I just have a question. What is the currency represented by the"l" in the documents posted? Thanks Ken Hess ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <labaths@celticcousins.net> To: <IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 5:39 PM Subject: [IRELAND] !! Ballina Chronicle; May 8, 1850; Misc Items > BALLINA CHRONICLE > Ballina, Mayo, Ireland > Wednesday, May 8, 1850 > > MISCELLANEOUS > There were 200 cork life savers on board the lost "Adelaide" steam > ship. > Mr. James Wall is appointed Practical agriculturist Inspector to Tuam > and Castlebar Unions. > Captain Gavin has allowed his tenantry at Cloncannon, near Moneygall, > 30 per cent on last year's rent, together with the whole of the poor and > labour rates. > The Western World sailed from Liverpool on Friday for New York, with > 700 emigrants; comprised principally of Irish families. > Lord Gough is to visit his relatives and friends in Derry this month, > where a splendid reception awaits the noble and gallant peer. > Sub-Constable Edmond Blake from Kenmare, shot himself at Tralee on > Saturday night after being reported for intoxication. > Captain Wynne has commenced actions for libel against the Marquis of > Westmeath and the Guardians of Carrick-on-Suir. > In Boyle Union there are nine relieving officers paid 355l. a year for > distributing 1l. 14s. 1d. weekly in out-door relief. > There are 17 turnkeys in Clonmel gaol, which is about double the > number > in Limerick county gaol, and with a more numerous charge. > Monday night three thatched houses, at Knockalibade, Killarney, the > property of James W. Agar, Esq., were maliciously set on fire and reduced > to > ashes. > We regret to learn that there were three cases of cholera in the > neighbourhood of Castlecomer on Sunday and Monday last, of these three > resulted in death. > Mr. DeLacy Nash was last week refused a conditional order for libel > against the Times, in connection with an article about his part in the > Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow railway. > Mr. Dunne, of Tully, the occupier of several extensive farms in the > Queen's county and Kildare, with his family, sailed by the Forest Queen, > from Liverpool on Saturday last, for the United States. > The guardians of Dungarvan Union, Lord Stuart de Decles in the chair, > have agreed to defray the expenses of sending out to Quebec, the first > week > in June next, three hundred girls. > Lord Mountcashel's estate in the County Antrim, which yields a > well-paid rental of 11,600 a year, is to be sold for payment of 275,000l. > incumbrances on his landed property in the south. The Commercial Bank of > London is a large creditor. > At the City Police Court, Limerick, the presiding magistrate announced > that all improper females arrested for use of obscene language in the > streets would, in addition to imprisonment, be deprived of their > ornamental > head gear. > On Sunday, as a respectable farmer, M. M'Ganey, was proceeding to the > Presbyterian church, at Ballymena, and had stepped to the side of the > road, > he was attacked by a cow, which forced one of her horns into the right > side > abdomen, and gored him to death. > For the convicts on board the "Neptune" with John Mitchell 100l. was > subscribed at Capetown before the vessel sailed for Van Dieman's Land. - > The > 8th March was fixed for the "General Public Thanksgiving to Almighty God > for > the deliverance of the colony from the dreadful calamity." > > Cathy Joynt Labath > Ireland Old News > http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/ > > > ==== IRELAND Mailing List ==== > Ireland Mailing List website..surname registry, links, lookup > volunteers,unsubscribe, change your subscription from L to D or D to L > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrelandList/ >