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two miles from the town Of Killarney.
| Mr. McSweeney was very badly injured
by pistol shot.
KILDARE.
4. The Mass Board Of Guardians have
adopted schedule for the erection OF
i 1865 cottages under the Laborer' Act.
i The total estimate cost Of the scheme
is e12, ,73o.
Athy Town Commissioners una1ll-
mously declared for Irish Independence ne
at their meeting on March l. the only
Conservative present, Mr.. St.John
withdrawing his opposition.
KILKENNY Y.
at the last meeting of the Crane
and Urlingford league it was resolved:
IsaTbat the sum Of 93 be sent to the
! Sexton testimonial fund as a small
token of our esteem for the SURPRISING
abilities and tried patriotism Of Thos.
/ Sexton, M. p, and in appreciation OF
4 the many brilliant services he has rem
dered to Ireland" The secretary was
directed to apply IN due time to the
Central league for the usual grant for
4 Den Keating's eyicted tenants.
I KINGS COUNTY.
The Assize Co mmission for Kings
County. was opened on March
!! i, by Chiet Justice May, who, in adj
dressing the Grand Jury, said he
regretted that there appeared to be an
i increase Of the offence of Tescuing
cattle, sheep, &c, Nevertheless, on the
/ whole he found himself able to congrat-
late them on the state of the county.
| Messrs. Goodbody's tobacco factory,
was destroyed by fire at Tullamore, on
March 18th. The loss Of property is
immense. being estimated as upwards
Of 93O, 900 while the catastrophe will,
in its results, deprive nearly 1000 per-
sons of their daily bread.
LEITRIM.
In fixing rents last month in South
/ Leitrim, the commissioners made an
! average reduction of thirty-seyen per
cent.
/ At the last meeting of the Kiltur-
bride branch Mr.. Thomas Beirne, 7. T..
c., occupied the chair Thirty new
members were enrolled and supplied
with cards. A resolution was unani-
mously passed calling on the people Of
this parish who have cattle to send out
1 to grass this coming summer to send
1 them to the poor tenant farmers il
their own locality.
LIMERICK.
/ The parish priests Of the diocese OF
! Limerick, met on March 3, at Ste Johns
| Cathedral, for the purpose Of nominal
ing a successor to the late DR.. Butler.
/ DR.. Croke, Archbishop Of Cashel, at
| tended to receive the votes, which re-
suited as follows:-Rev. Edward =.
l0lDwyer,S G. c., st. Mlchaels ,20---dignis-
sinus, Dean Hammond, P.P., NeWcas-
tie West, 12-dlgnior; Rev. Joseph
Bourke, r. r., Cratloe, 4--dignus.
LONGFORD.
Mr.. Justice Murphy, opening the as
sizes, said: Gentlemen of the Grand
| Jury Of the county of Longford, there
are only few cases to go before you,
none of them Of any Importance that
would call for an nobservation from me. 2
4 LOUTH.
/ On Feb. %, at CrosstoWn, near Bal
i Ilymakenny, respectable farmer
named Patrick Moore. who was released
from the Richmond lunatic asylum,
about ten days before to which place he
had been sent on a magistrates war
rant, as a dangerous lunatic. He was
found lyingin bed, partly dressed, with
his throat cut from ear to ear, with an
open, blood-stained razor grasped in
his death -stiffened hand An inquest
was held by Dir. Moore, j. F., coroner
for the lower division of Louth, when
a verdict was rendered to the effect
that deceased committed suicide while
| laboring under an attack of insanity.
MAYO.
Sister NJ. Paul, aged 50 years, died
March 2, in the Convent of Mercy,
Castlebar, after long life in the cause
of religion and charity. The deceased
was the youngest daughter of the late
Andrew Blake, of Galway.
The Westport Town Commissioners
have passed a resolution in favor Of
Home RUE, and adopted those passed
/ by the Dublin Corporation.
MEATH.
The Meath Sportsman's Red-coat
Point to Point races, will take place on
| Saturday, April 3.
i MONAGHAN.