Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 13, 27 July 1894, Page 11

Irish News.

(From Contemporaries.) Antrim.— The failure of the Belfast Warehouse Company the other day resulted in the suspension ot the Discoont Corporation of Ireland. The liabilities if the corporation are heavy. As the depositors of the concern included thousands of artieaDS the failure will cause a great deal of suffering. Among the larere concerts involved are the Bushmi'l Distillery Company, the Brookfield Linen Company and the firm of Jaffa Brothers, which tbree houses have lodged a petition for the liquidation of the affairs of the Belfast Warehouse Company. A bsginniag has been made with the Compulsory Education Act in Belfast. So far, no punishment has been inflie'ed, and tbe threat of the law seems to be regarded as sufficient. Tbe Act will need careful administration if poverty is not to be punished because it is poverty. The caution of the Belfast bench is on tbe light side, and we trust the Act will be found none the less effective because of its administration in this »pint. Somebody has exercised his wit in nominating a School Attendance Committee for Dublin. If tbe corporation were to produce such a lie>t as tbe suggested one, it would be time to agitate for tbe direct election of a moiety of the School Committees. The joke, however, will scarcely go farther. Ignorance of schools and school work is not yet a qualification for Buch a position: Armagh. — Very Rev E. Pichp, Superior of St Viocent's Patronage, Lurgan, has issued an appeal for funds to assist him in continuing the good work of educating youths for the priesthood.

The establishment consists of reading roomp, school hall, ball alley* football fields, and a public chapel, It is a great undertaking and deserves the support if Cathodes the world over, especially Irieh Catholic?, in whatever land they may reside. CarlO'W* — Mr Hubert Robertson, who contested Hackney with Sir Charles Russell, Q C, Attorney-General, at the general election, is residing at his Irish Beat, Huntingdon Castle, not far from Ifowtownbarry, but in, this county. Mr Robertson, who is abont 45 years of age, is a member of the English Bar and Justice of the Peace for London. Some time ago ha was appointed to the Irish magistracy. He is married to a daughter of Dr Durdan, and thereby acquired Huntingdon Castle and estate. Clare*— Mr Edmund Leamy, ex-Member of Parliament for the South division tor Sligo, announced in a speech at Ennis on May 18, that through the (Sorts of Mr William Redmond, M.P., Tom Leary, who had been serving a ten years' sentence in Clare prison, had been released. Leary was sentenced two years ago for alleged agraiian crimes. Cork* — Very Rev Prior Glynn of St Patrick's Church, Rome, was lately in Cork ci'y. He delivered some ekquent sermons, and gave splendid descriptions of the Irish National Church now build* ing in the Sternal City. Great dearth of employment has prevailed in Skibbereen. There is a great deal of destitution among the labouring class. At a meeting of the Town Commissioners it was decided to undertake local improvements to employ the men who are in straightened circumstances. Yesterday and the day before there were very heavy captures of ■oackeral off Crookhavec, and the fishermen report that outaide of

that harbour the sea is one bank of fish, Of this statement there was sufficient proof, as evidenced by the enormous hauls on board the fleet coming into the harbour. The Manx luggers fishing from thcra are doing remaikably well, the Zetitie, of Port St Mary, having 6,000 on Wednesday ; Edwin, of same place, 7,000 ; Pet, 6,000 ; Majestic, 4,000 ; and all other boats a little less. Yesterday the lugger Bhah bad 3,000, the Madonna, 2,000 ; Mary Jane alike take, and the Harvest Home, Alpha and others similar hauls, tio near are the fish to the harbour that the boats have not to leave their moorings before 3 p.m , and shoot invariably some ten miles sooth- west of the Faetnet. Some of the boats fishing from Caetletownsen'l have been netting very nice trout in addition to mackarel for some days past, lhey are in good condition, and are endeavouring to make into the rivers for the fresh water, as is supposed, when they get enmeshed. An occurrence of a singular and tragic na'ure is stated to have taken place at Djuglas yesterday afternoon, when a man of the labouring class was about being interred in the graveyard adjacent to the village. It appears that when the coffin had bten lowered into the grave, and a few shovels of earth thrown on it, a noise wan heard which was nothing else than "a noise from the grave. 1 ' Immediately the men set about satisfying themselves as to the cause of the noise, and the ciffin was brought to the surface and opened. To the bystanders' horror and dismay, it was found that the unfortunate man had turned in the coffin, and was then face downwards. His features were contorted and almost black, with every sign of a desperate struggle in the endeavour to force open the coffin. On the coffin being opened there was one convulsive throb, and all was over —this time, unhappily, only too true. The body, it is said, presented all tl c nppearanc s usual after death, and the only conatrnction that can be put on the occmreuce is that the unfortunate man must havd been in a trar cc.

Doaegal, — A co-operative creamery ie in course of treciioi in Donegal. The shares are being briskly purchased. Mr Graham, engineer, is in chaise of tht building end o( the undertaking. The Sisteis of Mercy in Ballyehannon recently received a large order for hosiery, manufactured by them, from a firm in the County Carlow. It appears that some Irish tradeiß are Belling foreign stun! as being the convent made article. A statement went the rounds of the Press some time ago that Lord Wolseley in the course of correspondence had denied that be was an Irishman. Replying to an address of welcome last week at Ballyshannon his lordship said :— " Those who had given him that reception might rest assured of this, that being »n Irishman it was a source of pride to him to be able to travel through Ireland and find himself so well received by bia own countrymen." Dublin.— Raheny House, Coun y Dublin, which ia to come under the hammer, is in itself an ordinary suburban residence, standing in some nine or ten acres of pleasure grounds. The interest attfohed to the place is in connection with the rebellion of 1798 f when it was in the occupation of a well-known " United Irishman," Sweet man. an ancestor of the present owner. The place baa been in the family for a century and a half, and was in other days the manor house of the neighbourhood. Galway*— A rare treat is in store for as hers in Taam during the coming summer. Jim Corbetr, tha world's champion, will give an exhibition in Tuam. Here is what be says to a transatlantic contemporary : " I shall taka my father and mother with me to London. Then I shall send them to Tu»ui, the placa of their birth in Ireland, where they will remain daring the rest of my stay abroad. Leaving England I shall tour Ireland, and a feature of my trip theie

will be my appearance in a boxing exhibition at the To am Fair Grounds for the benefit of my father's friends in that town." Mr Joseph Fogerty, whose ''Hunted Life" tells a story of the remote counties bordering on Longh Deargh, is himself a native of the West of Ireland. It will be interesting to know that he has in preparation a serieß of character sketches of those eminent Irishmen who, like O'Donnell and Taafie, have attained a European distinction. By profession an engineer, he came to London thirty-five years ago, and since that time has spent his days in building railways and his nights in writing romances. It was be who had charge of the Severn Valley and other West of England lines, and his first novel was a etody of the labour question as exemplified by the condition of the Shropshire ironworkers. Similarly, while designing the city railways of Vienna, he collected materials for his " Countess Irene," which illustrates the connection between the Austrian army and the Emerald Isle. Mr Fogarty now resides quietly at Sydenham. Kerry* — A large number of emigrants from Caherciveen district left on Batnrday for the United States. Long before the departure of the train hundreds of people wended their way to the station, where the oft-repeated scenes of sorrow at parting were witnessed. Boetius Murphy, a well-known Gaelic scholar and an old-time defender of faith and fatherland, died near Kenm\re, March 14, at the age of 88 years. He was descended from a stock that figured on historic battlefields for religioa and country from Wexford to "Iverck." The family motto is "Daath before dishonour," a mo! to never yet known to be violated by the family. He was a bosom friend of the late Bight Bey Daniel McOarthy, Bishop of Kerry, having been his preceptor when a boy. He taught school in his early days and then turned to farming. He was clerk of the public works in the parish where he lived during the famine years of '47 and '48, and kept maoy a family from the workhouse and tne pauper's grave by keeping on the pay roll after tbejuntimely end of the support of the horne — hu3band,|father, or brother. He was a cousin of the Bt. Bey Bishop O'Connor of Omaha, Neb., and Bt. Bey Bishop O'Connor of Baltimore, Md. He died happy in the bosom of the Church of whioh.ha was ajfaithful sou, and having a well-merited reputation for honour and integrity his death wa3 deeply mourned by all classes and creeds. Ha leaves a widow, four sous and four daughters, some of whom are in the United Stateß, to mourn his loss IWeatll*— Miss Casey, the well-known Irish novelist, better known as •' Elizabeth Owens Blaekbnrne," who was lately fatally burned by the upsetting of aa oil lamp in the housa at DabliD, was a Meath women, and a native of one of tha most picturaeque spots in that beautiful county, having been born within the shadow of Slano Castle, the famous strongholds of the Flemmings, Barons cf 3 lane— a building from which one of the most beautiful viowa ia the islands can be obtained. She waa a daughter of the late Mr Andrew Casey of Slane, and grand- daughter of the late Mr William Mills. Miss Casey's works were widely read. Her first appearance in print was at the age of 16, when she sent aa Irish story to one of the leading papers, never thinking that it would be approved of or accepted. To the joy and delight of the young literary aspirant, it was not only published, but paid for. She repeated the experiment with the same happy remits, and henceforward she determined to take up literature »s a profession once and forever. The following are among the most popular of her works : " Woman Scorned," 1878 ; " Bunch of Shamrocks—lrish Tales and Sketches," 1879 ; •• Molly Carew," 1879 ; " Why Women Love," 1887 ; " Glen of SilverJßirches," 1880 ; " Love that; Loves Alway," 1881 ; " Shadows in the Sunlight," 1881 ; " Con O'Donnell and Other Poems," etc. For recitation, 1889 "Under the Cliffs," " My Sweetheart When a Boy," " What are the Wild Waves Sayiug 7" ,aIBO " Illustrious Irish Womeo," 2 vole. 1887.