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Show BRIEF IRISH NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM THE VARIOUS VARI-OUS COUNTIES. Chronicle of Recent Events In the Isle Hryond the Sea otes aid Gossip Gos-sip From All Sections Condensed and Classified. Antrim. Mr. John McErlane presided at the last meeting of the members of the Moneyglass branch of the United Irish League. In his truly patriotic address he said, "It is the duty of every Irishman Irish-man to rally under the banner of the United Irish League and. assist hi3 fellow countrymen to strike a blow against the tyrannical system of landlordism." land-lordism." 'Armagh. The unprecedented rainfall experienced experi-enced in Armagh during the middle of August proved most disastrous to some of the crops, particularly the hay crop. In a great number of instances where the farmers had commenced to cut the hay operations had to be suspended, and in low lying districts this crop, Which bore a promising appearance, was completely swept away or destroyed destroy-ed by the fioods. Carlow, The almost uninterrupted rainfall of August did incalculable damage to the crops throughout this county. Clare. A collection in aid of the general election elec-tion fund was made at the chapel gate at Killimer. The response to the appeal ap-peal of the national trustees, which had been placed before the people by the reverend and patriotic parish priest, the Rev. Anthony Clancy, ex- i ceeded the most sanguine expectations, j and the enthusiasm of the people re- j called the days cf 20 years ago. j Cork. I A dreadful accident occurred recently i in Bantry. A quantity of hay in a shed j j belonging to Mr. James Lyons, Bantry, caught lire at Seskin. and while en- j ! deavoring to extinguish it a young man J J in his employment named .lohn Lynch j i fell through the roof into the burning j hay beneath and was burned to death. I He was unmarried. j Derry. ! Orangemen in Derry attempted to as-! sassinate several Catholics on the ; nights of Aug. 13 and 14. In the past : there was always something of a row I created by the Orange rowdies and that j afforded a kind of excuse for the inju I ries which they did, but now they walk ! up to a peaceful, unsuspecting citizen j j and stick a knife or spear into him. I This is under the much praised British i j flag which is supposed to be bringing i "civilization" and "liberty" to peoples : I in distant lands. The Orangemen un- j ! der the British flag are neither humane j I nor civilized. i Donegal. The annual exhibition of home industries indus-tries was held in the Temperance hall, Donegal, recently. The committee consisted con-sisted of Mrs. Sinclair, Mrs. Stubbs, Mrs. Barclay Evans, Mrs. MacMillan, Mrs. Hastings, Mrs. O'Donnell. Mrs. Reid, Miss Blackmore, Miss Dunlevy and Miss Neilson. The honorable sec-I sec-I retary was Miss Glalen of the Diamond, Dia-mond, Donegal. Down. A Maynooth college student was drowned the other day at the Kinne-j Kinne-j gur, near Rathmullen, while bathing, j His name was Charles Farren, a native I of Buncrana, aged about 21 years and four years a student in the college mentioned. On holidays he and some clerical friends came on an excursion, and during the afternoon while bathing bath-ing he got caught in a strong current and although an expert swimmer was unable to extricate himself. Three companions made a gallant attempt at rescue. The body has been recovered. Dublin. At a meeting of the committee formed form-ed to promote the candidature of M". Thomas .7. Clarke (II. II. Wilson), the prominent ex-political prisoner, for the position of superintendent of the corporation cor-poration abattoir, at Foresters' ha'l, j Rutland square, it was resolved "to ! call on the Nationalist members of the j corporation to support the candidature ! of so sterling an Irishman, possessed j of such high character and ability." The canvass already made on his behalf be-half has been most successful. FcrmanaRli, The death took place recently at Edenmore of Mrs. Lunncy, who reached reach-ed the extraordinary age of over 100 years. She had control of all her faculties facul-ties until a few days before her death. Galwny. All the country touching the Shannon from Tipperary through Portumna and on the line into Athenry suffered very heavily by being inundated through the floods from the rive'1, which extend over a very large portion of the County Galway. Crops of hay to the value of thousands of pouuds have been swept away. Corn, oats ard all sorts of grain crops are also totally destroyed by being lodged. Not for the last -10 or 50 years have the floods been known to have risen to such a height nor the damage to property so . excessive. The potatoes have been completely destroyed, and blight has taken a firm hold of them, even in the garden crops. Kerry. William Myles, carpenter, and John Sullivan, laborer, were admitted to the county infirmary, Tralee, recently, suffering suf-fering from injuries received by falling from a building in Castle street. The strange part of the accident is that after aft-er Myles fell and fractured his wrist he was assisted to the infirmary by Sullivan, who subsequently returned to j the building to work. While so en-j en-j gaged he slipped and fell to the ground. Kings. The phenomenon of a moving bog has been the object of much curiosity and considerable danger to the inhabitants inhabit-ants of WofwrVM. " 'rifirn. TCinjrs i l county. During the latter part of July j and the beginning of August the bog j was observed to be in a somewhat uu-! uu-! settled condition, but the recent heavy ; ratas, aided by the overflowing of the ! Brosna river, caused a vast area of the i main bog to become detached, and it is ' now floating in the midst of a great la-i la-i goon. A family named Lloyd, vho re-i re-i sided in the neighborhood, had a nar- row escape. Their house, being situat- ed on, the moving bog, was shattered i by the convulsions. Longford. i In this county the recent heavy rains have destroyed the hay crop and seriously seri-ously endangered the potato crop, which is the staple in the northern districts. dis-tricts. The cereals are comparatively ; little injured and may yield well. The turnip crop will be below the average. Fuel is scarce and dear. , I,!mericl. Mr. Denis McKeuna, Toomevara, fenagh, was killed by the wheel of his own trap passing over his abdomen. abdo-men. His horse ran away at Patricks-well. Patricks-well. An election of petty sessions clerk for hospital district took place recently, recent-ly, when Mr. Mitchell received six votes as against five for Mr. Bennett, j Mayo. ' Famine is threatened once more by the destruction of the crops. Monachnn. The outlook for" the harvest in this county is very unsatisfactory. Qneen's. The heavy rainfall of August has done great damage in this county. This is particularly true of all the country aloug the upper Barrow from Athy to Mountmellick and in the center of Queen's county. From Athy to Monas-terevan Monas-terevan is now for the greater part an immense lake, covering an area fully five miles square, while above Monas-terevan Monas-terevan toward Rathangan and Port-arlington Port-arlington the country is all under water. wa-ter. The damage to the crops is certainly cer-tainly enormous, and unfortunately the potato crop suffers most. Roscommon. Roscommon county, in common with the rest of Ireland, has suffered very grave loss of crops by the recent extraordinary ex-traordinary storm of wind and rain. Up to early in August the prospects for a most abundant harvest were promising, but then the weather changed, and the outlook is now extremely ex-tremely gloomy. It will be impossible ! for farmers to meet their engagements to the landlords this year. Sligo. On Sunday, Aug. 12, a great meeting of the United Irish League was held j on the historic hill of Killinumery, about 14 miles frbni'Sligo. Mr. John I White presided, and speeches were made by Messrs. P. A. McIIugh. M. P., and J. O'Dowd. M. P. It was a striking tribute to the popularity of the j mayor of Sligo that his journey to Killinumery Kil-linumery was punctuated by a series of ovations wherever a gathering took place. Tipperary. The Carrick-on-Suir branch of the United Irish League has been reorganized. reorgan-ized. Rev. Thomas O'Dwyer, parish priest, presided at the recent meeting of the members of the Oola branch of the United Irish League and delivered a most patriotic and practical address. He pointed out in convincing language the ways Irishmen can help themselves along the. road to national independence independ-ence and prosperity. Tyrone. The crops in Stewartstown district look well, and had it not been for the recent re-cent heavy rains they could have been set down as the best for years. The hay crop is a heavy one, and a large quantity quan-tity of it has been ricked, and what remains re-mains will probably be saved. Up to the present very little can be said in favor of the potato crop. In a great l many places the much dreaded "blight" has made devastation. Wnterford. Not for many years have the farmers ' of this district had to face so gloomy a harvest prospect as that which now lies before them. Hay, which in former years was a splendid crop, lies in some cases actually rotting in the fields, and the staple cop of the farming communitythe commu-nitythe potato it is feared has been severely damaged, this being especially the case in potato gardens in small towns. Turnips will be an average crop, and the same remark is applicable applica-ble to mangolds. The oat crop will not I come up to the standard of former years. In some places the crop has been beaten down by the heavy rains, and with the poor prices prevailing farmers rely but little on this crop. Westmcnth. It is admitted that the extraordinary change in the weather lately wrought much havoc among the crops in and around the Mullingar district. In West-meath, West-meath, where a rich, deep soil characterizes charac-terizes the land, the prospect of an abundant harvest presented itself, but tho recent heavy raius have changed all that, and it is deplorable to look on the land. The beautiful fields of waving wav-ing corn quickly ripening have been flattened out as if a huge roller passed over them. Irretrievable ruin has been wrought. Complaints are made with regard to the potato crop, as owing t the continued wet weather the tubers have become black. Wexford. The harvest prospects in the New Ross district at mid-August were of the darkest.' Wicltlow. . One of the most successful retreats, ever given in the Church of the Sacred Heart, Aughrim, of which the Very Rev. Father Farrelly has pastoral charge, closed on Aug. 12 after a week's duration. The Very Rev. Father Fa-ther Lynch conducted the exercises, in which not cne member of thie parish failed to participate. On the closing day 900 people received holy communion. commun-ion. - i f |