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Show Eate TrisD Hews f-.- -L-L- -ijkr niwn m . i1 1 )! ,------ ox- CITY OF DUBLIN. (Dublin Weekly freeman, Aug. 20.) Mr. J. J. ilooney, ii. P. addressed a successful meeting: at llathniines on Thursday. A Wednesday siUiiig of Trinity college estates commission com-mission was held at Ballyshcnnon. On Sunday a lhrcc;Ion , yacht went on the rocks at Toolbep. Three inai who were on board were rescued by the Poolbeg lifeboat. - - A fire broke out' on 'Thursday, in Messrs. Michael Meade fc Sons sawmills, Great-Brunswick street. A verdict of found drowned was returned at an inquest in-quest held on Wednesday by the coroner on the remains re-mains of an unknown man who was found drowned in the Craven dock, Kingsend, on the previous day. The half-yearly general meeting of the Cavan & Leitrim Railway company was held on Wednesday at the offices. College Green. Surgeon General S. B. Koe, C. B., presided. At the meeting of the central branch of the Town Tenants' association on Friday a report was received ftating that several' new branches of the organization j had been formed. Shortly afternoon on Thursday a scene of an unusual un-usual nature was witnessed in the principal streets of the city. The condition of labor in this as well as in many other large cities is already too well known and felt by the working class. For months past large num-lrs num-lrs of laborers have been discharged from various city firms pwing to the continued depression of trade. .So" large are the numbers, that the unemployed corporation cor-poration laborers at a meeting, as a last resource, and in order to provide bread for their famishing wives and families, decided to band together and to march in processional order through the streets and to solicit help. From the city hall close on 200 unemployed laborers, la-borers, headed by a banner, bearing the inscription, "Unemployed Corporation Laborers." borne by two of the strongest men, started out. The procession was marshalled by men with large biscuit boxes converted into collection boxes, who entered the various shops on the route traversed, and everywhere their efforts were rewarded. A most striking .feature of the procession was, notwithstanding the long-felt hardships and want of many of the poor men, they were decently clad and retained good order. The procession programme continued con-tinued for a week, i ALL AROUND IRELAND. An Arklow fisherman named James Keams was drowned at Belfast on Sunday. Several seizures took place on Thursday on the Dun-, Dun-, sandle estate. On Friday the speaker ordered the issue of a writ for Cork City. '. On Monday Mr. Joseph Devlin addressed a large meeting at Moghera, County Down. ' The annual convention of the Irish Land and Labor league was held on Monday at Limerick. Two boys, natives of Ballymaecarett, Belfast, were drowned on Mondav by the capsizing of a small punt. The bishop of Ardagh has sent a subscription of 2 to ihc Irish prliamentary fund- '" ' -f -. i The death took place on the 15th hist., at his residence, resi-dence, Lochinvar, Cork, of Mr. II. K; OTvearny, solicitor, so-licitor, Cork. The Birr board of guardians decided to present the Most Kov. Dr. Fogarty, bishop-elect of Killaloe, with an addrc!". The people of Claremorris intend to entertain Mr. Conor O'Kelly, M. 1. at a banquet on his return from the United State.-. While- bathing in. Thursday two young ladies, the daughters of the llcv. W. Vernon, of Castlederg, were urowncd near Bundoran. ' The G. S. & W. Kailway company intends trying an experiment in ihe employment of frtcam motor coaches for transit purposes on their system. -4 During the past wv-k smallpox has broken out in srvcral piac's in the County Monaghan. At Trim a whole fiunilv is said to bo suffering from the disease. It is understood that the channel fleet will pay a -visit to Kingstown on the 2od inst., Lord Charles Bcres-f'nl Bcres-f'nl in command.' and will remain until the 2tth. The vcport read at the tailors' conference on Wednesday Wed-nesday showed that a number of oddditional branches of the organiation have beeen started in Ireland and Wales. . The nominations for the Cork vacancy have been lixr-d for Friday, IPth, and in case of a contest the pol-liiiy pol-liiiy will lake place on the following Wednesday. The Relief of Deny Celebration took place on Fri-day. Fri-day. During the early part of the morning, the walls of the local convent were disfigured by the Orangemen ! puir.ting foul words, not fit for publication. On Monday morning a storm, accompanied by a heavy downpour of rain, prevailed over the Brosna, Kr.oeknogoshcl. and other east Kerry districts, and wrought a good deal- of damage from an agricultural point of view. ' Constable llemcnls, Donegal! Pass barracks, deposited' de-posited' in the morgue, Laganbank Road, on Saturday afternoon the dead body of a child named Mary Elizabeth Eliza-beth McCIure, found at Utility street. . f On Friday, at the Currogh, Corporal Ruddell of the Second battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers, was acquitted of the charge of having committed a breach of discipline, disci-pline, and of assaulting another corporal of the same corps. The Loch Carron, a barque which arrived at Queens-town Queens-town on Sunday, reports that she sunk a wheat-laden vessel from Australia off the Fast net on Saturday. Only iwo o! the crew were saved. inmate of the Sligo district lunatic asylum has jemmittcd suicide by hanging himself by means of a btd sheet suspended from the window. Deceased was a Tanner named Curran, aged 50. On Thursday a deputation of Gaelic leaguers waited on the secretary of the. G. P. O. to discuss the question ques-tion of providing facilities for effectively dealing with letters addressed in Irish. At Kingstown on Monday Park Howard of the Fourth battalion rifle brigade was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for assaulting the Rev. James Ross, aged 72, a retired Protestant clergyman. The body of an engine driver named William-Harness, who lost his life recently at Queenstown, with ?r Inrce seamen, was picked up on Monday and was towed ;i,';,le ino the admiralty chamber. Tlie r , , , - . ' " Mae : At rural sessions, Ttppetary, a young mn .named rnt: -lames McCarthy, recently in the. . employ of .Mr. L'. F BuSe! . Publlc O'Conndl street, was charged by Dis- - .., .... t ; triet Inspector Tweedy with selling drink out of his late cmplovcrs van at Knocklofty, outside Clonnel, on the ISth of July last. The magistrates, after consultation, sentenced the defendant to one month's imprisonment, without hard labor. The City of Cork Steam Packet company's shjp Ih-nisarra, Ih-nisarra, which arrived at Queenstown on Sunday morning morn-ing from Milford, is reported to have lost one of the blades of her propeller on the passage to Queenstown. She was slightly behind her usual time on arrival. The Press association says: Major Richard Fienncll, Royal Munster Fusiliers (retired) died suddenly at Lis-born Lis-born on Thursday. The deceased officer, when a lieutenant, lieu-tenant, rendered conspicuous' service ill the Burmese expedition of 1885-30. v Under the auspices of the Munster Irish Training college, Balingary, an excursion of a particularly enjoyable en-joyable nature was organized on Sunday last, and the excursionists included the. professors, students and members of the committee. The venue selected was Glengariffe. During the past fortnight the blight has made great havoc in the potato crop at Tipperary. In some fields the leaves are almost completely withered, and nothing remains but the stalk. The potatoes also are blackening to a considerable extent. A dispatch from Cork on Sunday says: The death is announced of Hatton R. O "Kearney, solicitor, who for many years acted as the late Lord Cork's agent in the south of Ireland. He took a prominent part in the recent re-cent dispute on the estate, which was amicably arranged ar-ranged shortly before Lord Cork's death. A woman named Campbell, wife of Robert Campbell, Railway street, Ballymena, awoke up on Tuesday morn- ing and found her infant child lying beside her in bed , quite dead. The coroner was communicated with, but after investigating the matter, he did not deem it necessary ne-cessary to hold an inquest. On Sunday last the members of tlie Cork Gaelic league met with a cordial reception at Midleton from the members of the Midleton branch, on the return of the former from East Ferry, the venue of their annual excursion. On their homeward journey to Cork the excursionists were invited, when passing through Midleton, Midle-ton, into the town hal? where a social entertainment was provided for the eiiXyment of the Gaelic visitors. : 4 The harvest in Tipperary is ripening fast. In several sev-eral adjoining district the wheat and oats have been cut, and in one field at Ardgeeba, quite close to the town, the wheat has been stacked. Both crops ara'fairly good, and much now depends 'on the weather for the success of the harvest. A great portion of the old hay has been cut and saved, some? of it in a very bad condition. Saving Sav-ing operations, however, have been to a considerable extent retarted by the recent rains. ' At the Xewry Xo. 1 (County Down) rural council on Saturday last a resolution was unanimously adopted adopt-ed congratulating the promoters of the Xewry, Kcady and Tynan railway upon their success in securing a grant of 75.000 from the treasury towards the construction con-struction of that line, and urging upon them and ail interested in the welfare of Xewry and district the great desirability of constructing a line of railway from Xewry to Rathfriland (via Mayobridge and Hilltown) to connect with the Great Xorthern & County Down railway systems at a point beyond Rathfriland. On the 10th inst. Mr. T. Hanrahan of Midleton, senior se-nior supervisor, with some official friends, on behalf of the inland revenue staff of Cork collection, waited upon Mr. James Murphy, late collector of inland revenue at Cork, and now active collector at Dublin, for the pur-post pur-post of making him a presentation on his recent promotion. pro-motion. The presentation consisted of a tray of Celtic .design, fruit and flower stand, ease of fruit and dish I knives and forks, furnished desert stand and several smaller table articles in solid silver. In reply Mr. Murphy Mur-phy expressed his heartfelt thanks for the beautiful j and costly souvenirs of Cork, and referred to the pleasure pleas-ure it will give him to sec and thank the subscribers personally at an early date. ' . . The tenants on the estate of Major Maude, in County Tipperary, offered him twenty-one years' purchase. This, with the bonus, would give him about twenty-three and one-half years' purchase, a price which any landlord would have jumped at before the passing of the land act. It would give him, invested in sound securities, a sure income greater than his net income. But his answer an-swer to the reasonable offer of the tenants takes the form of writs against, some of the principal of thrm for the year's rent due May 1, which includes the hanging hang-ing gale. For her estate in County Monaghan,, Mrs. Archdale refuses the tenants' extravagant offer of twenty-three years' purchase, and demands twenty-four and one-half; or. with the bonus, oyer twenty-seven years' purchase." Surely it is futile to talk of .conciliation when, landlords hold out for such terms. The notion lhat a landlord would agree to take less if he were of-.fered of-.fered more, is one which does not stand the strain of experience. A correspondent of the Freeman's Journal calls attention at-tention to the fact that the 31st of December will be the centenary of the birth of Francis Sylvester Maho-ney, Maho-ney, better known as "Father Prout." It waa en the feast of St. Sylvester (Dee. 31) of the year 1SC4 lhat author of the "Bells of Shandon" first saw the lixhi In Cork..; lie entered CTongowc3 Wood college on Feb. 2')? 1815, and studied there for four years, to which college he returned in July, 1S25; as a Jesuit novice. In September, Sep-tember, 1827 after giving up the notion of being a Jesuit, he entered the Irish college in Rome, and he was ordained a secular priest for his native diocese in 1832, at Lucca. From 1832 to the autumn of 1833 he was chaplain to the cholera hospital in Cork, and he then went to London, where he became associated with Eraser's 'Magazine. 4- . |