The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-07-22 00:00:00

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ATTEMPTED MURDER IN DUBLIN.—On Tuesday a
young 1111111 named Martin Hough, or Martin O'Leary,
was kronght up at the Police-office, Exchange-court,
Dublin, charged with having attempted to murder his
sweetheart, Maria Iditchem, aged about 19, at Lacy's.
lane, off Upper iderrion-street. It appeared from tho
evidene,e of a woman named Brown, who lodged at 2,
Laey's-lane, that. on Munday morning the prisoner pro-
posed maniage to the young woman. She declined his
offer, whereupon he said lie would be hung for her; and
iminediatelyafterwatds they both left the room, the
prisoner shutting the door after Lim. They went to the
kitchen, and the young woman immediately cried out
for help. Witness went to the kitchen, where she saw
her lying on the floor on her back, and the prisoner
kneeling on her and cutting her throat with a razor.
lie wounded her severely on the neck and hands, and
she lout a large quantity of blood. She was at onoe re-
moved to the hospital, where she lies in a precarious
state. The prisoner is a servant and says be was in the
army, lie is either insane, or is feigning insanity.
He stands remanded for further examination.

EXECUTION or BISCHRAM.—Beolcham, convicted at
the simnel Limerick Commission of the murder of Mr.
Fitzgerald, expiated him crime on Wednesday on the
scaffold. The justice of the sentence is neither chal-
lenged nor confirmed by any statement or confession
made by the miserable man. He has left the world
carrying his dark secret along with Min, and, it is said,
he met his fate with great firanness, remarking that he
did not die a "stag," a cant word for turncoat. There
was • peat concourse of people at the execution, many
of whom would, no doubt, look up at the man as a
martyr rather than a wretehedfelon, who had outraged
all laws, human and divine.
LAND IMPROVEMENT IN IRELAND. The annual
report of the Board of Irish Public, Works is chiefly
occupied with an account of the operations of the
Land Improvement Aota. 200,203 acres have been
thoroughly drained under these acta, at an average cost
of £4 17a, per acre, 6,503 acres in 1861 and the first
quarter of 1862; a considerable portion has been sub-
soiled. The draining has proved a prelude to the
extension of rotative husbandry throughout the
country. The tenant farmers are proud of the success
of the drainage and of the superior crops produced
from land formerly waterlogged, and consequently
almost waste. No teaching or description, writes an
1111 active clergyman, had any effect upon them, but
one year's exanwie of the improvement before their
own eyes convinced them. An unusual number of
applications for drainage loans was made early in this
year, partly with • view to give employment to the
labouring poor when it was most required, and the
Treasury consented to apple to Parliament for an
extenkion of the amount of loan that may be made to
a proprietor from I-1,000 to £3,000. Twelve loans
have been sanctioned, amounting to £7,150, for the
erection of labourer's dwellings,mid 19 more applications
have been received. TIM part of the report which
gives an account of public works at harbours states that
the Board have no doubt of bringing the works of im-
provement at I)onaghadee to a close in the course of
this summer.