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Show LATE IRISH NEWS j (Dublin Freeman, Aug. 15.) , The Third Annual Show of the Carlovv Agricultural Society was held on Monday Mon-day in fine weather, and attracted a very large audience. -f Drogheda Corporation have passed a resolution of regret at the death of thj late Father Anderson. -A. Sir William Harriot is dead. He was a brother of Mrs. Cross. Dripsey, Cork, for whose murder her husband. Dr. Cross, was hanged sixteen years ago. The annual Show, under the auspice.-? of the Co. Roscommon Agricultural Society, So-ciety, was held on Monday at Castlerca, and was very successful. From the "general Idea" of the military mili-tary maneuvers it appears that Dublin and Cork have been seised by a hostile force whose advance inland has to be : checked by the cavalry biigade on the . Currash. Captain J. De Courcey Hamilton, the new chief of the London fire brigade, is a member of the same family as Lord Helmpa trick, now a minor, whoso father, the first Baron, and formerly Mr. Ion Trant Hamilton, represented ; County Dublin for some years in the House of Commons. Captain Hamilton is also a relative of Lord Kinsale. The sixty-eighth annual report of the Waterford District Lunatic asylum for the year ending December 31 last has been published. The total number of patients under treatment during the year was 603. The admissions during the year showed an increase of 19. Of the !4 patients admitted 54 were males and 40 females. Of these 44 were classed clas-sed as incurable on admission. Of 58 patients discharged 35 "were recovered and IS improved. f It is stated that the admiralty liava decided to lay down moorings in Monkstown, County Cork, Bay for five warships, and for that purpose are about to istart dredging operations there. It may be remembered that some time back an admiralty notice appeared in the "Dublin Gazette," in pursuance of which they have acquired control of the water from Rushbrook to I Monkstown and ifrwn Queenstown to Sike. A few days ago a man named Martin I Hiekey, of Doordss, County Galway, proceeded to domineer on the Tipperarv side of Lough Derg, with a boat load of tur. He anchored the boat safely about seventy yards from the shore. I and was last seen alive by James Col- j lins. of Urrah. Next dav his dead oocij was tound in the water nearthe boat. Mr. R. X. M. Gleeson, solicitor, eoronor, held an inquest on the remains-The remains-The evidence was to the effect that the deceased had drink taken, and that he must have fallen from the boat into the water. A verdict of "death from accidental drowning" was returned. f The report of the directors of the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford railway company for the half year ending in June last, which has just been issued, states that after providing for interest on Debertura stocks and all other fixed charges, and setting aside a sum of 500 for expenditure on renewals of engines and rolling stock, and adding 500 to the general reserve fund, a balance remains of 6,537 Is 7d, which the directors recommend should be applied ap-plied in payment of a dividend on the six per cent. Preference stock under th-i company's act of 1S57, leaving a balance of 537 Is "d to be carried to next account. On Wednesday at Navan Pettv Sessions. Ses-sions. Mr. James Vaughy, of Wood-view, Wood-view, Gibstown, described as a gentleman gentle-man farmer, and his coachman. Patrick Pat-rick Togher, were prosecuted for cruelly cru-elly ill-treating a mare at Navan on the 1st of Julv. On T.'ednesday in the Whit worth Hall. Lrogheda. an inquest was held by Dr. Byrne, eoronor. on the body of a lad. aged five yeas, named Peter Collins, whose body was discovered in the river Boyne -.that morning by a man named Patrick Compbell. 4 Mr. Carnegie offers 28.000 toward the establishment of a central free public pub-lic library in Dublin. -f As compared with last year there is an increase of 121 in the entries for the Horre Show this year. In opening the commission for the county and city of Dublin, Mr. Justice Jus-tice Wright said he was glad to say that the county of Dublin continues to be in a very quiet and orderly state. : At the Commission court on Tues- ' day the trial was concluded of Francis ' K. Du Bedat and Kustace Johnson on the charge of having obtained money ' from different persons by falsely rep- resenting that a. Portugese concession i a.t Lourenco Marques, in East Africa. was valid. Both prisoners were found j guilty, and Mr. Justice Wright sentenced sen-tenced Du Bedat to four years' penal I i servitude and Johnston to twelve months' imprisonment, ' 4 The Press Association says; "A cler- i ical student named Daniel Bennett, a native of Croom. County Limerick, was drowned oh Saturday evening at Bal- lybunion. County Kerry. '' On Sunday the new Church of St. Patrick Donabate was solemnly dedicated dedi-cated by his Grace the Archbishop. The Rev. John Verdon, S. J., preached at the. High Mass. and his Grace subsequently subse-quently presided at a public meeting held to raise funds to clear off a considerable con-siderable debt which still remains on the building. f The torpedo craft maneuvers in the Irish sea having concluded, the destroyers destroy-ers Starfish. Syren. Porcupine, Lightning Light-ning and Star, of the Kingtown fio-tilla. fio-tilla. returned to Kingstown on Sat-i Sat-i u relay, some proceeding to coal. The j Fervent, which did not go out to sea on Friday night, owinj; to a slight mis-I mis-I hap to her machinery, was also in har-I har-I bor. All the vessels' (lew Mags at half-' half-' mast on account of the death of Captain Cap-tain Dodg.-on. 1 4 Tn the Cork police court William K. Farrell, trading as the Cork International Interna-tional Mineral .Water company, wps prosecuted at the suit of Messrs. A. & R. Thwaites & Co., Ltd.. and Taylor Tay-lor & Son. Dublin, for tilling their embossed em-bossed trade mark Pottles with min-eril min-eril waters of his own manufacture. Mr. T. J. Smith. B. L. (instructed by Mr. Gerald Byrne, solicitor, Dublin), appeared on behalf of the complainants. complain-ants. The defendant, who was not represented, p'eacled guilty, and was fined 5s with 10s costs on each of four summons. j The excavations which have taken I place at the uninscribed grave in St. Michan's churchyard vindicate the re-j re-j liability of lo:-al tradition, which has persisted in regarding this tomb as the last resting place of the best-beloved of Irish patriots. Robert Emmet. The evidence of Emmet's burial was vague and intangible, and historical conjecture conjec-ture was conflicting. The persevering investigation of Dr. Madden has made it tolerably certain that, the remains of the young patriot had been pr'vately removed from Kilmamham and interred in-terred in "Bully's Acre." The evidence also pointed also conclusively to the subsequent removal of the body from "Bully's Acre" and its interment elsewhere; else-where; but there anything like certainty cer-tainty ceased. |