ANGLO-CELT - APRIL 27, 1854 BIRTHS On 21st April, at Capel-street, Dublin, the wife of Michael LYNCH, of a daughter. April 21, the wife of Francis CONNOLLY, Esq., of Ballinamore, county of Leitrim, of a son. MARRIAGES January 18, in St. James's Cathedral, Melbourne, by the Rev. Theodore RUDD, B.A., George Whitford HALL, to Miss Ann TRAINER, daughter of James TRAINER, Esq., of Belfast. DEATHS April 19, in Pembroke Park, Dublin, Mr. William LAING, formerly connected with the Provincial and National Banks, Galway. At his residence, Castlerea, county Roscommon, after a short illness, in the thirty-eighth year of his age, Arthur Wellenley YOUNG, Esq. April 14, at Rinelagh, near Roscommon, in this twenty-eighth year, Matthew PRIOR, Esq., Inspector of Churches in the Connaught district. April 21, at Back Castle, county Meath, Margaret, last surviving child of John BUXTON, Esq., formerly of Black Castle, deceased. April 19, at 46, Waverly road Padding, of Jaundice, Catherine MATTHEWS, widow of Captain Robert MATTHEWS, of the 85th, or 1st Staffordshire Regiment of Foot, aged fifty eight years. ____________________________________________________________ KILMORE ACADEMY The students of the Academy had their annual theatrical performance on the nights of Thursday and Friday last. The audience was select, consisting of the gentry and respectable inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, who came by special invitation. The place for the performance was tastefully ornamented, as on former occasions; and if the actors were anxious to obtain "crowded house," (as we consider they were,) they must have felt highly flattered by the attendance... The band in attendance played at intervals some enlivening strain good style. The scenery was appropriate and well made; and taking everything into account, the whole far exceeded our expectations. The play chosen for the first night was the tragedy of "The Grecian Daughter,", the subject of which is the invasion of Sicily by the tyrant Dionysius, the imprisonment of the King Evander...and the death of the usurper, effected by the heroine Euphrasia. As the old King Evander, Mr. M'ENROE displayed great talent and judgment... MR. J. O'REILLY, in the character of Dioysius, ably attained his part... Mr. TRAYNOR personated Melanthon... Master John BRADY personated Euphrasia; and although it was his first appearance on the stage he has earned a name which might be envied... In the farce, "The Irishman's Fortune," Mr. SHERIDAN appeared as Pandeen O'RAFFERTY, and roars of laughter greeted him through every stage of the performance.... The celebrated drama of "Hofer, the Tell of the Tyrol" commenced the second night's performance. The hero of the play was ably represented by Mr. J. O'REILLY, who in this character as indeed throughout the varied performance, displayed a degree of talent... The part of "Donay" was well enacted by MR. M'ENROE... "Strichback, the tailor," was very ably personated by Mr. NEWMAN. Mr. WHELAN was quite at home as "Jobe Spokewhoppen", and was well seconded by Mr. FITZPATRICK, as his wife Maulette. Mr. P. O'REILLY, as "Elrick" (Hofer's son) did his part very well; and in the character of "Marie," (the wife of Hofer) Master BRADY fully sustained his previous character. We heartily congratulate our young friends on their progress...They deserve every encouragement in this affording a source of innocent amusement to their audience, and also in acquiring for themselves a facility of speaking in public. _____________________________________________________________ TO THE EDITOR OF THE ANGLO-CELT Dear Sir--I have read in your paper of last Thursday a report of the pro- ceedings of the Arvagh Petty Sessions, in connection with the death of the young man DRUM, and the opposition given to the coroner, in his efforts to hold an inquest. I think it tends to create, in the mind of the public, an opinion unfavourable to the mother and friends of the deceased, for it publishes, on mere hearsay, 'that his death was caused by unfair means,' and goes on to say 'that he had only got a short distance from the house when his mother was observed to follow him, and shortly after that he was seen to fall from his horse in a state of insensibility, and that his father, when dying, bequeathed to him his farm and stock.' Some people may think that these arrangements had the effect of creating a feeling between him and the rest of the family, and con- sequently a wish to get rid of him. No such arrangement, however, took place, for his father did not bequeath to him any part of his property whatever. I visited the old man last August, two days before his death, and I wrote out his last will, in which he bequeathed the whole of his property to his wife, the mother of the deceased boy, to be managed by her for the benefit of herself and her eight children. I was up there on the day of the funeral, and saw no disposition on the part of the friends to offer any opposition to the coroner. Had there been any I would have observed it, and had he been able to attend there on that day he could have held his inquest with all ease. I wish further to add, that the DRUM family have been always a peaceable, industrious people, and have, by their religious and upright conduct, earned for themselves the esteem and friendship of their parish during the last thirty years. I feel confident you will, in justice to this family, give insertion to these few lines in your next publication, and I am, dear Sir, yours faithfully, Killeshandra John O'REILLY, P.P. April 25, 1854 ____________________________________________________________ County Cavan Newspaper Transcription Project