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From: Pat Connors <>
Subject: [Irish-American] Irish-American newspaper, NYC, August 29, 1885
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 09:49:06 +0100


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Limerick

The house of a man named STAPLETON, a cattle-dealer, opposite
Thomondgate Distellery, was burned to the ground, on August 4th, not
even a bed or bedstead having been saved from the conflagration.

Dr. O'CONNELL, Medical Officer of the Fethard and Kiltinan Dispensary
District, died on August 4th. The deceased was the son of Thomas
O'CONNELL, Esq., Ardpatrick, Kilfinane, county Limerick.

The Rev. John SULLIVAN, of Tullibase, formerly of Adare, has been again
involved in a disagreement with the local branch of the League. Last
year his sale of hay was boycotted until he made peace with the Widow
LARKIN, and this year some other cases having cropped up, a very
cautiously worded placard, supposed indirectly to refer to the rev.
gentleman, was circulated. Not a buyer was to be seen, and after a vain
search for a customer, the rev. gentleman and auctioneer had to retire.

An interesting antiquarian "find" was made, on July 31st, by one of Mr.
Ambrose HALL's workmen while digging a drain through the lawn of the
Priory, North strand, Limerick. At a depth of 4 feet beneath the
surface, two of which were evidently "made earth" and two of river mud,
the spade struck against a 24 pounder cannon ball. Immediately around
it was a considerable number of human bones forming a perfect skeleton.
The assumption is that the ball was fired from one of the English
batteries during one of the sieges, and passed clear over the city,
burying itself in the river mud on the Clare side, and finding its
billet as it fell. The spot where the cannon ball fell was evidently
beneath high water mark.

At New Pallas, on August 4th, Thomas RYAN, an emergency bailiff in
charge of an evicted farm, was returned for trial for fracturing the
skull of a woman named WHELAN, in a row over the trespass of some
geese. Seven bones were taken out of the woman's skull by the doctor.
Michael HIGGINS, also an emergency bailiff, was prosecuted by the
Waterford and Limerick Railway Company for a robbery of four blinds and
two window straps. HIGGINS, it is stated, had absconded and a warrant
was issued for his arrest. There was a second charge against HIGGINS
for the larceny of a cow, but the owner, a farmer, withdrew it, stating
that he would proceed against HIGGINS' employers, the Land Corporation.



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