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From: "Carol Granville" <>
Subject: THE CAVAN OBSERVER - JULY 31, 1858
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:48:52 -0400


THE CAVAN OBSERVER JULY 31, 1858

On Friday, the 16th ult., a small yacht, in which were W. H. BALDWIN, W. GRAHAM, and F. MACNAMARA, Esqrs., of this town, was struck by a sudden squall and sunk, about two miles from Lanesborough. The three gentlemen succeeded in disentangling themselves from the sinking boat and swimming ashore from the river where it is widest. Messrs. HEWITT and Clarke, in the employment of the Shannon Commissioners, and Head Constable SIMPSON, and the men under his command, afforded prompt and active assistance.--"Westmeath Independent"
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THE CHURCH--The Lord Bishop of Down and Connor has appointed the Rev. Thomas KNOX Vicar-General of Dromore, in the room of the late lamented Rev. Hugh HAMILTON. In consequence of the removal, by the act of last session, of all testamentary jurisdiction from the Vicar-General, no necessity any longer exists of appointing a lawyer to the office. The duties still remaining, the emolumrents of which are very trifling, are entirely confined to the affairs of the church, and can most fitly be performed by a clergyman. Mr. KNOX is rector of Lurgan, and was one of the official surrogates of the diocese.
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DEATH OF DR. ROE

Within the past week, Cavan has sustained a public loss, and private society has been deprived of the genial fellowship of a gentleman and a Christian.

At half-past five o'clock, last Sabbath morning, the courteous, sympathetic, and gentle-mined Dr. ROE yielded up his spirit to Him who gave it, and, through his Lord and Saviour, entered into the enjoyment of that eternal Sabbath, wherein alone is the fulfillment of bliss and glory, for those who walk the earth in the humility of faith, in the exaltation of hope, and in the spirit of Christian charity.

For the protracted period of forty-two years, Dr. ROE filled the important office of Surgeon to our County Infirmary, having been nominated to that post in the year 1816. ..Dr. ROE was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, and was held in very high estimation by the medical profession generally. He was in his sixty-ninth year, and, although he has been for some time in delicate health, still his demise, to a considerable extent, was unexpected. He is gone....The funeral took place on Thursday morning--the melancholy cortege leaving Cavan at about half-past eight. It was attended by the principal inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, many of whom accompanied it to the graveyard. The place of interment was Drumlane, about ten miles from Cavan.
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CORONER'S INQUESTS

William POLLOCK, Esq., on the of the county coroners, held an inquest, on Saturday last, the 24th instant, in our County Gaol, on the body of a woman named Margaret CONNOLLY, a lunatic, who, as appeared by the evidence, had died from exhaustion and general debility. A verdict was returned accordingly.

On the next day (Sunday, the 25th inst.) Mr. POLLOCK held another inquest on the body of a boy named Michael BRADY, aged about four years, who was found drowned in a bog-hole, on the lands of Clonkeefy, on the previous Friday. The mother of the deceased child stated that, on the day in question, she had, when going from home, left him in charge of a woman named Nancy REILLY. When she came back, the boy was nowhere to be found, the woman to whose keeping she had committed him not being able to give her any clue to his whereabouts, having, as she stated, lost sight of him some time previously. She immediately searched for him, but without success. He was, however, shortly afterwards, discovered, as stated above, by a girl named Lucy TIMMINS. It would appear that Nancy REILLY had occasion to go into the fields, and had been followed by the child, who by some accident, had dropped, unseen by her, into the bog-hole, and was consequently drowned. A verdict of accidental death!
was returned.
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CAVAN PETTY SESSIONS

Magistrates present--T. THOMPSON, Esq., Doctor BABINGTON, ____HICKSON, Esq., R.M., and Captain CARDEN.

Hugh CULLEN charged his servant Luke NUTLY, with having absented himself from his (complainant's) employment without leave, and with having used abusive language towards complainant and his son, on being reprimanded by them for his misconduct. CULLEN, however, agreed to take him back, provided he behaved better in future.

Pat M'NAUGHTAN and John BOYLAN, for being drunk in the streets of Ballyhaise, on the fair day of that town, were fined 1s each and costs.

A rather "prepossessing"(?) young man, who gave his name as Lawrence CROSBY, was charged by Color-Sergeant DONALDSON, of the Cavan Militia, for having, on the 19th of the present month, offered himself for enlistment into the regiment, he having been duly enrolled on the 18th December last, when he received a portion of his bounty.

Sergeant-Major CHINNERY swore positively that the prisoner was the person to whom he had paid ten shillings in December last, and that he then gave his name as Patrick RORKE.

The Bench had no doubt of the fraudulent intentions of the prisoner, and sentenced him to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour.

The Bench then rose.
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MARRIED

On the 27th inst., in the Presbyterian Church, Belturbet, by the Rev. James CARSON, of Cavan, the Rev. James THOMSON, Belturbet, to Agnes, youngest daughter of the late John SHERIFF, Esq., Glasgow.

DIED

On the 23rd instant, at Balieborong, Mr. Henry ADAMS, aged 61 years. Mr. ADAMS was, deservedly, much respected. His enemies--if he ever had any--were few in number. He was, in the strictest sense of the term, a straight forward, faithful character, abhorring in his soul every species of deception. Every one who had any knowledge of him deeply laments his loss, while the sorrow into which his more important friends have been thrown by his death, is without bounds.

On the 20th instant, at her residence in Wesley-street, rather suddenly, Mrs. BROWNE, aged 68 years.
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