BALLINA CHRONICLE Ballina, Mayo, Ireland Wednesday, April 24, 1850 MISCELLANEOUS The Lord Bishop of Derry distributed silver medals to the most proficient pupils of Foyle College on Saturday. The tenantry on the Colebrook estate, Fermanagh, have determined on sowing a large quantity of flaxseed this season. Lord de Vesci is assisting his tenantry in the Queen's county as much as possible in the growth of flax. William Summer, a drunken labourer, hung himself in Manchester on Sunday last. He left behind him a piece of paper referring to a verse in the Proverbs, which declares that the drunkard shall come to poverty. On Sunday sub-constable Clinchy arrested a daring ruffian named William Sheahan, in the act of picking pockets in the Dominican chapel, Limerick, during the celebration of mass. The policeman found 26 handkerchiefs with the prisoner! On last Wednesday night an attempt was made to murder Mr. John Robertson, land steward to C.B. Lisle, Esq., of Glasslough, Monaghan, by a gun-shot. Three of the slugs passed through the window and two lodged in the bed where he was sleeping. A barbarous murder was on Friday night perpetrated on Patrick Egan, a pensioner, residing on the townland of Clonasera, King's County, the property of Mr. Usher. The poor man was in bed at the time of the attack. One of the assassins struck him with a pistol and then leaped so violently on his chest that he expired in ten minutes. There was a seizure made of the goods of the Newcastle workhouse on Saturday under a civil bill decree at the suit of Thomas Ambrose, Esq., medical doctor. When the pauper inmates became aware of it they rose against the bailiffs and would have severely handled them only for the officers of the house. The Galway guardians are offered wooden shoes for the Workhouse paupers at 6d. per pair. A Galway Town councillor and Poor Law Guardian lost several of his teeth from the blows of a guest at his hospitable table last week, originating in a dispute about the gentility of their respective families! The following is copied from the Jersey Times of the 12th inst.:- Drowned in the Royal Adelaide, on her passage from Cork to London, the 30th March, Anthony Le Ber, Esq., and his family, consisting of his wife and six children, three sons and three daughters, the eldest 16, and the youngest eight, leaving behind one daughter. Respites are received at Cork for two men named Dineen and Linehan, against whom death was recorded for sacrilege. Linehan, convicted of robbing both church and Roman Catholic chapel on the same day, has had his sentence commuted to transportation for life; and Linehan to be transported for seven years. [Transcriber note: Linehan and Linehan mentioned for sentencing and Dineen was not.] The iron bridge intended to cross the Shannon at Athlone, for the railway to Galway, will be commenced in a few days by the eminent house of Fox and Henderson, of Birmingham. This will give a great deal of employment. The materials will be landed at our quays, and conveyed by canal to Athlone. Over 1,100 tons of iron will be used in the magnificent structures which will be 700 feet in length.--Limerick Chronicle. "Exchange is no robbery." While America is sending us her corn, we are sending her our people. Those friendly offices are likely to continue. She will save us the trouble of sowing and reaping, and the hands which lived by the labour they afforded, must betake them to the soil whence the new supplies is coming. There they will raise the crops which they are no longer invited to raise at home and as they produce will increase with the encreased labour and with the enlarged area constantly brought under cultivation, we may every year look for more numerous shipments, and these must depreciate still further the value of land and labour in Ireland.--Cork Constitution. The jury under the commission of lunacy against Richard Warren, Esq., of Skibbereen, have returned the following verdict:- "We find that Richard Warren is not an idiot, nor a lunatic, nor a person of unsound mind, so as to be incapable of managing his own affairs." The costs of this trial will exceed £1000 - the principal portion of which must be borne by the petitioner, William Warren, brother of Richard. The enquiry lasted eight days. The counsel on both sides received near £200, the jury 96 guineas, and the commission 64 guineas. Mr. Timothy Dwyer, an aged farmer, presided at a numerous tenant right meeting, held at Kilcommon, Tipperary, on Sunday last, when the chair was addressed by the Rev. W. Lanigan, Rev. J. Molony, P.P. - who denounced Mr. Sheil as an exterminator, and Sir Timothy O'Brien, M.P., as a barefooted and barelegged adventurer. Lord Clarendon, he said, had legally slaughtered the people of this country and cut the nation's throat, but like Castlereagh, he may yet cut his own! (cheers and laughter.) Rev. John O'Dwyer, Rev. Mr. Mullaly, Rev. Mr. Ryan and Rev. Mr. Meagher, P.P., who addressed the meeting, which passed resolutions in accordance with the objects of their assembly. At Ballinasloe Petty Sessions on Saturday, Michael M'Guiness, Thomas D'Arcy, and Mary D'Arcy, preferred a charge against Francis Blake Foster, Esq., for firing a loaded pistol at them when on their way to Kiltormer on the night of the 9th inst. The case having been proved to the bench, was sent for trial to the Quarter Sessions to be held at Loughrea. On Tuesday 29 persons were dispossessed by the sub-sheriff, out of the property of Viscount Chabot, in Thurles, and 22 persons were evicted from the property of J.B. Fennell, Esq., near Caller. EMIGRATION - Our town was thronged this week with persons proceeding to Donegal and Derry to embark for America, from this county and the counties of Leitrim and Fermanagh; most of them appeared to belong to the respectable class of farmers and traders; the numerous cars of excellent furniture which they were taking with them proved that they were in comparably comfortable circumstances, but dreading the further distress of Ireland, they resolved on leaving their native county before all was gone. -- Ballyshannon Herald. DEATH FROM DESTITUTION - On the 14th inst., the inanimate, fleshless and apparently poverty stricken body of a man of the name of Michael Ryan, was discovered on the road side near the town of Borrisoleigh. An inquest was held on the body and it appeared that the ill fated deceased had been for some time begging about the district, and that nothing could compel him to enter the workhouse.--Nenagh Guardian. On the morning of Thursday, the 15th inst. as George M'Kay, gardener to Viscount Doneraile, was in the act of discharging a gun in the garden, at Doneraile, it unfortunately burst, or rather, the breach flew out and fractured his skull so severely that he died in a few hours. Mr. M'Kay was a man of excellent character and a very skillful gardener.-- Cork Constitution. At Parsonstown Quarter Sessions, on Wednesday, John Slevin, and Michael Mear, for assaulting the habitation of Mr. Redmond Scully, Ballyshane, on Saturday night, the 7th April, were found guilty and sentenced to be transported for 14 years each. GOOD ADVICE - When you visit a theatre or go into a crowd, always pick your own pocket before leaving home. If you fail to do this, the duty may probably be discharged for you by a stranger. From a return just made to parliament, it appears that 300 sailing vessels and six steamers were wrecked last year. NEWPORT WORKHOUSE - On Monday there was a meeting of the Guardians of the above union. - Those present were H.J.H. Browne, J.C. Larminie, Edward Malley, and Francis M'Mannon. The Board unanimously elected Mr. and Mrs. Edward Johnson as master and matron of the Workhouse and declared Mr. Glanville contractor for repiaring the auxiliary house.--Mayo Constitution. The principals in the murder of Mr. O'Donnell, of Knock, were his domestics, who are now in custody. A female servant was the person who opened his desks after the deed was perpetrated, and paid the murderers of her master who was in the habit of keeping large sums of money on the premises.- The male and female servants concerned intended leaving for America. After committing the robbery one of the murderers went back to the dead body and replaced the keys in his pocket. There was other property stolen which was found buried in a dung pit. As yet no money has been found. Sunday night, through the exertions of George Fitzmaurice, Esq., R.M., a party of the Shinrone constabulary arrested Timothy Cantwell of Ballingraun, near Moneygall, charged with the murder of Mr. Daniel Egan, of Ballydonagh; he is identified, and committed to abide his trial at the ensuing assizes. On Thursday last 96 paupers, male and female, were sent from the Edenderry Workhouse to Dublin, for embarkation to America. Each is to received £1 on arriving at Quebec. Their maintenance in the house and outfit cost the Union £700. Among the male paupers was a son of Edward M'Donnell, who was executed for the murder of the Rev. Mr. Hewson, of Feigcullen Clebe, county Kildare. INCENDIARY FIRE - We regret to announce that the house of a man named John M'Manus, of Colbeg, was maliciously set on fire, and totally consumed by some evil-minded person. He had very recently obtained possession of it, and envy at his success is said to be the the cause of the destruction. - Head Constable Hay and party were promptly on the scene, but their exertions to discover the perpetrators of the outrage were unattended with success.-- Sligo Guardian. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/