Bridgend Chronicle, Cowbridge, Llantrisant, and Maesteg Advertiser. — 1880-01-16 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The Limerick correspondent of the "Preen Association" telegraph@ that srsmation stare. ui the face five hundred people in adietnot called Smile Roc in the Croom end the Limerick Poor-la. Unions. The Unposerishud pe..ple went an a body to Croon, and i.iirid they mutt perich unless instant relief were given. Sir David Roche sent them four outlands of bread, whie.h only appeimed imniediate hunger. The pest morass on wnich they live is to oe drained, the Government being about to grist • loan. The potatose have all perished. I be tenanta on Clonney estate. Clare, have fowl (fronted 2u per cent. redaction on rentafa of X.lO, and 10 per cent. on rental. exceeding tam amount.  At Cork large numbers of idle menliang about the corporate Liberia, on Monday the streets were patrolled by mounted police, and the magistrate. met and urged more activity in repreaaing demotstrations. They passed a resolution declaring the extra police were necessary, but urging the Government to place them on the Government eatehlishinent instead of chargiog the city wjth half their maintenance.  Piblic—roeit;4—;;aa held in Claremont' on Monday, st which It wee etated that unless imme• date relief be forthcomtng many poor people will die of hunger. A re.olutuna wae adoptod that immediate application be made to the Memnon Rouse and to the bighorn of Ireland for fund& for the relief of the poor of the town. . . .  meetitg was held on Monday, at the Town hall, Manchester, at which a resolution was passed expressing the regret fel: by the citatens of Manchester at the existing and el, ticipated distress' in portions of Ireland, and revestiug the mayor to appeal to the public for snoiCrilitl4o/1 in aid of the sufferers.  --Tke Mayor of Birkenhead tirmiled e & nubile meeting, held in that town on Monday, for the kantoe e of oolleetins suMicription• to alleviate the distress in Ireland. An ox. ui e 001902ittOB formed, end upwards of ass subacrOsed at the meeting.  A magisterial inquiry was held at Clonmel Gaol on Tuesday in the ca. of the reoent agrarian murder at Girtnahoe. The two prisoners, George and Pierce Ryan, were remanded. They occupied farms adjoinieg the deceased man Brereton. The farmers around Bailinlough, the scene of the recent incendiary fires on the tenants' property who had paid their rents, have offered • reward for the detection of the perpe. trator or perpetrators. The " Press Association ' cerreepondent at Balla telegraphs that on l'noaday • proem& server named Henderson made an attempt to serve proceeses for non-payment of rent near Bally glass. As soon as he entered the village he was met by a crowd of over 100 women, who penned him, shouting, groaning, and pelting him with mud till they drove him out of Lee locality. Henderson we, not injured. lie Longford gorreepondent of the "Press Associatma" telegraphs that an inquest wee held on Tuesday on the body of • man named Donoug. hill, who committed suicide at • place near Grarard because be had no means of living. On Tuesday, the Recorder of Dublin, in opening the city quarter seesionn, mid that there were only 51.0 persona returned for trial, while there had been lit. at the previous, sessions. He hid feared that the distress, which though large, he hoped was only partial in the city, would have led to an secession in that clams of crime nsitally attributable to poverty, but was glad to find it was not so. Many of the grand jurore had shown eympathy for sufferer, in • substantial way ; and the Mansion House Famine Fund wag • sufficient guarantee to the public that the relief would be generous and impartially dealt out. At • public meeting called by the Mayor of Wigan on Tuesday, it was resolved to issue an appeal for aid for the victims of the distress in Ireland. Subscriptions s.noniating to Bit./ wore at once promised. The "Press Association" correspondent tale. graphs that several landlords in the °entity of Wexford have intimated that they will supply their tenants with aced potatoes and other aeed nee* aaaaa . At the quarter sessions decrees, amounting in the segregate to £.),000, were made against the farmers, most of whom were unable to meet the amount decreed and provide for this year'. tillage, and hence the generoaity of the landlords ie timely. An iron pollee hut was on Tuesday erected on a farm in the poeses.ion of a farmer named Grennan, at Bullinderry, Weetmeath. Four policemen are to occupy it. Grennan was recently aesaulted.  _ ID responae to am appeal from the Mayor at the meeting of the Bolton Town Connell on Weans.dsy morning, £77 were subscribed in the room towards the Irish Relief Fund.  A meeting of the Inhabitants has been convened by the Msyor of Brighton, and a fund opened far the relief of the distress in Ireland. . . .  The Irish National Land League on Wednesday received £lOO for the Irish Belief Fond from Midland, California. The Tnllamore Board of Guardians hare received notice from the Local Government Board that a loan to the landlords for reproductive works could not be granted. Sr it waa not shown that any exceptional distrese existed in the die. trict. . _  At a meeting of the North Dublin Union on Wednesday, the following resolution was carried —" That this union be added to the list of unions in which public money can be procured under the late order of Government to employ the people, and that application be made to the Chief Sacretsry for this purpose."