The Irish standard., 1896-04-18

4 ters) received 40 votes to 20 recorded for
Mr. Moran. Mr. Creagh was according
ly declared elected.
At the same meeting of the board it
was decided, by 56 votes to "a, to increase
the salary of the clerk, Mr. NJ OConnell,
by ESQ per 'annum.
II At the polling for NJ. P. for East Kerry
Fabout 5000 votes were recorded, which
was considered fairly large poll.
i KILKENNY.
The Royal Irish Society of Antiquaries
was announced to hold its second general
meeting for the present year in the Town
Hall, Kilkenny, on Tuesday, April z The
s Rev Canon Hewson, of Gowran, and a
local committee had arranged an excel
lent series of excursions. On the first
DAY the members of the society were to-
visit lnistiogue and New Ross The fa-
nous Abbey of Dunbrody would be Wis
tied Oh the second day, and a paper read
on It by the Rev ]. f. NJ French, MI ri
|. A. This noble Cistercan house was
founded on the banks of the Barrow. by
lsHervey de Montemorisco, uncle of
Strongbow, marshal of Henry Hi, and
seneschal Of all the lands acquired by
I the Earl OF Pembroke in Ireland 'and he
became the first abbot of it himself I" and
lnere ended his days at the age of rs.
Cionmines, with its unique castle church
was also to be visited on the second day.
The third day would be occupied in visit
4 ing the many places of historic and anti
quarian interest about New Ross.
i KINGS COUNTY.
Mr. Thomas Mitchell. seasonal crown
solicitor for Kings County, has been no.
tined by the attorney-ge that the
crown viii not proceed in the cases Of the
three evicted tenants, James Harrington.
81, Michael Cornally, and Patrick Duff
fey. who were returned for trial ait Fer
pane petty sessions on March 12,$ Oh d
charge OF taking forcible possession of
the holdings from which they had been
evicted on the Lemonaghan estate of
Mr. Samuel Alexander, Killester Abebv,
Artane, County Dublin. The men have
since been in Tullamore jail awaiting
triaI, al APPLICATION to admit them to bail
being refused by the magistrates at petty
sessions, as their families continued to
occupy the evicted dwellings, and the de-
PENDANTS refused to give guarantee that
they would relinquish possession. They
, were TO have been tried at the quarter
sessions for the district. and the action
!, OF the executive in declining to prosecute
ls regarded as significant of the dropping
J of the case against them.
treat excitement was caused in Tulla-
more on March ~ through an escape of
man named Thorpe from the custody
OF the police. He had been sentenced to
a weeks Imprisonment for drunkenness
and was conveyed by rail from Clara To
pe lodged in Tullanlore JAIL Owing to
/ the day being observed as a holiday. a
J large number of people had come to Tul-
| iamore from neighboring districts, and
10 M ,-v.srr =
{ siderable crowd of passengers on the
: platform. Thorpe in company with two
| ether prisoners, was being escorted to the
jail, when he managed to elude the police
) and escape through the crowd. A Wig
orouS search was at once instituted. but
no trace OF the missing prisoner could be
found. Mounted eonstables were at
once dispatched to warn adjoining police
stations, and the country was secured
during the night in every direction; but
: SO far no tidings of the fugitive have
: come to hand
KILDARE.
Il On the night of March 21, word reached
ii the constabulary at Mas that a serious
assault had been committed at a place
: called Curryhills, about five miles from
Mas. 1t appears that man named
: Stackpool resided with his wife in the
5 place, and that on the evening in Ques-
!, tlon the latter gave some food to her
4 niece, girl of the name of Muldo0n. Her
} husband, it is alleged, became incensed
1 with her for so doing, and demonstrated
She replied that the food was her own
: and she could do what she liked with it
Wnereupon her husband, it is alleged, as
saulted her. The woman ran into an ad-
Ell joining house, and as her life was consid-
l cred in danger, her dispositions were TAX
1i en- before Mr. e. Sweetnan, and Stack
pool was arrested and remanded
At the Kildare assizes John Byrne
!, pleaded guilty and Francis Lamb was
: found guilty, of having burglariously en-.
tered the shop of Robt. Francis Jackson
of Athy. on the night of the 26th of DC.
s. tober last, and stolen therefrom a guam
tity of goods and money They were
both sentenced to 18 months imprison.
ment, with hard labor.
LIMERICK.
Q On March 20, Mr. John Mayne Collins
register in Lunacy. sat IN the city Grant
. Jury Room, Cork Courthouse, and held al
: inquiry before jury, as to whether Ed
ward Joynt aged "a, husband Of Mrs
Joynt, Cappa House Askeaton, was Of IN.
. sound mind. The inquiry was held in re-
. SBulSC " d pCtllUu pI0SSuJGu III LuG lzCIJ
Chancellor, on behalf of Ellen Joynt anG
!, John Joynt, both Of Cappa House, Askea
: ton. which. after reeiting certain acts done
! by the alleged lunatic Edward Joynt asket
= :, that an order should be made to have al
inquiry held as to the soundness or unsonut
: ness of the mind Of the said Edward Joynt
= and his capacity or incapacity to rnanagt
: his person or property, they asked to have
: it declared accordingly, and to have ap
& pointed a suitable person or suitable person
to be committee of the person and for
! tune of the said respondent, and to have
: such inquiries directed and proceeding
! taken as might be deemed fit under the cir
!, cumstances After hearing the evidence o
: witnesses as to the acts of Mf Joynt, fo
( some twenty years past, a verdict was re
5 turned that he was of unsound mind, AMI
! not fit to have charge Of his property The
:. announcement Of the committee in the cas-,
was deferred
: The Official Gazette" publishes notice o
!, the revocation of a gun license held by ]
: Pierce Evans of Clonoulty County Liner
I lex.
I LEITRIM
y AT Creevalea Smelling Works, prepara
y tions are being pushed rapidly forward Il
! renew the smelling of iron in the blast fur
+ naces there, which have lain idle for severa
2 years. Seventy men are already employed
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