The Irish standard., 1900-04-28

score Of horses in the stables were
rescued, some with difficulty, amid con-
siderable excitement. Shortly after
midnight the premises were absolutely
Quilted. The damages are heavy.
DUBLIN.
| The mastering of a host of Irish
children, in the Viceregal grounds. by
The promise Of cakes and sandwiches,
to greet Queen Victoria, having re-.
suited rather disastrously, an effort
was made, on the morning of April 4,
to supplement the affair, by "Queen's
Breakfast" given at the Great Bruins
wick street National schools, Dublin.
The attempt (writes correspondent
| was an utter fiasco. About s a. m. a
number of aristocratic ladies put in au
appearance, prepared to cater to the
crowds of expectant juveniles. Not
more than forty children in all put in
an appearance. Several hampers Of
bread, and large cha1drons of tea were
left over untouched; and even those
children that presented themselves
were strangers to the locality. or the
numerous attendants at the evening
school held there, who are drawn from
the very poorest of rather congested
district-not a solitary boy appeared.
The promoters, it is needless to say,
were sadly disappointed.
| GALWAY.
At the meeting of the Guardians of
Galway Union, OH April 4, Mr.. J.
Burke in the chair, Mr.. MacNeill pro-
posed the following resolution, which
was seconded by Mr.. P. Curran, and
carried unanimously:
Resolved, That we, the Board of
Guardians of Galway Union, on this
the centenary week Of the accused
Act of Union, record our emphatic pro-
test against the foul deed that deprived
us of our native parliament, and we de-
clare that neither royal visits, senti-
mental concessions and disguised in
suits, nor the cringing toadyism and
sycophancy of the West British garri-
son in Ireland, can ever induce us to
forego our right to legislative indepen-
dence; and that we shall never be con-
tented till we have returned to us the
inalienable right of making our own
laws in our own parliament
KERRY.
The departure for the seat of war of
the Reservists Of the Kerry Militia,
from Tralee, on April 8, was marked
by some extraordinary scenes The
military authorities had arranged a
''send-off," with all the eclat of mill
tary pomp; but, when the final hour
came, the depot was thronged with
poverty-stricken relatives of the Re-
servists, and their walls and execra-
tons against the government that was
tearing their bread earners from them
drowned the feeble attempts at cheer
ing and martial music, and forcibly re-
called the scenes of the old era of the
famine and determination exodus. The
march Of the recruits, from the bar
racks, through the town, was Of the
most funeral-like description.
Kilkenny.
In Castlecomer, on the night OF
April 3, man named Shea, a coal
carrier from Cloneen, was assaulted,
his assailant, it is alleged, being man
named James Tobin, from Gorteen. 1t
appears that Shea and Tobin had had
some dispute about bag Of hay, and
Shea was summoned by Tobin and
fined at the Petty Sessions. On going
home from the Petty Sessions, Shea
went towards Tobin's house, and To
bin, when he saw him threw stones
at him, several of them hitting Shea
about the head, rendering him uncon-
scious. Tobin was arrested, and re-
manded for a week.
LIMERICK.
The Easter Quarter Sessions for
Limerick were opened on April 2 by
County Court Judge Adams, who was
accompanied by the high sheriff.. Mr..
L. H. Cleeve. AS there was not a
single prisoner for trial, the judge was
presented with white gloves by the
sheriff. The gloves were of the hand
soonest make of the famous Limerick
kind; but, as the largest size of that
manufacture that could be obtained
was size too small for the judges
hands, he humorously declared that
the best use he could make of them
was to donate them to the coming char
ity bazaar. He thelrpersonally compli-
mented the high sheriff on the peace
able condition of the city.
LOUTH.
The small coterie Of Tory Unionists
in Dundalk was greatly fluttered by the
queens visit: and the back-wash of
Dublin's turgid wave of toadyism just
slightly touched "The Gap of the
North" About half dozen business
establishmcnts-out of the hundreds in
the town-were closed OH the Queens
Day; and they gave fair indication
of the one-sided character of the well
come felt in Dundalk for the absentee
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