The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-01-27

l. VI tiAS uOCk, ullueT Charge
OF sergeant from the Castle barracks.
lhls is sample of how the British
army in South Africa is being kept "up
to the standard"
MAYO.
"A memorial cross has been erected.
at Balla, in memory of the late P. w.
Nally, and the unwilling ceremony was
performed on the 9th OF January, by
Or. Mark Ryan, of London. Five
years ago the Mayo grand jury refused
site for this memorial cross: but
times have changed since, and last Tune
L. B. Kelly, of Ballina, secretary of the
memorial committee, obtained permits
sion from the county council to erect
the memorial cross on the square.
MEATH.
Probate of the will, dated March 22,
1884, of James FitzWalter, twenty
fourth Baron Dunboyne, OF Knappogue
castle, County Meath, and of Greendale
street, Mary's Clyst, Devon, who died
Aug. II last, aged 60, has been granted
to his widow, Marion Baroness Dun
boyne, daughter of Col. Henry Morgan
Clifford, of Llantilio, Monmouth, NJ
f., and Major-General William Henry
Brooks Peters, of Harefeld, Ly1np-
stone, by whom the testators estate has
been valued at f3,717 IS. 3D., including
the personal estate, of the value of
1908 los. ed. Lord Dunboyne left all
OF his real and personal estate to Lady
Dunboyne absolutely.
TYRONE.
Viscount Charlemont, Vice-Lieuten-
ant of the county of Tyrone, has vol
unteered" for service in South Africa.
AS the Viscount is nearly seventy years
old, the Beers will hardly find him a
formidable opponent. But he holds a
big lot of official appointments in Ire
land, which might become vacant by
the casualties, OF war" if his services
should be accepted.
TIPPERARY.
A United Irish National League
meeting, which was announced to be
held in Carrick-on-Suir, on Jan. I, was
proclaimed from Dublin Castle. But
in this instances in the recent events
in the West of Ireland-the National
lists outwitted the Castle" folk, who
marched a small army of police into the
town, where the meeting was an
nounced to be held The Nationalist,
held quiet and entirely unanimous
notwithstanding to the call-in their
private assembly rooms-into which the
police were not invited. But, outside
the town, three enthusiastic public
meetings were held by previous ar
rangement, which were addressed by
NEessrs. T. Condor, J. s1lee, and P. J.
Power. The Castle people only
found out at the eleventh hour that they
had been cleft out in the cold"
WATERFORD.
I'm Waterford, on Jan. 2, an old man
named Patrick Dunphy, who stands
charged with poisoning his son, Joha..
aged II years, was further remanded by
MFR: Bourke, R. NJ, for. eight days.
Drs. Jacknan and Kelleher proceeded
to Ballynaneesliagh, and there ex-
humed the body of another child of the
prisoner, named Eddie, who had died
suddenly, on the goth of September last.
AS in the case Of John, the stomach and
other portions of the viscera were de-
posted in jars, and sent to Dublin for
analysis by the specialists connected
with the Royal College of Surgeons.
WICKLOW.
The Arklow fishermen are now
threatened with prosecutions for fishing
in the waters adjoining Waterford Har-
Dor and the lower Wexford coast, in
the daytime, under some old, forgotten
regulation; and some eighty sum-
monses have been issued against them
Since the herring fisheries of Arl<low
gave OUT some twenty years ago, the
hardy fishermen of that port have been
obliged to drop down south, and shoot
their nets for behring's in the waters of
Waterford Harbor and its surround
ings. Now this source of livelihood is
threatened to be taken from them. The
summonses we're issued at the instance
of the coast guards at Arthurstown
County Wexford; and the crown solicit
tor OF Waterford prosecutes, and Mr..
]. K Toomey, solicitor, Wicklow, has
taken tip the defense
WEXFORD.
On the morning of Dec go, in the
Presentation Convent, Wexford,
young religieuse, Sister M. Gabriel
Cowman, passed peacefully away to her
eternal reward, amid the prayers of her
sisters in religion. The deceased lady.
who was daughter of Mr.. Andrew Cow
man, Sparrowsland, entered the order
in 1895, and at the time of her decease
was in the second year of her religious
profession, when stricken down by con-
sumption, in the cath year of her age.
There is more catarrh In this section Of
the country than alt other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last few yea . was sup
posed to be incurahle. For a great many
years doctors pronounced It q local disease,