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OWEN NEALE, a simple-looking countryman, was
brought before the magistrates this morning as being
a deserter from the 36th Regiment. It appeared that
he gave himself into custody last night on that charge.
He deserted from the regiment when stationed in
Plymouth, a year and four months ago, and was
shortly after arrested in Bandon, but was discharged.
He stated to the magistrates that he wished to be
either out of or in the army, and it was with that view
that he gave himself up, as the military authorities had
never looked after him. He had very bad sight, and
was besides labouring under a chest affection. The
magistrates considered that under the circumstances
they could do nothing but discharge the prisoner. A
good deal of amusement was created by his answers
and demeanour, and before leaving the court he gave
a cheer for their worships.
--The Cork Examiner, 10 May 1861
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER
Macroom, April 5, 1847
DEAR SIR--I regret to inform you that from dysentery
and dropsy, the necessary consequences of famine, are
making frightful havoc amongst our emaciated poor
people. I have, this day, been called on to attend ten sick,
where in many instances I found the living and dead
thrown on one common litter of filthy straw. The dead
are left unburied often four days, and then taken by
stealth at night, without coffins, to the graves. It is truly
mournful to see the whole country on the verge of
desolation. Every man who is able is flying to America ;
and I fear our entire brave and hardy population will be in
a very short time annihilated, unless a merciful providence
interpose to avert the awful calamity.
I am Sir, very respectfully yours,
P. BURTON, P.P.
--The Cork Examiner, 7 April 1847
Dennis Ahern
CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY.
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STARVATION IN KERRY.
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THE following inquests were lately held in the county of
Kerry: the first on the body of Mary Kennedy, on 27th
March, at Derrymore.
Catherine Moriarty sworn.--Deceased, Mary
Kennedy was her sister. She, deceased, and three
children were sent on a car from Inch, to the Tralee
Poor-house by the Rev. George O'Sullivan. They were
not taken into the Workhouse. Denis Sears was the
carman who brought them. He carried them back part of
the way, and about two hours after nightfall he turned
them out of the car and left them on the road. Jeremiah
Flyn let them into his house at Derrymore that night. They
then came on to the house of the Widow Layne, who
refused to let them in, and they remained near the wall
which was close to the house. Deceased died the next
morning. On the way from the poor house they got some
bread at Tralee. They used to be two days without any
food before they were sent to the poor house, and is of
opinion that if deceased had food, she would not now
be dead.
Richard Blennerhassett, M.D., deposed that the
deceased Mary Kennedy came by her death, to the best
of his judgment, from starvation.--Verdict, died of
starvation.
The same verdict was returned on the inquest of Daniel
Griffin, one of the children, who also died on that
occasion.
On the 29th of March a third inquest was held near
Derrymore, on the body of Catherine Moriarty, the
witness on the two former inquests.
John O'Donnell deposed that he yesterday saw the
deceased Catherine Moriarty and two children with her
by the wall in the same place she now lies ; did not speak
to her but spoke to the boy that was with her, who told
witness she could take no food. In about two hours after
he saw her, at which time she was not dead ; the two
children came to the house of witness after nightfall, and
told them she was dead ; he put the children into a house
of his and gave them some straw for a bed, and went to
where she was, and found her dead.--Verdict like the
preceding.
Dennis Ahern
Tullig, Templeglantine, Co. Limerick, was fired into on
Monday night. Mr. Aherne is secretary of the Devon Road
Creamery Co., where a dispute between some of its employees
was recently adjusted by a vote of the shareholders. Other
houses in the district were attacked some time ago.
--Freeman's Journal, 12 September 1917
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D E A T H S .
Last night, of the prevailing epidemic, Miss Kate
Sullivan, of George's-quay, step-daughter of Edwd.
Casey, Esq., T.C. This young lady was in the prime of
life, 23 years of age. Her illness was of a short
continuance, and her decease is a cause of deep
affliction to her most bereaved relatives, as well as to
the numerous friends by whom she was esteemed for
her many amiable virtues and accomplishments. It is
supposed she lost her life in the cause of humanity, like
many others of our virtuous citizens. It was her custom
to attend to the wants and woes of a great many of our
stricken poor, and from one of the afflicted people, the
disease must have been communicated of which she
died. Her virtues were peculiarly feminine--gentle,
unobtrusive and mild, and she now has met a great
reward for a life that was "lovely" and a death virtuous
"in the bosom of her Father and her God."
We deeply regret to have to announce the death of
Richard White, Esq., of Inchiclough, Bantry, leaving a
widow and eleven children to mourn their bereavement.
His loss, at this calamitous period, consummates the
awful affliction with which the Almighty has been
pleased to visit the poor of that district.--Reporter
On the 11th inst., after a short illness, Henry Sharp,
Esq., of Mount Conway.
At Lismore, on Tuesday, the 11th inst., of fever, Mr.
Wm. Wall, Clerk of the Lismore Union--an affectionate
husband and father, a sincere friend, and a truly
upright man.
On the 7th inst., at his residence, Fort Henry, in this
county, in the 36th year of his age, George P. Bullen,
Esq., son of the late Rev. Robert Bullen of Kanturk,
leaving a wife and four children to deplore his loss.
In Buttevant, of a brain fever, Mr. Samuel Fogarty,
late of this City, Architect.
At Clonmel, Miss Mary Gordon, daughter of the late
Samuel Gordon, Esq., of that town, and sister to Mr.
Gordon of Cork.
On Saturday, at No. 1, Winthrop-street, Peter, the
infant son of Mr. P. Tyrie, aged 14 months.
At Park Villas, Cove, on the 10th inst., aged 77,
Elizabeth Ann reclict of the late William Mackenzie,
Esq., of Weymouth, Dorsetshire.
In Dublin, in an advanced age, Miss Considine. She
has left her large funded property to her nephew,
Hiffernan Considine, Esq., of Derk, county Limerick.
At Bath, on Friday, the 7th inst., in the 53d year of
his age, Richard Heaviside, Esq., late of 15,
Brunswick-square, Brighton, a magistrate for the
county of Sussex, and formerly a captain in the King's
Dragoon Guards.
--The Cork Examiner, 14 May 1847
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It is not true as stated by a Cotemporary, [sic] that the
"potato murrain" of last year has re-appeared in this
neighbourhood. We have made every inquiry on the
subject, and find that what has been sown is in a very
promising condition. At the meeting of the Board of
Guardians of this Union on Tuesday, Mr. John Hurly, in
noticing the paragraph in question, which he said was
calculated to deter many from sowing, stated that he
never saw the potato crop in this district, and he had
examined no small portion of it with great attention--
looking so luxuriant.--Tralee Chronicle.
--The Cork Examiner, 24 May 1847
Dennis Ahern
belief is prevalent that, in consequence of the high price of
food, the queen has ordered all children under five years of
age, and all grown persons more than seventy years old, to
be put to death.
--The Cork Examiner, 7 June 1847
Dennis Ahern
OF THE DISEASE.
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We take the following extract from a letter this morning
received from F. A. Jackson, Esq., of Inane, Roscrea :--
"It may be in your recollection that I sent you a statement
last May, which you published in your newspaper, of my early
potatoes being diseased. It was the first public notice of the
appearance of the disease in this district, and many of our
neighbours were incredulous on the subject, and disregarded
the warning. I am sorry to be obliged to have the same story
to tell again this year. The fatal spots have again appeared
within the last few days on my early crop, which have now
attained their full height, and are nearly fit to dig. They are
unmistakeably inflicted with the potato murrain of the two
last years. Whether the same is to be the fate of the general
crop, sown and sowing this year, no man can say, but it looks
bad.--King's County Chronicle.
--The Cork Examiner, 3 May, 1847
Patricia Downes
wrote:
> COUNTY LIMERICK QUARTER SESSIONS
> COURT--TUESDAY
>
> Richard barry, Anne Leahy, Thomas Ryan, Jas. Harty, and
> John Ahern pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing property
> out of the workhouse. The Barrister told them if they were
> beggars they had no right to be thieves, and sentenced them
> to seven years transportation.
>
> --The Limerick Reporter, 6 November 1848
That one really got to me.
But it looks like at least two of them might have made it.
From the Index to Tasmanian convicts:
Name Ship Departed Arrived
Leahy Anne Maria(2) 5/4/1849 Kingston 23/7/1849
Ryan Thomas Hyderabad 23/5/1849 " 26/8/1849
Trish
________________________
Trish Downes
pdo...@pcug.org.au
Canberra ACT Australia
Dennis Ahern
REVOLTING MURDER AT CASTLEBELLINGHAM.--On Friday
evening last, about 7 o'clock, a young lad named Mathew
Macken, in the employment of Sir A. Bellingham, was
observed returning from his work, in company with another
lad named Clarke, after which Macken disappeared, and no
trace could be had of him till the following day at half past
3 p.m., when his body, with the head nearly severed from it,
and covered with leaves, was found by an old woman near
the entrance gate of the demesne. The murder was supposed
to have been effected with a bill or "slashing hook," which
was found besmeared with blood about fourteen yards from
the body. Clarke was shortly after arrested. It was stated by
Sir Allan Bellingham's caretaker of agricultural implements,
&c., that the hook found near the body was the same that he
had given to Clarke to sharpen on the day of the murder. No
cause can be assigned for the horrid deed, unless it may be a
desire to get possessed of 7s which the deceased had on his
person, and which the prisoner was aware he (deceased)
had been paid by Sir A. Bellingham.--Newry Examiner.
-- The Cork Examiner, 16 April 1847
Dennis Ahern
The Messrs. Tattersall have announced that the
Castlemartyr Fox Hounds, which were advertised to be sold
by them on the 19th instant, have been sold by private sale.
Lord Southampton, it is said, is the purchaser.
Dennis Ahern
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Ballinhassig, June 22, 1847
SIR.--I have much pleasure in stating that potatoes and
corn are promising and most abundant. The former for the
quantity planted, not inconsiderable, is by many degrees
superior to what we have had, at this season any year for the
last ten. Amongst them there is not the least appearance of
disease.
In this opinion I am confirmed by the testimony of members
of Relief Committees and farmers from Kinsale to Ballincollig.
I am sorry I cannot say that disease does not exist amongst
the human beings. Fever is almost in every house in the
villages of Ballinhassig and the half way to Bandon. Every
cabin in the Mountain part of Inniskinny Electoral District is
infected--and not one particle of food or medicine is given to
relieve those destitute people by the Relief Committee. I
attended this committee meeting to-day, and although their
wants were admitted by every member, nothing was done
save to request the Commissioners of relief to send us some
Medical Inspectors. I suggested to have the houses and
habitations of the poor washed with lime and otherwise
purified ; but this was considered by one of our leading
members a matter very difficult to be done. So then the poor
sick people are now, all hands idle from public works, to live
or die without medical aid. It has been stated also that as
sufficient accomodation is in the Union Workhouse for all old
and helpless people, there, and there alone, are they to be
supported, that any rations given them at the long-withheld
food depots would render the accounts and expenditure of
such depot incapable of being passed by the Cork Finance
Committee.
I am satisfied that such is not the law and I am sure the
gentlemen acting on that Finance Committee, whose names
our former chairman mentioned, are incapable of doing the
poor such injustice.
I am, Mr. Editor, your truly,
JOHN HALANAN, P.P. Ballinhassig
--The Cork Examiner, 25 June 1847
Dennis Ahern
STATE OF FEVER IN THE CITY.
NUMBER IN HOSPITAL THIS MORNING.
Cork Fever Hospital 195 Vacancies 3
North Infirmary 153 Do 0
Barrack-street 230 Do 8
Cats Fort 110 Do 8
North Fever Sheds 82 Do 3
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Total in Hospital 770 Vacancies 22
The weather, since our last, has continued
changeable, and fever amongst the poorer classes,
has undergone no change. We are glad, however, to
state, that amongst the more comfortable classes
fewer individuals are attacked.
Dennis Ahern
ROBERT CHUTE, a cooper, was sentenced to two months'
imprisonment for assaulting another cooper named
Foley. The assault was stated to have arisen out of trade
combination. The defendant, however, denied this,
alleging that he was out of his mind with drink, and did
not know what he was doing when he struck Foley.
--The Cork Examiner, 29 May 1861
Dennis Ahern
ARREST OF A MURDERER.--A notorious character
named Hayden, charged with the murder of Sub-
Constable Crowley and the attack on Mr. Wayland,
Pay clerk, near Dundrum, in January last, was arrested
by Sub Inspector Fitzgerald, of Cappawhite, and a party
of police, on Wednesday night, in a cave which he had
dug under the floor of his own dwelling where it is
supposed he slept for some time past--the remainder of
the party concerned in this murder were long since
arrested--two of whom suffered the extreme penalty of
the law at our county gaol on the 24th Sept. Hayden is
also charged with another murder which occurred near
Cappawhite about a month since, under circumstances
of peculiar barbarity, the victim, a fine young man, being
merely suspected of informing the police of Hayden's
whereabouts. The arrest of this person is a source
of gratification to the well-disposed in that
neighbourhood--who were intimidated to afford him
succour and pecuniary aid.--Tipperary Free Press
--The Cork Examiner, 25 October 1847
Dennis Ahern
A SAILOR, named John Resor, appeared at the Police Office on
Wednesday, to prosecute a woman of disreputable character
who resides in Godsill's-lane, for having stolen a purse
containing £3 10s from him on the previous night. What
renders this robbery most heartless is the circumstance that
the plaintiff was totally wrecked a few days since, in the ship
Henrietta, at the Coast of New Ross, and with thirteen of his
unfortunate shipmates, was taken from the wreck. The
remainder of the crew, amounting to fourteen persons, were
lost. The plaintiff stated that he was induced to visit this place
in ignorance of the character of the woman, and that the
money taken from him left him totally destitute.
--The Cork Examiner, 31 December 1847
Dennis Ahern
SEVERAL women of ill-fame were sentenced to a
fortnight's imprisonment by the magistrates, this morning,
for being disorderly in the streets last night.
--The Cork Examiner, 29 May 1861
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Infirmary Hospital, Cork, MATTHEW (MATT), Monagoul, beloved husband of
Hannah and dear father of John Vincent, Anne-Marie (Griffin) and Willie.
Deeply regretted by his loving family, son-in-law Dan, daughter-in-law
Frances, grandchildren, cousins, relatives, neighbours and many friends.
R.I.P. Reposing at Egan's Funeral Home, The Mall, Youghal. Rosary on this
(Tuesday) evening at 9p.m. Removal on tomorrow (Wednesday) at 7p.m. to
St. Peter in Chains Church, Ballymacoda. Requiem Mass on Thursday at 2p.m.
Funeral afterwards to All Saints Cemetery, Mogeely. Family flowers only.
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AN accident which, it is to be feared, will involve the life
of one person at least, occurred on Friday evening to two
workmen, engaged in quarrying at Silver Spring, Glanmire.
It appears that these men had been quarrying the rock to a
considerable depth, and unfortunately neglected to provide
sufficient support for the overhanging mass, when a large
portion became detached and fell upon them. They were
removed to the North Infirmary, where it was stated that
the injuries inflicted on one of them were such as would
require the amputation of both legs, but in the other case
the injuries were not so severe.
--The Cork Examiner, 19 May 1847
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Viscount Castlerosse has returned to Eaton-place,
London, from his seat, Killarney.
--The Cork Examiner, 29 May 1861
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Dennis Ahern
INFORMATIONS were taken against a girl named Shea for
robbing a German sailor in Godsil's lane, a few days
ago. A companion of his was robbed at the same time
by another woman in the same house.
Dennis Ahern
CONSTABLE VICKERS brought four boys named Haley,
Draddy, Sullivan and M'Carthy, before the magistrates
this morning on a charge of vagrancy. The three first,
who were stated to be habitual vagrants, were
sentenced to a month's imprisonment each, and
M'Carthy to a fortnight's imprisonment, it being his
first offence.
Dennis Ahern
BRUTAL ASSAULT.--A woman named Mary Donovan was
received into the South Infirmary, yesterday, with a
severe scalp wound, the effect of a kick from her
husband.
Dennis Ahern
BARBAROUS MURDER OF TWO OLD WOMEN !--On the night
of the 8th inst., two maiden sisters named Anne and
Catherine Callan, residing in the townland of Mullacrogbery,
were most barbarously murdered in their dwelling house.
Catherine was found lying across her bed, naked, and her
skull frightfully broken in ; the other sister, Anne, lay
stretched on the floor near the entrance, bearing on her
person the marks of several stabs, and having a gash
extending from the ear half across her throat. The efficient
sub-inspector of the district, Thomas R. Barry, Esq., was
some short time after its discovery in the morning in
attendance ; but, notwithstanding his exertions up to the
present, no clue to the murders has been discovered, though
a large reward from the landlord of the unfortunate women
has been offered. No reason can be assigned for this
inhuman act.--Ibid. [Newry Examiner]
-- The Cork Examiner, 16 April 1847
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last, admitted, by engraved cards of invitation, upwards of 500
noblemen and gentlemen to view the pictures in his London
house, in Whitehall Gardens.
--The Cork Examiner, 3 May, 1847
Dennis Ahern
In Mitchelstown, on the 11th instant, the Lady of the
Rev. T.E. Evans, of twin daughters.
At Ludiana, on the 7th January, the Lady of Major
Long, H. M.'s 50th Foot, of a daughter, still born.
--The Cork Examiner, 17 March 1847
Dennis Ahern
ANGELUS BELL FOR ST. MARY'S CHURCH.
ADDITIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS for the Angelus Bells of
St. Mary's Church, for which the Committee return thanks :--
A Friend, per Rev. J. P. Leahy £1 0 0
Patrick Ford, Wellington Road 1 0 0
James Hegarty, Blarney-lane 1 0 0
William Hegarty, do. 1 0 0
D. and W. Lyons, John-street 1 0 0
Dl. Mahony, Camden-quay 1 0 0
Martin Mahony, do. 10 0
Timothy Mahony, do. 10 0
James Daly, Patrick's-hill 2 0 0
George Waters, North Mall 1 0 0
John E. Finn, Patrick's-hill 1 0 0
Burke Brothers, Patrick's-quay 15 0
Honan, do. do. 10 0
John Russell, Limerick 6 0
Martin Conway, Wellington Road 5 0
William Madden, Bridge-street 10 0
John Madden, do. 5 0
J. Carmichael, Patrick Street 1 0 0
John Donegan, Merchant's-quay 1 0 0
Miss C. Lyons, South Terrace 1 0 0
Miss B. Good 1 0 0
Mrs. Michael Dunne 1 0 0
E. Finn, North Main-street 1 0 0
Denis Conor, do. 1 0 0
Simon Daly, do. 1 0 0
Michael Sullivan, do. 0 10 0
Thomas Russel, Mallow-lane 0 10 0
Bernard Sheehan, do. 0 10 0
James Ronayne, Patrick's Hill 2 0 0
D. Barry, North Main-street 1 0 0
James Lambkin, Patrick-street 1 0 0
Robert Browne, Dominick-street 0 10 0
John Treacy, Grand Parade 1 0 0
John Perry, Patrick-street 0 10 0
John Maguire, Summer Hill 1 0 0
John Murphy, Pope's Quay 1 0 0
D. Mulcahy, North Main-street 0 5 0
Simon Flynn, do. 0 5 0
----- Reed, do. 0 5 0
Miss M'Auliff, do. 0 5 0
Miss O'Regan, do. 0 4 0
J. Prendergast 0 5 0
Thomas Lyons & Co 3 0 0
Jeremiah Stack Murphy, High Sherriff 3 0 0
Michael Murphy, Lisalee 1 0 0
T. Hayes 0 10 0
Mrs. Daly, Great George's-stree 0 5 0
Francis Power, Tuckey-street 0 5 0
A Lady per Miss Mahony 0 10 0
J. J. GALWEY, Sec.
--The Cork Examiner, 15 September 1847
Dennis Ahern
On Tuesday the 6th inst., at his father's house,
Mardyke Parade, aged 16 years, O'Connell Francis,
son of Charles Sugrue, Esq.
At his lodgings, Cove, on Saturday the 3d inst.,
John Daniel Harnett, Esq., of Laurel Hill, Blarney,
deeply regretted by his family and friends.
At Isle of Man, Jane, only daughter of the late Daniel
Cudmore, Esq., of Manister, co. Limerick, niece to the
late Col. Hodder of Hodders Field.
On the 30th ult., at Kingston College, Mitchelstown,
in the 71st year of her age, Miss Mary Raymond, daughter
of the late Wm. Raymond, Esq.
On the 30th ult., at his residence, Dorset-street, Dublin,
Maximilian Joseph Labat, Esq., in the 88th year of his age,
upwards of fifty-five years of which he was a zealous, faithful,
and intelligent officer of the Bank of Ireland.
At Baltimore, William Sullivan, a native of the county of Cork,
but for the last 20 years a citizen of the United States.
--The Cork Examiner, 7 April 1847
Dennis Ahern
A BIG SHIP.--The largest vessel, which ever came up
this river is the "Jessie," a Liverpool merchantman,
now lying near the Custom house. Her bulk appears to
be a subject of great curiosity with the country folk
looking out for a good craft. She arrived with guano,
and is chartered to take emigrants for America. The
Jessie, though carrying a thousand tons, seems
perfectly safe and easy at her station.
--The Cork Examiner, 19 May 1847
Dennis Ahern
PRICE OF WHISKEY
The price of whiskey has fallen one shilling per
gallon this week. The price is now 7s 9d.
-- The Cork Examiner, 16 April 1847
Dennis Ahern
THE MINERVA--This beautiful steam vessel, built for the
Cork Steam Ship Company by Messrs. Vernon and Co.,
arrived here yesterday evening, after a trial trip hence to
Dublin and back. She accomplished her passage across,
under disadvantages, in eight hours and forty-eight minutes,
averaging about fifteen knots. On her return yesterday, she
attained a still greater speed up to about half way across,
when she was beset by a fog, and could only, for fear of
collision, dodge on, heaving the lead, and ringing the bell.
She at length made the N. W. Light ship, and got up the
river, "all well."--Liverpool Courier.
Dennis Ahern
£600 to Mr. Browne, the printer ; £300 to the
Freeman's Journal, with several other heavy items. Mr.
O'Connell has sent over £50 weekly to keep the doors of
Conciliation-hall open, otherwise they must have been
closed.--World.
--The Cork Examiner, 7 April 1847
Dennis Ahern
A Bad Leg of several Year's standing cured by Holloway's
Ointment and Pills.--Mr. Turpin Prowse, Richmond Cottage,
Widcome, Bath, has made a declaration to the following effect:--
"That he had been suffering for more than five years with an
ulcerated leg, covered with fourteen wounds, and that he had
been a patient at the United Hospital, at Bath, for three or four
years, and that he had also used the sulfur bath every other day
for six months, and all to no purpose, but that he is now perfectly
cured after every other means had failed, and by the use of
Holloway's Ointment and Pills." Mr. King, Chemist, Bath, will
vouch for the truth of this extraordinary case.
Dennis Ahern
The total number of deaths in the workhouse in
Ireland, for the week ending the 4th of April, 1846,
amounting to 159 ; the total number who died in the
week ending the 3d April, in the present year,
amounted to 2,706.
--The Cork Examiner, 24 May 1847
Dennis Ahern
RELIEF FROM VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.--A private letter
from Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, announces that
the splendid subscription of £5,000 has been made in
that Colony for the Relief of the Distressed Irish, and
that, in addition, a vessel has been chartered with a
cargo of wheat for the same benevolent object.
--The Cork Examiner, 21 June 1847
Dennis Ahern
On the 2d of June the barque Swan, Captain
Robertson, left this port with Emigrants for New
York. She arrived at the port of her destination safe
and perfectly healthy. On her homeward voyage she
fell in with the wreck of the Naiad, Capt. Brightman,
of and from New Bedford, bound to the Coast of
Africa. Capt. Robertson immediately rendered all
assistance that lay in his power, and took Captain
Brightman and crew on board, and brought them into
this port on Saturday last. The Swan is the property of
the Messrs. Scott, of Cove, and every credit is due to
Captain Robertson for his humanity and praiseworthy
act in saving the crew of the ill-fated Naiad from
certain death.
--The Cork Examiner, 15 September 1847
Dennis Ahern
AHERN--Ninth Anniversary--In loving memory of John
Ahern, Kilbrittain. Sacred Heart of Jesus, have
mercy on his soul.
AHERN--Third Anniversary--In loving memory of our
dear mother, Christina Ahern, late of Killydonghue,
Glanmire, who died on January 6, 1957. On her soul
sweet Jesus, have mercy. Masses offered.
--The Cork Examiner, 6 January 1960
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THE music-loving portion of the Citizens will be
gratified to learn that the Military Bands of the 47th
and 67th Regiments will alternately perform at
Belgrave-place, and York Terrace every Wednesday
and Friday (weather permitting) from 3 to 5 o'clock in
the afternoon of each day.
--The Cork Examiner, 19 May 1847
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Having some time ago offended Mr. Charles Ross, and his
son Mr. Thomas Ross, at the Theatre Royal, Patrick-street,
I take this opportunity of expressing my regret and
contrition for the same, and hope they will be pleased to
accept this apology.
JEREMIAH M'CARTHY
--The Cork Mercantile Chronicle, 17 July 1817
Dennis Ahern
IN the Town of Mallow, FIFTEEN HOUSES,
leaving a Profit rent of £30 a-year, for Term of
Eighty-Five Years' Lease of one part, and Sixty-One
Years' Lease of the other part.
Three of these Houses are in the front of the Street
of Ballydaheen, on the main road to Cork ; Twelve
more attached to the Rear, forming what is commonly
called Sullivan's Square.
These houses are lately built, in very good repair,
and covered with the best Bangor Slate, and, what
adds to the encouragement of the Purchaser, is having
them all advantageously Tenanted.
Application to be made to JAMES SULLIVAN, on
the Premises.
--The Cork Examiner, 15 September 1847
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THE ODD FELLOWS BOUNTY.--Sir--Your letter of 29th
ult., reached me by this evening's post, enclosing an order
on the National Bank, for 10l. from the benevolent
Society of Odd Fellows ; and I lose no time in
acknowledging receipt of same ; and, on the part of the
Ladies' Committee for relieving the poor of Tralee, I beg
leave to express our very sincere thanks for this most
seasonable donation.--I remain, Sir, your most obliged,
Katherine Mary Donovan, Honorary Secretary Ladies'
Committee for the relief of the poor of Tralee.
The Rev. J. T. Kyle, and Rev. Michael O'Donnell,
R.C.C., 25l, from the Central Relief Society for the poor
of Clondrohid.
Rev. Dr. Sloane to the Society of Friends for ten barrels
of Indian Meal, ten bags of Rice, and 5l in money ; also
for another grant made on Monday last of six bags of
Rice, and three bags of Biscuit for the poor of the
electoral division of Mathehea.
Cork Fever Hospital--Matthew Leslie, Esq., per Dr.
Trayer, 1l 1s, for Cork Fever Hospital ; English
Clergyman by R. Sainthill, Esq., 5l ; Lieut. B. Burgess,
Bombay Army, 5l ; Mr. Molony, 1l 1s.--12l 2s--John
Ballard, Treasurer.
Richard O'Keeffe, Cat Fort Hospital, acknowledges the
receipt of Six Dozen Garments from the Friend's Clothing
Society, per Mrs. Pike, Besborough, for the destitute
patients leaving that hospital.
Mr. Charles Mathew through Society of Friends per
Abraham Beale, Esq., fifteen barrels Indian Meal, and 1l
Robert Bailey, Esq., South Mall, for the poor of his
neighbourhood.
The Rev. Mr. O'Regan gratefully acknowledges the
receipt of two pounds for the relief of the destitute sick in
the South Parish, from a society of young gentlemen
aspirants for the Priesthood, denominated "The Sodality
of the Immaculate Conception."
The Rev. Mr. O'Regan thankfully acknowledges the
receipt of one pound from the Rev. Mr. Doheny, P.P.,
Dunmanway, for the monument to commemorate the
services and worth of the late Archdeacon O'Keeffe.
Mr. James Wise, Lavitt's-quay, acknowledges the
receipt of two pounds, restitution money, through the Rev.
Patrick Wm. Coffey, St. Patrick's.
--The Cork Examiner, 14 May 1847
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T H A N K S .
Rev. T. Barrett returns his most grateful thanks to J.
J. Murphy, for a donation of five pounds, for the poor
of the district of West Scull ; to Mr. Edward Finn,
Grocer, North Main-street, for a donation of 1l.
The Rev. Mr. O'Regan gratefully acknowledges the
receipt of one pound from John Ballard, Esq., for the
relief of the Indigent Sick of the South Parish.
The Rev. Mr. O'Regan gratefully acknowledges the
sum of two pounds from the young gentlemen of the
Society of the Immaculate Conception, their second
contribution to him for the benefit of the Indigent Sick
of the South Parish.
The Sisters of Mercy beg to acknowledge having
received 10l from J.D., for which they return their
most grateful thanks.
Mr. Rae, J.P., Kell, co. Kerry, most gratefully
acknowledges an order from the Society of Friends
per Abraham Beale, for 4 sacks of rice for the sick
poor of Kell--this is the fourth grant made by them
to him.
The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul gratefully
acknowledges the receipt of two pounds from a friend
through Alex. M'Carthy, Esq., Town Clerk ; also a
seasonable contribution of female clothing from the
Cork Ladies' Clothing Society ; and some shirts, ticks
and linen from an anonymous benefactor.
--The Cork Examiner, 7 June 1847
Dennis Ahern
Nazareth House, Mallow, WINIFRED (WINNIE), late of San Antone,
Whitegate. She will be sadly missed by her relatives, her many friends,
the residents, Sisters and staff of Nazareth House, Mallow. May she rest
in peace. Winnie will be lying in repose in the Villa, Newberry, Nazareth
House. Removal will take place on today (Saturday) at 6pm to Nazareth
House Chapel. Requiem Mass on Monday at 2pm. Funeral afterwards to St.
John's Cemetery, Glantane.
-- The Irish Examiner, 7 December 2002
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MILITARY SHEEP STEALERS.
IN the course of last week a gentleman residing in the
vicinity of Midleton, near Killea, (Mr. Welland)
engaged a prize ram for breeding purposes for Ł20
which, with two sheep, was left out at night to pasture
in a field about a mile distant from Midleton. On
missing them one morning, information was conveyed
to the police, who made every effort to discover their
whereabouts, but with no success. The secret,
however, soon transpired. A knife, lost by the
depredators, was found, and on its being shown by the
police to a butcher resident in Middleton he instantly
identified it as his property, which on the previous
evening he lent to a few of the soldiers of the 47th
Regt., a company of which is at present stationed in
Middleton, with a view to the protection of property,
as well as the preservation of the peace of the country.
The constabulary instantly proceeded to Thomas
Street, Middleton, where the military are quartered,
and on examination discovered portions of the
carcasses of the slaughtered animals safely deposited
in a coal hole. Suspicion strongly attaching to three of
the gallant corps, they were arrested and taken before
the sitting magistrates, who decided on receiving
informations against them ; and they now await their
trial at the ensuing sessions in durance.
It is to be regretted that the conduct of a few
scoundrels should have the effect of bringing into
disrepute a gallant body of men, such as
unquestionably is the 47th Regt., who, since the
unhappy occurrence, are denominated by the people
here--"the 47th sheep stealers."--Middleton
Correspondent
--The Cork Examiner, 1 January 1847
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AHERNE Eighth Anniversary--In loving memory of my dear
wife and mother, Margaret Aherne, late of Lismaloughlin,
Castlemartyr, who died on January 14, 1952. On her soul
sweet Jesus have mercy. R.I.P. Masses offered.
--The Cork Examiner 14 January 1960
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Head Constable John Jolley has been removed to Youghal
from Ballincollig, where he had been stationed for the
past six years.
-- The Cork Examiner, 16 April 1847
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ROBBERY AT THE WORKHOUSE
SOME days since an entrance was made into the
carpenter's workshop attached to the workhouse,
and a number of planes, chisels, and other
necessaries of the craft taken from the shop. After a
vigilant pursuit Constable O'Neill arrested three
notorious characters on yesterday morning at three
o'clock at the hot wall of the gashouse. The names of
the prisoners are Jeremiah Murphy, Patrick
Donovan, and James Crofts. The property was
indentified, and the parties remanded for trial before
the Recorder. The prisoners are members of a gang
of fifteen, whose nightly haunt is the hot wall at the
gazhouse. The active constable that arrested them,
from his peculiar sources of information, learned that
a plan was organised and ripe for execution, to
attack the stores of the workhouse on this evening
(Friday) but this capture put a disagreeable
termination to their plans, at least for the present.
Dennis Ahern
REMISSION OF DUTY ON FOREIGN MADE
BISCUITS.
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The following General order has been issued by the
Treasury :--
"Treasury Chambers, 24th April, 1847.
"I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury to desire that you give directions for
suspending the demand for duty on ship buscuit, and all other
buscuit, except fancy buscuit and confectionary, until the
1st of September next.
"I remain, gentlemen, your's, &c. &c.,
J. PARKER.
"To the Commissioners of Customs."
--The Cork Examiner, 3 May, 1847
Dennis Ahern
T H R E E L I V E S LOST .
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(From a Correspondent.)
A boating party, consisting of 8 persons, left the
town of Kenmare on Sunday last, and proceeded up
the river about four miles, when a squall came on,
and melancholy to relate, the boat upset and three
persons, Geoffrey Houlehan, Jeremiah Murphy, and
Robert Downing, were drowned. The others saved
themselves by clinging to the boat for upwards of an
hour and a half, when a small boat from a vessel
anchored in the harbour put off and rescued them
from their perilous situation. The body of Downing
was found the following day.
-- The Cork Examiner, 16 April 1847
Dennis Ahern
There were 155 sheep taken from the farm
belonging to Mr. Lahiff, as reported in the Journal of
Thursday. One of the party present has turned
approver and has given such information, as has led
to apprehension of several of the persons engaged.
A woman residing in the town of Gort, who attended
at the slaughter, was the quickest operator amongst
her group, as she had a sheep killed and half the
carcass brought away before any who waited to kill,
had left the field.--Clare Journal.
Dennis Ahern
B I R T H S .
On Wednesday, 27th inst., at Bandon, the lady of
William C. Sullivan, Esq., of a daughter.
On Thursday, at Woodhill Terrace the lady of W.
B. Hoare, Esq., of a daughter.
On Saturday, at Kingston-square, Mitchelstown,
the lady of Charles J. Daly, Esq., Solicitor, of a
daughter.
On the 17th inst., in Lisbon, Mrs. Francis Walsh,
(daughter of John Croker, Esq. of Ballyneguard,
county Limerick), of a daughter.
At Leamington, the Lady of James Hugh Smith
Barry, Esq., of a daughter.
In George-street, Limerick, the lady of Robert
MacMahon, Esq., of a daughter.
April 28, in Nenagh, the lady of Maurice Lenihan,
Esq., of a son.
On the 27th ult., at Cashel, the lady of Major J.
D. O'Brien, 70th Regiment, of a son.
--The Cork Examiner, 3 May, 1847
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M A R R I E D .
On Tuesday the 27th April, at Mollahiffe Church,
by the Rev. Wm. Caulfield, Rector of Mollahiffe,
and afterwards at the house of the bride's father, by
the Rev. Thomas Drane, P.P., John Curtin, of
Killikileen, in the co. of Limerick, Esq., to Agnes,
youngest daughter of Maurice De Courcey, Esq., of
Castlefarm in the co. of Kerry.
Mr. Frederic Sayers, Postmaster of Fethard, to
Margaret daughter of the late Hugh Lloyd, Esq., of
Ballahane, co. Tipperary.
Dennis Ahern
D E A T H S .
Of fever, at Lombardstown, on the 1st inst., in the
54th year of his age, Mr. Thos. Bolster, deeply and
deservedly regretted, by a bereaved family and a
numerous circle of friends.
At Mallow, this morning, in the prime of his life,
after a few days illness, of fever, Mr. John Cronin,
T.C., an honest and upright trader, a sincere and
affectionate friend.
On the 25th ult., at Harrington's Hotel,
Castletown Berehaven, of acute and protracted
illness, which she bore with Christian fortitude and
resignation, Margaret, the beloved and eldest
daughter of the late Peter Harrington.
On the 30th ult., of consumption, Lydia, second
daughter of the late James Ahern of this city.
On Friday, in Listowel, of fever, in the prime of
his life, Edward Stokes, Esq., of that town.
The Rev. John Cormick, P.P. of Galbally, co.
Limerick.
On yesterday, the 30th ult., of fever, at his
residence, Rose Cottage, Passage West, William
Barry, Esq., M.D., aged 46.
Of fever, on the 30th inst., [sic] in Bandon,
Maryanne, the amiable and beloved wife of Richard
Emmanuel Moore, Esq.
At Bandon, of fever, Joseph John Wheeler, Esq.,
aged 57 years.
At his residence, Donnybrook, near Doneraile, on
the 27th ult., William Hill, Esq., in the 69th year of
his age.
On the 22d ult., at her residence, Northland-row,
Dungannon, Mrs. Henry Goold, widow of the late
Henry M. Goold, Esq., brother to the present Sir
George Goold, Bart.
On the 29th ult., at the house of her son-in-law,
the Earl of Ranfurly, 40 Berkely-square, the Hon.
Sophia Margaret Stuart, granddaughter of the
celebrated William Penn, founder and proprietor of
Pennsylvania, and Widow of the Hon. and Rev. W.
Stuart, D.D., late Lord Primate of all Ireland, in the
83d year of her age.
April 29, in Upper Merrion-street, Mary, second
daughter of the late Rev. Robert Weldon, Rector of
Ennis.
April 27, at Castlehaven Rectory, Emmeline,
infant daughter of the Rev. Charles Bushe.
April 25, in Thurles, Michael Cormack, Esq.
Dennis Ahern
T H A N K S .
The Sisters of Mercy beg to acknowledge having received
Leahy, Shanakiel House, being the fourth part of the
proceeds of a concert lately held for the poor. Also 3l from a
Friend, for the Sick Poor, for which they return their most
grateful thanks.
Dennis Ahern
THE TENANT RIGHT--THE DUKE OF
MANCHESTER.
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In the Record Court, Armagh, on the 2d instant, an
appeal in which the Rev. Mr. Campbell, P.P., of
Tandragee, was appellant, and the Duke of Manchester
respondent, came on for hearing before Chief Justice
Doherty.
It appeared from the statement of counsel for the
appellant, the Rev. Mr. Campbell rented a small
portion of ground, which he intended for the erection of
a chapel from a Mrs. O'Connell, having given her £20
for the tenant right, and he remained as tenant from
year to year for some time. In April, 1846, the Duke of
Manchester purchased the land from Mrs. O'Connell;
on which the reverend gentleman agreed to give up
possession on being paid the £20 he had paid for the
tenant right. This the Duke of Manchester refused to
do, and obtained an ejectment decree at the sessions,
against which the Rev. Mr. Campbell now appealed.
The arguments being closed,
Chief Justice Doherty said the case, on account of the
tenant right in accordance with custom in that part of
the country, had better be settled by arbitration, leaving
it to a gentleman of the county to determine whether the
Duke of Manchester should pay the sum claimed.
Mr. O'Hagan, counsel for Mr. Campbell, at once
acceded, and offered to leave the matter entirely to any
gentleman of the grand jury, or of the country, of any
political party or creed. The Duke of Manchester's
counsel declined to accede to this arrangement,
although again urged by the court, and ultimately the
Chief Justice, having no alternative, affirmed the decree
in favour of the Duke of Manchester.
--The Cork Examiner, 17 March 1847
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M A R R I E D .
On the 9th inst., at Walmer, Henry Mitchell, Esq.,
49th Regt., to Hester, only child of the late Lieut. Col.
Coast, 21st Fusiliers.
On the 11th inst., at St. Peter's Church,
Eaton-square, London, by the Rev. Mr. Fuller, William
Maybury, Esq., of Killarney, to Georgiana Fenton,
youngest daughter of James Thomas Blurton, Esq., of
St. James-street.
On the 15th instant, at the residence of the bride's
father, Christopher Martin, of Sackville-street, Esq., to
Kate, only daughter of Nath. J. Cartland, of Stafford
street, Esq., Dublin.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE--Viscount Ebrington, eldest
son of the Earl Fortescue, was on Thursday married at
Carne in Dorsetshire, to Miss Damer, eldest daughter
of the Hon. Col. and Mrs. Dawson Damer.
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D E A T H S .
On the 16th inst., at the Mardyke Parade, Cork,
William Connor, Esq., of Mishells, aged 59.
On Monday morning, the 15th inst., at eight o'clock,
Mr. John O'Sullivan, grocer, of No. 2, Great
George's-street, after a most severe illness of six month's
duration ; leaving a widow and five young children to
deplore his untimely end.
On yesterday morning, at her lodgings, on the Grand
Parade, Mrs. Mary Smith, relict of the late Thomas Smith,
Esq., J.P., Blarney.
In the 40th year of his age, at Passage West, on the
11th inst., James Stackpole Reardon, Esq., beloved and
deeply regretted by many attached friends. He was a
gentleman of varied attainments, an excellent linguist, of
high principle, and of the most amiable and conciliating
disposition. Several of his literary contributions have
appeared in "Bolster's Magazine," published some years
since in this city.
On Sunday last at his residence, Brookville Cottage,
Kilfinan, county Limerick, Dr. Richard Hobart, for several
years past the medical attendant of the Kilfinan and
Kilmallock united Dispensary. By the poor of the district
his loss will be severely felt.
On the 10th inst., at his residence, Umera Cottage, Mr.
James Burdon. He was clerk of the Macroom Union since
its formation, and discharged the duties of his situation
most efficiently and creditably. Through life he was much
respected, and he died sincerely regretted by all who
knew him.
At the residence of his nephew, Thomas K. Sullivan,
Esq., Solicitor, Bandon, Nathaniel Sutton, Esq., Lislee
Court, aged 84 years.
Suddenly, Monday morning, at her residence, Fermoy,
Mrs. Julia Desmond. She has left two interesting children
to mourn the loss of a fond and tender parent.
On the 14th March inst., at his house in Baggot-street,
George Digges La Touche, Esq., Barrister-at-law, Dublin.
On Thursday, the 11th inst., at her residence, 102,
Baggot-street, Dublin, Susan, relict of William
Pennefather, Esq., late of the 30th Regiment.
Dennis Ahern
There is no truth in the report originated by the United
Service Gazette, that Major Fagan is to be appointed
third Inspector-General of Constabulary in Ireland. An
Act of Parliament would be required before the
appointment could be effected.--Limerick Chronicle.
Dennis Ahern
B I R T H S .
Lady Charles Wellesley was safely delivered of a daughter on
Friday, at Apsley-house.
EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.--Between 11 and half-past 12 o'clock on
Thursday night, Mrs. Holder, of 166, Blackfriar's-road, was confined
with four children--two boys and two girls, all of whom are living.
--The Cork Examiner, 7 April 1847
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CITY COURT--MONDAY.
MR. SERGEANT STOCK took his seat on the Bench this morning at 10
o'clock, and proceeded with the hearing of
CITY CRIMINAL CASES.
John Morrisy, Joseph Healy, Denis Finnegan, Catherine
Finnegan, and Julia Murphy were given in charge, the first two of
the prisoners for stealing 50 yards of cloth, value Ł30, the property
of George Cannock and others, and the other three prisoners with
having received same, knowing them to be stolen.
The prisoners pleaded not guilty.
Michael Hurly was sworn and examined by Mr. Walsh and
deposed that he was a carman in the employment of Mr. Lefebure ;
knows the prisoners ; remembers the Nimrod coming in to the quay,
on the 25th of January last ; Morrisy and Haly [sic] were then
employed on the quay ; a bale of cloth was lying on the quay, having
been landed from the Nimrod ; they told him that the bale was lying
there since morning ; they all agreed to take it, and Joseph Healey
[sic] desired them to remove it to Carter's, and that he would come
and carry it away from that ; they took it to Carter's ; it was arranged
between them to take it after that to Healy's house, and to meet there
and divide it amongst them ; when they opened the bale, they found
nine pieces of cloth in it, which they divided between them ;
Finnegan's wife is sister to Healy.
The Witness was cross examined by Mr. Scannell, but nothing of
importance was elicited.
Jeremiah O'Callaghan was examined, and deposed that he was in
the employment of Messrs. Cannock, and that a quantity of cloth was
to arrive to the Messrs. Cannock, per the Nimrod, from Liverpool,
which witness had purchased at Leed [sic] ; witness saw the cloth in
the Station House in Cork, and identified it ; part of it was then cut,
apparently by a person not in the habit of cutting cloth.
James Breen, clerk in the employment of Messrs. Hirst and Co. of
Leeds, deposed to having prepared an invoice of the cloth sold by
him to the former witness.
Jeremiah O'Callaghan was re-examined--There were about 50 yards
of cloth less in what he saw at the Station house than what was
mentioned in the invoice.
William Morrissy sworn and examined--deposed that he knew the
prisoners, and that on the 25th of January Hurley came to him at Mr.
Carter's where he was employed, and gave him a bale of cloth, which
he told him to keep until Healy should come for it ; Healy afterwards
called for it and got it from him ; there was another man with Healy at
the time.
A Clerk in the employment of Mr. Hegarty, Pawnbroker, deposed
that on the 28th of January a woman, whom he identified as one of
the female prisoners, Julia Morrissy, [sic] came into the office and
offered him a piece of cloth ; he asked her where she got it, and
finally stopped the cloth, and handed her over to the custody of
Constable Graham.
Constable Graham deposed to having arrested the prisoner Julia
Morrissy, and having searched her house, where he found three
pieces of cloth ; one of which on being compared with the piece
offered at Mr. Hegarty's appeared to be that from which the latter
piece had been cut. When she was arrested, she gave her name as
Julia Morrissy ; he had also found Ł4 10s in money in a box in the
prisoner's house ; witness got two pieces of cloth from Mr. Thornhill,
Pawnbroker, which Mr. O'Callaghan indentified at the station house.
Head Constable Crowley deposed that he arrested the prisoner
Finnegan, and searched her house, where he and his wife were, but
without finding anything there. He got two pieces of black cloth from
Constable Graham, which he was told had been offered to Mr.
Thornhill by Finegan. [sic]
Mr. Thornhill, Pawnbroker, deposed that he received from the
Prisoner Finegan [sic] two pieces of black cloth, in last January. The
prisoner on that occasion told him his name was Coveney, of Bandon.
Witness gave up the cloth to Constable Graham.
Ellen Leavis deposed that she was employed in the office of Mrs.
Miller, pawnbroker, where she was offered a piece of cloth in pawn
by the female prisoner, Finnegan, who then gave her name as
Catherine Healy ; witness afterwards gave up the cloth to Constable
Crowley.
Some other witnesses having been examined to the same effect, Mr.
M. H. Conway was examined by Mr. Walsh, and deposed that Mr.
J. Leycester is one of the partners of the Cork Steam Packet
Company, to which the Nimrod belongs ; the cargo of the Nimrod
was discharged on the 25th of January, and witness was told by the
landing clerk that a bale of cloth for Cannock & Co. was missing.
The evidence having closed, Mr. Scannell addressed the jury for the
defence, after which his Lordship summed up the evidence.
The jury retired for a short time and then returned a verdict of
guilty against all the prisoners.
[to be continued]
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CITY COURT--MONDAY. [continued]
While the jury were engaged in finding their verdict, another jury
was sworn, and his Lordship proceeded with the hearing of the
following case:--
John Donelly was charged with having obtained a loaf of bread
from Miss A. Bastable, by presenting a forged ticket, signed in the
name of the Rev. Mr. Marmion.
The prosecutrix deposed that the Rev. Mr. Marmion had been in
the habit of sending persons to her shop with tickets signed by him to
receive bread, for which he used to pay. The prisoner one day came
into her shop and presented her a ticket signed in the name of the
Rev. Marmion, for a loaf of bread. She at first refused to give it,
suspecting from the manner of the prsioner that he was attempting to
cheat her, but he, having left the shop for a short time, came back,
saying he had seen the Rev. Marmion since, and he had told him to
get the bread, and that he would call in himself in the course of the
day. Witness then produced the ticket, which she deposed she had
kept ever since.
The Rev. Mr. Marmion was sworn, and deposed that he never
signed the document which was handed to him.
The Court wished to know whether the prosection was to be for
obtaining under false pretenses or for presenting a forged document.?
Mr. Scannell said it was for uttering a forged document.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence--six months'
imprisonment.
James Connor was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for
stealing a quantity of brass and copper, the property of the Cork
Steam Packet Company.
Timothy Mahony was sentenced to two years' imprisonment at
hard labour, for having stolen the sum of £3.
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CITY COURT--MONDAY. [continued]
RULE OF COURT
Sergeant Stock then proceeded to sentence the different prisoners
who had been tried. The following are the sentences which were
passed.
William Reardon, who pleaded guilty to feloniously receiving
goods, 3 months' imprisonment with hard labour ; Ellen Riordan,
petty larceny, 3 months from the date of her committal ; Jeremiah
Murphy, same offence, 3 months with hard labour ; John, Tean, and
Edward Whitford, who pleaded guilty of burglary of the most
extensive kind, to be imprisoned for two years and a half from the
date of the committal and kept to hard labour ; John and Mary
Duggan, for feloniously receiving the goods robbed, 18 months from
committal, with hard labour. The prisoners were brother and sister,
and both far advanced in life.
His Lordship observed that it appeared they had been long engaged
in this irregular and nefarious traffic, and had seduced children of
tender years into the commission of offences.
John Mullany, convicted of cow stealing, in favour of whom Mr.
Walsh read a memorial signed by the prosecutors, 12 months
imprisonment with hard labour ; Michael Griffin, found guilty of
larceny, was next put forward to receive sentence.
Prisoner, addressing the Court--I would be obliged to you if you
transported me. I am quite destitute of friends or relatives.
Gaoler--I must state that his conduct in the gaol has been most
outrageous. He tore up near a pound's worth of bedding, without the
slightest provocation, in order that he should be reported to your
lordship.
Court--You are to be imprisoned for one year from the date of
your committal, and kept to hard labour.
The next prisoner brought up was Timothy Lynch, who had
pleaded guilty of sacrilege.
His Lordship said--You are, I understand, a Catholic, and none
but a man totally devoid of all religious impressions could be guilty
of such an enormous act as you have committed. It is an offence which
rarely occurs in this country, and when it does occur, it ought to be
severly repressed. I shall sentence you to 12 months imprisonment
and hard labour.
Timothy Mahony, who was convicted of robbing a poor
countryman of a small sum of money, and who it appeared was the
leader of a wicked gang, and himself an incorrigible offender, got two
years and a half's confinement with hard labour. Michael Neville, a
pensioner, found guilty of manslaughter, was sentenced to an
imprisonment of 12 months from the date of his committal. Patrick
Gallwey, convicted of the manslaughter of his sister.
His Lordship said this prisoner had very narrowly, and upon very
doubtful evidence, escaped being convicted of the monstrous crime of
wilfully murdering his own sister ; but he had been found guilty of the
manslaugter of that near and dear relation. He had cruelly violated one
of the most sacred ties of human affection. His own character was
bad in the extreme, as it appeared from his conduct in the transaction,
and he had therefore to tell him that he was to be transported for
seven years.
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CORK SPRING ASSIZES-1847
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CITY COURT--MONDAY. [continued]
James Buchanan, found guilty of wilful murder, was then ordered
to be placed at the bar, and he shortly appeared, wearing a brown
coat over a soldier's old undress.
The Judge then addressed the convict as follows:-- James
Buchanan, after a solemn trial, and most patient investigation of your
case, a jury of the country has found you guilty of the murder of
Robert Frizby. [sic] That ill-fated man fell by your hand. He was your
fellow-soldier, and in the hour of unsuspecting security, whilst at his
post and duty, in the midst of peace, in his own quarters, he was
slaughtered by you. The death of a soldier in the field of battle,
combating for his country, though it may be painful, though it may be
violent, is sweetened and consoled by the sense of honour, by the
thought that he dies discharging the soldier's sacred duty to his
country and his king. But the death of your victim was not
accompanied with any such consolation. Your wicked and abominable
error hurried him to his last couch by means of a cruel assassination,
carrying with it for him no glory, no honour, no military
recompense in the remembrance of his brave companions, to alleviate
the agonies of a slow and painful death. What must now, and for the
rest of your earthly career, were your life spared, would for ever be,
the pangs of conscience which must torment your breast! Even if your
fate reserved you for a more lengthened period of existence, than the
violated laws of God and man allot you, that prolongation of your life
would only transfer you from an ignominious punishment in public to
the avenging torments of your own mind. Frisby died by your arm.
Frisby was to you innocent and without fault. He might have had his
faults towards others ; towards you, his assassin, he was as
unoffending as the child that was born yesterday. Him in the
sanguinary transports of your malice have you slain. You intended not
his death ; you harboured no anger, you had no revenge to gratify,
against him. Yet this your fellow man, your comrade, who might,
perhaps, in the course of that very day have become your friend--this
man have you deprived of life and being with a purpose as reckless,
as if you had been butchering him for your amusement. Your future
life, even if you were spared from the death you merit, could not,
humanly speaking, be a life reserved for any degree of happiness.
Though that men's laws should have spared you, you could not have
escaped that inward tormentor, that dire remorse that dogs the
criminal at the heels, and at last, though late, though slowly, yet
surely, overtakes him upon the evening of his day. It is an awful
warning and lesson to all who hear of your wayward wickedness and the
punishment which now awaits you. You perpetrated a cruel and fatal
attack on the person of one, towards whom you bore no enmity,
whom perhaps that very day you might have embraced. The law
hands you over to the pains of death, for malice directed against
another man, which you were not able, though you tried, to
consummate. See how one short interval of vicious indulgence of
wicked passion consigns to irredeemable guilt and the extreme
punishment, him who in the morning of a day was without blame, yet
at night meets a felon's death. Yet, though I speak to you in severity,
I will not speak to you in cruelty. Even in the depth of your guilt,
there is that, which may be stated in your favour, as some mitigation
of the horrid crime of murder. It is not certain, except to the Searcher
of human hearts, whether that black form of malignant passion, which
disturbed your spirit, when you meditated the death of the sergeant
who had reported you--whether it was the sudden, unpremeditated
outbreak of wickedness, or the fruit and growth of a character
completely depraved, and a horrid contempt of all laws. I have heard
that of you since you have stood under the reproof of general opinion,
and have been known as the man who shot Frisby, which induces me
to think and hope, you are duly contrite and repentant. The jury also
have been touched with a sense of compassion towards you, and have
recommended you to mercy. That recommendation I will submit to the
head of the Irish Executive. But it is my painful duty at the same
time to say, that I cannot reckon upon the event of any reference of
your case to his Excellency, so as to flatter you with hopes of
commutation of your punishment. You must therefore, prepare for
death, for a brief period of time ; and severed once and all, as you
now are, from that society of men, whose laws you have violated, turn
your thoughts and meditations, for the remainder of your life, towards
the eternity which is open to receive you. The Judge concluded by
repeating the form of sentence of death, and fixed Monday the 10th
of May for its execution.
During the delivery of this moving address, the deepest silence
reigned through the court ; and, while every breath was hushed, the
eyes of the audience, were engaged in attentively watching the
demeanour of the prisoner, at so awful a moment of his fate. But he
received the announcement of his doom, without betraying in the lines
of his face, or by change of colour, the least sign of emotion, nor was
it possible for the closest scrutiny to observe the slightest traces of
falter or agitation in his whole manner and bearing. For some time
after the Judge ceased to speak, he continued to stand statue-like at
the bar, and looked intently towards the Bench, as if he wished to say
something ; but that not appearing to be his intention, he was ordered
to be removed. The prisoner is rather a young man, of strong form,
and of dull, but not sinister expression of features. The Judge himself
seemed to be deeply agitated.
John Morrissy and Joseph Healy, found guilty of stealing a bale of
cloth from the Packet Office were sentenced to 18 months
imprisonment each ; and Denis and Catherine Finegan, and Julia
Morrissy to one years imprisonment for receiving the property.
The Court soon afterwards adjourned and the Assizes terminated.
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The Very Rev. D. M. Collins and the Rev. C. B.
Gibson gratefully acknowledge the receipt of 10l
(5l each) from the relief fund of the Congregational Union
of Ireland, by the hands of the Rev. Alexander King,
which they will distribute, according to Mr. King's wishes,
amongst the very poor of Mallow.
Very Rev. Theobald Mathew gratefully acknowledges,
for the relief of the poor, from Mr. Commissioner
Farrell, 5l.
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LAMBETH.--EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BIGAMY.--
Yesterday, David Ahearne, an Irishman, upwards of 60
years of age, was placed at the bar before Mr. Norton,
for final examination on a charge of bigamy.
Mr. Roberts attended for the prosecution, and Mr.
Games for the defence.
The first witness called was Timothy Ahearne, brother
of the prisoner, who deposed, that in the year 1823 he
was present at the marriage of his brother with a young
female named Ann Fitzpatrick, at Kensington Church.
The prisoner after that marriage lived with his wife next
door to him, for about two or three years, when they
separated, and after this the prisoner went to live with
Catherine Joyce, then present. The prisoner and Joyce
lived together for some time before he (witness) became
aware of their marriage, and when he was told of it by
Joyce, he said, "A pretty job you have made of it with a
married man." Joyce then replied, "Married or single, the
job is now done." At this time the prisoner's first wife was
alive, and he recollected her dying some years
afterwards, when he attended her funeral.
In reply to the questions of Mr. Games, the witness said
that the woman Joyce was perfectly well aware that the
prisoner was a married man when she married him, as
several members of his family as well as himself had
told her.
Mrs. Catherine Joyce, alias Regan, deposed that in the
year 1828 the prisoner visited her as a single man, and
made a proposal of marriage to her, which she accepted,
and they were married at the parish church of St. Martin
in the Fields, on the 12th of October, in the same year.
Soon after he commenced to ill use her, and scarcely
allowed her the common necessaries of life, and on one
occasion he was committed from Bow-street for a month
for ill treating her. He had also deserted his home two or
three times before he finally left her. Before finally going
away he had nearly starved her.
Cross examined by Mr. Games--Had not been told by
the last witness or any of his family that the prisoner was a
married man before she had gone to St. Martin's church
with him. She was aware that he had lived with a female,
as he, the prisoner, had told her so himself. He had also
told her that the female was married and that her
husband, who was a soldier, had come and took her
away from him. Her name at the time of her marriage with
the prisoner was Regan, and she was a widow, but the
prisoner in putting up the banns had given her maiden
name.
Sophia Craddock, a well-dressed middle-aged female,
stated that during the summer of last year the prisoner
paid his addresses to her as a single man, and believing
that he was so, she consented to be his wife, and they
were married on the 19th of July, at Battersea Church.
Soon after she discovered that she had been much
deceived in him, for instead of being a kind old man he
was quite the reverse--a stingy old brute--and had
actually commenced to dispose of her property by
piecemeal, when she fortunately discovered that he had
another wife living. She sought her out, and gave the
prisoner into custody.
The policeman who took the prisoner into custody
produced the certificates of the three marriages.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that when he
married Joyce she was perfectly well aware that he had
another wife living ; but her reply was that she did not
mind that. With respect to Mrs. Craddock, he would
admit that at first when he met her she might not be aware
he was a married man ; but when she asked him to have
her he acknowledged that it was no use in thinking of
such a thing, as he was a married man. Her reply was that
she did not mind, and that if the other wife did not trouble
them they should not trouble her, and upon these
conditions he married her.
The prisoner was then fully committed to take his trial
on the charge of marrying Catherine Joyce, alias Regan,
his former wife Ann being living at the time ; and the
evidence of the third wife, Mrs. Craddock was also
taken, and she was bound over as a witness in the case.
Mr. Games applied to have the prisoner admitted to
bail ; but Mr. Norton refused to comply with his request,
particularly as the proceeding, at the Central Criminal
Court commence next week, and his period of
imprisonment before his trial will be of short duration.
--The Cork Examiner, 7 April 1847
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DEATH OF WILLIAM MORRIS READE, Esq.--At Rosinara,
Kilmoganny, William Morris Reade, Esq., once (for a while)
M.P., for this city. He caught fever by over-exertion, whilst
endeavouring to bring the murderers of Mr. Prim into the
power of the law.--Waterford Chronicle.
--The Cork Examiner, 7 April 1847
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(From the Irish American.)
With regret which will be shared by every Irish
Nationalist, we have received intelligence of the death of
Terence Bellew M'Manus, the Patriot Exile of '48, which
melancholy event took place on the 15th ult., at St. Mary's
Hospital, San Francisco.
Terence Bellew M'Manus was in his fiftieth year, and, we
believe, a native of Monaghan. At the time of the
Revolutionary uprising in Europe, in 1847-48, he was a
merchant in Liverpool, engaged in the commission and
forwarding trade, and rapidly advancing in prosperity. In
the Southern districts of Ireland, especially, where he had
been for several years the principal travelling agent of the
great English house of Pickford, he was universally popular
; and his prospects in a business light were in the highest
degree flattering. He was but just entering upon what
promised to be a brilliant and successful mercantile career
when his warm, impulsive nature and enthusiastic love of
country drew him into the struggle for Irish independence ;
and, without a thought for self or a regret for all that he was
sacrificing, he cast himself into the movement that appeared
to promise a national resurrection for his beloved
Fatherland. What boots it now to refer to the disastrous
result, too frequently and idly paraded before the public
gaze. To him it brought only defeat, captivity, and the exile's
grave in a strange land.
With the events which succeeded Mr. M'Manus' escape
from Van Dieman's Land, and his arrival in California in
1851, our readers are already acquainted. Having, by the
advice of several wealthy Irish-Americans resident in
California, engaged in the commission business in San
Francisco, he continued in trade, with more or less success,
up to a recent period, varied by only one or two visits
which he made to the mining regions. Latterly he has been
engaged upon the San Francisco Daily Herald, with which
paper he was, we believe, connected to at the time of his
death.
Human nature is never unleavened by weaknesses ; and
poor M'Manus was no exception to the rule. He had his
failings ; but they were severely atoned for ; and his
countrymen, who received only the impress of his virtues
and patriotism, can well afford now to leave his faults sink
unreproved into his lonely grave by the far Pacific strand.
Brave and fearless as a lion, his nature was gentle and
compassionate as a child's ; his heart was filled with love
for his native land strong as that of a mother for her
first-born. In the light of that love for which he dared and
suffered so much let his memory only be recalled. His
lonely grave needs no other epitaph than that which Davis
claimed for his--
"He loved his country, and served his kind."
May his soul rest in peace.
--The Cork Examiner, 20 February 1861
Dennis Ahern
TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER
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Fairy Land, Macroom, April 3d, 1847
DEAR SIR--The observations of Mr. Baron Richards on
the trial of John Cronin, for stealing a pannier of turf, in
which my name was introduced, having been reported in
your paper of the 29th ult., and having received a letter
from Mr. R. Donovan (Clerk of the Crown) on the
subject, by directions of Mr. Baron Richards, I will feel
much obliged if you will with your usual kindness give the
following correspondence in reference thereto a place in
your columns, at your earliest convenience. The first
sentence in my answer comprises Mr. Donovan's letter
to me.
I remain, dear Sir, your much obliged,
ROBERT WARREN.
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The Queen v. John Cronin.
SIR--I have received your communication of the 30th
ult., in which you state that you have been directed by
Mr. Baron Richards, Judge of Assize, to express his
disapprobation and regret that such a case should have
been sent to the assizes, as the party being bailed ought to
have been returned to the next Sessions held at the West
Riding to take trial, and not to assizes, where the
prosecution was attended with considerable expense.
The reason for returning the information to the assizes
was its taking place some time before the next sessions
for the West Riding, and as to the expense, I am not
aware that there would be any difference. Skibbereen will
be the next sessions, where starvation and death are
making such sad havoc, that I am of opinion the poor
man (Cronin) would much rather go to Cork to be tried,
where he would be taken much better care of than in
Skibbereen Bridewell.
I did all that I could to persuade the prosecutor not to
swear any informations, as I thought, from the
circumstances, the case very trifling indeed. Cronin
offered to pay for the turf and give the prosecutor any
satisfaction he required, but he said that nothing would
satisfy him but to prosecute, be the expense and
inconvenience what they might.
In conclusion, I think it rather a little strange that the
worthy Baron should think it necessary to single me out of
the number of Magistrates of the county for censure, for
sending such a case to the assizes for trial, where several
of as great hardships were sent, such as stealing a goose,
a hen, a shawl, &c., which I perceive by the newspapers.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ROBERT WARREN.
To Richard Donovan, Esq., Clerk of the Crown,
Crown Office, Courthouse, Cork.
--The Cork Examiner, 7 April 1847
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QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY EVENING--The s.s. Etna,
from New York, on the 9th, arrived this afternoon. She
brings the United States mails, 24 cabin, 84 second
class, and 82 steerage passengers. Having landed the
mails, together with 2 cabin and 24 steerage
passengers, she proceeded immediately for
Liverpool--All well. The Vigo had arrived out.
BOSTON, FEB. 7TH.--The schooner Josiah, from
New York for Portsmouth, cargo flour, is ashore at
Cape Cod. She will go to pieces if the weather does
not moderate. Crew saved.
--The Cork Examiner, 20 February 1861
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5s. at the Police Office, for plying for hire without being
licensed to do so. Mr. Joyce, inspector, proved the offence.
The Town Clerk was also present.
--The Cork Examiner, 10 May 1861
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TWO lads named Cornelius Coakly and Denis Ring, were
yesterday each sentenced by Mr. W. J. Shaw, J.P., to a fine
of 10s or fourteen days imprisonment, for assaulting the
police while in the discharge of their duty.
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KILLARNEY.--I am happy to state for the sake of the
distress of this district, that our active townsman, John
O'Leary, Esq., having made large purchases of Flour and
Meal in Liverpool--a quantity of these very desirable
commodities is expected daily in Tralee. It is said that he
also holds in bond about 1000 barrels of Western Canal
Flour, at a low price ; from all which I anticipate a great
lessening of the destitution in this quarter.--Correspondent.
--The Cork Examiner, 1 January 1847
Dennis Ahern
INQUEST and VERDICT of WILFUL MURDER.
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ABOUT three weeks since a woman named Margaret
Lynch was convicted of having stolen two watches, the
property of a man named Crowley, living in Fishamble-
lane. On Sunday night last the prisoner was delivered of
a child, which she contrived to conceal from the notice of
the gaol authorities, until the following night, when she
cruelly smothered it in the cell. At the same time she
violently threatened tow female prisoners, confined in the
same cell, if they attempted to disclose the particulars of
the atrocious act they had witnessed. A vague account of
the circumstances, however, was given by some party to
one of the turnkeys, and a rigorous inquiry was
immediately instituted. The result has been that an inquest
was held on yesterday, and a verdict of "wilful murder"
returned against the prisoner.
--The Cork Examiner, 21 May 1847
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REMARKABLE CENTENARIAN.
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Thurles, Monday.
To-day the remains of an old man named Michael
Duggan of Caher, Thurles, who was said to have reached
the age of 110 years, were interred at Twomileborris,
Thurles. The old man was of an extremely hale and hearty
constitution, and retained his full mental faculties to the
last. Up to a few weeks ago he was able to be about and to
attend to his little garden. He always attributed his long
and healthy life to his [?] habits and his frugal dietary.
--The Cork Examiner, 11 February 1913
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JOHN LEWIS, an apprentice, was prosecuted this
morning, at the Police-office, for absconding from his
master, John Blewitt, a boot and shoemaker. The lad
was one of those taken out of the workhouse about
two years since by the Benevolent Apprenticing
Society for the purpose of having them bound to
trades. He was apprenticed to Mr. Blewitt, with
whom he has remained up to three weeks ago, when
he absconded. Mr. Blewitt stated that he had always
been an ill-conducted boy, and, therefore, he did not
wish to take him back again, and would press to
have him punished. Lewis pleaded in excuse for his
running away that he had been badly treated by the
prosecutor's wife, who did not like him, and that he
never got sufficient wearing apparel. He did not wish
either to return to Blewitt's employment. Mr.
Hegarty, who attended to watch the case on behalf
of the Society, stated that the boy's want of clothes
was often remarked on at the South Monastery,
where he, with the other boys apprenticed, by the
Society, used to attend on Sundays. The magistrates
suggested that the case had better be settled, as they
did not like to send so young a boy to gaol, and it
was accordingly held over for that purpose, Mr.
Hegarty undertaking to make some arrangement.
--The Cork Examiner, 10 May 1861
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Mr. Fonblanque, for many years connected with the
weekly press, has been appointed to the office in the
Statistical Department of the Board of Trade, vacant by
the promotion of Mr. Porter to the place formerly held by
Mr. Lefevre.
--The Cork Examiner, 27 October 1847
Dennis Ahern
"There is no harm, (says the Rev. Mr. Montgomery)
in smoking tobacco, except that it leads to drinking--
drinking to intoxication--intoxication to bile--bile to
indigestion--indigestion to consumption--consumption to
death--that is all."
Dennis Ahern
M A L L O W , J U N E 1 6 .
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER
SIR--After a week out, in the following counties, I
feel glad to state my opinion of the Potato Crop as I
have found it. I went to Doneraile, Kanturk,
Ballyclough, Mallow, Buttevant, Wallstown,
Kildorrery, Mitchelstown, Fermoy, and the borders
of the county of Limerick, Tipperary and
Waterford, and I never found a diseased stalk, but
three. One of them was at Mr. Newman's, one at
Mr. Haggart's, Marble Hill ; the other near
Kildorrery. I left no place in all the country without
examining, and in my life I never saw the potato or
corn crop look so luxuriant and healthy.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
DAVID RING.
--The Cork Examiner, 25 June 1847
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in market this week. The supply was very eagerly
purchased by farmers for seed, and sold at from 11d.
to 1s. 4d. per stone.--Limerick Examiner.
--The Cork Examiner, 7 April 1847
Dennis Ahern
ROBBERY OF PLATE.--At three o'clock yesterday, Timothy
Ahern remanded from the previous day, was brought
before Mr. Lambkin, J.P., by Constable Ransome,
charged with stealing a quantity of plate valued at about
Ł60, the property of Mr,. Benjamin Galbraith, of
Ballintemple. The circumstances under which the robbery
was effected and the prisoner arrested were
these--About five o'clock on Sunday evening, Mr.
Galbraith's servant, having locked all the doors of the
house and leaving no person within, went out in company
with the prisoner to whom she told where she was going
and where she might be found in case her master looked
for her. During her absence prosecutor returned home,
but finding there was no one in the house remained about
the place, and in a short time again went to see if she had
come back. Then it was he found the gate leading to the
rere of the premises as well as the kitchen door open,
and on entering met a man going out against him with a
bundle, whom he suspected to be the prisoner and
addressed by the prisoner's name. The person
addressed, however, did not stop to make a reply, but
went his way. Prosecutor at once examined the house,
and discovered in the drawing room foot prints, also the
chest in which the plate was kept broken open, and the
plate itself removed. In the same chest was found a pipe
known to have belonged to the prisoner, and outside the
gate an oyster knife supposed to have been the
instrument used in forcing the locks. Suspicion at once
rested on the prisoner, both from the fact of his
resemblance to the person met by Mr. Galbraith on
entering the house, and likewise because no stranger was
so well acquainted with its interior, he being in the habit
of supplying prosecutor with oysters from time to time.
Accordingly, Captain Ransome, of Blackrock station,
being put in possession of what occurred, soon after
arrested the prisoner who stated to him that he had been
in bed from five o'clock the same evening. Some hours
subsequent to his arrest a large portion of the plate was
left at the owner's hall door, wrapped in a napkin which,
with other articles of linen, was likewise stolen. The
presiding magistrates said that though the case was a
very suspicious one, still as nothing positive was alleged
to convict the prisoner he should discharge him. The
prisoner then left the court, after thanking Mr. Galbraith.
--The Cork Examiner, 20 March 1861
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December 17, 2002, peacefully, MARY (MAUNIE), beloved wife of the late
Michael T. Deeply regretted by her loving daughters Helen, Margaret,
Maureen and Julia, sons-in- law, grandsons, brother Con, sisters Eily Mai
and Julie, sister-in-law, nephews and nieces, relatives and friends. RIP.
Removal on this (Wednesday) evening at 7.30pm from Lyon's Funeral Home,
Derry, Listowel to the Sacred Heart Church, Lyreacrompane. Requiem Mass on
tomorrow (Thursday) at 11am and funeral afterwards to Reilig Ida Naofa,
Abbeyfeale.
-- The Irish Examiner, 18 December 2002
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The cyclone in Iowa has left 300 families homeless.
The loss of property exceeds two million dollars.
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Thos Osborne was again remanded yesterday
charged with having murdered a little girl named Hills at
Barnet.
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Professor Huxley was much stronger yesterday.
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A summons was granted in London yesterday against
Alfred J. Monson on a charge of obtaining £250 by
false pretenses.
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Oscar Wilde will probably be released on bail
to-day.
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Two men named Carroll and Kelly were remanded
at Hartlepool yesterday charged with having kicked to
death a respectable young man named Gardener.
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Bridget Sexton, wife of a baker, was sent to gaol for
six months in Cork yesterday for cruely neglecting her
infant child. The details were of a shocking nature.
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Albert Roberts, boot operative, was remanded at
Hartlepool yesterday charged with having killed a
companion named Edwards during a quarrel.
--The Limerick Reporter & Tipperary Vindicator, 7 May 1895
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Dennis Ahern
The Press association learns that Lord Rosebery's health
has so far improved that he has sent an intimation of his
intention to be present at the reception at the National
Liberal Club to-morrow evening.
--The Limerick Reporter & Tipperary Vindicator, 7 May 1895
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Dennis Ahern
A prisoner was brought into this city on Friday morning,
by the Dublin coach, having been arrested in Liverpool,
on a charge of being connected with the late barbarous
murder of Mr. Prim, the pay clerk, and Constable Yates.
The prisoner is lodged in the county jail, and the charge is
being investigated.--Kilkenny Journal.
--The Cork Examiner, 7 April 1847
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Dennis Ahern
ALLEGED MALICIOUS BURNING OF HAY.
On Thursday night, near Cappamore, some 20 tons of
hay were set on fire and burned. The hay was the
property of Mr. Patrick Laffan, farmer, resident on the
locality, and no motive is assigned for the occurrence.
It is stated Mr. Laffan intends to seek compensation.
--The Limerick Reporter & Tipperary Vindicator, 7 May 1895
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Dennis Ahern
PIPE WATER COMPANY--THIS DAY
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Mr. JULIAN presided.
PRESENT--Dr. Wycherley, Messrs. Sheehan, Gregg,
Keller, R. Scott, Keane, Cunningham.
The week's expenses were £52 8s. 4d., consisting
of £25 10s. 9d. materials, and £26 17s. 7d. labour,
for which amount a cheque was ordered to be
passed. The committee were in debt £7,107 9s. 3d.
Mr. Sheehan suggested that the Committee should
borrow money on debentures to pay off the debt. . . .
--The Cork Examiner, 10 May 1861
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John Hayes
Are these new posts of info you dig up or are they reposts from info in your
site listed below ?
Interesting reading.
John
"Dennis Ahern" <ah...@world.std.com> wrote in message
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Dennis Ahern
DEATH OF A REMARKABLE CHARACTER.--On Sunday, the
21st instant, at the age of 100 years, died Ann Murray, in
her well-known cave at Red Bay, on the north eastern
coast of the county Antrim. At the base of that lofty
headland called Lourg-Eden, which forms the northern
boundary of Glenariff, and which runs down to the coast
road immediately adjoining the sea, are two natural
cavities--one of these is occupied as a smith's forge ; the
other has long been used as human habitation. Few
tourists to the Causeway have passed by these caves
without paying a visit to Nanny, who, in her personal
appearance and in the originality of her manners, was as
great a curiosity as the cave itself. To those who have
never seen the interior of "Nanny's Cave," it would be
impossible to give anything of an accurate description--
cold, damp, and dreary, extending about 20 feet into the
rock, and not more than six feet from the ground to the
roof in the highest part, with perpetual drops of water
oozing out of the upper stratum and so dark as to require,
even at noonday, the light of a candle in order to explore
it ; with no vent for the smoke except the mouth of the
cave, which was protected from the violence of the storm
in the winter season by a small wicker door. Yet in this
cave, where to have spent 24 hours would have taken the
life of an ordinary being, this remarkable woman passed a
solitary existence of fifty years, destitute of every human
comfort ; but in the enjoyment of excellent health, which
she retained until a short period before her death.
Although living in such a miserable habitation, Nanny has
received more distinguished company than many who
dwell in the most splendid palaces. The greater part of the
nobility and aristocracy of the three kingdoms have called
to see her, and she could boast of having received
presents from some of the first families in Europe. Her
only means of support were the voluntary offerings of the
curious, who were attracted to her cell, and whose
liberality she invariably continued to call forth by her
simple and unostentatious hospitality, as she insisted on
every one who paid her a visit to partake of a small
quantity of the best "mountain dew" the country could
afford.--Belfast Vindicator.
--The Cork Examiner, 7 April 1847
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Dennis Ahern
ENCOURAGEMENT TO EMIGRATION.--AUSTRALIA.--Extract,
Sept., 1846:--"The thing we are in the greatest want of is
labour. We are now giving £35 a year for a man and his
wife, and £25 a year for shepherds, besides rations,
which consist of 10lb. of flour, 12lb of beef, 2lb of sugar,
and 1/4 lb of tea per week, and a house to live in, and by
no means hard work. We have a great many working
men earning from 30s to 42s per week."
Dennis Ahern
THE Edinburgh s.s., which sailed for New York yesterday
took out about 400 passengers from this port and
Liverpool. About 100 persons who had booked themselves
to sail in the vessel from Cork, did not go in consequence of
the hostilities in America. A Queen's messenger, Captain
Johnson, went out in the vessel, bearing important
despatches from the home government to the British
ambassador in the United States. The Edinburgh took out
over £84,000 in specie.
--The Cork Examiner, 10 May 1861
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Dennis Ahern
: Are these new posts of info you dig up or are they reposts from info in your
: site listed below ?
When I post them on the website, I save a copy in text format to put in
the soc.genealogy.ireland newsgroup. I suppose you could say that's
redundant, but I think more people see them that way. Also, there are two
other people who are steadily transcribing articles for the website, but
their posts do not make it here from the GENIRE list. It's odd, my posts
on the newsgroup are now being picked up on GENIRE again, but vice versa
is not.
Dennis Ahern
T H E C A T H O L I C C H U R C H .
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DIED, on Monday the 28th December, the Rev. Patrick
Bourke, for 28 years the beloved Parish Priest of Ballyporeen.
It would be difficult to express the grief occasioned at the
demise of this pious and popular clergyman, endeared to his
parishioners by so many ties during a long life spent in their
service and in the service of God. The Catholic Clergy,
without an exception, are regretted under similar
circumstances, but here was lost the good priest, the sincere
friend, and the sensible and honest adviser. The lamentations
of his people shewed that his death was more than an ordinary
bereavement to them.
The state of his poor parishioners, exposed to starvation
since April last--and the toil he underwent and the
disappointments he met with in the cause of humanity and
charity, helped to break down a weak constitution. If the
sorrows and prayers of the poor can give consolation to his
relatives and friends, they must feel satisfied how highly prized
was the man just called by the will of the Almighty before his
throne of mercy.
--The Cork Examiner, 1 January 1847
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InsuranceBroker
>From: ah...@world.std.com (Dennis Ahern)
>Date: 12/20/2002 8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <H7G2t...@world.std.com>
>
>John Hayes (haye...@cox.net) wrote:
Dennis:
I have saved many of your posts. I save them because I put them in with the
family history. They give a very good picture of the events of my great
grandparents. Many of the names are in the family but with murphy and Maguire
finding the actually relatives is impossible in many cases.
I have to state I very much enjoy. I know I have looked at the web page but
some how I miss the one's you post. Thank you Dennis.
Doing Insurance business in the Garden State
Harry Dodsworth
THE Edinburgh s.s., which sailed for New York yesterday
took out about 400 passengers from this port and
Liverpool. About 100 persons who had booked themselves
to sail in the vessel from Cork, did not go in consequence of
the hostilities in America. A Queen's messenger, Captain
Johnson, went out in the vessel, bearing important
despatches from the home government to the British
ambassador in the United States. The Edinburgh took out
over #84,000 in specie.
--The Cork Examiner, 10 May 1861
Here is the arrival notice from the New York Times, May 22, 1862
Arrived New York May 21
Steamship Edinburgh (Br.,) [captain] Brooks, Liverpool May 8 via
Queenstown 9th at 4 P.M., with mdse and passengers to [agents]
John G. Dale. May 10, off Head of Kinsale, passed steamship Glasgow,
18th passed ship Quickstep bound E.
An uneventful passage. The NYT listed the first class passengers,
including Captain Johnson.
--
Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af...@freenet.carleton.ca
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Dennis Ahern
: I have to state I very much enjoy. I know I have looked at the web page but
: some how I miss the one's you post. Thank you Dennis.
You can always use the search engine on the Irish News Abstracts page to
look for a surname or location.
Dennis Ahern
: Dennis Ahern (ah...@world.std.com) posted:
: THE Edinburgh s.s., which sailed for New York yesterday
<deleted>
: --The Cork Examiner, 10 May 1861
: Here is the arrival notice from the New York Times, May 22, 1862
: Arrived New York May 21
: Steamship Edinburgh (Br.,) [captain] Brooks, Liverpool May 8 via
1861-1862? They could have rowed faster. :)
-dja
Dennis Ahern
THE INNISCARRA OUTRAGE.
Cork, Monday.
Private Fisk, 10th Hussars, was arrested this morning at
Newbridge, charged with being connected on the outrage
in the graveyard at Inniscarra, and arrived in the city
to-night under a police escort. The squadron to which the
prisoner was attached have been marching en route for
some days past from Ballincollig.
--The Limerick Reporter & Tipperary Vindicator, 31 May 1895
Dennis Ahern
AT the Police Office, this morning, Patrick O'Donnell, an
apprentice in the establishment of Mr. Ogilvie,
Patrick-street, charged a fellow apprentice named
Thomas Ryan with striking him on the back of the head
with a knife. Mr. Julian appeared for the complainant,
and stated that the assault took place on Saturday
morning in Mr. Ogilvie' establishment immediately after
breakfast. The complainant in passing gave Ryan a
playful tap on the neck, upon which the latter seized a
breakfast knife and threw it at him, striking him on the
back of the head and cutting him. This statement was
corroborated by several witnesses. Mr. Julian further
stated that as this was not the first occasion on which
Ryan used a dangerous weapon, Mr. Ogilvie, on the
matter being known, felt it his duty to have him
prosecuted. The defendant alleged that the whole thing
was done in play, that he had no ill-will towards the
complainant, and in throwing the knife did not intend to
hurt him. The Magistrates (Messrs. Orme, R.M., F.
McNamara, and Hall) said Mr. Ogilvie had acted very
properly in bringing the case before them, for the use of
knives should be put a stop to, and they decided on
fining the defendant £1, committing him to gaol for a
month in default of payment.
--The Cork Examiner, 29 May 1861
Dennis Ahern
DEATH OF AN EMINENT IRISHMAN ABROAD.--August
15th, at Porto Rico, West Indies, Major Patrick Murray
Delamere, of the Spanish service, and son of the late
esteemed Peter Delamere, Esq., of Killen, county
Westmeath. He entered the service of her Most Catholic
Majesty of Spain, in 1835, under Lieutenant-General De
Lacy Evans. He married in 1813, Elisea Vinyalsey
Barges, daughter by a former marriage of Madame
O'Donnell, now the wife of Marshal Leopold Perdre
Delamere, who is attached to the staff of the Spanish
army.--New York Journal
--The Cork Examiner, 20 March 1861
Dennis Ahern
REFORMATORY.
Parish of Whitechurch, £3, including 10s. subscription
Rev. Mr. Daly.