The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-02-25

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dermanship- Cream. So; and Oakshott,
81. For the cillorships 0 B, len,
so; O'DonnelL, 70; O'Sullivan, s.; Ole
burne, 50. Alderman O'Brien declared
Mr.. Cream elected Alderman, and Messrs.
O'Brien and O'Donnell elected Council
lors. An objection was made to the pink
papers, and next day recount pur-
ported to take place, when the same
gentlemen were declared elected but by
different majorities. The Chief Justice
said that the Court would set aside the
elections and order that new election
should be held, but they would give no
costs.
DOWN.
Owing to the recent increase in the
goods traffic rates on the Great Northern
Railway Company of Ireland, the mer-
chants of Newry have decided to have all
goods coming from Dublin and Belfast
brought by steamers; and with this view
steamer, the Robert Burns, Captain
Barry, belonging to the Newry Salt
works Company, has been chartered to
run fortnightly between Dublin and
Newry. 1t is estimated that the cost OF
thus transmitting freight will be less by
one-haf than that charged by the rail-
way company. It is the intention of
the Newry merchants, also, if the railway
rates are not lowered, to run steam
lighters from Newry to Portadown. The
Dublin agent is NJ. j. O'Meara, Sir John
Rogerson's quay.
DUBLIN.
On Saturday night, Jan. 21st, a mel
anoholy occurrence took place in the
Church of st. Peters, Phibsborough. A
young woman named Mary Caffrey en-
tered the confessional Of the Rev. Father
Jones, and was seen by the Rev. gentle
man to suddenly fall back. He immedi-
ately had the woman conveyed to the
Mater Misericordi@ Hospital, where on
examination by the resident physician, 1T
was found that life was extinct. The
deceased had died of heart disease.
KILKENNY.
Some remarkable decisions in land
cases were made, recently, by Judge
Bewley, in Kilkenny. The decisions
chiefly illustrate the desire of the land
lords TO squeeze their tenants out of the
Land Courts, and the facility with which
certain clauses of the Land Act lend
themselves to that purpose. It has been
decided that no holding can have fair
rent fixed on it if a certain portion, how
ever small (if it be appreoiab]e), is in
cluded in the exemptions to the Act.
The cases in Kilkenny all justified this
hideous legal juggle. They we're dis
missed, though it was confessed that the
holdings in the main were entitled to
the Act. The most remarkable of these
cases was one in which it was decided
that there was no right to fix fair rent
on holding strictly agricultural because
q right to some rates and tolls arose from
the possession of the holding. The
Land Act would still be better for little
judicious tinkering.
LIMERICK.
Mr.. William Leahy, Seasonal Crown
Solicitor, has been appointed Grown Soil
citor for the county and city of Limerick
in room of Mr.. William Roche, who re.
Gently resigned after a heightened SER
vice. The appointment OF Mr.. Leshy is
in accordance with recent arrangement
of the Government, amalgamating, in
case of vacancy, the Crown Solicitor
ship with the Office of Seasonal Crown
Solicitor.
LOUTH.
An adjourned meeting of Drogheda
merchants was held in the Mayoralty
House, Drogheda, on January Mth, to
consider the question of the increased
railway rates. The High Sheriff, Mr..
Butterfly, presided. After considerable
discussion as to the way the increased
rates would affect the merchants, and
The injury of local Industries, deputa-
lion, consisting of the right Hon. Thomas
the High Sheriff, Mr.. William
P. Cairns, Alderman Kennedy, and other
gentlemen representing the various in
;erests in the town, was appointed to
wait on Mr.. Robertson at an early date.
MAYO.
In the midst of all the distress, the alb
,entee landlords-the bloodsuckers of
he country-have inaugurated their
of eviction. Mr.. Frank
)'Donel, of Castlebar, agent over the
Kilasser tenantry, obtained at Swinford
lecrees for ejectment against a large
number OF tenants up to over e10O. The
Kilasser tenantry are heavily rack
general rental being from
"a to 96; and their holdings are
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