TWO IRISH MAYORS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 221, 8 September 1876, Page 4

TWO IRISH MAYORS.

Apropos of the Cork election, I heard in Ireland some months ago, a charming' story about one of the candidates. The gentleman was at the time Mayor of Cork, and it should be premised that be is slightly lame. During the term of his mayoralty, a race came off on tbe river Lea between boat clubs belonging to the historical and rival cities of Limerick and Cork. Limerick won tbe day, and tremendous excitement raged in the thoroughfares of the cities. During its height, a telegram reached the Mayor of Limerick, purporting to come from the Mayor of Cork, couched in the following terms : —"Your Limerick crew beßtus to-day; but, for the honor of Cork, I hereby challenge you for a stake of £50 to row a measured mile on the river Lea." Now, the Mayor of Limerick had only one arm, and Beeing in this message from his cousin of Cork a deliberate . insult, he* remember ing that the Mayor of Cork was not complete, in the matter of legs, furiously penned a telegram to this effect — "If you want to avenge your disgraceful beating to-day, I'll hop you over Wellesley Bridge for £100." The Mayor of Cork, it need hardly be said, was perfectly innocent and absolutely ignorant of tbe despatch of the first telegram, and recognising in this message from Limerick the addition of insult to iDJury done to the City of which he was Chief Magistrate, by tbe ill fortune of the Cork oars, he gratified himself by informing the Mayor of Limerick (hat he was " a cowardly spalpeen." Toe correspondence was subsequently continued by the solicitors of tbe respective mayors, and took several days to reach an amicable conclusion.—" Atlas in tbe World.