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The Irish standard., 1895-12-14
SLIGO.

On November Is The nominations to
fill vacancies created in the Sligo NUM-
cipal Council by the retirement by rota'
ton OF six of it's members took place in
the town clerks Office. In the North
ward the two retiring councillors.
Messrs. f.. Pettigrew and j. Graham, and
III the E,ast ward, Messrs. 7. Connolly
and @. Dolan, the outgoing councillors,
were reelected without opposition. The
only contest was in the West ward,
where Messrs. Seaman and Macarthur,
the outgoing members, offered them
selves FOR reelection, and Mr.. P. y.
White was also nominated by the Ma
tionalists.
We regret to announce the death Of
Mrs. Martin Seaman, Of Bunninadden,
which sad event occurred On November
t. Deceased was q. member of an old
and respected family. Her kindly. ge~
NAL nature and charitable disposition
had made for her hosts of friends, which
was amply demonstrated by the i'm
mense concourse which attended at the
intermen1 in Cloonomeehan Abbey.
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Etcod lord and has 1t come TO this?
Are sill the lands'iiies dumped
Upon us in 6. cataclys1n,
Or have We been mugWun1red?
Our eager eyes sweep round and round
The wide horizon S scope,
Eut not a. ray of light appears
no cheer us with it's hope.
The heavens are hung with black today
Our record is a wreck,
The Grand Old Commonwealth, gadzooks
Has got it in the neck.
peep in the earth scraping sound
Is heard to rip and rave,
And we'll we know Old Hickory
Is turning in his grave.
The grand traditions of our past,
The !ong continuous line
: OF Deurocra tic regnancv
Now with the woodbine Irvine.
The n1udsills we have sat upon
And fed with crust and bone
Have risen Unexpectedly
n And grabbed the Bourbon throne.
They've got the sceptre in their hands
The Blue Grass robes they wear,
While on our ruins we must sit
And paw the empty air.
Ths Peavjne and the Pennyrile.
The Teelbrush and the rest,
Laugh as to scorn and jeering say
r. .sCome off! Pull down your vest!''
we. We, the natural rulers who
Are 10 the purple born!
4 Alas, alas, that we should live
This triumph to adorn.
Republican Kentucky! What
I'D Miscegellati on's here.
EOf words no man has ever heard,
Or thought could be brought near.
/; No human eye can pierce the veil,
81 NO. human tongue can tell,
why with past 50 glorious,
f5 Kentucky slipped and fell ell
This much alone we know and this
May keep our hearts warm: 58Sg 4 81 -
&,.6sod moves III "a myste rious way ss
q His wonders e. lerfsor7 2: '.
The Irish standard., 1895-12-14
TYRONE

At the last May Petty Sessions, the cases
arising out Of the riots on October 5, were
heard. The following defendants were
charged with riot and assaulting the po-
lice: Samuel Hill, John Nils, John Lewis,
Unionists: John Casey. John Mackle, and
Andrew Mellon Nationalist. The ma
iorty Of te magistrates returned The de
PENDANTS for trial to Dungannon Quarter
Sessions, but admitted them to bail, them
selves in f10, and two sure:ties of Is each.
The Great Northern Railway Company
are at present engaged in having 4 new
siding made at the old engine house, uea;
Dungannen. for tbs delivery Of goods at
that place from the Gorge Galleries and
the surrounding districts. The company
will run Light railway to the place for
the expectation Of their coal.
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TETT'RtM.

Manorh'ami1ton is q rapidly rising town,
and many new buildings have been
erected there during the past few years,
III addition to the houses Of Mr.. BaediIl
ART; Mr.. Duncan, Mr.. Joseph Keany has
built four oon2lnodious houses on the road
from the hotel to the railway station.
They have bee1t completed in capital style
by Mr. r. Sweeney, builder and contrac-
tor, Characterization.
Captain MacTernan attended III Drum
keera., On November II, for The purpose
of collecting the rent on his estate, and
showed, by giving substantial reductions,
that he is disposed to uphold the friendly
relations which have hitherto existed be-
tween himself and his tenants.
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MONAGHAN.

On the evening Of Monday, Novembe,
II, an old woman named Lizzie Beattis
who some days previously had Iaceratec
her throat with a razor, died at he1
house at Drumlina. The deceased was
in wretched condition before she made
the attempt at her life. 1t is generally
supposed that her mind was affected
She lived alone.
MIR. Thomas Smith, j. P, Ballybay
died few days ago. His funeral was
very largely attended by every class and
creed.
On November Il the Governors Of the
County Monaghan Infrmary handed
over possession Of the old building tc
DR.. Taylor, resident medical superin-
tendent of the Monaghan and Cavan dis
trict Lun attic Asylum, who received it
on behalf Of the Governors Of the latter
institution. The work at the new III
Urinary is progressing satisfactorily.
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ROSCOMMON.

The bishop and clergy of ElpIin have
contributed the munificent suua OF G1SO
toward the Maynooth Centenary Memo
riel fund.
The Knocknahur and Cartronbrewery
tenants on the estate Of Mr.. Alex Creigh-
ton, J. F., Rilgarry House, Be]tra, have
been granted Il reduction Of Is. sd. in
the pound on the judicial rents,
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ONGFORD.

In Edgeworthstown, on Saturday, No
vember 8, an inquest was held by Dr.
Gray, of Drumlish, coroner for South
Lcngford, into the circumstances at
tending the death of Catherine Court
ney, daughter Of Michael Courtney, OF
Church street, Edgeworthstown, who, 1t
is alleged, was attacked and severely
kicked by her father on the night OF
November 4. After hearing the evidence
of the mother of the deceased girl, that
deceased had given birth to- a child on
the previous Wednesday. and that she
had had a scuf11e with her father, and
had fallen down stairs, Courtney was
held for examination before the Petty
Sessions Court. ...
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A Decided Advantage to the California
Traveller

Is the new through tourist car service
inaugurated by the Northern Pacific
railroad, Shasta route, between the East
and California points, via Portland, Ore.
These cars leave st. Paul and Nfinneapo-
lis every Wednesday afternoon via the
Northern Pacific overland arriving at
Sacramento and San Francisco the follow
ing Monday morning. Berth rate only Sc.
For reservation apply to G.. F.. McNeill,
ticket agent Northern Pacific railroad, 10
Nieollet House block Minneapolis
The Irish standard., 1895-12-14
TIppERARY

Ia, two men named John Hayes, Of Ne
nagh, and John Ryan Of Knockahoppal
a remote country district. were charged
on remand with having seriously assaulted
Sergeant John Carroll, Of Kilboy station,
when en- duty at the last fair Of Nenagh.
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wEsrMEAru

On November IL, special meeting Of
the Athlone Town Commissioners was
held, when the Y took over from the con-
tractor, MIR. Robert Smith. the new water
works erected for the town, at cost Of
10000.
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CAVAN.
CARLOW.

The venerable Bishop Of Kildare ana
Leighlir, Most Rev. Dr., Lynch, officiateG
in Tullaw Church, on Sunday, November
10, al the ordination Of the Rev. John
James to the priesthood. The newly or
iainad priest, who is the elder son of Mr..
Daniel James, late Of Gayville, Carlow,
made his ecclesiastical course in St. Pat
rick's College, Carlow, Father James
has been appointed C.. C. In Mountmel-
lick, in succession to the late lau1ented
Rev. Joseph O'Neill.
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CORK.

On Saturday, November 9, en- extraor-
binary state of affairs developed in the
Office of the Cork Herald, the friends OF
Mr. Healy having captured the paper,
which had previously been thoroughly
national, with leaning to the Mccarthy
side Of the existing contention. Mr. AT
kins, one Of the Board of Directors Of the
paper, had ordered an editorial il favor
of Mr.. Healy to be published, he furnish
ing the headings OF the article. The edi-
tor refused to write or publish the article
without the order of the Board Of Direc-
tors, as it's tenor was contrary to the pre-
yicus course lof the paper. Mr.. Atkins.
however, took charge Of the office, and
the Healy editorial appeared in the next
issue of the Herald The editor at once
resig ned. and the two directors who rep
resent the Mccarthy interest have pub
lished a protest, and their designations Of
their positions on the Board OF Directors
on the ground that this action was con-
I trary TO the course Of the paper and
agalnst the wIishes and interests Of the
The Irish standard., 1895-12-14
CLARE,

A dispatch from Kildysart, dated No
vember Is, reports that a boat i'll which
two men named Walsh and Morris were
seen proceeding toward an outlying isl
and. two hours before nightfall, had bees!
driven ashore, bottom upward at Cocga
and both men are missing.
On the night Of Sunday, November TO-
a storm of great violence passed over
West Clare A Norwegian vesse! put into
the Shannon and came to anchor in the
Kilrush roadstead. She proved to be the
bark Prudlaoe, Captain Guereldsen, bound
for I'ralee, with deals. The master re-
ported that on October 26 last, when off
the banks Of Newfoundland, he picked ny
fifteen men Of the British ship Flora
which was on Il voyage from Miriamiclli
to Swansea with a cargo Of timber. The
crew had been compelled to abandon the
vessel, as she had got waterlogged.
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WICKLOW

The Winter Assizes for I4einster will be
held in Wicklow this year. They will be
opened on Tuesday, December 8, at IL
o'clock, by Mr.. Justice Johnson.
The Irish standard., 1895-12-14

After a Mission.

S4a After q Mission.
4 our God has thousands of temples!
q some are simple of plan, some are grand
with tracery and fretwork Of beauty,
5y Some lowly ones seem but to stand
To shelter the Christ and the homeless.
Others lift to the wondering eye
Ihe glor1es of vaults and of spires
That reach, so 1t seems, to the sky.
But they all, in the eyes Of the Master,
Are of equal great beauty and worth
The sarne light glows close to the altar,
#$ Though of ornaments there may be
dearth. ,s
And dear to our God are these temples;
BY their beauty His power is Increased.
would you know where to look for these
temples?
Each one is the heart of priest.
.t C. S., in Catholic Times.
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WATERFORD.

-l tWAIEHFIEtD.
At last reports, the Dungarvan road was
still completely blocked with the massive
boulders Of fallen Billboy Rock, and traffic
was entirely suspended. A number Of men
employed by Mr.. Dufin, County Surveyor,
to clear away the debris, had struck work,
their application for IS per day being re-
fused. A special ferry from the bridge to
the railway station had been started.
On November a special court was held
in the County Courthouse, Waterford, for
the purpose of arriving at a verdict in
respect to- what compensation should be
allowed tenants whose lands have been
compulsorily taken by the Governors OF
the Waterford Lunatic Asylum for the ex-
tension of the institution. The following
awords were made: Mr.. Hennessy, $3.50;
Robert Ryan, ESQ, with reduction Of
f7 los In annual rent; John Power, f400;
Rev. j. N. Shearman, f45O; Mr.. Christie
Millar aud Rev. Mr.. Sherman, ESQ and
ESQ respectively, in respect of the depriva-
ton of a passage at Bulls lane.
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TER1fANAEH

On the night Of Nove1n her remark
able occurrence took place near Llsna~
| skea John I4unrey aged IS years, VINO
had been ail;ng for some time, died aoout
6 i1>eA,ck. aIk, his wife, who had been i'll
for a few DAYS died about II o'clock the
snrne might.
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IOIITH,

The Rev. Mother Evangelist, OF tha
Convent of Mercy, Ardee, died ON FRIDAY
evening, November s, after short ILL
ness. The deceased lady was the first
Rev. Mother OF the .Ardee Convent. when
a branch OF the order was formed there
some thirty-six years ago, and had con-
tinued Snperioress until few years ago.
For some years she has been in delicate
health, but no serious symptoms oc-
Cured until a few weeks since. The Or
flee and Requiem Mass were celebrated
on November H. and the interment took
place Immediately afterward.
MAYO
MI. Fergus Kilkelly, Of Ballinrobe, has
purchased the valuable freehold prem
Uses Of the late Mrs. Ralph, in Market
street. Ballinrobe, for $3.50.
AT Islandmore, Clew Bay, on Noyem-
Der /, five youths. brothers and cousins
named Kelly, from five to sixteen years
ole. were out fishing, when their boat
which must have been old and bad, went
down suddenly under them, and all were
drowned.
Meetings of the prominent National
lists of Clarlestown and Bushfeld were
held on November 10, in connection with
the movement to present from his con-
stituents marriage present to Mr.. John
Dillon, M. P. Rev. "a Keveney. P. P,
presided at Bushfield, and Rev. John
Mcdonnell, c.. c., at Charlestown. Res
olutions indorsing the action of the Bal
laghadereen branch OF the Federation
were unanimously passed, and arrange
ments were made to give the proposal &
practical form.
We regret to announce the death, on
November J., at Glenisland, OF Mr..
Thomas Geraghty, at an advanced age.
Deceased was much esteemed and re-
spected, and during a long industrious
Life bore an upright and unsullied char
acter. His remains were inferred in
Glenisland Cemetery, and the funeral
was large and respectable.
The Irish standard., 1895-12-14
GALWAY.

The Connaught Winter Assizes will
open in Galway. on, Tuesday, December ),
before Justice Andrews.
In the village Of Ballinamuddagh. two
miles from Aughrira and five from Bal
!inasioe. about noon on November 5, two
lite girls were pulling turnips in a field
when suddenly their eyes were dazzlsd by
a. brilliant flash OF lightning followed by
a loud clap Of thunder. They imnedl-
a.ely betcok themselves to the shelter OF
a sod ditch, when Immediately they were
again. startled by O. still greater flash Of
Lightning, which tore through the ditch,
making matchWoed OF the roots of an ash
tree that grew on the ditch, about. four
feet from them. Close to the ditch, on a
pasture field. was. large sheep cock Of
hay, built aroulld a long pole. The light
ming struck this pole and se.pgle and hay
on fire. AZ number ssM men were q kong
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Hayes was sentenced to Blk months frn-
prisonment, and Ryan ito; -four. g.
At sRoscrea Petty Sessions, November II,
the Excise authorities had prosecutions
against number Of farmers belonging
to the surrounding country districts for
carrying guns without being licensed.
Fines of e. los were imposed in almost
every instance.
The Irish standard., 1895-12-14
KILDARE.


On November IL the Athy bench of
magistrates were engaged in Investigating
a series of charges Of robbery which had
been partly disposed Of on the previous
court day. From the evidence it would
appear that Mr.. T. r. Jackson, merchant
of Leinster street, had been missing from
his establishment money, hardware, art
cles OF clothing, boots, etc. He and his
assistants watched for considerable
length of time, but failed to discover the
robbers. AT length they adopted the ex-
pedient Of watching from an opposite
house, and after a few nights they saw
the figures Of men entering the shop They
gave the alarm, and the police found in
the shop man named james Fitzpatrick,
who until recently YVES the proprietor of
a public house and the occupier OF
couple of farms. He stated that two men
named JAS. Bryne, and Francis Lambe
had been with him. Bryne was subse-
quently arrested III his house, but Lan1be
got away, and has not since been made
amenalde. Fitzpatrick and Bryne were
returned for trial at the Winter Assizas
Meanwhile publican named Michael Ma
lone, i'm whose house Fitzpatrick lived, an0
a yardman named Pat Clear were arrested
on the charge of having stolen property
in their possession. Some boots and other
articles found in Malone's house were
identified by Mr.. Jackson as his property.
The defendants were returned for trial.
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TILE IRISH sTANDARD:T SATURDAY.. DECEMBER IL

time engaged i'm quenching the fire. It
was found that only three feet Of the pole
remained sticking out of the ground, and
that charred and split up, while large
crack was observed in the ground under
where the sheep-cock. had been There
were two heifers lying close to the cock
and these were killed. At some little dis
lance from the sheep-cock the ground
was plowed up for distance Of five yards
The death is announced Of Mr.. Francis
Ccurell at his residence, Tuam, on the
10Th ult The deceased, who was father
of Mr.. Thomas Courell, of Ballina, filled
for many years the position of foreman
of the Tuam News
KERRY.
On the evening of October II, an ex-
citing disturbance took place in High
street, KILLARNEY. An alteration had
taken place between soldier named
Hayes, a private in the Royal Munster
Eus!leers, on furlough, and John Price, a
tailor, and former acquaintance Of his,
The parties got into row in High street.
and when the police attempted to arrest
them they assaulted the officers. Next day
Price was sentenced to nine months i'm
prisonment, with hard labor, and Hayes
to six months with hard labor, by the
magistrate.
A meeting is about to be held in Liste-
wei in support Of the construction Of the
proposed railway to Tarbert. The project is
one Of considerable local Importance. Its
construction would bring Glengariffe and
Killarney within easy access of Come
mara and the west generally, and it would
in this way be a most important factor
in developing the tourist traffic in the
summer months. The line would be of
paramount importance to Kilkee and Lis
doonvarna while it's benefits to the large
tract OF North Kerry and West limerick
(still undeveloped} would be considerable.
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Business accounts Solicited,
The Irish standard., 1895-12-14
Republican k.entuck Y.

Coco lord. and has 1t come TO this?
Are sill the lands!!ties dumped
Upon us in q. cataclysrn,
Or have We been mugWumEed?
The record-union., 1895-12-23
UP TO DATE.

The Record Union" commences this
morning the publication of regular
eight-page daily edition instead of the
six-page form. This enlargement is
due to increased facilities, such as the
new type-setting machines and other
improvements lately introduced. This
is the first step in the policy which the
Record Union" has adopted to give to
its patrons all the benefit arising from the
use of machinery in composition. Other
improvements in the paper will follow
as rapidly as circumstances will per-
nit
The Record Union" now has the most
complete and perfect newspaper plant
in the interior and in its new form will
be an advertising medium even more
attractive than in the past. A glance
at our advertising columns will show
that the great Eastern houses that
make a study Of advertising and know
the exact merits of every medium in
the country make use of it's columns
freely, as well as all the leading busi-
ness houses of this city. With the en-
largement and betterment of the paper
we naturally expect an increase of cir
culation, which will make the paper a
still more desirable medium for adver-
tising.
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idea that lynchers aid the law and that


they are really "chivalric avengers"
There is also to be taken into account
the bloodthirstiness of the mob. The
laws uncertainty, for instance, can not
be pleaded as an excuse for such fiend-
ish outrages as the torturing to death of
a victim at Braden, Texas, not long ago.
The Chicago Times Herald holds that
the reason there are lynchings is be-
cause men, otherwise law-abiding, are
driven frantic by the laws delays, and
the Boston Traveller holds that many
lynchings for assaults upon women are
by law in such cases are not sufficiently
severe. But it does not appear that
lynchings for such crimes have resulted
in even suggestion in law-making
bodies to augment the severity of pun
ishment. If there was such general
and widespread belief that they should
be intensified, how comes it that with
free right to make them capital offenses
they are not so declared in all the States
of the Union?
Lynchers themselves seldom leave rec
ord or other evidence of their motive, in
dicating that they act because OF dis
content with the law. But they very
often give it to be understood that they
have avenged a wrong" have visited
vengeance" upon the victim, and that
they desire to be remembered as stern
hearted champions of retaliation"
South Carolina in her new Constitu-
ton has just made record Of her belief
that no excuse is sufficient for lynching,
and that it neither aids the law nor civ
ilization She has provided in her or
ganic act that there shall be punish
ment by impeachment of the officer who
suffers lynching party to take pris-
oner by violence or strategy. and the
plea that the officer was overpowered
cannot be received. The New Orleans
s-Democrat does not agree that
disgust with the law is so potent mo-
tive with lynchers, but holds that lynch
ings are the result very often of the
pressure of impassioned excitement"
and this is certainly a very charitable
view to take of the matter.
We are warranted. therefore, in the
conclusion that the excuse "the laws
delays" 1.-The uncertainty of the law"
and all that, is oftener than not made
the mask to cover an act of savagery
committed under tense excitement, to
which men thereafter are ashamed
rather than afraid to confess. To
check lynching we are not only to con-
serve celebrity and certainty in the GRIM
inal law, but to cultivate by all means
possible the moral sense, and counteract
by all possible means the modern in
fiuences that tend to inculcate contempt
for restraint, law, order and deliberate
government.
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EXCUSES FOR LYNCHINGS.

The causes for lynching" is again the
topic of debate among the Eastern
press. The burden of expression is that
it is due to and chargeable against the
laws delays; against the weakness of
juries and "the trickery" oflawyers. The
idea is that lynching is a protest
against the slowness of legal methods,
the uncertainty of punishment under
the law, and what it is common to call
the technicalities of the law, but which
are really the safeguards Of the inno-
cent
We are ready to concede that the first
two of these causes are very potent in
lynching. but they are. not alone, nor
are they always prime causes. There is
something else to be considered, and our
advancing civilization" demands that
1t shall not be passed by. The other
causes for the admitted growth of the
lynching disgrace is the expansion Of
the general spirit of lawlessness and
the cultivation Of what may be termed
the avenging sentiment. These ripen
into species Of savagery, sort of blood
thirstiness, until they become in some
sections all but dominant
Civilization does not appear to have
been able as it moved forward to put
Judge Lynch behind it; lynching is no
longer a frontier incident; in some of
the older communities 1t has become
known now as much as in the far West.
It is noteworthy that the most outra
geous of lynchings in the last three
years have taken place in communities
where there was no sufficient reason to
complain of the courts or the processes
of the law Of any kind. 1t is also to be
considered why lynchings are not of the
deterrent influence claimed for them,
since it is true that heinous crimes have
not grown fewer, nor their perpetrators
less bold
II discomfort with the law has been
the chief impelling force to violence,
then we would have witnessed success
ful efforts in securing. and heard louder
expression for the law reforms that are
supposed to be demanded by lynchers.
The simple truth is that lynehings are
on the increase, and that their fire.
quency does not have the awing effect
that it should, If the excuse made for
them had virtue in it, and If 1t is true
that discomfort with the slower and or
derby processes of the law and its mis-
carriages is the direct cause for mob
violence.
A chief cause for the acts of lynchers,
coupled with those already conceded, is,
as we have said, the general growth of
the spirit of lawlessness which is culti-
waited very considerably by that class
of the press which makes it its business
to condemn the courts and misrepre-
sent their procedure. There is also to
be considered the false and dangerous