Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 50, 30 September 1892, Page 9

Irish News.

Antrim.— The Orange Carnivals for July throughout the North of Ireland were generally tame and lifeless. In Belfast the celebration was unusually quiet. An acoident occurred recently off the coast of Antrim, which brings into bright relief the loving tenderness of the Catholic piiesthood for their flock in moments of danger. Three boats were crossing from Ratblin island to the mainland with voters ; when about midchannel one of them was overtaken by a squall and capsized: There were fourteen persons in the vessel, all of whom were thrown into the water. One of the hands was drowned and another died of exhaustion from the effects of long immersion. The Rev. Father Kennedy was amongst the passengers, and while sustaining himself in the waves, caught sight of a woman who was struggling for existence, seized her and held her over the surface until assistance arrived. Happily his plucky endeavour at rescue was successful. Armagh*— On Saturday night last week a serious party dis» tnrbance took place at Armagh. The streets were on the preceding night paraded by four Conservative bands, and there were great rejoicings over the Derry election. On Saturday night a Nationalist band, followed by a cheering crowd, marched through the streets. They were met by their opponents, and sticks and stones were freely used, ssveral persons being injnred. The military were called ont to restore order. At Portadown the "Twelfth" was anything but peaceful. A Black Lodge, on their return from the Scarva Sham Fight, marched through the " Tunnel," the Roman Catholic quarter of the town, and

fired several revolver shots. The Nationalist*, as might naturally be expected, retaliated by throwing stones. The result was that a regular riot ensued, and the parties on both sides received wounds of a more or less seriouß nature. The police who were unable to quell the disturbance, were obliged to retire to the barrack. They returned, however, in a short time with their arms and made an unsuccessful attempt te disperse the crowd. The greatest excitement prevailed and expressions of dissatisfaction at the imperfect police arrangements were to be heard on all Bides. The windows in Mr Snail's public house, and in several Roman Catholic houses, were smashed. Several arrests have been made. Caran. — The number of inhabitant in this County in 1881 was 129,476, but when the census was taken in 1891 but 111,917 persons were living in the County. Cork* — N. Long has just complete dat his cabinet works in Tackey street a beautiful billiard table, which he intends exbibiting at the Cork Agricultural Show. It is fitted up with the latest improved cushions. The workmanship shows great skill, and it is gratifying to know that work of this description can be so well executed in the city by the Lee. Mr J. P. Hamilton, late Recorder of Cork, is dead. Deceased was a native of Glenties, Donegal. The remains were interred in Narin, County Donegal. A landlord himself, he was ever considerate for oppressed tenants, and his court was a popular tribunal for the fixing of fair rents. His efforts to bring about a settlement of the Ponsonby estate dispute is still fresh in the minds of our readers, and will be gratefully remembered by» those on whose behalf it was made.

Among the passengers landed at Qaeenstown recently, from New Xork, were the Host Rev Dr Walsh, Archbishop of Toronto, Canada, and Very Rev Dr Hnghes, of Hartford, Connecticut. The Archbishop it a native of Waterford, while Dr Hughes first saw the light in the County of Longford. Both prelates are on their way to ' Borne. A large numb-r of American priests also landed at Queenstown at the same time, all on their summer holidays to their native land. Derry*— The attack made on a number of Catholic eitiiens at the Waterside by persons of Orange sympathies after the Deny election, turns out to be serious in respect of one of the injnred. Xrysipetas has set in in the ease of Edward Mullen, whose depositions have been taken. Alexander Jamison and John On are remanded^n custody on the charge of being concerned in the beating. Donegal.— The flax crop in Bamellton Districts is fifteen per cent less this year than last. The bairds look promising. Dublin.— Most Bey Doctor Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, accompanied by Bight Rev Dr Eeane, rector of the Catholic University, Washington, U.S.A., called at the convent attached to the North Union Workhouse, and prooeeded thence, with the superioress and Sisters to the workhouse hospitals, where they were received by the chairman of the Board, Mr Oarolan, and the master, Mr Dooley, and shown over the immense establishment. They spent a considerable time conversing with the patients in the various wards, and evinced the most kindly interest in pictures, carvings and other works of art executed by some of the convalescent patients. At the conclusion of the visit they made the following entries in the visitors book :— " I visited the sick wards of the workhouse to-day, and I have to renew the expression of my thanks to the Guardians for the many improvements that have been made tven since my last visit. (Signed), "f William J. Walsh. Archbishop of Dublin."

" Accompanying his Grace through the institution, I have been most favourably impressed with the features of refining and comforting character which I have remarked throughout. (Bigned). •' JOHN J. Kbanb, Rector Catholic University of America." Fermanagh. — According to last census this County shows a considerable diminution in its population. The figuresfof 1881 were 84,879 ; in the last year only 74,170. Limerick.— Mr Justice O'Brien, opening the Limeiiok County Assizes, said there were only five cases to go before the Grand Jury. On the whole he was happy to inform them that the County enjojed a very great degree of immunity from crime. F\ A. O'Keeffe, M.P , has received numerous letters and tele* grams congratulating him on the victory which he won on Friday last. He received a telegram from Most Rev Dr Oorbett, Bishop of Sale, Victoria, congratulating him on bis success. Result was as follows :— O'EtefEe, 1,878 ; O'Brien, 1,490 ; majority for O'Keeffe 388. l«OUtll»— The widowed Marchioness of Drogheda is the only Irish peeress of the day, it is said, who declined to allow herself to be kissed by the Lord-Lieutenant at the Vice-regal Drawing-rooms . Other ladies have objected, but beyond a mild protest have submitted to the regulation kiss. The practice was introduced by George IV* when he visited Ireland in 1821, and has been maintained by every Viceroy since that day. Mayo* — A numerously attended meeting of the Glan branch of the Irish National Federation was held last week nnder the preti* dency of Father Henry. A vote of confidence in honest John Dillon was enthusiastically passed, both at the private meeting of the branch and at a public meeting after Mass. Father Henry spoke at both in terms of the highest praise of the honourable Member for East Mayo.

A meeting of Ballaghadereen branch was held recently. Matters for consideration— Selection of delegates and eviction of Mrs Gallagher of Drimvalassoo. Six delegates for the Castlebar convention were ■elected and the following resolutions passed regarding the eviction : —That we tender Mrs Gallagher our deepest sympathy and w« promise her every assistance ia our power. That wa regret that tbe bailiff and bog ranger who threw her on the roadside were to be found among her own neighbours. That we welcome the appearance of the Connaught leUgraph in its new character, and promise it our support. Hlcattl* — Dr Nulty, Bishop of Meath, issued a pastoral during tbe recent elections, in which he " earnestly implored " the people of his diocese to " stamp out by their votes at the coming election this great moral, social and religious evil, which has brought about so much disunion and bad blood among % hitherto united people; which, by sowing dissension in the National Parliamentary party, bad weakened its strength and efficacy and seriously imperiled on the eve of victory the claims of our poor country to its legislative independence." This great evil of ParnelUsm, which he compares to paganism, and which he declares " impedes, obstructs, and cripples the efficiency and blights the frnitfulness of the preaching of the Gospel and the diffusion of divine knowledge," Queen's County.— The Bummer Assizes Judge, in addressing the Grand Jury, said the criminal business was very light. Two bills would go before them — one for burglary and the second for larceny. From the calendar and the report of the County Inspector tbe County exhibited that state which would be consistent with the calendar. During the period since the last Assizss there had been six oases specially reported, and be hoped that the County may long continue in the satisfactory state that it is in at present, In a case which stood over from the last Assizes, and in which Father Maher, Rosen* allis, and Father Kelly, Ballyfin, were charged, in conjunction with

a man named Corcoran and his wife, with the abduction of a girl named Mary Ann Dacres, a nolle prosequi was entered. The girl bad become a Catholic and the Protestants of the district gave the priests every annoyance, of which the bringing of this case into court is a sample. The Boscommon Herald of recent issue returned thanks to a patriotic townsman for the great assistance rendered the cause in the recent election. It said :— " He had the courage to declare his opinions openly and oppose the priest-peltera. Mr Noud was a true patriot when some of the present Factionist shining lights were in the garrets rf Dublin Castle in '67 1 Mr Noud is the pride of Boscommon, and when the present storm of dissension has passed away the men of Boscommon will not forget the services of brave and honest Michael Noud." SliffO*— The Sligo Champion of July 16 :— ln the excitement valuable services which many patriotic men in many districts are rendering to the cause are liable to be overlooked, but it would eavonr of ingratitude if we did not make bononxable mention of the services of the gallant men of Sooey, who ars ever in the fore-front of the battle for Ireland's freedom. On Sunday last a large contingent of them attended at the meeting in Bally mote with bands and banners to show their adhesion to the people's cans;. Having heard that the Parnellites of South Boecommon were hatching a plot for assaulting Mr Bodkin, the Nationalist candidate, they proceeded to Boyle on Tuesday (the day of nomination) to assist in protecting that gentleman. It had been arranged to hold a meeting of Mr Bodkin's supporters in the Orescent, but the Factionists, having taken posses. ion of that portion of the town, their allies, the police, made this an excuse for attempting to prevent the Nationalists holding their meeting. A cordon of police was drawn across the street, and access to the platform was barred, but only for a few minutes. A compact

body of Nationalist!, of whom there were thousands In the town, with tbe men of Booay leading, brushed the polios aside and upheld the right of public meeting by holding the Oresoent for the remainder of the day, until the business was concluded. j Tipperarj.— ln tbe cathedral church at Thnrles, Most Bit Dr Croke, Archbishop of Oashel, administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to 400 children. The boys, numbering 900, wearing rich green sashes, crowned on the shoulder with a white rosette, marched two deep from tbe Christian Brothers' School to the cathedral, which was a most edifying sight, and reflected great credit upon the good Brothers. The girls, who were in white, were about equal in number with the boys, and also presented a most besutiful sight. Tyrone —At Oookstown reoently an Orange crowd boa Old* town attempted to create a disturbance, but it was promptly quelled by the police. Tbe remains of Mrs McNulty, Meenmore, Bderney, mother of Rev T. McNulty, Ederney, and of Rev Jas. McNnlty, late of Decorah, N.S., were conveyed to the family busing-ground, bromore, County Tyrone. Tbe deceased lady was always held in high respect by all who knew her, and during life was noted for her piety, charity, and kindliness of disposition. She attained the very ripe old age of 98 years, and up to the last possessed all her faculties. The fnneral cortege was one of the largest ever seen in the locality. Tbe&hfaf mourners were Rev T. McNulty, P.P., Roderick McNnlty, Michael McNulty, sons, and Michael and Joseph Gallagher, grandsons of the deceased. Waterford.— Coroner Power, brother of Richard Power, the late Member of Parliament for tbe city of Waterford, recently lost, at the same hour, two sons, aged respectively 18 and 15 years. The boys contracted a cold whilst attending the funeral of their uncle. Bincere regret was felt in the County at the deaths of tbe boys.

Wextord.— Bight Uev Drs Browne and Lee, Maynootb College, will receive application! for two Bourses in Belgium, of 650 francs each, founded by Rev Paul Bocbe, parish priest of Wexford. The relatives of the founder have the first claim ; next, natives of Wexford towo, and in default of either, natives of any part of ihe diosese of Ferns. James Sinnott, South Main street, Wexford, has had a beautiful new yacht (the Siren) built on the lines of the famous Qloriana, th« unbeaten American cutter. The design is Mr Sinnott's own, and has resulted in a remarkably handsome specimen of a centre-board cruiser. Her dimensions are : — Length over all, 35 feet ; do on load water line, 27ft 2in ; beam, 9 t 4in ; draught of water, 4ft 6in (witi> out centre-board) ; draught with centre-board down, Bft ; 7 5 tons displacement, yacht measurement. She is fitted with the modern lead keel of three tons, Bcwt being in the centre-board, the remainder of the ballast being inside. A gentleman was bathing with his children at Hoare Bock, Wexford, last week, when he observed to bit horfQf f clore nnderapro. jecting ledge of rock, a dread monster, haft aid slimy, and with a sickening, balefnl glare in its eyes, which gleamed fiercely from the upper part of its head. The gentleman's first thought was naturally for his children, and he mahed through the water and snoceeded in bringing them safe to the land. He then turned his attention to securing the leviathan, and calling a man who w<iß working close at band, ha bade him procure a pitchfork. Armed with the terrible implement, the bather plnckily rushed into the water and stuck the pitchfork with all his might into the animal's head. The creature roused by the unlooked-for assault, made a terrific bound and knocked down and almost stunned his assailant, who retained bis bold on the pitchfork, whioh finally broke in two. The gentleman now thought it high time to beat a retreat, and he rushed towards land, while the

fish sailed off in the direction of Onlbar, with a piece of a pitchfork sticking oat of iU back, and tearing a stream of gore in iti wake.