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Show ! ! " ? Catest Irish news 4 - ALL AROUND IRELAND. (Dublin Weekly Freeman, Sept. SO.) Mrs. Mary Fitzgerald has passed away at Rock Lodge, Glin, at the age Df 111 years. Mr. Morrison, manager and traveler for the Westport brewery, met with a serious accident on Thursday while motoring home from Westport. f The prosecution against Alderman Meade, of Cork, for breach of the bathing bath-ing by-laws at Toughal has been withdrawn by the Urban council. f At a demonstration held in Kenmare on Sunday, the Ven. Archdeacon O'Leary presiding, a resolution was adopted expressing unabated confidence in the Irisn party under the leadership of Mr, John Redmond. The St. John's branch of the United Irish league, Sligo, has asked its members mem-bers to give the preference, when making mak-ing purchases, to merchants who stocked goods of Irish manufacture. A prosecution took place at Strokes-town Strokes-town on Friday in "which a man was fined for having his name printed in Irish characters on his cart. Tho defendant de-fendant refused to pay the fine, and was tscnt to jail for three days. . . At the conference of the Protestant church of Ireland at Deny on Tuesday the Protestant bishops of Cork and Os-sory Os-sory spoke in favor of a closer union between Catholics and Protestants In Ireland. A pummoms .against John Tobin. butcher, Carlow, for using unlicensed premises as a slaughterhouse was dismissed dis-missed with costs, at Carlo w petty sessions ses-sions on Monday, it having been admitted ad-mitted by the Urban council that they had iWby-laws enabling them to Issue licenses as required by the act of parliament. par-liament. At a meeting of the county Longford Live Stock committee, Mr. Wood, representing rep-resenting the department, said there were only 16 Irish draught sires In the country that could be approved, and I the department would be delighted to 1 hear of more of them. I At Cork county council meeting on I Thursday the proposal to rescind the resolution which prescribed a knowl- edge of Irish in the officials was with- I drawn, but the chairman (Mr. Jere- I miah Howard) one of the opponents of I the resolution, said at the close of the J meeting he had withdrawn nothing. Rev. Father Yorke, speaking of Bal-linrobe Bal-linrobe Sunday night, said that great strides had been made with the teaching teach-ing of the Irish language since he was in Ireland a few years ago, and if the present opportunity were availed of nothing could prevent the spread of the language. The consecration of Ardagh church took place on Sunday, when a sermon was delivered by the Most Rev Dr. Hedley, bishop of Newport. Subsequently Subse-quently an address was presented to I Cardinal Logue, who presided at the f ceremonies', and his eminence, in his I reply, referred to the revival of the national na-tional spirit in the country. Rev. Hugh O'Reilly. B.A., president. St. Colman's college, Newry, in appeal-, appeal-, Ing for combination to resist the at- tempt of the treasury to withdraw the 1 fees for the teaching of Irish, said the I withdrawal would mean the destruction j of any work that had been done in that ' - district. 1 Mr. O'Dalj', general secretary of the f Gaelic league, speaking at an Aerid- L heacht in Athy on Sunday, referred to i tlie recent prosecutions for having i Irish names on carte, and proceeded to I say that Iri?h ought to be made a. f '-specific" subject, carrying a fee. as it was proposed, to make cookery in the I I national schools. - I At a meeting of. the Glanmire branch I ; of the U. I. L. at Cork, a resolution I was passed in favor of the Party pledge I in the constituency, and endorsing the I resolution of the West Ward branch in requesting the standing committee to I lake immediate steps to re-establish i the Cork City Divisional Executive. I Speeches were delivered by the Rev. J. Russell, C. C, and others. Opposition-was made by the police at Kray Licensing Sessions on Saturday to the license of an Enniskerry publican named Wm. Troy, on tho ground that he refused to supply lights and refresh-i refresh-i ; nient when requested by a police con- IMable to a party of men who were engaged en-gaged in rescue work on the night of . the 23th of August. The magistrate refuted to renew the license. The lord lieutenant had a narrow escape es-cape from drowning in Lough Erne on Thursday. He was sailing1 a yacht of the colleen class in the race in the Lough, when the craft upset, precipitating precipi-tating the occupants, who included T,ady Mabel Crichton. daughter or the Karl of Erne, into , the water. They were rescued by a steam launch that v. as following the race. . - At a representative public .meeting held in Dundalk on Monday night, it i was decided to found a University Scholarship for the county Louth in i connection with the scheme of Catholic I scholarships. A resolution was also passed that it should be made compulsory com-pulsory that the study of Irish be added to the curriculum of the university. Mr. Long, the chief secretary, re- I reiving a deputation at Inishlyre, confirmed con-firmed the report that the Innislyre harbor project has been abandoned in consequence of the Midland Railway i . company having refused to make a rail- s way line. He promised careful con- I ' sideration of the representations made I to him by the deputation on behalf of I the Westport harbor, Louisburgh, and Clare island. In last week's issue, 23d of Sepember, 1&5. the "We6tmeath Examiner," Mul- lingar, announces that its editor and proprietor, Mr. John P. Hayden, M. P.. has instituted legal proceedings against Mr. William Leavy, D. C, Clongowney, for slander. The alleged slander is 1 stated to have been used in a discussion at the meeting of the Board of Guar- I dians of Mullingar union on Thursday after a communication from the local governing board " in reference to the I Uciou printing contract had been read. J At a meting of the Carrlckerry (Co. I Limerick) branch of the United Irish I League on Sunday, Mr. John Downey . I presiding, a resolution was unanimous- I ly adopicd endorsing the resolution I passed at the joint meeting of the 1 Limerick County and City Executives i of the United Irish League on Wednes-day, Wednes-day, suggesting a conference between I Messrs. John E. Redmond, John Dillon, Michael Davitt and Wm. O'Brien. A great demonstration under the ! joint auspices of the Land and Labor ae- I ! eociation was held on Sunday at Kil- I ! - rush, at which speeches were delivered I ! hy Mr. Joseph Devlin, M. P.. and Mr. i O'Shee, M. P.. central secretary of the Labor association. Mr. O'Shea stated j that branches or the organization en- : gaging in controversies outside the movement would b dissolved. I i His Eminence Cardinal Logue opened f ' a new temperance hall at Longford on I I Monday. He was accompanied by the i i archbishop of Trinidad, the. bishop of I! Ardagh and Clonmacnoise and the bish- ! op of Newport. His eminence was pre-j' pre-j' i sented with addresses from the Long-1 Long-1 j ford -urban council and the : local , branch of the Gaelic league, and deliv- i il i ered interesting replies. The party subsequently visited St. Mel's college and other educational establishments in the town, and the cardinal delivered other speeches in reply to addresses presented to him. ' A meeting of the joint executives of the United Irish league in the city and county of Limerick was held on Wednesday Wed-nesday in Limerick townhall. The resolutions re-solutions of the national directory were adopted, a resolution of confidence in the Irish party Was passed, and a further fur-ther resolution was passed "suggesting that Messrs. Redmond, Dillon, . Davitt and William O'Brien should meet to arrange ar-range their differences of policy or misunderstanding. mis-understanding. A resolution was also adopted refusing the privilege of hunting hunt-ing to obnoxious individuals in view of the vindictive and unpatriotic-action of many of the landlords and agents with regard to the evicted tenants and the laborers. Donegal is robbed of agricultural education ed-ucation because Sir Horance Plunkett desperately clings to an absurd rule for which no shadow of justification can be found. The Right Rev. Monsignor McGlynn put the case plainly and clearly to the vice president of the agricultural board at the recent meeting meet-ing of the Donegal agricultural committee. com-mittee. The committee has elected two agricultural instructors. - After the election the committee was curtly informed in-formed by the department that there was a rule forbidding the appointment because the instructors were natives of the county. No objection was taken to their knowledge, skill or competence. Their birth in Donegal was tire fatal objection. There is a complaint in Scripture that no man is a prophet in his own country. The mortality from consumption in Cork county and city, as disclosed in the inquiries of the viceregal commission commis-sion on poor law reform, is absolutely appaling. While in England and Wales the mortality is decreasing, in Ireland, and especially in Cork, it is increasing. For this the poverty of the people is largely responsible. Wholesome food, healthful homes and fresh air are among the chief preventives of . consumption. con-sumption. But much can also be done by public education as to the causes of the origin and spread of the disease. In the old days hundreds of thousands of lives were sacrificed to the fallacy that consumption was neither infectious infec-tious nor contagious. That fallacy has disappeared, but enough of the old feeling feel-ing yet remains to diminish the necessary neces-sary precautions against the infection of consumption. The scientists are agreed that with skilled care and precaution pre-caution the disease, which is not hereditary, he-reditary, may be almost wholly eliminated. elim-inated. But it is essential that the masses of the people should learn to realize the danger and to avoid it. Sanitariums are, of course, excellent. But the disease is too wide-spread for the hope that even a large percentage of those afflicted can be gathered into sanitariums. Home precautions must be mainly trusted for the cure and the prevention of the most fatal of all diseases. dis-eases. Much will be doubtless learned on the subject from the great international interna-tional conference that is to meet at an early date in Paris. |