The Irish standard., 1893-10-28


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n al2 while passing through the town,
and the people cheering, q pretty consid-
cradle crowd soon collected Mr.. O'Brien
and his friends did not tarry in Yougha],
but left by the afternoon mail train for
Dublin.
DERRY.
The annual collection in aid of the
Christian Brothers Schools in Derry
took place after the different Masses in
st. Eugene's Cathedral and Long Tower,
on Sunday, September Oath. The
amount realized preached the sum of 9230
A number of the contributors belonged
to other denominations. The sum is q
fairly substantial one, having regard to
the Catholic population and other CIR
cumstances; but of course it is poor re-
Enumeration for the services of the Broth
ers in the work of teaching the poor
children of the city free in the real
sense of the world.
DUBLIN.
At the quarterly meeting of the coun-
Gil of the National Federation, in Dub.
lin, on September 26th, resolutions we're
passed deploring the death of the late
Mr.. P. F. Dunn, thanking the Irish party
for their constant attendance during the
past session of parliament, and regret
ting the action of the Lord Chancellor in
not appointing Nationalist magistrates.
KERRY.
On the 10Th of September, child
1amed Ellen Sullivan, aged four years.
vas picking shell fish on the strand near
Derrymore, with number of other chill
1ren, while her father, Patrick Sullivan,
vas working in a garden close by A
heavy shower of rain fell, and the chill
lren ran to their respective homes. The
..ather, thinking his little daughter had
zone with the others, did not leave the
,arden until he broke off work IN the
evening, and returned home, when, to
lis horror he found that there was no
race of the child. A search was at once
made, but the little thing was nowhere
20 be seen. and it was concluded she had
oeen caught and washed out to sea by
che tide A couple of days later, her
body was washed ashore at Kilgobbin,
about three miles from the spot whore
the children were on the strand at play.
KILKENNY.
At the usual monthly petty sessions in
Boris, on Sept. 9th, case of alleged
highway robbery was heard, which was
alleged to have occurred on the public
road between Graigue and Boris, on
the 18th of August last, the victim being
q returned Australian named Laurence
Sharkey. while the accused was young
man named John r yam, in the employ
ment of Mr.. Alexander, of Ballytiglea,
at whose house Sharkey was stopping
shortly before the time Of the alleged
robbery. On the evidence 1t appeared
that Sharkey had been in Boris on the
day in question, and got drunk, and that
Ryan brought him home to his sister in
an ass-cart, and also gave her Sharkey's
watch, and a sum Of money which he
had in his pockets. AS a return, Sharkey
accused him of robbing and beating him.
The magistrates, after few seconds
decided to refuse intor-
nations, and Ryan was discharged.
At the Tullamore petty sessions, on
23rd, two young men Of the
farming class named Matthew Haughran
and Thomas Walshe, residing at Balllna-
metre, near Tull ignore, were charged
with having maliciously injured bridge,
the property of the trustees of the Fer
bane Drainage Board, by saving through
the supporting cross beams at Kilbridge,
OF the night of the Both August The
sentenced them to two
months imprisonment each, in Tulla-
more Jail, with hard labor
LEITRIM.
1t has been suggested that there should
be memorial to the late Surgeon Major
Parke, the Irish-American explorer. OF
all the brave men who shared Stanley's
none was more beloved than
DR.. Parke, whose modesty enhanced his
strength, and whose gentleness illumin-
ated his courage.
MAYO.
We regret to announce the death, on
September Oath, of Mary, the beloved
wife of Mr.. Thomas Sweeney, merchant,
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