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Show I. Louth Show, held at Aree on Thursday, Thurs-day, and favored by remarkably fine weather, was a very great success. The entries were numerous and the class of exhibits good all round specially so in the case of cattle, which were as fine a lot as was ever shown in any part of this country. At the meeting of the executive committee com-mittee of the Cork international exhibition exhi-bition on Tuesday it was decided that the opening ceremony should be performed per-formed by the lord mayor and the earl (if nanHnn tl, hcA nf i.lfv I and chairman of the exhibition, and i the other as lieutenant of the county I and city. j On Monday the body of Francis Mun-' Mun-' ster, i. sailor, aged l! years, who was drowned in the River Boyne, near Dro-gheda, Dro-gheda, on Sunday, the !Uh inst.. together to-gether with a young man named Richard Rich-ard Fttzpu trick, .aged 10, a laborer, was found floating close to where he was last 'seen alive. The body was almost unrecognizable, except for the cloth-Iny. cloth-Iny. j About a week ago a man named Bowman was arrested in Glasgow on a warrant charging him with having , committed bigamy in Ireland. He was , uuiy conveyea under an irisn cuiieiuu-ulary cuiieiuu-ulary escort to Belfast and lodged in the county prison. Bowman, however, took ill the next day, and, after a medical med-ical examination. It was ascertained he was suffeiing from smallpox. The authorities au-thorities are very reticent about thej matter. The managers of the Great Northern j railway and of the Donegal railway an- j nounce the settlement of the vexed i que.sticn of rates and fares between Derry and Strabane which has been in dispute since the extension of the Donegal Don-egal lines to Derry over a year ago. The war of rebates between the two companies has been a fierce and mutually mu-tually unremuneratlve one. It has ended end-ed in an arrangement for equal rates and fares on each railway between the two companies. The Royal Humane society at its meeting In London on Tuesday awarded award-ed its bronze medal to John Boylan, car driver, Ballybay, Monaghan, for his daring rescue of a lad named Mc-Geough Mc-Geough from the lake there on Feb. 11. The lad fell through the ice, thirty yards from the bank, into twenty feet of water. Boylan crawled out on the thin ice and held out his coat, which the lad got hold of, and by this means was dragged from his perilous position. s At Limerick Assizes on Wednesday the chief Justice delivered judgment in a case heard at the Summer Assizes, in which Sarah Cooney sued the Limerick county council for damages in consequence conse-quence of injuries alleged to have b.en sustained by her when she was thrown out of a trap, owing to the defective condition of a road over which the council had control. His lordship now held that the council was not liable for nonfeasance, and distinguished from misfeasance (the road having been out of contract and in disrepair), and dis- missed the atcion. . On Monday a suicide of a very deliberate delib-erate character took place at the level crossing of Lough Swilly railway over the main road into Londonderry. The victim was W. J, Maultsaid, formerly a building contractor In Londonderry, but who latterly had been in the asylum. asy-lum. The gateman was closing the roadway when he saw the deceased in a safe position . standing against ihe wall. Deceased looked toward the ratl- nay manon ana remarKea, ino worn of her yet." Later he repeated this remark. re-mark. On seeing the engine approaching approach-ing he ran forward, threw himself face down on the ground, and gripped Ihe rail. His head and legs were severed. On Thursday a fire was discovered in the parish church, Buncrana, Coun-j Coun-j ty Donegal, and X'd considerable dam-j dam-j age before extinguished. How precisely j the fire originated is not known, but smoke issuing from the edifice attracted attract-ed the attention of passers-by. When the doors were broken open it was found that the fire had obtained a firm hold on the lefthand corner, between the organ and the pulpit. When extinguished extin-guished it was found that the organ was destroyed and the seats and woodwork wood-work injured by lire and water. At Athlone quarter sessions on Monday Mon-day before County Court Judge O'Connor O'Con-nor Morris, the hearing was resumed of the appeals of Messrs. John Fitz-gibbon Fitz-gibbon and Patrick Webb from the sentences of two months' Imprisonment and two additional months in default of giving bail, imposed by Messrs. Har-rel Har-rel and Brown, constituting the court under the corecion act. Judge O'Connor Morris. On tbn rofno-i I r.P rn:. ; gibbon and Webb to give bail, directed that they be. imprisoned for four months as first-class misdemeanants. I Messrs. Fitzgibbon and Webb on leaving leav-ing the court house were enthuslastical-ly enthuslastical-ly cheered by a large crowd, and escorted es-corted amidst great enthusiasm to the Prince of Wales' hotel, from the windows win-dows of which speeches were delivered. An exhibition of industries was held on Monday at Kilskyre. county Meath. This was the third number of exhibitions exhi-bitions arranged by the Rev. Father Barry, P.I'., with the view of encouraging encour-aging peasant industries. A concert was given in the evening, at which a choice selection of Irish music was rendered. Professor Carroll of Dublin gave a lecture on "Home Industries" at the opening of the exhibition. There was a large atendance of persons from the neighborhood. Father Barry presided. presid-ed. In the evening the concert of Irish music was attended by a large audience. audi-ence. The exhibits consisted of homespun home-spun materials. knititng. etc. The exhibition was a considerable success and gave promise of future helpfulness in bringing much comfort to the hnmon of the people. The dedication of the parish church at Dromin. near Kllmallock. which has been re-roofed and partially rebuilt, took place on Sunday. Two "years ago l-ather Canty,' p.p., undertook to provide pro-vide proper accommodation for his flock, and placed the undertaking in the hands of the late Mr. G. G. Ashlin who drew up plans for the work, which has been carried out under the superintendence super-intendence of his nephew, Mr. Stephen Ashlin. a very promising young architect. archi-tect. The church is cruciform, and in the renovated structure four fine gothic arches support the roof. The effect is very striking. The roof is of pitchpine ' strongly made, and Killaloe slates are used Mr. William Gleeson, Fedamore carried out the contract In a most -satisfactory manner, and Mr. P. Bourke Limerick, acted as clerk of works The church now provides ample accommodation accommo-dation for the needs of the parishioners and was greatly admired bv all who faw u- uT3ay the,e was a collection i2nW?IP,h.hls Iordshi' the bishop contributed con-tributed ten guineas. The dedication was performed by the Most Rev. Dr ?eSbratedftei' Whl-W m -ai A fire which assumed very large dimensions, di-mensions, and which involved a eon. Dnhifn o l0S t0 P"Perty. broke out in 1 Sreit nrr uesda' night at 19 Moore streeL off Henry street, belonging to Mr. George Price. China. Delph and merchant. The house in I, eifire occurred is unoccupied oH-US 53 n, cIue as t0 how the fire paginated. Messrs. M. and P. Han- on "CCUP- the adjoining house. n?: Le!. ,e,very considerably from the effects of the fire, their stock having hav-ing been destroyed by the water The damage is estimated at something less than 1.000. and it is partly covered by Insurance. At Limerick assizes on Thursday, before be-fore Mr. Justice Johnson and a city special jury, Patrick O'Gornian, a farmer's son, residing at Gortnalougha. Corofin. county Clare, sued Peter and Michael O'Gorman. farmers, same place, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained on Sept. 20 last. The evidence for the plaintiff was that I ha was engaged tackling a horse when I a swarm of bees belonging to defen- I d.inls. HttHcVerl tht animal and him self, with the result that he was pushed by the horse against a small wall and his back bent over it. Plaintiff's spinal cord was injured. He was, according to medical evidence, practically incurable, incur-able, and could not now stand or walk without assistance. The defence was that nothing was aid to defendants on the day in question that plaintiff was iiurt. that for some time before the alleged occurrence he had been noticed to walk badly and seemed suffering from stiffness in the back, and that he had sustained two falls from a hay cart. Medical evidence was that the plaintiff suffered from disease of the spinal cord of some months' standing previous to September. The jury found that the bees were th ..rintrtv of Michael O'Gorman. and : found a verdict for plaintiff, with 200 i damages. The Judge granted a stay of execution on the application of counsel for the defence. A son of The O'Conor Don, Mr. Denis O'Conor, landlord of one of the Associated Asso-ciated Estates, has come to an amicable amica-ble arrangement with his tenants. He has withdrawn all the ejectment processes, proc-esses, civil" bills and writs that had been issued, and has agreed to discharge dis-charge the costs. To the tenants whose first Judicial terms have expired he has agreed to give a reduction of 3 shillings in the pound: and he has consented on the basis of the rent so reduced to sen j to the congested districts board for sixteen years' purchase, should the board agree to take the estate from him on those terms. This is the third of the Associated Estates on which an amicable settlement has been arrived at. Lord De Freync and Mr. Murphy still remain obdurate. On the Worth-Ington Worth-Ington estate, which adjoins the Associated Asso-ciated Estates, the tenants have received re-ceived a reduction of 2 shillings in the pound; and they have generously come to the financial support of the De Freyne and Murphy tenants on whom the brunt of the struggle has now fallen. At Kilkenny assizes on Friday, before Mr. Justice Madden, Mr. J. P. Walsh, the secretary of the United Irish League, Callan, charged under the Whiteboy act, was brought before a jury and acquitted. The charge arose out of the writing of an alleged threat- ; ening letter. i On Tuesday County Court Judge O'Connor Morris opened the Roscom- mon quarter sessions. The grand jury panel having been called over, ' His honor said he was sorry the gen- 4 tlemen of the grand jury were sum- 4 moned. There was only one case on the list wliich was not going on. The gentlemen of the Jury need not be j sworn, and he had no observations to . address to them this time. . Mr. P. J. Clarke, D.C. Before you j discharge the Jury. I have a resolution to propose. Proposed by Mr. P. J. Clarke and seconded by Mr. Robert 4 Satchwell: Resolved "That we, as A grand jurors assembled at Roscommon quarter sessions for the discharge of criminal business, herehv enter our " strongest protest against the action of a number of landlords and agents, who comprised the grand Jury at the recent re-cent spring assizes, in describing this county as being in a state of lawlessness lawless-ness and as a locality in which crime existed, in order to back up the final struggle of rackrentlng landlordism, and calling on the coercion government of this downtrodden country to put in force the powers vested in them to suppress sup-press a just combination of the people for their lawful rights; and as a proof of the crimeless state of this county we, as ratepayers and representatives of the people, again protest against being summoned from distances when not a single charge, agrarian or otherwise, other-wise, is preferred against any individual. individ-ual. That copies of this resolution be sent to the county representative and the chief secretary." His honor said he would have the resolution forwarded, and discharged the grand jury. |