>From the Tipperary Vindicator. On Tuesday, Thomas O'Meara, Esq., Coroner, held an inquest at Barnage?(Barnane), on view of the bodies of four men who had been employed in cutting a mill race for John Carden, Esq., who is about erecting a flax factory on his estate. A portion of the mill race, which was about 25 foot deep, gave way on Monday evening, when, melancholy to add, the lives of three masons, named Kennedy, Callaghan, and Ryan, and one labourer, named Moore, were lost by the earth falling in on them. After a patient inquiry into the facts it did not appear that blame was attributable to any person, but it is to be regretted that in so useful and excellent a work as that undertaken by Mr. Carden, a competent engineer or builder was not engaged to see that it was properly and securely planned and perfected. A verdict of accidental death was returned. >From the Nenagh Guardian. 23rd July 1842. Michael and Patrick Kennedy, brothers, were sentenced by Mr. Barrister Howley to fifteen years transportation for killing a ram, the property of Caleb Going, Esq., of Traverstown. Fifteen years for killing a ram!. This certainly appears a vigorous enforcement of the law, even to the uttermost extreme of its severity. We recollect, some months ago, that a great outcry was raised, because sentence of death was recorded against a person convicted at King's County sessions for killing a goat. In that case an old Act of Parliament, which happened to escape Sir Samuel Romilly, and all reformers of the sanguinary criminal code, allotted death as punishment for killing a goat; and the assistant Barrister of the King's County had no alternative but to record the sentence, and make his report to the Government. But in regard to the killing of a ram, there is no such antiquated remnant of the Draco system of legislation, and the "fifteen years transportation" must have been the punishment considered necessary by Mr. Howley, acting entirely upon his own discretion. Even if it were "The Ram of Derby", we hold that this was a punishment entirely incommensurate with the offence. 11th March 1878. At the Tipperary Petty Sessions a woman named Julia Ryan was jailed for three days for stealing a quantity of Cabbage Plants. Near Ballinasloe on Monday, a cart containing barrels of porter was stopped by five men, and some of the porter drawn and drunk. A woman, aged 101 years, named Eliza Gleeson, died yesterday at Kyleterome. She had her mental faculties up to the last. At Borrisokane Petty Sessions, some persons were fined for adopting that very cheap mode of feeding their cattle, by turning them out to graze on the public roads, the owners proving themselves greener than the fields, by allowing themselves to be caught. Before Nenagh Guardians on Thursday, there was a memorial signed by some of the Dolla Ratepayers recommending that a man from Curreeny should get out-door relief. He is at present earning 2/- per week, and he has 12 children, the eldest of whom is only 14 years old. He was allowed 2/- per week. Nenagh Town Commissioners had a letter from Ellen Horan, the woman in charge of the Spout, asking for an increase in her wages which amounted to 10/- per year. When asked how much she wanted, she replied, "when I pay a half-penny a day for snuff, there is little left." The Commissioners agreed to increase her salary to £1 per year. 20th Sept. 1880. At Nenagh Board of Guardians among the claimants were two men who were let out eight or nine days ago, and supplied with a suit of clothes each in the expectation that they would remain out. They now come back but did not have all of their clothes. One of them is the Poet Stonebreaker from Ballyanny. The Poet had to pull up and leave the room with his companion, a man stricken in years, who alleged that he brought a better waistcoat to the house then the one he got on leaving it. Mary Ryan, whose pugilistic propensities are the terror of the neighbourhood where she holds high handed domination, summoned Martin and John Considine, father and son, for assault. Mary's evidence was that Martin gave her a good thrashing, and John came and nearly finished her out and out. Only that she had as many lives as a cat she would be gone to Purgatory long ago. On the defence, it appeared, during the case at Thurles Petty Sessions, that the two men (both able fellows) were scarcely able to defend themselves from Mary's maltreatment, only stones were scarce at the scene of the action, one of the defendants, at least, would be a corpse from the manoeuvring of Mary. Mary tried in vain to make parley with them, she said she'd stand no soft sawdering, so, after failing to mollify her, they took to their heels. Their Worships dismissed the case. The dispute arose over the trespass of some geese. At Thurles Petty Sessions, Eliza Bergin, was send to Nenagh Gaol, for three months with had labour, for being found wandering on the road and abroad, and sleeping in the open air at night without being able to give a good account of herself and having no visible means of support. Thomas Daly, a similar billet, for deserting his wife and leaving her a burden on the Thurles Union. Patrick Kennedy, a month in lieu of a £2 fine, which was ruled against him for being merry and mellow, and a noisy good fellow. James Hogan, got seven days in lieu of 10/-, for being three sheets in the wind for the first time in the last 12 months. 1st Nov. 1875. Last Saturday, Mr. Michael Meagher, Coroner held an inquest at Rockford, Roscrea, on view of the body of Martin Coffee, aged 90 years. It appeared from the evidence that Coffee who is a labourer, was discovered the night before, burned, having fallen out pf his bed into the fire, no body being in the house with him at the time. Marriages. Edward Biggs, Esq., only son of the late Frederick Biggs, MD, Drominagh Lodge, to Elizabeth Dillon (Bessie) youngest daughter of Louis Anderson, Esq., late of the RIC. At Cloughjordan Church by the Rev. Dr. Dubbins, Benjamin C. Williams, Cloughjordan, to Sarah, only daughter of Robert Coughlan, Islandwood. We have been informed that the Rev. Fr. O'Donoghue, PP, Portroe, denounced the keeper and frequenters of the numerous Sheebeens in Corbally, when he spoke of the altar last Sunday.