ANGLO-CELT DECEMBER 8, 1848 EMIGRANTS FROM CAVAN WORKHOUSE The sixty female emigrants from this institution, the departure of whom we noticed last week, has excited some comments in the newspapers. These emigrants, for appearance and training, were vastly superior to any sent from other poor-houses. This must be gratifying to the Vice-Guardians and their subordinate officers. ___________________________________________________________ BELTURBET It is lamentable to state that several outrages have occurred about this town. On Friday night last, Mr. ROGERS' store, in Church-street, was broken into, so early as between nine and ten o'clock at night, and about six cwt. of potatoes carried off, "without let or hindrance." A few nights ago, a man of the name of M'MANUS, having sold some wheat here, on his way home was met by an armed party, about half a mile beyond Kilconey, who because he offered any resistance, was savagely beaten, and robbed of more than three pounrds, the produce of his hard industry. Another person, a gentleman's servant, having with him an ass and cart, in which he had a quantity of flour, bread, groceries, &c., was proceeding on the same night home to his master's residence, and was robbed of all, with the exception of some oatmeal. It is fearful to contemplate such a state of things, as neither life nor property is safe under this regime of spoliation and terror. ===================================================== PRESENTMENT SESSIONS CO. OF CAVAN The winter Presentment Sessions for the barony of Tullygarvey, was held in the court house of Cootehill, on Friday week, before the following magistrates and assocated cess-payers:-- Lieutenant-Colonel Henry T. CLEMENTS, Ashfield Lodge; the Sheriff Elect for the county, in the chair; Charles James ADAMS, Esq, Shinan House; T. E. L. CLEMENTS, Esq., Rathkenny House, Theophilus THOMPSON, Esq., Cavan; and Thos. JOHNSTON, Esq., Redhill demesne. Associated Cesspayers--Edward REILLY, Beagh; J. MARSDEN, MIlls; Robert HOWE, Killybandrick; and John DAVIS, Redhills. The ordinary presentments for payment of contractors, for keeping roads in repair, were passed without observation, save where Alexander ARMSTRONG, Esq., C. E., the very efficient surveyor of the county, objected and withheld his certificate for roads not being in repair, when the presentments were either disallowed or respited for his certificate which he promised to award.... Messrs. ADAMS, L. CLEMENTS, and others, as well as Mr. ARMSTRONG, stating that this was not the period when the county, particularly the over-taxed and over-burdened ratepayers, were all but ruined, to increase the burdens of the people by the impoosition of additional taxation in the shape of county cess, after which, they proceeded to consider the applications for compensation for malicious injuries and burnings. Mary M'GUINNES claimed £1 7s.6d. as compensation for the malicious burning of her house, at Corrygorman, between Redhills and Belturbet, on the 24th February last, which she swore, was burnt, because she was about becoming a Protestant, to induce a pensioner, who resided near her, (who, was himself a Protestant,) to marry her, but who notwith- standing she became a Protestant, declined to marry him on account of her children. Mr. John DAVIS, one of the associated ratepayers, (who is also a Protestant,) said the applicant was a person of very bad fame, and was not entitled to compensation for the house, she then had no title to it, and that although she had received compensation from the landlord for the possession, it was the general impression on the minds of the people of the neighbourhood, that she had set fire to the house herself, for the purpose of procuring compensation for the loss of the house from the grand jury. Mary M'GUINNESS further swore that an old woman, who was going to be sworn as a witness against her, told her, after the house was burnt, that if she had good faith, her house would not have been burned (laughter). The application was also opposed by Mr. GAURAN, Mr. M'MAHON and ohter respectable rate- payers from the neighbourhood, and it was supported by Mr. LYTTLE, a road contractor, who served some of the notices for her. Application rejected. a similar application for compensation for the burning of another house, belonging to a man of the name of SMITH, was postponed to the adjourned sessions. The application of Owen WALKER, of the townland of Mayo, for £15 for compensation for the loss which he sustained by reason of a house belonging to him being maliciously burned in said townland, on the 11th of May last. He commenced by stating that he purchased the house and farm from a brother-in-law of his, who, together with his wife, lived a discontented life, and brought up an undutiful family of children. The application was allowed, notwithstanding that it was opposed by some of the inhabitants of said townland, who insisted that it was not a malicious burning. The application of Alexander TURNER, of Lislea, who claimed com- pensation for the malicious breaking of a cow's leg, was disallowed, and after the presentments for the maintenance of deserted children (the number of which are decreasing,) the court adjourned until Thursday, the 14th instant, to receive proposals for the execution of the works, which had been presented. =================================================== AWFUL ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE IN THE QUEEN'S COUNTY On last week there was an awful casualty and loss of lives of Modu-be-bu coliery, Queen's County. The carriage of the coal and lead is effected out of the engineering pipe by the engine. The pit is more than one hundred yards deep; a man, by name Connor, attended the engineer, and, as four men were descending in the box, CONNOR neglected his business, the box descended as with the velocity of lightning, so that the unfortunate men could see nearly to the bottom of the pit by the fire emitted from the rocks, as the iron box struck them in its descent; when the box struck the bottom of the pit, the chain broke at the pully, and one hundred weight of it came down on the men in the box. A young man, by name BRENNAN, was killed dead on the moment. A young man, by name LEECH, expired after a few moments. A man, by name CANNAGH, lingered a few days, and a man, by name KEALY, escaped with only his leg broken. It is strange that KEALY has made now two marvellous escapes. Some years past, KEALY, when in the bottom of a pit, was struck by a bucket, which fell from the top of the pit; the bucket cut nearly half his cheek off; from which injury he recovered, without even his face being deformed. CONNOR, who attended the engine, would have been killed by some of the friends of the deceased but for the police, who, fortunately for him, were on the spot. =================================================== DEATH On the 26th ultimo, at the residence of her father, Ellen, only daughter of Arthur GORE, Esq., of Mullaboy, county Meath. In life she was esteemed, admired and beloved; in death lamented. ================================================== IN CHANCERY Sarah Anne HARKNESS, Plaintiff. Andrew FERGUSON, Henry FERGUSON, Jas. FERGUSON, Andrew ARMSTRONG, and Henry NOLAN, Defendants. Sarah Anne HARKNESS, Plaintiff Andrew FERGUSON, Administrator of Frances FERGUSON, deceased, Defendants. PURSUANT to the Decree in these Causes, bearing date the Twenty-second Day of January, 1845, I will, on Monday, the Eighth Day of November ....sell to the highest and fairest Bidder, ALL THAT AND THOSE, the lands of KNOCHAHY and DRUMROE, situate in the County of Cavan...Dated this 3rd day of August 1847 __________________________________________________________ County Cavan Newspaper Transcription Project