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Show Alt IRISH NEWS (Dublin Freeman. Aug. 2:.'.) ;; All the evicted tenants on the Mur-; Mur-; phy estate have been restored to their j holdings. I I An ex-soldier named Bateman shot his wife dead in Charlotte street, Newbridge, New-bridge, on Saturday evening, and then committed suicide. A special letter of thanks has been j addressed on behalf of the pope to Sir I Thomas Esmonde, who conveyed to his j holiness the congratulations of the Irish ! party. j A young man named O'Gorman, Kil-i Kil-i rush, has been arrested in connection . with the death of his father, who was found on the roadside terribly injured, , and died without recovering conscious-i conscious-i ness. I Two contingents of rival Orangemen j from Belfast headed by Mr. Trew and I Mr. Sloan, M. P., went to Derry on Wednesday to participate in the celebration cele-bration of the 214th anniversary of the j Belief of Derry. Several rows occurred. I j The resident medical superintendent I of the Limerick lunatic asylum reports that the number of patients stiW keeps increasing, IS cases having been admitted admit-ted since the last monthly meeting of the governors, while only ten were dis-j dis-j charged. ! Early on Friday morning the schoon-I schoon-I er Supply, when anchored off Cour- town, Ireland, showed signals of dls- tress, and in response the lifeboat Rob-! Rob-! ert Fitzstephens. stationed at Cour-! Cour-! tow n, and belonging to the Royal National Na-tional Lifeboat institution, went to her assistance, and succeeded in bringing the captain, his wife and child, together with the crew of three hands, safely ashore. The vessel subsequently drifted drift-ed on to the bar. A Carrick-on-Shannon correspondent; writing on Friday night says: A shock was given the residents of this town today when the news spread that Dr. Richard B. Threlfall ha.a'. bled to death early that morning from having the main artery of one of his, legs severed. It appears that the doctor left his bed and had a drink of water from a glass decanter when he slipped and fell to the floor, the decanter breaking under him i in many pieces, and thus he received i the fatal cut. - j 4 i On Wednesday the anual Mayo In- I dustries exhibition was opened at Cas- j tlebar Demesne, kindly lent for the oc- j casion by the Karl of Lucan. The j weather conditions in the morning! were most favor-bli, with the result j that a large crowd of visitors availed themselves of the facilities offered by the Midland .Railway company on the several branches rof the line in the county. A notable feature at today's exhibition, and one which attracted the general attention, was the tent in which was displayed the Countess o? Lucan's homespun tweed industry, where were shown the various stages of the manufacture' of tweed from ths raw materials. One' of the pieces of j the tweed displayed .was a facsimile 'Of the piece presented, by the Countess of Lucan to her 'maesty the queen on j the occasion of her" visit to Leenane. and which her majesty said she would j have made up 'immediately and wear.! The exhibits in every department were excellent, and the convents in the j county played a prominent part in maintaining the. .position gained by them at last year's exhibition, particularly particu-larly Foxford, Kiltimagh and Castle-bar, Castle-bar, f The provision in the new land act, which was carried despite the" vigorous protest of the Irish nembers. reserving to the landlords 23 Der cent of the profits to be derived from minerals on Irish soil, may render ot interest the following extract from a letter by. Mr. Charles Dawson,, entitled, "The Infiu-I Infiu-I ence of an Irish Parliament on Irish j Industries," reported in the Freeman's Journal of January, 1S8S: "Though we make no boast of our mineral treasures, treas-ures, they are. according to competent authority, well worthy of development. According to Professor Hull, the Lein-ster Lein-ster coal basin contains 118,000,000 tons, , only outputting 83,000 tons per annum, j In the north, especially in Tyrone, at Coal island, there are 17,000 acres of coal bed (30,000,000 tons), which, the professor says, are by far the most valuable in Ireland. In other districts in Ireland there are over 70,000.000 tons. Sir R. Kane supports the suggestion that borings should be, made by the government to ascertain if the mineral wealth existed to the extent computed by Professor Hull." Croagh Patrick, one of the most stately of the mountain ranges of Con-nemara, Con-nemara, was on Sunday the scene of an imposing ceremony. On the highest ptak, overlooking Clow Bay. and fully 2.500 feet above the level of the pea. Father McDonald, administrator, West- i port, offered up the holy sacrifice of the Mass in the presence of a congregation congre-gation which numbered over 7,000 and I included not a few visitors from America Amer-ica and Australia, who happened to be in Ireland and gladly availed the opportunity op-portunity of being present. His grace the Most Rev. Dr. Healy was to have preached on the occasion, but 'owing to the inclemency of the weather he was ) unable to attend. Father McDonald announced that an indulgence had been granted by the holy see to everyone who assisted at the ceremony with the proper dispositions. He also intimated that Mass would he celebrated on the mountain every year in future. It is thirty-five years since the holy sacrifice of the Mass was celebrated on the top i of a mountain in Ireland. On that occasion oc-casion the Most : Rev. Dr. Moriarty said Mass on the pinnacle of Mount Brandon, near Tralee, n the presence of 20,000 people, and preached a sermon. ser-mon. The late Canon Brosnan, whore name is inseparably connected with the O'Connell Memorial church at Ca-bcrcivecn. Ca-bcrcivecn. also preached, as did Father Fa-ther Murphy, O. P.. prior of the Dominican Do-minican convent, Tralee, at the time. tr About eighteen months since Mr. M. F. Sheehan of Ballyhussa, County Walerford. the well known writer of those delightful Irish stories to bfc found in Irish and American magazines, maga-zines, made arrangements with an American firm for the publication of a work, the production of which had cos., him vears of labor and deep study. The manuscript of the book was duly forwarded, but in course of time it was intimated that it had never reached its destination. This was a sad disappointment to Mr. - Sheehan, noi only from a financial point of view, but because the tale was written with the object of elevating the minds of the masses of our fellow countrymen who have found a home" in America. It was a life effort, and. therefore, to discover that through some blunder of the postal pos-tal authorities such a laudable undertaking under-taking should be wrecked was very annoving. Influential friends, at both sides of the Atlantic, including Mr. John Redmond, M. P., here and Mr. John O'Callaghan in America, did all that was possible through the postal authorities to trace the missing- packet, but after months of weary waiting, communications were received by Mr. Sheehan to the effect that it could not be found. It was well known to his friends that in Mr. Pheehan's then enfeebled en-feebled state of health the labor of rewriting re-writing the book could not be undertaken, under-taken, and it was suggested by those who admired' him, not only for his sterling ster-ling worth in times of stress and danger dan-ger to the country's cause, as well as for his splendid record as writer of song and story racy of ''our land; that a public testimonial should be initiated. Mr. J. J. O'Shee. M. P.. the worthy s c representative of West Waterford, took the matter in hand. Very many literary men, who doubtless felt deeply for Mr. Sheehan having been placed in a position which might at any moment apply to themselves owing to the stupid blundering of the public service, sent letters of regret and enclosed subscriptions. subscrip-tions. Mr. Justin McCarthy and several sev-eral other influential gentlemen formed themselves into a committee, and a handsome sum was subscribed. Mr. O'Shee, M. P.. in presenting Mr. Sheehan with a purse of sovereigns at a. little reunion held last evening, said that it afforded him very great pleasure pleas-ure to be the medium of conveying the gift from the subscribers; one and all felt sympathy with Mr. Sheehan in his j loss, and while asking him to accept ; this slight token of their esteem, they w ere assured, that no momentary consideration con-sideration could compensate him adequately ade-quately for the loss of his valuable work. -' j Mr. Sheehan delivered a suitable reply. re-ply. ' |
