CAVAN WEEKLY NEWS, Friday, December 22, 1876 MARRIED. In the Drumkeeran Presbyterian Meeting House, by the Rev. Samuel PATRICK, on Tuesday, 19th instant, Mr. Matthew JOHNSTON, Drumcrow, to Maggie, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Joseph DONALDSON. M'QUADE and PORTER - December 7th, at Ballyjamesduff Meeting-house, by the Rev. R. H. Clarke, Thomas M'QUADE, Lisnabunty, to Annie, sixth daughter of Hugh PORTER, Prospect. DEATH. CARSON - December 20th, at Knockfield House, Castledermot, Minnie, the fourth daughter of the Rev. James CARSON, Cavan, aged 18 years. The Lord Bishop of Kilmore will hold an ordination in Kilmore Cathedral on Sunday next, the 24th inst. The ordination sermon will be preached by the Rev. Dr. HUTCHINSON. The bishop preached on last Sunday in Cloverhill Church. A public lecture will be delivered in the Presbyterian Church, Cavan, by the Rev. James CARSON on the Eastern Question, on Wednesday, the 27th instant. Chair to be taken at 8 o'clock, p.m. Admission free. Mr. D. H. CRAWFORD has been appointed Postmaster of Killeshandra. CAVAN PROTESTANT HALL. The Committee met on Wednesday - the Lord Bishop of Kilmore in the chair - to consider tenders for fitting up the Hall with gas. There were two tenders, viz: - Messrs. ROSS and MURRY, Dublin; and Messrs. Wm. MORRIS and Son, Cavan. CAVAN PETTY SESSIONS. - Monday. (Before W. Babington, Esq.) Sub-Constable HAYDEN summoned a man named JONES, for assaulting a Railway porter at Cavan Station. From the evidence it appeared that Jones was endeavouring to enter the 5.20 p.m. train while in motion, and upon being prevented he struck a porter. Fined £1 and costs. Mr. James PARKER summoned Richard DUNNE for an assault and threatening language. Mr. SHERRIE appeared for Mr. Parker. As a question of title arose the summons was nilled. Owen CUSACK summoned Anne REILLY for £2 2s. 6d. alleged to be due for horse hire. Mr. Sherrie appeared for defendant. The case was dismissed. Edward BYRNE, Bernard DOLAN, Patt TACKNEY, Thomas BRADY, and John JOHNSTON were fined for not having their names on their carts. Thomas REILLY, Thomas NORTH, Francis NORTH, Bernard O'KEEFE, Wm. Allen, and Richard Brady were fined for drunkenness. Phill BRADY was fined 5s. for refusing to leave a public house. Miss PATTERSON summoned Wm. FITZPATRICK for ever-holding possession of a house. Decree granted. Mary FLYNN summoned Rose Ann KANE for an assault. Adjourned. Eliza ROBINSON v. Margaret BIRD for like. Adjourned. SUICIDE OF A POST OFFICE CLERK. A young man named STUART, clerk in Croydon Post Office, who was on Saturday night left alone in the office to complete his sorting and stamping duty, was found on Monday morning quite dead., his body, in a kneeling position, being suspended by the neck from the gas pipe in an upper room of the building. The deceased had tied together vrrious (sic) pieces of string, with which thus to effect suicide. The event created great sensation, as no motive is assigned for the commission of the deed, and deceased was only about 17 years of age. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE. On Saturday morning Mrs. Margaret VAUGHAN, aged about 40 years, the widow of a distinguished naval officer, who for many years served upon the Viceregal staff, terminated her existence, by cutting her throat with a carving knife. It appears that for some time Mrs. Vaughan, who lived at Stradbroke Hall, Blackrock, had been attended by Dr. M'DOWELL, of Merrion-square, for a mental affection, and a nurse named Eliza SKERRETT had been placed in charge of her. The nurse slept on a couch placed beside the bed of the lady. During the night Mrs. Vaughan would seem to have risen from her bed unknown to the nurse, and descended to the lower parlours of the house in her nightdress, and obtained a large carving knife, with which she cut her throat. When the nurse awoke between 6 and 7 o'clock, she became alarmed at Mrs. Vaughan's absence, and immediately instituted a search for her. On reaching the back parlour she found the unfortunate lady lying on the carpet in a pool of blood, with a carving knife at her hand. Dr. GRIFFIN, of Blackrock, was summoned to the house, but he pronounced life to be extinct. In the course of the afternoon Dr. HARTY, county coroner, attended and held an inquest, when the jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased had committed suicide while in an unsound state of mind. Captain Vaughan commanded the naval brigade, whose march from Calcutta and Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny of 1857, was one of the brightest episodes of that thrilling time. Previous to this he had played a most gallant part in the Crimean war, and was sitting in the boat beside his superior officer, Captain PEEL, when the brave commander fell beneath a Russian bullet. Returning to Ireland, his native country, after the Indian Mutiny, he was invited by Lord Carlisle, whose acquaintance he had made long before in Constantinople, to accept a post as aide-de-camp on the Viceregal staff. He was a special favourite with his Excellency and had a large circle of attached friends in Dublin. On his marriage he resigned his post on the staff and retired to live in comparative privacy at Stradbroke Hall. His death took place about three years ago. A small bottle of Guinness's porter can be purchased anywhere for two pence. This is the retail price, and the profit to the manufacturer must be infinitesimal. Yet rain-drops make the river, and the ocean of profit realized by the Messrs. Guinness is simply amazing. Sir Benjamin Guinness paid income tax on £56,000 a year. It is stated in town that the profits realized by the Messrs. Guinness's brewery amount to the magnificent figure of £100,000 per annum, and the partnership has been dissolved upon the terms that Sir Arthur is to receive £1,000,000, or 20 years' purchase of £50,000 a year. I have also heard that Mr. E. Cecil Guinness, who becomes the sole owner of the brewery, offered to draw a cheque of one million pounds, his brother's share of the concern. We have been accustomed to think a cheque for £40,000 or £50,000 a wonderful document, and to look upon the drawer with curiosity and astonishment, but we are utterly lost in wonder at the idea of a fellow-citizen offering to draw a cheque and pay down the coin to a cool million. I can imagine the amazement of the bank cashier to whom the cheque would be presented, and the blank consternation of the manager at the sudden demand, and his probable inability to meet it without realizing securities. The population of England is 39,000,000, and I doubt if twenty individuals out of that number could draw a cheque for a like sum with the certainty of its being honoured. The citizens of Dublin ought to be proud that they possess in their midst a business of such gigantic proportions. There are not, I should say, more than half a dozen such private concerns - I was going to say in the United Kingdom - but, on second thoughts, will say the world. (Cavan County Newspaper Transcription Project)