The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-04-23

Like angels ever come,
II | close my eyes and ponder
On the old. old homo.
ANTRIM.
Tho Belafts National Federation has
been not merely most generous in sub
scribing, but most judicious in dis
tributing the fund raised there, for the
relief of the suffering peasants, whom
the failure Of the potato crop has
brought to tho brink, and in many
cases over the brink, of famine
Checks for twenty guineas each have
been forwarded to the Most Rev. DR..
MacEvilly, Archbishop Of Tuam; the
Most Rev DR.. ODonnel, bishop of
RaEhoe; the Rev. Francis McDermott,
G. c.. Spiddal, and Mr.. William O'Brien,
all Of when have sent grateful letters
Of acknowledgment to the Federation.
Mr. William O'Brien writes to say that
the grant has been satisfactorily en-
pended in the purchase of seed potatoes.
all the more valuable as, "for some
hitherto unexplained reason the West
port Union. in Mayo, with one exception
the most distressed in Ireland, has been
omitted from the grants Of seed pota-
toes made by the gentlemen in Dublin
who have the administration OF the
Manchester Relief Fund"
ARMAGH.
On the night of March Goth, terrible
fatality occurred On the line Of tho
Great Northern railway. at short dis
tance from Armagh, by which a man
named John Houston, who was chi
ployed as {; packer in the service of the
company, lost his life, 1t appears THAI
the unfortunate man. who resided at
IyIoss, at Il short distance FROM the
railway line. had been in town, and is
believed to nave been proceeding home,
when he was run over by the goods
train from Belfast to Cavan, which left
Armagh railway station about . o'clock
His body. frightfully mangled, was
found ON the line Deceased had been
for about eight years.
CORK
A Middleton correspondent writes:
An extraordinary occurrence is report
ed from tho Ballymacoda district A
young lrshman, named James Gieeson
a native OF Ballymacoda, has written
ron fn hi rloft
that he has been imprisoned by the
Russian authorities, as he had not his
credentials to show the circumstances,
or for what reason he was travelling in
Russia. His certificate Of birth as an
lrishman. and other documents testify
ing to his good reputation have been
forwarded to the British consulate at
Warsaw in his behalf, and tho matter
Capt. Donean. NJ P, with view of OK
pedtng the release of the imprisoned
exile"
CLARE
On March Roth, two young men of
tho farming class, named Martin and
Michael Burke. cousins, living at Drn,-
inure I<ilmaley, about five miles from
Ennis. were arrested on a charge of fir
ing at farmer named Michael Ley(lcn,
belonging to the same locality. The
prisoners were brought into Ennis, ANA
charged before Mr.. A. Newton Brady. R.
NJ. when Leyden made Il deposition in
which he said that. on the previous
evening, about o'clock as he was re-
turning home from a neighborins
house. shot was fired at him from be-
hind, and a moment afterward a second
shot was fired. Neither struck him. He
saw two men running away, one OF
whom he suspected" to be the prisoner
Martin Burke. On the application Of
Mr.. Kelly, d. l.. the accused were re-
manded to Limerick Jail. without bail,
for q week.
DUBLIN
Tho Dublin Mansion House Fund"
for tho relief of the distress in the west
and south of Ireland. up to April End,
| amounted to over three thousand
pounds. The board of directors of the
Bank of Ireland, at their last meeting,
subscribed one hundred pounds to the
fund.
1t is pleasing to find that the health
OF the city of Dublin is returning to a
more satisfactory condition than has
recently existed. The death-rate for the
last week Of March was ESQ, as against
34.6 the previous week. and against an