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Antrim.
George Kelser aged g. of So Hiilview
street died in the Mater Infirmorum
Hospital, Belfast from the effects of
severe burns all over the body, caused
by his clothes catching fire.
At Belfast on Nov. 14th. Robert Will
son, formerly an alderman, was SEN
fenced to three months Imprisonment
In default of finding bail on charges
Of disorderly conduct and threatening
his wife.
On Nov. 18th man named Randall
Scullion, said to be farm laborer, was
Seedlings, on the leading road between
Ballymena and Glenarn,.
Armagh.
A few days ago Mr.. Joseph Wortley,
Clonmacate, Portadown, dug up a TO-
tato which weighed 2 lbs. o., meas
ured ~ inches in circumference, and
was 7k inches long.
Mr.. w. H. Atkinson, coroner for
North Armagh, held an inquest on
Nov. 10 on the body of William Woods.
who died suddenly on the previous
morning, in the townland of Tartlogue,
near Portadown. The jury returned a
verdict to the effect that deceased died
To oa11 rxyt,t Ia fhn
influence of drink.
Cork.
Another scheme for bridging the Lee
and Joining the railway terminal at
Cork has been promulgated, and is said
to have the support of the Cork Har-
bor Board and the Cork Corporation.
Daniel ]. O'HerlihY, son of the late
Mr.. Michael O'Herlihy, Knockaneagh,
Leap, obtained Junior Science Scholar
ship, value SPA, at the recent Scholar
ship examinations at the Queens COL
lege, Cork.
The friends of "a farmer named
Common, whose place is near Winnera-
cattle, which had been seized by the
bailin under "a decree Of rent due to
w. N. Barry, of Kanturk. While hold
ing the cattle in railway station
they were run off quietly, and all eff
forts of the constabulary to again To-
cate them ware unsuccessful.
CarIe,u
The police acting under instructions
from Dublin Castle, are making inuuir-
les as to the payment of rents by agri-
cultural tenants throughout Ireland.
Calls were made on persons in Carlow
with the object of ascertaining if the
tenants had personally come in as
usual with the rents. This new duty
which has been imposed on the police,
arises from a supposed belief, ON the
part of the Castle authorities, that
there is a growing combination among
the tenants to resist the payment of
Frents in the expectation Of forcing the
government to introduce an amending
land bill.
Glare.
At Ennis, on Nov. 18th, the follow
ing judgments were delivered by Judge
Karton, K. c., in cases heard by him at
the Quarter Sessions there:
Misses Butler, landlords; H: Droney,
tenant-Old rent, e46; judicial rent,
EAT (seoond fermo
w. Bentley, landlord: Mary Griffin,
tenant-Old rent, s3; judicial rent, So
(second terml.
E. Ryan Macmahon, landlord; Misses
Duffy and Hogan, tenants-Old rent,
e22; judicial rent, SIS as (seeond
term). ----.....-..
R. w. H. Morland, landlord; Michael
Brody, tenant-Old rent, E28; judicial
rent, sl9 las (second term).
Dublin.
The Master of the Rolls, in the case
of Arnott vs.. Arnott decided that the
two clauses in the will of the late Sir
John Arnott giving 100000 for charit-
able institutions In Cork city or county
and Dublin city and county, and 920,-
4, 900 for religious purposes, were valid
charitable requests.
Miss Margaret Helen Boyd of Howth,
Dublin, who died ON the 9th Of Octo-
Der last, left personal estate valued at
es,571 rs Id.
An influential committee has been
formed with the object of taking steps
to erect a memorial to Sir Samuel and
Lady Ferguson, whose la!bors in the
field of Gaelic literature are widely ap-
preciated.
At a special court held at Newtown-
ards, on Nov. 14th, young man named
William Heron, residing at William
street, Newtownards, was brought up
and charged with having assaulted
William James M'Bride, who has since
died.
On the morning of Nov. 18th the Vic
toria Temperance hotel, Scarva street,
cambridge, of which Mr.. Samuel Ma
cauley is the proprietor, was destroyed
by fire. The adjoining houses also
suffered damage in the attempt to sub