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Show I im Irisf) Hews I (Dublin Freeman, Xov. 7.) Mr. Talbot Crosbie has .amended his offer to his tenants to twenty-seven and one-half years' purchase. pur-chase. ' A case of smallpox has been discovered in Belfast. Bel-fast. f- The Marquis of Hamiltcn has been re-elected unopposed for Derry. Bad weather i-s reported off the Donegal coast. The Melampus had to run into Lough Swilly for shelter. The serai foundation stones of the new Methodist Meth-odist church, Northumberland avenue, Kingstown, were laid on Saturday. Shots were fired into Glengariffo castle, the residence of Mr. Simon White, owner of large estates es-tates in Couutj- Cork,, on Friday night. The church synods are alarmed about the land act. They are afraid the selling landlords will cease or reduce their subscriptions. At Sligo quarter sessions on Monday F. W. .Banks, a customs official, was committed for trial at the assizes, charged with embezzling 6,667, the property of his majesty's customs. A verdict of wilful murder against persons unknown un-known was returned at an inquest on Monday at Midleton, County Cork, on the body of Bridget Heffernan, 75, widow. At an inquest at Londonderry on Monday on the remains of a man, unknown, which were found in the river Foyle, on Saturday, a verdict of "found dorwned" was returned. The inquest on the three victims of the Tulla-more Tulla-more brewery fatality concluded on Wednesday, a verdict of death by suffocation being returned. i Messrs. Cook $: Son, 'tourist agents, were fined 10 at ilvllarney sessions on Thursday for selling beer by retail in a luncheon basket without an excise ex-cise license. The honor of being father of the bar of Ireland now appertains to the Right Hon. Charles Hare Hemphill, K. C, M. P., who is in splendid health. The annual pilgrimage to the burial place of St. Coleman MacDuagh, in the vicinity of Gort, County Galway, took place on Thursday. On Sunday morning, whilst extinguishing a lamp at a short distance from Longford railway station, a porter named Clark accidentally fell from the ladder, seriously injuring his spine. A young man named Eugene Heffernan, 37, laborer, la-borer, has been arrested and charged with killing his mother, Bridget Heffernan, 75, at Bailick, Bal-linacurra, Bal-linacurra, near Midleton. Four constables of the R. I. C. have been dismissed dis-missed from the froce as the result of an inquiry, into charges of breach of discipline in connection with the Gordon-Bennett motor race. At Ballirobc on Wednesday Ml. Mulro was returned re-turned for trial, charged with the murder of John Biggins, with whom, it is alleged, he had a quarrel at Shrule, County Mayo, on the 29th inst. On Suday the ceremony of conferring the pallium pal-lium on tho Most Rev. Dr. Healy, archbishop of Tuam, took place at flic cathedral. The bishop of Elphin delivered a sermon on the-history and meaning mean-ing of the pallium. . At the opening of the session of Magee college, Derry, on Monday, Professor Leebody, the president, presi-dent, strongly urged the claims of the college to inclusion in any scheme of the university extension exten-sion in Ireland. The latest development in the Limerick building build-ing trade dispute may lead to further legal proceedings. pro-ceedings. A poster .headed "Limerick Guild of Brick and Stonelayers" has been posted through the city calling attention to the importation of Belfast Bel-fast workmen now engaged on the new postoffice. A public meeting in support of the laborers' cause was held at Cashel on Sunday. Delegates attended at-tended from Boherlahan, Dualla, Cashel, Rore-green. Rore-green. Clonoulty, Golden. Knoekavclla, Moyglass, and the Cashel brass band attended. At the Granard board of trade on Monday a letter was read from the local government board requesting the board to appoint a qualified master, bearing in mind that Mr. O'Bcirnc wa3 not eligible. The. guardians passed a resolution appointing Mr. O'Beirne for one month. Dismal accounts of the ruin wrought by recent rains are given by those who have passed through all parts of County Limerick within the past few days. The Ballinrobc district council calls attention atten-tion to the distress in the west owing to the almost total failure of tho potato crop. i , Terrific weather, with very heavy seas, is reported re-ported off Malin and Innishowen Heads, Donegal. The cruiser Melampus, which arrived on Wednes-, day in Lough Swilly for the purpose of picking up the steam pinnace left by the Camperdown, proceeded pro-ceeded seawards on Friday with the pinnace in tow. She had not gone far, however, from the heads when she encountered the full force of a gale, and had, to return to the Swilly for shelter. A large number of fishing boats also had to run for shelter. A dispatch from Clommel on Tuesday says: "I regret to have to announce ihe death of Mr. Nich-! Nich-! olas Kickhhm Shee, J. P., Seven Acres, Mullina-hone, Mullina-hone, who passed away yesterday after a long and tedious illness in his 55th year. II& was one of the most active and popular of our prominent Nationalists, Nation-alists, and was from his youth identified with tho Nationalist movement. lie was chairman of the Callan guardians for years, and the board paid him. the marked compliment of electing his eldest son, Dr. J. N. Shee, medical officer of the workhouse soon after he became qualified. He was made a magistrate by Mr. Morlcy, and was always on the popular side. |