ANGLO CELT -- May 5, 1853 ----------------------------------------- EXECUTION AT ENNIS. -- The Stockpooles, two men and a woman, condemned at the last Spring Assizes for the murder of their nephew, James Stackpoole(sic) at Blanalough, near Miltownmalbay, on the ..... September last, were executed, on Friday, in front of the gaol at Ennis. A great number of people assembled to witness the mournful spectacle. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. -- Dr. Kirwan held an inquest on Saturday, at 40, Patrick-street, on a boy named William M'Glynn, aged thirteen years. This melancholy accident occurred under the following circumstances: -- The deceased was employed to sweep out the aisle of St. Patrick's Church, and climbed up to a place called the Friars' Walk, to serch(sic) for pigeon's nests, when he fell from a height of seventy feet, and died almost immediately, from the effects of the fall. Verdict, "Accidental death." A NEGRO VIEW OF SLAVERY. -- The Examiner says that a dashing free negro from the United States married the daughter of a very respectable coloured citizen of Toronto, but, getting no money with her, as he anticipated, sent off South, where he said that he had rich friends, and there sold his wife, and was aquatulated?(squatulated?)." the father is now left to find if not to purchase his recently-married daughter in the slave market of the South. -- American Paper. Some one has taken the trouble of ascertaining the ages of the cabinet ministers ; and here they are: Lord Lansdowne is 73 ; Lord Cranworth 63 ; Lord John Russell and Sir James Graham, 61 ; Sir Charles Wood, 53 ; Mr. Gladstone, 44 ; Sir. W. Molesworth and Mr. Sydney Herbert, 43 ; Duke of Newcastle, 42 ; Lord Granville, 38 ; Duke of Argyll, 30. Their joint ages are 689 , and their average age 53, that of Sir Charles Wood. Seven are under 70 years of age, and six above that age. ==================================================== County Cavan Newspaper Transcription Project