The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-09
Irish News.

Mr.. William Phayre, magistrate OF the
city OF Limerick, and also member OF the
CORPORATION and Board of Guardians, died
lately.
The employees of Tait's factory in Liner
ick resumed work at the reduced rate of
pay. sd instead of Cd being now paid for
finishing each infantry tunic.
While number of laborers were at work
under the railway embankment near Sandy
Cove, County Dublin, slip suddenly oc-
Cured, and three men were buried IN
heap of clay and stone. One man was ex-
tricated dead and two others seriously in
jured
In consequence of report that National
Schoul-teaChcrs to succeed the Christian
Brothers, we're being brought from Dublin
| by the night mail the people OF Mallow
seized the Christian Brothers Schools and
refused to give up possession to Archdea-
con o Regan.
| Henry Woodhouse Wallace, wine and
spirit merchant, Newry, County Armagh,
died very suddenly at his residence, Cairn-
hill. He left his office in town about eight
o'clock, and had only been home about two
hours when he expired. 1t is believed that
death resulted from heart disease
A Young man named Thomas FOlan was
collecting seaweed at Inver, in Galway Bay,
and caught a small rock fish amongst the
weeds lie put its head between his teeth
to kill it, holding it by the tail. The fish
slipped into his throat, so thoroughly chok-
ing him that he died instantaneously.
A correspondent says; Fifty emigrants,
male and female, left Belfast by the Liver.
pool steamers, en- route for the United
States. They were chiefly of the agricul
. tural class and mostly came from County
Tyrone. This is the first noticeable de
parture of emigrants for the present season
The interesting ceremony of the recep
ton of nun took place in the Convent o
Mercy, Nenagh, County Tipperary, thu
Young lady being Miss Loughrey, onl,
daughter Of Thomas Loughrey, Control OF
, ficer Curragh Camp, and sister to Mr.. Pat
: rick J. Loughrey, Castle street, Nenagh.
A cat dropped through skylght into
! china shop on the Grand Parade, in Cork
l and in his endeavor to get out smashed u
' considerable chinaware. The assistant caI
) tured it, but the animal imbedded he
teeth so deeply and determinedly in hi
e hand that it was found necessary to pu
d her off by main force.
u Two men in the employment of th
. Shannon Fishing Company, while attemp
ing to capture some poachers in the Tlve
= near Limerick, had their boat deliberatel
upset by the poachers, who then rowe
away, leaving the men in the water to shi
for themselves. The two men had a
almost miraculous escape from drowning
The trial took place in Dublin of Micha'
! Tiernan for the murder of Mary Sweene
o at Gray, on the 21st of January last Ev
n dence was given showing that on the evel
,f ing previous to the murder the prisont
n and the deceased quarreled, the former ;
the time being under the influence of drinl
% He was found guilty OF manslaughter an
got fifteen years penal servitude.
At the Cork Farmers Club Mr.. D. ]. R
ordan spoke at length concerning the sta
Of the county. 1t was his opinion that Il
d rents at present demanded were far in e
le cess of what they ought to be. He all
complained that the Irish members of Pa
ID lament did not take part in the Parli
"a mentary debate on the application for {
,e abolition of the law of distress for rent
Scotland.
re James Callaghan, of Hill Grove Ian
e. Cork, while going along Shandon sire
Il with bottle OF oil in his hand, jostlt
al against man named John Short. i
Or apoIogized, but Short, who was drum
e. t. rev him down OIL the sidewalk, and II
,r bottle breaking a portion of it cut his a
It. domen so severely that he died short tin
OF afterwards Sholt was arrested and place
in confinement.
al At the Worlds End, Kinsale, sea mo
q, ter was captured by getting entangled
"a . the mackerel nets belonging to the be
" 'Gance Of Howth," engaged in the mac
., ., ereI fishery here. Its whole length Is abo
co co twenty-six feet, girth thirteen, and its he
~. IL, six feet long 1t has four fms, the two larg
~ being each six by two feet, and the t'
g smaller two feet square. Its tail is two ft
-, long and seven feet broad, and its weight
,.o about six tons.
mt The following accidents occurred recent
a in Cork: A woman named Margaret Jol
,is of Kryl street, broke her left leg by fall
Ior down the stairs of her house. A m
M named Loghlen Martin, employed at
timber yard of Deavcs Brothers, was tel
ing circular saw, and when putting il
wo piece Of wood it reb0unded and struck Il
lily in the abdomen, causing severe internal
iuries that necessitated his detention in