Singular accident

 A drummer of the depot quartered at Crinkle, in the King's County, has been killed in a singular manner.

A party of 22 men, attended by two officers, went out to Clonoghill bog, for practice with the Minie rifle; the target was 300 yards distant from the place of firing, and beside it there was raised a mound of bog-earth 4 feet 6 inches high, 4 feet wide at the bottom, and tapering to the top, where it was 2 feet 6 inches in thickness.

During the rifle practice the deceased and a corporal crouched behind the mound - it being the business of the latter to point out with a shaft the several hits on the target, and of the deceased to sound certain calls on the bugle, also indicating the place of those hits.

After some shots had been fired, a private discharged a rifle at the target, when the ball hit the top of the mound of earth beside which the deceased was, and, passing through it, struck him on the back of his head, through which it passed, and appeared under the skin of the opposite temple. The deceased exclaimed something about his being shot to his companion, and instantly expired.

The mound was 3 feet thick at the part where the ball passed through; and, when the distance is taken into account, the circumstance gives a strong proof of the effect of the new missile.