The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-04-04

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portance. Judge Holmes sat in the
Record Court.
DUBLIN.
A letter from Colonel Saunderson in
the London Times gives useful indica-
tion of the amount of aid the eyicted
tenants would be likely to receive from
the Irish landlords if the National party
had been trapped into acceptance of Mr..
Plunkett's insidious scheme of (professed)
tenant compensation. why" asks Col.
Saunderson, should Irish landlords put
their hands in their pockets to vindicate
Mr. Di1lon's promise to the evicted ten
ants, that. if they would obey him, they
would ultimately be replaced in their
farms, without loss, and with flying col
ors? To this question / cannot conceive
the Irish landlords giving any reply
save this: we are not such IDIOTS 1t
needs only a touch of the Ithuriel wand
of truth and justice to make the serpent
of landlordism that has been strangling
Irish industry reveal itself in all it's nat
ural hideousness.
Mr.. Dillon has obtained promise
from the First Lord of the Admiralty
that there shall be an immediate ap-
pointment Of Catholic chaplains in the
British navy. Mr.. Dillon pointed out
that there is not at present single chap
lain afioat in the entire navy, and he
made a very strong case for nominating
chaplain to the flagship of each squad
ron. At present the Catholics with these
squadrons have no opportunity OF attend
ing mass, or obtaining the ministrations
>q r,,t r1y11n hal n
be in port.
IN the civil, service examinations dur
ing the year 1896 Irish students again
carried off large number of the va
cancies offered for competition. The pu-
pills of 6kerrys Academy dublin and
Corll) obtained $50 successes, including
20 first places.
Drring the first week OF March, the
Dublin cattle market was the despair
OF farmers A more unsatisfactory mar
ket was probab not known for dozen
years. Though the number OF animals
on show was comparatively small, the
prices were most Disappointing: while
sheep were almost unstable. A case was
cited in which a person who bought
sheep last October had to sell them at a
lower figure than he paid for them,
though he had to bear the cost OF feed
ing in the interval. Bullocks, bought at
the last Athy fair, were sold in Dublin
market at price that involved loss Of
e. per head, including expenses of car
riage and feeding.
The ''Independent Irish party in the
house OF commons have at last been rec
ognzed" by the Tory government. Mr..
William H. K. Redmond has been ap-
pointed member of the house, while in
session or acting on committee. Hence
forth, if any of the S'Dillonite" members
should run athwart the house of Master
Willie" he can take a grand revenge on
them by seeing that their steaks and
chops shall be ill-cooked, that their NUT
ton shall be scraggy, their beef OF the
toughest brand, and their coffee as mud
dy as the Thames. 1t must have been
the ghost of Disraeli that inspired this
political move. Modern Salisburyan
Toryism could never have evolved it.
The Dublin Corporation have received
counsel;s opinion as to the legality of the
action of the Lord Mayor in receiving,
at the last Town Council meeting, the
a concession to the Dublin Southern
Tramway Company to make and work,
by horse haulage. tram line from Had
dington road to O'Connell Bridge. The
law agent, Mr.. Bonass, submitted a
case for the opinion of The MacDermot,
G. c., on the subject, and The McDermot
gave it as his opinion that the proceed
ings of the council in the matter were
perfectly regular.
On the morning of March 9 the two
plates .ass windows in Mr.. Armstrong;
boot establishment, No. 20 Parliament
street. Dublin, wer deliberately broken
by a man who was passing by. The dam
age done amounts to about EGO, which
will have to be met by the taxpayers,
under the law relating to wanton dam
age.
The master of the rolls has appointed
MI. Salmon chief clerk to his court, in
room of Mr.. Whitstone, retired. Mr..
Classon Porter of the Northeast Bar, has
been appointed assistant chief clerk to
the Court OF the Master of the Rolls
On March 8 Messrs. Blackwood and
Gordon, engineers and shipbuilders,
launched from their building yard at Port
Glasgow, handsome steel screw steamer
for service in the cross-Channel trade be-
tween Ireland end England, to the order
Of the City of Dublin Steampacket COM
pany for their Dublin and Liverpool trade.
The vessel is built on similar lines to the
fine steamers Louth and Wicklow and
was named the Carlow by Mrs. Bell wife
of Capt. George r. Bell, marine superin-
tendent Of the company at Liverpool, and
was afterwards taken into the builders
wet dock to receive her machinery, which
has also been constructed by the builders.
FERMANAGH.
On March 10 intelligence reached En-
that on that morning a cattle
dealer named Funston was found lying
dead on the roadside near kilkeery,
County Tyrone. The deceased had left
his home, which is situated near Dro-
more, on the previous morning, for r.
vinestown County Fermanagh) fair, APP
parently in the best of health. When re-
turning home that evening he took the
train to Bundoran junction, and proceed
ed to travel the rest of the way on foot.
The place where he was found is only
about mile from Bundoran juction. It
is feared that the deceased was the victim
of foul play.
GALWAY.
Chief Secretary for Ireland Balfour has
declined to receive the deputation ap-
pointed at the recently held meetings in
Birr and Portumna. to lay before him the
claims OF the people living in the towns
fo,.