The Irish standard., 1904-10-01

shown over the Belleek pottery by the
manager. Mr.. Cleary, they proceeded
to Garrison, where they succeeded in
renting house from Mrs. Timoney
for the purpose of establishing
branch of the home industries in the
district. Garrison borders on the con-
gested district of Melvin, in the county
of I.eitrim. and is a portion of Bally-
shannon Union.
GALWAY.
On September 6, the funeral OBJ
sequies of the late Rev. John Nolan,
o. d. C. ("Fatller Elias'') took place in
the Carmelite church, Loughrea, with
all the solemnity usual on such occa-
sions. \ large number of the clergy
of the diocese, as we'll as members of
the Carmelite order, assisted in the
ceremonies: and there was large con-
business places in the town remained
closely suffered throughout the day
The prior of the abbey, Rev. Joseph
Coen o. ID. c., officiated as ceebrant
of the high mass of requiem; Rev.
Thomas Barry, o. ID. c., deacon; and
Rev. COLUMBIA Burke, sub-deacon; with
Rev. Father O'Neill, c. c.. Killmore
master of ceremonies. \ large num-
Der of the clergy We're in the sane
t,,,r ,%n1x. ~:
mass the internent took place in the
cemetery adjoining the church.
KILKENNY.
At the last meeting of the Castle
conner board of guardians. the memory
of the Ballyragget wife murder was
revived after twenty years. 1t may
be remembered that Murphy, who was
sentenced to be hanged for the mu,
der of his wife, about twenty years
ago. had his sentence committed to
penal servitude for life. Recently he
was liberated from marlborough Jail,
on ticket-of- leave; and Mt the above
meeting of the guardians, Mr.. r. ID.
O'Shea, relieving officer. reported that
Murphy had that day applied for Il
ticket of admission to Castlecomer
workhousc. He stated that he had ap-
piled to get into the Kilkenny work
house. but was refused there. 1t
decided to leave the matter in the
hands of the relieving officer.
KINGS COUNTY.
pr. Thomas Woods, who has just re-
signed his position as medical officer
of the Hirr Union workhouse, was the
oldest medical practitioner in Ireland.
having become NJ. r. c. s. Il. in 1898,
graduating NJ. d., of Glasgow uni
versity in the following year, and l.. II.
G. S. l. in 1910. DR.. Woods has thus
been over GG years in the medical pro
fessi0n.
KERRY.
On the evening of September s, a
sad drowning fatality occurred in the
river Flesk. near Currans, when an
old man. one of the most respectable
farmers in the Fries district, James
Donnelly. of Gortawillin, lost his life,
while attempting to cross the Flesk
Deceased had been at Castleisland
with butter. and returning on his dom
key car. elected to take the short route
across the fordable part of the Flesk.
The river was flooded after the heavy
rain of the previous days. and Mr.
DOnnely was swept down With the
current and drowned.
KILDARE.
At Athy petty sessions. on Septcm-
Der 6, a man named Timothy Tuohey
wills sentenced to IL months imprison-
meslt for cruelty to his five children
on the previous night by leaving them
exposed in the rain in a cart in Bar
rack street in a half naked condition.
Prisoner and his wife. Mary, We're also
sentenced TIC Il months Imprisonment
duct on the same occasion. The par
ties said they came from Mountratll.
LIMERICK.
On the 18th Of August, Miss Birdie
Casey lin religion Sister Mary Patrick),
youngest daughter of Mr.. James
Casey. Cnstletown-C onyers. made her
religious profession in Mount Saint
Vincent convent, Halifax. Nova Scotia.
Miss Casey received her first religious
education at the convent in Ballln-
garry.
Mr. w. II. De CUurcy. II. H., son of
Mr.. James De Courcy. Limerick, has
been appointed to an important posi-
ton in the estates branch of the land
commission. He was called to the
English bar in 1901. and has had con-
siderable experience in the Office of Mr..
Peter Fitzgerald, J. F., land agent,
Limerick.
LOUTH.
Oh, September I, the ceremony of re-
ceptiOn took place in st. Dominic's
priory, Stone. Stnffordshlre. England.
Among the postulnnts. three in num-
her. who. on this occasion were clothed
in the same white habit of st. Dom
inic, was Miss NJ. J. OH. Koran. Sis
ter NJ. Matilda, third daughter Of ].
w. Hor,rn. Louth. Very Rev. DR..
Clayton. rector of Stone. otticiated, as
| sisted by Revs. DR.. RYAN and 2. o..