The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-04-12

he then forwarded a dlspatcn 10 MI. AOams,
the American Minister at London, the re,
quest of which, however, was NOT comp
with. i..ie}
LIxER1ck.-A collection for the Pope
was made on the first Sunday of Lent In
the following parishes of the Diocese OF
KilfenOra, when the aforementioned sums
were realized: Ennistymon and Clouney,
els S.: Ballyvaughan, H7 49,; Liscannor,
e6; Rishanny, e3 IS. ID; Kilfenora,
s12 Is. 3D.; Lisdoonvarna, ESQ; Cara,
96 los. Total, Gs3 Is. Sd.
The Reporter, of q late date says The
Lord Bishop has appointed the Rev. mos.
Fitzgerald, &C, Kifmallock, administrator
of the parish Of Fedamore. His lordship
has transferred the Rev. Joseph Bourke,
&C., Bruff, to Rathkeale; Rev. Mr.. keat-
ing, &C, Rathkeale, to Cappa; Rev. Ed
ward Dwyer, &C., Cappa, to Brqf.
A Limerick correspondent, under date OF
March 10, says: Intelligence has 1 4a"t 20
consequence Of private information received
the constabulary there stationed proceeded
to the Roman Catholic chapel, and having
ripped up a portion of the flooring under
the altar, found one hundred pixies, seventy
six of which were in the most perfect state
of preservation, having been well oiled and
wrapped in flannel cloth. The weapons
were removed to the police station of Cappa-
more, and the matter has been officially
communicated to the lord lieutenant.
CLARE.-The Limerick Reporter says:
The New District Lunatic Asylum for Clare,
which has Just been built from the plans of
Messrs. Keane and Fogarty, archtects, Dy
Mr. Meade, of Dublin, is one of the finest
looking buildings of the kind in the south
of Ireland. 1t will be handed over by Mr..
Meade in a few days to the governors. Dr.
Daxon, who has been appointed resident
physician, has already taken up his quarters
in the asylum. MI. Meade, Of Dublin, has
been declared contractor for the building OF
a new church in Ennis.
Mr.. F. Cullinan, Session Crown Solicitor,
has been appointed attorney and solicitor
to the grand jury of the county Clare.
T1ppERARY.-The idvocate says: Mr..
Richard Carey, The Lodge, Synone, near
Cashel, county Tipperary, has invented
rifle which is capable of firing sixty or sew
as quick as one can pull the trigger, as there
is little else to be done in the use OF it, The
construction is most simple.
KERRY.-By q rescript received recently
from Rome, the Very Rev. John Nave. Z.
P, V. G., Tralee, has been appointed Dean
of Kerry.
The Tralee Chronicle reports that high
and honorable compliment was paid by the
grand jury to one of it's Oldest and most
valued members, Mr.. James O'Connell, who
had SO well earned the name of the NestOr
of the Kerry grand jury. The public out
side most warmly concur IN TINS !r1Dote 20
noble personal worth and distinguished
public services. The compliment was the
presentation of an address.
| WArERFoRD.-The Waterford Citizen
says that Mr.. Blake is the only member OF
Parliament who has had the manliness to
with the death Of the political prisoner
Lynch, at Mountjoy. Should any neglect be
proved against the physician, DIR. Young
he will lose his berth, though he is protege
of the Government.
I ANrRIM.-The Irish Times says: The Rev
William O'Neill, of Shane's Castle, county
Antrim is to be created peer of the United
Kingdom by the title of Baron O'Neill.
ARMAGH-The lord lieutenant has ap
pointed William Dobbin, Esq, of Gardiner
Place, Dublin, to the clerkship of the Grown
for the county of Armagh, in the room o.
Leonard Dobbin, Esq, resigned.
The name of James Weir, late OF Kline
goe, in the county of Armagh, laborer, has
appeared in the insolvent list.
George Gray, Esq, of Glen Anne Mills
Market Hill, county Armagh, has been ap-
pointed to the commission of the peace fol
that county.
DoNEGAL.-A new Catholic church was
recently dedicated at a place called Drima
rome, in the parish of Inver, of which Very
Rev. Dean Feely is pastor, by the Most Rev
Dr. McGettigan. A glimpse of the new
building is had from the high road, which
leads from Donegal to Glenties, a few mile
after the traveller has passed the parish cha
pei at Frosses. The erection of this new
church under the shadows of Bin Bane (tht
white peak fourteen hundred and ninet,
f feet,) will supply great want in this re
mote district. where large population, ex
clusively Catholic, some five hundred fami
. lies, since the days of persecution, wer
obliged to worship in the open air, exposed
to the cold, rain, and storm, with the blu
vault of heaven above them.
Solomon Darcus, Esq, of Gardenmore
, Larne, county Antrim, has been appointed
to the commission of the peace for the coun
f ty Donegal.
r The first of a new spring fair was held il
a Balla on the 9Th ultimO. There was a yer.
n large supply of superior cattle, in excellen
5 condition, exhibited, but the buyers wer
VNboynoS opd John Nal1y ha,