The Irish standard., 1898-10-08

ing was specially called for the appoint
ment of a storekeeper, the salary being
i7O year, rising by G5 a year to
$50 with rations, etc., calculated at 500
year. There were twelve candidates
but four were disqualifi,A on account Of
age. The final voting was between Ber-
nard Kelly, of Ballinasloe, and Denis ].
Ryan, of Mulliagh, who tied at six votes
each. Most Rev. DR.. Healy and Col.
Commyn declining to vote. The chair
man finally said they should advertise
again.
KERRY.
At the last meeting of the Killarney
town commissioners, a resolution was
passed to communicate with Lord Ken
mare, asking him on what terms he
would give the commissioners site for
forty laborers' cottages.
KINGS COUNTY.
Three nuns of the Order of St. John of
God. viz: Sister Visitation (Keating),
Sister Baptist Ryan). and Sister Ursella
(Hogan). accompanied by the Rev. Moth
er and Rev. John Kinsella, P. P, arrived
in Edenderry, on Sept. Is, from Wexford,
to take up their abode in the workhouse,
to look after the spiritual and temporal
needs of the poor inmates. These sisters
have had considerable experience as
nurses, having been in Wexford and New
Ross hospitals. The esteem they are
held in was amply testified by the large
number of people who assembled at the
railway station to greet them and bid
| them welcome to Edenderry.
LElTRIM.
At the teachers examination. recently
held at Castelar, Mrs. Il. Rogan, prin
cipal of Drumkeeran Female National
school. secured the blue ribbon OF her
profession by taking first division Of first
class (A) after scoring most creditable
percentage on the subjects all round.
LIMERICK.
The recent spell of fine weather nas
done world of good in enabling farmers
throughout the County Limerick to Sc
cure that portion Of the harvest which
had been delayed from one cause or an
other. The crops. scarcely without an
exception, are in splendid condition and
promise Il yield more fruitful than any
that has marked the harvest prospects
for a number of years back.
I4OUTH.
One of the Oldest inhabitants of Dun
dali and one much respected by all who
know him, passed away on Sept. 49, in
the person Of Wr. B. McKevett, clerk of
have been. by shis own account. some
where in the VICINITY OF 90 years of age,
yet was lakeland active to the last, and
about his duties the day before he died.
He was printer by trade, and worked
on many Il papeI long dead and forgotten
such as the ''.Louth Free Press" the
''Louth and Down Pilot the "Patriot,'
etc, as we'll as their more vigorous sue
cessor, the Democrat, in its early years
under the tate k1r Cartan. AS clerk of
St. Patricks 7the deceased was widely
known andtTsspected for the last twenty
years 30
i I..iMEATH.
On the evening of Sept. 10, MIR. Etawca
Garnett, formerly owner of considerable
landed property in the neighborhood OF
Kells, died suddenly within short dis
lance of Williamstown House. where lie
had lived in his days Of affluence. Mr..
Garnett, who had been on visit to
Kells, drove out to Williamstown on the
! nj oil NV
Joseph Trevor Lowry, solicitor. Arriv-
ed at Williamstown Mr.. Lawry went into
the fields to have Il shot at some snipe.
Mr.. Garnett. while waiting for him drove
along the road and meeting a man named
Daniel Kingsley, who. in more prosper
GUS times, had been his trusted servant,
stopped for a brief chat. After a few
moments conversation Mr. Garnett took
suddenly i'll. Kingsley and a herder
named Donohue, who happened to be
near. lifted the unfortunate gentleman
out of the trap, and made efforts to re-
vive him. DR.. T. +. Sparrow was soon
on the scene. and pronounced life extinct.
death being due to heart disease.
MAYO.
On Sept. Is, in the convent at Foxford
Mrs Frances Wall, in religion Sister
Mary Stanislaus Kostka, died after
protracted illness, borne with SANITY ma
thence. Deceased was in the 55th wear
of her age, and in the thirty-fifth of her
religious life The greatest evidences Of
sorrow were manifested in and around
FoNford and all the business houses were
closed
SLIGO.
On Sunday. Sept 4, grand demon
stration in commemoration of the CEN
tenary of '9S took place outside the town
of Collooney, on the scene of the historic
battlefield Of Carrignaga; 1t is no ex-
aggeration to, say that, apart from the
commemorative displays in Dublin and
Belfast. the most remarkable exhibition
of National feeling shown in any part of
the country Yas that which was witness
cd at Carlignagatt The scene of the bat
tlefcld, in Which, Bartholomew feeling
was one of the leading figures, is stu
ated between Collooney and Ballysodare.