The Sun. — 1866-09-29 (London, England)

SINGULAR SUICIDE.—On the 9th of September a married woman, a German, residing in New York, poisoned herself, led to do so by continued depression of spirits, superinduced by bad health. Before committing suicide she made up a set of mourning dresses for her mother and children, put crape round her, husband's hat, and prepared and laid out her burial clothes.  SALMON BR If Ireland is behindJ7son737ranches of industry, in one at least she is before us, viz., in the cultivation of her salmon fisheries. No people have fought so hard or so successfully to rescue their salmon fisheries from the destruction that threatened them from the employment of impassable weirs and nets, which, by obstructing the passage of the salmon to their spawning beds, would soon have made their rivers barren altogether. That the more enlightened part of the Irish community, backed in their efforts by the poor fishermen themselves, have succeeded in removing these fatal obstructions to a large extent is solely due to a strict unity and a sturdy perseverance ; and if all Irish difficulties were dealt with as this has been, there would soon be little talk of injustice to Ireland. Bu t the Irish have gone far beyond this, and by the ingenuity. perseverance, and judicious speculation of various owners of fisheries, they have carried • out some of the most striking works fur the, enouragement of salmon breeding to be seen, not only in the kingdom, but iu the world. Whoa M. Crumes made his tour of inspection of our salmon fisheries on behalf of the French Government some years since, the work which he thought most worthy of notice was the formation of the salmon ladders on the CaUoonoy River near Sligo. Here there are three falls, ono of which is about 301 t. in depth, and over these no salmon could possibly pass, the consequence being that two fine rivers and a chain of largo and important lakes remained entirely unproductive. The later Mr. Cooper, of Markree Castle, Sligo, however, conceived a plan for making these fine waters a noble salmon fishery ; and, having obtained an act of Parliament to the possession of that which might result from his skill and labour, he set to work to render the falls passable to the salmon. Two simple ladders were applied to the smaller falls without difficulty-the highest, however, required much care and labour; and after many failures he contrived, by means of a double ladder or a flight of stairs with a resting pond in the middle, to render the fall practicable to salmon ; then by stocking the river above with breeding fish he in a very few years became the owner of a fine salmon fishery worth many thousands of pounds a year. Some time afterwards, Mr. Boswell came into possession of a group of small lakes near the sea coast in Connemara, not far from Clifden. At a place called Doohullah, asmall obstructed passage permitted the overflow of those lakes to find its way to the sea. Mr. Boswell, by advice of Mr. Ffennell (the present inspector of salmon fisheries for England, who at that time was inspector for Ireland), cleared out this passage and made it a practicable stream to the sea. He next connected several of the lakes by cutting channels between them so as to combine them together ' into one fishery. He then stocked the head waters with the ova of the salmon trout, a fish in value only second to the salmon ; and in due time had the satisfaction of finding himself the proprietor of an astonishingly prolific salmon trout fishery, in which it had boon no uncommon thing for ono boat to take 1 cwt. of fish to a couple of rods in the day. The fishery then passed into the hands of the present proprietors, who conceived the desire to convert it into a salmon fishery, and, under the care of Mr. Romsbottom, of Clitheroe, whose son is so successfully conductingthe great experiments in Australia, they contrived to stock the head waters with a large quantity of salmon ova. It was thought for some time that the experiment had failed, but at length the happy day arrived when a fine shoal of grilse ran into the lakes and took up their abode there, and since that time the fishery has flourished and increased in value. Many important and perploxing points in the history of the saimon were solved in the course of this experiment. About the same time Messrs. Ashworth bought the farfamed Galway fishery. Its fortunes were at a very low ebb when they bought it, but by opening the weir to the passage of salmon and by judicious preservation of the tributary breeding streams, Messrs. Ashworth increased the production of the river to an anormous extent. It is now one of the most valuable in Ireland; and perhaps no more striking sight can be seen in its way than to stand on the bridge at Galway and net the salmon lying in shoals below. The water is extremely clear, the channel rocky, and the salmon within a space of 100 yards or so may be seen of all sizes, from 61b. weight up to 101 b. or 201 b., in shoals to the number of from 300 to 500; a most astonishing sight, and worth a journey thither to behold. The upper water of the Galway fishery consists of a large lake, Lough Corrib, but there are few breeding streams running into it, and there-. fore the produce of the fishery is to some extent limited. Situate at the head of Lough Corrib is another large lake, Lough Mark, which sends its water into Lough Corrib by a semi-underground passage, impracticable to fish. Many fine breeding streams fall into Lough Mark and other small lakes connected with it. It was there