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Show II Adventurous Career Ended. L A most adventurous enreer has end- f1 ed in tho death a few days ago at Arklow, County Wlcklon, of Mr. E. Walsh. Aftor serving somo tlmo In tho Royal Irish Constabulary, Walsh wont to tho gold diggings of California, Califor-nia, and from there drifted to the all-I all-I , vor mines of Colorndo, whero ho work- cd sldo by sldo with Messrs. Mockcy known nfterwards as tho Silver .I. King O'Brien, Flood, and Fair, who , wore miners there, and subsequently bocamo millionaires. Ho Joined tho Federal army, and took part In all tho leading battles of tho Civil War. At 1 tho struggles of Fredericksburg ho I was In tho division which cut a way i through tho Confederate army, by which tho remnnnt of tho Irish Drl- I gado under Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher rotronted after tho hendlong " chargo they mndo of tho strongly fortified for-tified batteries of Margo's Hill. Mr. ; Walsh was severely wounded, and lay all night amidst the heaps of slain. Picked up next day, he recovered, and continued In tho ranks till tho ond of , the struggle. |