The Irish standard., 1889-02-23
ANTRIM.


On Sunday evening. January q, a
very successful meeting OF the Cushen-
dali County Antrim) Branch OF the
League Of 81. Patrick was held in the
Cushendall Catholic Church. Long be-
fore the hour appointed for the meeting
the church was filed to its utmost Ca
pacitY, for it had been announced at
the different Masses that Father Mark
McCashin, the distinguished and elo-
Quent parish priest OF Glenravel, would
preach Oh the occasion. The League
of st. Patrick has its headquarters in
st. Patrick's College, Maynooth, where
it was founded OH the Feast of the Irn-
maculate Conception in the year 1856.
CLAIRE.
Fully two hundred members attended
a meeting Of the branch held at Bally-
nacallv at knockboy Hill on the 9th
ult. Mr.. E. Murphy, chairman Of the
Kildysart Board of Guardians, was un-
animously moved to the chair. The re-
enrolment or members was proceeded
with. Such were the numbers and SO
eager the voting for first places on the
list, that this good work alone occupied
nearly an hour. The election Of officers
and committeeman was then also pro-
ceeded with and resulted as follows
viz, Messrs. &. Murphy. 2. l.. G., M.
p. Kelly, and a. Mccarthy. were re-
elected unanimously to the offices re-
spectively occupied by ,thsm-yiz.,
chairman of committee, non. sec. aud
treasurer. Ihe following were elected
to the comnaittee--viz. Messrs J. Hehir,
z. Moroney, j, Cusack, P. l.. G., II.
O'Grady, James Tuohy, Thomas Sex
ton Patrick AlcMahon, d. Roche, j.
Clohessy. t. Roman, j. O'Nein, and u.
Clancy.
COCK.
The l1ev. Mr.. MCCARTHY. Y F.. was
put on trial under tho Crimes Act. at
Clonakllty, county Cork, on Thursday,
the Slst ult. There was serious riot
ing in the evening, in the course Of
which number OF police and civilians
were wounded. DR.. Bennett had
dressed the wounds of number OF 90
3icemen and civilians. The latter were
suffering from bayonet and truncheon
wounds, and the constables from injur-
les caused by stones. Father Sheehy,
of Courmacsherry, received truncheon
wound in the eye. Tbs number OF
civilians wounded was very large.
Father Mccarthy was sentenced to four
months Imprisonment. Notice of ap-
peal was given.
The thirty second half-yeariys meet
ing of the Cork Licensed Winters Asso.
citation was held on Tuesday, the Goth
ult., at the Imperial Hotel. The report
referred to the proposed Sunday and
early Saturday closing legislation last
Autumn, thanked the members Of Par
lament who advocated their rights. and
urged the necessity of dillgent organ
ization to resist further coercive meas
ures against the trade. Tho report was
unanimously adopted.
DUBLIN.
The amateur theatricals on Monday
evening, January ~. were an eminent
success. The hall in which the per-
Torrance took place was crowded to its
utmost limits by a most appreciative
&nd fashionable audience, which must !
have included not less than thousand |
persons. The exhausting part Of Mac |
beth was excellently sustained by MIR.
James Gafney The part Of Bahquo
was gracefully borne by Mr. Purcell
O'Gorman Lalor, who moved and spoke
with the ease Of an accomplished actor.
while the utmost justice was done by
Mr.. Andrew Dillon Carberry to the
part of the gallant and faithful Macduff.
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