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Show I ate Trisb news - 1 ' CITY OF DUBLIN. (Dublin Weekly Freeman, Aug. 13.) The report of Arthur .Guinness, Son & Company, for the year ended June 30 states that the net profits amount to JOS pounds. . An application 'for letters patent to produce plays in the Kinpslon pavilion was heard on Tuesday. It was intimated that the patcntY'or the Irish National theatre is likely to be granted. John Alalone, a nmtonnan in the employ of the Dub- j lin Tramway company,- was acquitted on Thursday on j the chargre of catising the death, of- a little girl named Hancock by negligently driving his. team. - While agas fitter named Simon Coyle of 35 Charle-Tillc Charle-Tillc avenue was engaged at his occupation of examining examin-ing the gas meters of the general post office on Tuesday a Midden explosion took place, causing serious injuries to his body, particularly about the chest and arms. The corporation fimbulance was summoned. -f On SaturdayXa violent storm raged in Kingstown and along the coast. The roof of a house in Patrick street. Kigstown, fell in, and the debris in falling e truck a young men named John Marlow, who resided in the house with his family. He went to St. Michael's hospital, where he was treated by Dr. McDemiott, who Mated thai the man had sustained slight injuries on the face and back, and that they would have no serious effect. A lively gale blew over the city on Saturday, but gradually subsided in severity as the evening advanced. The spectacle of flying hats pursued by their owners was quite a common one. The clouds of dust raised by 1 lie? wind proved far from pleasant, though the invigorating invigor-ating "blow" was, after the higli temperature of the past week, not altogether unwelcome. Cycling was rendered ren-dered difficult, at times almost impossible, but still num bers of votaries of the wheel held stoutly on their course during the day. In the neighborhood of Summerhill ihe roof of a shed was blown away, and a woman was injured by the falling debris. Dr. Byrne, city coroner, held an inquest at the morgue on Tuesday on the remains of Joseph Murray, a clerk who resided at 3 Alexandra terrace, South. Circular Cir-cular mad ,and who died the previous day. It appeared that on Saturday morning the deceased was knocked dciwn by the gale in Essex lreet. and was severely cut on the head. After he- had been treated at Mercer's hospital he proceeded home. After being at home for Kime lime he complained of feeling ill. Mrs. Murray sent for a priest and Dr. Kennedy, but her husband died, on Monday, 4. An important addition has just been made to the fleet of steamers owned by the London & Xorthwest railway rail-way and employed by them in the service between Dub-Jin Dub-Jin (North Wall) and Holyhead, and between Greenorc and Holyhead. With live regular sailings each day two express passenger and three cargo each way between be-tween Dublin and Holyhead, and one daily sailing to and from Greenorc, as well as frequent special sailings, the necessity of keeping up a large flotilla of steamboats steam-boats is apparent. 4. A ad burning accident, resulting in the death of a little girl named Mona Connolly, aged 13, of 54 Pini-lk-o. occurred on Wednesday. With her sister and their mother she was to have left this morning for America io join her father there. "The two sisters, the1 youngest of whom is aged 7, proceeded on Wednesday to the house, 0 St. Colmnba's road, where outfits were being prepared for them. While they were there the clothes , of the elder girl accidentally caught fire. Mr. Alexander Alex-ander Beatty. of H St. Columba's road, who was attracted at-tracted to the place by her screaming, wrapped a rug around her and carried her to the. Drumcondra hospital, where she was attendee, by Doctor Pringle. She' was, however, so severely burned that she died at the hospital on Thursday. ALL AROUND IRELAND. Cardinal Vanutelli visited Cashell on Thursday. Potato blight has appeared in West Mayo and Limerick. Lim-erick. County Kiidare Hunt horse show was held on Saturday. Sat-urday. On Saturday a branch of the Town Tenants' association associa-tion was formed in Cork. ' Mr. John Dillon, M. P., ha written to the Castle-comer Castle-comer branch of the U. 1. L. deprecating controversy. The late Judge O'Connor Morris was buried on Saturday. Sat-urday. . Ihe Ear of Mayo has been appointed a Knight of St. Patrick in succession to"the Earl of Cork. The Cardinal Legate left Kingston on Monday on his vjt back to Home, after a stay of nineteen davS in Ireland. Ihc Channel squadron, consisting of eight battleships battle-ships and four cruisers, will visit Quoenstown next Saturday Sat-urday week and remain for two days. On Monday evening a disgraceful attack was made by a number of Orange rowdies on an excursion party at the outskirts of Loughgall. Mi. J. 11. Green has presented a traveling scholarship schol-arship to the School of Irish Learning and the governors have awarded it to Mr. Oscar J. Bcrgin. Several members of the Bathdown board of guardians guar-dians have .been surcharged in icspect of accounts'for vaccination fees and for other reasons. At a meeting of ihe Irish party on Thursday a reo- I Union was adopted approving of Mr. Redmond's letter 1 in the Cork executive of the. E. I. L. I I J'1 1111 interview ivcu on Thursday His Grace the j Archbishop of Dublin stated that Mr. Wyndham's ac- I ,lo:1 n the university question was quite indefensible. j Cardinal Vanutelli visited Tippcrary, Mallow and J Cork on Eriday. In ihe last named place he received 1 ' a tremendous reception and was presented with the free- I dom of the city. 1 " Saturday after a trip around Cork Harbor the j 1 -pal legate left for Killarney. On Sunday His Emin- I en -e received several addresses, to which lie replied in j touching farewell speeches. J A prat deal of regret is felt and expressed in Water- I ford at the transfer to Dublin of Mr. Edward Wahh, j I :isistant local superintendent of the Great Southern & J u estern railway. j 4 The soap and chandlery works of David Brawn & Son, Ltd., nt Donaghmore, county Tyrone, were destroyed de-stroyed by fire on Eriday morning. The damage is estimated es-timated at 20,000 pounds. At their meeling on Saturday the Mountmellick Guardians objected to pay more than three guineas a week to a medical officer's locum tcnrais. though Dr Edgar Hinn, who attended from the loeaf government board, made a strong representation on the subject. - On Monday a man named Samuel Walker' was charged in Belfast with the murder of his wife on the 1st inst. The prisoner is alleged to have threatened to kill his wife because she had spent the rent and was drunk. The accused was remanded. , . Mr. John Hearnc. sr., Catherine street, Waterford, died on Thursday. TRe deceased gentleman was a large building contractor in the city, he was master of the Holy Ghost hospital and was for years an alderman of the corporation. 4 Dr. B. WJ Hayes, Tralee, held an inquest at Dingle on Saturday touching the death of a widow named j Mrs. Moriarty, who was found dead in her house in j Strand street on the morning of tlio oih inst. llupture of the heart was the verdict. . The ecclesiastical authorities of the diocese of Waterford Wat-erford and Lismore have drawn the attention of the people to the resolution of the Hierarchy advising Catholic parents not to allow their sons to join the British navy until suitable provision had been made for the spiritual wants of Catholic seamen. During a sudden squall at the mouth of Belfast lough on Saturday evening the- well known local racing yacht Pita was capsized. The men in charge of her were thrown into the water, but managed to catch hold of the keel of the boat, where they remained for two hours, until rescued by a boat from' the shore, which arrived just in time. A farmer named John Mooncy, aged oo, from Crdss-dall. Crdss-dall. near Middletown, who was admitted to Armagh workhouse infirmary last week suffering from smallpox, died on Wednesday at this institution. It is alleged that deceased contracted the disease from wearing some second hand clothing which he had purchased n short lime ag-o and which, it is stated, came from Glasgow. f , I On Saturday evening the news of the death of the Key. J. McGrath, C. C, Holy Cross, Thurles, was received re-ceived with profound regret. The late Father McGrath celebrated mass last Sunday. Finding himself somewhat faint he took to bed early in the evening and breathed his last yesterday at 4 p. ro. He was an estimable and zealous priest. He was a native of Ballycahill. ' .'" ' . At Armagh city hospital on Monday it was ex plained in reference to the smallpox outbreak that a dearth of lymph had occurred owing to the number of persons seeking revaccination being greater than was expected. Xo further outbreaks have occurred in Dro-gheda, Dro-gheda, and the four police patients are still under treatment. treat-ment. f On Sunday eveiling Mr. Michael O'Shea, postman, had a narrow escape from drowning in the Kerimore Jf-yer, County Cork. Mr. O'Shea was out sailing in his skin" ,and when near the pier shewas struck by a sudden sud-den gijst of wind, causing her to upset, but there being several boats in the vicinity of the accident, Mr. O'Shca was promptly rescued. On Sunday evening two clergymen carried on street preaching at Tramore. Fearing that the uncalled-for j conduct of the preachers would be resented, the sergeant in charge of the Tramore station wired for reinforcements reinforce-ments to Waterford, a large batch of the city police force being in attendance soon afterwards. While the preachers continued to hold forth, some of the crowd sang snatches of "The Boys of Wexford," and other popular airs. 4 On Saturday afternoon James Smith, Dublin, a gunner in Xo. G company. Dublin City artillery militia, at present training on The Murrough, lcklow, was drowned in Wicklow bay while swimming for a wager. Smith, who was recognized by his comrades as an expert swimmer, made a bet of a sixpence that he would swim out to a vessel that was anchored in the bav. . At the Mercy convent, Holy Cross, Killarney, on Thursday, the profession took place of Miss M. ITar-rigan, ITar-rigan, of Castleishon, Dromcolloher, in religion Sister Mary Ita. The Very Peverend the Dean of the Diocese Dio-cese officiated in the absence of his Lordship the Bishop. The visitors were shown through the lace schools, for which Holy Cross convent is famous, and saw some very fine work. The skill, displayed by the children in vocal and instrumental music and step dancing reflects re-flects high credit on those who have charge of that department. 4 About 6 o'clock on Friday evening the body of Mr. Arthur Corcoran, King street. Fermoy. was found in the River Blackwater at the island opposite Mr. Han-ley's Han-ley's house. It appears that the deceased left his house in his usual health about 11 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, after-noon, and as he failed to return home his wife became anxious and acquainted the police. Inquiries elicited the information that deceased was seen by Mr. Smith going along the Barnane walk, but he could riot be traced any further. The river being very swollen it was feared deceased got into the river. Unfortunately, the fears turned out to be only too well founded. The remains re-mains were removed to deceased's residence. The sad event has cast a gloom over the town, and the deepest sympathy is felt for the widow in her sad bereavement. On Sunday next the pilgrimage to Croagh Patrick, will take place. The mass will be on the summit of the mountain at 12 o'clock. It is expected that the concourse of people will be the largest ever seen at any religious function in Connaught. Five special trains are timed to reach Westport before 10 o'clock. These come from A chill,. Killaoc, Athlone, Ballinrobe and Tuam. From districts beyond the reach of the special trains many will travel to Westport the night before. His Grace the Archbishop of Tuam, his Lordship Lord-ship the Bishop of Achonry, and his Lordship the Bishop Bish-op of Elphin will arrive early on Saturday. Many tourists and foreigners are tarrying in the district for ihe event, and persons coming from afar and desiring de-siring to be accommodated with lodging should lose no time in communicating with Mr. Edward J. Gallagher, the courteous secretary to the special committee. f An interesting function took pla.ee at the Parochial house, Lanesboro, on Tuesday, when the Kev. William Murray, P. I, was made the recipient of a beautifully illuminated address and purse of sovereigns bv hiV friends and admirers in Longford, where lie had labored ior a number of years, first as curate and then as administator. Less than three months ago Father Murray Mur-ray was promoted by his Lordship the Most Pcv. Dr. Iloare, to ihe important parish of Bathe-line, in succession suc-cession to the Rev. Father MeGivney, deceased. The subscription , list contains the names 'of almost all the prominent people of the town and district. Subsequently Subse-quently the entire company, accompanied Canon Gilli-gan Gilli-gan to the pier and gave the worthy pastor of Carrick-on-Shannon a hearty sendoff as he weighed anchor for home. Mothe? Teresa Cowley, of the Mafeking (S. Africa) Convent of Mercy, has just arrived home ou a visit to her native county Meath. It will be remembered that the devoted nuus of the Mercy Order refused to leave the town when threatened with a siege, and notwithstanding notwith-standing the strong representation of General Baden-Towell, Baden-Towell, bravely remained at their posts, and were constant con-stant in their. attendance on the wounded. When the town was relieved, Mother Teresa came back to England Eng-land to raise funds for the rebuilding of their convent, which had been wrecked. She was sent for to Windsor by the late queen, who personally decorated her with the Victoria cross for women. Mother Teresa was alo the recipient of a good sura of money from the various English admirers -of the nuns' splendid devotion to duty, and the convent of Mafeking was rebuilt by the I penal government. She is. now visiting Ireland fQv the purpose of procuring postulants for their new house at ryburg. . ' ., |