The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-27

Ireland, ana become one OF Cno &re8t
trade highwaysof the world. He believes
the solution Of the Irish Question is that
the land wants draining which is purely
q question of labor. Cut this canal, he
remarks, and drain the bogs-which the
canal would 60 long way towards do
inp-and Ireland will be country Of
enormous wealth. Sir Edward has
found the plan of tunneling the irish
Sea, via the Isle OF Man, impracticable
on technical grounds; but he thinks the
tunnel between Scotland and ireland
quite feasible at the cost of elO,OOO,0O0
KERRY.
The Lord Lieutenant committed the
sentence on the Rev. George Griffith, the
Protestant minister, who was sentenced
to death at the Munster winter assizes
for the murder of his mother, to penal
servitude for life.
Negotiations have been going on tor
some time past about handball con-
test for the championship OF the world,
between John Lawlor, the American
champion, and Jim Fitzgerald, of Tralee,
the present holder of the Irish cham
pionship. The brakeman has received
q letter from the American champion
(who is also an Irishman) proposing
terms which most people will be inclined
to admit leaves little room for objection
on the part of Fitzgerald or his hackers,
Z: nd no doubt an acceptance of them will
be the answer.
LIMERICK
Most Rev. DR.. O'Dwyer delivered q
discourse of great Importance at the
Laurelhill convent, Limerick, on Decem-
Der 18th, the subject dealt with being
the question of education under the In
t. rmediate System. The bishop pointed
out the fact that only twenty five per
cent of the children of the city were rre-
scented at these intermediate examina.
tions, and to these the energies of the
teachers are devoted, to the great detri'
ment of the other seventy five per cent
who are allowed TO shift for themselves.
This is grave blot on the system, and
the tendency is undoubtedly increasing
in that direction year after year. Bishop
O'Dwyer suggests an inspection OF each
school, SO that Every child may be put
through course of education properly
He also holds that religious knowledge
ought to form: great and important
part in the course in which the children
should be examined.
MAYO.
Mr.. P. j. Kelly, county coroner, held
an inquest on December 28th, at Kenna-
doohy, in the parish of Kllgeever, on the
body of married woman, aged 5,named
Rose Davitt, who on the 26th ult. was
found drowned in pool Of water not
far from her own house. The jury re.
turned verdict to the effect that de-
ceased committed suicide by drowning
herself in a pool of water at Kennadoo'
hey, on the morning of the Goth Decem
Der, 1893, while laboring under an attack
of temporary insanity, no blame attach.
ing to any person.
MONAGHAN.
On December 21st, the ceremony OF
religious profession took place at the
Ursuline convent, Thurles, when Miss
Mary Rafferty,, in religion Sister Mary
John, eldest daughter of Patrick Raffer'
ty, Esq, J. P, of Monaghan, made he1
solemn vows. The Most Rev. DR.. Croke
of Cashel, received the vows
Of the religious, assisted by the convent
Rev. Father Power, and large
number Of. the clergy of the diocese Of
Clogher and Cashel.
RO5COMMON.
In the court of Queens Bench divi.
sion, Dublin, on Dec. 26, before Justice
Mr.. M. Med. Bodkin, NJ. p, ap.
piled for an order empowering Mr.Jamee
Murphy, Imperial German Consul fol
Ireland, to take the evidence on oath OF
the captain and crew of the German
barque Standard, at present on voyage
from New York to Dublin, on charge
pending in the German criminal court at
Bremen, against an Italian named Ugo
of having, on the Oath Sep
tember last, on board the Standard,
stabbed and killed james Egan, q native
Of Boyle, county Rosoommon. The YES.
sci was at the time on voysge to New
York, and on her arrival there Gualte-
rotti was given in charge to the German
consul, whence he was transferred to the
custody of the authorities in Germany,
The court made the order applied for.
WATERFORD.
We regret to have to record the death
of Mrs. Debbyn, widow Of the late Mr..
T.. Dobbyn, Y. s., which occurred, after
4 lanpthanad illness at her residence.