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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 721, 1 September 1870, Page 4

The telegraphic line that is to unite England with Egypt makes gratifying progress;; , An attempt was made by agricultura laborers at Killaruey to seize and destroy a number of mowing machines. The attempt was baffled and the rioters arrested. George Augustus Sala writes in Belgravia : — I happened to be passing one Boxing, day, or rather evening, many years ago, through St. Clement's Churchyard, when I became aware of a man, who was holding on to the railings of the. church, and blubbering in a manner piteous to behold and hear. A good woman, presumably his wife, in a shabby shawl and a crushed bonnet, was doing her best to suppoit the staggering holiday-maker, arid tt> cfaeeT him up, but his grief was overwhelming. "I— l— l'm so unhappy," Jibriosua continued to maunder. "Unhappy," repeated the good woman with ■womanly scorn, and yet not without a kind of rallying sympathy — "unhappy ! what for ? You was drunk the day before yesterday ; you -was drunk on Christmas day ; you're drunk now; what more do yer want ? Do yer want to he a haiigel ?" In the opinion of this excellent housewife intoxication was the summum bomum of humanity. |jj i