Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIII, Issue 48, 3 April 1896, Page 8

Irish News.

(From Contemporaries.") Antrim.— OßANGE INTOLERANCE.— The Protestant intolerance which prevaila in Belfast is shown by the fact that under the contracts disposed of by the Corporation during the past month only £40 was given to Catholics, whilst Protestants received £19,307. Cavan.-A PROTESTANT PARSON LANDLORD.— At the Quarter Sessions just hfild Bt Cootehill before Judge Water?, there were 27 ejectment cases for hearing, one being at the suit of Rev Thomas Moore, rector of the parish, against James Anderson, Killatee, for £6 ss, being one year's rent due on November 1. Mr A. B. Smith , solicitor, appeared for plaintiff. Mr Boyle, solicitor, defended, and said he was instructed that a year's rent was rot due. Mr Moore last year alao sued the defendant for rent, got a decrpp, and overcharged the sum of 10s in costs, which ha submitted was a payment on account cf the present year's rent. His Honour : Do you admit, Mr Smith, that too much was charged as coqtr)? Mr Smith : There was a decree, and eviction notices were served. His Honour : The Plaintiff was not entitled to any costs except what was given on the face of the decree, Mr Bmith : I instructed him to take half the costs of the eviction notices. His Honour : The person who takes more costs than what is given on the decree, placeß himself in a dangerous position. Mr Moore said he was willing to pay hack the 10s, and asked for his Honour's assistance in the matter. His Honour : I beg your pardon, Mr Moore, I must decide the case according to law. The case was dismissßd. Cork*— PROPOSED EXPENDITURE OF £750,000.— C0rk Harbour is deriving some advantage from the activity of the current political situation. The Government is said to mean expending three quarters of a million on the long-neglected naval dockyard at Haulbowline Island. It is proposed that war ships seeking refuge there might promptly be repaired. As there is some money going about, it is well that «' Cork's own town " should have the expenditure of a trifle of it. There are rumours that one of the first rally-ing-places of the flying squadron is at that static benefida carinis— Berehaven Bay. Thence it may go anywhere over the wide ocean. CIare.— SHOCKING DISCOVERY ATENNISTYMON:— Mr Coroner Cullinan, Ennis, held an inqueet at Ennistymon on the body of a woman named Molloy, who was found dead under shocking circumstances. It appears the woman, who was the wife of a shoemaker, and lived in a little house on the confines of the graveyard, waß last seen by her neighbours a few days before. Hearing no noise about the house, some of the neighbouring people burst in the door, when a horrible spectacle presented itself. The body of the woman lay on the floor, partly under the bed. It was partially undressedt as if she had fallen while retiring to rest. The face was horribly eaten, as if by rats, md both thighs were badly lacerated. It is stated that people saw numbers of rats abouc tbe hous", e^en jumping on the bed where the corpse was laid out. A post mortem showed that the woman was suffering from cancer of the liver and a weak heart. A verdict of death from natural causes was returned. Derry.-ANOTHER GUN ACCIDENT.— At B^llyronan. on the | s-hons of L< ugh Neagh, a farmer earned SamueThompson and a servant boy named Edward Coleman were hunting, Thompson was walking a few paces behind Coleman when hiß gun went off, and the contents lodged in Ooleman's leg above the knee. Down.— ALMOST BURIED ALIVE.— A rather extra. ordinary accident occurred near Besebrook, two miles from Newry. A man named W. Trueßdale was engaged digging a trench convenient to the churchyard when the sides gave way, and the loosened soil buried him up to the neck. Troesdale was unable to help himself, and though he shouted lustily for assistance half-an-hour elapsed before he was discovered and extricated from his a»kward position. Dublin.— THE LIFE OF CARDINAL MANNING.— The Freeman's Journal says that Cardinal Vaugnan'e s'rong protest against the caricature of Cardinal Manning which his biographer has drawn, will command the sympathy of every reader of Mr Purcell's volumes. Their exaggeration of incidental differences and controversies, their indiscreet revelation of hastily-written letters never meant for the public eye, their subordination of what, after all, were the main efforts of tho great Cardinal's life to petty tales of petty disputes are painfully manifest. Cardinal Vaughan's version of an incident of which he is himself the hero in Mr Purcell's story is so different from Mr Purcell's own, so little supports the theory that Mr Purcell builds upon it, that his deductions from the narrative he presents must be received with caution. Cardinal Vaughan's tren. chant criticism destroys the credit of the portrait of his predecessor which has been given to the public. SIR MAURICE O'ROURKE —Sir Maurice O'Rourke, Bpeaker of the New Zedand Legislature, visited the Four Courts, Dublin, and was shown around the various courts, I

GaIway.— DROWNING FATALITY IN COUNTY GAL. WAY.— A very melancholy drowning accident occurred at the village of Claddaghduff, ten miles from Clifden. A team ol yonng fellowi were playing a football match on the banks of Baurnarusheen lake. One of the players accidently kicked the ball into the lake, when a young fellow named Martin Diskell divested himself of hie clothes and swam out for the ball. Before he could make the shore again he got cramps and was drowned. Deceased was about 22 years of age. Kerry.-DREAM OP A " CROCK OF GOLD."— At Lixnaw i recently, a man named Maboney dreamed "three nights running" that a crock of gold lay buried under a whitethorn bush which grew at the western end of the old church of KUcaura. He would not dig ; for it, however, as the thoughtof disturbing the resting placeof the dead was too much for him. He told his dream, and three young fellows named Sollivan, McQainn, and Flynn, who were not burdened with ideas about disturbing the death, set forih one night for the old church. Having drawn around the bush tho mystic circle where they intended digging, they set to work. A wall about five feet high was close by. They toiled throngh the night but found nothing. As the sun was rising, the wall gave way, and the greater portion fell into the cavity. One of the occupants had a very narrow escape, but sustained some slight wounds on the head from the falling stone. A heavy rain storm swept over Tralee district on Christmas Bye. Poor farmers, named Dowliog, McKenns, Sullivan, and Shea, who were returning from Anniscane, lost their lives in endeavouring to cross a swollen stream. King's County.— A DISASTROUS STORM.— A rain storm of exceptional violence passed over King's County, on December 27, inundating large tracts of land, and causing serious damage to property. Houses were unroofed, trees blown down, and ricks of hay and straw scattered broadcast. Limerick. — A LIMERICK SAILOR DROWNED.—A report has been received io Limerick that a sailor named Edward Maher has been drowned at Hamburg. Maher, it is said, belonged to Limerick, and has left a sum of money, concerning which the Consul at Hamburg has written to Limerick. His relations are requested to commuicate with the authorities. L,OUth.— PERSONAL — James Gannon, a solicitor at Drog. heda and Dnblin, has been appointed by Francis Gogarty, high sheriff, returning officer for Drogheda. RoSCOmmon. — Meetings are being held in Roscommon in connection with the proposed project for th§ establishment of a bacon-curing factory. It is proposed to work the establishment ai in Denmark, on the co-operative system, which has been found in oonnection with the bacon and hotter industries to be of enormous benefit to all classes in the county, Tipperary.-DR CBOKB "AN IRISHMAN TO THE BACKBONE AND SPINAL MARROW."— A correspondence which has passed between Archbishop Croke «nd Mr John Cullen, secretary of the Irish National Club of New York, is going the rounds of Home papers. Mr Cullen had sent to hie Grace a copy of a song, entitled "We're Irish all the lime," which is an answer o <» statement attributed to the Archbishop by Mr Stead in the Jteview of I Reviews, to the effect that "We are all English now," Hie Grace understood the song to have been addressed to him as " a degenerate son of Erin, who had forsworn his country, and publicly declared himself and his countrymen to be not Irish, but English in heart *nd mind and feeling." He states that he has been grossly and wilfully misrepresented in the matter, bat is now as ever an Irishman to the backbone and spiral marrow, and ha has never said or done anything from which a contrary conclusion could be legitimately drawn. About three months ego he was interviewed by Mr Stead, and aßked what be thought about the existence among living Irishmen of an anti-Euglish sentiment. He unhesitatingly declared that he did not believe in the existence of any such feeling, and that as the democracies of England and Ireland had in latter years fraternised, with the result of the " union of hearts," they had all become English at least in the negative sense, and to the exclusion of anything like international hatred. Such was his sentiment, and such was the bead and front of his offending. In all respects be did not hesitate to say, in the words of the song : On principle to tyrants we are foes, And are Irish from onr head unto our toes. DEATH OF MR. T. HALLY, CLONMEL.— The death is announced, suddenly, of Mr Thomas Hally, O'Connell street, Clonmel. Mr Hally was an active Nationalist. In his early days he had a Bhare in the Fenian movement. Later on he took part in the Land League struggle, and in ihe troubled period intervening between the snppreßsion of the Land League nnd the establishment vl the National League he did not lie idly by, bnt worked on in the tem^" porary organisation started for the sustentation of the suspects. In recent years be was connected with the National Federation. Tyrone.— TOßN ALMOST TO DEATH BY A HORSE.— A very painful and melancholy affair is reported to have taken place in the neighbourhood of Cappagb, which lies three miles from the

town of Pomeroy. It appears that a little gnl named Duggan, ■who resides with her uncle, a man earned Donaghy, went to drive a horse, which belonged to a neighbour, off her uncle's grass, when the animal, which was a vicious one, suddenly attacked the little girl, difiguring her in a frightful manner, Medical aid was at once summoned, but little hope is entertained for the girl's recovery. Watertord. -DEATH OF FATHER M'CALiTHY, P.P., Tramore,. — Recently Father M'Carthy, P.P , Tramore, one of the most distinguished ecclesiastics in the diocese, passed away after a brief illness. He had contracted cold about a week previously, and despite assiduous medical attention, he gradually sank and succumbed, the immediate cause of death being failure of the heart's action. He was a native of Duagarvan, and received his early training in St John's College, Waterford. He then went to Maynooth, where, after a brilliant collegiate career he was ordained His first field of missionary labours was in the diocese of Kildare and Leighlin, where his devoted zial and energy combined with many admirable traitß of character, asserted themselves, both iv the advancement of religion and the promotion of every cause for the good of the people. Returning to his native diocese he wis deputed in 1881 by the Lord Bishop to visit America for the purpose of collecting subscriptions to renovate the Waterford Cd'hedral, and his misssion was crowned with conspicuous success. On the death cf the Rev Richard Power in 1884 the Bishop, as a recognition of his rare abilities, promoted Father M'Carthy to the parish of Tr- more, where be since laboured with the utmost success and usefulness. Partly through his instrumentality the church there is one of the 'finest in Ireland. The funeral took place on Saturday. Westmeath — PROSELYTISM IN ATHLONE.— Attention has been drawn to the efforts made in Athloce of late to pervert aame Catholics of the humbler class. Thesa efforts are of a most unblushing kind. One poor servant girl began by bringing a child of the family where she was at service on several occasions to the Protestant church. When her parentß came to bring the girl away admission was denied them, A method adopted by the proßelytißer is to visit the houses of Catholic poor and give them raon^y, ostensibly by way of charity, but in reality to get a hold of people and then 10 undermine their faith. In one case a boy of a. out six years of age was taken away from the Catholic echo )1 a-.d sent to a Protestant National school recently opened. The mother of this boy i& a Catholic. He was baptised in the Catholic Church by the priest, the Protestant father standing by aad giving hie consent. Hs was always brought up a Catholic, the father aWaya consenting ; and satisfied. The mo'her gets ill and is visited, A baby is born, and is actually conveyed to the Protestant church and christened by the parson. The grown children, a boy and girl, the latter barely seven years of age, were sent to the Protestant Sunday School, and tue work of perversion seemed to advance quickly. The mother and children have, however, been saved from the proselytisers ajd the children have been sent bick to the Catholic school. This sys"tm has been going on since the inception of the street preaching nuisance in Athlone, and the Catholic population are determined to take means to put an end to this trafficking in human souls. Wexford. -ANOTHER CENTENARIAN.— There has jast died at Milltown, Tagoat, County Wexford, an old man named James Redmond, who attained the extraordinary age of 110 years Redmond worked for the greater part oi' his life as an agricultural labourer, and although illiterate was a very intelligent man. He was born near Kilmuckridge, a village in the northern part of the county, about twelve years before the rebellion of '98 SIB THOMAS ESMONDE AND THE ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION,— Sir Thomas Grattan Bsmonde, Bart. M.P., has forwarded to Dublin from Ballynastragh, Gorey, to be exhibited at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition, two very fine specimens of Irish manufacture, viz,, a bog-oak chair, carved and ornamented all over with old Irish designs, taken from the Book of Kells, and also a beautiful specimen of old Irish bookbinding, in the shape of the Journals of the Irish House of Lords from 1634 to 1776, in four volumes. The hon gentleman has also sent up an old Irish potato ring of unusual form and design. These antique exhibits are sure to be regarded with much attention. GENERAL. IRISH UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.— His Orace the Archbishop of Dublin is compelled, by the necessity of saving the Catholic claim in the matter of university education from misrepresentation

and misunderstanding 1 , to correct once more a rxnsstatement of the Catholic position by a writer in the New Ireland Review, Last month it was suggested by a writer in the review that the minimum of the Catholic claim could be met by establishing a Catholic college equal in endowment and status to one of the Queen's colleges, Th»i, it was said, would Bettle the question for a generation. The Archbishop immediately protested against this "subservient programme," and set out in authoritative opposition the principle upon which alone the university question can be settled. Trie principle is the principle of "equality," involving, as the Archbishop pointed out, not merely equality of collegiate endownent, bat equally of univtrßity status as well. Either Trinity College should be embraced in a university , really national, within which there Bhould be created a Catholic college, or colleges, equal in equipmant ; or, if left in its privileged position of " happy academic freedom," then the Catholic college, or colleges, should be placed in a similar position too. The statement of tht claim was as simple as the principle it embodied was just. The writer in the Neiv Ireland Review, however, revives the " subservient programme " as a possible programme, but with a difference. The January article argued that an endowment of ten or twelve thousand a year would be sufficient for the new college, which, it was suggested, should be subject to the government of the Royal University Senate. The February] proposal is modified to the extent that the pioposed endowment is increased to £20,000 a year ; but the academic ascendency of Trinity College is still left untouched. Bach a scheme, instead of being odb for the establishment of equality, is really one, whatever the int«ntion of the authors may be, for the fortification of inequality. Equality may be arrived at by taking Trinity College ont of its isolation, and including it in one great national university, in which all the Irish university colleges would be placed on an equal footing, or by developing Dublin University as its founders intended it to be developed, aDd creating within it a great Catholic college standing upon a footing of perfect equality with Trinity. If these plans are rejected owing to the opposition of Trinity College iteelf, the charges of sectarianism, of reluctance to face competition, of indifference to the cause of good feeling and toleration among the different sections of Irishmen can never again be levelled, even witn a semblance of truth against Catholics, LIQOOR CONSUMPTION.— The Irish Association for the Prevention of Intemperance has lsened its annual report for the year 1834-95. Toe statistics it furnishea are corrective of some popular errors. From them we learn that while the Scotch consume whisky at the rate of nearly a gallon and a half per head of the population per year, the average Irish consumption is .88 gallons. Though the English average, ,64 gallons, is lower, the extra appetite for beer redresses the balance, the average annual English consumption of beer being nearly a barrel per head of the population compared with a little over half a barrel in the case of Ireland. The total Irish expenditure on drink in 1894-95 was, according to this autuority, £11,224,162, or £2 8a lOd pei head of the population.