The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-01-30
Antrim.

n SSInlthHeld, LlSbufn, on Jan. q, an Ola
e and valued servant in the person Of
II Susan O'Hagan, aged 106 years, whose
life probably creates q record of serv
H ice. For ninetyseven years she had
been in the service Of the Hall family,
i HilltoWn and Hillsborough, -prOprletors
\ of the Downshire Arms Hotel, and had
nursed three of the four generations OF
n Halls Her health was perfect almost
\ up to the day Of her death. She could
4 sew and knit without the use of
glasses; her memory was most re:en-
i TIVE, and she delighted to relate IT, The
children stories of her earlier days.
when railways and gas and electric
lights were unheard of. She we'll rec
& objected conversing with soldiers who
had returned from the wars ;lftec the
end of Napolean's career at Waterloo.
Clare.
ss In the entire country there are about
& 500 claims reported for old age pen
I sions. OF these $500 have been passed
= by the Pension Committee. The
amount required for the year will be
about $4,000 West Clare largely eS-
81 ceeds East Clare in the number OF
applications, and there is all unusually
large proportion Of candidates from
the Carrigaholt. Kilkee, kilrush, and
surrounding areas, this being account
ed for by the great drain by emigra-
ton of the younger people. In Ennis
there are 1870 candidates for the PEN
sions, representing FL weekly payroll
of EDS: but the largest districts in
point of applicants are Ennistymon
and Midtown, which produce 800 each.
In Kiln1ihill there are $50; in Lisdoon-
varna, ITO; Lal1inch and Mullough, 140
each. and these represent the largest
in this postal district.
Cork,
To prevent a. possibility of short
age in silver coin to pay off the old
age pensioners, Moreton Frcwen, of In
nisllannon, County Cork, suggests the
issue of five shilling notes to meet the
demand. He points out that the
monthly payments will make such
demand for silver currency during the
early days Of each month as to amount
to grave public Inconvenience. If the
silver currency be greatly incl na:ed,
+ then during the latter part Of the
month there will be too much silver
afoat, and people do not like to
bulky silver coins in their pockets
1t is urged that an important economy
y of public money would result from the
scheme. At the present price OF sill
yer, the State makes a profit of nearly
So. Sd on each five shillings of silver
1t coins. The State buys silver bullion
at less than ed. an ounce, and issues
it, coined at 66d., and it must pay the
five shilling old age pensions.
Dublin.
The list OF the years centenarians
Of these died during the past year
those surviving comprising one at 100
years, one at 104 years, one at 100
years. and one at 10 years. or those
who died one reached Ill years, one
10 years, two LOT years, one 1o5 years,
and four 104 years.
The death rate in Dublin and the
\ twenty-one principal Urban Districts
of Ireland during the week OF Jan. 2,
Y reached the high average Of 247 per
thousand This compares with a rate
, of 10 the previous week, and an aver
age Of 10 in the preceding four weeks.
The rate was very high in a number
of provincial towns-Portadown, Ala;
Clonmel, Sc; Lurgan, 81; Newry, 29h;
Cork, 2s.1; Wexford, IS "a jump from
& A the previous week.: Limerick, Lis
burn, and Waterford, o7.3. 1t ex-
ceeded 20 per thousand in fourteen Of
the twenty-five towns. The death rate
n was nil in Armagh, and the next low
est was Drogheda, where it was 1873
Down.
& The Right Rev. DR.. Tohill, Bishop Of
Down and Conner, has made the fol-
lowing clerical changes: Rev. John
s8Shiels, &C, st. Malachy's, to be PIP,
Saintfield; Rev. Charles OIoan, B.A.
y &C, Cushendall, to be &C, st. Ma
n lachy's; Rev. Daniel OR. Toalc. Ell,
II to be &C., Cuslendall; Rev. James
Murphy, &C, whitehouse, to be Ell:
REV. Patrick Rafferty,, &C, White
house, to be &C, Larne; Rev. Daniel
q Laverty, &C. Larnc, to be &C, White
house; Rev. r. Fl. NI'Auley &C, Paint
1 field, to be &C., Whitehouse.
! Donegal.
s9Sss Very Rev. James Canon MFadtlen,
AaT.P., VIZ, Archdeacon of Raphoe
died at his residence, ST. Finnan's,
sFalcarragh, Co. Donegal. on Jan. z. He