Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 5, 30 May 1890, Page 9

Irish News.

An . t s iMl ;r T £ e TT IOWn1 OWn Gom missioners recently adopted plans submitted by Mr. Crosbie for the erection of ten dwelling-houses in Broughshane and Spnngwill streets, Ballymena. Human remains were discovered recently in a field belonging to Mrs. Heenan, in Drumcaw, near Clough. It appears her servants were removing a large pile of stones, locally known as " The Cairn," when their attention was drawn to a cavity under one of the large stones which, on being removed, revealed a large cavity about three aud a half feet long by two and a half wide. A careful search resulted in the finding of a skull with the teeth still adhering. Bones, tupposed to be of tne le^s. were also discovered. On further search a piece of flint shaped like an arrow head, alao the remains of an old urn, were found. v Thebne^Stagshaw, commanded by Captain Crozier, and owned by T. McVeigh, jr., Belfast, arrived in Quecnstown recently m a damaged and leaky state from Rosario witti a cargo of bones and bone-ash, lhe vessel had a very protracted passage of over 100 days. Very bad weather was experienced and the provisions ran short. On February 8 the Liverpool ship Pnilomen was sighted, and her captain kindly supplied the Stagshaw with a quantity of stores. Owing to adverse winds very little progress was made, and on March 2 only 13 biscuits remained on board. The crew had to subsist on these for four days, during which thpy worked hard on the pumps, as tha vessel was making water. On her arrival at Queenstown the captain and crew were much exhausted from fatigue and want of food. " ' i \ ATt^^i Sil '~ Mary Cromie -a widow, who resided in the townland of Ballinhss, Coiiaty Armagh, was buried recently in Killeary chapelyard. The deceased had attained her 101 st year and was able to be about her house until a few days before she died. Carlow.— A meeting of the '98 Memorial Committee was held in the hall, Graigue. P. J. Conlan presided, and there were albo present-John Kelly, John P. Clowry, N. P. Roche, Robert Gough, James Fenlon.and P. McDonald, Hon. Sees. ; J. Dunne, John Conlan Mr. B>rne attended, and handed in a tracing of the plot taken from the ordnance survey sheet. The spot was marked on the ordnance map as " burial place of 640 United Irishmen," thus showing that tbe place has been always regarded as a burial ground. Mr. Roche proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Byrne for his kindness in surveying the plot. Mr. Kelly seconded the motion, which was pabsed unanimously. Mr. Clowry said he begged to propose that Mr. Byrne be co-opted as a member of the committee. J. Conlan, in seconding the proposition, said it was most fitting that Mr. Byrne Bhtmld find a place on the committee. Every reader of tbe hisiory of '1)8 knew how Mr. Byrne's ancestors had fought and suffered, and the prominent part they took in the '98 movement. The motion was carried by acclamation. Cavan. — The people of Kingecourt sincerely regret the death of Mr. Biggar. A rfoiemn Mass was offered for the repose ot his soul by Father Flood, at which the people of the entire parish attended. Clare.— Matt Birmingham's farm at Baflyket was recently visited by the Sheriff and 14 head of cattle teized for rent. A mistake was made, and several of Patrick Breen's cattle were seized with Birmingham's Ona"got-up" charge of assault and rescue of a prisoner tbe Ennistymon magistrates recently fined William Cotter £3. At the Bauue Bes&ions Thomas Keally was fined £1 for an alleged throwing of a stone at one Constable Huggard. The Grand Jury of the County Clare recently entered into the consideration of a acheme for the construction of a light railway running from Miltown-Malbay terminus and the Ennis and West < lare Railway to Kilkee and Kilrush. The attendance in the Grand Jury room was very representative, several Catholic clergymen being amonp those present. After hearing arguments for and against, the scheme was endorsed by the Grand Jury. The following resolution was unanimously passed at same sitting :— That we, the Grand Jury, assembled at the Spring Assizes, 1890, are of opinion that it would be of great advantage to this County tbat the Midland Great Western Railway Company should be allowed to purchase the Ennia and Athenry line, as it would be a great boon to hava one continuous syßtem for passenger aud cattle traffic between Ennis, and Dublin and the West of Ireland. ' Cork..— TLe tenants on the Hicks estate at Dereenstra, near Schull, have made an arrangement whereby, on payment of two and a half years' rent, they will get a clear receipt. Five }ears were due. At the recent Castlemartyr Sessions ejectments were obtained against 44 " Campaigners "on the above estate, Great interest was felt in the proceedings by the people of the district, who attended in great numbers. Derry. — Amidst circumstances of special impres-iiveness, the Most Rev. Dr. O' Dougherty was solemnly consecrated Bishop of the Diocese. The Primate and eight bishops weie pies?nt. Almost all the clergy fiom the Diocese of Derry and the neighbouring one of Raphoe were also in attendance. A large number also came from the Aichdioctse of Armagh, Down, and Connor. Clogher and Ardagh were numerouHly represented, whllat the ranks were swelled c. nsiderably by priests lrom almost every part of Ireland. The consecrating bishop was Most Rev. Dr. Logue, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, and the assisting prelates were Most Key Dr Nulty and Most Rev. Dr. Donnelly. The other prelates present were — Most Rev. Dr. Mcalister, Lord Bishop of Down aud ConnorMost Rev. Dr. Woodlock, Lord Bishop of Ardagh ; Most Rev. Dr. O'Donnell, Lord Bishop of Raphce ; Most Rev. Dr. Magennis, Lord Bishop of Kilmore ; aad Most Rev. Dr. McGivein, Coadjutor Bishop ot Dromore. Meat Rev. Dr. O'Donnell preached an eloquent sermon on the text, '■ Let a man &o look upon us as the ministers of Christ and the dispensers of tbe mysteries of Christ." He dwelt upon the

attachment of the Irish people to the true religion, and the dignity of the episcopal office. Donegal.— Tbe Public Works Commissioners gave their decision on the recommendations of the Light Railway Commissioners, who held inquiries in the county, and report in favour of the lines from Buncrana to Carndonaeh, Stranorlar to Glenties Letter* kenny to Falcarragb, and Donegal to Ktllybcgs. Terms are annexed to each recommendation, those in the 'Stranorlar and Letterkenny cases being that the baronies should supplement the Government grant by a £1000 guarantee. The Falcarragb evictions have been postponed for a little time on the estates oE Mrs. Stewart and Mr. Swmey, though the warrants for possession have expired. In addidon to the fifty families to be evicted on the Olphert estate, forty-six families are to be evicted on Mrs. Stewart's property aud sevea on that of Mr. Swiney. In all a total of over five hundred human beings will be rendered homeless. In many ins'ances the families to be evicted are just recovering from severe attacks of influenza. Down, — Thomas Bailie, of Ballycurry, was recently evicted. Biilie, his wife, and six children, left peaceably, and were received into a house Henry Brown had prepared for them in anticipation of the occurrence. The evicted family were very kindly treated by all the neighbours. At the recent meeting of the Newry Town Commissioners, on the motion of Mr. Fowler seconded by R. Dempster, the following resolutions were adopted :—'• 1. That the site to be chosen for a town hall be that of the Newry Savings Bank Buildings, or a site upon the river in the vicinity if practicable. 2. That tbe Board advertise for and offer two premiums— the first of £20 and the second of £10— for the best plan or design either of converting and extending the present building or of erecting a new town hall on its site or upon a site upon the Newry River. It was also decided to construct a bridge over the tidal river from Hill street, facing the proposed new town hall and municipal buildings. Dublin.— J. J. Farren presided at last Clondalkin League meeting, when a reply wa3 read from Mr. Parnellin acknowledgment of the resolution of the branch congratulating him on his glorious victory over the Times. The letter was ordered to be inserted on the minutes. The branch unanimously adopted a feeling resolution in reference to the death of Mr. Biggar. Very satisfactory progress is being made by the contractors for the iron work of the loop line between Westland Row and Amiens street. At the former station some extensive alterations as regards passenger traffic will come into practical operation at an early date, including an exit for incoming travellers by a passage running right through the old refreshment rooms, thus avoiding the existing crush whic i is experienced daily by parties arriving and departing in their progress to and from the various platforms. The iron girders for the first span from Westland Row are now in position, and in the construction of the bridge spanning that busy thoroughfare there will be no interference whatever with the level of the street, and the whole height of 16 ftet will be given as arranged with the Corporation. Gal-way. -Mr. Biggar bequeathed £1,000 to the Converjt in Loughrea, chiefly because a daughter of his was educated there and as a mark of bis high appreciation of the institution. There was a private reception at tbe Convent of the Poor Clares in Gal way, recently, to which more than ordinary interest may be attached ; Very Rev. Father Larkin, Guardian of the Abbey, officiated. The young lady who had the felicity of being received into the community was Penelope Mary Harnett, only daughter of the late Wm. Fuller Harnett, New Castle West, County Limerick, a patriotic gentleman, and who was a personal friend of O'Connell, of Smith O'Brien, and the leading politicians of bis day. Miss Harnett, who now has joined the Poor Clares, is a lady of superior culture and a poetess of marked ability. Two of her compositions have found a place in the " Emerald Gems," a compilation of select patriotic poetry of different Irish authors, compiled by T. D. Sullivan, editor of tbe Nation. The pieces are " Ireland to Parnell," and "An Exile's Dream of the Shannon." Kerry. — The Tralee Town Commissioners passed a resolution denouncing the cruel treatment of John Daly and demanding a sworn investigation into his condition. Constable Buckley, of Tralee, has applied for £500 recompense for an alleged injury received when bringing a prisoner to the barracks. The Town Commissioners have instructed their solicitor to oppose. At the King's County Assizes held in Tullamore recently, William Coakley, Cornelius Casey, and Timothy Sullivan were charged that they with others entered into a conspiracy with intent to injure divers persona who occupy lands from which certain tenants were evicted, and that they did solicit persons not to sell cattle to persons styled " The Battering-ram Company, Limited," who occupy evicted farms near Fines. The jury acquitted Casey. With regard to the other prisoners, they could not agree on a verdict and they will be tried again. The land'ords have not given up their diabolical courses in this County, for at the recent meeting of the Tralee Guardians the following notices of impending evictions were laid before the Board :— P. L. Marshall, landlord ; M. Hartnett, Meenleitrim, tenant ; H. A. Herbert, landlord, and Spencer Cambell Thompson, against Anne Brosnahan, Scartagiin ; W. Blennerhassett, landlord ; William Prendeville, Kilcusna, tenant ; H. A. Herbert and S. C. Campbell, landlords ; John Harold, Clasgaron, tenant ; same landlords ; John Harold, Claegaron, tenant ; same landlords ; William Collins, Liaheenbawn, tenant ; John Huggard, landlord ; Patrick Lacy, Coolnaolad, tenant. Kildare.— Father Hogan, Celbridge, a trustee of the Celbndge Reading Rooms, resigned because there were two policemen, members of the it.sthute, who assisted at the recent Clongorey outrages. Kilkenny.— Father Healy presided at the recent meeting of the Johnstown League, at which the following important resoln-

skk £:j cc h oono e n ssr T;ir enses of memberß agreed i^Xeto^c^XeP^^^ a Btirri ° g B P eech SovS^ recenVlv^He^n^TT^ 6 P ° liC , 6 Were en?a S ed in Newcastle West or th nn Af f °J M B° f conßtabul^y drafted into the town not accept less lhan 10. The negotiates then fell through be.^p^Xo n i rszfsr^ :s the peop c, „« yatable hvea woulSWbeer T.pLe4 The last Caitlebtllinßham Fait was in a general way well stocked com^tS. tou- SU c£ ce t £| - B ££ 608P ;j 8^ Clasß and fnK, 48^6^ $?« 'vn, ' 8 ) d l °J d per lb ' h(^ ets aDd lambs, 30s to class £I^"Pil^^KOod quality, £18 10s to £22 10s second m?il' 5- t ton '' h7h 7 CalY6d COWS ' Promising good supply of Sown' i\\ \° fM \* eCOn '\ c]a95 > £13 to £13 10s ; stoppers and dry cows, £11 to £14 10s. A large supply of pigs ; active demand.

T PQ fi "5 CI V S County.-The Castletown branch of the National J;S Ue ];l n T,t a *eehan presiding, passed this resolution at last ?™ ah/ I °i t this branch adopt James Dowling, Capetown, as a Buitable candidate to represent the Poor Law E'ectoral Division of Donore. and we call upon all the Nationalist electors to support him as Mr. Phelan intends to contest it with the aid of the Unionist vote/ 1 i T n^t7rl a^oTt inth: (^ r Wnte t0 the M ° UQtrath branch ' clai -

Tlpperary.—Doctors Laftin and Conway, who attended young bleary, of Tipperary, tince his liberation from prison, hara signed a requisition calling on the Coroner to hold an inquest into the circumstances of his death.

1 he police recently iorced an entrance into the Cashel Town Hall where the regular meeting of the Town Comnnsßioners was being held. When requested to leave Sergeant Hagearty replied that hiJduty^ CXpCCtcd CVery man 1D the Koval l!1^ h Constabulary to do The men of Tipperary have not backed down. The fight is carried on with as much vigour as the first hour it commenced. During the recent evictions James Morris, Chairman of the Radical Association, North Somersetshire, was present. At a special meeting of the Town Commissioners, held recently, the Chairman, R. Ronan, presiding, the following resolution was proposed by Dr. J. F. O'Rjan, and seconded by Bartholomew McCarthy, and passed :— That we, the Town Commissioners of Tipperary, congratulate the owners and tenant, of the 50 houses now under eviction in the town on the splendid spirit of sacrifice and devotion they have displayed and are displaying and we point to their action as a refutation" of every statement made by either Mr. Smith-Barry or Balfour against our unanimity and devotion to the cause of the oppressed. The following tenants ,n the town of Tipperary were recently evicted :-Mana Toomey, Mrs. Foley, David street ; Patrick Ryan, Jeremiah Alhs tromthis point the brigade proceeded to Bridge street where they untenanted the two sides of the street with the exception of two houses. The tenants evicted here are Mrs. Bridget ODonaghue, publican: Jeremiah Cotter, publican ; Margaret Dunn provision dealer ; Mrs. El za O'Connor, Railway Hotel; Margaret Dowdell, Bridget O Bnen, fancy warehouse, and Julia O'Brien. The .Sheriffs forces next visited the dispensary house in Abbey street where all had been cleared away during the morning. John BradBhaw, victualler ; James Lonergan, boot and shoe warehouse ; Monmn M. Darcy chemist, and John Cummins, butter merchant, were next evicted. It is stated that the premises of Mr. Cummins, which was built a few yoaifl ago at a cost of £3000, is now about to be converted into a barracks for extra police. This will bring the number of police barracks up to the extraordinary number of five. The next place visited was that of Richard Ronan, Chairman Town Commissioners, in Mam Street where Mr. Ronan has for years been doing a nourishing trade in the boot department. Mr. Ronan totally suspended business three monthg ago, and since then bis shop has been partially closed up. The tobacconist (stablishment of Mrs. Mary Cotter also in Main street, was visited and possession taken. Michael Whelan grocer and publican, Main street, was then turned out. Patrick ?u T«' ' Pi) was P iesent at lh e evictions, and took photographs of the different incidents. Father Humphreys was also present, and gave valuable assistance in preserving the peace,

Tyrone. —A farmhouse in Ardcumber, convenient to Cookstown, was recently discovered to be in ft mes, and, in spite of all efforts to save it, w^s totally destroyed. It nppeira that the honse an i iarm had been recently purchased by Philip Long, a groser in town, who was formerly a heal constable of the constabulary. The house was uninhabited, and it is believe J the burning was malicious. Mead-Constable Mania and some police visited the place, bat no arrests were made. A claim for compensation for malicious injury wnl be made. The loss has been estimated st about £70. It is a v. ry convenient way for policemen and discharged policemen to avoid serious loss to themselves by stating that everything in the shape of burnings and cattle-maimings are perpeirated on them because they are or had been policemen.

"Wexford.— The people of Gorey are making arrangements tor the reception of Edward Byrne, when liberated from Kilkenny. Byrne made the staunohest struggle against the emerffencymen ever witnessed in Ireland.

Hugh Maguire presided at the last meeting of the Wexford Corporation, and the following resolution passed :— " That the members of the Council be requested to meet and proceed in a body to the train in order to meet our worthy Mayor on his return home after two months' incarceration under the Coercion Act."

Wlcklow.— The Rathvilly League passed the following resolution at last meeting :— " That, in unison with our followcountrymen, we indignantly protest against the barbarous and inhuman treatment which John Daly and other political prisoners are subjected to in English prisons, which exceeds the worst form of Russian despotism, and we trust that the Irish Parliamentary party will vigorously press for a sworn inquiry to ascertain the motive for such vindictive proceedings." Mr. Patnell's quarry at Arklow Rock is giving a good deal of employment to the labourers of that district. Several iotb of atone are severed from the rock every day, and dressed into blocks or sets. Up to the present a pretty good trade has been done in these sets, and every day it is expected the output will increase. Present appearances point to that conclusion at all events, for now it is intended to run a railway from the quarries to the pier-head, a distance of over two miles. The construction of this railway will give a good deal of labour, and that certainly is wanted by many willing hands in the locality at present in need of work.