The Irish standard., 1892-09-17

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was prosecuted by the police. Mr.. Harper
delivered Judgment, and sentenced MIC
Inerney and Morrissey to fourteen days
each, with hard labor; Clohessy until the
rising of the court, and then to be bound
to the peace, the others were discharged.
The Castle officials have originated SINH
lar prosecutions against the Nationalist
for defending themselves against Red
mondites on the same day at Crea and
Guilty Cross. When the prisoners We're
removed to the bridewell they were az
companied by large crowd who cheered
them through the town.
CORK.
At the last meeting of the Queenstown
Town Commissioners, a resolution was
passed calling on the members of Parlia-
ment interested in the matter to press
the government TO give to the Great
Southern and Western Railway the
grant Of $4,000 for the carriage of the
mails 80 as to secure the retention OF the
American mail to Queenstown and the
great Southern and Western Railway.
DOWN. ...s
On August 10Th, couple Of Orange
bands proceeded up Castle hill, the
Catholic quarter of Clifford. Some roughs
who followed 1.-The s'band commenced
e-throwing. Upward, of ten win
dowa were broken, and the inhabitants
Of the place were kept in state of ter
ror. One young lad named Magee re-
ceived blow Of stone on the head
| which inflicted a wound of about
couple of inches, Iwhile in another house
baby upon itsamother's knee was cut
badly on theaface from flying glass car
ried upwards by the force of an Orange
missile.
DUBLIN.
A meeting in support Of amnesty for
the Irish political ssprisoners was held IN
the Phoenix Park,s Dublin, on Aug. l4th.
It was largely attended and presided
over by Mr.. Pierce Mahoney, ex-M. P.
The meeting was addressed by Mr.. John
Redmond, M. P; Mr.. Harrington, NJ p,
and others. Resolutions were passed
protesting against the "evasive and un-
satisfactory manner" in which Mr.. Glad
stone dealt with the question of amnesty,
and stating that the time had arrived for
the formation of great Amnesty Asso-
citation. The afternoon proved most un-
pleasant, for rain fell heavily, save for q
short interval whilst the meeting was in
progress.
FERMANAGH.
The outgoing Tory Lord Chancellor
has appointed HMr. Hugh Barton, of
Clonelly, to the Commission of the Peace
for Fermanagh; Mr.. Edward Lindsay
Moore, Of Moore Lodge, Kilkeel, for
Down; Sir William Miller, M. D., Derry,
for Donegal and Major General Alex. G.
Stewart, of Roxhill, Letterkenny, for
Donegal.
GALWAY. -.@
| The news of the defeat of the Coer
zionist Tory Government, and the down
fall of Balfourism, was received in Gran
more with the most unbounded delight.
The houses, without exception, were illu-
minated, and bonfires we're kept burning
during the night.
A farmer named Michael Dillane was
set upon by gang of men, on the night
of August Is, at Bally bonnion, and was
beaten SO severely that he died of his in
juries on the 18th. The reason assigned
for the attack is that Dillanes brother
had taken an evicted farm. Dillane
himself was an unmarried man of about
IS or 40 years of age, and manager OF a
farm of his own at Kiltean, where for the
protection of his brother police hut had
been erected some months past. The
police effected several arrests in connec-
tion with the attack. The first arrested
was man named Woulfe, shopkeeper
at Kiltean; and the second was a man
named Corridan. Four others are in GUS
tody.
KILDARE.
Mr.. Thomas Oxford, vice-C Chairman Of
the Athy Board of Guardians, at the last
meeting of the board, called attention to
the very defective state Of the registry,
stating that names were on the voters
lists of persons who have been dead
these ten years past:
KILKENNY.
The question of closing the Kilkenny
Jail has been brought before several
members of the Irish Party, by Mr.. T. b.
Ourran, M. p, for the city, and it Is i'm
mediately to make representations to
the authorities, so that while the build
ing is being put into a proper state of
sanitation the city may not lose by the
closing of the prison.