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    1. [IRL-CAVAN] Presentation, High Sheriffs, B-M-D - November 13, 1856
    2. Kay Stanton
    3. "The Anglo Celt" Cavan; Thursday, November 13, 1856 PRESENTATION. On Saturday last a deputation, consisting of Captains ROBINSON and EDWARDS, JAMES KERR, and PATK. DUFF, Esqrs., all of the late Cavan Militia, waited on Mr. PATRICK CAFFREY, of this town and presented him with a Silver Teapot, of massive materials, richly chased, and the design all together reflecting great credit on Mr. WEST of College Green, Dublin, in whose premises it was conceived and executed. The teapot has engraved upon I the following inscription - "Presented by Lieutenant-Colonel the Earl of BECTIVE, and the Officers of the 101st or Cavan Regiment of Militia, to MR. PATRICK CAFFREY, in grateful rememberance (sic) of his disinterested assistance during the embodiment of the regiment in 1855 and 1856." The gift surely exhibited on the part of the donors that they were possessed with feelings of gratitude; for the period when Mr. CAFFREY's assistance to them could be effective, has passed away, and there is, therefore, nothing the recollection of the past, for! which to do him honour. The practical recognition of services, previously rendered, and the continuance of which is neither called for nor possible, is gratitude indeed: and they, who evince it, by the very fact entitle themselves to be looked on as men, inspired with one of the noblest feelings which dignify our nature. Hence it is that all the praise, which can be bestowed upon them for their truly magnificent present and the still more generous feelings which inspired it, is nothing more than what is due to them: but we must add that it comes most worthily from them that they have paid such a tribute to Mr. CAFFREY's deservings. Everyone of us is aware of the exertions of that gentleman in the matter of the embodiment and sustaining of the Cavan Militia; from first to last, he was identified with the corps in heart and soul, as his acts abundantly testified. He interested himself in their origin, in the fullness of their strength; and , when they were being disbanded! , as is known, the conception, the providing, and the success of the most respectable banquet, at which they were entertained, were almost entirely, owing to him. "Disinterested," indeed, was his assistance; he had nothing to gain by the Cavan Militia, nothing in wealth, nothing in honour, for he was already rich in the approbation of all, without exception, to whom he was known. A true cosmopolitan in kindness Mr. CAFFREY has always proved himself; from the highest to the lowest in the county with whom his business or the promptings of his heart brought him in connection, he mixed himself up with the concerns of them all, participating, as if he were a real sharer in it, in the gladness, which he was a great means of bringing about, and assuaging, as far he could, the sorrows which he could not entirely dispel. If all, who have had experience of Mr. CAFFREY's undeviating rectitude and kindness, were to pay him, in word or act, a tribute of it, there is hardly an individu! al in the county, from whom he could not produce a testimonial. In full sincerity we wish Mr. CAFFREY to be the recipient of many such marks of esteem as that of Saturday last, and that he may live long and happily to enjoy them all. SUICIDE BY DROWNING. - An inquest was held this day by William POLLOCK, Esq., and an intelligent jury, on view of the body of Eliza HALL, whose death resulted in the following circumstances: - It appears that deceased who was aged 45 or thereabouts, and was from Fivemiletown, in the County Fermanagh, had been residing some time with her brother-in-law, Mr. Charles KENNY, of Tullylough, beside this town. Latterly she was under the care of Dr. ROE, for a disease of the liver, but, during the past month, she refused to take the medicine prescribed for her, and seemed very depressed. On Tuesday last, about 12 o'clock, she went out, as if to walk in the fields, having first asked her sister if her boots would keep out the damp. She had been out for some hours, when the sister, becoming uneasy, went to look for her; one of the servant-men was then sent out to look for her, and he discovered her lying on her face in a boghole at the foot of the hill, in three feet of water! , and quite dead. Her boots, shawl and bonnet were got lying on the bank. The jury, after hearing the evidence brought in their verdict - "Drowned herself, while labouring under a fit of temporary in sanity." HIGH SHERIFFS FOR 1857. - Theophilus CLEMENTS, of Rakenny, James Arthur DEASE, of Turbotstown, and David FIELDING JONES, of Hallows, Esqrs., are returned by the judges to the Lord Lieutenant, as the persons, from whom to select one, to serve as High Sheriff in the coming year. Amongst others we see that Edward MAGUIRE, Esq, of Gortoral House, Swanlinbar, is returned for Leitrim; and Matthew O'REILLY DEASE, Esq., for Lough. MASTERS AND SERVANTS. - This day was hiring day for the winter and spring half-year, in Cavan, and the streets were crowded with employers and persons seeking to be employed. Servants are asking and getting fully double as much wages as they could obtain two years ago. BIRTHS. On the 9th inst., at 46, Upper Dominick-street, Dublin, the wife of Michael PLUNKETT, Esq., of a son. November 7, the wife of Francis M'CABE, Esq., of this town, of a son. MARRIED. In Maynooth, Thomas CARR, Esq., late of Maynooth College to Catherine, relict of Thomas MAGEE, Esq., Leinster Arms Hotel, Maynooth. DEATHS. On the 3rd instant, at Paris, Elizabeth, second daugaher of the Right Hon. and Very Rev. Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey, Dean of Kilmore. November 3, at the residence of his father, in Swanlinbar, Mr. George WILLIS, 36, Bride Street, in the city of Dublin. On the 10th inst., at Swellan, in the 23rd year of her age, Eliza, second daughter of Robert FEGAN, Esq. The universal closing of windows through Cavan in the Interval between Miss Fegan's decease and interment -a fact not common where the deceased was resident outside the town - gives proof abundant of the esteem in which she was held.

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