road Act. Last week, a son of Mr. Lucas, Apothecary, Cork, while labouring under typhus fever, escaped the vigilance of his attendants, and in a moment of delirium, threw himself out of an upper window and was killed on the spot. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/