The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-07
Irish N ews.

From late Irish Exchanges
James Connolly, Of Darby street, Belfast,
publican and grocer, has become bank
rupt.
A child Of John Griffin in the townland
of Lacken, Parish OF Affane, County Water
ford, died of starvation.
John B. Labarte. formerly Captain in the
Waterford Artillery Militia, committed
suicide by cutting an artery below the
knee.
The Grand Jury of South Tipperary
awarded f10O compensation to the father
OF Edmund Brereton, farmer who was
murdered some time ago.
The death of Sir John MacNeill, the cele-
brated civil engineer, is announced, at a
very advanced age. His name was promi-
nent in the earlier lines of Irish railways.
An old woman named Anastasia Franey
died at Brownsford, County Armagh, on
the 1st of the present month at the unusu-
ally long time of one hundred and ten years.
The Grand Jury of Sligo awarded f1Oo
compensation, under the Peace Preserva-
tion Act, to JAS Cunningham, a sub-agent
on an estate fur the cutting off of a portion
of his left ear.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has with
drawn from his prosecution of the illus
trated Sporting and Dramatic News" for
libel, the defendants publishing an apology
and subscribing to the Mansion House Re-
lief Fund.
At Meath Assizes, at Trim, Margaret
Skein, charged with the atrocious murder
of Emma Boucher, servant, who had sue
ceeced her at Mornington House, near
Drogheda, was found guilty of manslaugh-
ter, and sentenced to penal servitude for
life.
At the Clonmel, County Tipperary,
Assizes Albert Courtney, who had been
Manager of the Provincial Bank at
Clogheen, pleaded guilty to charge of for
gerry, and was sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment The prisoner was II years of
age, and had been fifty years in the service
of the Bank.
The father of the young girl, Margaret
Gates, who was recently murdered near
Queenstown, has become insane. The man
Allen, who has been arrested, was in the
lunatic asylum for some time recently 1t
is stated that he paid marked attention to
the deceased, but that she gave him no en-
couragement.
Abreach of promise case was tried at the
Limerick Assizes. in which the jury award
ed the plaintiff $1,000 damages. The
plaintiff Mary Anne Griott, is daughter OF
Mr.. Griott, of Ballymorris Co. Glare, and
the defendant, Robert Ryan, who is now
married, is son of respectable farmer in
the same locality. The courtship lasted
for sixteen years. There were no letters.
1t appears from the official returns of
emigration from Liverpool during Febru-
ary, which were issued recently, that the
Irish emigration is increasing enormously.
Last month 966 emigrants belonging to Ire
land left the Mersey. of which number 64S
went to the United States. When COM
pared with the corresponding month last
year the above figures are largely in excess,
being over three times as many.
At the Monaghan Assizes farmer named
Davidson, who has lately become insane
and who had murdered his stepfather, was
acquitted on the ground of insanity. Three
men who formed part ofsixty orseventy who
visited number of farmers and warned
them not to pay more than half years
rent, we're found guilty, recommended to
mercv, and, as no violence had been done,
were sen enced by Judge Lawson to twelve
months imprisonment
An outrage is perpetrated on the estate
of Major Vesey in the County of Galway.
A tenant owing rent was obliged to surren-
der part of his farm, forgiven his arrears
and left in possession of another part. Two
tenants were in occupation of the surren-
dered part. consisting of seven acres of
grass land. One night recently about two
hundred men assembled and dug this up so
as to render it useless as pasture, and cut
into the soil with their spades fgnres of
coffins and the words "Rory Of the Hills"
They also posted threatening notices on the
doors of the new tenants.