The Express. — 1868-05-12 (London, England)

IIOLY OCCURRENCE.-011 Thursday a painful case of suicide occurred at Laurencetown. The victim of the rash act was Mr. %Yin. Umber, station-muter at that town. It appears that in the early part of the day Mr. Thomas Cowan, of Dundalk, manager of theline, was making An inspection of the station ; and not find. lug every thing in as satisfactory a state as lie deemed, re nosed Mr. rasher for his alleged neglect and inattention to busineu. The young said Mr. Cowan would never ag►in have to reprove him. He then left the room in an excited state ; and, having taken a pistol unobserved from his desk, blew his brains out near the station. The consternation which this act caused might be imagined, and the regret amongst the inhabitants of the town in general. Deceased was only '22 years of age, and hat been about four years discharging the duties of station-muter. After an inquest hail been held, the body was removed by rail to Dundalk, where his parents reside.—Newry Telegraph. - •  A Nlyttimitous Ot ritAGE.—On Saturday night, John itlolloy, a tenant of Marcus Goodbody, Esq., at Dal; lygrawne, near Athenry, was securing the door of his barn, when be received a heavy blow on the back of his bead, which he thought for a moment must have been caused by a rafter falling from the roof ; but, on turning round, he found himself confronted by a ruffian I who struck him on the forehead with a hammer. Re immediately closed with his assailant, and they struggled for a abort time, but the stunning effect of the News be had received obliged him to let go his hold, and be fell to the ground. The assassin then lifted a stone wits both his hands, and dashed it with crushing force upot the prostrate man's breast. Unhappily there was nu pa:son at hand to come to his succour. The poor fellow -.3 a widower, and the only imitates of his house are hii, two cialtlren, the eider net quite seven years old ; but that succeeded after some delay in alarming his neighbours, 5i....0, when theyeame, found him insensible and stirrountetedrity a pool of blood. He Iles in a most precarious state, ilia:Ones received from the stone being, as far as the dintrir surgeon, Dr. Geonard, has as yet been able to flaCtrttee, el a most alarming character. Happily, how, ever. it suayibe hoped, forth' ends of justice, the brain appears to bavo.oscaped, and the sufferer has been enabled it' name Lis assailant, when he distinctly secognised, us svite of the disguise of a leap beard, to be a mom against WllOlll he h,d sworn informatons nearly two years ago. As yot the police hats not been dde to come upon his traces. —Dweklin Erming Mail. I' ACIIT Swint: uur Or &Tram& —What becomes of in yacht asennai from October to May? Weil ; there are madly frum twenty to Shirk, yachts cruising in the MetllteMtnele in the Mel ,ter • some with a whole family— children sad nurses—est board. Lit how do the cream of the yachts that are laid up on the ,mad all the winter obtain o livelihood ? Mak., of the man who have been employed in racing yachts all Lite summer remain idle all the winter, as the crews of racit.,y Is get an inecemmet pay on the dap when the yeah t ifffled in a rem Mary of the Isle of Wight men tfrom iSt• .m• and B•mlirtligd take to fishing and to pilot-boats during the winter. 0 Portsmouth men are pretty genetall7 waterm., en, and return to that occupation when they same season Le over. It should be added that there are first *clear Yachtsmen from lisxwieh and the Saes: coast who are nyetec-dredders, and AetEi who like to return house in August or bar. Some °take Soathampton mess may be found pair in the peat packet steamers out of the yachting sewn, we should say that, as a rule, few of the five or is tboutuail men mimed every summer in the yachting lorries atop themriotselves or May for taut voyages in the winter.-34 lea.'/ MOWf.  XW ifttlefarf A.