ANGLO-CELT SEPTEMBER 8, 1848 SERIOUS ACCIDENT--On Friday evening last, while a number of workmen were employed in making some alterations in a house in Union street, Belfast, a portion of the building fell and injured three individuals. One of the men, a brick-layer, named REILLY, was severely wounded, and is at present in hospital, in a precarious state of health, induced by the accident. The other two are not dangerously injured, although disabled, for a time, from pursuing their usual avocation. The houses of the above locality are very old, and generally unsafe. About a year ago, the gable of a house opposite the place where the late accident ocurred, gave way after night; and in the ricketty-looking building, bound together in some places with old iron which long has threatened the lives of the inhabitants. -- Belfast News-Letter. Co. Donegal--FATAL ACCIDENT--A melancholy and fatal accident (says a correspondent, writing from the Cross-roads near Dunfanaghy) took place at Ballinass, within a mile of this, on Tuesday. A number of poor starving creatures went to the strand for the purpose of searching the sand for a kind of fish called sand ells, with which to appease the pangs of ravenous hunger. A small channel lay between these creatures and the sandbank in which they expected to get the fish. One of the hands of a craft that lay at the pierhead took the ship's boat to ferry them over. It was blowing a gale at the time. The boat sank, and the women so clung to the men that all in the boat, with the exception of one little boy, perished, including the kind hearted sailor who volunteered his boat to carry those ill-fated victims within reach of food. All the bodies have not yet been found; some of the women were the wives of poor men who had gone to England to labour at the harvest.--Packet ==================================================== LOCAL NEWS BOROUGH OF CAVAN--The Town's Commissioners held their usual monthly meeting in the Court House on Monday last, Samuel SWANZEY, Esq., in the chair. The collector reported that he found considerable difficulty in collecting the Borough-rate, owing to the poverty of many of the householders. He was ordered to circulate notice, informing the defaulters that the lenity of another week would be extended, but if they have not paid up at the expiration of that time he is to institute law pro- ceedings against them. The routine business was transcribed, and the board adjourned. CAVANS SAVINGS BANK--In consequence of the failure of the banks in other places, a private meeting of the Justices of the Cavan Sessions Bank was held on Tuesday last in the Infirmary. We have been told the accounts are satisfactory, showing a balance of some hundreds of pounds over and above all liabilities. In the absence of an advertised statement of accounts, without which depositors will not be content, we can only give the above as a rumour. DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT--On Friday evening, two poor men, brothers of the name of SMITH, living near Kilnaleck, brought in some bere to dispose of in this town (Cavan), after concluding a bargain with the miller at Lurganboy, they untied the traces, letting the horses out to graze, while they unloaded the carts. The horses were not long loosed, when they strolled towards a quarry at the rere of the mill, when by some mischance they missed their footing and fell in. Both horses were killed. They were worth £10 each. Mr. BYRNE, the Irish Harper, performed at the Royal School, Cavan, on Monday night. There were several respectable persons present, who, with the students, appeared much pleased with his music and singing. CONFIRMATION IN UPPER LARAH--On Tuesday, the 25th instant, the Right Rev. Dr. BROWNE, R.C. Bishop of Kilmore, administered the sacrament of confirmation in Upper Larah Roman Catholic Chapel, to more than 300 children. His lordship was well pleased with the cleanly appearance of the children, his interrogatories concerning their duty towards God and their neighbour, the nature and efficacy of the sacraments, and the disposition necessary to receive them with benefit. In the evening, the bishop, and a large number of neighbouring clergy, were entertained by the exemplary parish priest, the Rev. MIchael BRADY. ====================================================== DEATH On the 3d instant, at his residence, the North Gate-street House, Chester, of English cholera, John Edward O'REILLY, Esq., M. B., of Trinity College Dublin--the O'REILLY of Annagh Abbey, in the county of Cavan. Some names are peculiarly interwoven with the history of Ireland, and of these not one more noble, pure, or illustrious than that of O'REILLY. This ancient, and once powerful family derives its descent from Heremon, son of Milesius, through Con of the Hundred Battles, monarch of Ireland in the second century, and the heads of which were princes of this county, formerly called East Brefny. The O'REILLYs were stripped of the greatest part of the large possessions of their clan, A.D. 1607, by means of one of those pretended rebellions which it was then the fashion to encourage, in order that the wretched instruments might be robbed of their properties. >From that time to the present, the O'REILLYs, like others of Milesian origin, have been only titular nobles. During the wars of James and William, several members of this house particularly distinguished themselves. Philip Oge O'REILLY and Hugh O'REILLY, or REILLY, Esqrs., represented the borough of Cavan in the Irish Parliament of 1689, and Philip and John O'REILLY, or REILLY, Esqrs., the county. Colonel Edmund Buidhe O'REILLY prevented General Gincle's passage of the Shannon at Lanesborough, and made him retreat with considerable loss. The Colonel commanded under the Duke of Berwich at the battle of Tullagh-Mangain hill (now the "Gallows-hill") just above the town of Cavan, fought on 13th of February 1690, with the English, led by Colonel Wolseley. The Irish were defeated in that engagement by means of the superior artillery of the English, but did not retire until they covered the field with dead. A great many more O'REILLYs, or REILLYs, were in King James's army--vis. Colonel John O'REILLY, Major and Captain REILLY (both of whom were killed in the battle of Cavan), and Father Edmund REILLY, who was one of the royal chaplains. After the treaty of Limerick, Col. Edmund Buidhe O'REILLY retired to France, where he died. From him the subject of this notice, John Edward O'REILLY, Esq., was believed descended. Dr. O'REILLY, whose decease we now deplore, studied in both Dublin and Edinburgh, drawing his degree of bachelor of medicine from the former university. He was the possessor of a hereditary estate of considerable value. Annagh, near Belturbet, was the seat of his residence. About eighteen months ago he married an amiable English lady of great fortune, with whom he lived happily up to the time of his death. Shortly after his marriage, he with his mother-in-law's decease, a fortnight ago, brought him to England. The excitement attendant upon that painful event probably shortened his own life. He leaves no children, brothers, or sisters, and is therefore the last direct descendant of his old and honourable house. Through life the Doctor was distinguished for his charity and munificence, and his passionate attachment to the royal house of Stuart. The poor of his immediate neighbourhood have particular reason to revere his memory; he was ever their friend and benefactor. For his kindness to us we shall always feel gratefully indebted. The Anglo-Celt had no truer friend and better patron than Doctor O'REILLY. He maintained its interests at a critical time, when foul tongues were spitting out their slander. With the blood of princes in his veins and the charity of a christian in his heart, he has sunk into an early tomb, deeply, sincerely, and most deservedly lamented. ==================================================== MARRIAGE On the 5th of July, at St. Silvanus's Church, Nashotah, N.S., America, by the Right Rev. Bishop KEMPER, father of the bride, Rev. William ADAMS, Ex-Scholar, T.C.D., to Elizabeth Maria KEMPER, only daughter of Bishop KEMPER, of the North-Western Diocese. ___________________________________________________________ County Cavan Newpaper Transcription Project