ANGLO-CELT AUGUST 31, 1854 HOMICIDE AT A CUSTOM GAP.--On Wednesday week there was a fair in Killeshandra, to which a man named Patrick FINNEGAN brought some calves to see. In passing out of the green he had some angry words with one of the custom men named BRADY, whom he called a liar, and had some scuffle with. About half an hour afterwards he returned with some four or five others to renew the quarrel with BRADY, when he received from him a blow with a whip, or stick, which fractured his skull, and caused him to die twelve hours afterwards. An inquest was held on the following day before James BERRY, Esq., when the foregoing facts were elicited, and a verdict of manslaughter in self defence returned. BRADY was admitted to bail. We could wish to see this last relic of an odious impost abolished in this county, for we believe that through its length and breadth there is no other place than Killeshandra in which custom is exacted. A bad practice, and the cause of much bloodshed, it has been abolished in every other place, and it is really necessary that the example should be followed in Killeshandra. SUDDEN DEATH AT REDHILLS.--Mr. Thomas MULROONEY, a gentle- man engaged on the Government Survey and Valuation at Redhills, was attacked with sudden illness on Wednesday sen'night, immediately after his dinner, and never spoke until he expired on Saturday morning. Mr. MULROONEY was in his 54th year. FATAL ACCIDENT.--An inquest was held this day before John M'FADIN, Esq., M.D., one of our county coroners, on the body of James DEVELIN, who was killed yesterday by a fall from the top of a hay rick, which he was assisting to make for Mr. James KELLY of this town. It appeared that he had been dressing the end of the rick down, and either from the portion of hay upon which he had rested the rake giving way or through some sudden dizziness he fell to the ground and his head coming against the wall violently, he lost his life. Dr. John CARSON was in immediate attendance, but he saw that any aid he could give was all vain, for concussion and fracture of the brain and injuries inflicted on spinal accessory nerves had caused almost instantaneous death. His fellow labourers carried the deceased to the county infirmary, but he had ceased to live before he arrived there. DEVLIN (sic) went to America some months ago, stayed there a few weeks and returned to Ireland not many days ago. He has, we are informed, left after him a wife and five children. The jury at once returned a verdict of "accidental death." _______________________________________________________________ CATHOLIC CHURCH (From a Correspondent) ON the 28th instant the Right Rev. Dr. BROWNE, accompanied by the Right Rev. Dr. BRADY, Roman Catholic Bishop of Western Australia (who is at present on a visit with his lordship), administered the Sacrament of Confirmation in the Parochial Chapel of Ballyhaise to 300 children, and a good many adults. The preparatory instruction of the children was intrusted to the Rev. Thomas BRADY, Administrator, and the Rev. Philip SMITH, and the knowledge which the children manifested of the Christian Doctrine. ____________________________________________________________ SUDDEN DEATH OF CHARLES JAMES ADAMS, ESQ. ON the 23rd of August this good man died suddenly of appoplexy, whilst he was walking in his garden at Shinan-house, in the neighbourhood of Shercock, county of Cavan. The death has plunged into the depths of grief, a large circle of friends and relations, whilst to the (illegible) of his own locality his removal is an irreparable (illegible), As he was one of the best of men--a magistrate, and a resident land- lord, who loved his home and his country--it is but justice due to departed worth to (illegible) record some memorial of one of so beloved in life and lamented in death. This memorial the writer--who knew him long and well--wishes to in-(?) in a Cavan paper, and as he was a subscriber to the Anglo-Celt, he trust its publisher will give publicity to his paper to the following outline of his character:-- Charles James ADAMS was the youngest son of the Dr. Benjamin ADAMS, who spent a long life as a Clergyman of the Established Church, in this county, in early life, he was a curate at Shercock, afterwards he returned to his beloved "Retreat", near Cootehill, where he died in extreme old age. Charles died rather young--62 was the number of the years, as we saw it inscribed on his coffin. His constitution was naturally strong, but it is likely it suffered a good deal--during the hard service he went through at sea--during the wars with the French. He was a Captain in the Navy, and returned at the end of the war with French. Of late years, he suffered a good deal in health, by periodical attacks of the gout; and the death of his son, William, some two years since, deprived him of his daily companion; and he wept his loss, I may say, every day since his death. Two sons survive him, the eldest is a lieutenant in the army, and is now sailing, it is supposed, with his regiment to the East. The youngest is still spared to weep over the tomb of the best of fathers. He had four daughters, all married, two of them to clergymen of the Established Church, and the others to gentlemen of property, in Cavan and Monaghan. His wife died many years ago, and Mr. ADAMS remained almost alone, for some time past, and felt very acutely his isolated condition. This feeling of loneliness was after all a blessing; it drove him to seek society in good books, and he spent several hours every day in reading his bible, and other religious works. For several years before his death, he had a presentiment(?) that his end was near, and this feeling wrought a salutary change in his moral sentiments, weaned him from the things of earth, and pointed his eye to a better land. The religious tone of his conversation gave evidence of the happy state of his mind, which was ever reverting to the ideas and sentiments, which were supported by daily converse with the Holy Scriptures. These writings fed his mind with good thoughts, and they lent a softening influence to his feelings and conversation; he had a tender heart, which often melted at the sight of woe; and his abounding charities during the long years of famine, which left many a family homeless, and helpless have left his name and kindness deep engraved on the memory of many a sorrowing widow and orphan, who shared his bounty, and were fed around his doors, and some- times supplied with his own hands. He loved society, and his hospitality was carried sometimes to an extreme; he felt so happy in his circle of friends; delighted so much in hearing and telling the stories and anecdotes of the years he once had seen; that it seemed as if his age was renewed, and his spirits revived, when he entertained those friends he loved to meet around the festive board. By habit, taste and education, he was a conservative in his politics, a protestant in his religious views--and was not a bigot. The liberty he claimed for himself he nobly extended to others--to think, judge and act on their own responsibility. There was but one genus, a rather strange one, it is true which his heart loathed. It comprised that mongrel race of libertines, who are ever talking of civil and religious liberty--but are utterly unfit for and unworthy of either. He was the open and many opponent of turbulent bad men and we never remember seeing him more excited in spirit, then, when he was once rebuking a little knot of agitators, who were for stirring up bad feelings in the neighbourhood, and by their mischievous schemes deluding the poor people, who are ever the dupes of heartless demagogues. The death of such a man is a heavy loss to more than his friends-- it will be long felt by his domestics and dependents. He was not only a benefactor to the destitute poor, who abounded in his populace and poor locality, but he was a large employer, he kept on his lands a number of hands all the year round, and now that he is gone, who will employ these labourers? With him they earned their daily bread, and without work they cannot live. To the neighbouring class, his death is a heavy blow--it will be long felt--they showed that they felt their own loss, as they followed in tears the hearse that bore away their benefactor to his last resting place. The mournful procession left Shinnan House at an early hour on Saturday morning, and moved slowly and sadly away to the family burial ground, within the old roofless church, in the adjoining parish of Knockbride. Within the ivy-mantled walls of that old ruin of a church, all that is mortal of this kind hearted man now lies. There too lie his venerable father, his beloved mother, and his own son. On a tablet of marble, inserted in the wall of the new church, we observed with emotion the record which filial affection has reared to the memory of his parents and there are hundreds here who remember his venerable father, the kind neighbour, the humble minded pastor, and the faithful minister, who loved, and kept his bible in his heart and family, and these too will join in the wish expressed by his son, when he erected this tablet to the memory of his parents, and closed the inscription with the prayer: REQUIESCANT IN PEACE In that crowded cemetery, the sleeping ground of so many generations repose, I may say, all the members of the Adams' family. To this long list is now added the name of Charles James ADAMS, of whom we feel happy to be able to say, that he lived, mindful of his end, and sudden-- and to be lamented through his death he--yet it did not come upon him unawares, as he lived daily in the exercise of faith and prayers. We cherish the hope that he is now united to the people in that happy world, where sorrow is unknown.... August 29th, 1854 ___________________________________________________________- MARRIED On the 24th instant, at Donnybrook Church, by the Rev. Edward FORDE, Robert Francis O'BRIEN, Esq. of Rockfield, county Cavan, youngest son of Acheson O'BRIEN, esq., of Drumsilla, J.P., and D.L., for county Leitrim, to Eleanor Sarah, second daughter of Henry FORDE, Esq., of Loughnavale, county Dublin. DIED On the 26th of July, of cholera, in Albany, America, Mr. John M'CULLUM; and on the 9th of August his wife and infant were both cut off by the same fatal malady. They had emigrated a short time since from the neighbour- hood of Cavan, and were both cut down in the prime of life in that strange land which has proved a grave to many Irish emigrants. August 24, at Bundoran, William, eldest son of Christopher NIXON, Esq., Killiglasson House, Black Lion, aged 16 years. The many virtues that adorned his youthful career will be remembered long by all who knew him. ____________________________________________________________ County Cavan Newspaper Transcription Project