The Irish standard., 1888-12-22
La TIE I IRISH N E;WS.
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ARMAGH.
The anniversary Office and solemn
High Mass for the late Most Rev. Dl
McGettigan was celebrated on Thurs
day, November q, in the Cathedral
Armagh. The subscristion list toward
the memorial to the late Primate, in
augurated Oh the occasion of hi
months memory, was closed on the 9tl
Of December.
CORK.
On Saturday, November "a, it wa
reported that Mr. J. A. Jago, Of Aug.
Aadown, county Cork, had been free
1T on the previous night, buta telegram
afterwards contradicted the rumor.
The Rev. D. K. Harringt ton, Of Gas
fletown Bere, county Cork, who was
ordained at the Irish College, Paris,
last June, left home on Thursday, 21st
att, for the diocese of Rallarat, Aus
jraiia. Father Harrington. intends to
remain at the Antipodes for a short
Term of years until a vacancy occurs in
lis native diocese.
AT a meeting OF the Tallicare branch
II the Irish National League, held on
ths 25th ult., Rev. Father Hennessy
presiding, great sympathy was ex-
DRESSED on behalf Of the Langford ton
zbtry, who are now struggling for the
right to live in their holdings in face Of
bhe bigcted and tyrannjcal temper ex-
aibited toward them by Bully Boyd and
Bully Langford after years Of depres-
sion, the meeting rendering unto them
Ill the sYmpathies and pecuniary aid
u their power.
Cork Nationalists will learn with re-
Hret of the death at Tralee OF MIR. Jere.
sniah Dunno, who for years was ali &C.
i've and devoted worker in the Nation
81 cause in the southern capital. MIR.
Dunno, whe has died in the prime of
life, had daring and adventurous part
N many of the most stirring episodes
Of the National struggle in Cork, and
his memory will not be allowed TO pass
without recording shat to the last no
preserved a soldiers devotion to the
cause of Ireland.
DONEGAL.
The standing dispute between
5he Marquis of CoDyngham and his
Glenties tenantry has at last been set
led. Ab0vt lively months ago the
tenants demanded Il reasonable reduc
sion in their rents. This was refused,
and tenants adopted tine Plan of Cam
Dalgn. Immediately afterwards eject
pent processes and writs wers served
on The tenants, and at the last Glenties
Petty Sessions a number of warrants
Cor possession were granted. Notwith- |
standing this, the tenants held out for
the!r original demand December the
new|y-appoi,lted agent, MIR. Hammond,
attended at the rent office here and al
lowed the reduction, wip1ng out all /
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the eyicted tenants.
DUBLIN.
Tho number of eviction notices filed
IN equity Courts in Ireland under the
eviction made easy clause of the act of
last year during tho quarter ended Sep
TENDER seth, 1888, is 3;l6S. There were
also ia notices filed in the Queens
Bench Division in Dublin and 20 in the
Division, making an aggre-
gate Of 3.3l1.
e. case has just been decided in Dub.
lii before Mr.. Justice Johnson aud a
jury, which shows that the
Plan is the only means by which an
anscrupulous landlord can be brought
to his senses. The landlord in the case
was Mrs Margaret Butler, Of Dublin,
md the tenant Miss Jane Murphy, of
Macroom. Miss Murphy holds farm
1t Sleaveen at rent of e44 los, the
poorlaw valuation being G19. More
han twelve months ago Miss Murphy
demanded an abatement In the rent.
It was refused point blank; not Earth
ng reduction would be given. The
enant's only resource. therefore. was
he Plan OF Campaign, which she adopt
ID at once. She has since fought the
inch by inch from court to
court, and succeeded on Tuesday, the
Eth ult., in dismissing an ejectment on
title in Dublin brought by Mrs. Butler
Igainst her on the title on foot of a
|heriH s assignment.
KILKENNY.
An old man named Patrick Delany
vas murdered in his own house, near
st!ecomer, November 81. The crime.
which was the result of a family dis
,ute, was committed in the townland
# Adra, near the village Of Castlecom
II. II appears that Delany, who was
'ver eighty years OF age, lived with his I.
iece and her husband, man named