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Show A large attended" convention of the United Irish league branches of the county Longford was held at Longford Long-ford on Tuesday. Mr. J. P. Farrell, M. P., presided, and explained that Mr. Blake, M. P., was unable to attend, as he had not yet recovered from the effects of the accident which lately befell be-fell him in London. Mr. Devlin, M. P., .and Mr.. John O'Donnell, M. P., addressed the convention, and urged greater activity amongst the branches in "dealing with landlordism and its supporters. The resolutions of the Limerick convention were adopted. In opening -.Tyrone-Assizes on Wed- nesday the Lord Chief Baron told the j grand jury that . he had never been in a county of the same extent in which the calendar was so small. Tt contains only six cases, of which three are remanets, and all are of ordinary character. In opening Armagh Assizes As-sizes yesterday, Mr. Justice Wright was able to congratulate the grand jury on the state of the county. The calendar presented only six ordinary cases, and the official reports showe that there was no organized crime, n boycotting, and no intimidation in the county. His lordship had, however, to express regret that cases of intoxication intoxica-tion had increased within the year from 800 to 908. S On Wednesday evening, last week, between 9 and 10 o'clock, an assault of a rather serious nature was com mitted on a laborer named James Cal-laghan, Cal-laghan, from the neighborhood of Cas-tlebar, Cas-tlebar, by a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary. Two constables from Ballina were on their way home after escorting a patient to te asylum asy-lum here, and one of them, apparently apparent-ly under the influence of drink, got into some argument with a countryman country-man who was proceeding home from the fair, when Callaghan, who lives on the roadside, hearing loud voices, went out to ascertain the cause. The car-driver car-driver asked Callaghan to hold his horse, whilst himself and the other policeman po-liceman tried to induce the boisterous constable to get on the car. When I they got him to the- car he, without the slightest provocation, began to unmercifully un-mercifully beat poor Callaghan, who but for the timely intervention of some neighbors would, without doubt, have fared badly. Shortly after the occurrence occur-rence half a dozen of the police from this station went to the scene of the occurrence and took Callaghan's statement. At 11 oh Friday night three young men were passing the Catholic cathedral, cathe-dral, Sligo, when they heard some noise in the yard. Shortly afterwards, on listening, they heard the sound of breaking glass. On raising the alarm three men ran from the yard and disappeared. dis-appeared. The police were at once told of the affair, and on inspection found the cathedral safe in the yard, and the sacristy window, through which it had apparently been removed, broken. The safe was intact, but a contribution box in the sacred edifice had been broken bro-ken and rifled. It Is surmised that the perpetrators of the outrage secreted themselves in the cathedral when the remains of the late Alderman Higgins were being removed thence in the evening. A man named Loftus has been arrested on suspicion. On Sunday evening a rather exciting scene was witnessed in Westmoreland street, Dublin, opposite the Bank of Ireland. Three soldiers came along from O'Connell street, and when they reached the College street end of Westmoreland West-moreland street one of them was taken Into custody by two military -policemen. His comrades resisted, and a i large number of soldiers soon gathered. ! The military police sergeant, finding i the crowd becoming excited, called Con-; Con-; stable 116 B to his aid, but the interference inter-ference of thf cnnatdKlo t.-o -i j v .. noo icociucu uy the military, and a lively scene was witnesed for some minutes.- One of the three soldiers. Private Waite of the Warwickshire regiment, fell on the street, and he was taken on a car to Mercer's hospital, where it was stated he was suffering from a fit. He was treated at the hospital, and left for his barrack. The other-, soldier Private Williams was lodged in tXe College ' street police station by the military police. po-lice. There was no charge preferred against him. Satisfactory assurances regarding the outbreak of smallpox in Belfast were given on Tuesday at the weekly meeting meet-ing of the board of guardians. The matter came up on the report of the medical officer. Dr. A. G. Bobb, which was as follows: "No new cases of smallpox have occurred. It is now twenty-one days since the last admission. admis-sion. The number of patients remaining remain-ing today Is twelve, all convalescent If no further cases of small pox be admitted, ad-mitted, the services of the additional resident physician in hospital may be discontinued from the end of the present pres-ent week, and Dr. Bums will be allowed ;2 r?nt.UJrn to duty in the Infirmary on the 19th inst, subject to your approval. The number of nurses on duty in the smallpox cases may now be reduced as the cases leave hospital." On Thursday afternoon, last week, a fire of an alarming character broke out ok ,e.asylum bui'inss I'ltrdysburn, about two and a half miles from Bel-" Bel-" ', The outbreak was first discovered in the laundry, where, at the time, a number of inmates were engaged at Considerable excitement prevailed, pre-vailed, but with all promptitude the of-JIfi- Wk6 successfl n Preventing a lfti dimWrkers were after "ome ilJ nlty:.removed trom th Place, and at this time tho . reached serious proportions. Efforts theflilacle & the gloves to subdue the flames, there being an ample supply sup-ply of water from one of the large ponds in the grounds. It was soon reaN havV ?eVer that Utstde aid would have to be requisitioned, and aecnrA ingly, information-was telepVned I to the central fire station. A shocking- occurrence took place at nonM0rd n FrWay' when Ja McDonald, Mc-Donald, a young man, a native of Dublin, Dub-lin, committed suicide. Deceased was employed at Mr. Lawless' halrdressing Sand,rmaine(1 in the shop on Thursday .night after 10 o'clock, when ? (o W;leSSie"-JTh,s morn'n?. about t.M he was found with his throat cut and his head almost severed from his i-T tJ : , , tuiung nis tnroat McDonald Mc-Donald tried to strangle himself by tearing his apron in halves and attaching attach-ing it to the hat rack in the shop This failing him. he attacked himself with a razor. Deceased was generally 0f a morose disposition, and complained of iSt-'SPpetUe- He refusd to take his tea the previous evening. On Tuesday afternoon a girl named Maggie Kavanagh, aged 12 year? who resides aClontarf. fell over the VoekJ at Balscadden Howth, a distant or some fourteen or fifteen feet. It appears that she was going in. the direction of thf l3?e? hafhing place, and apparently appar-ently took the wrong path, and thus tumbled over the cliffs. She was picked up Immediately after, and t aken to the house occupied by Mrs. Elvidge, who was very attentive to her. $ Further -particulars have been received re-ceived With reference to the drowning of Mr. William Mitchell of Deny in Carlingford Lough on Thursday last. The deceased gentleman, who was an extensive merchant, was sojourning in Warrenpoint with his wife and family. In the afternoon of the date in question ques-tion he and his brother-in-law. Dr. Harford",' also of Derry, went out on the. steamship Pilot, a large pleasure steamer,' for a lough trip. About a mile beyond Rostrevor quay, on the return voyage to Warrenpoint both gentlemen, were standing on the bridge talking to the captain, with whom the deceased was personally acquainted. A heavy gale was blowing at the time, and the captain warned them of the danger of standing near the bridge railings. Some time afterwards the vessel gave a lurch, and it is surmised that the deceased in catching hold of the top railing pulled it out of its place, and well into the water. When the deceased was in the act of falling his brother-in-law caught hold of his coat, but that portion came away in his hand. The vessel was instantly stopped, and turned buck, but the deceased de-ceased sank a couple of minutes after flln tntn iha t-o to en that- nothing could be done to save him. His body was dredged for all day yesterday, yester-day, but has not been found. A serious stabbing affray too- plice outside Boyle on Saturday night, in consequence of which two young men now lie in a most precarious condition in the infirmary of the work house. The injured men are Thomas Johnson, a Scotchman, and David Pearson, an Englishman, both of whom work at the clog-making business in Boyle, and who allege they were stabbed by a fellow worker named Jtfseph Barnes, also an Englishman. After the deed was committed Barnes gave himself up at the police station, and the constabulary, con-stabulary, on going to the place, found the men in a very serious condition. On Friday, a man named James Byrne, aged about 37, residing at 28 Carysfort avenue, Blackrock, died suddenly in the grounds attached to Frascati, where he wa3 engaged arranging ar-ranging some flower beds and doing some garaening work lor the good or his health, which was feeble. Mr. Curran of Main street, Blackrock, was speaking to the deceased about three o'clock in the evening, and when he was passing by at four o'clock, where he had seen Byrne about one hour before, be-fore, he found him stretched dead on the ground where he had fallen. The deceased was well known in Blackrock. where he was highly respected, and great sympathy is expressed for his family. 5 On Sunday evening a public meeting i was held in the town hall, Tullow, for the purpose of taking steps to form a committee to erect a memorial in the square, Tullow, in l3nor of Father John Murphy, who ws execi7"d th town of Tullow in the troubled times of '98. The hall wss crowaed to its utmost capacity, the meeting being the largest and most representative held in the spacious hall for a long time, a fact which augurs well for the success suc-cess of the movement. It is stated in W'aterford that the congested districts board have dropped negotiations as to the purchase of the Marquis of Sligo' s estate. Lord Sligo has, during the past week, issued notices no-tices to his tenants that they are np longer to sell turf from bogs upon which they have only a right of tur bary. As this means a "turf famine" in the town. It is suggested that steps should be taken to open up the old coal mine at Crowbill, a short distance from the town, but to this his lordship may also object. The poor of the town will suffer great hardship through the action ac-tion of Lord Sligo in prohibiting the sale of turf by his tenants, as will also very many industrious tenants of small holdings, who, by saving and selling turf, barely manage to pull through. On Thursday morning Mr. P. J.Mc-Dermott, J.Mc-Dermott, D. C, and Mr. Michael Gorm-ley, Gorm-ley, C. C, who, on the 2nd of June, were sentenced to one month's imprisonment for alleged conspiracy to intimidate one John Durkan, were arrested and taken to Sligo jail, arriving at 1:30 o'clock, and were immediately conveyed by car to prison. It is with feelings of the greatest regret we have to announce the death of the Rev. Timothy Bourke, C. C, Kil-teely, Kil-teely, County Limerick, which took place at his residence (the curate's house) on Tuesday night at 12 o'clock. Fr. Bourke was in his 52d year and had labored zealously in the vineyard of his Divine Master for more than twenty-five twenty-five years. . - We greatly regre?to announce the death of the Itev. James Victory, which took place on Thursday at his sister's residence. Bride street, Dublin. Father Victory was for many years a curate in the Cathedral parish, Marlborough street, where he was greatly valued as a zealous and self-sacrificing priest. He had been in failing health for two or three years past, and the end. while deeply lamented, was not unexpected. The anti-Treating League appears to be making, steady progress from eoun-ty eoun-ty to county. Having taken deep root in the counties of Wexford and Carlow, it is now commencing to advance into the Kilkenny district On Sunday, the 6th inst, at the closing of a most successful suc-cessful mission, conducted by Fathers Iiossiter and Kinsella in the united parishes of Ballycallan, KUmanagh, and Klllaloe, the antl-treating pledge was taken by overflowing congregations. congrega-tions. The anti-Treating League may not come to the ideal of temperance reformers, but if it succeeds in rousing public opinion against the sad old treating custom, it will, so far, help to promote the cause of temperance, which all well wishers of the prosperity of Ireland have so much at heart. |