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Westmeath has been the scene of one of those agrarian tragedies novr, happily, rare. Some three months ago, one Kelly, a farmer, was murdered in Ins house at Kilbeggan. His widow after continuing to reside there a short time, was driven forth by threatening letters. A Mr. Jessop took the farm. He moved about usually with a police escort, and armed. On Saturdny, he went home in broad daylight without his escort. A man lurking behind a wall shot him. Jessop saw the man, and returned his fire before he fell himself. No hopes are entertained of .Tessop's recovery.
Jessop died of his wounds. It appears that two farmers had just passed. him when the assassin fired. The men looked round, saw Jessop fall, and drove on. Neither did they give information until they had driven off for nearly two miles. Jessop crawled home unassisted, several persons whom he met refraining from giving him aid. This is a very disgraceful state of things. A man, believed to be an accessory after the fact, is in custody.
One of those terrible wrecks which so powerfully affect the imagination occurred on the coast of Wexford on Thursday week. The Pomona, an emi- grant ship, bearing 380 passengers to America, missed her reckoning after passing the Tamar light, and ran upon a shoal on the Blackwater bank. It was night, and a fierce gale swept the sea, which broke completely over the stranded vessel. The passengers ran up from below, and for a moment all was confusion, but the master, Mr. Merryew, succeeded in calming their fears. He hoped that the gale would abate and that he could save the people in the boats. The gale did not abate ; the ship swung off the bank into deep water. The leak gained upon the pumps, the lifeboats were low- ered and swamped. The ship swiftly, and gradually sank lower and lower. At this time the whaleboat was launched, with the third mate and nineteen
seamen and th passengers on board. These were all that were saved • the remainder sari with the ship, except four who reached the coast in the long boat, but fails to land. The local ra describe the Wexford people as having behav badly, stripping the y of a woman washed ashore, among other things but they praise the coast-guard and the constables.
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