The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16

small piece of paper, on which the follow
ing was written: Schooner Challenge, o.
Dundalk, foundered on the 11th of Febru
ary, 1879, on South coast of Africa. Fare
well friends We will see each other ne
more until We meet in Heaven. FAREWELL
An Interesting land case has been decided
at Tullamore, County Kings. The claimant
was an old woman, and the respondent wa
her nephe ", peasant proprietor, who hac
purchased farm from the Church Commits
sioners, and at once proceeded TO eject her
She claimed, under the Land Act, as com
pensatiOn for disturbance five years rent Of
the holding, and the County Court Judge
has awarded her the full amount of thi,
claim.
A great county demonstration was held
at kilnaleck, County Cavan, for the pur
pose of giving an opportunity to the county
members and Mr.. Parnell to express them
selves on the questions of Tenant-right
Home Rule, and Education. The chair was
occupied by Father Boylan, p. P. Crosser
Tough. The meeting was attended by about
ten thousand persons. 1t was resolved
THAT the people of Cavan follow the ex
ample of the people of Monaghao, and that
the land of Ireland belong to the people ol
Ireland, and not to few absentee land
grabbers."
TIE schooner Brothers, of Greenock, on
her voyage from Ardrossan, sank in Dun.
dalk Bay, about a mile and a half outside
the lighthouse. having sprung a leak al
night during heavy gale from the north
west. She belonged to Mr.. James Oakes
Harbor Commissioner, coal merchant, oi
Dundalk, who had purchased her few
days before, and had on board cargo oi
220 tons of Goals. The captain and crew
got off in the ships boats. Both the vessel
and cargo were insured There is very
little, if any, chance of recovering either
the hull or cargo.
At meeting of the committee of the
Central Tenants Defense Association, held
at the European Hotel, Bolton street. Dub
lin, for the purpose of considering the con
dition of Irish tenant farmers, the follow.
ing resolution was passed: THAT, owing
to the peculiar construction of our land
laws, which concentrates the power of con.
trolling, and the responsibility of manag
ing the land in the hands of landlords and
as they have invariably resisted every at
tempt to relieve them of this responsibility
and have doggedly insisted upon retaining
this power against our often repeated and
earnest solicitations, we now call upon the
landlords, i'll the face of the world, to per
form their duties and to provide for the
people,"
A firm of diapers in Belfast advertised q
salvage sale of shipwrecked goods at an
enormous reduction in prices. Another
firm followed suit at still greater reduc-
ton. Yet another house, hitherto noted
for high-class goods and prices, hearing OF
what was done by his neighbors, instructed
one of the assistants to sprinkle water over
some goods and advertise SALE But the
young man rebelled, and got his notice
there and then. He went to one of the
partners and told his story. The gentle
man asked him if he would not keep the
matter quiet. lie did so, but the thing
was made public in a startling manner. A
preacher in one of tie Methodist Churches
delivered a sermon on Commercial Moral
ity," and towards the close of his discourse
alluded to the above transaction, and
named the firm in question. One OF the
partners was present, so imagine what en-
sued.