The Irish standard., 1893-01-28
LIMERICK.

after Christmas.
LIMERICK.
On December 22d, Mr.. Henry Purdon
Wilkinson, the nephew of General Nap
per Tandy, died at Friarstown House,
county Limerick, in his seth year. The
late Mr.. Wilkinson's mother, nee Miss
Catherine Tandy.. was sister of Napier
Tandy, whom she visited while in prison,
and whose name is so familiar to every
one who has sung or heard sung ''The
Wearing of the Green" Napier Tandy,
it need hardly be said, was a general in
the French service, and was one of the
glorious galaxy Of Irishmen who are so
closely identified with the Rebellion in
1798 The father of the deceased was
DR.. Wi klnson, an eminent physician,
whom many of the older inhabitants of
Limerick remember as being at the head
of the medical profession in his time.
LONGFORD.
Ou D0C0mDSE AOUll, d S1odu puOl1O
meeting took place at place called
Drumhalry, near Arva, just on the bord-
ers of the county Cavan, and was ad-
dressed by Mr.. P. A. McHugh, ID. P.
Mr. McHugh, who had travelled up to
Longford from Sligo, was met at the
village of Ballinamuck by the Arya Brass
Band and large contingent, which es-
corted him to the place of meeting, tho
proportions of which were enormous.
The hill of Drumhalry looks into three
counties; end as the huge procession:
consisting of solid mass of human be-
ings, fully two miles long, wound it's way
up the hill the sight was most inspirit-
ing. Rev. M. McCabe, G. G., President
of the Dromad (county Loneford) branch
of the National Federation, occupied the
chair.
/ On December 81, DR.. Callan, county
coroner, held an inquest, at Whitestown,
on the body of Catherine Finegan, a
woman of advanced years who had died
suddenly on December 10Th. Catherine
Finegan, daughter of deceased, was ex-
amined and stated in reply to the coro
ner, that the deceased widow, aged "a
years, had been attacked by influenza
about IL months ago, since which time
she had been subject to weakness and
fainting fits, which seized her nearly
every day. On the evening, Of her death,
after returning home from buying loaf
of bread, she was seized, just inside the
threshold of the door, with weakness, and
fell in faint, from which she did not re-
cover, dying Immediately. The jury found
verdict of death from natural causes.
WEXFORD.
On December 81, a report reached Wex-
ford that Miss Taylor, the youngest
daughter Of Mr.. Charles Taylor. solicitor,
Wexford, had been accidentally shot, at
Tullibards, by her brother, Mr.. Louis
Taylor. The latter, it appears, was about
leaving the house on a shooting expedi-
ton, and, when taking down his gun, the
charge went off and struck Miss Taylor
in the head. The first rumor was to the
effect that Miss Taylor had been seriously
injured, but moro recent report was to
the effect that the shot had lodged about
her feet and that the injuries are not of 9
serious nature.
WICKLOW.
On December Goth, in the Court of APP
peals, Dublin, the appeal in the case OF
Howard against Howard was heard be-
fore the Chief Baron, Jr stice Fitzgibbon,
and Justice Barry. It was an appeal
from an order of the Queens Bench di-
vision which had refused with costs) an
application to set aside an order made by
Justice Holmes, on an ex-parte applioa-
ton on behalf Of the plaintiff, for leave
to Join the minor Earl Of Wicklow as de-
PENDANT in an action Of ejectment on the
title to recover possession OF the estates
of the Earl Of Wicklow, situate in the
counties OF Wicklow and Donegal. The
Chief Baron gave the judgment Of the
Court, Diminishing the appeal, with costs,
making, however, q slight variation in
the order Of the Queens Bench, by ex-
Guiding therefrom certain lands which,
siittSappeared, had been sold prior to the
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