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the Monastery chapel. where, next

morning, there was solemn requiem
mass for the repose of his soul.
Kerry.
The proceedings of the Iveragh Feis,
the first week in July, were very sue.
cessful. In the course of the proceed
ings an address in Irish was presented
by the Iveragh branch of the Gaelic
League, to the Rev. DR.. O'Daly, princi.
pal of the Munster Training college.
The exhibition was in every respect a
great success and afforded a promis-
ing prospect for the industrial future
| of Iveragh. Mr.. McDonogh Mahony
was, as usual, indefatigable in his ex-
ertions, as were also Messrs. O'Kelly,
Lynch and w. Ryan.
Mr.. Michael Ulick O'Sullivan, L. r.
Z. S., Edinburg, having passed the
! necessary examination, has been ad-
mitted Fellow of the College.
| Kildare.
On July 4 his Grace the archbishop
! of Dublin paid his triennial visitation
to Athy.
The funeral took place on July 5, at
| Caragh, of the Rev. Austin Kinsella,
+. p, who was one of the best known
of the Kildare clergy. He suffered i'm.
prisonment in the Clongorey land war,
and was mainly instrumental in the
restoration of the evIcted to their
homes.>
! The marriage is announced, on June
q, at st. Joseph's Terenure, by Very
Rev. Canon Anderson, P. p, of James,
eldest son Of the late Edward Spell, of
Hill View, Rathcoole, county Dublin,
to Rita, second daughter of DR.. Darley,
of West End, Monasterevan, county
Kildare.
| Kings County.
Judge Holmes, in opening the Kings
county assiZes, July 1, said he had
often the pleasure of congratulating
the grand jury on the state of the
.county, and that occasion was no ex.
ception to such a satisfactory condi.
ton of things.
In Birr, on the morning of July 8, at
Burke's Hill, James Bergin, aged about
As, road contractor, committed suicide
by cutting his throat, in sudden eX
cess of frenzy. Previously he had
complained of terrible pains in his
head, and was apparently in great
mental distress.
| leitrim.
Justice Wright, in opening the Lett
rim assizes on July 8, said the state OF
the county was excellent. There were
only half a dozen unimportant cases
on the calendar
Limerick.
The Feis Tuadh Mumhan was open
ed in Limerick July 1, when an import
ant address was delivered by Monsig
nor Hallinan, P. P, V. G.
Patrick Curtin and William Lenehan
were indicted on a charge of having
wounded Maurice Lynch, laborer, and
his wife, Honoria Lynch, on April %
at Kilmeedy. The jury found the pris
oners guilty, strongly recommending
them to mercy on the ground of theil
youth. They were both sentenced tt
12 months Imprisonment from Apri
26.
Longford.
On July 3 Justice Madden opened
the Longford assizes. There were only
three criminal cases on the calendar
Edward Gormly, Springlawa, Granard
was charged with having, on April q
caused the death of farmer residing
in the same locality named Timothy
Connell, by kicking him. The defence
was an alibi, and the jury acquitted
the prisoner. The other two cases
were larcenies.
Louth.
On July 6, at the Catholic church
Kilsaran, near Castlebellingham, the
marriage was solemnized of the Mar
quis of Butte and Miss Augusta Belling
ham. The town and the whole district
were en- fete on the occasion, and ad
dresses from various bodies of tenant
ry, from the Cardiff council and the
Castlebellingham branch of the Gaelic
League were presented to the welded
! couple.
Mayo.
In Ballina, early on the morning o1
July the extensive premises of Mr.
Francis Ruttledge, adjoining the rail
way station, and known as the Rail
way hotel, were burned to the ground
The fire was first discovered in the
lower portion of the building about
o'clock; but no headway could be made
against it for want of sufficient water
pressure. The building, which stood
isolated, was, therefore, at the mercy
of the flames, and in very short time
nothing was left standing but the
walls. Scarcely anything was saved
out of the premises, and some of the
dodgers had narrow escapes.
Meath.
At the Meath assizes, which were
opened on July 1, there were four cas-
es for trial, all of which were> of an
ordinary nature.
On July the case of the estate o1