COUNTY NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 3, 17 January 1901, Page 9

COUNTY NEWS.

ARMAGH.— Orange Rowdyism at Portadown.— That the savage assaults perpetrated on the unoffensive Catholics of Portadown (writes the correspondent of a Belfast paper) on the occasion of their excursion to Bundoran, and the farcial prosecutions aDd nominal penalties and fewness of those brought to the mock justice might have satisfied the frolicsome Orange lambs, at least for a time. But suoh a result could not be tolerated by the innocents of the Edenderry portion of the 'town on the Barm.' Since then, the only Catholic residents have be^n subjected to every sort of annoyance with the view of chasing them from the district, by breaking their windows, bursting open their doors, and throwing mud, etc., at and into their houses. The present state of affairs is intolerable, and the Catholics of that part of the town are in a state of dread and terror, although they have some confidence latterly in the way police work is being attended to. But they forcibly feel the want of security they had while the police barrack was in that part of the town, and are satisfied that until a police station ia again established in it there will be repetitions of such ruffianly con* duct as has disgraced that part of the town for the past yew,

CORK— Death of a Pilgrim at Rome— Miss Frances Flynn, of Cork, sister to Mr J. C. Flynn, M P., who accompanied the Irinh pilgrims to Rome, died in the Eternal City, and her remains were interred in the Cemetery of San Lorenzo. The Most Rev. Dr. Browne, Bishop of Cloyne, the Most Key. Dr. Kelly, Bishop of Ross, and otber distinguished ecclesiastics were present. Prohibiting Street Preaching. — The Corporation of Cork has passed a by-law prohibiting 'street preaching' within the borough. DUBLlN.— Dedication Of a Church— His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Walsh dedicated the beautiful new cliaroh. of St. Margaret, County Dublin, on Sunday, November 25. A Trenchant Reply. — His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin has rendered signal service to the Catholic University question by his trenchant exposure of the fallacies propounded at a recent meeting of the College Historical Society. Mr Justice Fitzgibbon, in the course of an able addresH, declared that it would be historically untrue to describe Trinity College as a monument of Protestant ascendancy. His Grace had but to quote from a speech of Judgi Webb, an eminent member of the University, in which he declared that ' their University was founded by Protestants, for Protestants, and in the Protestant interest. As a Protestant, he for one said, and he said boldly, Protestant might it evermore remain." Judge Webb simply voiced the opinion of Irish Protestants generally. GALW AY.— Demise of a well-known Galway Man.— Mr Coleman O'Donohoe, of Prairie House and Merchams' road, Galway, died on Monday, November 5. The funeral, which was one of the largest ever witnessed in Galway, was attended by the leading professional gentlemen, merchants, traders, and citizens. The Most Rev. Dr. McCormack, Lord Bishop, presided at the Office and High Mats. Death Of Lord Oranmore.— On Thursday, November 1.->, Geoffrey Dominick Augustus Frederick Browne-Guthrie, second Baron Oranmore and Browne, died suddenly at his late residence, Castle Macgarrett, Claremorris. He had reached the advanced age of 81 years. Lord Oranmore was a representative peer of Ireland, having been elected in IH(V,). and was frequently heard in the House of Lords during discussions on the Irish Land Question. He was a zealous advocateof Tory and landlord ideas, and an uncompromising opponent of every reform sought by the Irish people. He is sucoeeded by his son, Geoffrey Henry Browne, M.A. (Cantab.), who was born in January, 18til,and was formerly a lieutenant iv the 4th Battalion Royal Soots Fusiliers. KERRY.— Admitted to the Bar.— Mr. James Michael Burke, 8.A., seventh son of the late Patrick Burke, a merchant of Skibbereen, has been admitted to the Bar. At the recent final law examination he secured first place, in addition to prizes amounting to £150. During his collegiate career Mr. Burke won a number of distinctions. KING'S COUNTY. — Serious Illness of a District Coroner. — Rev. Dr. Oowing, Pl Kildare, was umnoidably prevented from joining the Iri->h Pilgrimage party to Rome by the eudden and extreme illne-s of hi-, brother, Mr \\ A. Gowin^, coroner. King's County, whose n.i'ne has lon,' bei j n associated with the first establishment of religious Sisters (the Order of Mercy) as hospital nurses, and educationist- in poorhou^ed and public institutions of a like character in Ireland, aud who thus made his name early as a benefactor of humanity. LIMERICK— The Drafter of the Joint Pastoral of the Hierarchy. — ' i learn on excellent authority, writes an Irish correspondent, ' that the Biahop who drafted the joint pastoral which was unanimously aiopted without the alteration of a single syllable by Cardinal Logue and the archbishops and bishops of Ireland, and which has secured such universal admiration and approval, was the Most Rev. Dr. O'Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick.' LONGFORD —Encouragement of the Irish Language. —The Ballymahon District Council has called upon the Longtord County Council to offer a yearly prize or bonus to the teacher of the Irish language having the largest number of efficient pupils in Irish, with the view of encouraging the cultivation of the language in the country. ROSCOMMON— A Lady Lecturer Appointed.— Miss O'Conor EucleH, an authoress of no mean ability, aud a well-known Ro^common lady, is engaged by the new Board of Agriculture for Ireland to give a series of lectures in Irish towns during the winter. A GenerOUS Donation —Colonel M. Burke, late of Carrowroe Park, Roscommon, has jußt forwarded a cheque for £.">0 towards the completion of the Catholic Church in the town of Roscommon. WEXFORD— An almost Crimeless County.—Addressing the grand jury at Enniscorthy his Honor Judge Kane congratulated them upon the immunity from crime which the County Wexford enjoyed. In his opinion, based on experience, whatever crime existed in a county was to a great extent dependent on thp number of licensed house?. He regretted to Kiy that the number of licensed houses was increasing. If it had not been for one small case there would be a crimeless calendar for the county. An Australian Visitor.— The most Rev. Dr. Kelly, Bishop of Geraldton, West Australia, is on a visit to Ireland. II «» in staying with Father Kehoe, Bridgetown, County Wexford. His Lordship is an Australian by birth but Irish by descent, a fact of which he is quite proud. In the course of an interview with a representative of the Wexford People his Lordship strongly expressed the feelings of pain and regret caused in Australia by the divisions amongst the Irish Parliamentarians,