Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIII, Issue 42, 14 February 1896, Page 11

Irish News.

(From contemporaries.) Armagh.— Oß ANGß RUFFIANISM IN THE NORTH.— At Armagh Presentment Sessions a Catholic millowner named William M'Bride applied for £5 compensation for a number of p»nes of glaBS and a window pane, his property which were unlawfully and mali. ciously destroyed. Applicant deposed that he was goiDg home on the night in question with thiee friends, when they were attacked •t the Barrack Hill, Armagh, by a mob, who threatened to "take their lives for Fenians." Witness and his friends, who bad given no provocation for this attack, were obliged to take refuge in the military brracks. When applicant was in barrackß tho mob proceeded to fail honße at a Bhort distance away from where the attack waß made and wrecked the same. The Court held that the injury wss malicious, and allowed a sum of £4 to.be levied off the townland and Corporation. Cavan.- RAILWAY EXTENSION.— There is a good prospect that railway lines will be extended from Carrickmßcross and Kilmainhamwoo lor Kingßconrt to Bailieborough. The Irish Government has engineerb engaged at present in mapping a line. Dublin.— OK ATH OF THE SHAM bQUIRK.— T ie dea his announced at Dublin of Mr W. G. FiUpatrick, commonly cal led " The Sham Squire," after his best-known book. He bad been ailing for weeks from heart disease. His studies of Irish historical subjects, although somewhat scrappy ani sketchy, are capital materials for picture writers — in fact, what tbe French term memoirs pour servir. He wrote lives of Dr Doyle, Lever ; the wit, Father Healy, and the great Dominican, th« Bey Thomas Burke, and selections from the correspondence of O'Connell. He was an M.R.I. A. and an LL.D. causa honoru of the Royal University of Dublin. DEATH OF MONSIGNOR KENNEDY,— Mgr. Edward Kennedy P.P., Dean of the Chapter of Dublin, iB dead. He was over 80 years old, and was in the 59th year of his priesthood, 39 of wh eh he has spent in St James's parish. He was largely identified with the erection of bcqoo)k *nd cburc es in and aoout the pansb, and for a great number of years was chaplain to Kilmambam Prison. He filled that office at tbe time whin General Buike was there under sentence of death, and was the first convey to the cews that to the prisoner had been reprieved and that the gallows, which had already been Wected, was being taken down. During Mr Parnell's imprisonment in 1881 Father Kennedy waa brought into con'act with him, a'jd & long and intimate friendship aro^o between them. As chapla'n of Kilmainham it w»« also his duty io prepare the Pboeaix Park murderers for their execution. In the y j ar 1882 Dean Kennedy was appointed Domestic Prelate to the Pope and obtained the title of Morjßignor. His death 10 deeply regretted eepacially by tho poor.— RIP. Kildare.— VOTlNG FORj . COADJUTOR BISHOP.— A solemn high Mass of tbe Holy Ghost was celebrated in Carlo w Cathedral preparatory to the parish of the diocese proceeding to the selection of three names for the office of Coadjutor to the venerable Lord Bishop of Ki'dare and Leighhn, and ia soccestuon to the lamented Moat Rev Dr Cntcerfoni. Oa the conclusion of the tseremoniep, and as Boon as tbe congregation h?A dinpersei the doo s of the cathedral were licked and the assembled parish prieetß, under the presidency of the filcst Rev Dr Lynch, proceeded to toe selection of three names for the office of coadjutor bishop of tbe diocese of Kildare and Leighlin. The reßal' w*a as follows :— The Very Buy Patrick Foley, [president Parlow Oullege, and the Very Rev Dr Michael J. Mnrpby, P.P..V G., Kildare, ex acquo digissimi—H votes each. The Very Rev Andrew Phelan, P.P ,V F., Maryborough, dignior—l2 votes. LoUtll. — NBW CSU3CH IN ST BRIGID'S OWN PARISH, — A splendid start ban been made by the pansbiouer^ :n the parish of Faughart to raiqe a buillmg fund fur the new Cnurcb of 8t Brigid. Tney had promised subscriptions, to be paid m three instalments, and the first of these was handed in recently, when the very bandsomeiHum WrtS realised of over £200, the best testimony in the world that the people of herownp-msn mean to be first in honour to their great patroness. His Eminence Ordinal Lo^ue, in a letter to Father Segrave, says ; " W'ien I appunrej you to the parish of Faughart I told you that one of the first wo ks which should claim your atleuvtion waß the erection of a new church."

SllgO. -EASILY GULLED DOWAGERS OF ENGLAND.— At a meeting of the inhabitants of Sligo on Monday, under the presidency of the Mayor, Mr McHugh, M.P., to ''protest against tht Protestant Btreet preachers," a letter from the Most Bey Dr Claccy the Bishop, waa read, expressing approval of tbe meeting, and action of the Catholics "in resenting the insult offered to them by this latest gyration of the weathercock of Protestantism — this latest exhibition of fatuity of the disintegrated and decadent heretical sect, ' His Grace goes on to say :'' A sum of £35,000 subscribed by the easily-galled dowaaers of Englind is annually forthcoming to subsidise this latest effort at galvanising into new Ufa an effete heretical system. We are expected to remain passive because English law has not declared street-preaching unlawful ; bat there is a higher law than the law of England, and more important interest than liberty of Bpeeoh. The wisest coarse would be to leave these hireling missionaries severely alone ; bat if this may not be done, then by available means within the limits of tbe law, we mast frustrate their fiendish efforts to undermine our people's faith. Waterford.— THE DIOOEBE BKNDS £825 TO THE HCLT FATHER.— The Most Rev Dr Sheehan having forwarded the amount of the Peter's Pence collection of the diocese of Waterford and Lismore recently made, together with the dioceßan contributions I for the holy places in the East, to Monsignor Kelly, Rector of the Irish College, Rome, for presentation to the Holy Father, has received a reply dated December 9th, 1895, from which the following extract is taken — '' Our Holy Father has commanded me to communicate to your lordship his grateful acknowledgment of your contribution of Peter's Pence, and of your devotion to hiß own person and office. The amount of your cheque, £825, and the warmth of the sentiments expressed in yoar lordihip's letter were, indeed, highly appreciated by his Holiness, and in sending to your Lordship, your clergy, and good people the Apostolic blessing he manifested very notably the emotion of his affection."