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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 31, 26 November 1886, Page 19

Skinny Men.— " Wells' Health tieii.-wer" restores health and vigour, cures Dyspepsia. At chemists and druggists. Kempthorne, Prossi-r ani Co., Agents, Dunedin. Tbe old carp in 'he pondaat Fontainebleau are said to be dying in Urge numbers. We referred to them some time agu in connection with the guts ion <>f the age to which fishoa live, for inure seems to be no d.>uut that beveral of these carp »re the identical fish with which Heneri Quatre originally stocked the ponds. These patriarchs are distinguished from their companions by a ring passed through the caitilageof the nose, which attests by the date engraved on°it that tbe wearers are carp of the Benaissaoce. For some d*ys past the care-takers have been picking them dead out of the pond by dozens, and if the mortality continues there will soon be none of them left. An epidemic of typhoid fever is the explanation of the mortality, suggested by a medical examination of some of the victims,,

against the wall for the purpose of going to the loft. When he had ascended to about the ninth rung on the ladder, and when he was about to place his foot on the door-sill of the loft, the ladder nhpped and the doctor fell heavily backward into tbe yard. The groom and one of the deceased's sons at once ran to his assistance, and when they lifted him he was insensible. Medical gentlemen did their utmost to save his life, bat he never rallied, and died in an hour and a half after he met with the accident. Dr. Savage was 71 years of age, and was 1 the oldest medical practitioner in Newry and neighbourhood. Dublin.— On September 1, in the Northern Divisional Police Court, before Mr. Keys, Q.C., a woman named Mary McGreil was charged with having broken four panes of glass in the " Bird'a Nest," 19 York Road, Kingstown. The " Bird's Nest " is a somewhat notorious proselytizing institution, and has figured before the police courts on many occasions. During the hearing of the case the court was crowded, and a number of Kingstown people were present. Alfred Giles, schoolmaster, stated that the accused was in the infants' school of the " Bird's Nest." She attempted to strike an assistant manager of the house with two plates which she took np. Witness prevented her, and she then began to " roar and bawl," and made offensive remarks on the officials of the institution. She then went over to a window and tried to open it, but witness ran and bolted it, whereupon she deliberately took off her shoe and broke four panes of glass. He believed the prisoner came to the " Bird's Nest" for the purpose of seeing her four children. Two of them are boys and two are girls. Tbe accused wanted to go away and bring her children with her. The children had been left there by their father some months ago. They are Catholics. The Lady Superintendent had given orders that the children should not be allowed out with their mother, and she was prevented from taking them out. It was after she wag prevented from taking the children that she broke the glass. Mr. Bnnis said that there was no doubt the woman broke the glass, but she did ho under great provocation. She went to the " Bird's Nest " for the purpose of seeing her poor little children. They are Catholics, and it it well known that Catholics object to placing their children in the " Bird's Nest." The children had been left there by their father, a soldier, who had deserted his wife. She went quietly to see her children and in doing so she was violently assaulted, and she and another woman who accompanied her had been locked up in tht house and unlawfully detained there. Ellen Cosgrave, of 130, Church street., depoeed that she went with tbe accused to the " Bird's Nest." The prisoner asked to see her children. A lady brought them in. Witness asked the lady to take off the clothes belonging to the institution which were on the children, or " tbere would be a row." The lady Baid, " Not at all— get out of this." Witness caught hold of tbe childred and tried to take them oat of the rom,r >om, but a young man who had come in pushed her away and the door was locked, and the Lady Superintendent, Miss Johnston, refused to let witness and the prisoner out. They were kept locked up in the room againt tbeir will until 4 o'clock. She endeavoured to get out through the window, but the young naan dragged her down. At last the prisoner and witness succeeded in getting two of the children out of the " Bird's Neat." Mr. Keys said that, though the accused had acted in a way in which she bad no right to do, she was was no doubt acting under great excitement and pro-vocation in being locked up in the place for come hours. She had broken the glass, but she was influenced by strong maternal feelings. He had nothing to do with the custody of tbe children. There was a court to decide questions of that kind. With regard to the prisoner, she had been in custody during the night, and he would discbarge her. The decision was received with loud applause in court. GALWAY.— On August 28 a fearful dynamite explosion occurred at Innisturbot, an island ofE the coast of Connemara, about ten miles from Chfden. Some men had been quarrying stones, and by some mistake or accident, the dynamite which they had set to blast a large rock, exploded before they had time to get out of the way. Six of the men were standing by when the explosion occurred. One man's hands and arms were frightfully mangled, whilst his face was also much disfigured. The other man was similarly, though not so seriously, injured. Curiously enough the rock in which the men had placed tbe dynamite only split in two parts, throwing a few splinters around. Had they burst asunder, as they usuallj do in bucq cases, the six men would most undoubtedly have been killed. Clanricarde has given up bis Woodford eviction campaign for the present. The luxury cost too much. The reßultof the campaign is that six families have been thrown out of their houses at a cost { little short of £10,000, of which the ratepayers of the Three Kingdoms I will have to pay fully £6,000. This amount would have bought the fee simple of the entire lands of the evicted people many times over ; indeed, one day's expenses would have purchased tbe lands. The people are jubilant, as they regari the result of the entire campaign as a victory for them, it being considered that the cost is so enormous as to convince the Government that tbe game is a losing one, while the loss to the landlords is such as to make tbe victory beyond doubt a Pyrrhic one. Kkbbv.— The tenants on tbe estate of George Gunn Mahony o«ar Listowel, have completed the purchase of their farms under the guidance of their clergy. The terms average about 17 years' purchase. Pierce Mahony, M.P., is one of the purchasers. The negotiations for the sale to the tenants of the estate of Lord Lansdowne at Cahirciveen have fallen through. It so happened that simultaneously with the progress of these negotiations there proceeded the work of eviction, or preparation for eviction, and in the circumstances it is not surprising that the attempts to sell have failed. The terms were twenty yearn' purchase on the judicial or present rents. A party of armed and disguised men, numbering from eight to twelve, passed through the parish of Murhur on Aug 27 and warned several tenants on the property of Poster Fitzgerald not to pay any rent unless they got a reduction of 6s Bd. in the pound. They also demanded arms, and succeeded in getting a single-barrelled gun &t the residence of Mrs. O'Connor, of Clontubrid. At Cloghers, midway between Tralee and Castleisland, on the night of Au^, 2£>, a

farmer named Brosnan was shot in the leg and severely wounded by a party of Moonlighters. He is in hospital. While the police patrols, of which the place has many, were hurrying to Brosnan, the douses of two brothers named Rooney, between whom there exists some farm dispute, were visited by the same Moonlighters. Several shots were fired into the house. One of the Booneys was put on his knees and told to make an act of contrition, which he did. He was not, however, shot, as he gave some promise ask«d of him. The shots nred in the house were heard by the police at Brosnan's. Five young men from Gortatlea have been arrested on suspicion. Limbrick.— Mr. Lennan, D.1., Detective Director, has paid several flying visits to the police station of Newcastle West, Dromcollogher, Kuocktoosh, and Glanduff within the past week. The forces in » kw of the local stations have been strengthened, and additional transport cars attached to Newcastle West and Abbeyfeale Stations. There is to be a transpoit car attached to either the Dromcollogher or Koocktoosh Stations in view of recent changes. The Government have also supplied binocular glasses to the following stations .-—Newcastle West, Glanduff , and Knocktooih— to further aid the constabulary in coping with moonlighters and day lighters in th ese mountain districts. Leitbim.— Great excitement was created in Carrick on Aug. dl by a stand-up fight in the public street between A. S. Kirkwood J .P., Cloongownah, and Marmaduke Church, of Carrick, who iss a member of the County Leitrim Grand Jury. For some time past there has been an ill-feeling between the partita, both of wh^nx are notorious Loyalists. On this day Kirkwood was passing Church's shop when the latter rushed out to halt him. Kirkwood defended himself with his blackthorn, and in the scuffle which ensued Church got a black eye, and was finally hurled through the window of the hotel on the opposite side of the street belonging to Cairn Church. Kirkwood has been served with a summons for assault. On Aug. 30 Joseph Byrne, aged 21 years, a farmer's son, who resided at Julianstown, was shooting crows on his father's land with a double-barreled fowling-piece. He was in the act of opening a field gate and leading a horse, the reins of which and the gun were held in one hand while he held the gate with the other. By some mischance the gun, which was cocked, fell from his hand to the ground and exploded, the charge of shot entering the side of his foot. He whb conveyed to the Workhouse Hospital at once and seemed to be recovering, but tetanus set in aad he die! ia. great a<£oay. Queen's CouNTY.~-Feverb.as broken out in Maryborough prison. The epidemic is attributed to the water, which is so bad that it hat to be boiled and filtered before use. W. A Couper, of Balhckmoyler, has thought out a second plantation of Ulster for his own neigbourhood. He is evicting erery labourer who has at any time exhibited any feeling of nationality and replacing them with idle loafers from the Orange towns of the North. The latest exhibition ot his hatre 1 of everything popular is shown in the cisc of Thomas Brennan. On the wettest day iv the past month poor Brennan, with his wife and young children, was turned out on the roadside. Cooper has intro luced a number of Orangemen into the district to replace labourers who had been in his employment, and whom he not only dismissed but evicted from their li tie holdings in the vicinity. The National League has taken up the cause of the labourers thus evicted. Boscojivjon. — On August 29 a very large and representative meetiog of the Irish National League was beld at Cloncagh, four miles from Strokestown. Tbe meeting, which was convened under tbe auspices of the Carnaska Branch, was held for the purpose of denouncing local Emergency men and futheting the interests of the National organisation in that district. The platform stood within easy reach of the Feorish meadows, while tbe gentla rising slopes of the Slieve Bawn range looked down upon t ie people as a mute witness of tbe ravages of landlordism in tbe vicinity. Pakenham Mahon, a landlord figurehead, is the owner of those cheerless slopes, and not a single tenement interrupts the moootony of the scene, a few bullocks bein^ tho only occupants of the land. Contingents from Carnanka. Kilbride North, Kilgeffia, Scramogue, Carrdguroe were present, and also delegates from Creeve, Kilmoie, and other places. The whole assembly formed themselves into one vast contingent and marched to the meeting place at Clooucagh. A large number of the c mstabulary were drawn up on the outskirts of the crowd and Government reporters took notes of proceedings. Sligo — Tbe Inspectors of Irish FUneries, Major Hayes. Sir Thomas Br;.dy, and Mr. A Hornsby, held an inquiry on August 31, at the Coast-gu-rd Station, Mulaghmore, into the decline in the productiveness of the fisheries of the North- west of Ireland, with the view of devising some means for remedying the decrease so generally complained of. A number of witnesses, chiefly long line fishermen, were examined, who attributed the diminution in the supply of fish to the effect of trawling. The inquiry was adjourned. Tippebary.— Tbe widow of Timothy Hayes, a draper, of Henry street, Tipperary, who buried her husband but a few days before, was evicted on August 30, amid much excitement, by virs. Mary Anne Kyan. The local bellman, John A^hton, was announcing through the town that a public meeting was to beheld in Henry street relative to tbe eviction then going on vvben he was placed under arrest by two constables. The prisoner was brought before Horace Townsend, J.P., who stated he would deal with the case summarily. The bellman was to find sureties for good behaviour for 12 months, or in default to be imprisioned for li days. Denis O'Brien, T.C., and Wm. Ryan, grocer offered themselves as sureties till the Petty Sessions, but the magistrate would not receive bail for less then 12 months. The prisoner was removed to be conveyed to Clonmel Jail. Later the magistrate sent for Messrs. O'Brien and Ryan, nnd said tbe Head Constable informed him he was empowered by law to do with prisoner what he previously had done, but to hia mind it seemed too harsh a proceeding, and he would accordingly revoke the decision and allow prisoner on bail till Petty Sessions. The prisoner was then bailed. On the night of the eviction a piece of an iron pipe, about i six inches in length, and charged with powder and shot and small pieces of iron, with a fuse attached, was thrown through the fanlight

over the shop door of the house of Patrick Hayes, Henry street, son" wlt.it to the evicting landlady, Mrs. Ryan. No injury, however, was caused bat the breaking of glass in the shop windows. A similar machine wag thrown through the window of Mr. Ryan's house in Davis street. Ttroki.— Rev. John O'Donnel, C.C. Killeshil, has been on the ■ide of his people during all the recent land troubles. They have not forgotten hi 8 assistance. On Aug. 20 Father O'Donnel was agreeably Burprißei by the unexpected arrival of 80 cartloads of superior mountain turf, which were immediately stored up from the inclemency of the weather in a large shed used for the purpose. Twelve months ago Father O'Donnel received a similar compliment, which amply shows how well ha is beloved and esteemed by his parishioners. Watkbfobd.— On Sept. 1, a force of 40 police, in charge of District Inspector Wynne, were engaged protecting the sub-Sneriff of the County (J F. Hudson) while proceeding to Balhnamult to evict a man named James McGratb for arrears of rent. McGrath lives on the property of the Earl of Huntington, at Ballinamult, about 10 miles from Oappoquin. On arriving at the scene of the eviction the Sheriff was met by the tenant and Father McDonnel, P.P., and after some conversation with the Sheriff a settlement was arrived at and the eyiction waß not proceeded with. WIXPOBD.-Ferni Church pealed a new bell for the first time on Aug. 29. Lowest death-rate in Ireland for week ended Aug. 28 was that of Wexford 8.6 per thousand inhabitants. „.. , Tw .° evictions took place at Corragh, parish of Clonegal and Kildavin, on 31st Aug. Tim Rochford and Mrs. Hughes were the victims. Dwyer, the bailiff, and police from Enniscorthy and Newtownbarry, accompanied by bailiff James Farrell, Newtownbarry, did the work. When the evicting brigade had accomplished the eviction and burned Rochford's house, Farrel ordered the pigstye that poor Rochfordtook shelter in after a former eviction to be consumed, which order was immediately carried out. On Aug. 29 the St. Mary's Brass Band visited the New Ross Workhouse where the evicted tenants, driven from their homes by .J 67 ™ ll 01 ' are atftvin g- Thp band stayed for nearly two hours on the Workhouse grounds playing National airs. Notwithstanding all the troubles these victims of landlordism have had to go through lately they appeared to be in the best of health. They are in the Workhouae now nearly a fortnight, and are determined to stay in it and resist to the last the tyrannical system which drove them from their homes. They are visited frequently aad consoled in their trouble by a committee of ladies of New Ross appointed for that purpose. r LO T'~ A " lar g el y-attended meeting was held at Arklow on Aug. 11, tor the purpose of considering the best means of promoting and protecting the interests of the fishing community of the town. A Boatowners Association was formed, from which a committee was elected to conduct the affaird of the association, and communicate with the Board of Irish Fisheries and other ceutres of authoiiiy . In order that the grievances and disabilities under whica the boatownera and fishermen of Aiklow at present labour may. if possible, be remedied, John Hannigan and Hugh Byine were unanimously chosen as Chairman and hon. Secretary respectively of the Association, and a fund was initiated to meet any necessary expenses.