Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIII, Issue 35, 27 December 1895, Page 11

Irish News.

(From contemporaries.) Antrim.— OLE • GYMAN THREATENING TO SHOOT.— In Belfast Custody Conrt on Thursday, before Meson Garret Nagle, B.M. (chairman), and James Jenkins, J P., the Bey John Jamei Brown, described on the charge book as of Manor street, Oliftonville, was placed in the dock and charged at the instance of Constable M'Manns with drunkenness that morning and with threatening to shoot, as Alleged, Mr Thomas Maguire, solicitor, of the firm of Messrs Magoire and Riordao, Donegal 1 street, on the previous evening. Constable M'Manns deposed he arrested the defendant at 1 o'clock this morniog for being drank and in possession o! a loaded revolver. Tbe weapon was loaded in five chambers with cne empty. Witness found 13 -cartridges in Mr Brown's pocket. The latter said "he went into Mr Magnire's office yesterday evening, and that it was a good job he wasn't in tbe house or he would have shot him as dead as mutton.'' Mr Thomas Magoire deposed that abont 5 o'clock yesterday evening he was in his own office in Donegal street wbeu the defendant came in and asked witness to deliver up a policy of assurance as to which he alleged a grievance. Witness informed him, as he bad on previous occasions, that his firm would not give up the policy nor cbunge the position they had taken in reference to that. Mr Brown said threatingly that "he would make it a very seiious tbing for me." He then went out and returned again about 6 p.m., when witness was in bis own private office, and he (the defendant) inquired for wi'ness in the front office. One of witness's clerks told Mr Brown that be (Mr Maguire) bad gone. Witness overheard thia conversation as one of tbe doors was open, and Mr Brown then said : " Had he been here I would have shot him " ; and he then said, " By 1 will shoot him in the morning. Unless I have my money before 10 o'clock I will shoot him in the street the first time I see him." Mr Brown then went out and returned again in about five or ten minutes, when he repeated the above threats substantially. Mr Brown had threatened in a general manner on several occasions to take witness's life. In consequence of these threats witness considered his life in dangerHe (tbe defendant), in witness's presence, threatened to commit suicide on former occasions. Tbe accused was remanded in custody for eight days. Cork »— DEDICATION OF A NEW CHURCH IN CORK.— The dedication of tbe new church attached to the Convent of Marie Beparatrice took place at Summerhill South, Cork, on Tuesday. The ceremony was performed by the Most Rev Dr O'Callagban, 0.P., Bishop of Cork, attended by a large number of prießts. At the High Macs his Lordship presided, and was attended at the Throne by the Very Rev Canon Murray, P.P., Douglas, and the fctev Father M'Carthy, P.P., Ballincollig. The Celebrant of the Mass was the Very Rev Canon Maguire, P.P., St Finban's. The Most Bey Dr Browne, Bishop of Oloyne, has made the followmg appointments in his diocese : Rev P. J. O'Oallaghan to be P.P. of Charleville, Revß. M'Carthy to be P.P. of Inniscarra, and Rev T. Bowles to be C.C., Toughal. CIare.— VAGARIES OF A MASKED MAN.— John Walsh. J.P., of Ayle House, Feakle, with Mrs Walsh and their two daughters, were driving to Mass to Feakle chapel, on Sunday, October 13, when, at the crossroads, a masked man carrying a gnn, jumped over the road wall »nd ran after the trap. He waved a white paper, and then muttering some words he flung it into the trap. It was, however, blown out, and fell to the ground. Picking it up, the individual again tried to fling it in, but failed. Then picking it off the road he jumped over the wall and made off. Derry.— A SUCCESSFUL COAL-MINING INDUSTRY.— The coalpits at Derry, in the neighbourhood of Coalisland, which were opened some time ago by Mr John M'Nally, of Cookstown, tiave proved very successful. Tbe coal is of a good quality, and the demand is far in excess of the supply. The price is very reasonable, being Us 8d per ton at the pit head. DO«n.-B&NOBB OF ARTIFICIAL TEETH.— Mrs H. M'Neil, proprietress of the Royal Hotel, Bangor, County Down, was suffocated on Saturday by a couple of false teeth becoming detached and sticking in her throat whilst she indulged in an afternoon "nap." Dnbln.- MAXO'RELL AND DUBLIN.— Max O'Rell says that it was in tbe streets of Buda-Peßth and in the drawingrooms of Dublin he found the finest and the most beautiful types of womanhood. AIR HEALY'S NEW PAPER.— The latest rumour regarding Mr Healy's proposed newspaper venture in Dublin is that he is to have the financial backing of Mr " Barney " Barnato, of the '• Kaffir market " speculative crowd in London. Mr Barnato has no connection whatever with Ireland or Irish politics. One report has it that Mr Healy's paper will be called the Nation. JOHN DILLON'S WlFE.— Misa Mathew, who was to be married to Mr John Dillon, M.P., in November, is, says a correspondent, some

twenty yean younger than her future hatband. Bhe is a well-known figure in West Bad society ; ii fair, and wean a pince-nez. Mr Dillon, adds the correspondent, baa considerable " expectations ' from a relative, a lady. VISIT TO •• INVINCIBLBS."— Mr Jamei Mullet, of Dublin, paid a visit to three of the prisoners at present confined in Maryborough prison undergoing life sentence in connection with what was known as the Invincible conspiracy. The prisoners he visited were Joseph Mullet, James Fitzharris, and Laurence O'Hanlon. These men have now served no less than thirteen year's imprison* ment, aod, notwithstanding the fact that they have gone through tbis terrible ordeal, Mr Mullet found them all in fairly good spirits. Gal way. -DEATH OF MB JOSEPH KELLY,— Joteph Kelly, third son of the late James Kelly, of Newtown, aod brother to Judge Kelly, died on October 6. Mr Kelly married in 1852, Mary Anne, fifth daughter of the late Sir Michael Dillon Bellew, Bart, of Mount Bellew. By Mr Kelly's death some of the principal families in Oounty Gal way are thrown into mourning ; among them, the Earl of Westmeath, the Bellews, of Mount Bellew, Lord Sal tor m, the Fitzgerald-Kenneys, and the Dalys, of Baford. A «EW OOUNTY JUDGE.— It is reported in Irish political circles that Mr B. M. Dane, M.P , baa accepted the Ooonty Court Judgeship of Galway. This would mean a vacancy for North Fermanagh and a by-election. Kerry.— CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT.— At the Killarney Quarter Sessions recently, William F. Ryan, of London, applied on behalf of bis sister, Honoria By an, for a seven-day license for the Lake Hotel, near Killarney, on tbe shore of the Lower Lake. After the surrender of the Lake Hotel premises on April 1, noticea appeared on the gate and walls of tbe hotel threatening any person who would occupy the premises. The notices were signed " Captain Moonlight." Mr Downing, Miss Ryan's solicitor, had these notices removed, but the effect on her nerves was such that she practically abandoned the undertaking, and was about withdrawing from the venture. The license was granted. Leitrim.— A DOUBLE FATALITY.— A fatality occurred on October 17, on the Cavan, Leitrim and Roecommon Light Railway, between Drumsbambo and Ballinamore. The incline on this branch haß often been a cause of complaint, as there is no protection on it, Tbe line runs along the public road and across at the cross-roads without any gate being provided, John Mulvey and four friends were riding from Drnmshambo on a car, and were crossing Oorrabaun cross-roads when the 2 p.m. train ran into tbe cart, and killed Mulvey and his cousin. The two others were injured seriously. Limerick.— LETTEß FROM JOHN DALY.— John Daly has sent a long letter to the chairman of the Limerick Amnesty Association regarding his recent election and the prospects of the release of himself and other prisoners in Portland prison. Tbe question of Amnesty was, he says, a matter of expediency with the last Government, but the Conservatives are strong enough to be generous, and all hope must fail if the Home Secretary does not do something before winter sets io. His health ie impaired. The doctor adds a note to the communication that Daly's imprisonment does not tend to diminish his chances of longevity. IHoiiaglian.— INSULTING A PRIEST.— In Monaghan, on the fair day, the Very Rev L. I. Canon O'Neill, P.P.. Clones, was subjected to an insult of the grocest character by a drunken Orangeman. This individual when be saw the very rev gentleman approaching him executed an Orange war dance, and, approaching the rev gentleman in stentorian tones Bhouted "To h— l with the Pope." Queen's County.— PlTCH and TOSS ON SUNDAY. At the fortnightly petty sessions in Mountmellick on October 14, four young men named Owen Neill, William Keegan, John Lalor, and James Oosa were prosecuted by Humphrey Smith, J.P., for a breach of tbe Sabbath Act, having played pitch and toss iD complainant's fields on October 6. A fine of Is »nd costs was imposed on each of tbe defendants. SlifgO. — MORE ABOUT STREET-PREACHING. — The attempt to uphold the right claimed by the street-preachers of Sligo to inßult the peaceable and orderly inhabitants of that prosperous Irish town by attacking their religions beliefs in the most offensive and provocative fashion is apparently to be abandoned by the Tory administration. A few days ago the Crown Solicitor, representing the Attorney-General expressed the hope that the practices would cease. Tb6 Executive, Mr Fenton declared, would find it impossible to preserve order if tbe street-preaching waß continued. In wonli long ago have ceased if the present administration imitated its two predecessors in dealing with the situation. But Mr Balfour 11. and Mr John Atkinson thought they could assist the " soupers " by a display of bayonets and muskets. They now recognise their mistake. We trust, too, they will drop those senseless prosecutions of decent people whom Mr Atkinson had to invent a new-fangled procedure to indict. Tyrone.- DEDICATION OF OHUBCH.— Cardinal Logae recently dedicated the Catholic church at Moortown, Ardboe. It

wm the first he dedicated in the Archdiocese of Armagh. The church has reconstructed , and what two yaatß ago was bat a poor and dilapidated structure is to-day a splendid edifice. Waterford.— bishop sherhan on educational INJUSTICE.— The Moat Bey Dr Sheehan, Bishop of Waterford and Litmore, distributed the prizes in connection with the Christian Brothers' pupils on Wednesday. He referred at length to the inferiority which Catholics held in Ireland in regard to University education. They wanted no superiority in the land. They had too long groaned under an unjust superiority to wish to desire to have it over others, but they demanded their rights and they would never cease to demand them. They paid their share of the taxes, they discharged their share of duties as good citizsn?, they ■oppoited the State in peace and in war equally as their fellowcountrymen of other religious denominations ; then why were they to be denied the same educational rights and privileges as other denominations possessed and have possessed for many and many a long day in this land? One thing, however, is certain. The Irish Catholics, their bishops and priests, would never be satisfied as long as Catholics occupied a position of inequality in the land. As he said before, they did not demand any superiority above other§, bat they never would be satisfied to be inferior to others in Catholic Ireland.