A DRAMATIC chase after a maddened bull which escaped from a slaughterhouse, where it had been partially stunned, took place in Ballyclare. The animal . . . a large Galloway, a species which is noted for its thick skull . . . had been shot at the slaughterhouse of Mr Wm Graham by Samuel Robinson, foreman butcher, who was proceeding to stab it when the bull suddenly jumped on to its feet and knocked him some distance away. The bull then rushed out of the building. Mr J McMaster, an assistant, climbed the water-spout and got clear, and a number of onlookers also made a hurried retreat. The bull made for the gates leading to the main street, but Mr Robinson, who had recovered from his shock, got there ahead of it and closed the gates. Jumping a fence into a field, the animal headed for the foundry, and ran along a narrow pathf Revolvers and guns were produced and civilians, including workmen from the new Intermediate School building, joined in the chase.

The animal was traced to a field about a quarter of a mile awayf Mr Graham lay in ambush at the gate leading into Cogry Lane. The gate was opened, and the crowd warily retired so that the animal could make that way. It did, and Mr Graham shot it between the eyes, killing it.

Belfast Newsletter 8 January 1900

AN inquest was held before Mr Coroner Peel yesterday at Ballinahonemore on the body of an unmarried woman named Emily McCullough, who was aged about 60 years, and who died on the previous day under painful circumstances. It appeared that the deceased lived with her sister at Ballinahonemore, and had been for some time in bad health and partly paralysed.

She was attended almost continually by her sister. On the 4th inst having got through her usual morning work, the deceased's sister went to get a rest leaving deceased in the kitchen.

While alone, it is presumed the deceased went over towards the fire, and fell into it. When help came, she was found to be so badly burned that death resulted soon afterwards. Dr HA Gray who was sent for, gave evidence at the inquest, and stated that, in his opinion, death resulted from shock. The jury found in accordance with the medical testimony.

Dublin Evening Mail 7 January 1850

THE proceedings at Limerick, on the 3rd instant, shew the triumph of brute force and beastly bellowings over quiet and orderly behaviour. The city of Limerick is, it seems, celebrated for its mob, and the 'Garryowen Boys' are admitted to be facile principes in clearing a Court-house. In every great city, indeed, there must be a large number of turbulent idlers, who, form the free lances of political warfare, willing mercenaries who lend the aid of their leathern lungs and short bludgeons with all the greater sincerity that they are utterly incapable of comprehending the question on which they shout the loudest. Trading patriots too, are always at hand mischievous in proportion to their effrontery, and ignorant in proportion to their flippancy. These are the men who, while they affect love to all, shew pity to none . . . who are known to be hard in their dealing with their fellow-men, and oppressive to all within their power, "who exaggerate and misderive the distress of the labouring classes, in order to make them turbulent, and discourage every plan for their relief, in order to keep them so".