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Show I ': j Catest Trisb news 1 J CITY OF DUBLIN. ( . (Dublin Weekly Freeman, Dec 17.) Mr. E. A. Ennis, B. L., died at his I residence, Pembroke road, on Sunday night. " ' ' "- It was decided at the meeting of the corporation of Dublin on Monday to ; employ 100 men in addition those al- f ; ready given work, in view of the pre- 1 , vailing want of employment in the city, t I A dinner of the Blackrock College Union was held jji Tuesday in Ihe Gresham hotel, at which the jruests I ' veie the presidents of Blackrock, Rock- . well and St. Mary's colleges, and the superior of Clareville. The lord chief justice gave a strong - J judgment on Thursday in a money v lending cape of Wells vs. Joyce, In j which the plaintiff, an English money- I lender, claimed 69 on foot of a loan t to a Conneniera farmer, and said he would set aside the transaction as un- i conscionable. unreasonable and harsh, and awarded the pla-intirT 4f, and if ( fame were paid by two installments ending 1st March then no costs to the j plaintiff. It is understood the plaintiff , ill ii it law iui llin. "- j On Thursday a meeting of the resi- 1 dents of Usher's quay ward formed it- 4 i-elf into a committee for the purpose of raising by subscription funds to help to relieve the distress in the city. They ' also adopted a resolution, moved by ' Mr. Field, M. P.. calling upon the gov-' gov-' ernment t. proceed with the erection. of the new college of Science and Art, 1 for which the funds had been voted by - parliament. 1 On Tuesday, in the police court, be- 3 fore Mr. Drury, a series of prosecutions ) at the instance of the police were heard a.gainst publicans fur selling intoxicat- lug liquors to persons under the infiu-3 infiu-3 ence of drink. Mr. Long of 52 Dawson 1 street, was fined 5. The defendant, Hughes, was fined 10. and Ashford 1 5. The case against Brady was dis- j missed. The further hearing against t other defendants was adjourned. 3 1 On Tuesday, before the lord chief i justice, and a special jury, a will case i of Lemvon and another vs. "Walsh and '. others was heard. The plaintiffs. Dr. Lrniion and the Rev. Michael Holland i of the Carmelite order sought as ex ecutors to establish the will of Miss 1 Bridget "Walsh, late of 21 Upper Gardi ner street. Deceased's property amounted to about 3.000, of -which she left 1.000 to Father Holland for masses for the repose of her soul; two legacies of 50 each to a friend and a nurse, and the residue to the Little Sisters Sis-ters of the Pvior and the Meath hospital. hospi-tal. The defendants, two nephews, and a niece of testatrix, disputed the will. At the end of plaintiffs' evidence it was announced that a settlement had been come to by which defendants were to get 3.O0. and all pleas, including in-cluding one of undue influence, were ithdrawn. ALL AROUND IRELAND. The Bingham estate, County Mayo, has been purchased by the congested districts board. Acute distress prevails in North Wexford Wex-ford consequent on the want of employment. employ-ment. Michael Davit t arrived at Queens-town Queens-town on Thursday from New York. Major McBride, who fought with the B,er9 in the late war, is at present in West port. t A successful meeting in support of the national exhibition-project has been held in Enniscorthjv f The sale of their agricultural land to their .tenants has been finally approved ap-proved of by the Kilkenny corporation. Two tenants on the Isidore Bourke estate, who were . 'ted twenty-two years ago, have be- . . . - stated in their holdings. A local govern m?; i w.H inspector is i making inquiries lie Roscommon union with reference to the distress. -f The county conn il cf Donegal has fleeted Mr. Edward Gallagher. J. P.. StialiHiie. as coroner for the division of East Donegal. The Dublin brigantine Olruna is reported re-ported dismasted -off the County Down, find in danger of going ashore. The schooner Catherine Lathom of Chester, went ashore in Dundalk bay in a southeasterly gale. The crew of four were rescued by the Blackrock lifeboat. The tenants on the Mayo estate of Major Cox. all of whom have had second-term rents fixed, have been allowed a reduction of 15 per cent off the rents due to 1st November. Four Arklow fishermen, who were caught off the harbor bar by the storm, were carried out to sea in their yawl, and, after a desperate struggle, were rescued by the local lifeboat. I j A police inquiry in camera va? held j at the Armagh eourt hr.use on Tuesday I regarding the death of a woman named Mrs. Pearson, lately residing near Richhill. An arrest in connection with the affair is reported from Montreal, Canada. A Royal Irish constabulary pensioner pension-er named Foster has been arrested in Crrk on the charge of murdering a man named William Regan." whose dead body was found.in the River Lee. A meeting was held at Oughterard on Sunday, at which Important resolutions i were aaopiprj. aeanng wun me uisiress problem, land purchase, etc. Mr. W. o'Mallcy. M. P., was amongst the speakers. the inquest in Marooom. County Cork, on the body of Patrick Buckley, who was found dead at the rear of Mount Mastey house with his skull smashed, the Jury found that the deceased de-ceased f"ll from a window and thus m stained the injuries which caused his 1 death. f - In an address to his tenantry Lord K limine, referring to the recent sale of hir property, advised the new owners to be on iheir guard against mortgaging mortgag-ing their holdings, and hoped the friendly relations subsisting with him in the past would continue. I At (he Leinster assizes in Waterford !o n Friday a soldier named Hodge of the royal field artillery was found guilty of the manslaughter of Matthew j llay on the 10th of September last. I nd was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. I 1 The L. G. B. has forwarded to Va- I rious boards of guardians in the West I or Ireland a communication intimating I that arrangements may be made, under j conditions defined, for the supply of I seed potatoes to certain occupiers of lands where the crop has failed. The 1 money is to be raised by special rate - I levy. ! -- Mr. John billon. M. P.. addressed a j Ifitge Nationalist meeting in Newry on 1 Monday. He appealed to the people of Newry to take a more active part in the ? . national fight. He defended "the consti- I tUHonal methods of the parliamentary i I arty, and after criticising Sir Horace I PlunkettVs department, referred to the i -ntinued robbery of Ireland by over 's nation. I ''- i i i I Notwithstanding the heavy fall of snow and bitterly inclement weather, j a successful demonstration under the i auspices of the United Irish League I was held on Sunday at Portarlington. Very Rev. E. O'Leary. P. p., occupied the chair, and the meeting was addressed ad-dressed by Mr. T.. Harrington, M- P.; Mr. Delany, M. P., and local speakers. Mr. William O'Brien, U V., addressed" ad-dressed" a meeting in Macroom, County Cork, on Sunday. The meeting was organized or-ganized In the interests of the: labor movement, and Mr. O'Brien dealt at great length with that important question. ques-tion. Messrs. Crean, Sheehan and Gil- i hooly, M. P.'s, and the lord mayor of Cork were also among the speakers. A great national demonstration, was held at Cahir cn Sunday. Mr. J. Redmond, Red-mond, M. P., who was presented with addresses from all the local boards in County Tipperary, delivered an important import-ant epeech dealing with the western distress problem, land purchase prices i and home rule. The county members also spoke, and the clergy were largely large-ly represented. A letter was read from Archbishop Fennelly insisting upon the necessity of National unity. A correspondence between Captain Shawe-Taylor and Colonel Wallace, grand master of the Belfast Orangemen, Orange-men, has been DUblished The letter repudiates Mr. Sloan's invitation to Captain Taylor to address a public meeting of Orangemen, and Captain Taylor replies by inviting Colonel Wallace Wal-lace and his party to attend his forthcoming forth-coming lecture In Belfast. On Thursday the jubilee of the promulgation pro-mulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Imma-culate Conception Was celebrated throughout the Catholic world. In Rome 20,000 people attended the pontifical ponti-fical mass in St. Peter"s. and at night the city was brilliantly Illuminated. In Dublin the event was celebrated w'ith great solemnity in the pro-cathedral and pther city churches. Impressive celebrations of the day took place also in Armagh, Cork, Belfast, Letterkennv. Tuam, Limerick and all the chief tewns. That night there was a general display of illuminations in the provinces. prov-inces. The archbishop of Cashel visited the Christian Brothers' school, Thurles, on Monday, and distributed the prizes won by the students at the interme-' diate and other examinations during the year. His grace, in the course of an eloquent address, said he sincerely hoped that in the near future the boys of the school would have an opportunity opportu-nity of maturing their talents In a university uni-versity for Catholics. A lecture was delivered on Tuesday ! evening in the People's Palace, Done-gall Done-gall road, Belfast, by Councillor Henry O'Neill, M. D.. D. L., J. P., on the sub- I ject of "The Health of Belfast." ---f I A case of smallpox has occurred in Belfact. the victim being a man of 43 1 years named Patrick Matthews, who resided in Kilmood street, Ballymacar-rett. Ballymacar-rett. Five persons who had been with him have been taken to tne intercepting intercept-ing hospital at the Twin island. A man named Hugh Hamilton " has been found drowned in the river Lagan, La-gan, convenient to his residence, in the townland of Saffages. The deceased de-ceased was a man who earned his livelihood live-lihood by retailing paraffin oil in a cart tnrough the country, and was well known. Oon Monday, Coroner Neville, solicitor, solici-tor, held an inquest in the Boardroom of the Skibbereen Workhouse into the circumstances of the death of Denis Learr. who was found dead in his house. Windmill. Skibbereen, on Saturday Satur-day night. . Evidence having been taken, the jury "had nothing to do but find that death was duei to natural! causes. The jury found a verdict accordingly. ac-cordingly. ' - - 4 On Tuesday Mr. J. S. Finnigan held an inquest in the Lagan bank, mortuary. mortu-ary. Belfast, on the body of Alexander Kerrt aged 65, who' died suddenly i-.t his residence on he previous day. Medical evidence having, been given, the jury returned a verdict of "death from coma brought on by a sudden attack at-tack of apoplexy." - i - ' "l "eeiiiy mt-ung oi me KH- rush board of guardians,' Mr. Simon Clancy (master of-ther.institutiori), reported re-ported that a fire was discovered in one of the beds in the infirm men's wards at about 8 o'clock on the night of the 9th instant. . Evidencj having been siven an order was made that two men named Eyres and Meade be prose-cuted prose-cuted by the master of the workhouse. Mr. Coroner Blake, solicitor, held an inquest at Old Market' place, Cork, on , Friday on Catherine Costelloe. daughter of a car driver residing at 16 Cattle lane. Timothy Cohtelloe de- j posed that his daughter was aged 1 year and 10 months. The previous day i she showed symptoms of measles, and died that morning. Dr. Byrne said the child was well .noui ished. and he had no doubt the child died from Inflammation In-flammation of the lurgs. following the measles. On the suggestion of the coroner, the Jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony. |