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Show ' ALL AROUND IRELAND. Mr. J. Eedmond, MJ?., has left England for a holiday on the continent. Ho will be back in the house on Monday, Gth June. The Irish Agricultural Organization society is to bo reorganized under the Friendly Societies act. The fine country house known as Auburn house, Malahtde, was badly damaged by fire on- Friday. An inquest was held at Bessbrook Wednesday evening1 on Patrick Hughes, who died from injuries received while playing football. Verdict, "accidental "acci-dental death." No fresh case of smallpox has occurred in Achill or any other part of the Westport Union since the 7th of March, and all patients who have been suffering from smallpox are now well. A draper's assistant named Thomas Kingston, Kings-ton, Munster House, Skibbereen, was admitted to the South Infirmary, Cork"on Sunday evening, suffering from a fractured skull, which he 'sustained in a cycling accident near Clonakilty. j James Collins, who, it is alleged, was shot on Friday last by Francis Moroney, ex-Petty Sessions clerk, at Cavendish Lodge, Spanish Point, County Clare, died yesterday morning. - The Co. Mayo Feis was formally opened on Monday in the Westport Town hall by his Grace the Archbishop of Tuam. Wexford Feis was continued, con-tinued, and the Iveagh'Feis was opened at Cahir-civcen, Cahir-civcen, the principle speaker being Father Dineen. Auhe Royal hospital, Belfast, Thomas Magill, aged 37, of 23 Epworth street, a sawyer, was treated for lacerated wound to the head caused by being caught in machinery whilst at work. Samuel Todd, aged 28, of Berlin street, a plater on the Queen's Island, was admitted, suffering from fracture of the leg, caused by a stone. On Sunday a Nationalist demonstration of very considerable proportions was held at Bally-league, Bally-league, a village neatly situated on the Shannon, about seven miles from Longford. The speakers included Messrs. J. P. Farrell'and J. P. Hayden, At Kingston police court on Thursday Mr. J. K. Johnstone, of the Bakers, Main street, Black-rock, Black-rock, was Rentenced to one month's imprisonment, with hard labor, for alleged cruelty to a horse. The driver, Thomas 3Iaher, was fined 1 or a fortnight in jail, pending the result of an appeal. 9 The Parish Priests of the Diocese of Kerry met on Thursday to select three names with a view to the appointment of a successor to the lateMost Hev. Dr. Coffey. Dignissimus, Very Rev. Canon O'Sulhvan, P. P., Millstreet; Dignior, Ven Archdeacon Arch-deacon Mangan, P.P., V. G. Kenmare; Dignus, Very Rev. Canon O'Lcary, P.P., Dingle. . - ' The eleventh annual congress of the Irish Trades Unionists was opened on Monday in Kilkenny, Kil-kenny, the president. Councillor Willi am Walker, Belfast, being in the chair. Resolutions were, adopted condemning the Chinese Labourer Ordinance, Ordin-ance, and calling for the amendment of the Trades Lnion Act and the Fair Wages Resolution. A sad accident occurred near Antrim on Thursday Thurs-day evening, resulting in the death of a man named . I atrick Hurl, of Drumbeerin, aged 03 year3, who was found dead on the road near Antrim by Mr. Johnston, of Randalstown,. and Mr. Ferguson, of Dunsilly House. At a special court of petty sessions in the Lallymeua courthouse, before Mr. S. J. McCartney J. P., a man named William Clarke, of Alexander street, Ballymena, was brought 'up in custody charged with, obtaining a pig from Isabella Bell, of Ivells, at Ballymena that day under false pretences. Ihc prisoner, who was not professionally represented, repre-sented, was remanded. - t -S 1?(luest as teld on Thursday before Mr. i i , ' sohcJtor Corooner for Mid-Armagh, on the body of Sarali Kerr, who died from injuries received whilst working in Gillis' mill, Armagh, on the Gth instant. Evidence having been given, the jury found that deceased died from serious effusion on the brain, due to the falling of a plank forming portion of a loom of which she had charge in Gillis Gil-lis s factory: . At an early hour on Sunday morning Mr. Daniel Lucey, a trader residing in Xew street, Ma-croom, Ma-croom, who carried on an extensive business, was, 011 being called on by a neighbor to attend the 7 o clock special mass for men, discovered in a sitting posture in bed, quite -dead. The deceased, who was a widower of about 50 years, leaves no family, but his untimely death will be a source of sorrow 'to his large circle of relatives and friends. On Friday Coroner Rice, County Cork, held an inquiry at Mitchelstown into the death of Miss Mary Browne, daughter of Mr. James Browne, shopkeeper, whose bod;. was found in the river Puncheon Pun-cheon at Ballinderrig bridge on Thursday. It appeared ap-peared from the evidence that the deceased, who was a very respectable woman, lvas in the habit of going to the riverside to pick watercress. She was subject to fainting1 fits, and, it is presumed that whilst picking the 'cress she fainted and fell into the river. There was only fiftceen inches of water where the deceased was drowned. The following accident cases were received at the Mater Infirmorium-hospital, Belfast, oil Whit Monday; Sarah Beanon, aged 27, Artillery street, severe incised wound to left hand, caused by a broken bowl; Mary Millar, aged 20, Unity street, incised in-cised wound to left wrist, with excessive hemorrhage, hemorrh-age, owing to one of tho arteries being severed, caused by a knife; Joseph Sherry, aged 7, Carlisle street, dog bite to leg; John Magec, aged 4, Xelson street, lacerated scalp wound, caused by a stone. Short!y after 7 oclock cn Saturday evening' a little boy named John Kenneally, residing at Step lane, Cork, fell into the River Leo a short distance below the South Gate bridge, on Sullivan's quay, and being quite helpless in the water was for a time in imminent danger of drowning. An elderly man, whose name has not transpired, ran forward, and with commendable promptness jumped in after the little fellow. The man swam towards the lad and reached him none too soon, and by this time Fireman Fire-man Murphy and his son, John Murphy, had also jumped into the river and participated in the res-cue. res-cue. Y |
