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the total advances amounting to e8,752;
and twenty-four on that Of r. G. A.
Beatty, 10 the County Wexford, the
total advance amounting to e1A, 42S.
The terms are fifteen years. rental on
the poor law valuation.
LOUTH
Dundalk has increased 10 per cent II
lts population during the past decade.
A serious accident happened to a
young lad named Kane, employed in
the Boyne weaving mills, Drogheda,
on July 7th. His left hand got acct
dentally caught ia one of the wheels
and was 80 severely crushed before the
machinery was stopped, that three Of
his fingers had to be amputated.
MAYO.
The improvements in the Ballina
Cathedral which are being proceeded
with by MIR, John Mulligan, contractor,
Swinford, from designs by MIR. Beirne,
architect, Dublin, will consist Of side
chapels. marble affairs and two sacris-
ties. The side chapel windows are to
be of stained glass. eighteen feet by
eight. the chancel window, which over
looks the high altar, is also Of stained
glass. The steps, risers and predella OF
the affairs will be one and a quarter OF
Sicilian marble. The sacristies, one for
the bishop, the other for the priests,
will be fitted for the latest laboratory
improvements. The interior wal]ing is
to be chiselled in limestone. The I'M
provements when finished will be a
worthy monument to the zeal OF the
respected and venerated Bishop OF
Killala.
MEATH.
On July 18th, an inquest was held in
Drogheda workhouse by the Meath
County coroner, on the remains of a
girl named Brady on the North Road.
Her mother left her in the no use while
away at work for Mr.. Finegan in one of
his fields. On her return she found her
badly burned, her clothes having caught
fire. DR.. Kelly was in immediate at
tendance, and did all that was then
possible to relieve the sufferer, who was
taken to hospital, but the case was
from the first hopeless.
ROsCOMMON.
Mr.. John Thompson Smith. the quon-
dam editor of the Boyle Gazette, has
been sent to Sligo prison in default OF
paying $50 costs in the libel action
brought against him by Mr.. Jasper
Tully. Since he was arrested, judg-
ment has been marked again st him for
$500,
SLIGO.
The Sligo asslzes were opened on
July 4 before Chief Baron Palles and
Justice Andrews The former presided
in the Crown court and the latter in the
Record court. The grand jury having
been sworn, the chief baron con-
graduated them on the peaceful ondi-
ton Of their county as evidenced by
the fact that there were only two. bills
to 20 before them, and these not OF a
serious nature. being simply the result
of public house brawls.
TIPPERARY.
A rumor of wife murder at Bally-
macarbery, near Clonmei turns out to
be wholly groundIess. Mr.. and Mrs.
Kelliher (the husband ana wife in
question: we're known to the police to
be in the habit of quarrelllng with each
other recently. The woman died sud
denly Oh July 95b, and the police ar
rested tho husband. The affair was
investigated by the authorities, and an
inquest held, with the result that a
verdict Of death from heart disease was
discharged
Thomas j. S. HARRISON, son Of the
late john HARRISON, Esq.,, Of Cookstown,
has been sworn in Solicitor Of the
Supreme Court of Judicature in Ire
land. Mr.. HARRISON served his ap-
premiership to Mr.. HARRISON, solicitor,
Magherafelt. He intends practicing in
| COokstOwn.
WATERFORD.
At Waterford, on July 10th, Justice
Gibson entered the courthouse, at Wat
erford, ACCOMPANIED by Capt, Carew,
County High Sheriff. W. j. Denneby,
Esq J. T., Clerk Of the Crown, read
the Commissi IN. The grand jury hav-
ing been re-sworn, Judge Gibson con-
graduated them on the fact that there
were only five cases, of no public i'm
portance, for trial at the asslzes, and
none of them were of such character as
to require any notice from him,