Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-07-29

Der of cattle in Ireland in the year 1898
was 4, 1856 ,242. being an increase of q 1863
as compared with the number for the
year '97. No outbreak of any contagious
cattle disease mentioned in the diseases
of animals acts occurred during '9s in the
Irish herds. The country has, happily,
been free from contagious pleuro-pneu-
monia for over six years, no outbreak
having taken place since September,
1892.
At the Athlone Borough Court some
thirty or forty members of the Third
Battalion Connaught Rangers, known as
the Boyle militia, were summoned for
drunkenness and riotous behavior on
their arrival in town after being disband-
ed. In accordance with the scale of gravity
in the offences fines and costs were i'm
posed. At special Court of Petty SEES
sions more serious offences were dealt
with, and many members of the same
regiment are at present in Tullamore
Jail for different periods for assaults, etc.
on the same occasion.
At the meeting of the Enniskillen
Rural District Council, Viscount Cory
presiding, the vacancy in the Castlecoole
division was filled by co-option. This
vacancy was caused by the unseating on
June of Thomas Curran through a petit
ton brought by the Hon. Cecil Cory,
who was the first of the defeated candi-
dates in April, and was only beaten then
by FIVE votes. j. NJ. Geddis proposed
and Andrew T. Elliott seconded that
Cecil Cory be co-opted. This was passed
unanimously, and Cory then signed the
declaration and took his seat at the coun-
i Gil.
At the half-yearly general meeting of
the Wolfe Tone and '9S Memorial Asso-
citation held in the Council chamber,
Dublin, the following resolution was
unanimously adopted: "That the Wolfe
Tone and '9S Memorial Association at
this, its half-yearly meeting, desires to
ask for serious consideration of the pro-
ject to inaugurate a Parnell memorial
fund at the present time, as being likely
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Tone memorial fund, and, while disavow-
ing any antagonism to that or any other
such project, respectfully requests the
meeting of citizens summoned by the
Lord Mayor for the 9th inst. to consider
whether postponement of the project be
not advisable"
A meeting of the executive of the
United Irish League was held i'll Clare
morris on Monday, Conor O'Kelly in the
chair. A resolution was adopted saying
that they were glad TO observe that Lord
Sligo and f. T. O'Donel, of Newport,
had accepted the proposal that the land
lords confer with the representatives of
the people with view to the sale of their
estates to the Congested Districts Board,
and requesting the Claremorris and Ball
inrobe District Councils to open negotia-
ton with the landlords in South Mayo,
with a view to getting them to follow the
example of Lord Dillon, Lord Sligo, Lord
Lucan and f. Thomas O'Donel. A reso-
luton of sympathy was passed with Nc
CORY i'll the loss occasioned him by the
death of his mother.
At the meeting of the Fermoy Rural
District Council, P. O'Mahony presiding,
resolution was adopted that four pro-
vincial conventions be held in Ireland
on a day to be hereafter selected; that
each of these conventions consist of the
Chairman of each Rural District Council,
of each Urban District Council and of
each County Council in Ireland, and that
three members of each of the three coun-
ellis, in addition to the Chairman, be
selected to represent the people in the
respective districts and counties from
which they come; that at each provin-
cial convention so constituted the dele
gates discuss the best means of obtaining
unity, and that the Chairman and the
three other selected members of each
provincial convention form a united con-
vention of the Irish race at home and
abroad.
The Belfast Orangemeu do not seem to
be gifted with even an elementary sense
of humor, says a correspondent of the
Dublin Independent. Either that or they
are afflicted with sudden attack of COM
mon sense. Their demonstration July
IL, if it had any meaning at all, was
meant as a defiant display against Belfast
Catholics in particular and Irish Catho-
lies in general. What the Catholics have
ever done to merit this annual outburst
nobody seems to be aware. The Orange
men themselves appear to have forgotten
what the business is all about. The true
blue Orangeman ought to be man who
would give no quarter to Papist. But
what do we find him doing July Poi
all days in the year! He actually favors
the education of Orangemen and Catho-
hes in the same schools He does not
like Catholic university at all. He pre-
fers the Papist's company to his room.
He practically admits that Catholic lad
is good enough company for his own
boy. 1t is quite clear. after this, that no
extra policemen will be required in Bel
fast on July IL few years hence.
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