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Show Cfoe Halesf Irish- Kcws-' With Compliments, Directory United Irish League, 69 Upper O Connell Street, Dublin. John E. Redmond, M. P., President. June 21. 19U2. The Ballinafad Coercion Victims. Saving Their Crops. Boyle, June 26. A couple of days: ago an Interesting scene was witnessed wit-nessed in the vicinity of Ballinafad. Over 100 stalwart, men visited the holdings of the five men Messrs. M. Dermcttroe, Buoyle, Sheridan, Gara, Condon, who are at present in Sligo jail under the Coronation Coercion Act and carried out the summer work. The men went to- each of the farms of the prisoners and worked with a will, not leaving until they had all completed. The work was carried out amidst great enthusiasm. Falsehood About New Tinnevarv. Clonmel, June 26 Dr. J. F. O'Ryan, one of the trustees of New Tipperary, contradicts the statement that appears in Tuesday's Irish Times London correspondence, cor-respondence, that New Tipperary has passed back to the hands of Mr. Smith-Barry. Mrs. William O'Brien purchased the fee-simple of the1 new town, and it is vested absolutely in three trustees for the benefit of the town and those who suffered in the struggle. Mr. Smith-Barry only bought the mart, which he demolished. The houses of the new town are all occupied. Coercion Appeals in Ennis. Ennis, June 26. The hearing of the appeal brought by the defendants in the Corofin Crimes Act prosecutions, who have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from one month to four month!, camo on for hearing before his honor, Judge Carton, at Ennis quarter, sessions June 16. The defendants were Timothy Flanagan, J. P., chairman of the Corofin district council; Patrick J. Linane, J. P., chairman Ennis Urban council; Michael Mi-chael Griffey. D.' C, Corofin, treasurer of the league and chairman Corofin board of guardians: J. Sullivan, Corofin, Coro-fin, secretary of the' league; Michael O'Loughlin, D. C, Corofin: Michael O'Brien. D. C... Corofin; Michael He-garty, He-garty, D. C. Removables' Sentences Confirmed by Judge Carton. After hearing statement of the case. Judge Carton said it was unnecessary to go into the details of the evidence. The result would be that in five of the cases he affirmed the sentences. With reference to Mr. O'Loghlen, he was not satisfied that he was present at either of the meetings, and accordingly in that case he would reverse ..the . decision. de-cision. . , . , Mr. Lynch made an appeal on behalf of Mr. Griffey, who was close on 80 years of age. His honor asked wculd he give bail. Mr. Griffey declined. He would spend the close, of his 72d year in jail. Mr. Hynes then applied to have warrants war-rants made out: - Mr. Lynch appealed for time to enable en-able some of them to settle their busi ness. - .. The defendants wei'e asked would they surrender themselves next day at ' noon, but one and all declined; and said they would go to jail at once. They were removed to Limerick by the mail train. v The Government and Mr. McHugh, M. P. London, June 26. In the house of. commons, on the mo- -i tion of Mr. John Tedmond, aM ,P., backed up by the Irish party, the government gov-ernment was forced to appoint a select h committee to inquire into the conduct of the removable magistrates in com- 'j mitting Mr. McHugh to jail . for con- tempt of court, and to report to the house of commons. Mr. T. W. Russell, M. P. Denounces Wyndohom's Sham Land Bill. Belfast, June 26. At a meeting of the council of the ' Ulster Farmers' union in Belfast June 14, a letter was read from Mr. T, W. 'i Russell, M. P., severely criticising the action of the chief secretary regarding the Irish land bill. He characterized j the attempt to send the bill to a grand committee, as a non-contentious meas- I ure, as audacious end unreasonable, ' and said he would rather the bill perished per-ished fifty times than that clause 36 : found its way upon the statute book. I There could be no compromise on that point, as a bill with . that provision i would be a curse to the Irish tenantry, j Fermanagh County Council Rout of the Orange Grand Master and the I Unionist .Gang in Fermanagh Great National Victory Election ' -of Nationalist Chairman and Vive- j Chairman. The first meeting of the newly-elected Fermanagh county council held yesterday yester-day (June 16), marks a new epoch in l the history of that historic county. In g spite of the strenuous and sustained jjj efforts of the Orayge and landlord par- ' ty to maintain their traditional ascen- i dancy and to completely deprive the i nation:! lists of representation on the ' popular boards, the county is now in ' the proud position of having as chair- man and vice chairman of its principal ';. board two tried and trusted champions of their own political creed. They have successfully checkmated every move of i the jerrymandering party, whose underhand un-derhand tactics have now recoiled upon themselves. The nationalists were put. L on their mettle, and they have given splendid testimony to their pluck. Here, as elsewhere, the policy of give-and- take, which the nationalists would have ? been glad to have seen pursued, was j not acceptable to their opponents, who ': could not understand the giving side of I the question. There was no alternative ! 0 then but a straight fight on political ! lines, and never, perhaps, has the pow- ' K er of a single vote proved of such con- & sequence to the fate of a party. One of the nationalists councilors was de- clared elected for his division by a majority ma-jority of one. This one vote gave the ! ;i nationalists a majority of one on the j council thirteen nationalists' "and ' -twelve unionists. But two additional I ! councillors were to be co-opted. The I ii majority, of course, chose two of their K own political persuasion, and thus the council as at present constituted con- P sists of fifteen nationalists and twelve ? unionists. One by one the defeated E unionist office-seekers entered protests, f. but without avail. The imperial grand master , of the orange body has, there-I ! fore, given place to that sturdy Pro- I i! testant nationalist, Mr. Jeremiah Jor-I i' dan, M. P. No more popular selection r could have been made. The national- ? ists have every reason to congratulate themselves on this progress, and it is to be hoped that their opponents will, even at the eleventh hour, recognize, !, however unpalatable it may be, that the i days of ascendancy are past, and that their only hope i.s to work in harmony ;! with their nationalist neighbors for the I common welfare.t h MAYNOOTH COLLEGE DEGREES. The examination for degrees in the- ology and philosophy in St. Patrick's i college, Maynooth, were concluded on !i Thursday, the 12th, and degrees will be conferred on successful candidates li on Tuesday, the 24th, when the Irish i bishops meet, and distribution of prizes H takes place. The following are the names of candidates who qualified to $ stand the examinations for degrees: (1) Licentiatus Divinitatis. Rev. E t Coffey, B. D.f B. C. L., Meath. (2) Baccullarcus Divinitis. Revs. D. O'Doherty, Elphin; P. Higgins. Achon-ry; Achon-ry; T. O'Doherty, Elphiu: T. Harty, Kerry; J. Kelleher, Waterford: J. Carroll, Car-roll, Limerick; J. Moynihan. Kerry; T. Gallagher, Achonry; F. J. Donnelly, Clogher; M. Grace, Killaloe: D. Finu-cane, Finu-cane, Kerry. (3) Licentiatus Philosophae. J. Caw-ley, Caw-ley, Achonry; W. Ferris, Kerry; P. Mc-Daid, Mc-Daid, Derry:.P. Bradley, Deny. (4) Bacculareus Fhilosophiae. E. O'Donnell. Cashel: J. O'Donnell. Killaloe: Killa-loe: M. Ryan. Ferns: L. O'Neill, Kil-darc: Kil-darc: C. Cremin, Kerry. The thesis for the' chair of higher mental philosophy, vacated by the resignation res-ignation of th ffev T Rarrntt T Ph for the presidency of St. Colman's, Fer-moy; Fer-moy; in June last, was held recently, when the Rev. Peter Coffey of Meath, student of Dunboyne, was the sole candidate. can-didate. Father Coffey made a brilliant thesis. We understand that there are about sixty young gentlemen for priesthood priest-hood this year. Ordination will be conferred con-ferred on Sunday, the 22d. Though Maynooth received power to confer degrees of theology and philosophy philoso-phy as far back as March, '96, Ave learn that there have yet been only two doctors doc-tors of divinity of the college. Evidently Evident-ly degrees there are not of the "causa honoris" type. Two new chairs higher classics and higher mathematics have been established. estab-lished. Theses to fill these will be held probably in September. The Historic Ass. The ass has held its place in tradition tradi-tion from the beginning of the Christian Chris-tian era: it has its place in humor, too. Who has not heard the story of Henry the Fourth, who was indignant because of the weary speech of an ail-too important-and pompous mayor. As the mayor went on with his speech, an ass brayed, and Henry must have been truly tru-ly grateful. It gave him an opportunity opportuni-ty of rebuking the mayor for his much-speaking much-speaking and of proving his wit to posterity. pos-terity. "Gentlemen," said the king, as the ass brayed, "pray speak one at a time, if you please." The story must have been in the mind of the judge who twitted Curran, the Irish orator. Cur-ran Cur-ran was addressing the court when the bray of an ass was heard outside, and the judge could not resist the temptation tempta-tion of saying: "One at a time, Mr. Curran, please." But the good ass gave Curran his chance. As the judge summed up the bray was heard again, and the great lawyer, jumping from his seat, asked the judge: "Does not your lordship hear a remarkable echo in the court'.'" Weekly Freeman. A Timely Suggestion. One of the papers gives the answers of certain board school boys who were asked to write down the whole or part of the chorus of Rule Britannia. One of them gave the first line as "Royl Brick Tanner, Brick Tanner rules the way;" a second began it with "Rore j Britanier:" while a . third attempted a whole verse. This was his version: 1 "The nations not so blest has he but j still in stern but still stern to God , most all this was th Chelter the Chel- J ter of the stall and God in Angles sang j the Strang Bulbiatanya biatanya woves I the waves for Britains never will be I slain." This boy, says the Globe, ought to compete for the Prize Coronation i Ode. j Unconscious Wit. At a recent examination a class of infants was being questioned on natural nat-ural history. "What bird is it." asked the inspector, "that is found in Africa, and. although it has wings, cannot fly?" The class was unable to answer this very puzzling question. Thinking to encourage them, the inspector offered of-fered a sixpence to the little boy or girl who could tell him. After a brief hesitation, hesi-tation, a little girl of 4 years put out her hand. "Well, my little dear," said the inspector, "what is it?" "Please, sir, a dead 'un." tt ttt:a 4'IUCB W 1L. A good story of how a clergyman's ready wit extricated him from a serious seri-ous difficulty is told in Little Folks: Major Howie, in command of a regiment regi-ment of soldiers lying at Fort George, near Inverness, was once asked by the Rev. Walter Morrison to pardon a man who had been guilty of a trifling offense. of-fense. The major agreed, providing the minister would grant him a favor. Mr. Morrison consented, only to learn that he was to baptize Howie's puppy. This rudeness was by way of insult, and a. 1 large party was invited to the major's house to see the fun. When the company com-pany was assembled, Mr. Morrison re- 1 quested the major to hold up the puppy. "You know," he said, "I am a minister of the Church of Scotland, and must proceed according to form." Howie said he desired to follow the ordinary practice. "Well. then, major," remarked re-marked Mr. Morrison. "I begin with the usual question, 'Yrou acknowledge yourself the father of this puppy?' " Thus were the tables neatly turned, and those who had come to scoff remained re-mained to scoff at the major. Weekly Freeman. |