CAVAN WEEKLY NEWS, Friday, October 27, 1876 DEATH. M'GAURAN - At Cavan, on the 23rd inst., Mary Agnes, wife of Edward M'Gauran, Esq., Clerk of the Crown; much regretted by all who knew her. At the last session of Cavan, Mr. Terence O'REILLY of Cromkeys, was granted license for his premises in that village. Six lady students presented themselves on Saturday last for admission to the Queen's College, Galway, but they were rejected by the Council. This may be a precedent for other colleges to exclude women from universities. NINE MONTHS' FAILURES IN AMERICA. Glasgow, Wednesday. A return has just been made up by a mercantile firm in town of the number of failures which have taken place in the United States and the Dominion of Canada during the past nine months of this year, and the figures are sufficiently formidable to cause alarm. The total number of failures was 8,306 involving indebtedness to the amount of 174,058,950 dollars. For the same period last year the figures were 6,903 failures and the amount of money involved was 153,084,047 dollars. During the past twenty-one months there have been 14,787 failures, the amount of liabilities being 358,000,000 dollars, showing an average liability for each failure of 24,235 dollars. (County Cavan Newspaper Transcription Project)