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Show IE E Eatest Trisft news j, ' : : I y Antrim. j; "" 'The Pilot.) - Lydi Macartney of Lisbum died en April 25 of burns received accidentally. Bhe was about 70 years old. i"' W. J. Sheridan of Rosetta Park, Bel- ' fast has been awarded a testimonial by i the P.oyal Human ssooiety of London for 1 saving a man from drowning. l': Armagh. lo John R&irjey of Rallymore, Tandra- Jt pee died on April 17. He was In his lOfith C year and was a native of Ballycros!" T Parish, Mahoriley county, Down. 4 T On the 14th ult.. in Armagh-breajrue. ! : between Keady and Newtqwnhamilton. ? a farmer named Francis Matehett and hi? wife died within pome hourse of ;.; each other. Both were old. h - ' Cavan. Felix Smith of Aucrhaeashel, Virginia, dl"d on April 28. His wife and family M survive him. I I. An old man named John Maguire lost m his life on the 23th ult. at Kittyclogher. In The -wife and family were absent ,and in on returning found the house in flames w and Nr. Maguire dead from burns and . i suffocation. in Ju Carlow. rl Mrs. Anne Kcaly of Ballysalla, Hack- 39 rtstown. widow of John Kealy, died on v, April 28. A meeting of the Father John Mur-r-hv Memorial Committe of Tullow was held on April 23, Thomas Bolger, chair-. chair-. tr man. presiding. The member!" present -ere: Patrick Aughrey, D. C; Pat-i' Pat-i' rick Kavanagh. Denis Deering, D. C, v.- fid Secretary Michael P: Maher. Sub-(.i Sub-(.i ncriptionB w ere handed in from James ; Kellv. Olonmore; John Kehoe,' Wil-,,i Wil-,,i liamstown, Rathvilly; Michael Byrne, (clothier) Hacketstown; John Byrne, I Ballinakil and Edward Walsh, The S o Puffery, (second subscription). j ,,. - f Cork. The estate of Henry R. Barter, some four miles from Macroom and which I occupies a portion of Moneycusker and v Gooldaniel. has been sold to the ten-f. ten-f. ants at reduction of 5s 'n the pound or : 23 years' purchase of the second term 1: rents. . The tenants' on that portion of Col. i, Lucas' estates in Moneenaxnueky, Brit-r Brit-r tus and Cahir, parish of Ardfleld. Clon-1 Clon-1 kily. have bought their holdings at f, 21 1-2 years' purchase or fis in the v pound oh first term tenancies and 5f in the pound on 23 years' purchase on the second. fi Derry. I The residence of Robert Robinson of j Coolagh, near Faughanvale, a fanner, T -was destroyed by fire on April 21. There i was no Insurance. - The marriage- was : slemnized on Arril 23. at the Long Tower church, 5 Derry, by Rev. WHham Doherty. Adm., I i of Hugh Kelly, eldest son of Charles I . Kelly of Tamneymore. 'Waterside, Der- I ry, and Annie McGarvey. youngest It daughter of William McGarvey of Cree- I vagn, Derry. , i i Donegal. t a A herring curing station has been j J t established in Rathmullan. t Edward Breslin of Meenagolan died m on April 21. He -was 100 years old. He carried on a spirit business for a long Stime. One of his pons was mayor of Gladstone, Australia, for a number of years. i , i Down. John Rainey. who was born in Bally- . , cross parish. Mahrally, on Nov. 1. 17?9, I died recentls". He was hale and hearty I up to a short lime ago. Though an I Episcopalian, he was a strong nation- ! alist. -- I Colonel Donaldson's estate at Derry- S boy. near Killyleagh, has been sold to the tenants at 20 per cent reduction on j second term rents, 2i? years' purchase. I and 30 per cent on first, 21V- years' pur- I chase; sporting and other rights go to I the tenants. I Dublin. j Michael McDonnell of Rathmines died I on April 19 at the age of 75 years. I -- The death occurred on the 17th ult. I of James Roche of Kingstown. He was I for 27 years assistant teacher in the i I national school In Glasthule. 1 1 The Royal Humane society of London has awarded a bronze medal to Ber- I nard Mulready or Dublin for saving a j woman from drowning. He is an old I soldier, holding two medals and three I clasps for bravery in the field. I Fermanagh. I A meeting of the South Fermanagh 1 divisional executive of the United Irish i League was held in Enniskillen on I April 27. Rev. James McXulty. curate, "" ' chairman, presided. There were also !i present Canon O'Connor of Newtown- I butler: R?v. K. MacMahon, pastor of j Arncy; Rev. Thomas Duffy, pastor of Lisnaskca; Vincent Kennedy. M. P.. and J. Jordan. It was-decided to take I up a collection for the Irish parliamentary parliamen-tary fund on Sunday. June 4. Fathers 0'innor, McNulty and McMahon and Messrs. Kennedy, Jordan and O'Donnell made speeches. IGalway. , Dr. John K. Dovvling, J. P., of Tuam, I did on April 20. He was medical offi- I ccr to th Tuam workhouse and' dis- pensary. and physician in attendance I to the archbishop and to the convents J a ,fi charitable institutions of the town 1 aiit district. He had a high medical Ircj. jtation. He was one of the first au-tho:lties au-tho:lties on sanitary science in Ireland, having secured the coveted distinction of the Cambridge diploma for Hygiene, and was the author of an admirable handbook on this subject. I " ' Kerry. i Rev. Stephen Fuller, for 33 years pas- : tor of Kilcummin. has been transferred "I to Ballybunion and made canon. Rev. I J. Brick, of Fossa, administrator, sue- j I ceeds him in Kilcummin. I j I 1 Sister Marv Austin, of the Convent I of Mercy. Tralee. died on April 14. She S had reached the age of 71 years. She I was a native of Dingle, and a sister of I Thos. O'Donoghue, J. P.. of that town. , I Kildare. I Law rence Brien, of Knockskeena, j near Castledermott, died suddenly of j hart disease on April 18. He was a I w idower and about 770 years old. , Archdeacon James Germaine. V. F., I of Arthy, died on April 18. He to a 1 native of Moone. and was In his 79th 1 year. He w-as ordained In April, 1854. -! His first mission was Dunlavln. County 'i Wicklow. After les than 12 months he iwas transferred to Castledermott and spent tw enty-three years under the late Archdeacon Dunne. In January, 1878, he was made pastor of Ovoca, where I he labored for 15 years. Then he was J transferred to Athy, to succeed the late I Rev. James Doyle. At the same time f he was raised to the dignity of the Dio- I I cesan Chapter. The late Dr. Corcoran. 4 j Bishop of Kildare, was his maternal granduncle. J " Kilkenny. 1 Mrs. Boulger, widow of Captain Boul- ger. A. S. C. and eldest daughter of L. J. Power of Kilkenny, died in London Lon-don on April 21. , .' ' Limerick. Lord Dunraven has been returned to the County CoijnHl unopposed for the Crborh Division: M. P. O'Bhaughnesw, J. P., of Bruff, for the-Bruft Division, and J. Burke for the Ballingarry Division, Divis-ion, s John CostelJoe, of Greybridge, Me-anuH, Me-anuH, has received news of the death of his son. Rev. Daniel Costelloe. at Kansas City, Mo. He was 35 years of age and had been pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Lexington, Lexing-ton, for close on a decade. Father Costelloe Cos-telloe was a nephew of the late Rev. James Moran, pastor of Castlemahon. Longford. Heory Farley, of Longford was crossin from America on a steamer which arrived at Queenptown on April 18. He jumped overboard on the 15th ult. and. w as drow ned. . . .. ... Meath, Mrs. Mary Flood of Derrylangan. Athboy, widow of Consttintlne Flood, died on 'April 20. : . Edward Dnnne of Clonbarron, Kil-dalkey, Kil-dalkey, farmer and grazier, who died on Feb. 12, bequeathed 1,800 and a number of bonds and railway shares and 120 annually to church and charitable chari-table objects. He left his cousin, Edward Ed-ward Hope, the lands of Clonbarron. tiueen's. Catherine Delany of Maryboro died on April 26. She was 75 years old. The tenants have bought Lord An-ncsley's An-ncsley's estate, comprising Tankards-town, Tankards-town, Clonpierce and Skehena. First term rentswere reduced by 20 per cent, and became siecond term rents; the price was such that the annuities to the Irish Land commission will be 20 per cent less than the second term rents (241-2 years -purchase). " ' : Tipperary. Mrs. Margaret Condon, wife of County Coun-ty Councilor Michael Condon of Bally-landers, Bally-landers, and daughter of the late Timothy Tim-othy O'Meara of Tipperary, died recently. re-cently. f The death occurred on April 23 in Falrview, Dublin, of Maria McCormack, formerly of Cashel. She was a sister of Rev. W. J. McKeogh, pastor of Kilcummin, Kil-cummin, Thurles. Roscommon. Mrs. Bridget Connor, widow of Peter Connor, died recently in the home of her daughter in 'Ballygalda, Roscommon. Roscom-mon. The evicted tenants on the De Freyne estate have been restored to their-holdings-by the Congested Districts Dis-tricts Board, who have .recently-purchased it. ... ' -Louth. Rev. J. Healy has undertaken to build a church for the parish of Darver one of the parishes over which he holds charge. The existing chapel is perhaps the oldest and most dilapi- dated building used for divine worship in Louth. It was erected nigh 100 years ago at a time when the Catholics were but emerging from the oppression of persecution and penal laws. Waterford. Mrs. Mary Murphy of Tramore, formerly for-merly of the Victoria hotel, died on April 23. Dr. T. A. Kelleher of Waterford has been elected medical officer of No. 1 dispensary district. Waterford. Drs. J. J. O'Sullivan and T. M. Morrissey, both of the same city, were unsuccessful candidates. Westmeath. George Walsh of Kligo, daughter of the late Edward Walsh., governor of j Sligo prison, died on April 23. |