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CARLOW.

At the meeting of the Carlow board
of guardians on April 3, the Right Hon.
Henry Bruen in the chair, letter. was
read from Michel Aughney, of Roseat,
Tullow, informing the board that, while
he was on his way to Carlow, on the
18th uit., to lodge to the credit o. the
union a sum of G44 1885,, being amount
of rent collected by him for laborers'
cottages, he was waylaid and robbed of
the full amount on Ills per-
son, and that ne was unable to
make good the amount of which he had
been deprived, he appealed to the
board to grant him time to make good
what he had lost. It was finally re-
solved that without prejudice to his
bond, subject to the sanction of the
local government board, Mr.. Aughney
be allowed six months to pay G44 19s,
half the amount to be paid within three
months.
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DONEGAL.

The government has decided Oh clos
ing no fewer than nine constabu1ary
stations at various points in Donegal. In
about half these cases the furniture of
the establishments has already been
sent to the county headquarters at Let
terkenny, and the landlords have been
given possession of the houses vacated.
The total reduction of the county force
will be IS infantry and two mounted
men and it is estimated that the net
saving to the government will be e4.500
a year.
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CLARE.

A very influential public meeting was
held at the Concert hall, Moore.s hotel,
Kilkee, on April 2, for the purpose of
urging on the government the necessity
of giving free grant to establish boat
and coach connection between Kilrush
and Tarbert (Listowel for Killarney,
and Foynes, for the coming season, the
Kilrush connection and Kildee being al
ready established by the South Glare
railway. Resolutions to that effect were
adopted. Col. Tufnell Cakes said that
he had reason to think that the board
of works would look upon the scheme
in favorable light He thought the
project only needed such an. expression
Of public opinion as was there given
that day to nave it successfully carried
out.
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WICKLOW.

On April LIST, Lieut.. Basil Hall, in
spector of lifeboats, attended at the
boathouse, Arklow, and held an inquiry
into the wreck of the express on the
previous Sunday on the South Arklow
Bank. The inquiry was continued dur
ing the subsequent week, and the result
of it was the appointment of a new
coxswain for the lifeboat, was ordered.
Hugh Kennedy was appointed coxswain
and John Murray second coxswain.
Two new members, to fill the vacancies
caused by the death of George kearon
and Patrick Bo1ger, were ordered; and
on the motion of Mr.. Edward Kearon,
seconded by Mr.. James Doyle, Mr..
Frank Tyrell was appointed a member
of the committee. Mr.. Tailyour pro-
posed that MIR. John Reynolds be ap-
pointed a member of the committee.
Mr.. Edward Kearon seconded the prop
osition, which: was agreed to.
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LIMERICK.

In the year 1880 Mrs. Catherine Power
and family were evicted from their
farm, situate at Old Court, on the prop
erty of Col. Hare, the amount due be-
ing EAT, or about three years rent.
The family at present reside in Ameri-
ca, whittier they emigrated soon after
eviction. For Mrs. Power and family,
and in their interest and with their full
approval, negotiations are in course Of
progress between Mr.. Thomas O'Kelly,
Lisamote, Cher brother) and Messrs. R.
and G. Saunders, Saunders PARK, Charlie
vile, the agents on the property, with
a view to the ultimate purchase of the
holding, on fair and reasonable terms.
or reinstatement at rent fixed by the
land commissioner valuer. Mrs.
Power and family are about to return
from America for the purchase.
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WESTMEATH.

Addressing the grand jury, in opening
the quarter sessions in Mullingar, on
April S, County Court Judge Curran said
there were only three cases to go before
them, and having regard to that, and
also to the report of the constabulary
authorities dealing with the number of
offences committed since the last Quar-
ter sessions, he had great pleasure in
again congratulating them on the peace
full state in which he found the county.
At the previous quarter sessions there
were only two cases, but the three cases
now to go before them were not i'm
portant.
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CAVA,N.

In consequence of an order made by
Judge Ross, meeting of the tenants of
the Lisgar estate was held in Bailieboro'
on April 2, at which a representative of
Messrs. Darlington & Sons, solicitors
for the mortgages, attended. After a
protracted discussion, an agreement was
arrived at, by which the tenants are to
give II years purchase, and, with re-
gard to arrears, to pay one years rent
before May I, and another half years
rent before June 1, and in a few in
stances, the years rent.
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stranger on our shore!

stranger on our shore!
No Tara's hall re-echoes to it's music
as of yore-
No Lawrence fires the Celtic clans
round leagured Athaclee-
No Shannon watts from Limerick's tow
ers their war songs to the seas.
All! magic tongue, that round us wove
it's spells so soft and dear!
All! pleasant tongue, whose murmurs
were as music to the ear!
All! glorious tongue, whose accents
could each Celtic heart enthralN
All! rushing tongue, that sounded like
the swollen torrents fall!
The tongue that in the senate was
lightning flashing bright
Whose echo in the battle was the thun-
der in it's might! ,..-..ss.se-
That tongue, which once in chieftain' 8
hall poured loud the minstrel lay,
AS chieftain, scrf or minstrel old is 81
lent there today! ~'-@'--
That tongue, whose shout dismayed the
foe at Kong and Mullaghmast,
Like those who nobly persisted there, is
numbered with the past!
The Celtic tongue is passing, and we
stand coldly by .-..,-...---
Without a pang within the heart, a tear
within the eye
Without one pulse for freedom stirred
one effort made to save
The language OF our fathers from dark
oblivion's grave!
Oh, Erin, vain your efforts-your pray
ers for freedoms crown,
Whilst offered in the language of the
foe that Glove it down;
Be sure that tyrants ever with an art
from darkness sprung,
Would make the conquered nation
slaves alike in limb and tongue;
Russia's great Car ne'er stood secure
DER Poland's shatter'd frame,
Until he trampled from her heart thu
tongue that bore her name.
Oh, Irishmen, be Irish still! stand fol
the dear old tongue
| Which as ivy to a ruin to your NATIVE
land has chung!
! oh, snatch this relic from the wreck
the only and the last,
And cherish in your heart Of heart
the language of the past!
Rev. M. Mullen.
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o'Brien, Rath: Patrick O'Brien, Barne-
vfddane; Patrick = Doyle, Ballydaniel,
and John Joyce, Mullara. At the same
time the land corporation disposed OF
the large herd Of cattle which they had
grazing on the 'evicted farms, and they
are otherwise making preparations to
sever their connection with the estate
finally.
DR.. Kelly, rector of the Diocesan col
lege, Ennis, has been appointed bishop
OF Ross, in succession to the late Most
Rev. DR.. Fitzgerald. In the voting, at
the meeting of the parish priests of the
diocese, last December, DR.. Kelly was
"dignissimus. The other two names
sent forward On the occasion were those
of Right Rev. Monsignor O'Leary, P p,
Clonakilty, and Very Rev. Canon Muir
ply, p. P, Macroom.
A dispatch states that three Manx
fishermen, named Andrew Spillecorn,
Joseph Hogg and David Simpson, re-
turning by boat to the smack Exquisite
Of Peel, in Kinsale harbor, on the night
of April 8, were upset and drowned.
Another man, named Thomas Kincale,
who was in the same boat, was rescued
by some Belfast fishermen. Why don't
the Manx and Belfast fishermen stay in
their own waters?
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NEWS FROM IRELAND.
ANTRIM.

It is announced that Messrs. Elder,
Dempster & Co., of Liverpool, have
placed an order in the hands Of Messrs.
Harland & Wolff, Belfast, for two more
leviathan steamers for general trade.
Messrs Harland & Wolff, it is stated
here, have also recently received an Or
der from the Dominion line for an
other large steamer When the altera-
lions at the south yard are completed,
every slip on the Queens island will
be occupied, and number of import
ant orders will be proceeded with.
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MONAGHAN.

At meeting of the Monaghan Board
of Guardians, on April 8, Sir John Les
lie presiding, the question Of the remov-
al of Miss Margaret McManus from the
board room at the previous meeting.
came up, when Mr.. Johnston, relieving
officer. placed letter on the desk be-
fore the chairman, in which 1t was an
nounced that the lady was going to
bring claim personally against Mr..
William Murray for $500 damages for
her forcible election from the board
room. The letter was laid on the table,
amid some merriment.
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KILDARE.

At the last Mas quarter sessions, be-
fore Judge Kane, a very peculiar action
came on for hearing. An old man, nam
ed Michel Mooney, 81 years Of age, sued
Lieut.. Lonsdale, of the Second battalion
of the Royal Dublin Fustleers. for .e25
damages for assaults alleged to have
been committed on Feb. and 2, and for
false Imprisonment on the first occasion.
Plaintiffs case was that when walking
along at place called Basin Lane, he
observed couple of dogs preceding a
gentleman in plain clothes. One of the
dogs-a setter-charged at Mooney and
caught him by the shoulder. He warded
off the animals attack, and it was maxi
ing second charge when the military
lieutenant came up, and fourishing a
stick over the plaintiffs head, called on
him to follow him to the police bar
racks. Mooney evinced no desire to COM
ply with Lieut.. Lonsdale's request, and
so the valiant officer knocked the old
man off the footpath and into the gut
ter, demanding if he knew who he was
speaking to- Mooney simply replied that
he didn't know and didn't care, and
Lonsdale turned his back and left him.
Evidence having been given the judge
said that the conduct of either plaintiff
or defendant was not above comment;
but he gave decree for s2, which
~,%,os11
his own action as judge.
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KILKENNY.

The old Kilkenny almshouse, being
without any permanent occupants, the
suggestion was made by the board of
governors that it should be converted
into an archaeological museum, but this
proposition is opposed by the Right Rev.
Bishop Of Ossory,. on the ground that
there is not the slightest Justification
for this diversion Of q property used
for the benefit Of the poor during the
I MT aaeeo salrhseoIp 10
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the pixies were resorted to. The ar
tillery poured steady fire up the hill,,
moving down the columns. Every she'll
that burst was answered by shouts OF
defiance. Hour after hour the battle
ragged. It is said that at the end the
prisoners in the mill were shot, and
after the retreat the British retaliated
by putting non-fighters to death. Before
this there had been a fight at New
Ross. The bridge which connects it
with Kilkenny over the ''goodlie Bar
row" is of great length and Importance,
as it opened the way from the south for
Kilkenny men to pour in. There was
garrison at New Ross, and six-pounders
on the three-bullet gate, yet the insur-
gents poured in and captured the town
twice. Repulsed later in the day, de-
tachment burned the barn of Sculla-
bogue with a number of helpless nris-
oners, in retaliation of the massacres Of
Dunlaven and Carlow.
Ninety thousand troops were now In
Ireland. The insurgents had dealt ire
mendous blows against the regulars,
but they had no firearms; troops were
pouring into Wexford, that was now a
desolaticn. The rebels burned mansions,
and fed into Kildare to join Aylmer
They penetrated into the Louth beyond
the Boyne. At Ballybog hill, near
Swords, they made their last stand and
were scattered by squadron of Dunn
fries dragons. 1t was the 14th of July.
In six weeks they had been a scourge to
England, calling out all the resources
of the empire. Disappointed of reinforce
! ments in Meath, they passed the Boyne
/ near Duleek. At Crawford they were
assailed and were overpowered by ar
tillery. They broke and fed into the
bog. The main body advanced toward
Dublin, where they were overtaken by
!; the dragons within seven miles of the
| capital.
| So closed the memorable year of '?S
! Oh the baffled and dispersed United
Irishmen. Tone died in Killala Jail and
is buried at Bodenstown, where his
| grave is shrine. Father Murphy took
refuge in the village of Tullow, County
Carlow, after the dispersion, with a
faithful friend named Gallagher. They
were soon aDprehended. Gallagher was
dashed and then hanged. In Father
Murphys pockets part of his sacred
vestments were found. He was whipped
with the CATO -nine'tai His head was
cut off, his body stripped and thrown in
to a barrel of burning pitch. The bones
were gathered and buried at the door
of Callaghan, Catholic; the head was
fixed on pole at the door of the chapel.
Nearly all the others died in peace and
honor in France and the United States.
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cart, which was drawn by a young
horse. When about two miles out of
town, the horse took ahead and collided
with ditch on the side of the road,
throwing the occupants of the cart to
the ground. The cart passed over the
unfortunate man and tiled him instan-
taneously. It also passe3 over the wife,
breaking her leg and otherwise severely
injuring her.
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WATERFORD,

The deputation from the Board of the
Waterford, Dungarvan and Lismore
railway, which has been in London for
some time past, has gained it's point.
The board of works has consented to
postpone the threatened foreclosure on
days, and in the meantime it is hoped
that measures may be devised to pre-
vent the foreclosure altogether. 1t is
stated that the Duke of Devonshire has
been to a considerable extent instru-
mental in securing this concession.
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KINGS COUNTY.

At the last Tullamore quarter sessions
before Judge Curran, Lord Dig5y had an
ejectment suit for non-payment of rent
against Martin Kelly, a tenant on his
Geashill estate. The yearly rent is 314
9s, and the amount due was $50 lSs Cd.
arrears accumulated in the time of the
tenants father and only now sued for.
The judge said that if the agent had
given receipt for the last gale when
paid, the arrears would have been ir-
recoverable, being beyond the statute
of limitations, and not really due by the
present tenant. After some discussion
settlement was arrived at.
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Business Personals

Business PERSONALS.
Chris A. Gallagher, counselor at law,
401-4O3 Guaranty Loan Building.
John NJ. Gleason, undertaken and fun
eral director, 255 First avenue south.
J. Mccarthy, we'll contractor. Es-
Inmates furnished on application, 200
Central avenue.
For marble and granite monuments
see r. = Dibb. At Fourth avenue NE.
MCGOWAN & Mah0ney, fire insurance.
real estate, loans. 1875 Central avenue,
telephone 1491.
J. ]. Dissette, builder and contractor,
Office % Fourth street north. Telephone
500.
John J. McFIale and Ace P. Abel, law.
yers. 3O1-3o2 Bank Of Commerce Butld-
ing.
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ARMAGH.

On April 8 the list of the persons quail
flied to vote in the forthcoming munich
pal elections in Armagh were hung out
at the police barracks and market house,
and the crowds which surrounded them
during the day gave evidence of the
great interest taken in the Forthcoming
contests for the election of 18 town COM
missioners.
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KERRY.

KENNY.
A fatal accident occurred on the night
of April Sth, to man named Martin
Lynch, who resided at place called
Doneen about four miles from Cahirci-
veen. The unfortunate man visited the
town during the day, in company with
his wife, and proceeded home about 8.
o'clock Il the evening. Himself and
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The Celtic Tongue.

IT'S fading, oh, it's fading! like leaves
upon the trees!
In the murmuring tone tbs dying, like
the wall upon the breeze!
IT'S swiftly disappearing, as footprints
on the shore
Where the Barrow and the Erne and the
Loeb Swilly's waters roar
Where the parting sunbeam kisses Loeb
Corrib in the west,
And ocean, like a mother, clasps the
Shannon to her breast!
The language of old Erin, of her history
Of her monarchs and her heroes-her
glory and her fame
The sacred shrine where rested, thro'
sunshine and thro' gloom,
The spirit of her martyrs, as their
bodies in the tomb,
The time-wrought shell, where muir
mur'd, mid centuries of wrong,
The secret voice of freedom, in annal
and in song
Is o1OWly, SuACty olAhlA6, AAAIO ohSAS
death at last,
To live but in the memories of those
who love the past.
The olden tongue is sinking like pa
triarch to rest,
Whose youth beheld the Tyrian on our
Irish coast a guest;
Ere the Roman or the Saxon, the Nor
man or the Dane
Had first set foot in Britain, DER tram
pied heaps of slain;
Whose manhood saw the Druid rite at
forest tree and rock
And savage tribes of Britain round the
shrines of Zernebock;
And for generations witnessed all the
glories Of the Gael,
Since our Celtic sires sung war songs
round the sacred fires of Baal;
The tongues that saw it's infancy are
ranked among the dead,
And from their graves have risen those
now spoken in their stead.
The giories of old Erin, with her liberty,
have gone,
Yet their halo linger'd round her, while
the Gaelic speech liv'd on;
For mid the desert of her woe, a monu-
ment more vast
that old tongue of the past!
IT'S leaving, and for ever, the soil that
gave it birth,
Soon-very soon it's moving tones shall
ne'er be heard on earth,
Der the island dimly fading, as Il circle
DER the wave
Receding, as it's people lisp the language
of the slave.
And with it, too, seem fading as sun
set into night
The scattered rays of liberty that lin
gered in it's light,
For ali! tho long, with filfal love, it
chung to motherland,
And Irishmen were Irish still, in Ian
guage, heart and hand;
T. install its Saxon rival, prescribed it
soon became,
And Irishmen are Irish now in nothing
but in name;
The Saxon chain our rights and tongues
alike doth hold in thrall.
Save where amid the Connaught wilds
and hills of Donegal-
And by the shores OF Munster. like the
broad Atlantic blast,
rh1 oldsn languax Is fingers vet and
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ROsCOMMON.

At a meeting Of the Boyle Board Of
Guardians, on April 3. the national
guardians ousted from the Office Of vice
chairman Mr.. Stephen Lawrence, who
represented the landlord and Tory in
terests, and elected as vice chairman
Mr. Clarke, who is in favor of Ireland
having a parliament Of its own. The
majority Of Nationalists present might
have elected Nationalist chairman, II
they had the courage to do SO; but they
adopted Mr.. Owen Phibb's presidency
for another year. Mr.. James LINDSAY
was elected deputy vice chairman.
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MAYO.

The Congress of Districts Board pro-
pose starting Immediately a fortnightly
steamboat service between Belmullet
and Westport, in connection with that
which they have started between West
port and Clifden, calling at the islands
OF the coast. The steamboat has been
chartered By the Laird Line Company,
81, ma e mil salraul IS 4 q E
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must have Very little real respect for
the monuments of the past. Since his
toric Kilkenny abbey was transformed
into a brewery, no greater violation of
the nature and fitness Of things has
been proposed in eye Faire City,
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LOUTH.

At the village of Kilgriffin, some dis
lance from Ardee, woman named
Anne Swell, said to be 103 years of age,
has just passed away. The old lady,
who was such a remarkable case Of
longevity, was familiar figure in the
locality until three or four years ago,
when she was obliged to take to her
bed, owing to the feebleness of old age;
but, strange to say, she was in possess
sion Of all her faculties until the day
of her death. She lived in matched
cabin and had 95r companion neigh
Dor who has nearly completed the al
lotted span OF three score and ten years.
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LEITRIM.

The death of Mr.. Patrick j. Rooney,
late Of Hyde Park, Mass, took place at
the residence of his uncle, Mr.. Felix
Rooney, p. L. g., Faughery, Manorham-
ilton, on April 2. The deceased was Sc
years of age, and has left three children
to mourn his loss; also his brother. Mr..
Tom Rooney, who holds a prominent
position in Brooklyn, N. Y. The de-
ceased, during July, of last year, took
a severe cold, and, feeling his health
failing, and encouraged by bis medical
advisor, he returned to Ireland. Con-
sumption, however, set in, despite the
best medical aid, and he died, fortified
by the rites Of the Catholic church. His
funeral, which was on Sunday, April 4,
was very largely attended. Interment
took place in the family sepulchre at
Kilroosk, and the funeral ceremonies
were performed by the Rev. 8. Meter
nan, p. p, Killasnett.
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CORK.

A number of the few remaining Pom
sonby evicted tenants recently got pos
session Of their holdings from the local
agent Of the Irish Land corporation, Mr..
]. b. Barter, Of Park house. Amongst
them were: William Broderlck Coo
llahs .nsil dbarn;;
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DOWN.

A large and influential meeting Of the
farmers of Down was held on April 4,
at Mayo bridge, for the purpose of TAX
ing into consideration the recent rent
reductions given by the sub-commis-
soiners on some of the local estates. Mr..
P. O'Hare, V. p, occupied the chair.
Resolutions were proposed by Mr.. James
-Loughran, seconded by Mr.. Hugh Fegan
and passed unanimously, declaring that
the reductions recently given by the
sub-commissioners are totally made
quate to meet the requirements of the
farmers and calling on the government
to appoint tribunal to investigate the
working of the land acts.