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Show j ate$t Trisb news (Dublin Weekly Freeman, Jan. 23.) CITY OF DUBLIN. It is stated that Judo Johnson will shortly re-j re-j tire. 1 . Lord Iveigh contributes 100 to the Mansion House coal fund. Dublin castle is ordering electric light from the Dublin corporation. 7'he mayoralty was again discussed last night at ! j ,no wd meetings, objection being taken to Alder man Cotton's candidature. At the meeting of the Dublin county council on Thursday the scheme for tho division' of Ilath-niin.-s and Kathgar Urban district into five wards was adopted. At the meeting of the Dublin port and dock board on Thursday Mr. Johu Mooney was elected chairman, and the question of the rating on sheds Mas again discussed. j I At. a meeting of the nationalist members of the Dublin corporation on Tuesday, Councillor Hutchinson Hutch-inson was selected as the rationalist candidate for the lord mayoralty. In the course of an action against lhe high i sheriff before lhe recorder on Tuesday it transpired that solicitors had been pursuing a wrong course in adding certain sums by wav of costs to the decree i I Mr. V. 1 anell. assistant at Wetland row station, I 1S, a?itf'lllt('J Walton master at Kingstown to re- s I''3'"-' Ir- L D- Carey, who has been promoted J io be superintendent at Wexford, in the room of I Mr. Hendnek, appointed superintendent at Water- I ford. ALL ABOUND IKELAND. The king has authorized Trinity college to admit women to degrees. The Hon. E. Dlake, M I, sends 100 guineas t'o: the parliamentary fund. !04. 5 St. Tat riek's church, Monktowu. has been broken ' into and robbed. I A meeting was held in Tipperary on Mondav to start a co-operative bacon factory. A young man belonging to H.M.S. Melampus named (Jilh-rau ivcoived faial injuries at Athlonc j railway station on. Wednesday night. ; Kobort McDonnell, a laborer, v.-as killed on JJiursday night on the railway line at Haheny. The sixth annual conference of the Irish Association Asso-ciation of Master Painters opened on Tuesdav in Haterford with an exhibition of work done bv apprentices. ap-prentices. " j The Coulgreany Brooke estate is to be sold, and the evicted tenants ure to be reinstated. The congested con-gested districts board is negoiiatin? for the purchase pur-chase of the 1 Iodic estate. Chm-mnrris. rl he Karl of Krne, his majesty's lieutenant of the county of lermanagh, has appointed John Clements Clem-ents Madden, esq., of Hilton Park, Clones, in tlw -ounty of Monaghan, to be a deputy lieutenant of the county of Fermanagh. A auig married m omau named MeGrath, resident resi-dent j "Kiely's Cross,'' a mountain district midway mid-way b'fwvn Duugarvan and Youkhal, is under arrest ar-rest charged with attempting to poison her father, an old man named Kiely, by adminislcriusr rat poison pois-on in his food. . ., j , The court r.f inquiry which assembled at the I i UU.,J1 ji-imi eunsiaouiary oepot on the .rth inst.. to. jh investigate lhe charges .preferred against Acting' Sergeant Williamson of having tampered with certain cer-tain official papers, has found him guilty of the eha'rges. As a result he has been dismissed from the force. The Duke of Loin-tors health still "continues to j be u very groat source of anxiety to his relatives and guardians, and he has now bvn ordered off on another long sea voyage. He will, in consequence, Vave England about the cud of January on board' the P. and O. steamer Oeeona, bound for Australia. , A dispatch from New Jioss. County Wexford, on I Saturday says: At noon on Friday a most disas- f i rous dynamite explosion took place at Great island Jit the ItoSblare & lishguard railway works. It would I soem tlt a gang of nine navvies came upon a for- I ,t,P" pnarRe.of dynamite embedded in the rock I lhe charge exploded when struck with a pick bv a Workman named Patrick Lcary. Jhe nine men 'I l, l l ' ' III HHI I I PM 1 1 JHII.... ' Mere hurled into the air, Leary being killed, Denis O'Sullivan. another Corkman, sustaining severe injuries in-juries to the headland arm, from which, he can scarcely recover, three others suffering less seriously, serious-ly, and the remaining three getting off with light injuries. The lord lieutenant lias been pleased to appoint iiuani dones resident magistrate at Boyle, to be a resident magistrate for the county of Carlow, Joseph Jo-seph Kilbride, resident magistrate at Dunfanaghv, to be a resident magistrate for the county of Roscommon, Ros-common, and Captain Walter EdgeM-ood Johnstone to be a resident magistrate for the county of Donegal. Done-gal. Mr. J. C. MeCoan, mIio died on Weduesdav it: London in his 7."th year, Mas M.P. for County Wicklow from 1SS0 to 1SS5. He acted as M-ar correspondent corre-spondent of the Daily Xews during the Crimean war, and afterwards settled at Constantinople, where he practiced as a barrister in the consular court, and founded the Levant Herald. A great representative gathering, - in which prominent Protestants as well as Catholics took part, was held on Wednesday in "Limerick in sup- ' port of the demand of the university education for 1 he Catholics of Ireland. The speakers included the Most Rev. Dr. O'Dwyer, bishop of Limerick; Lord Monteagle, Lord Enily, Alderman Joyce, M. P.; Rev. Andrew Murphy, Mr. Lundon, M.P.: Mr. A. W. Shaw, JJP., president of the Limerick chamber cham-ber of commerce. A dispatch from Limerick on Friday says:' A report has been received in Limerick of a shocking railway accident which occurred at a quarter to ten this morning at Ballvsimon bride, thvo, rm'l outside of Limerick. An outward train appears to have come on some laborers working on the bridge. One of them named Dwycr was cut to pieces, while another named Madigan is very seriously injured, in-jured, and an rmbulanee has been sent for to convey him to a ho.-pital. On Thursuay night a middle-aged man named Jlobert McDonnell, a. farm laborer, residing at Kilbarrack, Raheny, was brought to Jervis street hospital suffering from a compound fracture of the skull. It appears that he m-us lying on the raised embankment on the private line of the Tramway "company at Raheny, with his head towards tlfe track, and it is stated that the oil box of one of the tramcars struck him on the head, inllciting the injury. in-jury. He was brought to Dublin in a tramcar, and conveyed in the fire brigade ambulance to Jervis street hospital, where he was attended to by Dr. Delauey and Mr. Scanlon. He was accompanied bv Sereant 20C. and was attended by a priest after admission ad-mission to the hospital. lie died at a quarter to one on Friday morning. The sad intelligence has reached Ballingarrr, county Limerick, that four young people, Miss M. A. Reidy, Miss H. Reidy, Miss E. Reidy and Mr.' J. Reidy, niece.; and cousins of Mr. Thomas Reidy, D.C., P.L.G., local auctioneer, Mrs. O'Grady, Wood-stock, Wood-stock, and Mrs. J. Hogan, Kuocktierna, Mere among those who lost their lives in lhe. recent connagra-"tion connagra-"tion in a Chicago theatre. " A dispatch from Armagh on Sunday says:: A savage attack Mas made by a party of Protestants some of whom it is understood belong to the Orange society on the Rev. Stephen Brown, tho highly respected re-spected young Catholic curate of Markethill, and a fellow Catholic named John McGrath, who reside in Markethill. There is at present great scarcity of work in Belfast mviug to the linen trade being almost at a standstill, coupled with the fact of the slackness in the shipbuilding industry, which has. felt the depression de-pression prevalent in all centres of. trade. Just now the. working classes are beginning to feci the pinch oi want. The number of the unemployed lias been estimated at 7,3XJ, one thousand of whom arc trades innon men. v Arrangements are being made to promote a memorial in his native city of Limerick-to Gerald (.rifhn, and a meeting of the committee was- held on Thursday at the Town -Hall, under the presidency presi-dency of the mayor, to receive the report of a deputation depu-tation that had waited - on the Superior of the Christian Brothers of Limerick, Rev. Brother o-Jan o-Jan in reference to the project. The proposition of I -erecting a memorial school was put before Brother -Nolan, who stated the Christian Urol hers would b- m favor of giving twice the amount collected in he city towards the erection of schools in Qua v-Jane, v-Jane, ou the site of the present building. terIWi! W"re i"tfcrr in 7Mns Town W tery Derrj the remains of a remarkable member of the Order of Mcrcy.v Sister M. de Sales, who died after a severe illness at a-very advanced ag li e debased . lady, whose name in the world wts .Connolly, was the daughter of Colonel CW olly, an officer of distinction in army annTls. sl j tor de Sales was highly accomplished, and her whol.o life formed an unbroken record of industry, piety, and unpretentious charity. She spent fully half century in the Order of Mercy, and in the earlier part of her life as a nun she had some perilous experiences ex-periences in traveling through arid portions of the African Continent. THE BANDON "ROMISH" CROSS. A dispatch from Bandon on Monday says: Special interest M-as centered in the proceedings of the Bandon rural district council on today in consequence con-sequence of the fact that amongst the presentments listed for consideration was an application by Councillor Kearney for the sum of one shilling for , the purpose of erecting on the public street at the northern side of Bandon bridge the Celtic cross to the memory of the late Mr. Graves Applebee, which was ejected from Kilbrogah Protestant church yard as being "Romish and Idolatrous." Mr. W. C. Kearney proposed the resolution M-hich stood in his name. Councillor O'Xeill seconded. Councillor the Earl of Bandon said he could not tell how deeply pained and grieved he felt when he heard of the removal of this Celtic cross which a lady, a member of a respected family in the town, had placed there as a memorial of her brother. He was greatly -shocked at such an act of irreverence, and he had the strongest, reason for stating that many of his fellow churchmen M-ere as deeply grieved and pained-as he M-as (cheers). He moved as an amendment to the resolution: "That the consideration of this resolution be postponed till the next quarterly meeting of the council in order to afford Mrs. Axford and the members mem-bers of her family an opportunity of coming to an amicable arrangement with a view to having the cross erected on consecrated ground." Mr. James Daly, J.P., seconded Lord Bandon's amendment. Mr. Kearney Would there be any hope of the cross being ever allowed in again but for our action here today (applause) ? It had been thrown out because be-cause it Mas deemed "Romish and Idolatrous." It was left on the roadside, and then stolen away by these parties. Mr. Forde, solicitor, Cork, who represented the sister of the deceased gentleman, earnestly appealed to the council to pass the motion, lie said that Mrs. Axford had exhausted every means of amicable settlement. ' Amidst applause the motion vras passed bv twenty-five votes to three. EATALITY IN ATHLONE. A dispatch from Athlone on Thursday says : A shocking fatality occurred at the Midland railway stahon at Athlone last night. Thomas Gilleran, aged about 25. of II.M.S. Melamnus. was ntnminr trom holidays in the County Roscommon, accompanied accom-panied by Francis Clarke and Dominick Synnott, also of tho Melampus, bolh from near Killala. They arrived at Athlonc by train, reaching there at 5:12, and had some quarter of an hour's delav before arrival ar-rival of the Dublin train from Galway. The interval was spent by Clarke and the deceased in a friendly conversation, during the course of which thev moved toM-ards the verge of the platform, Clarke having hold of Gilleran in a playful manner. The latter fell on to the rails just as the Dublin train was approaching within twenty yards. Jlis comrade, com-rade, Clarke, jumped off the platform, evidently intending in-tending to save him. . On doing so he fell between the rail and the platform, gettiag caught in the signal M'iros, from which position he Mas extricated by Constable Brogan and Martin Gannon, foreman porter, without receiving any injury. The engine and part of one carriage passed over the neck .and arms of Gilleran. The latter was completely severed x from the body, while the head was crushed in a feartul manner, and the neck almost detached from the trunk. The remains M-ere removed to one of the compartments of the station. |