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From: "Jean Rice" <>
Subject: [IGW] Irish American newspaper, January 22, 1894 - Limerick
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 22:22:33 -0700


>From Another Irish List --

LIMERICK

On January 2d Judge Purcell took his seat in the Crown Court, Limerick,
and opened the city business of the Quarter Sessions. The Grand Jury
having been sworn, he addressed them, saying he was happy to tell them
that there was nothing for them to do, as there was only one case
standing over from last sessions, but as an important witness could not
be found it would not come before them. Mr. Patrick Kenna, T.C., the
newly-appointed City High Sheriff, then presented him with a pair of
white gloves, and in thanking the High Sheriff for the token, Judge
Purcell said that it was not the first occasion that he had had the
pleasure of receiving white gloves in Limerick.

On December 30th, a gentleman caught a butterfly in the vicinity of the
Limerick Railway Terminus. The fact of butterflies being on the wing in
December is evidence of the remarkable mildness of the season.

The death of the Rev. A. MacLaughlin, Protestant Rector of Doon, is
announced. The deceased, who was father of Mrs. Walker, wife of the
Lord Chancellor of Ireland, had been ailing only a short time. Acute
bronchitis supervened, however, upon what appeared to be a slight cold,
and the rev. gentleman died on December 30th. Mr. MacLaughlin, who was
Chancellor of Cashel, in the diocese of Emly, was extremely popular
among all classes, especially so among the poor, who will feel deeply
the death of so familiar and kindly a friend. His remains were taken to
Dublin for interment in Mount Jerome.




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