Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 27, 28 October 1887, Page 9

Irish News.

Antrim.— At Belfast Assizes, on July 26, Justice Andrews sentenced an Orangeman named Charles Cushley, convicted of shooting Eliza Cameron dead with a pistol during the excitement of the August riots of last year, to twelve months' imprisonment. Justin M'Cartiy, M.P., in a letter accepting honorary membership of the Belfast Young Ireland Society, says :: — •' There never was a time when greater necessity existed for the work of Buch organisations, and there never surely was a time when hope shone so clearly on such work." A popular demonstration was on July 29 accorded ex- Constables Magmre and Kerlahan, late of Divis street, Barrack, Belfast, on the occasion of their departure for America. The ex-constables resigned their position as a protest againat the Coercion Act. First Mass in the new church on Falls Road, Belfast, was celebrated at 80 clock on Sunday morning, July 24, by the Bishop, the Most Rev. Dr. McAllister, who subsequently preached at the 12 o'clock Mass. This is the eigkth church erected in Belfast within the last half century. Men Btill living remember when there were only two priests and a wretched chapel there. CAYAN.— Blacklion Fair was held on July 22. The attendance of cattle dealers from the surrounding districts was pretty large, and all round the demand was better than at former fairs, but little or n« advance in prices was observable. The head Land Commissioners, Judge O'Hagan, Mr. Litton, Q.C. and Alfred Wrench opened a Land Court at Cavan on July 25 for the purpose of hearing appeals from the decisions of the courts held by the sub- Commissioners in Cavan, Westmeath, Longford, Fermanagh Monaghan, and Leitnm. The printed list contains 173 appeals. ' Cock.— On August 2 Richard Morrison, of Killavulling, near Caatlelyons, was evicted for one year's rack-rent due to his landlady Mies Ryder, of Gurtroe. At the meetings of the different branches of the National League in the County on July 31, elaborate arrangements were made for a general collection for the Evicted Tenants' Fund. On August 4, John Savage, Sheriff's bailiffj Kinsale, under the protection of a force of police, proceeded to the lands of Fort Hill and evicted a tenant named Mrs. Driscoll and her sons Patrick and John. The International Handball Championship match between Casey and Lawlor, the American and Irish champions, was begun on August 4 and sin the Cork Racquet Court. Of the ten games played (out of twenty-one which are to decide the event) Lawlor won six and Casey four games. The remaining games are to be played in New York. During ao altercation on August 1, at Ballygibbon. near Mitchelatown, between a joung farmer named Casey and James Tobin, Emergencjman, the latter, who was the worse for liquor, shot Casey dangerously in the back. Tobin is in custody. Between 2 and 3 o'clock on the morning of July 30 the Sheriff's bailiffs, accompanied by a force of ten constables from the Youghal Btation, proceeded from Youghal to the farm of Mr.Neville.of Aughavine near Ballymacoda, and made a seizure of twenty-nine head of cattle, which were seized on account of the landlord, Mr. Gubbins. At an early hour on the morning of July 30, Sheriff's bailiff Savage, with a party of police from Kinsale, seized the stock of a farmer named William Murphy, of Ballindinisk, near Belgooly, in satisfaction of rent due to the landlord, Capt. John Thomas Cramer. The bailiff seized fourteen milch cows, four horses, two foals, fifteen yearling heifers, forty-five sheep, thirteen calves, thirty tons of hay, and a large quantity of oats, barley, potatoes, turnips, mangolds, etc. On August 4, the Mayor of Cork, accompanied by all the officials of toe Corporation and the Harbour Board and a large crowd of spectators, performed the tnennal ceremony of '• throwing the dart " in order to show that in his capacity as Mayor and Admiral of the port he was determined to maintain the rights vested in the civic authority and once more mark the boundary line of the port, some three miles outside the moutb of the harbour. The custom goes as far back as the reign of Henry Til. The fuhing off the coast at Youghal has been very good, and quantities of sprats, herring, and hake have been taken. Sprats have been taken in considerable quantities, and have been purchased as low as one shilling a firkin, which contains from 5,000 to 6,000 rißh. The canning of the fish has now commenced at the two manufactories in the town, and Bhould the supply of fish continue, a good deal of employment will be given for some time. One boat succeeded a few nights ago in taking 900 hake in a few hours, and the fishermen report large shoals of fish outßide. A good supply of heirings haß also been taken, and the fish are of good size. At 5 o'clock on the morning of August 3 bailiff Robert Cambridge of Clonakilty, accompanied by another of the class, entered Ballinspittle, and Johu Savage, Sheriff's bailiff, Kinsale put in an appearance shortly afterwards. The three bailiffs then proceeded to Kilgobbin Crops, where they were met by a wagonette and a number of eide cars, with a force of forty police, under the command of Mr. Carr, D.1.R.1.C. Thence the whole cavalcade shortly afterwards proceeded to the residence of Jeremiah Murphy, Ben., of Ballyhander and removed all the furniture amidst the murmurs of the family and after a short space of time the work was completed The landlord is D. B. Johnson, of Cork. Murphy is about 90 years of age hia wife is close on 90 years of age also. The tenant held something over ninety acres of miserable land most of it waste and barren, unable to produce anything except furze and heather. The rent was raised some time since and the landlord compelled the poor man to take a lease of the holding, which could scarcely support a farmer if he got it for nothing. Possession being given, the enctors next proceeded to the residence of Jeremiah Murphy, on the Gumbleton estate, who was evicted, as was likewise Daniel Murphy, residing in the same plough-land. The latter has a large family, and the scene while the bailiffs were putting out his

little effects was truly heartrending. Two brothers named John and B. Griffin were also evicted. Both had large families. The bailiff'! next proceeded to evict Jerry and Tim McCarthy, oa the Johnson property, bat through some informality or other they were left undisturbed. A man named Tim Calnan, on the Beamish property, wae next evicted. In no instance was any resistance to the eviction? encountered. The police at the evictions were drafted from tb. Bandon, Kinsale, Kilbrittain, Innishannon, and Ballinspittle station More evictions took place next day on Lady Boyle's estate throughout the neighbouring parish of Barryroe, Jeremiah McCarthy, of Barerough, was one of those evicted, but widow Murphy, his mother-in-law, was put back into possession as caretaker. On the night of August 1, a force of bailiffs from the Kingston estate made one of their predatory visits over the farms of the Campaigners, and put some of the 100 decrees againet the tenants into execution. At midnight the slumbers of the inhabitants were disturbed by the unusual noise and bustle in the streets. Car loads of bailiffs moved forward under a strong escort of constabulary. The friends of the Campaigners were on the alert and thoroughly active, and conveyed the intelligence to the country districts that the enemy were meditating a foray. Mr. Mandeville proceeded into the Shraharla district, where the evictions would possibly take place, and had the people ready for the brigade, whilst mounted videtteg despatched aleng the country already proclaimed the advance of the expected brigade. The Sheriff's party, however, had anotner object than eviction. That day had been fair day in Mitchelstown, and some of the Campaigners selected it as an opportune time to bring whatever cattle they had in keeping beyond the ken of the sheriff, to market and expose them for sale. The under-strappers of the estate office watched the cattle during the day, and expected that when they returned home in the evening they would have been left on the farms of the tenants for present convenience. Power, with bailiffs O'Neill and Halloran, accordingly started forward on the seizing excursion. They first, changing their route to a district where the people were unaware of their presence, went on the farm of Thomas Molan, Ardglare, to levy a decree for £117 17s. They found neither hay nor cattle on the lands of the tenant, which lay clear of everything seizable. However, turning into a farm adjoining, from which Edmond Molan, a relative of the tenant, was three jears ago evicted, they came upon twenty calves and heifers, which they seized. No one in the neighborhood knew of the presence of the bailiffs, but when they next visited the farm of Patrick Barrett of Ballyarthur, likewise there was nothing to be found. However, the police force constituting themselves bailiffs, on the farm of Winifred Finn, a widow, came across seven cows, which they drove off without questioning the ownership, and coming to a farm which adjoins the tenant, they seized two cows of Thomas Barrett. There was no decree against any of these tenants and Mrs. Finn and Thomas Barrett made sworn declarations claiming the cattle aa their property. Some other cattle, also alleged to be the property of Patrick Barrett, the tenant against whom the decree existed, were seized. The bailiff party then, on the farm of Mrs. Anna Crotty, near Mitchelstown, found some calves which they impounded. Wm, Smith, John Smith, etc., claim these cattle, which were graziug on the farm of the tenant, as their property. The landlords claim they have made bona, fide seizures, even though the cattle in some instances were grazing cattle, ani that in these latter cases they have legal decisions to sustain tbeir action. On the following night a force of police was engaged in protecting Sheriff's bailiffs in another cattle-seizing expedition. Taught by the previous night's experience the Campaigners were on the alert. Mounted sentinels and blowing horn 8 heralded the approach of the bailiffs to the country people. The bailiffs and police force returned to Mitchelstown at six o'clock in the morning much chagrined over their fruitless expedition, not a beast being found. Derby.— League Branches in this County seem to be more stimulated than frightened by the passage of the Coercion Act. All the city branches, as well as those of Coleraine, Maghera and Limavady, are rapidly increasing their membership. Donegal. — On July 22; John Beatty died at Carrowmena at the remarkable age of 105 yews. He had a vivid remembrance of the exciting times of '98 and the many rumors of the landing of French troops that used to circulate through the country, and rejoic* momentarily the hearts of the peasantry whose constant hope was that " the French were on the sea." Down.— On July 24, a public demonstration was held at Sheepbridge for the purpose of protesting against the Coercion Act and also for making arrangements for the coming revision in South Down. The meeting was very large and representative. Amongst those present were : — T. J. Marron, solicitor, Newry ; Peter Byrne, J. J. Buttefield, ex-suspect, do ; John MacMahon, do ; L. M'Court, P.L.G., President Sheepbridge Branch I.N.L. ; J. Rice, P. T. O'Hare, Sec, do ; H. M'llroy, M. M. M'Conville, J. M'Carthy, T.C. The chairman called on the people to stand firm in the face of the Coercion Act, and the following resolution was carried amid cheers : " Resolved That we, the members of the Sheepbridge Branch of; the 1.N.L., in public meeting assembled, hereby pledge ourselves to work for the legislative independence of our country with more vigour and determination than ever, notwithstanding the Coercion Act, and that we shall not be deterred by force or intimidation from doing our duty to our country." Fermanagh. — A new butter maiket wm opened in Derry gonnelly, on August 5, and will be held on every Friday in futnre. As an encouragement to purchasers all butter bought at this market will belconveyed to Enniskillen free of charge. Derrygonnelly fair was held on July 27, and was one of the worst held for years. No buyers attended, and, consequently, there was no demand. For beef nothing was offered, and firrit-claes springers could only fetch prices 30 per cent, below the low prices obtainable at former fairs here. Three-year-old heiferß and bullocks could not be sold at all. while two-year-olds sold at miserable prices, and yearolds only fetched fiom £2 103 to £3 15s and £4 each. Calves were , also in poor demand, and prices effeied, were considerably below the

figures of last fairs held here. There was no demand for pigs either. Suckers were offered and sold at from 30s to 42s per pair. On July 27 a very important Nationalist registration meeting was held at Derrygonnelly. This is a very wide polling district, and has ever been looked upon by both political parties as the key to the representation of North Fermanagh. Consequently, each mac is making strenuous exertions for victory in this district. The meeting was well-attended by representatives from the rural districts. Bey. Father Cullinan, CO., who occupied the cbair, clearly pointed out in his address the position of both political parties in North Fermanagh. He said never before was there more need for united action amongst the Nationalists of Fermanagh that at the present crisis. They should all be up and working for the cause of Ireland by seeing after the Nationalist vote in their several districts. James Daffy, Thomas Murphy, Bernard OHare, and James Leonard also addressed the meeting. The work of filling claims was then proceeded with, and the meeting adjourned.

Galway.— Michael Garvey, of Claran National School, Headf ord, writes to the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language, Dublin :—": — " At the results examination last November, 31 of my pupils passed in Irish, and the class was immediately afterwards increased to 46. Those who have passed once get tasks'in the short Irish Catechism, and take great interest in learning them. They are also learning to recite a few Irish pieces, and I find as a rule that those who are learning Irish are more studious than the rest."

The demonstration of welcome with which his Grace the Mo9t Rev. Dr. M'Evilly was greeted at Clifden on August 4, was one of the most splendid ever witnessed in Connemara. Wheo informed at the church that his Grace was to arrive the whole population of the parish, headed by their priests, assembled to receive the Archbishop, and as the carriage conveying his Grace and Moat Rev. Dr. McOormack approached the picturesque summit of Brrismore, it was met by a procession formed of about two hundred horsemen, a thousand pedestrians and forty cars, all headed by a banner bearing the motto, " Welcome to our Archbishop 1 " The procession was led by Very Rev. P. Lynskey, P.P., and his curates. On meeting the carriage hearty cheers were given for the Archbishop, and warm words of welcome ■poken by the thousands who formed the procession. The procession accompanied his Grace to Brrismore Church. The Archbishop thanked his faithful people for the enthusiastic welcome which they gave him —a welcome, he Baid, that should give legitimate pride to any prince or prelate. He congratulated them on the successful struggle which thej and their fathers had mstained against the enemies of the faith — a struggle severer, more prolonged, and more momentous in its issue than the bloody combat of Clontarf. After a spirit-stirring and eloquent address, his Grace re-entered his carriage, and was escorted by the vast cavalcade to Clifden, where he was the guest of the parish priest, Very Rev. P. Lynskey.

Khbry. — On August 5 a number of men in the employment of Lord Kenmare were engaged cutting the crops on the farm from which D. O'Shea was recently evicted. Several police were engaged " protecting " the labourers.

Cheques passed it the last meeting of the Killarney hoard of Guardians have been dishonoured by the local branch of the National Bank, a sum of £2679 being nof due by the Union.

The third annual championship meeting of the Gaelic Athletic Association was held on July 31 and August 1 on the gounds of the County Kerry Athletic Club. Tbe Gaelic champiouships are open to the world. The attendance was good. The jumping performances were remarkably brilliant. The high jnmp saw Page, the American wonder (champion of both America and England), and P. J. Kelly, of Blackrock College, doing marvellous things. Kally did not compete since the Blackrock College sports early in May owing to his having received a severe wrench in the knee, nor has he practiced much, yet notwithstanding he jumped in the moßt brilliant fashion. Page also seemed to be at his best, as the heigth goes to prove. After a most exciting contest they both tied at 6 feet If inches, the best ever done at a championship meeting. The running hop, step, and jump also saw brilliant things done by Shanahan, Kilfinane ; O'Sullivan, Killorglin, and Purcell. In this event Purcell, though he holds the record of the world (48 feet 3 inches), had to succumb to the plucky youth from Kilfinane, who went within half an inch of the Dubliner's record. In the long jump, Purcell easily cleared 21 feet 9 inches. P. J Kelly, Cree, Clare, went over the bar in the pole jump at 10 feet 1 inch. J Dennehy, Cork, raised and struck the hurley ball 67 yards 2 feet. Mitchel, of Emly, pushed the 28 pound 30 feet 11£ inches, put the 16 pound shot 42 feet 3 inches, threw the 7 pound 84 fee l ", and sent the hammer 120 feet 2 inches, winning all these events.

Kildare.— On July 26 a man named Ward, in the employment of Mr. Cogan, of Tinode, was knocked down and trampled to death by a horse he waß exhibiting for sale at French Furze Fair.

Kilkenny.— A ganger working for a small wage on a railway in this County has, by a decision just given by the Irish Court of Appeal, come into a property known by tbe strange title of Mountmisery estato, worth £20,000. The late owner. Thomas Hayden, left a will bequeathing £18,000 to any neiceor other female relative who should marry a man of the name of Hayden living in County Tipperary and born and reared a Catholic. Subject to this the property was left to a person named Fleming for life. By the decision of the Court, who held that the bequest was void, the railway ganger, who was the next-of-kin, succeeds to tbe whole property.

At the quarterly meeting of the Kilkenny Corporation on August 1, Mr. P. M. Pgan, Mayor, presiding, Mr. Rowan proposed the following resolution :— Resolved :Tbat we, the Corporation of the City of Kilkenny, in public meeting assembled, condemn the action of the Executive in proclaiming our city under tbe Jubilee Coercion Act, notwithstanding the total absence of crime. That we regard this proclamation as degrading and insultiDg to this law-abiding community, and at the same timu one of the greatest acts of despotism ever attempted by eveu n pirti^an l'rivy Council, — Mr. Morrissey seconded it, and the resolution was passed unanimously, It was

™ de^ c , d }° have Co P ies o£ the resolution forwarded to Mr. Parnell, Mr. Gladstone, and the Chief Secretary for Ireland.

Limkbick.— A gang of English swindlers, five in number, who had committed several robberies in Limerick, were arrested by the police in Bnnis on July 31. The Btrike of dock labourers in Limerick continues, but the labourers from Tralee and Waterford having departed, matters are proceeding without any public disturbance. The extra polica, however, who were brought into the town during the strike are still retained.

A herd on the property of Mr. Deane Shelton was on July 27 found dead in a field west of Knockaderry with his dog beside him. He bore some marks of violence about the head, and there is little doubt he was killed by a bull but saved from mutilation by the presence of the dog. The constabulary in Limerick have received orders to make out reports concerniag the working of the branches of the League in several districts of the County, the number of persona boycotted, and the number of " outrages " in the past six months, with a view of proclaiming the League in this County.

Longford.— At the meeting of the Longford Guardians on July 28 notices of 88 evictions were submitted, of whicQ 81 were on the pioperty of the Earl of Granard. The following are the townlands that are to be visited, and the families to be dispossessed :— Drumlish, 5 families ; Derawlay, 8 ; Soran, 10 ; Certion, 1 ; BrockUgb, 1 ; Settergullion, 15 ; Ohill, 8 : Barragh, 8 ; Corea, 17 ; Kilmore, 4 ; Glonfower, 1 ; Aenbegs, 1 ; Lisagerlan, 1 ; Aglinagore, 2 ; (Jomeddan, 5.

The harvest in this County threatens to be a poor one. There are abundant signs that since black '47 there never was a year which was so full of gloomy outlook for the people as this one threatens to be. The long dry almost torrid summer has cut away pasturage— left meadows witn scarce quarter their yield — oats already ripening fast and nothing in its head, whilst the champion stalks, stunted and miserable, have nothing under them. Oats, potatoes, and hay have sold during the past year at prices insufficient in comparison with the produce to pay the cost of planting. To sum up the situation— the great drought made turf mould of the bog and iand of the upland, and in neither was there substance with which to support vegetation. Cattle, horsei, etc., are altogether unsaleable, owing to the scarcity of fodder, and young pigs have reacked a very low figure for the same reason.

Queen's County.— Luggacurran Campaigners (are still holding out firmly, and resisting all temptations either to compromise with their landlord or to emigrate.

TIPPKBA.RT.— Six eviction notices were handed in to the Tipperary Guardians at their meeting on July 26. On August 2 John Quinn, assistant deputy sub-Sheriff, accompanied by two local bailiffs and protected by police, proceeded from Tipperary to Greenane, near Limerick Junction, and there seized for rent sixteen cows, the property of Matthew Hogan, P.L.G., Tipperary Union. Mr. Hogan is a tenant of Colonel Mansergh's, and is a prominent member of the local National League. By an order in the Dublin Gazette Templemore and Carrick cease to be headquarter stations for resident magistrates. The resident magistrate at Nenagh is to have charge of the petty sessions districts of Borrisoleigh, Templemore, and Roscrea, in addition to his present district. The district of the resident magistrate of Tipperary is to consist of Banana, Cappawhite, Dundrum, Cashel, Golden, Cahir, Thurles, and Tipperary, A new district is to be formed, with headquarters at Clonmel, and to consiit of the petty sessions districts ot Ardflnnan, Ballynontly, Carrick, Olonmel, Carrickbeg, Cloghean, Fethard, arid Mullinahone.

The people of Dromore assembled in great numbers at Mahagart on July 25, for the purpose of rebuilding a house on a farm, from which the tenant, James Gorman, in the summer of '80, was evicted by Lord Rathdonnell for non-payment of rent. Several other tenants were dispossessed at the same time, but in every instance excepting that of Gorman, the tenant was immediately re-admitted as caretaker. The rent of this farm amounted to £6 125., and the land is of very inferior quality. It was feared at the time of the eviction that some unwise person would be fonnd in the district to relieve the landlord by grabbing the farm ; but, owing to the zealous watch kept on the Bupposed Emergencymen, the farm remained unoccupied ever since, so that the landlord was forced at last to yield to the wishes of the people and give the farm again to the tenant. The present rent is less than one-half of that which Gorman and his father paid for the land.

Watkbford.— Kilmacthomas Fair on July 28, was the worst that has been held there for ten years.

Westmeath.— Tbe Most Rev. Dr. Nulty attended a special meeting of the Mullingar Guardians on August 4, for the purpose of explaining to the Board the details of a scheme he had conceived for supplying the town with an abundance of pure and wholesome water. Mr. J. Clarke, chairman of the Board, presided, and an unusually large number of Guardians were presant. His Lordship said he would formulate a scheme by which 100 gallons daily could be supplied at a cost of about three farthings per diem. The new scheme would coat the Guardians no more than £800 a year. The source of supply woald be from the wells on tht convent grounds, where there were two of the best pumps in Ireland, which would be supplemented by tapping the Brosna stream about a mile and a half from the town. He had obtained the consent of nearly all the owners interested in the matter, and the chairman, board of directors, and officials of the Midland Great Western Railway Co. had expressed their great willingness to do anything they could to facilitate the scheme, and had given their consent to the laying of the pipes from the Brosna stream to the reservoir, in the dyke alongside the railway fence. The Board would not have to pay more than a couple of hundred pounds for compeniation. The water would be conveyed ia six-inch pipes and it was proposed that tbe works should be carried ont by a publU

loan. The town would be supplied with sixty thousand gallons of Water daily, at Bd. per thousand gallons for the first sixty thousand, and 6d. per thousand for any quantity in excess of that. The cost of the works in connection with this plan would not be more than £2,000 or £3,000, as compared with £9,000 or £11,000 for the scheme that was recently before them. After some discussion it was unanimously resolved, " That the scheme submitted this day by the Most Bey Dr. Nulty for providing the town of Mullingar with water, be addopted and that his lordship's offer to pump and deliver the water up to 60,000 gallons at eight pence per thousand gallons, and any quantity in excess of the sixty thousand gallons at sixpence per thousand gallons, be adopted."