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From: Pat Connors <>
Subject: [Irish-American] The Irish American newspaper, NYC, July 14, 1888
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 07:30:05 +0100


The tenants on the WRAY estate have made an offer to the landlords'
representative to buy their holdings at the rate of fourteen years'
purchase. The estate, which is situated near Rathkeale, is a very
extensive one, and contains upwards of 4,000 acres. The rents on the
property were reduced 20 per cent, some time ago, and by common consent
they were made judicial.

In Limerick, on June 16th, at the sitting of the court, Mr. PURCELL,
county court judge, dismissed two process servers who had refused to
serve ejectments and other county court documents throughout the county,
alleging that they were apprehensive of personal violence being offered
them in consequence of the murder of the process server William LEAHY,
at Doon, after serving a writ of habeas corpus on Rev. Mr. O'DONNELL,
C.C.

On June 18th, Percy Harold SNELLING, the labor delegate from London who
was released from Limerick prison, to which he had been sentenced for
six months by Messr. WALSHE . . . (can't read) for ?? delivered at
Sixmilebridge advocating the "Plan of Campaign," ?? an additional month
on a charge arising out of the same occurrence. Judge HICKSON, on
appeal, reduced the sentence from six to two months. He was met by a
band and a crowd, and played to the hotel.

The agent of the DEVON estate, Mr. FURLONG, J.P., has issued a circular
to each of the tenants stating that they will be allowed an abatement of
20 per cent, provided the rents be paid on or before the end of August.
It is not known whether the tenants will accept the offer.

By the death of the Earl of Seafield, that title devolves on a gentleman
whose family is well-known in the County of Limerick. The late Earl,
when the Hon. Jas. GRANT, married Caroline, daughter of Mr. Eyre GRAVES,
of Ash Bill, County Limerick, and Miltown, County Cork. The present
Earl was a stock farmer in New Zealand when he unexpectedly came in for
the title.

Mr. F. St. Clair HOBSON, sub-sheriff for the county, and his bailiffs,
on June 20th, arrived in Kilmallock, at the early hour of two o'clock in
the morning, and proceeded to the townland of Buigaden, to the house of
a man named John CONNELLY, to make a seizure for non-payment of rent.
When the sheriff arrived there, there being none of CONNOLLY's family up
or about the place, Mr. HOBSON went out to the field that the cows were
in, and among about 22 cows, seized nine of them and drove them off to
the pound at Kilmallock.

The Limerick papers announce the death of the Rev. J. MADDEN, C.C.,
Bruree, from the effects of injuries received by a fall from a car
received on Sunday, June 10th. It appears that Father MADDEN, with his
parish priest, the Rev. Eugene SHEEHY, (well known here in America,)
were driving home after attending the funeral of one of their
parishioners, when the car broke down, throwing both its occupants to
the ground. Father SHEEHY was badly shaken, but not seriously injured,
while Father MADDEN sustained serious injuries, two of his ribs being
broken. He was conveyed to his residence in an unconscious state, from
which he only temporarily recovered, and finally succumbed to the
injuries on the following Thursday. The deceased, who was only 30 years
of age, was a native of the city of Limerick, and had been for a
considerable time attached to a parish near the city, having been
transferred to Bruree only last year. The interment took place on June
16th, in the St. Lawrence Cemetery, Limerick, and was attended by a
large number of the clergymen and laity.



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