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Digital page images are linked to the text file. j AMERICAN VOLUME lNO 25 LOUISVILLE SATURDAY ECEMBER 24 1898 PRICE FIVE CENTS F IRISH CAUSE Gront Demonstration Under the Auspices of the League In County Sligo The People of Ireland Must Again Have the Laud of Ireland Rev Father Scullys Heart breaking Story of a Per ishing People THE UNITED IRISH LEAGUE INDORSED k On Sunday a great demonstration under the auspices of the Bunninadden branch of the United Irish League was held in Bunninadden the center of a cleared district in the County Sligo says the Dublin Weekly Freeman The gather ing was a very large one and nothing could exceed the enthusiasm with which the people have entered into the new organization All sections and parties were represented and deputations were in attendance from the surrounding dis tricts and towns Mr William OBrien pad the Mayor of Sligo P A McIIugh M P were welcomed with ringing cheers when they appeared The Chairman Rev D J OGrady who was received with loud cheers said he was extremely grateful for the high honor they had done him In asking him to preside over that large and enthusiastic meeting of Nationalists of the County Sligo and County Mayo The British Government under which they had the misfortune to live might pass its laud acts and local government acts or any other acts it pleased but there was only one bill which would ever satisfy the cravings of the Irish heart and that was a bill to give the Irish people a tight to make their own laws for their own people on their own soil To his mind the movement of the United Irish League should meet with the cordial support and practical sympathy of every right thinking person It was to plant the Irish people on Irish soil to get back for the ancient Irish race the land from which their forefathers were drivAa it was for thisgrand and noMeobject that the United Irish League was established To any one who loved Ms country and respected his kind it was humiliating and degrading that the hat should be sent round year after year and appeals made to the charitable public in favor of a people starving in a land of plenty It was to drive poverty and dis content from their midst and to give the Irish people a fair chance of living on Irish soil that the United Irish League had been founded There was nothing revolutionary or unjust about the move ment It was a movement to break up rich and fertile lands and distribute them among the smaller tenants the lands to be taken on the conditions that due and ample compensation should be given There was nothing contrary to any law human or divine The United Irish League had estab lished a platform broad and wide enough for every genuine Irishman to stand upon Its aims and objects appaled alike to allsections of Irish Nationalists They had done a noble work in estab lishing a branch in that parish May that branch prosper and bring forth good I fruit in abundance I Among the resolutions passed amid great enthusiasm were the following Resolved That we the Nationalists of Sligo and Mayo believing in Irelands inalienable right to selfgovernment hereby pledge ourselves to continue the struggle for freedom until our national Parliament be once again established in College Green That we indorse the principles and programme of the United Irish League and heartily approve of its aims and ob jects which are identical with those of the old Land League and recognizing the value of a fighting organization such as the United Irish League is we now call on the people of these counties to fall into line forthwith and form branches of that organization in those districts where branches do not already exist That we call upon our Nationalist Par Hamentary representatives of all sections to reunite on a common platform and present as unbroken front to the com mon enemy Jn the British House of Com monsThat as the new local government act which will come into operation imme diately confers immense powers on the people and W these powers can be utilized with great advantage for the advancement ofthef national cause we pledge ourselves to support no candidate for the office of county or district Councilor who is not a sincere believer in the doctrine of Ireland for the Irish and the land for the people The V ty Rev Father Scully who was- Jondly chewed said that magnificent demwtration brought back to MS mind oldi rtcpllectloni They were assembled- ttrere E ThereEti1gkt lave been different leagues In the pMt jjut no one could object su league tbft1 Hit programme thejandjpr the people Heraight yJbe wMmtfa DjlIoniUi nor an OBrienite nor any sort of u + ftll except anJritbM fled IWI carne there forM had a td rtoty to tifl He didnotbelrretkeve M a sriiawi to Irelwd bd ss mAvMfxf to tau v tiK p Mt Ffe ef is i What was the story he had to tell and Father James OHara and Father John McDonnell before him See the condi tion to which a large portion of his parish was reduced depopulated to make room for the bullocks and for nothing else In 44 they had in one village thirtytwo families Now they had one herd In another townland in 44 they had thirty seven families Now they had one herd In a third townland int44 they had fortyseven families Now they had one herd These statistics could be produced Father John McDonnell baptized in the parish of Kesh in the year 44 172 chil dren Now there were only fortysix to be baptized in the year These were sad statisticsWhat were they assembled there for To get back the people to their homes again to get the land for the people How was that to be done It was only to be done by united and determined ac tion on the part of the people themselves The priests would be with the people in that movement but they would only be with them if everything was done over and above board The people should act openly unitedly determinedly if they would see the Inroad grass farms back again in the hands of the children who owned them Surely this was work for which the people ought to make some little sacrifice Were they prepared to do it They had a noblesouled man at the bottom ofI this new agitation William OBrien and if he was prepared to make the sacrifices why should not the people make sacri ces But if they were to succeed every thing should be done within the lawsi and the constitution Mr OBrien wasI there to tell them the lines on which tbeI work should be carried on so lie would not take any more of their time He would only say again that if the people were to be planted in the soil it could only be done by united and determined action One thing the people should do and that was to put an end to grabbing Dont deal with the grabbers but dont brake their bones Let the people simply turn their heads away from them at the fair and the market But dont break the law The lawbreaker was really the persecutor and the enemy of the people Let them work within the law and con stitution and with the help of God they would yet succeedl in their noble object by the united efforts of priests and people William OBrien was accorded warm welcome and delivered powerful and convincing speech The Mayor of Sligo Mr McHugh John ODowd J J Keenan and John McLaughlin Sooey having addressed the meeting the proceedings Lwit4j ringing cheers for the Chairman WILLIAm T MEEHAN Honored by Being Chosen as President of the Catholic Knights of America Branch 25 Catholic Knights of Amer lea at its meeting Monday night received the yearly reports of its officers which showed the branch to be in a flourishing condition During the year a great deal of work has been done and many new members added and the newlyelected officers predict a still greater increase during their administration There was quite a large attendance of members all being interested in the annual election of officers which resulted as follows Spiritual DirectorVery Rev L flax PresidentWilliam T Meehan First Vice President M F Hilt Second Vice PresidentC H Desse Recording Secretary L J Veeneman Financial Secretary E J Mann TreasurerF Baron TrusteesA F Martin John Nolan and J F Garaghty SentinelM Saughness- ySergeantatArms William McKenzie Messrs Meehan Hill and Veeneman are three of the ablest and progressive members of the order in this city and Branch 25 will certainly prosper under their guidance Mr McGinn of Branch 24 was present andentertained the members with some interesting remark- sCHRISTMAS MORNING The Vested Choir of St Pat ricks Will Render a Fine Programme The vested choir of St Patricks church composed of the sanctuary boys will render an elaborate musical programme on Christmas mornirig at the 8 oclock mass The choir is under the direction of Miss Lizzie Keyer one of the most popular young ladies in the West Bud Miss Keyer is not only accomplished organist but also ranks as one of the finest soprano singers in the city having undergone thorough course of music under the best masters of the profession Her little singers seem to have imbibed some of the vocal talent of their teacher who is held in the highest honor and veUnder1goNea degree of proficiency seldom attained by juvenile choirs A pleasing feature e the programme will be rendition of th I solo Alma Redemptoris by Miss Liz- ate c Keyer a I HIBERNIANS TQ CELEBRATE Il WittjoWitarffiwrt and Hibamka Kmif ht will IM toe gucate of donor c I STROKESTOWN Landlords Stronghold Invaded by Roscomninn Men of the United League William OBriens Denunciation of the Governments TnetlcsIjI Elect Men to County Councils Who Will Prevent Police Grabbing A TIDAL WAVE OF NATIONAL SPIRIT The meeting which was recently held at Strokestown is the best evidence of the manner in which the United Irish League movement has says the Dublin Freemans Journal to use a common phrase caught on in the West of Ire land The town of Strokestown is the center of the lordlings cleared demesne in the County Roscommon In fact the warning to be seen at the gates of the Strokestown demesne is practically posted on the stone fences of every field in the neighborhood of the town Keep Off the Grass The meeting under all the circumstances was a splendid one It was not as large as the gathering usually held under the auspices pf the United Irish League but the question may well be asked Where did the people come fromMr William OBrien the orator of the day who was received with loud cheers said this was the first time he had ever set foot in Strokestown It was a great pleasure to find so many people left in the country after the miles of depopulated land through which he had just been traveling It was a pride and pleas ure to him to address the people of Strokestown because he knew that among them were some who differed from hint in some matters but although there were some matters on which they differed there were also important ques tions ou which they were agreed and upon which they were prepared to fight side by side together as Irish Nationalists They were all agreed in hating English rule They would be only too eager to dcqmetl man I he iaWivc leader oc 0 8180a1 to banish it most quickly out of this island bag and baggage They were all haters of Irish landlordism They knew that every page of its history has been blotted with the sufferings and with the curses of the whole Irish race and that the only service landlordism could ever do to Ireland was by disappearing from its soil forever They all believed in the United Irish League programme of more landand better land for the people Of 18000 tenants in the County Ros common there was no less than 13000 whose valuation was under E10 and there were nearly 6000 of them scattered on wretched patches whose valuation was less than 5 and that in the very midst of the richest and most abupdant plains that the heart of man could de sire Finally they were all agreed in reprobating the conduct of the police grabber As to land grabbing he took leave to lay down three propositions which he was ready to fight out with the Government in their coercion courts even if they were packed with all the Lord Norburys and Judge Keoghs that ever disgraced the name of justice in IrelandThe proposition was that their old race might as well fly the country alto gether if they left land grabbers to go unpunished The next was that by every law which entitled the trade unionists of England to fight blacklegs aud the judges of the land to blackball disrep utable barristers the farmers of Ireland were justified in stamping put this insane and unnatural greed for the means of livelihood of the poor and weak The case of the ordinary land grabber was bad enough but here was the case of a man paid by the public foi the purpose of being an impartial officer between landlord and tenant taking an evicted farm and so stirring up one of the most serious public disturbances that ever shook Roscommon and the Inspector General of the Constabulary instead of rebuking this peace officer indorsed Egans action He had always found a good deal of kindly Irish nature too Even the strait jacket of the depot could never altogether strangle the members of the peasant fathers and mothers that they sprang from But even for their own sakes every decent man among them ought to be the first to make a stand against adding land grabbing to all the other discomforts of their profession Just fancy such a thing happening in England Fancy in the case of a great English strike a police force being sent down to work for thee masters at lower wags and being at liberty to prosecute the workers The place of an Inspector tolerateaOF tours purchase And why Because peoplefwereto Ire used for the purpose of helping the capitalist to put down the wprkers the would have bVfry public man and news Hrhl1England crying ott for punish littof the man who coun teuanced such ufifir ui fHhejli ffprc 1 atlt In I4elpiad they wereepectedt 14OWdijUlb without li word qf Ate teat The tftijMrs of IwUed srs the greatest trades union ink he world They occupy a much stronger position legally than the trades unionists because the trades unionists have never claimed any property in the factories they work in but Mr Gladstones llaud act of 1881 ex pressly recognizes the farmers as partners and even the predominant partners in the ownership of theItown holdings The landlords had been endeavoring to repeal the land act and to destroy the tenants property by iimporting into the partnership third party tine grabber an outsider unknown to the law of 81 a man who had not trade Iris money out of the landand who never spent an hour of labor on the holding e grabs The whole Irish land question at the present moment was a question whether by means of these grabbers these black legs the landlords wouljl succeed in con fiscating the tenants property and throw ing the country back again in a state of agrarian revolution There was a great agrarian issue here auto which every consideration of states tranship ought to counsel the public authorities to preserve the most scrupulous Neutrality between landlord and tenant Lot just mark the impartiality of Dublin 6astle They first appoint the Fry Commission to declare that the rental of Ireland must be not what will enable the tenants to live and thrive but what grabbers like Egan were prepared to offer as a competition rent out of the money espied from other sources V But not content with ihat they author ize the Royal Irish constabulary to turn grabbers themselves a41accordingly this poor woman who onlyowed two years rent and who had actually been accepted by the Land Commissioners as the pur chaser of her holding was ousted from her little farm and she and her little family so far as the grabber is concerned are doomed to the workhouse They should remember that the County Councils of England had the control of their own police and should man their own County Councils next March with men of the stamp of + ijohn Fitzgibbon who would make the fijjfst business of the County Councils to insist if the boasted equality between the two countries is not a sham that they should have the same control over the police in Ireland as in England In claiming every liberty and right they had in England they were on impregnable ground In conclusion Mr OBrien said Before lfinish let me say a word about the extraordinary success of thin movement If the people are rallying to this United Irish League in a way jjhat even the most sanguine of us coufd JK t have anticipat ed it is becautt 4jV and know that- t wet to jit is no mans movement 7 its is no maneuver to make party capital it is simply an at tempt to break down as far as possible those fatal barriers between Irishmen and Irishmen by arraying us all together again side by side in open field against the common enemy and letting the future settle itself hereafter by the help of the old associations and the new forces and the new men that the progress of this fight is bringing to the front- I dont know and I dont care what proportion of this meeting may be Par nellite or nouParuellite but this I do know that on this platform Parnellite and nonParnellite stand on a footing of absolute equality Neither of them is asked to recant anything or apologize for anythingBut are asked as far as possible to turn their thoughts away from the heart penlinto our people and to our cause the price = less weapon of a genuine national com bination the only weapon by whichwe possibly can gain back our freedom I dont at all complain if in the beginning people were suspicious when it was whispered into their ears that this was a sectional movement in disguise In the morbid state of feeling that has pre vailed for years we have all to exercise a deal of patience one toward another and to put up with a little misunderstanding and injustice In such a sate of things none of us can pretend to be dogmatic or infallible The most that any of us can hope to do is to do our little best in the way of peace and good will among Irish Nationalists and letus be judged accord ing to our works 1 believe more in practicing unity among the people than in looking for it to members of Parliament But it is because we know that there is no underhand plot no crooked purpose no per kindunderlying a formidable fighting power even 1f all the existing sections and existing leaders lied to disappear to bring it aboutit is because we know that and because the people with that wonderful instinct of theirs know it that the cream of thin men of all sections are gradually finding their way into this movement with a sense of relief andliopfc that they have not felt for many a day We Io for trusting the people in the manner to nrmeand the future of thisnrovcmengraand to give rection that their own good senseand honest patriotism may suggest The first lesson I ever learned in the school of Parnell WAS that the first condition of the freedom of Ireland was a combination physicalforcesl and all the unParliam and- in the pursuit of that daunted and holy ob raison9anyderstandings because we know that we areworkingfor no object except Irelands freedom and our peoples happiness If any better plan than ours turns up ifeno better plan turns upand for the present moment there U np settler deli vniteand practical programme whatsoever r before the country then we can Jgp right ahead with the knowledge that we are already mounting oil the aG of one ef the greatest wiverof 11ltonlIiPi t Uiat wontot b our tianltifaltat tidalwav let ptead fMM M jt bipedCoauwMgk to a combined DAVITT Warns the People Against Eng lands Hypocrisy and Deceit The British Lion Is Looking For the Lions Share Ho Says Ulterior Motives Govern the British in Seeking the Alliance ENGLAND OROWLS OVER THE TARIFF Michael Davitt M P who has opposed an AngloAmerican alliance owing to its probable effect upon the Irish question said in an interview Saturday There is no reason why Americans and Englishmen should not be friends I have never advocated their hostility nor been one of those who thought that America should go to war with England to free Ireland But there iis also no reason why America should not be friendly with France Germany Russia and the other great powers of the earth I do not believe in any alliance andI I hold that any Irishman who fa a citizen of the United States may oppose it for American and not Irish reasons The present worked up sentiment for an al liance is due to the higher English classes who are not honestly friendly to America ably assisted by certain pro British newspapers in New York City The English people do not realize that the New York papers speak only for a small fragment of the American people and do not represent the vast body of opinion west of the Alleghenies When the Maine was blown up the expressed opinion in fashionable clubs inI London was It served the Yankees right and the Saturday Review saidI later It is a contest between a scalawag and a gentleman and scalawag will winI But as soon as the United States began to win England having trouble in China with Russia qt the time went in with the winner The story of the coalition of the powers against the United States wide gXtothoritatively denied by three of the pow ers alleged to have been hostile to the United States England now desires to force the present friendly feeling into an actual alliance to serve her own selfish purposes She wants to use the United State in case she quarrels with France Germany or Russia but my prediction is America will not permit herself to be so used II America has no quarrel with these powers and it is not to her interest to have any She is not fitted to go hand in hand with England in imperialistic schemes because while America is a democracy England for all that may be said to the contrary in her official organ ization is an aristocracy liThe two countries are competitors in the worlds business which also makes alliance impossible Both want all they can get and England is already growl ing over the American tariff navigation laws and the ClaytonBulwer treaty BEAR LUNCH The Treat John Hickey Has In Store for His Friends Christmas Day Among the ninny who will keep open house Christmas day none have made more laviish or fitting preparations than John Hickey whowillreceive at Seventh and Oak streets Our reporter suspected that the genial gentleman was preparing an agreeable holiday surprise for his friends and patrons and after doing some quiet work learned its nature Mr Hickey who never doss anything by halves has procured and had placed in cold storage a fine young bear weigh ing over 250 pounds which will be served toJite callers Christmas day He has se cured the services of an experienced chef I reputationforwho will supervise its preparation and see that it is served in the most palatable and esnticingmanner The bear will be roasted and served hot from an early hour in the morning until it Is all consumed In addition there will be an abundance of other hol iday edibles and those who are so fortun ate as to partake of the bear dinner which will continue oil day will enjoy a rare feast Mr Hickey has made ample arrange meats to entertain all his friends and there will undoubtedly be a large num ber of callers OFFICER CONNELL BETTER Officer Thomas Connell one of the most efficient men connected with the Police Department has been very ill dining the past week at his home 1517 West Walnut street He has been sup fering from pneumonia slid atone time the physicians entertained grave doubts of his recovery His many friends will begladtoknowhilI condition isi now inuch improved and the ittdkattotu are that he will soon be able to resume hit 8- ii duties Mr jCountU was for a nutttbw r oerJ J iJ 1 FRANKFORT Interesting Budget of Political and Social News From the State Capital FRANKFORT KY Dec 23Before another week has elapsed the memorable contest for the Democratic nomination for Representative of Franklin county in the Legislature of 1900 will be over and the lucky candidate arranging his fences for the election next November The campaign which is now drawing to a close is the warmest in the history of Frankliu county W E Thompson the laboring mans friend is making the race on the capital appropriation platform and at the present writing looks a winner by a very close majority South Trimble the incumbent who left the Legislative hall when the roll was being called upon the labor bill at the last session of the Legislature is moving heaven andearth to secure the nomination and his friends claim that he will beat Col Thompson a blockCol Thompson is a farmer and a civil war veteran having fought and lost his right arm fighting for the lost cause At 4 oclock next Wednesday afternoon the ordeal will be over and the selection of a Democratic standard bearer will have been made Col D J McEIHgott President of Division No1 A O II was on last Wednesdayappointed Judge of the Courthouse voting precinct which is a guarantee that all candidates will gets fair dealQuite I a large crowd will probably at tend the free dance to be given by Young I Mens Institute No 16 in this city next Monday evening I Division No 1 A O H will give aII hop Monday evening December 26 Admission I can be secured by special invita tion only and a select crowd is guaran 1 teedA grand masque ball will be given by Division No1 A O H on Monday i January 2 The small price of admission fifty cents ladies free should guarantee a large crowdIOne of the finest musical programmes ever rendered by the celebrated choir ofI the Church of the Good Shepherd of tIns city will be heard by those attending theI 5 oclock mass Christmas morning TheI organist and musical director Prof Gra ham has spared no pains to make it the finest Christmas programme ever rendered inJFrankfort Afew celebrities fromI puoiic iu general wno always pac church on Christmas morning We regret to again be forced to call the attention of Frankfort subscribers to the fact that their subscriptions have not yet been paid although they have been due since October 1 If you wish to make the Kentucky Irish American have a merry Christmas and happy New Year give your dollar to our agent Mr D J McNamara during the coming weekD M LIBRARY ROOMS A New Enterprise Put on Foot by the IrishAmerican J Society For some time past a number of the most progressive members of the Irish American Society have been trying to solve the problem of how to make that body more useful and popular Among the different plans proposed was one to establish a library and reading room The advocates of the reading room plan argue that it would be a great conve+ nience for the members who reside in all parts of the city to have a place where they could meet and enjoy themselves when in the business portion of town and believe it would prove effective iq increasing the membership The foregoing and other matters of importance will come before the society Thursday evening when Vice President Michael J Lawler James Horan and Thomas Drewry will report on changes t be made In the constitution and bylaws There are a number of newly elected members to be initiated in addition to a large list of names to be acted on FITZGERALDS BANQUET Friendly Sons of St Patrick Give a Dinner In the Judges Honor The Society of the Friendly Sons of St Patrick of New York gave a com plimentory dinner to Judge James Fitz gerald of the General Sessions Court in honor of his election to the Supreme Court Bench The Banquet took place Monday evening at Delmonicos Justice Morgan OBrien presided Chief Justice Van Brunt of the Appellate Division pf the Supreme Court and all the Justices of that court Judge Cowing of the General Sessions Judges Coulin and ODwyer of the City Court the Judges of the Municipal Court and many men I of prominence in business and profes sional circles were present HOSE GREEN BALL The Mose Green dub this week de cided to give Its annual ball on the even lug flf January 30 at Music Hall Messrs Scott Newman Fred HertZi Phil Tyson John leader and George Share comprise the coinwUtae The ball thus year win the1clubIbiai I D GAELIC CLASS One Formed in Louisville For the Study of the Irish 4 Language Those Wishing to Join Should Attend the Meetingat Hibernian Hall i Instructions Received From the Gaelic Professor of Wash ington University PROSPECT GOOD FOR A LARGE CLASS Wednesday night at Hibernian Hall the initiatory steps were taken for the formation of a class for the study of the Gaelic or Irish language A large number of gentlemen have been taking an interest in the matter with this end in view for some time past Atl recent tmeeting i Order of Hibernianiinstructed to correspond with the Rev Richard Henebry Ph D Professor of Gaelic in the Catholic University at Washington In the meantime the mat ter was agitated among the members of the division with R the result that a num ber of names were enrolled and the necessary books ordered from New York for a successful beginning x There are many IrishAmericans who already read and write in the Irish lan intothewillbewith the Gaelic League of America which furnishes the necessary requis ites at a nominal cost makinga rnStatesone theIrishAmericansare evincinga lively interest in this new educational movement fromProfthose interested and makes some value ee SOt 1 S 1 the preliminaries he formation of ai wtr ol originated with intendpinl a Itisliterature will arrive in time for the next meeting which will be held at Hibernian Hall on Wednesday evening January 4 No officers will be elected until after proportionsforpromoters to give all an ample opportu city to associate themselves with the class and then competentThe Kentucky Irish American predicts a bright future for the Gaelic class and will in its next issue inform the public as to the details and requirements for membership y PATRICK HOLLEY Serving His Twentieth Year ag Secretary of Catholic Knights At the last regular meeting of Branch 21 of the Catholic Knights of America held in Crowleys Hall Eighteenthand Portland avenue officers were elected for the ensuing year as follows Spiritual Director Rev Father Kelle IterPresidentPatrick FlahertyVice HolleyFinancial leyo TreasurerWilliam McDonald TimotJJyMcCarthy TierneySentinel After the election considerable routine business was transacted followed by an entertaining address by the Spiritual Director Mr Pat Holley who is one of the best known Knights iu the State has served as Secretary of this branch for the past twenty years And in all that time missed t only four meetings being absent from the city on those occasions on business or pleasure trips William McDonald the Treasurer js another efficient and popular officer and the members declare they will hold the itiOltsThe reports show the branch to be in a flourishing condition Installation of tlie newly elected officers will take place at the January meeting DANNEN COLEMAN DEAD Mr Barmen Coleman President of the Central Coal and Iron Company and one of Louisvilles bestknown buss ness men died Thursday night of DupontSquareand his condition Was trot thoughl to lcserious until the afternoon of that day He was conscious to the last and wall mittIroueoO L r n KENTUCKY IRIll AMERICAN VOLUME INO 25 LOUISVILLE SATURDAY 1ECEMBER 24 189S PRICE FIVE CENTS IRISH CAUSE Great Demonstration Under the Auspices of the League in County SlIgo The People of Ireland Must Again Have the Land of Rev Father Ireland Scullys Heart breaking Story of a Per ishing People LTHE UNITED IRISH LEAGUE INDORSED On Sunday a great demonstration under the auspices of the Bunnlnadden branch of the United Irish League was held in Bunninadden the center of a cleared district in the County SlIgo says the Dublin Weekly Freeman The gather ing was a very large oue and nothing could exceed the enthusiasm with which the people have entered into the new organization All sections and parties were represented and deputations were in attendance from the surrounding dis tricts and towns Mr William OBrien and the Mayor of Sligo P A McIIugh M P were welcomed with ringing cheers when theyappeared The Chairman Rev D J OGrady who was received with loud cheers said he was extremely grateful for the high honor they had done him in asking him to preside over that large and enthusiastic meeting of Nationalists of the County 31igo and County Mayo The British Government under which they had the misfortune to live might pass its laud acts and local government acts or any other acts it pleased but there was only one bill which would ever satisfy the cravings of the Irish heart and that was a bill to give the Irish people a light to make their own laws for their own people on their own soil To his mind the movement of the United Irish League should meet with the cordial support and T practical sympathy of every right think ing person It was to plant the Irish people on Irish soil to get back for the ancient Irish race the land from which their forefathers L w r driv Itwasror this grand and noMeobject that the United Irish League was established To any one who loved ihjs country and respected his kind it was humiliating and degrading that the hat should be sent round year after year and appeals made to the charitable public in favor of a people starving in a land of plenty It was to drive poverty and dis content from their midst and to give the Irish people a fair chance of living on I Irish soil that the United Irish League had been founded There was nothing revolutionary or unjust about the move ment It was a movement to break up rich and fertile lands and distribute them among the smaller tenants the lands to be taken on the conditions that due and ample compensation should be given There was nothing contrary to any law human or divine The United Irish League had estab lished a platform broad and wide enough for every genuine Irishman to stand upon Its aims and objects appealed alike to allsections of Irish Nationalists They had done a noble work in estab lishing a branch in that parish May that branch prosper and bring forth good I fruit in abundance Among the resolutions passed amid great enthusiasm were the following Resolved That we the Nationalists of Sligo and Mayo believing in Irelands inalienable right to selfgovernment hereby pledge ourselves to continue the struggle for freedom until our national Parliament be once again established in College Green That we indorse the principles and programme of the United Irish League and heartily approve of its alms and ob jects which are identical with those of the old Land League and recognizing the value of a fighting organization such as the United Irish League is we now call on the people pf these counties to fa- llw into line forthwith and form branches of that organization in those districts where branches do not already exist That we call upon our Nationalist Par llamentary representatives of all sections to reunite on a common platform and present aa unbroken front to the cbni mon enemy jln the British House of Com mops That as the new local government act which will conic into operation imme diately confers immense powers on the people and aa these powers can be utilized with great advantage for the advancement of the national cause we pledge ourselves support no candidate for jthe office of county or district Coun cilor who is not a sincere believer in the doctrine of Ireland for the Irish and the ljandUor the people The Very Rev Father Scully who was Jowlly cheered said that 1agnilic nt- deJl1JJtlratioJJ brought bak Jo hs mind old recollections They wereasseinbJv J there that dy for a noble object There cjidjiitiJiiYf been different leagues jn the MthHtfto one could object tpa league r tisit fafalifr programme the land pr the people HemifchtMyJUe was iaqta Dillonit nor an OBrieaite not any sort of aiJ tofl wept nIriiMt Be had cwrie there for te ted a tad tory to Ufl cnoIttvte-ves5ISdM had M 4 Mary What was the story he had to tell and Father James OHara and Father John McDonnell before him See the condition to which a large portion of his parish was reduced depppulated to make room for the bullocks and for nothing else In 44 they had in one village thirtytwo families Now they had one herd In another townland in 44 they had thirty seven families Now they had one herd In a third townland in 44 they had fortyseven families Now they had one herd These statistics could be produced Father John McDonnell baptized in the parish of Kesh in the year 44 172 chil dren Now there were only fortysix to be baptized in the year These were sad statisticsWhat were they assembled there for To get back the people to their homes again to get the land for the people How was that to be done It was only to be done by united and determined ac tion on the part of the people themselves The priests would be with the people in that movement but they would only be with them if everything was done over and above board The people should act openly unitedly determinedly if they would see the broad grass farms back again in the hands of the children who owned them Surely this was work for which the people ought to make some little sacrificed Were they prepared to 10 it They had a noblesouled man at the bottom of this new agitation William OBrien and if he was prepared to make the sacrifices why should not the peope make sacri ces But if they were to succeed every thing should be done within the laws and the constitution Mr OBrien was there to tell them the lines on which the work should be carried on so he would not take any more of their time He would only say again that if the people were to be planted in the soil it could only be done by united and determined action One thing the people should do and that was to put an end to grabbing Dont deal with the grabbers but dont brake their bones Let the people sim ply turn their heads away from them at the fair and the market But dont break the law The lawbreaker was really the persecutor and the enemy of the people Let them work within the law and con stitution and with the help of God they would yet succeed in their noble object by the united efforts of priests and people William OBrien was accorded warn welcome and delivered powerful and convincing speech The Mayor of Sligo Mr McHugh John ODowd J J Keenan and John McLaughlin Sooey having addressed the twi5i1ringirigj WILLIAM T MEEHAN Honored by Being Chosen as President of the Catholic Knights of America Branch 25 Catholic Knights of Amer lea at its meeting Monday night received the yearly reports of its officers which showed the branch to be in a flourishing condition During the year a great deal of work has been done and many new members added and the newlyelected officers predict a still greater increase during their administration There was quite a large attendance of members all being interested in the an nual election of officers which resulted as follQws Spiritual DirectorVery Rev L Bax President William T Meehan First Vice President = M F Hill Second Vice President C li Desse Recording Secretary L J Veenemani Financial Scretary E J Mann Treasurer F Baron TrusteesAF Martin John Nolan and J F Garaghty Sentinel M Saughness- ySergeantatArmsVilliam McKenzie Messrs Meehan Hil and Veeneman are three of the ablest and progressive members of the order in this city and Branch 25 will certainly prosper under their guidance Mr McGinn of Branch 24 was present andentertained the members with some interesting remark- sCHRISTMAS s e MORNING The Vested Choir of St Pat ricks Will Rendera Fine Programme The vested choirof St Patricks church composed of the sanctuary boys will render an elaborate musical programme on Christmas mornitig at the 8 oclock mass The choir is under the direction of Miss Lizie Keyer one of the most popular young ladies in the West Und Miss Keyer is not only accomplished organist but also ranks as one of the finest sopranoBinjers in the city having undergone a thorough course of music under the lest masters of the profession Her little singers seem to have imbibed some of the vocal talent of their teacher who is held in the highest honor and- reapvctby them The boys have under goncl1 thorough rehearsing during the past few weeks and have reached a degree of proficiency seldom attained by juvenile choirs A pleasing feature off the programme will be rendition of the solo Alma RwUttiptoris1 by Miss Liz aiKeyer e HIBERNIANS TO CELEBRATE W dMttky eytntog Division 4wtil JMUta auMuQ oeliWrtton Vht aW ftoon sad Hlbomko lUihtowiU b fc4 i STROKESTOWN Landlords Stronghold Invaded by Koscommon Men of the United League William ODricns Denuncln- tiou I of the Governments TncticRIjI Elect Men to County Councils Who Will Prevent Police Grabbing A TIDAL WAVE OP NATIONAL SPIRIT The meeting which was recently held at Strokestown is the best evidence of the manner in which the United Irish League movement has says the Dublin Freemans Journal to use a common phrase caught on in the West of Ire land The town of Strokestown is the center of the lordlings cleared demesne in the County Roscoinmon In fact the warning to be seen at the gates of the Strokestown demesne is practically posted on the stone fences of every field In the neighborhood of the town Keep Off the Grass The meeting under all the circumstances was a splendid one It was not as large as the gathering usually held under the auspices pf the United Irish League but the question may well I be asked Where did the people come fromMr William OBrien the orator of the day who was received with loud cheers said this was the first time he had cver set foot in Strokestown It was a great pleasure to find so many people left in the country after the miles of depopulated land through which he had just been traveling It was a pride and pleas ure to him to address the people of Strokestown because he knew that among them were some who differed from him in some matters but although there were some matters on which they differed there were also important ques tions ou which they were agreed and upon which they were prepared to fight side by side together as Irish Nationalists They were all agreed in hating English rule They would be only too eager to welcome the lan behe native Ioider- or1orgafff p w1Q t1 to banish it most quickly out of this island bag and baggage They were all haters of Irish landlordism They knew that every page of its history has been blotted with the sufferings and with the curses of the whole Irish race and that the only service landlordism could ever do to Ireland was by disappearing from its soil forever They all believed in the United Irish League programme of more land and better land for the people Of 18000 tenants in the County Ros common there was no less than 13000 whose valuation was under 410 and there were nearly 6000 of them scattered on wretched patches whose valuation was less than 5 and that in the very midst of the richest and most abupdant plains that the heart of man could de sire Finally they were all agreed in reprobating the conduct pf the police grabber As to land grabbing he took leave to lay down three propositions which he was ready to fight out with the Government in their coercion courts even if they were packed with nil the Lord Norburys and Judge Keoghs that ever disgraced the name of justice in IrelandThe propositiouwas that their old race might as well fly the country alto gether if they left land grabbers to go unpunished The next was that by every law which entitled the trade unionists of England to fight blacklegs and the judges of the land to blackball disrep utable barristers the farmers of Ireland were justified in stamping put this in sane and unnatural greed for the means of livelihood of the poor and weak The case of the ordinary land grabber was bad enough but here was the case of a man paid by the public fpi the purpose of being an impartial officer between landlord and tenant taking an evicted farm and so stirring up one of the most serious public disturbances that ever shook Roscouimon and the Inspector General of the Constabulary instead of rebuking this peace officer Endorsed Egans action He had always found a good deal of kindly Irish nature too Even the straitjacket of the depot could never altogether strangle the members of the peasant fathers anti mothers that they sprang from But even for their own sakes everyldecent man among then ought to be the first to make a stand against adding land grabbing all the other discomforts of their profession ppcnlngJnEngtand English strike a police force being sent down to work for time masters at lower wages and being at liberty to prosecute thewprkr The place of an Inspector General In England who would tolerate such a timing would hot be worth twenty r11or hours Purchase Itmicl why Because I thVrepreeentativos of time UtigIshipeophe IIoommtroi their own pphic i and if they were r1to d for tbepurpose pf Jieiplnj time capitalists to put downtime wprjier they would hiavevsry pubjfc man and newpV pap r in England crying omit forpunUu lUMtof the man who countenanced aI j forejl e fpetted to- JU 40WO dub vfetttHlt M0AfpE II 1t 4 I I J greatest trades union inTthe world They poslhonlega1ythan trades unionists have never claimed any property in the factories they work in but Mr Gladstones lamiciact of 1881 expressly recognizes the tfarmers as partners and even the predominant partners in the ownership of theirown holdings The landlords had been endeavoring to repeal the land act and to destroy the tenants property by importing into the partnership a third party the grabber an outsider unknown to the law of 81 a man who had not tnadejhls money out of time landand who never spent an hour of labor on the holding lie grabs The whole Irish land question at the present moment was a question whether by means of these grabbers these black legs the landlords wouTd succeed in con fiscating the tenants property and throwing the country back again in a state of agrarian revolution There was a great agrarian Issue here a9to which every consideration of statesmanship ought to counsel the public authorities to preserve the most scrupulous ifeutrality between landlord and tenant jSut just mark the impartiality of Dublin Castle They first appoint the Fry Commission to declare that the rental of Ireland must be not what will enable the tenants to live and thrive but what grabbers like Egan were prepared to offer as nj competition rent out of time money earned from other sources nut not content with ihat they author ize the Royal Irish constabulary to turn grabbers themselves nttd accordingly this poor woman who onlyiowed two years acceptedbythechaser of her holding was ousted from her little farm and she and her little family so far as the grabber is concerned are doomed to the workhouse They should remember that the County Councils of England d the control of their own police and should man their own County Councils next March with men of the stamp of John Fitzgibbon who would make the first business of the County Councils to insist if the boasted equality between the two countries is not a sham that they should have the same control over the police in Ireland as in England In claiming every liberty and right they had in England they were on impregnable ground Imm conclusion Mr OBrien said Before finish let me say a word about the extraordinary success of thin movement 1 If the people are rallying to this United Irish League in a way IIteven the most sanguine of us could t have anticipat ed Jt is Kmnaitsi tliiUrllSij and know that i tItisnomansmovement tn lSfno maneuver to make party capital it is simply an attempt l to break down as far as possible those fatal barriers between Irishmen and Irishmen by arraying us all together again side by side in open field against time common enemy and letting the future settle itself hereafter by time help of the old associations and the new forces and the new men that the progress of this fight is bringing to the front I dont know and I dont care what proportion of this meeting way be Par nelllte or nouParucllite but this I do now that on this platform Pornellite and nonParnellite stand on a footing of absolute equality Neither of them is asked to recant anything or apologize for anythingBut are asked as far as possible to turn their thoughts away from the heart burnings pf time past and to act like meni in time living present so as to give back to our people and to our cause the priceless weapon of a genuine national com bination the only weapon by which we possibly can gain back our freedpm I dont at all complain if in the beginning people were suspicious when it was whispered into their ears that this was a sectional movement in disguise In time morbid state of feeding that has prevailed for years we have all to exercise a deal of patience one toward another and to put up with a little misunderstanding and injustice In such a state of things none of us can pretend to be dogmatic or infallible Time most that any of us can hope to do is to do our little best in the way of peace and good will among Irish Nationalists and let us be judged accord ing to our works I believe more In practicing unltv among the people than in looking for it to embers of Parliament But it isibe cause we know that there is no under hand plot no crooked purpose no per sonal ambition of any sort or kind underlying this movement except a formidable fighting power even ifian- the existing scctiomis amid existing leaders had to disappear bring it aboutit is because we know that and because the people with that wonderful instinct of theirs know it that the cream of tljej men of all sections are gradually finding their way into this movement with a havSnotfeltJormany the people in time fullest possible umammuer to shape time programme and time future of this movement anti to give it shy direction that their own good sense and honest patriotism may suggest The first lesson I ever learned in time school of Parnell was that time first condition of the freedom of Irelaudwas a combination of all time moral forces and the physical forces of all the Parliamentary forcfls forCe8lnlintheject we need not be daunted one bit by any mere transient difficultiesi or misun dersta dings because we know that we texccpUrelandsfreedm If any1 better planlhan ours turns up we will be the first to welcome it but If hoc better planturlsupand for the present moment tJfI1a no other deli wiats9everbeforeahead with the knowledge Jhatweare- I already mounting on the Creetof one ei the greatest wavss of national vjpirit that ntIIi DAVITT Yarns the People Against Eug lands Hypocrisy and Deceit Time British Lion Is Looking For the Lions Share Ho Says Ulterior Motives Govern time British In Seeking the Alliance ENGLAND OROWLS OVER Tile TARIFF Michael Davitt M P who has opposed an AngloAmerican alliance owing to its probable effect upon the Irish question said in an interview Saturday There isno reason why American and Englishmen should not be friends I have neveradvocated their hostility nor been one of those who thought that EnglandtowhyAmericnFrance Germany Russia and the other great powers of the earth- I do not believe in any alliance and I hold that any Irishman who is a citizen of the United States may oppose it for American and not Irish reasons The present worked up sentiment for an alliance is due to the higher English classes who are not honestly friendlyI to America ably assisted by certain pro British newspapers in New York City The English people do not realize that the New York papers speak only for a small fragment of the American people and do not represent the vast body of opinion west of the Alleghenies When the Maine was blown up the expressed opinion in fashionable clubs in London was It served the Yankees right and the Saturday Review said later It is a contest between a scalawag and a gentleman and scalawag will win IIBut as soon as the United States began to win England having trouble In China with Russia at the time went in with time wiimnerIliThe story of the coalition of the powers against the United States whic gttothoritatively denied by three of the poV ers alleged to have been hostile to the J I United States England now desires to force the present friendly feeling into an actual alliance to serve her own selfish purposes She wants to use the United State in case sue quarrels with France Germany or Russia but my prediction is America will not permit herself to be so used America has no quarrel with these powers and it is not to her interest to have any She is not fitted to go hand in hand with England in imperialistic schemes because while America is a democracy England for all that may be said to the contrary in her official organization is an aristocracy The two countries are competitors in the worlds business which also makes alliance impossible Both want all they can get and England is already growling over the American tariff navigation laws and the ClaytonBui wer treaty BEAR LUNCH The Treat John Hickey Has In Store for His Friends Christmas Day Among the many who will keepopen house Christmas day none have made more laviish or fitting preparations than John Hickey whpnvill receive at Seventh and Oak streets Our reporter suspected that the genial gentleman was preparing an agreeable holiday surprise for his friends and patrons and after doing some quiet work learned its nature Mr Hickey who never doss anything by halves has procured and had placed in cold storage a flue young bear weigh ing over 250 pounds which will Re served to his callers Christmas day He has see cured time services of an experienced chef reputationforwho yill supervise its preparation and see that it is served in the most palatable and enticing manner The bear will be roasted and served hot from an early hour in time morning until it is all cpusumed In addition there will be an abundance pf other bolo iday edibles and those who are so fort n ate as to partake of the bear dinner which will continue all day will enjoy a rare feast Mr Hickey has made ample arrange ments to entertain all his friends and there will undoubtedly be a large minim her of callers w I OFFICER CONNELL BETTERf Officer Thomas Council one of the most efficient wen connected with the PolIce Department has been very ill dining the past Week at his home 1517 Wet Walnut street He has been suf fering front pneuuionia and at one time the physicians entertained grave doubts of his recovery Ills many friends will be glad to know his condition is now munch Improved amid time indications are tbihe will soon be able to MMIMM kk duties Mr CoumU WM ttt a Munbir I robatu co FRANKFORT I Interesting Budget of Political and Social News From the State Capital FRANKFORT KY Dec 23Defore another week has elapsed the memorable contest for the Democratic nomination for Representative of Franklin county in the Legislature of 1900 will be over and the lucky candidate arranging his fences for the election next November The campaign which is now drawing to a close is the warmest in the history of FrankliucountyW the laboring mans friend is making the race on the capital appropriation platform and at the present writing looks a winner by a very close majority South Trimble the incumbent who left the Legislative hall when the roll was being called upon the labor bill at the last session of the Legislature is moving heaven and earth to secure the nomination and his friends claim that he will beat Col Thompson a blockCol Thompson is a farmer and a civil war veteran having fought and lost his right arm fighting for the lost cause At 4 oclock next Wednesday afternoon the ordeal will be over and the selection of a Democratic standard bearer will have been made Col D J McElligott President of Division No 1 A O H was on last Wednesday appointed Judge of the Courthouse voting precinct which is a guarantee that all candidates will getq fair dealQuite a large crowd will probably at lCI1l time free dance to be given by Young Mens Institute No 1C in this city next Monday evening Division No 1 A O IL will give a hop Monday evening December 20 Admission can be secured by special invitation only and a select crowd is guaranteed A grand masque ball will be given by Division No 1 A O H on Monday January 2 The small price of admission fifty cents ladies free should guarantee a large crowd One of the finest musical programmes ever rendered by the celebrated choir of the Church of the Good Shepherd of this city will be heard by those attending time 5 oclock mass Christmas morning The organist and musical director Prof Gra ham has spared no pains to make it the finest Christmas programme ever rendered Frankfort A few celebrities from publiImiiialwflo nlays pnc church on Christmas morning We regret to again be forced to call the attention of Frankfort subscribers to the fact that their subscriptions have not yet been paid although they have been due since October 1 If you wish to make the Kentucky Irish American have a merry Christmas and happy New Year give your dollar to our agent Mr D J McNamara during the coming week DJ M LIBRARY ROOMS A New Enterprise Put on Foot by the IrishAmerican J Society For some time past a number of the most progressive members of the Irish American Society have been trying to solve the problem of how to make that body more useful and popular Among the different plans proposed was one to establish a library and reading room The advocates of the reading room plan argue that it would be a great convenience for the members who reside in all parts of the city to have a place where they could meet and enjoy themselves when in the business portion of town and believe it would prove effective in increasing the membership Time foregoing and other matters of importance will come before the society Thursday evening when Vice President Michael J Lawler James lI ran and Thomas Drewry will report on changes to be made in the constitution and bylaws There arc a number of newly elected members to be initiated in addition to a large list of names to be acted on S W FITZGERALDS BANQUET Friendly Sons of St Patrick Give a Dinner In the Judges Honor Time Society of time Friendly Sons of St Patrick of New York gave a com plimentory thinner to Judge lames Fitz gerald of the General Sessions Court in heSupremeCMonday evening at Delmonicoa Justice Morgan J OBrien presided Chief Justice Van Brunt of time Appellate Division pf the Supreme Court and all the Justices of that court Judge Cowing of time General Sessions Judges Coulin and ODwyer of the City Court the Judges of time Municipal Court and many men pf prominence in business and profes sional Cir leswerepresent MOS GREEN BALL The More Green Club this week de clded to give its aunualballIonthe even ingjpf January 30 at Musicl hail Mef rs Scott Newman Fred Hoertz Phil Tyson John K frie and George Share comprise I the e nnfh JH this year will be the matt slabasatlt WretrblUIc dub TbkmwwiAgt u GAELIC CLASS One Formed in Louisville For the Study of the Irish Language Those Wishing to Join Should Attend the Meetingat Hibernian Hall Instructions Received From tho Gaelic Professor of Wash ington University PROSPECT QOOO FOR A LARGE CLASS Wednesday night at Hibernian Hall thefornmatiomiGaelic or Irish language A large num ber of gentlemen aninterestinviewmeeting of Division 3 of the Ancient Order of Hibernian wasinstructedRichard Henebry Ph D Professor of UnversityatWashington ter was agitated among the members of the division with the result that a num ber of names were enrolled and the nec essary books ordered from New York for a beginningThere who already read and write in the Irish lan intotheThe willbewith the Gaelic League of America requisites Gaelic maklugacityEasternStatesalready one tbIrishAmericansare evincinga lively interest in this new educational movement fromProfthose interested and makes some valuable anirseatlons as1othe preliminaries he formation ofaiti ol originatedwith intendlagtheir names to Secretary Kavanaugh It otberliteraturemeeting which will be held at Hibernian I Hall on Wednesday evening January 4 No officers will be elected until after proportionsforpromoters to givoaliat ample opportu nity to associate themselves with the class and then competentpositionsThe predicts a andillpublic as to the details and requirements for membership 4sPATRICK HOLLEY Serving His Twentieth Year as Secretary of Catholic Knights At the last regular meeting of Branch 21 of the Catholic Knights of America held in Crowleys Hall Eighteenthand Portland avenue officers were elected for the ensuing year as follows Spiritual Director Rev Father Kelle herPresidentPatrick Flaherty Vice President John J Lyons HolleyFinancial ley TreasurerWilliam McDonald TimothyMcCarthy TierneySentinel After the election considerable routine business was transacted followed by an entertaining address by the Spiritual Director Mr Pat Holley who is one of the best known Knights lu the State has served pasttwentyonly four meetings being absent from the city on those occasions on business or pleasure trips William McDonald the Treasurer js ndthetwo gentlemen in their respective pooli tions for life 1TheI 1 flourishing condition Installation of the newly elected officers will take place at the January meeting BANNEN COLEMAN DEAD Mr Baunen Coleman President pf the Central Coal and Iron Company and one of Iou svi1le 8 bet knousu busi ness men died Thursday night i9f DupontSquareand his condition was not thomg4tij be rnOQlofttgewait4iiy j tanaaadrI wlutt UM art oMpte U 0 t rqb yw IF iE AMERXOAN O p h r KENTUCKY IRISH flMERIGflN Devoted to the Moral and Social Advancement of all Irish Americans 1VXI414IAlU M HIGGINS itxbliMhear SUBSCRIPTION PRICE ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR SINGLE COPY 5C Entered ot the Louisville Postottlce ns SecondClass Matter Address all Communications to the KENTUCKY IRISH AMERICAN 326 West Oreea Street 1898LOUISVILLEA MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL Christmas What word inspires more of expectation to the young j of preparation to the middleaged of recollection to the old of joy tall The little folks look forward to it with all the eagerness of their hearts picturing with all their power of imagination the pleasures the surprises the good things hoping their fondest yearnings maybe realized yet fearing they may not be- The middleaged anxious to as fully as possible gratify the hopes of the young and give pleasure to the old mingle their joyous anticipations with calculations and plans selfdenials and labor to enable them to provide the things needed their task and yet their greatest feastcontribulenjoyment ing to the pleasure of the children and bringing joy to the hearts of the agednot without much of worry and regret that they are unable to do all they wish But after all as they witness the glee of the little ones and the smiles upon the faces of the elders their enjoyment of Christmas is complete in the realization that their efforts and sacrifices are fully repaid And what recollections does Christmas bring to the old Back through the vista of years what scenes of pleasure of sadness of prosperity of adversity of trials of mature years of youth of child hood Their inaay Clirislmases 1 merecat1 sa anxiety but in something of brightness of good for which they are thankful Once too they were children and as they look into the beaming faces and hear onesthehow their mind reverts and iit seems as but yesterday when they in the innocent joy of childhood greeted Christmas morning Many of our readers will recall the humble hut the poor but clean ly little hamlet the green hills and vales the little church with its ea celebration of midnight mass their R happiness amid all these lowly sur roundings and the meagerness of earlih full of joy they can never againChristmas I The one day in the o year when sorrowis forgotten the worries of life laid aside the hard ness of our hearts melts in sympa thy and affection and we all strive to exemplify peace on earth and i good will to men Santa Claus bring all the ItMaychildren lots of pretty and good thingsa switch to none for there are no bad children May old and young enjoy and the fortunate aid fellowcreaturestto enjoy to the fullest a merry Christmas IDENTICAL INTERESTS 1 Identical interests isconstantly used by politicians and afterdinner speechmakers in the United States and Great Britain when referring to these countries says one of our exchanges but when it comes to T be tested we instantly find that the J interests and advancement of the United States are considered inim ical in Great Britain unless the alsoReqally benefited by the action of the republic A case iin point is the proposed construction of the Nica ragua canal by the United States when instantly Great Britain set up a howl and cried that her interests were menaced Now if interests are identical it should not make any difference which manipulated the canaj And it being l1the immediate sphere of American in U fluence Great Britain one would naturally expect should feel pleased at her dear friend Uncle Sam hav ing control But such is not the case Their interests are not iden tical when the United State only i- to be benefited British interests must also be hauledalong It seems like a coincidence that the newspapers which have lauded Englands friendship for America and yearn for an AngloAmerican alliance have been silent on the protest and blatant threats of the Canadian Orangemen against the American ladies monument to Montgomery at Quebec and have sought to belittle and discourage the movement for the American childrens monument to Lafayette at the Paris Exposition They praise everything English have muse for the Irish and never dislike the French nohow even if the Irishand French did fight for the liberties the American people en joy and have ever been ready to doI so againagainst England at any rate There is altogether too much factionalism in the City Hall City officials are not elected and paid to fight out the quarrels or further the interests of individuals or par ties but to attend to municipal business for the best interests of the people Less of scheming for the supposed vantage of position and kicking up campaign thu- nderULrtove i r tJ popular The Louisville ball club has been sold so often by the daily news papers during the past week that many imagine we will be without a team this season We would sug gest to the fans that they save their money and help sustain the clubI management When the season opens Louisville will be found doing business at the old stand with al strong ball team- Whatever the views of our read ers on the question of expansion and retaining the Philippine islands few will agree with Congressman Williams of Mississippi who in his Speech against expansion suggests that we sell or cede the Philippines to England Germany or France the preference to be given to Eng land The naming of the new battery on Sullivans Island Charleston Harbor after Sergeant William Jasper is the only instance on rec ord in the country of a fort being named after a noncommissioned officer Sergeant Jasper was an Irishman To those who like musicand very few doonotwe call attention to our feature of the beautiful song of Pretty Grace OMalley and know that those who can play and sing will appreciate it and please all who may hear them render it The Bandana Club made no mis take in selecting Michael J Law ler for one of its Vice residents While he is a Democratic wheel horse there are none but have the highest regard for his fairness andl integrity The best evidence that Colonell Haager is an efficient and capable Chief of Police is the compliment he paid the men who make his administration a success Calling hard names is no argu inent a fact which some of our city editors aver t to learn We wish you a merry Christinas J CHRISTMAS TIME IN IRELAND At Chrfsttuas time in Ireland the holly branches twine In stately halls and cabins old and gray And red among the leaves the holly berries brightly shine At Christmas time in Ireland far away But brighter than the berries are the kindly Irish eyes And friendly are the greetings of the day The greetings and the blessings from the Irish heart that rise At Christmas time in Ireland far away At Christmas time in Ireland you can hear the chapel bell Aringing at the dawning of the day You can see the people thronging over field and over fell To the early mass in Ireland faraway And saintly are the soggarths that before the altar stand And faithful are the flocks that kneel and pray And God must surely shower hU dearest blessings on the land At Christmas time in Ireland far away At Christmas time in Ireland there Iis feasting there is song And merry the pipe and fiddle play And thboAt Christmas time in Ireland far away There is light and there is laughter there is music there is mirth And lovers speak as only lovers may Ah there is nothing half so sweet in any landon earth As Christmas time in Ireland far away At Christmas time in Ireland there Iis sadness too for those Who far from home in exile sadly stray And many a tear in silence for a Mend beloved flows At Christmas time in Ireland far away But always mid the sorrow is a hope that comfort bears That God may bnng t them safely back some day To know again the happiness that long ago was theirs At Christmas time in Ireland far away D A McCarthy in the Pilot RECENT DEATHS IThe funeral of the late Mrs Margaret Cunningham whose unexpected death was announced in these columnsoccurred Saturday evening from St Cecilias church where solemn high mass was said for the repose of her soul with Rev Father A J Brady as celebrant assisted by Rev Fathers OBrady and Crane During the solemn services Rev Father Crane preached a touching funeral sermon in which he paid a glowing tribute to the many Christian and charitable qualities of the deceased Mrs Cunningham was about fifty yoirs of age and one of the most highly respected and popular ladies in the West End never happier than when performing kindly act or relieving some unfortunate in dis tress She was a prominent member of the Catholic Knights and Ladies of America and other charitable organizations The deceased lady is survived by her husband Patrick Cunningham and a grown son Frank Cunningham with the L E St L Railroad Company- ho have the sympathy of a wide circle of jrfeails ami ac uatfllances Tlie rii3ams were followed to St Louis cemetery by ia large number of mourning relatives We regret to announce the death of Miss Mamie Willis which occurred Wednesday at the residence of her mother 1600 West Main street She was only twenty years old and her demise ii- is mourned by a large circle of relatives and friends who will miss her from their midst The funeral took place from St Patricks church yesterday morning and was attended by a large throng of sorrowing and mourning friends Mrs Mary Gaughan a lady of very high standing in the community passed away Saturday morning at her home 1420 Seventh street Some time ago she fell sustaining fracture of the hip and this coupled with her advanced age re sulted in her death Her funeral took place Monday morning ftom the Dominican church and was largely attended The remains were interred in St Louis cemetery Mr Adolph Geeing the wellknown baker doing business at Fifteenth and Madison streets died at his home last Tuesday He was a highlyrespected GermanAmerican and leaves a wife and eight children The funeral took place Thursday morning from St Marys church and the interment was in St Michaels cemetery Miss Mayme Karins daughter of Mrs Margaret and the late James Karins died Wednesday at the residence of her mother 91G Fifth street Her funeral took place yesterday morning from the Dominican church A large number of friends followed the remains to St Louis cemetery where the interment took place The funeral of William L Barrett who died last week took place Sunday morning from Sacred Heart church aud was attended by a vast number of sorrowing friends and relatives The deceased was a young man of great promise being only in his twentyfirst year Michael Keefe twentythree years of age one of the bestknown young men in the East End died at his home 713 Wenzel street Thursday He was of excellent character and well liked by all who knew him for his affability and fine traits JAMES CAIN HERE Mr James c Cain one of the most prominent and intelligent labor leaders of the day is spending a few days in this city on his way home to New York from the convention of the American Federa Lion of Labor where he was one of the delegates representing the allied crafts of the International Typographical Union Mr Cain states that the differences heretofore existing between the printers and machinists relative to the control of the situations held by the machine tend ers were definitely settled in favor of the printers While here he will endeavor to form a union of the photoengravers and will be eluted by InternationalOrganizer Hfi fins and fdeatBlnford and the i-mil of the local typographical union w City Assessor Dan Murphy who has been ill is on dutyagain Miss Antoinette Hayes entertained a party of friends at dinner Wednesday evening Detective Martin Donahue is on duty again He has been ill of the grippe since last Friday 0Mr Phil Kavauaugh with Bridgeford Co has been spending the past week at Elizabethtown Mr Henry Cassin Deputy United States Clerk has ecovered from a slight attack of the grippe Mr P F McCarthy the allnight wire chief of the Western Union is confined to his bed with the grippe Mr Augustus E Willson will entertain the Harvard Club Thursday evening December 29 with a smoker Standiford Keller has returned from the University of Virginia to spend the holidays with his mother on Sixth streetMiss Agnes Dugan will arrive from St Louis today to spend Christmas with Mr and Mrs M J Dugan 1037 Sixth street i 1Morris Hyland a wellknown member of Company B of the Legion is confined- to the hospital suffering from pneu moniaMr IL L Cronk who has been confined to his home by an attack of grippe has so far recovered as to be able to be rat his office The friends of Andy Meagher and John Doolau are growing quite suspicious of their frequent trips in the same neigh borhood down town We regret to announce the serious illness of Charles Herms the wellknown and popular printer who is confined tto his home on Goss avenue Green McGrath has gone for an extended trip through the East He will make several stops with his friends reo turning after the holidays I Miss Eugenia Goldstein daughter of Dr Adol bus Go stein left for Chicago thTs week to spendthe winter S1e wilt make her debut in society there Mr and Mrs Bert Gallagher are now at home to their friends at 1309 Seventh street where they have furnished a cozy home and gone to housekeeping- Miss Irma Bailey returned Wednesday from St Margarets School Brooklyn and will spend the holidays with her mother at 311 West Walnut street John Mansfield living in Shipping port who recently received severe injuries on the leggy from a falling stone will be able to beout in a few days Edward Ferro Crowley and Bob Churchill have on hand a monster en tertainment and dance which they will spring on their friends next month The engagement of Miss Lucy Meehan one of this citys most winsome yours ladies to Mr Carroll Brookfield a popu lar Cineinnatian has been announced Col John Whallen who has been con fined to his home by illness during the past week is reported to be improving aud his friends hope for his speedy recov crytij Mr and Mrs James Murphy of Eight eenth and Highj streets will have ia Christmas celebration in honor of the arrival of a pretty little girl at their home Mrs Martin s Cusick who has been in disposed has so far recovered as to be able to move about her home This will be pleasing news to that ladys many friends John Nevils the hustling young Re publican politician is being groomed by his many friends for a seat in the Coun cil that is in the next Republican Council i Mr and Mrs Barney Bush of 814 Old ham street wills spend Christmas at Clermont as the guests of Mr and Mrs John Cook They are accompanied by their daughter Mrs John E Foley of Indianapolis formerly Miss Hannah OBrien of this city is here to spend Christmas with hei sisters at 924 Sixth street Mr Foley will join her today Privates Joe Rodgers and Harry Castor of Company H First Kentucky gave their comrades in that company a mill tary hop Tuesday1 night at Twentieth and Dumesnilatreets Mr Edward Holley one of the most popular of the young social set of the West End will pend next week in Frankfort and Leklngton in search of business and pleasure Martin Sheehan a young man very popular in IrishAmerican social circles who baa been quite ill for several days in now much better and his friends ex pect to see him out soon The many friandacquaintaucea- ofr IJUta1tw ohas been auf sting from i attack of typhoid fiivat her hauls i Oldham street will J rrbe delighted to learn that her physicians declare her condition greatly improved and her young associates are hopeful of her soon appearing in their midst Mr Willis T Burgevin the wellknown lawyer and writer accompanied by his wife left Monday night for New Hampshire where they will remain some time as the guests of Henry Burgeviu The many friends of Mr Robert Mitchell a prominent member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians will learn with pleasure that he is fast recovering from a severe attack of the grippe The many friends of Daniel OConnell the saloonkeeper at Fourteenth and Main streets will regret to learn of his serious illness of kidney trouble at his home Nineteenth and High streets Mike Cavanaugh the popular L N employe has been laid up with the grippe for the last several days There are many inquiries as to his condition and many especially from the ladies John Kilkenny of Myrtle street has been confined to his home by illness for the past two weeks His condition is greatly improved and his numerous friends hope to see him able to resume his position next week John Murphy the wellknown L N fireman who was thrown from his cab Wednesday evening was reported seriously injured His friends are glad to learn that he was only bruised and vibe able to resume his position Robert H Weber who was injured while in the performance of his duty as a patrolman has been appointed to a place in the department This will be pleasing news to his large number of acquaintances with whom he is deservedly popular Jack Cavanaugh and Bill Cunningham are spending the holidays with their friends having just arrived from Nazareth Academy where they have been employed all summer Jack says that Bill is now able to lead in prayer after his enforced retreat Michael Russell of Twentysecond street is the proud father of a handsome little maid that arrived at his home this week He is the popular gatekeeper at the Seventhstreet depot and the above will account for his recent gayety and friendship for everybody The euchre of the Alumnae of the Acadeni of Our Lady Mercy will take place at the club rooms of the Aquinas Union Sixth street next Wednesday This will undoubtedly prove a pleasant social event The proceeds will be used for the purpose of providing free scholar ships Mr and Mrs Edward D Hannan of Paducah accompanied by Masters Emmett and William will spend the holidays as the guests of Mr and Mrs Thomas Hannan 2015 Payne street They were formerly residents of this city Mr Hannan is at present the leading plumber in Paducah Many Louisville people can testify to the hearty and hospitable welcome they receive at Big Clifty Ky from those two true sons of the Emerald Isle Mike Tully and Jim Nevils The good oldfashioned welcome their city friends receive from them makes them feel as Iif they would like to make their home in that pleasant spot forever Heres luck from their many friends hoping that they have many prosperous and happy years before the- mLAWLERSI CHRISTMAS They Will TreatTheir Friends Royally During the Hol idays Down town people especially those in the vicinity of Boone Square Park will be gratified at the announcement that the Messrs Lawler Nineteenth and Duncan streets will keep open house from December 24 to January 2 without closing their doors and will be prepared to extend a hearty Christmas and New Years greeting to their friends and patronsThey will serve an elegant turkey lunch to callers on Christmas eve and Christmas day and on the evenings of December 24 and 31 music will be furnished by a firstclass orchestra Those of our readers who would like to hear the music to Pretty Grace OMalley published in this issue can do so by calling on the Messrs Lawler on the above days This will prove a musical treat I MERITED COMPLIMENT The people of Louisville ought to feel satisfied with their police force said Chief Huger this week to a reporter I took hold of the department just a year ago When I came into office there was a great clamor about the great number of robberies and boldups which were going on Stores were also being worked by shoplifters I am glad to say nearly all of the thieves have been run out of the city by the detectives and the police I have received reports from many sties during the past two months and our record in Louisville beats them all We are almost free from robberies This of course could not have been accomplished without vigilance upon the part of the officers and men Each one deserves credit J am proud of the force and bope the good record the men have madeI of tate WiU e maintained ricJ I ELECTED OFFICERS Meeting of Catholic Knights and Ladles at St Cecil ias Hall Branch 5 of the Catholic Knights and Ladies of America had a largely attended meeting this week nearly two hundred members being present This was owing to the fact that the election of officers for the ensuing year was to take place iin which there was a lively interest The following were elected Spiritual DirectorRev A J Brady PresidentMike M Hobart Vice PresidentMrs Dalton Recording SecretaryRena C Weis senbergFinancial SecretaryNellie Burns TreasurerMrs Mary A Monahan TrusteesMisses Mary A Connors and Kiltie Stanton and William Dalton SergeantatArmsWilliam Andriot SecretaryJohn L Niland The officers nearly all of whom were complimented by reelection will be in stalled at the first meeting in January at which time the annual reports will be submitted This branch has done a vast amount of charitable and other work during the past year and is very popular in the West En- dSPORTY ITEMS Jimmy Ryan has been matched with Jack Root John Gaffney will be appointed one of the League umpires for next season He is a good one The Pittsburgs will go to either Arkansas or Virginia for their preliminary spring practice The Buffalo ball club franchise and players can be bought for 20000 And Buffalo is a large city Two leading colleages arc after Hugh Jennings services as coach for the spring practice of their ball teams Cincinnati still regrets the trade by which Bill Hoy and Ritchey became Colonels in exchange for Pitcher Hill The number of players who have put their signatures to contracts are fewer than they have ever before been at this season of the year Chic Frazerwho is working in Chicago has announced his intention of quitting base ball rather than remain with the Colonels another year The RyanFraney bout did not meet the expectations of the Cincinnati sports Maybe they were playing for another moneymaking exhibition Sharkey has gone into training for his fight with McCoy While there has been no betting the indications are that Sharkey will be the favorite Oscar Gardner and Dave Sullivan will try conclusions in New York They meet in a twentyround contest January 9 The little Irishman stands a good chance tt Will Jim Corbett feels confident that Sharkey will defeat McCoy He said to the former one day last week that he would be at the ring to cheer him on to victoryJohn B Day says that when the New York club was organized it was a success from the first The yearly profits were from 130000 to 60000 the last year being 1888 The way the Chicago team closed up ground in the stretch this fall and im proved its position warrants Chicago en thusiasts in believing that the Orphans will be nearer the front next year The daily papers are publishing the statement that old man Anson is after the control of the St Louis baseball club Scrappy Bill Joyce is also mentioned for the position of manager of the team in- case he is let out by the management of the New York club The twentyround contest between Joe Choynski and Gus Ruhlin scheduled to take place at the Lenox Club January 11 has been advanced one week and will come ofi on Jartary 3 The change in date is owing to the fact that Kid McCoy and Tom Sharkey have signed to meet at the Lenox on January U Peddler Palmer defeated Billy Plimmer for the bantamweight championship Monday night before the National Sporting Club of London Plimmer was mocked out in the seventeenth round Billy Rotchford of Chicago is still in England and will meet Palmer during the month of February George Dixon and Young Pluto the Australian champion who signed article- so meet in a twentyround contest in San Francisco may fight in New York City The Lenox Athletic Club has made a bid for the match and if arrangements- can be made the international match will come off some time in February- A telegram from London says Unprecedented secrecy obtains as to the condi ions of the construction of the Shamrock the challenger for the Americas cup Not merely are the most strict precautions taken to prevent a leakage of the details of her construction but even the place where she is being built is kept secretInterest Id steadily increasing in the outcome of the SharkeyMcCoy contest Both men express themselves as confident of winning and their preliminary work will be closely watched by lovers of the fistic game Sharkey will make a short trip on the road and then go into active training at the Lenox Club New York City The story that some of the National League clubs are contemplating the organization of two eight club leagues as in the days when the American Association existed is being revived As a matter of fact the compact for the present twelve club league signed six years ago can note legally broken until 1902 One dub can not break away without unanimous consentIThere are some men mean enough to liyeoatbJatherin1aandtbeu corn plain of the visits of their motherin fl I ow c j HIBERNIANS What They Have Been Doing the Past WeekrQeneral News Notes We wish you a merry Christmas one and all The annual reception and hop of Divis ion 3 of Baltimore was very successful The Hibernians of Bridgeport Conn are making arrangements for holding a fair Why not one in this city In President Taylor and Secretary Kavanaugh Division 3 has two officers that any body might be proud of BridleportConna grand concert and soiree to be held February 8 trying lookingbodyThere will be a large attendance at the first meeting of the Young Mens Divis ion in the new year which takes place on the first Tuesday in January appointed holding a course of lectures during the winter the proceeds to be donated to charityPresident McCarthy of Division C succeeds in making it interesting for his constituents He declares the Young Mens Division should have at least 500 names on its roll Division 3 had a very interesting meeting Wednesday evening Pat Higgins added another name to the list of members He is one of the most zealous workers in the order Division 42 of Boston had a large attendance at its last meeting when Mr Charles OFerrall the Celtic scholar read an ably prepared paper on the Irish in the War of the Rebellion Military Division 57 held its first an nual ball in Boston last week and it was a gratifying success A concert preceded the dancing and about midnight supper was served The party was a very enjoy able one- The election of officers by an Eastern division this month has been declared illegal Since the consolidation of the Hibernians throughout the world the elections must be held in June instead of DecemberVisitors to Hibernian Hall are loud in their praises of the good work done by the Ladies Auxiliary It has been sug gested that the Hall Board and divisions tender them a complimentary reception after the holidays The Literary and Entertainment Com mittee of Division 4 have arranged an interesting programme of exercises for the evening of December 28 when its social and smoker will occur Several new features will be Introdnc1 The one hundredth anniversary of the uprising for Irelands independence will be commemorated in Boston by Division 50 next Thursday evening The pro gramme will comprise an entertainment of Irish music and an address on the men of 98- Friday night Company A Hibernian Knights devoted two hours to drilling The company possesses several fine tac ticians which accounts for its proficiency In the manual These drills are interest ing and should be witnessed by more members of the order Messrs Thomas M Camfield and J Chas Obst the committee to whom wis referred the matter of arranging for a plot of ground in St Louis cemetery for members of the Ancient Order of Hi bernians will report the result of their work at the next meeting of the County BoardThe officers and members of Division 3 paid a nice compliment to Messrs James McCue Thomas Moore and Mike Hoban who comprise the Relief Committee They were the recipients of a substantial Christmas gift which they richly de served as there are no wore faithful members to be found anywhere Under the auspices of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Champaign III the anniversary of the Manchester martyrs was celebrated with great enthusiasm Hon James M Graham of Springfield spoke for nearly two hours against an AngloAmerican alliance before an audi ence which was evidently much in sym pathy with his sentiments He explained the essential difference between monarch- ial and constitutional government and argued that the alliance would necessarily commit America to the support and defense of England and therefore if entered upon might prove to be finally the breaking down and destruction of the latest and greatest experiment in self governmentA I YEAR This year the centenary of the grand and heroic 98 insurrection will be a landmark in Irish history During it the Irish language has been revived to such an extent that its perpetuity is almost assured The names and the memories of men who died for Erin and which had fallen into a condition of halfoblivion have once more become the themes of poets and orators The graves of many heroic Irishmen which would soon have been lost have got a fresh and en during hold upon the minds of the people by having memorials of a lasting character erected over their remains Above all an organizationthe United Irish Leaguehas sprung into existence for the definite and sole purpose of having the land restored to the people In this year also the Irish people are rapidly approaching a point at which a full and unequivocal degree of unity will prevail and then the fight for real Irish freedom will commence in earnest Conceit is that peculiar species of folly whereby we look at our virtuesf thrulba wgttfyintf glass without knowingfu- becribe for the Kentucky Irish American Only11 tty it mi 4 KJ3iXUOKY AMERX04N F ru Ld0 = r 0 i- tKENTUCKY IRISH flMERIGflN huauuan Devoted to the Moral and Social Advancement of all Irish Americans W1iLr4IAM IVX HIGGINS Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR SINGLE COPY 5C Entered ot the Louisville Postofflce us SecondClass Matter Address all Communications to the KENTUCKY IRISH AMERICAN 326 West Green Slreet 1898LOA MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALLI Christmas I What word inspires more of expectation to the young of preparation to the middleaged of recollection to the old of joy to all The little folks look forward L to it with all the eagerness of their hearts picturing with all their power of imagination the pleasures 1the surprises the good things hoping their fondest yearnings may- beu realized yet fearing they may ifnotbeThe middleaged anxious to as fully as possible gratify the hopes of the young and give pleasure to the old mingle their joyous antici pations with calculations and plans selfdenials and labor to enable them to provide the things needed greatestienjoyment of the feastcontribut- ing to the pleasure of the children and bringing joy to the hearts of the agednot without much of I worry and regret that they are unable to do all they wish But after all as they witness the glee of the little ones and the smiles upon the faces of the elders their enjoyment of Christmas is complete in the realization that their efforts and sacrifices are fully repaid And what recollections does Christmas bring to the old Back through the vista of years what scenes of pleasure of sadness of prosperity of adversity of trials of mature years of youth of child hood TheirI fs r L Some recallLM anxiety but in oadsomethingfor which they are thankful Once F too they were children and as they look into the beaming faces and hear the merry shouts of the little ones how their mind reverts and it seems as but yesterday when they in the innocent joy of childhood greeted Christmas morning Many of our readers will recall the humble hut the poor but cleanly little hamlet the green hills and vales the little church with its u celebration of midnight mass their n happiness amid all these lowly sur roundings and the meagerness of their Christmas feast but a heart full of joy they can never know again 0Christmas1 The one day in the year when sorrowis forgotten the worries of life laid aside the hard ness of our hearts melts in sympa t thy and affection and we all strive to exemplify peace on earth and good will to men May Santa Claus bring all the children lots of pretty and good thingsa switch to none for there are no bad children May old and young enjoy and the fortunate aid their less fortunate fellowcreatures to enjoy to the fullest a merry Christmas IDENTICAL INTERESTS Identical interests is constantly Iiused by politicians and afterdinner in the United States and Great Britain when referring to these countries says one of our exchanges but when it comes to be tested we instantly find that the interests and advancement of the United States are considered inim t ical in Great Britain unless the interests of Great Britain are also 1eqal1y benefited brtthe actionof the republic A case in point is the proposed construction of the Nica ragua canal by the United States uUtP kowl and cried that her interestsa 1r etnenacedNo if interests are identical it should not make any difference which manipulatedl the canT And Itb4iing ntJ imtt Mtiflfrf flphere of American in fluence Great Britain one would naturally expect should feel pleased at her dear friend Uncle Sam hav ing control But such is not the case Their interests are not iden tical when the United State only ii- to is be benefited British interest- must also be hauledalong It seems like a coincidence tha the newspapers which have lauded Englands friendship for America and yearn for an AngloAmerican alliance have been silent on th protest and blatant threats of the Canadian Orangemen against the American ladies monument to Montgomery at Quebec and have sought to belittle and discourage the movement for the American childrens monument to Lafayette at the Paris Exposition They praise everything English have no use for the Irish and never did like the French nohow even if the Irish and French did fight for the liberties the American people en joy and have ever been ready to do so again against England at any rate There is altogether too much fac tionalism in the City Hall Cit officials are not elected and paid to fight out the quarrels or further the interests of individuals or par ties but to attend to municipal business for the best interests of the people Less of scheming for the supposed vantage of position and kicking up campaign thunde y I 1 popular The Louisville ball club has bee sold so often by the daily news papers during the past week that miny imagine we will be without a team this season We would suggest to the fans that they save their money and help sustain the clu management When the season opens Louisville will be found doing business at the old stand with a strong ball team- Whatever the views of our read ers on the question of expansion and retaining the Philippine islands few will agree with Congressman Williams of Mississippi who in his speech against expansion suggests that we sell or cede the Philippines to England Germany or France EngIlandlandThe naming of the new battery on Sullivans Island Charleston Harbor after Sergeant William Jasper is the only instance on rec ord in the country of a fort being named after a noncommissioned officer Sergeant Jasper was an Irishman To those who like music and very few donotwe call attention to our feature of the beautiful song of Pretty Grace OMalley and know that those who can play and sing will appreciate it and please all who may hear them render it The Bandana Club made no mis take in selecting Michael J Law ler for one of its Vice Presidents While he is a Democratic wheel horse there are none but have the highest regard for his fairness and integrity I The best evidence that Colonel1 Haager is an efficient and capable Chief of Police is the compliment t he paid the men who make his ad ministr successX HW Calling hard names is no argu ment a fact which some qf our city editorshave yet to learn a We wish you a merry Cfcriatmtv LS CHRISTMAS TIMB IN IRELAND I At Christmas time in Ireland the holly branches twine In stately halls and cabins old and gray And red among the leaves the holly ber ries brightly shine At Christmas time in Ireland far away I I But brighter than the berries are theI kindly Irish eyes And friendly are the greetings of the day The greetings and the blessings from the Irish heart that rise At Christmas time in Ireland far away I At Christmas time in Ireland you can hear the chapel bell Aringing at the dawning of tile day You can see the people thronging over fieldand over fell To the early mass in Ireland faraway And saintly are the soggarths that before the altar stand And faithful are the flocks that kneel and pray And God must surely shower hU dearest blessings on the land At Christmas time iu Ireland far away At Christmas time in Ireland there is- feasting there is And merry and fuddle playdancpipee And lightly colleens and the boys the evening long awaysThere is light and there is laughter is music there is mirth And lovers speak as only lovers may anyton As Christmas time in Ireland far away At Christmas time in Ireland there is sadness too for those Who far from home in exile sadly strayeAnd many a tear in silence for a friend beloved flows At Christmas time in Ireland far away But always mid the sorrow is a hope that bears1That them safely back dayTo the happiness that ton ago was theirs At Christmas time in Ireland far away D A McCarthy in the Pilot I RECENT DEATHS The funeral of the late Mrs Margaret Cunningham whose unexpected death was announced in these columnsoccurred Saturday evening from St Cecilias church where solemn high mass was said for the repose of her soul with Rev Father A J Brady as celebrant assiste- by Rev Fathers OBrady and Crane During tbe solemn services Rev Father Crane preached a touching funeral ser mon in which he paid a glowing tribute to thee many Christian and charitable ConY ningham was fifty yaws age and one of the most highly respected and popular ladies in the West End never happier than when performing a kindly act or relieving some unfortunate in distress She was a prominent member of the Catholic Knights and Ladies of America and other charitable organizations The deceased lady is survived by her husband Patrick Cunningham and witrh tie L E St L Railroad Company who have the sympathy of a wide circle of tfeailsTiuracqirattitSiiceS rhe renlEfns byea large number of mourning relatives We regret to announce the death of occurrednWednesday at the residence of her mother 1500 West Main street She was only twenty years old and her demise iis mourned by a large circle of relative and friends who will miss her from thei midst The funeral took place from St Patricks church yesterday morning and sorb rowing and mourning friends Mrs Mary Gaughan a lady of very high standing in the community passed away Saturday morning at her home 1426 Seventh street Some time ago she fell sustaining fracture of the hip an this coupled with her advanced age resulted in her death Her funeral took place Monday morning ftorn the Dominican church and was largely attended The remains were interred in St Louis cemetery Mr Adolph Goeing the wellknown baker doing business at Fifteenth and Madison streets died at his home last Tuesday He was a highlyrespected GermanAmerican and leaves a wife and eight children The funeral took place Thursdaymorning from St Marys church and the interment was in St Michaels cemetery Miss Mayme Karins daughter of Mrs Margaret and the late James Karins died Wednesday at the residence of her mother 910 Fifth street Her funeral took place yesterday morning from the Dominican church A large number of friends followed the remains to St Lout cemetery where the interment took place The funeral of William L Barrett who died last week took place Sunday morn ing from Sacred Heart church aud was attended by a vast number of sorrowing friends and relatives The deceased was a young man of great promise being only in his twentyfirst year Michael Keefe twentythree years of age one of the bestknown young me in the East End died at his home 713 Wenzel street Thursday He was of excellent character and well liked by all who knew him for his affabilityand fin traits JAMES CAIN HERE Mr James CCaiti one of the mostt prominent and intelligent labor leaders of the day is spending a few days in this city on his way home to New York from the convention Of the American Federa 1lion of Labor where be was one of she delegates representing the allied crafts of the International Typographical Union Mr Cain states that the differences heretofore existing between the printers and machinists relative to the controlof the situations held by the machine tend- erS were definitely settled in favor of the printers j While here he will endeavor to form a union of the photoengravers and will be as Uted by Internatioiial Organizer Higgins Mid Pitrident Bluford and the ofiU pn of the local type tapIlolit wiles c r F City Assessor Dan Murphy who has I been ill is on dutyagain I Miss Antoinette Hayes entertained a party of friends at dinner Wednesday eveningDetective Martin Donahue is on duty again He has been ill of the grippe since last Friday Mr Phil Kavanaugh with Bridgeford Co has been spending the past week at Elizabethtown Mr Henry Cassin Deputy United States Clerk has hcoered from a slight attack of the grippe Mr P F McCarthy the allnight wire chief of the Western Union is confined to his bed with the grippe Mr Augustus E Willson will enter tain the Harvard Club Thursday evening December 29 with a smoker Standiford Keller has returned from the University of Virginia to spend the Sixthgstreet Miss Agnes Dugan will arrive from St Louis today to spend Christmas with Mr and Mrs MjJ Dugan 1037 Sixth street i LI Morris Hyland a we11 known member of Company D ofthe Legion is confined to the hospital suffering from pneu monia cond fined to his home by an attack grippe has so far recovered as to be able to be at his office The friends of Andy Meagher and John Doolau are growing quite suspicious of their frequent trips in the same neigh borhood down town We regret to announce the serious ill ness of Charles Herms the wellknown and popular printer who is confined to his home on Goss avenue extendedmake several stops with his friends re turning after the holidays Miss Eugenia Goldstein daughter of I Dr Adol bus Goldstein left for Chicago this week to spend the w uteroei will I make her debut in society there Mr and Mrs Bert Gallagher are now at home to their friends at 1309 Seventh street where they have furnished a cozy home and gone to housekeeping Miss Irma Bailey returned Wednesday from St Margarets School Brooklyn herrrmother at 311 West Walnut street John Mansfield living in Shipping port who recently received severe in juries on the leg from a falling stone will be able to beout in a few days Edward Ferro Crowley and Bob Churchill have on hand a monster en willdspring on their friends next month The engagement of Miss Lucy Meehan one of this citys most winsome young ladies to Mr Carroll Brookfield a popu lar Cincinnatiah has been announced Col John Whallen who has been con fined to his home by illness during the past week is reported to be improving and his friends hope for his speedy recovery IMr and Mrs javies of Eight eenth and High streets will have a Christmas celebration in honor of the arrival of a pretty little girl at their home Mrs Martin Cusick who has been in disposed has so far recovered as to be able to move about her home This will be pleasing news to that ladys many friends John Nevils the hustling young Re publican politician is being groomed by his many friends for a seat in the Coun cil that is in the next Republican Council i Mr and Mrs Barney Bush of 814 Old ham street will j spend Christmas at Clermont as the guests of Mr and Mrs John Cook They are accompanied by their daughter nMrs John E Foley of Indianapolis formerly Miss Hannah OBrien of this city is here to spend Christmas with her Poleyewill join her today I Privates Joe Rodgers and Harry Castor of Company H First Kentucky gave their comrades in that company a mili tary hop Tuesday night at Twentieth and Dumesnil streets + Mr Edward Holley one of the most popular of the young social set of the West End wilt peed next week in Frankfort and Lexington in search of business and pleasure Martin Sheehan a young man very popular in Irish lerican social circles who has been quite ill for several days is now much better and his friends ex pact to see him out soon I I The many f frlad acquaintances of MIas Rtta II wbo hat been anfj taint fIOIDtof typhoid wiJJ I be delighted to learn that her physicians declare her condition greatly improved and her young associates are hopeful of her soon appearing in their midst IMr Willis T Burgevin the wellknown lawyer and writer accompanied by his wife left Monday night for New Hamp shire where they will remain some time as the guests of Henry Burgeviu The many friends of Mr Robert Mitchell a prominent member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians will learn with pleasure that he is fast recovering from a severe attack of the grippe The many friends of Daniel OConnell the saloonkeeper at Fourteenth and Main streets will regret to learn of his serious illness of kidney trouble at his home Nineteenth and High streets Mike Cavanaugh the popular L N employe has been laid up with the grippe for the last several days There are many inquiries as to his condition and many especially from the ladies John Kilkenny of Myrtle street has been confined to his home by illness for the past two weeks His condition is greatly improved and his numerous friends hope to see him able to resume his position next week John Murphy the wellknown L N fireman who was thrown from his cab Wednesday evening was reported seri ously injured His friends are glad to learn that he was only bruised and will be able to resume his position Robert II Weber who was injured while in the performance of his duty as a patrolman has been appointed to a place in the department This will be pleasing news to his large number of acquaint ances with whom he is deservedly popularJack Cavanaugh and Bill Cunning ham are spending the holidays with their friends having just arrived from Naza reth Academy where they have been employed all summer Jack says that Dill is now able to lead in prayer after his enforcedretreat Michael Russell of Twentysecond street is the proud father of a handsome little maid that arrived at his home this week He is the popular gatekeeper at the Seventhstreet depot and the above will account for his recent gayety and friendship for everybody The euchre of the Alumnae of th- Academof Our LadYrIercy will take place at the club rooms of the Aqui nas Union Sixth street next Wednesday This will undoubtedly prove a pleasant social event The proceeds will be used for the purpose of providing free scholar ships Mr and Mrs Edward D Hannan of Paducah accompanied by Masters Emmett and William will spend the hol idays as the guests of Mr and Mrs Thomas Hannan 2015 Payne street They were formerly residents of this city Mr Hannan is at present the leading plumber in Paducah Many Louisville people can testify to the hearty and hospitable welcome they receive at Big Clifty Ky from those two true sons of the Emerald Isle Mike Tully and Jim Nevils The good oldfashioned welcome their city friends receive from them makes them feel as if they would like to make their home in that pleasant spot forever Heres luck from their many friends hoping that they have many prosperous and happy years before them- LAWLERS CHRISTMAS They Will Treat Their Friends Royally During the Hol idays Down town people especially those in the vicinity of Boone Square Park will be gratified at the announcement that the Messrs Lawler Nineteenth and Duncan streets will keep open house from December 24 to January 2 without closing their doors and will be prepared to extend a hearty Christmas and New Years greeting to their friends and patronsThey will serve an elegant turkey lunch to callers on Christmas eve and Christmas day and on the evenings of December 24 and 31 music will be furnished by a firstclass orchestra Those of our readers who would like to hear the music to Pretty Grace OMalley published in this issue can do so by calling on the Messrs Lawler on the above days This will prove a musical treat MERITED COMPLIMENT The people of Louisville ought to feel satisfied with their police force said Chief Huger this week Loa reporter I tookhol4of the department just a year ago When I came into office there was a great clamor about the great number of robberies and holdups which were going on Stores were also being worked by shoplifters lam glad to say nearly all of the thieves have been run out of the city by the detectives and the police I have received reports from many cities during the past two months and our record in Louisville beats them all We are almost free from robberies This of course could not have been accomplished without vigilance upon the part of the officers and men Each one deserves credit j amppucLol the farce and boptthe good rrdthe men hive made of late will be maintained f A ELECTED OFFICERS Meeting of Catholic Knights and Ladles at St Cecil las Hall Branch 5 of the Catholic Knights and Ladies of America had a largely attended I meeting this week nearly two hundred members being present This was owing to the fact that the election of officers for the ensuing year was to take place in which there was a lively interest The following were elected Spiritual DirectorRev A J Brady President Mike M Hoban Vice President Mrs Dalton Recording SecretaryRena C Weis senbergFinancial SecretaryNellie Burns TreasurerMrs Mary A Monahan TrusteesMisses Mary A Connors and Kittie Stanton and William Dalton SergeantatArnis William Andriot Secretary John L Niland The officers nearly all of whom were complimented by reelection will be in stalled at the first meeting in January at which time the annual reports will be submitted This branch has done a vast amount of charitable and other work during the past year and is very popular in the West En- dSPORTYI ITEMS Jimmy Ryan has been matched with Jack Root John Gaffney will be appointed one of the League umpires for next season His a good one The Pittsburgs will go to either Ar kansas or Virginia for their preliminary spring practice The Buffalo ball club franchise and players can be bought for 20000 And Buffalo is a large city Two leading colleages are after Hugh Jennings services as coach for th spring practice of their ball teams Cincinnati still regrets the trade by which Bill Hoy and Ritchey becam- Colonels in exchange for Pitcher Hill The number of players who have put their signatures to contracts are fewer than they have ever before been at this season of the year Chic Frazerwho is working in Chicago has announced his intention of quitting base ball rather than remain with the Colonels another year The RyanFraney bout did not meet the expectations of the Cincinnatisports Maybe they were playing for another moneymaking exhibition Sharkey has gone into training for hisI fight with McCoy While there has bee no betting the indications are that- Sharkey will be the favorite Oscar Gardner and Dave Sullivan will try conclusions in New York They meet Tltee little Irishman stands a good chance to win Jim Corbett feels confident tha Sharkey will defeat McCoy He said toI the former one day last week that he would be at the ring to cheer him on to victoryJohn B Day says that when the New York club was organized it was a successI from the first The yearly profits were from 30000 to 60000 the last year being 1888 The way the Chicago team closed upI ground in the stretch this fall and im proved its position warrants Chicago en- Orphans thusiasts in believing that the I will be nearer the front next year The daily papers are publishing the statement that old man Anson is after the control of the St Louis baseball club Scrappy Bill Joyce is also mentioned for the position of manager of the team iin- case he is let out by the management of the New York club The twentyround contest between Joe Choynski and Gus Ruhlin scheduled to take place at the Lenox Club January 11 has been advanced one week and will come oil on January 3 The change in date is owing to the fact that Kid McCoy and Tom Sharkey have signed to meet at the Lenox on January lb Peddler Palmer defeated Dilly Plimmer for the bantamweight championship Monday night before the National Sport Ing Club of London Plimmer was knocked out in the seventeenth round Billy Rotchford of Chicago is still in England and will meet Palmer during the month of February George Dixon and Young Pluto the Australian champion who signed articles to meet in a twentyround contest in San Francisco may fight in New York City The Lenox Athletic Club has made a bid for the match and if arrangements can be made theinteruational match will come off some time in February- A telegram from London says Unpre cedented secrecy obtains as to the condi tions of the construction of the Sham rock the challenger for the AmericasI cup Not merely are the most strict pre cautions taken to prevent a leakage of the details of her construction but even the place where she is being built is kept secretInterest id steadily increasing in the outcome of the SharkeyMcCoy contest Both men express themselves as confi dent of winning and their preliminary work will be closely watched by lovers of the fistic game Sharkey will make a short trip on the road and then go into active training at the Lenox Club New York City The story that some of the National League clubs are contemplating the or ganization of two eightclub leagues as in the days when the American Association existed is being revived As a matter of fact the compact for the present twelve club league signed six years ago cannot be legally broken until 1902 One dub can not break away without unanimous consent h There are some men mean enough to live on their father fa law and tha cow plain of tbe Vidte of their motherin lap I HIBERNIANS What They Have Been Doing the Past WeekCeneral- News Notes We wish you a merry Christmas one and all The annual reception and hop of Divis ion 3 of Baltimore was very successful The Hibernians of Bridgeport Conn are making arrangements for holding a fair Why not one in this city In President Taylor and Secretary Kavanaugh Division 3 has two officers that any body might be proud of DridgeportConn a grand concert and soiree to be held February 8 tryIng lookingbodyThere will be a large attendance at the first meeting of the Young Mens Divis ion in the new year which takes place on the first Tuesday in January The Providence divisions have appointed committees to confer with a view of holding a course of lectures during the winter the proceeds to be donated to charityPresident McCarthy of Division 6 succeeds in making it interesting for his constituents He declares the Young Mens Division should have at least 500 rolleDivision 3 had a very interesting meet ing Wednesday evening Pat Higgins added another name to the list of members He is one of the most zealous workers in the order Division 42 of Boston had a large attendance at its last meeting when MrtCharles OFetrall the Celtic scholar read inethe War of the Rebellion Military Division 57 held its first an wasea gratifying success A concert preceded the dancing and about midnight supper was served The party was a very enjoy able one The election of officers by an Eastern division this month has been declared illegal Since the consolidation of the Hibernians throughout the world the elections must be held in June instead of DecemberVisitors to Hibernian Hall are loud in their praises of the good work done by the Ladies Auxiliary It has been sug gested that the Hall Board and divisions receptionnholidayst EntertainmentCorn1interesting programme of exercises for the evening of December 28 when its social and smoker will occur Several new features will be introduced i thetuprising Irelands independence will be commemorated in Boston by Division proI gramme will comprise an entertainment of Irish music and an address on the men of 98 IFriday night Company A Hibernian Knights devoted two hours to drilling The company possesses several fine tacticians i which accounts for its proficiency in the manual These drills are interest ing cud should be witnessed by more members of the order IMessrs Thomas M Camfield and J Chas Obst the committee to whom WIS referred the matter of arranging for a plot of ground in St Louis cemetery for members of the Ancient Order of Hi bernians will report the result of their work at the next meeting of the County BoardThe officers and members of Division 3 paid a nice compliment to Messrs James McCue Thomas Moore and Mike Hoban who comprise the Relief Committee They were the recipients of a substantial Christmas gift which they richly de served as there are no more faithful members to be found anywhereIUnder the auspices of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Champaign Ill the anniversary of the Manchester martyrs was celebrated with great enthusiasm Hon James M Graham of Springfield spoke for nearly two hours against an AngloAmerican alliance before an audi ence which was evidently much in sym pathy with his sentiments He explained the essential difference between monarch ial and constitutional government and argued that the alliance would necessarily commit America to the support and defense of England and therefore if entered upon might prove to be finally the breaking down and destruction of the latest and greatest experiment in self government I A CENTENNIAL YEAR This year the centenary of the grand and heroic 98 insurrection will be a landmark in Irish history During it the Irish language has been revived to such an extent that its perpetuity is almost assured The names and the memories of men who died for Erin and which had fallen into a condition of half oblivion have once more become the themes of poets and orators The graves of many heroic Irishmen which would soon have been lost have got a fresh and en during hold upon the minds off the peo ple by having memorials of a lasting character erected over their remains Above all an organization the United Irish Leaguehas sprung into existence for the definite and sole purpose of hay ing the land restored to the people In this year also the Irish people are rapidly approaching a point at which a full and unequivocal degree of unity will prevail and then the fight for real Irish freedom will commence in earnest Conceit is that peculiar species of folly whereby we look at our virtues through a Minifying lu8Wit1 UtbOwtCit l3 lltecdbe for the fCentucky Irish L JuOxx X exrfx Aru3iexcaH Ii IRISH GIRLS Find n Harbor of Refuge in tho Mission of Our Lady in New York City The First Picture of the Oren City That Greets the Eye of the Stronger What This Noble Institution Has Done for Unprotected Immigrants INTENDED AS THE HOME OF A TOR Some time ago the Kentucky Irish American published a very interestin article concerning the great number of beautiful Irish girls arriving in New York City in which reference was made to the mission for their protection and the work of the good fathers in charge This week we print the following complete history of the institution front the pen of Pat rick J Enright in the Syracuse Catholic SunJust within the gateway of the New World overlooking Battery park and the blue expanse of the Atlantic stands ia IIquaint looking brick mansion of colonia architecture upon which time has left its indelible imprint Bv reason of its location it is the first picture of the great city of New York that greets the eye of the stranger as he presses on to the American shore To those whose visit to America is for the purpose of seeking pleasure and recreation this unimposing structure can furnish but little interes except that the contrast between it am the more modern buildings that line New York bay indicates the process of the de velopment of our metropolitan city Bu to the Irish immigrant girls who come as exiles to our shores seeking the liveli hood which the soil of their native lau is unable to furnish this unpretentious edifice of other days is much more at tractive than the surrounding structure which are more pleasing to other eyes and more elegant in design For then it is a refuge which they may enter and there experience even among strangers the goodness of charitable hospitality Even to that less fortunate class this building itself might not be more thanI the object of a casual glance were it not for the words inscribed over its portals and the golden cross that stands out prominently before it The emblem of the crucified Savior speaks silently and yet with eloquence to the wanderer among strangers while the inscription r the curious old building is the Home for Irish Immigrant Girls It is strange that this edifice which was constructed at the time when Ireland was in the throes of insurrection and which was originally intended as tin home of an American Tory should ulti mately become an institution to whicf the exiled daughters of Erin might turn Upon their arrival in America as a refuge where they might receive counsel and advice yea even financial assistance tc aid them in their new ventures and un dertakings The adaptability of the edi flee for the purpose for which it is now used and its proximity to the water front probably furnished the reason for its selection as the home for girls of the Irish race who through their benighted circumstances are compelled to turn tc our country tp maintain an existence Fifteen years have now passed since the hopes and ambitions of the late lamented Father Riordan of New York City were realized in the founding of this home For years the venerable and unselfish spirit of that noble priest had battled with the discouraging obstacles which had frequently presented them selves and which at times seemed des tined to undermine and destroy the plans which he had made for the protection of Irish maidenhood but finally he triumphed over all difficulties in the estab lishment of this charitable institution To the zeal of that noble priest of God did the home owe its life in the trying days of its early existence and to his Ideas of administration as followed by his successors in this charitable work does it owe its prosperity This grand man whose mind had conceived the idea of protecting the simple and innocent Irish maidens from the wickedness of human land sharks that infest the sea port cities of America continued his charitable work with incessant zeal even to his last breath upon which lingered the beautiful expression II Take care of the immigrant girls That the injunc tion so solemnly pronounced has been faithfullyobeyed by his successors is evidenced by the continued growth and success of the institution That it may give the readers of the Sun an idea of the work which is being done by this institution through its effi cient directors and especially through the charitable zeal of its present chief director Rev MichaelJ Henry and its agent Mr Patrick McCool we will give the objects for which this charitable refuge was established as we find them recited in the fifteenth annual address to the friends of the home First To establish a Catholic bureau at the landing depot to supply informa tion to immigrants and to protect their interests against those unscrupulous individuals who would make capital out of ignorance and innocence Second To open a home for the pro tection of young girls to guard them from the dangers of a great city to aid them in securing employment and to uthose going to friend to reach their destination Third To provide an immigrant chapel to dupence the cCIDolatuiolre liiron toCatholic teuaigiftBU preparatory J to their entrance to the new fields that await them- Certainly the objects for which this institution was founded are alone sufficient to merit and to hold the attention at least of those who were once exiles from their native homes and who iin this land of religious freedom and poll icalequality have prospered to a degre not warranted in a country that for centuries has suffered from tyrannical oppression persecution and starvation- If the founders of this home had no other object in mind than to supply a Catholic bureau for the information of Irish immigrants their purpose wouli yet be deserving of praise and commendation for such a department would of necessity materially aid the inunigran to obtain some knowledge of the country to which they have come and would furnish them with reliable informatio which in many cases is very much needed How many of the Irish peopl leaVe their native country with no particular place in view other than the vas country of America trusting to God nut the magnanimity of the American peopl to formulate their future designs Pol lowing the methods of their ancestors who since the year 1846 have immigrate to the haven of the West in search ot life and liberty But alas they fail to appreciate that tones and circumstance have changed and that the country that receive the Irish exile of half a centur ago is not the America of today and thin the resources which then lay hidden and uncultivated have long since been devel oped leaving fewer opportunities to strangers who come in search of a liveli hoodThe false idea of America which the Irish immigrant girl entertains leads her to believe that her landing upon American soil is sufficient to insure her imme diate success and prosperity Quite laud able therefore is the work of the institution that would prepare the immigrant and particularly the Irish immigran girls for the disappointments which mus certainly come to them and which would supply them with knowledge that will aid them to avoid or to overcome the difficulties which have so often crossed the path way of exiles who have begun life in America without the advice of anyoni competent to give wise counsel Many too reach New York with the expectation of meeting friends who in many instances either neglect to meet them or prove prejudicial rather than favorable to the progress of the immigrant Under such circumstances the immigrants find that they are friendless and without homes or prospect of work and must seek aid from some charitable refuge where they remain until they fine employmentBut second object is even more worthy than the first What grande thought could engage the mind or wha nobler purpose actuate the efforts of mat than that which would seek to establish a home for the protection of young girls in order that they might be saved fron temptations which otherwise might engul t rem t may not e it cu t or the ma ie immigrant with theaid of advice to find employment anti especially when thai counsel comes from those who are inter ested in his welfare but with the immigrant girl it is different some of them have found themselves unequal to such a task and hence to obtain n livelihood have even sacrificed their honor Chiefl to overcome such baneful consequence was the Home for Irish Immigrant Girls established and it is pleasing to note that since the foundation the home has thrown open its portals to all immigrant Irish girls irrespective of creed and has welcomed or protected over 200000 ol them until their friends have been found or until employment is obtained for them in such places as were best adapted to their conditions and education Some however have been unwilling to accept the counsel of those in charge of the home and have continued upon uncertain journeys with no other recommendation than an address of some relative of a friend in their native land who perhaps if the truth were known is unable to offer hospitality- Let us now consider the third objector which the home was founded to establish an immigrant chapel Many an immigrant girls heart has throbbed with joy as she beheld on landing the immigrant chapel in the midst of the activity of New York where after a long and tiresome journey she might receive the consolation of her religion for whatever may be said of the Irish exiles they have in America held tenaciously to the doctrines of the Catholic church enunciated to them by the soggarth of the old home- Like Longfellow Arcadian exiles the Irish immigrants as they lingered for the last time upon the shores of their native land are consoled by the encouraging words and blessings of the Irish pastor and it was the idea of the founders of this uponheirthanks to God for their safety by assist ing at the divine sacrifice The work of the mission is not confined to meeting immigrant girls who for some reason or another are prevented from continuing their Journey nor is il limited to protecting and sheltering them until they are otherwise provided for Manyother benefits accrue to the immi grants but it is difficult for the public to penetrate beyond these external evidences af charity and to discover the moral influ ence of this great work To bring about the results which have been obtained much time labor and ex pense are required together with the greatest earnestness of purpose allied with sympathy for the Irish people The time and labor have been willingly contributed by the generous souls in charge and so ardent are they for the success of their work that they have never faltered or failed to respond when the service of the mission has been required This same cluing service so generously given has often been unappreciated by those whose Dfficial duties have been lightened by the same In faet the greatestobstacles which have intercepted the progress of the work hasenleenfrom the opposition oC the immigration official appointed by I the general government Fortunately c un Pretty praca OMalley 1 Words and Music by A J PATTON Tempo di valse I4 I 1I Theres an i vy Coy erect cot tnge Where the myr tIe twines n round 2 In our hap py child hood hours j How we of ten loved to tell 3 Theres n chap elon the hillside And within its walls some day i = izTt = J Ja st Ti jf 1 1= d = And with in tt dwells a maid on fair The sweet est ev er found Tales of love n ntid the flow ors till 1VC knew the sto ry well I will claim sweet Grace for mine Na lone Sometime in star nY lay f r9 I a- rE = fl t 1 And the Pb greet heri Withmel o dies of Spring There I taught the rim pie les son Always long lug for the time While the wed ing bells arc ring ing The song birds soft lysing I Vz = 1 ui1i II 1l r 41E E 7ii1 As I stand a while and his ten E To me they seem to sing When I put my arms n round her ti And I could clll her mine II That the pret ty gold en cir clet q Is sweet Grnceswedding ring J r = CtjI r d tt 1 =t tUj tI I TCopyright MDcccxcvby FJlANlf IIAnnrNCI hpecial permission MuBrcALJ NcwlI CotIPANY- iA A as9- I iII U t fret ty Grace OMalley With eyesof ten der blue li4Tfl1pTf t Er II- a On mountain tops or valley There s pone so tried or true Pret Y 4 fl I= S ILl1t ty Grace 0 Mal Icy Somcntlnyris sure to wed Andchnnge her- r 0 J ifnJ ru 3= lee Repeat ChorusH = I Jname of Sweet Grace 0 MaUeyTo onti that is minein stead a- 5ij 1 r7co llisi rPra- ttY A Grace OMalley 2- t START THE NEW YEARl By Subscribing for ttte Kentucky Irish American t J Only fa year Unequaled in this sectionr uuuuWwI Irw uuuu FURNITUREIIf 2 C THECC Etheridge Furniture CompanyINCORPORATED WHOLESALERS AND RETAILERS FurnitureOF ALL KINDS t DININGROOMand 324 West Market St LOUISVILLE KY TELEPHONE 527 QEO J BUTLERrDEALER IN Groceries Produc- ePreshMeats and Vegetables CIGARS AND TOBACCO Telephone 846 1983 PORTLAND AYE SMITH DUGAN All ngMusichowever the officers recently appointed by the Washington authorities have given much assistance and have extended many helfrgctorsgEtreofi i g9 never re ceived financial aid from the municipal State or national government but has existed chiefly from the voluntary con tribution of friends and of guests who through curiosity have visited the home to learn the object and extent of this worthy institution It is surprising and at the same time blameworthy that those who should be most interested in this workthe Irish people in Americado- not give to the mission that support which is proportionate with the benefits which are received from it by the Irish race Never yet has there remained Unanswered by Irishmen in America an appeal sent forth from the Emerald Isle The virtue of charity deeply imbedded in the Celtic heart has always and ever manifested itself in the financial aid which IrishAmericans have willingly given to uplift their brothers who still suffer from tyrannical rule And it is this very same circumstance that makes it seem strange that our people have failed to recognize the only institution in Airier ica which receives the immigrant Irish girls as they arrive from their native shores and which yearly accomplishes more to preserve the native purity of Irish womanhood than any other institu tion within our confines Nor does the work of the mission end here It goesI still further and endeavors to inculcate in the minds of its wards the idea that inI America at least the Irish people have become emancipated by their own forti tude courage and perseverance and thatl they are no longer to be found chiefly among the hewers of wood and drawersI of water1 but on the contrary that they stand in the foremost ranks of business and professional life and further that the immigrant girl who shall remain indus trious and true to herself may hope to obtain social rank equal to the most ex alted for the reason that the republic to which she has given her allegiance has never failed to lend its sympathy to those who have suffered from oppression and will never fall to extend even to an exile its good will and friendship But the work of the mission during the past fifteen years is but a circumstance compared with the good which will be accomplished with the continued growth of this institution While it was at first an experiment the basic idea of charity upon which it was constructed has en sured such success that we can hope that the near future will find similar institu tions in every seaport city of Ameri- caTHEATRICALS The Avenue after its week of rest will1 reopen Sunday night for the holiday week with Wm Calders great scenic production John Martins Secret Like all of the Sutton Vaue nielodramas it abounds in thrilling scenes and sensa tional climaxes The leap for life at the enlf the third act is said to be one of the most tljrilUng effects of the modern stage FlynM and Sheridans New City Sport will be next weeks attraction at th BucVihghaniI commencing un1arand the statidhsgroeutgitu will be display d yThe company always h beeu ii PARLOR ie BEDROOM one of the most popular that visits the house and it has certainly lost none of its good points Harry Stewart keeps the audience jn good humor fromtheriecioi the fall of the curtain Theater Franc ette a burlesque in two scenes intro duces the whole company which includes a dozen or more pretty women handsomely costumed The Monte Myro troupe of four pantomimists is n late European novelty introduced by clever artists and heads the olio Some of the others seen are Miss Ruth Beecher o tIteGermanens in a comedy sketch and A C Law rence the clever mimic Pastime Among the Flowers II led by Crissle Sheridan is the dancing novelty of the season The performance concludes with o extrovaganzaThewill be n special matinee Christmas MondayFor week the Ateffert Stock production dramas ever presented in Louisville No popularfavor t this will be the first time it has ever been presented at popular prices the Temple should be crowded at every performance The play is on the style of tine Silver King and will give each member of the company a favorable opportunity to dis play the talent they possess The story is that of a hunchback who loves the village schoolmistress and when she marries another uses every means in his power to wreck their happiness Her husband is accused of a crime impris oned escapes and is dogged by the viialain until the hunchback confesses and f his innocence is proved The situations are very strong especially one in the fourth act where an angry mob attempts u to throw the hunchback into a redhot plenful acters It will be magnificentlymount ed and as the cast has been augmented a fine production is assured BUCKINGHAM Week Com Sunday Matinee December 25 4 FLYNN AND SHERIDANS NEW CITY SPORTS CHRISTMAS MATINEE MONDAY This is one of the strongest companies on the road See the dancing novelty PASTIME AMONG TilE FLOWERS Led by Crissie Sheridan and THE PRINCESS OF SANTIAGO TEMPLE THEATER UwMEFFERT STOCK COMPANY Mast6tAND Man 1 Matinees Daily at 2il5 NIght PerfotniMioti at 8t16I Popular PfIcei10 15 25 35o No hgbr IMI LA VLERS 01 ARCH wU isA 0II SUPERIOR J5 CENT CIGARSManuUftureU nt Eighteenth anti Duncan Streets j uc D 1- tErUo1c1r XI AMBJlttOANu c IRISH GIRLS Find a Harbor of Refuse In the Mission of Our Lady in New York City The First Picture of the Great City That Greets the Eye of the Stranger What This Noble Institution Has Done for Unprotected Immigrants INTENDED AS THE HOME OF A TORY Some time ago the Kentucky Irish American published a very interesting article concerning the great number of beautiful Irish girls arriving in New York City in which reference was made to the mission for their protection and the work of the good fathers in charge This week we print the following complete history of the institution from the pen of Pat rick J Enright in the Syracuse Catholic SunJust within the gateway of the New World overlooking Battery park and the blue expanse of the Atlantic stands a quaint looking brick mansion of colonial architecture upon which time has left its indelible imprint Bv reason of its loca tion it is the first picture of the great city of New York that greets the eye of the stranger as he presses on to the Amer ican shore To those whose visit to America is for the purpose of seeking 9 pleasure and recreation this unimposing structure can furnish but little interest except that the contrast between it and the more modern buildings that line New York bay indicates the process of the de velopment of our metropolitan city But to the Irish immigrant girls who come as exiles to our shores seeking the liveli hood which the soil of their native land is unable to furnish this unpretentious edifice of other days is much more at tractive than the surrounding structures which are more pleasing to other eyes and more elegant in design For them it is a refuge which they may enter and there experience even among strangers the goodness of charitable hospitality Even to that less fortunate class this bnilding itself might not be more than the object of a casual glance were it not for the words inscribed over its portals and the golden cross that stands out prominently before it The emblem of the crucified Savior speaks silently and yet with eloquence to the wanderer among strangers while the inscription the curious old building Iis the Home for Irish Immigrant Girls It is strange that this edifice which was constructed at the time when Ireland was in the throes of insurrection and which was originally intended as the home of an American Tory should ulti mately become an institution to which the exiled daughters of Erin might turn upon their arrival in America as a refuge where they might receive counsel and- o advice j yea even financial assistance to aid them in their new ventures and un dertakings The adaptability of the edi fice for the purpose for which it is now used and its proximity to the water front probably furnished the reason for its selection as the home for girls of the Irish race who through their benighted circumstances are compelled to turn to our country to maintain an existence Fifteen years have now passed since the hopes and ambitions of the late lamented Father Riordan of New York City were realized in the founding of this home For years the venerable and unselfish spirit of that noble priest had battled with the discouraging obstacles which had frequently presented them selves and which at times seemed destined to undermine and destroy the plans which he had made for the protection of Irish maidenhood but finally he trio umphed over all difficulties in the estab lishment of this charitable institution To the zeal of that noble priest of God did the home owe its life in the trying days of its early existence and to his ideas of administration as followed by his successors in this charitable work does it owe its prosperity This grand s man whose mind had conceived the idea 4ofb protecting the simple and innocent Irish maidens from the wickedness of human land sharks that infest the sea port cities of America continued his charitable work with incessant zeal even to his last breath upon which lingered the beautiful expression Take care of 1 the immigrant girls That the injunc tion so solemnly pronounced has been faithfullyobeyed by his successors is evidenced by the continued growth and success of the institution That It may give the readers of the Sun an idea of the work which is being done by this institution through its effi cient directors and especially through the charitable zeal of its present chief director Rev Michael J Henry and its uagent Mr Patrick McCool we will give the objects for which this charitable refuge was established as we find them recited in the fifteenth annual address to the friends of the home First To establish a Catholic bureau si tfie landing depot to supply informa tloltimmigrants and to protect their1 1interests against those unscrupulous individuals who would make capital out of ignorance and innocence Second To open a home for the pro tection of young girls l to guard them j frond the dangers ofa great dtyj to aid then in securing employment and to unity those going to friends to reach their detiaationt Third To provide an immigrant ch pl to dispense the consolatkn of reo to their entrance to tile new fields that await them- Certainly the objects for which this institution was founded are alone suffi cient to merit and to hold the attention at least of those who were once exiles from their native homes and who in this land of religious freedom and polit ical equality have prospered to a degree not warranted in a country that for cen tunes has suffered from tyrannical oppression persecution and starvation If the founders of this home had no other object in mind than to supply a Catholic bureau for the information of Irish immigrants their purpose would yet be deserving of praise and commend ation for such a department would of necessity materially aid the immigrant to obtain some knowledge of the country to which they have come and would fur nish them with reliable information which in many cases is very much needed How many of the Irish people leaVe their native country with no par ticular place in view other than the vast country of America trusting to God and the magnanimity of the American people to formulate their future designs Fol lowing the methods of their ancestors who since the year 1846 have immigrated to the haven of the West in search of life and liberty But alas they fail to appreciate that times and circumstances have changed and that the country that receiver the Irish exile of half a century ago is not the America of today and that the resources which then lay hidden and uncultivated have long since been devel oped leaving fewer opportunities to strangers who come in search of a liveli hoodThe false idea of America which the Irish immigrant girl entertains leads her to believe that her landing upon Ameri cau soil is sufficient to insure her imme diate success and prosperity Quite laud able therefore is the work of the institu tion that would prepare the immigrants and particularly the Irish immigrant girls for the disappointments which must certainly come to them and which would supply them with knowledge that will aid them to avoid or to overcome the difficul ties which have so often crossed the path way of exiles who have begun life in America without the advice of anyone competent to give wise counsel Many too reach New York with the expectation of meeting friends who in many instances either neglect to meet them or prove prejudicial rather than favorable to the progress of the imml grant Under such circumstances the immigrants find that they are friendless and without homes or prospect of work and must seek aid from some charitable refuge where they remain until they find employmentBut second object is even more worthy than the first What grander thought could engage the mind or what nobler purpose actuate the efforts of man than that which would seek to establish girlsintemptations which otherwise might engulf them itmay not be difficult for the niale immigrant with the aid of advice to find employment and especially when that counsel comes from those who are inter ested in his welfare but with the immigrant girl it is different some of them have found themselves unequal to such a task and hence to obtain a livelihood have even sacrificed their honor Chiefly to overcome such baneful consequences was the Home for Irish Immigrant Girls established and it is pleasing to note that since the foundation the home has thrown open its portals to all immigrant Irish girls irrespective of creed and has welcomed or protected over 200000 of them until their friends have been found or until employment is obtained for them in such places as were best adapted to their conditions and education Some however have been unwilling to accept the counsel of those in charge of the home and have continued upon uncertain journeys with no other recommendation than an address of some relative ofa perhapsifoffer hospitality objectforestablish an immigrant chapel Many an immigrant girls heart has throbbedwith joy as she beheld on landing the immi grant chapel in the midst of the activity of New York where after a long and tiresome journey she might receive the consolation of her religion for whatever may be said of the Irish exiles they have in America held tenaciously to the doctrines of the Catholic chinch enunciated to them by the soggarth of the old home Like Longfellows Arcadian exiles the Irish immigrants as they lingered for the last time upon the shores of their native land are consoled by the encouraging words and blessings of the Irish pastor j and iL was the idea of the founders of this ufltheirn thanks to God for their safety by assist ing at the divine sacrifice The work of the mission is not confined to meeting immigrant girls who for preventedfromlimited to protecting and sheltering them until they are otherwise provided for Manyotlier benefits accrue to the immigrants but it is difficult for the public to penetrate beyond these external evidences of charity and to discover the moral influ ence of this great work To bring about the results which have been obtained much time labor and expense are required together with the greatest earnestness of purpose allied with sympathy for the Irish people The time and labor have been willingly contributed by the generous souls in charge and so ardent are they for the success of their work that they have never faltered or failed to respond when the service of the mission has been required This same rouslyghenhasoften official duties have been lightened by the ameInJactthe greatest obstacles which have intercepted the progrew of the work has arisen from the opposition of the immigration officials appointed bII tits ge CTl ownnHTOt PctuntUllpj mr Pretty rae OMaltey4 PATTONTempo1 Ei1 e L 1 I Theres an i vy COy crcd cot tngeVhcre the myr tie twines n roundn2 In our Imp py child hood hoursel How we of ten loved to tell 3 Theres n chap elon the hillside And within its walls some day a JJ= iz- ii F tt = l= L jt Jj=ij 1 it Ei 5 i = E=i And with in itt dwells a mniclo fair The sweett est cv cr found Talcs of Ipye a mid the flow ors till We knew the sto rywell I will claim sweet Grace for mineun lone Sometime in sun ny iMay J= TJ1 JF d O t f JrfJ r r tt- e 4- t = t tft = 0 = = Ff JB= =1IHIJj I = L lAnd the pret ty songbirds greet hcrj Withmel o dies of Spring There I taught the slut pie les son Always long ing for the time While the wed ing bells arc ring ingtThe song birds soft lysing yIft J F+ t== = = ii4 = j II11 y t F = b h II =I 7ti1 As Istand a while and lis tenTo 1me they seem to sing When I put my arms a round her J And Icould call her mine That the pret ty goldcn cir clot q Is sweet Graces wedding ring e l e e- tpq r4t4EHAnniNospecialF1 c k cti FN eata s1 4 z F t 7 I fret ty Grace OMalley With eyes of ten der blue th 1 T fE j1 1 I On mountain tops or valley There pone so tried or truer Pret = o2 1 I JI = e t 4j1 E4E i44 R3 73- tt J ty Grace 0 Mat ley Some dayis sure to wed And change he- rr J rrr lP 1 Repeat Chorus 4 FIJ name ofSet Grace 0 Malley To pne7 that is mine in stead J yIt r7 bBItfPretty Gtitce QMalley a 1 B START THE NEW YEAR By Subscribing for the Kentucky Irish AttterlcaA Qy 1 a year Unequal In this section J o 3 FURNITURE E 11 If You Want Fair Treatment Gall On jj 3 Etheridge THE CC- II Furniture I Company WHOLESALERS INCORPORATED AND RETAILERS C3 I Furniture tt tt tt OF ALL KINDS 324 West Market St LOUISVILLE KY TELEPHONE 527 GEO J BUTLERDEALER Groceries Produce Fresh Meats and VegetablesaOIGKRS AND TOBHCCO Telephone 846 1983 PORTLAND AYE SMITH DU1ANS All Kindsof PrintingMusic Hall 131 West Market St however the officers recently appointed- by the Washington authorities have given much assistance and have extended mans- capttes3egto 1Medirectors = LtJ cJtqp I Of course the mission has never received financial aid from the municipal State or national government but has existed chiefly from the voluntary con tribution of friends and of guests who through curiosity have visited the home to learn the object and extent of this worthy institution It is surprising and at the same time blameworthy that those who should be most interested in this workthe Irish people in America do not give to the mission that support which is proportionate with the benefits which are received from it by the Irish race Never yet has there remained un answered by Irishmen in Amcrica an appeal sent forth from the Emerald Isle The virtue of charity deeply imbedded in the Celtic heart has always and ever manifested itself in the financial aid which IrishAmericans have willingly given to uplift their brothers who still suffer from tyrannical rule And it is this very same circumstance that makes it seem strange that our people have failed to recognize the only institution in Amer ica which receives the immigrant Irish girls as they arrive from their native shores and which yearly accomplishes more to preserve the native purity of Irish womanhood than any other institu tion within our confines Nor does the work of the mission end here It goes still further and endeavors to inculcate in the minds of its wards the idea that in America at least the Irish people hav become emancipated by their own fortitude courage and perseverance and that they are no longer to be found chiefly among the hewers of wood and drawers of water t but on the contrary that they stand in the foremost ranks of and professional life and further that th immigrant girl who shall remain Industrious and true to herself may hope to obtain social rank equal to the most ex alted for the reason that the republic tto which she has given her allegiance has never failed to lend its sympathy to those who have suffered from oppression and will never fail to extend even to an exile its good will and friendship But the work of the mission during the past fifteen years is but a circumstance compared with the good which will be accomplished with the continued growth of this institution While it was at first ati experiment the basic idea of charity upon which it was constructed has en sured such success that we can hope that the near future will find similar institu tions in every seaport city of Ameri- caTHEATRICALS The Avenue after its week of rest will reopen Sunday night for the holiday week with Wm Calders great scenic production John Martins Secret Like all of the Sutton Vaueuielodramas I it abounds in thrilling scenes and sensational climaxes The leap for end efftbe thirdact is said to be moderii the most thrilling effects of the stage Plyne and Sheridanls New City Sports will be next weeks attraction at the BucfcttiRhahi commencing Sunday and thesUHiUJtioou sign Will lie displayed I arty The company Iwtya bat beetIi i PARLOR BEDROOM DININQROOA1 and KITCHEN IN one of the most popular that visits the house and It has certainly lost none of its good points IIarry Stewart keeps the audjencejn good humor frontthetiistin the fall of the curtain Theater Fran ette a burlesque in two scenes introduces the whole company which in eludes a dozen or more pretty women handsomely costumed The Monte Myro troupe of four pantomimists is n late European novelty introduced by clever artists and heads the olio Some of the others seen are Miss Ruth Beecher a theGermanens in a comedy sketch and A C Law PastimeAmongSheridan is the dancing novelty of till season The performance concludes with extravaganwThe ChristmasMonday For Christmas week the Meffert Stock production dramas ever presented in Louisville No popularfavorthis will be the first time it has ever been presented at popular prices the Temple should be crowded at every performance The play is on the style of the Silver King and will give each member of the company a favorable opportunity to dis storyIsvillage schoolmistress and when she marries another uses every means in his Herehusband is accused of a crime impris oned escapes and is dogged by the vile lain until the hunchback confesses and his innocence is proved The situations are very strong especially one in the attemptsto lhotIpleae acters It will be magnificently mount agmentedai BUCKINGHAM Week Com Sunda9MatlaccDccember26 FLYNN AND SHERIDANS NEW CITY SPORTS CHRISTMAS MATINEE MONDAY This is one of the strongest companies on dagcingnoveltyPASTIMN Led by Crissie Sheridan and THE PRINCESS OF SANTIAGO T MPLE THEATER WHKEFFERTKANAGE- BiMEFFERT STOCK COMPANY IN Master AND Man C 4 PerfonninctiI a olioPopnUr Prtcet10 15 25 35o No hlgbor IM LAWLERS ONARCRAND A OH SUPERIOR u 5 CENT CIGARSJlleaitatrnd nt EI tonto and Duncan Sit eta rIiir 1 r t 5T IIIRELAND Record of the Most Important of the Recent Events Culled From Exchanges The Earl of Longford has joined his mother and brother at Pakenham Hall County Westmeath r The Lord Chief Justice of Ireland Sir Peter OBrien has been staying at Rayn ham Hall Norfolk on a visit to Sir Edmund Lacon John Redmond M P and Daniel Tallon Mayor of Dublinissued call for a meeting of Parnellites Thursday for the purpose of inaugurating an Independent party home rule fund next year On Wednesday morning Col Rynd of Ballycumbed was found dead in his bed He had retired on the previous night apparently in his usual health Death is attributed to heart disease T H Grainger manager of the Tar i bery branch of the Munster and Leinster Bank was shot in the right eye while out with a shooting party and the injury it is feared will cause the loss of the sight We regret to announce the death of Mr W Conway of the firm of Messrs Conway Swan Dame street Dublin The deceased who had been in failing health for some time was fortytwo years oldMr K Thorn solicitor of Ncath died Wednesday night aged sixtyeight De ceased had twice been Mayor of Neath and until recently held the post of clerk to the Neath Harbor Commissioners Hens very wealthy- A public meeting was held in the Courthouse Cookstown on Thursday evening to consider the advisability of urging upon the Directors of the Great Northern Railway Company to extend heir system to Newport Trench The question whether married women who if they were not married would be qualified to be electors for local government purposes are quaified to be on the register as the law stands at present was decided by the Court of Appeals in the negativeDublin is justly proud of the late Sir Robert Stewart who was certainly one of the greatest masters of the artof music that Ireland ever produced An inter esting memoir of this giftedmusician has been written by Mr Olinthus J VignolesSculptors are at present engaged erect ing a monument to the memory of the late Rev J inJSt s June 30 1897 The monument is situated on an eminence on the grounds of the college The Waterford corporation have applied to the Board of Works for a loan of about 15000 for the construction of two rubbish depots and for the erecting of j yUsansV dwellings At Eresenkthesre j pe of the entire city is deposited at Millars marsh The Lord Mayor of Dublin presided over a meeting which was held in the Mansion House for thepurpose of taking steps toward the formation of the pro posed PanCeltic Congress Lord Castle town who convened the meeting made a statement as to its object All predictions in regard to the East Wicklow Coronership election are upset by the announcement that a writ will be refused by the authorities for the carry ing out of that event and that no ap polntmcnt will be made until the meet lug of the County Council by whom the vacancy will be filled On Thursday evening a few friends of Station Sergeant Brangan assembled at Greenstreet police station Dublin to wish him goodbye on his retirement from the service The occasion was availed of to make a handsome presenta tion of a beautiful eightday cuckoo clock to the popular Sergeant The annual Limerick demonstration in honor of Allen Larkin and OBrien took place Sunday A procession was formed at Bank place and headed by the Holier buoy band paraded the principlal streets en route to the St Lawrence cemetery where the customary oration was delivered by Mr John Daly The solemn office and requiem mass for the late Patrick J Conlan proprietor and editor of the Carlow Nationalist were held at the Carlow Cathedral on Wednes day The funeral was an imposing one the attendance being representative of every creed and class in the community among whom the deceased had lived and laboredWe regret toannounce the death f- Ir Thomas OShaughnessy solicitor Mohill County Leitrim The deceased who had reached an advanced age was a well known and respected practitioner in the West and also in Dublin for many years He was the father of Mr Thomas L OShaughnessy who is one of the most distinguished members of the Irish barIt appears that the cost of the high pressure water scheme for Dalkey would Teachover 7000 without taking into consideration the amount that would have to be paid for wayleave There was therefore a tremendous amount of discretion in the word deferred which Was made in the order on this subject by the Commissioners at Wednesdays meetingThe of the late Miss Fullerton daughter of Mr Thomas Fullerton of Ifingetown were removed last Saturday from ktr tote residence 10 CroetiiwaUe Nark for interment ia Deans Grange cemetery The very large cortege from Xingrtown and the surrounding districts emphatically testified to the high esteem With which the deceased young lady was held by all classes A great sensation was oaueed in I Lougurta when it became known that n the memoriall to tll98 patriot Peter- FinnertyarecMdo with such wtthueiun- on the Old Catl Pittoefty+ irtrctt last Sunday had been removed U was list MM about S oclock on 11 belloundthroughout town and country around and the outrage is universally condemned as one of the most dastardly that could well be conceived its object being man ifestly to slight the feelings of the com munity at large and to insult the mem ory of the patriot Active inquiries are being insituted with a view to discovering the guilty party At a meeting of the Thurles Town Com missioners Mr J L Johnson in the chair a circular was read from the committee of the Irish National Amnesty Association appealing for assistance Th clerk was directed to write to the Secretaries of the association and inform them that they had the entire sympathy of the Commissioners and thatthey were deter mined to assist them by every means in their power A Southern correspondent writes liThe Skibbereen Needlework Union held iits second sale a few days ago when ove three hundred new garments and a quan tity of blankets were sold to the poor of the town and neighborhood at exactly half their original price The buyers were admitted to the sale by tickets given to them by the members and they showed the utmost eagerness to avail themselves of the opportunity afforded them to secure warm winter garments The question of the abolition of the Limerick nightwatch formed a subject for discussion at a meeting of the cor poration last week Allure aware that the Council by a majorfty adopted a resolution whereby thewatch are to wiped out of existence on the last day of the present year Their friends fought hard to retain this timehonored body but the fates were against them and they were obliged to walk the plank so to speak The Royal Irish constabulary are to be requisitioned as night custodians in their stead Much interest will be taken by a con siderable section of the Irish public in the fact that a Parliamentary committee has been appointed to inquire into the circumstances under which the gold or naments recently found in the North of Ireland were sold to the British Museum These objects of archaeological interest were it will be remembered claimed by the Royal Irish Academy The principle that Irish antiquities should not be sent out of Ireland is one which will meet withapproval by all who wish to see everything relating to their countrys past history cherished and preserved The Ballinasloe Town Board recently appointed a deputation consisting of Dr Rutherford T Dwyer E J Kelly T Byrne and Laurence Conroy to wait on the Earl of Clancarty in relation to the question of starting April markets for the sale of cattle sheep and pigs The official assignee has objected as I being the responsible party for the tolls to give direct sanction to the proposal The members of the Town Board have been approached by large numbers of buyers and sellers who have urged them tovndertake tartingofthetnarkct8j and the commissioners have volunteered to make good any deficits that might arise in case of failure which nobody in the district anticipates The funeral of Thomas A OSullivan a highly esteemed gentleman took place Wednesday afternoon and was one of the largest and most representative ever seen in Galway The funeral started from the residence of tbe deceased The coffin was borne on the shoulders of the members of the Parnellite Independent Association all of whom wore mourning badges Business was suspended in town during the time the funeral was passing In paying this last tribute to the mem ory of one who was beloved by all who knew him party feeling was forgotten and all political opinion joined in show ing their esteem for the deceased A sadder procession was not witnessed in Galway since the funeral of the late Mr Thos Ashe a bosom friend of Mr OSullivan and another staunch and honest upholder of Independent Nationalist party in Galway Charles Joseph Kickham to whose memory a monument was unveiled in Tipperary on Sunday last was a remark i able and picturesque figure in Irish his tory and none to soon have the people of the gallant county to which he be longed and which he loved so well raised this fitting memorial to a patriot and a man of letters The brief and simple words at the base of the monument Poet novelist and patriotdescribe Kickham as he would have himself desired He was a fascinating personality His patriotism was above reproach he loved his country its people its customs its scenery everything in and of Ireland Quiet and simple in his ways childlike even in his manners deeply affectionate even as a woman he could when he thought of his countrys wrongs be roused into action like a lion of the tribe of Judith and the distinguished and hon orable part he took in the national move ment is not the least prominent feature of a remarkable life history A special meeting of the Keady Town Commissioners was held for the purpose of considering the advisability of passing a resolution in favor of the newrallway scheme from Kigscourt to Armagh and Keady which will connect the latter place with other larger towns Mr J M Kenney said that he was informed by the engineer of the company that no baronial guarantee would be aaked for but that the company would carry out the undertaking themselves The fol lowing resolution was passed unanimously That we the Town Commissioners of Keady bail with satisfaction the promotion of a railway scheme which is pro posed to open up this district by a lire of railway running from Kingecourt Car rick aclOlll Caatlebkyaey Keady and usiatodirectand eastern capitals and other bnaiMta centers and we hereby call upon all Ike public bodies along the propoced route tope similar resolution lit Rice cif the luportilltbelrjOwei J181tbJaMWJ ygac frau LABOR WORLD Interest Growing in Race for the Presidency of the Central Labor Union There are 3000 persons engaged in clockmaking in Connecticut I The Brewers Union elected officers for the ensuing year at their last meeting They also decided to give each of their lockedout members Christmas gift of benefitseThe tobacco stemmers went on strike in all the factories in Providence Friday bynvance in wages and work was resumed MondayThe between the shoemakers stillrcontinues in spite of the fact that the employes have made every effort to settle the difficulty The clergy of the city espouse the cause of the workmen I The race for the Presidency of the Central Labor Union is being watched with interest by the union men of this city The contestants are James McGill the incumbent and Herman Christen of the Cigarmakers Union Both men have warm friends who are confident of the success of their favorite but the race will be a close one with the result in doubt till all the ballots are counted arebecompetent men augurs the prosperity of the central labor body The Evening Post which can get very close to the management says the 18000 employes of the L N railroad will this year enjoy the most pleasant holiday season they have known for years and certaingly the most pleasant of the past five According to the promise made that if the earnings of the roadwarranted it the remaining 5 per cent of the JO per cent reduction made in August 1893 would be restored at the first of this year the employes will on January I begin to receieve the same wages and salaries that were paid them before the dark days of 1893 settled upon the country The Financial Secretary to time British Treasury Mr Hanbury M P has con sented to receive a deputation from the Parliamentary Committee of the English Trade Union Congrees The question which is to be discussed is the fair wages resolution passed by the late Congress at Bristol The question to be laid before the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the Parliamentary Committee meets him is that of the banking of trade union funds At present trade unions although they confer benefits similar to those of friendly societies are limited as to the amount which they can deposit in the Postoffice Savings Bank They de sire to have this limit removed Eugene V Debs has entered the lecture field under arrangements that will occupy the greater part of his time dur tug tins winter aid next springaaysa labor correspondent He has finished one course in Northern Michigan and Lat this writing filling a course in Iowa which began at Des Moines All reports are to the effect that he is meeting with unusual success This is gratifying to all friends of labor Jar it goes without saying that Debs is talking on the labor question in some of its phases all the time His subject in the Iowa course is Labor and Liberty Whatever may beth differences of opinion when we come to the adoption of remedies all who have heard him and their name is legion admit that Debs is possessed of wonder ful abilities as a public speaker I am oneof those who have believed for sev eral years that snch was his special field and that hemadea mistake every time he left the platform to take part in the prac tical management of the movement The American Federation of Labor closed its annual session at Kansas City The work of this years convention does not embrace much that is of importance to the trades union movement of the United States Samuel Gompers was elected President for another year while Thomas Tracey of the Cigarmakers In ternational Union and James OConnell of the International Union Machinists were elected to represent the Federation in the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain and Ireland The increase of the per capita tax of the affiliated bodies may not prove popular although it is calculated to be a means of advancing the eighthour movement After a debate lasting several days the Socialist element were again overwhelmingly defeated Detroit was selected as the place for holding the next convention It was decided to sustain the stoneworkers in their effort to secure an eighthour day and before adjourning the convention reaffirmed its allegiance to the cause of silver For the first time in the history of Georgia and the South the color line has been drawn on negro workmen What makes this more remarkable is that it was done by the committee which was in receptionoccasion of last weeks jubilee says a telegram The Federation of Trades wu to take part in the processsion and among its members were several hundred negro quarrymen and stonemasons These were all ready to march in the line when they were notified that no mtgroe would be allowed in the proces sion The white members of their or gwiaation protested but without effect When the committee flatly refused to permit the negro workmen to join the ppCMiion all the white workmen who ware waiting to larch withdrew The K d eatkmof Trades deiipuaeedihe com mittees action aad Uve iis much feeling in the city over It among both whites and negroes White and colored work men march together on every Labor eWfJltecbiudcali sent the diCtatlol1 of the committee0 Rlcke may be powerful things but they can neither make a man out of a scoundrel nor a Mouidlrel out of a man t BOOKS BOOKS SUITABLE FOR HOLIDAY PRESENTS A Childs History of Ireland illustrated by P W Joyce LLD 125 Miss Erin a novel by M E Francis 125 Correspondence of Daniel OConncll with Notice of His Life aud Times by W J Fitzpatrick 2 vol 8vo 300 The Centenary of Catholicity in Kentucky by Hon Ben J Webb 1 vol 8vo 175 Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman by Wilfred Ward 2 vols 8vo 000 Life of Dr O A Brownspn cloth 8vo 300 With a full line of Catholic and Miscellaneous Books Medallions Calendars and Religious Articles for sale by CHAS 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meeting of Parnellites Thursday for the purpose of inaugurating an Independent party home rule fund next year On Wednesday morning Col Rynd of Ballycumbed was found dead in his bed He had retired on the previous night apparently in his usual health Death is attrinuted to heart disease T H Grainger manager of the Tar bery branch of the Munster and Leinster Bank was shot in the right eye while out with a shooting party and the injury it is feared will cause the loss of the sight We regret to announce the death of Mr W Conway of the firm of Messrs Conway Swan Dame street Dublin The deceased who had been in failing health for some time was fortytwo years oldMr K Thorn solicitor of Ncath died Wednesday night aged sixtyeight De ceased had twice been Mayor of Neath and until recently held the post of clerk c to the Neath Harbor Commissioners He na very wealthy- A public meeting was held in the Courthouse Cookstown on Thursday L evening to consider the advisability of urging upon the Directors of the Great Northern Railway Company to extend heir system to Newport Trench The question whether marriedwomen i who if they were not married would be qualified to be electors for local govern ment purposes are quaified to be on the register as the law stands at present was decided by the Court of Appeals in the negativeDublin is justly proud of the late Sir Robert Stewart who was certainlyone of the greatest masters of the art of music that Ireland ever produced An inter esting memoir of this gifted musician has been written by Mr Olinthus J VignolesSculptors are at present engaged erect ing a monument to the memory of the late Rev Jeremiah Crowe Professor in St Patricks College Thurles who died June 30 1897 The monument is situ ated on an eminence on the grounds of the college The Waterford corporation have applied to the Board of Works for n loan of about 115000 for the construction of two afrisansi se of the entirecltvisdepositelat Ilfillar s marsh I The Lord Mayor of Dublin presided over a meeting which was held in the Mansion House for thepurpose of taking steps toward the formation of the pros posed PanCeltic Congress Lord Castle town who convened the meeting made a statement as to its object All predictions in regard to the East Wicklow Coronership election are upset by the announcement that a writ will be refused by the authorities for the carry lug out of that event and that no ap pointmcnt will be made until the meeting of the County Council by whom the vacancy will be filled oftStation Sergeant Brangau assembledat Greenstreet police station Dublin toi wish him goodbye on his retirement from the service The occasion was t availed of to make a handsome presentation of a beautiful eightday cuckoo clock to the popular Sergeant The annual Limerick demonstration in honor of Allen Larkin and OBrien took place Sunday A procession was formed at Bank place and headed by the Bohcr buoy band paraded the principlal streets en route to the St Lawrence cemetery where the customary oration was delivered J by Mr John Daly The solemn office and requiem mass for the llate Patrick J Conlan proprietor 4and editor of the Carlow Nationalist were held at the Carlow Cathedral on Wednes day The funeral was an imposing one the attendance being representative of every creed and class in the community among whom the deceased had lived and laboredWe regret toannounce the death of Mr Thomas OShanghnessy solicitor Mohill County Leitrim The deceased who had reached an dvanced age was a wellknown and respected practitioner in the West and also in Dublin for many years He was the father of Mr Thomas L OShaughnessy who is one of Ute most distinguished members of the Irish barIt 1 appears that the cost of the high pressure water scheme for Dalkeywould 11u Teach over 7000 without taking into consideration the amount that would hage to be paid for wayleave There was therefore a tremendous amount of discretion iu the word deferred which was made in the order ou this subject by the Commissioners at Wednesdays meeting The remains of the late Miss Fnllerton daughter of Mr Thomas Fullerton of kihgrtowii were removed lastSaturdijy- trem her late residence 10 CrosthwaUe i Park for interment in Deans Grange cemetery The very large cortege from Kingstown and the surrounding districts emphatically testified to the high esteemr with which the deceased young lady was 1byaUc1aaes p1 WM caused ifu p1Iarghriben it became known thiit UM memorial to tJaeH patriot Peter Fimterty reeled witk Mieu enthuciaMa on the Old Cetle Pitraerty irtreet lest Bwoday had beat mooted IJelast o 4II tJ iilr iL and since then no trace of it nbe found The utmost indignation prevails throughout town and country around and the outrage universally condemned as one of the most dastardly that could well be conceived its object being man ifestly to slight the feelings of the community at large and to insult the mess ory of the patriot Active inquiries are beinginsituted with a view to discovering the guilty party At a meeting of the Thurles Town Com missioners Mr J L Johnson in the chair a circular was read from the com mittee of the Irish National Amnesty As sedation appealing for assistance The clerk was directed to write to the Secreta ries of the association and inform them that they had the entire sympathy of the Commissioners and thatthey were deter mined to assist them by every means in their power A Southern correspondent writes The Skibbereen Needlework Union held its second sale a few days ago when over three hundred new garments and a quantity of blankets were sold to the poor of the town aud neighborhood at exactly half their original price The buyers were admitted to the sale by tickets given to them by the members and they showed the utmost eagerness to avail themselves of the opportunity afforded them to secure warm winter garments The question of the abolition of the Limerick night watch formed a subject for discussion at a meeting of the cor poration last week All are aware that the Council by a majorfty adopted a resolution whereby thewatch are to be wiped out of existence on the last day of the present year Their friends ought hard to retain this timehonored body but the fates were against them and they were obliged to walk the plank so to speak The Royal Irish constabulary are to be requisitioned as night custodians in their stead Much interest will be taken by a con siderable section of the Irish public in the fact that a Parliamentary committee has been appointed to inquire into the circumstances under which the gold or naments recently found in the North of Ireland were sold to the British Museum These objects of archaeological interest were it will be remembered claimed by the Royal Irish Academy The principle that Irish antiquities should not be sent out of Ireland is one which will meet with approval by all who wish to see everything relating to their countrys past history cherished and preserved The Ballinasloe Town Board recently appointed a deputation consisting of Dr Rutherford T Dwyer E J Kelly T Byrne and Laurence Conroy to wait on the Earl of Clancarty in relation to the question of starting April markets for the sale of cattle sheep and pigs The official assignee has objected as being the responsible party for the tolls to give direct sanction to the proposal The members of the Town Board have been approached by large numbers of buyers and sellers who have urged them to undertake thestartingoftheui rkets and the commissioners have volunteered to make good any deficits that might arise in case of failure which nobody in the district anticipates The funeral of Thomas A OSullivan a highly esteemed gentleman took place Wednesday afternoon and was one of the largest and most representative ever seen in Galway The funeral started tram the residence of the deceased The coffin was borne on the shoulders of the members of the Parnellite Independent Association all of whom wore mourning badges Business was suspended in town during the time the funeral was passing In paying this last tribute to the mem ory of one who was beloved by all who knew him party feeling was forgotten and all political opinion joined in show ing their esteem for the deceased A sadder procession was not witnessed in Galway since the funeral of the late Mr Thos Ashe a bosom friend of Mr OSullivan and another staunch and hon est upholder of Independent Nationalist party in Galway Charles Joseph Kickham to whose memory a monument was unveiled in Tipperary on Sunday last was a remark able and picturesque figure in Irish history and none to soon have the people of the gallant county to which he be longed and which he loved so well raised this fitting memorial to a patriot and a man of letters The brief and sim pIe words at the base of the monument Poet novelist and patriot describe Kickham as he would have himself de sired He was a fascinating personality His patriotism was above reproach he loved his country its people its customs its sceneryeverything in and of Ireland Quiet and simple in his ways childlike even in his manners deeply affectionate even as a woman he could when he thought of his countrys wrongs be roused into action like a lion of the tribe of Judah and the distinguished and hon orable part he took in the national movement is not the lleast prominent feature of a remarkable life history A special meeting of the Keady Town Commissioners was held for the purpose of considering the advisability Of passing a resolution in favor of the new railway scheme from Kingscourt to Armagh and Keady which will connect the latter place with other larger towns Mr J M Kenney said that he was informed 110bbut that the companywould carry out the undertaking themselves The fol lowing resolutionwaspassed unanimous ly That we the Town Commissioners ofKeady hail with satisfaction the pro pr0posedralwayru9ni from Kingscourt Car rickraacroM Caetleblayney Keady and pato Armagh thereby bringing us into direct communication with the northern and eastern capitals sad other btuiMM centers and we hereby call apou sit the public bodies alouy the proposed route to pMt similar resoluHotu in ftwiraf the scheme and to glee it T7 Mippefi their power 11 4 Ii y rio i t r LABOR WORLD Interest Growing In Race for the Presidency of the Central Labor Union There are 8000 persons engaged in clockmaking in Connecticut I The Brewers Union elected officers for the ensuing year at their last meeting They also decided to give each of their lockedout members Christmas gift of f5 in addition to the weekly benefits The tobacco stemmers went on strike in all the factories in Providence Friday last The matter was compromised by the employers conceding the men an ad vance in wages and work was resumed MondayThe between the shoemaker andemployers at Marlboro Mass still continues in spite of the fact that the employes have made every effort to settle the difficulty The clergy of the city espouse the cause of the workmen I I IThe race for the Presidency of the Labor Union is being watched with interest by the union men of this city The contestants are James McGill the incumbent and Herman Christen of the Cigarmakera Union Both men have warm friends who are confident of the success of their favorite but the race will be a close one with the result in doubt till all the ballots are counted The nominees for the various offices are competent men which augurs well for the prosperity of the central laborbody The Evening Post which can get very close to the management says the 18000 employes of the L N railroad will this year enjoy the most pleasant holiday season they have known for years and certaingly the most pleasant of the past five According to the promise made that if the earnings of the road warranted it the remaining 5 per cent of theO per cent reduction made in August 1893 would be restored at the first of this year the employes will on January I begin to receievc the same wages and salaries that were paid them before the drk days of 1893 settled upon the country The Financial Secretary to the British Treasury Mr Hanbury M P has con sented to receive a deputation from the Parliamentary Committee of the English Trade Union Congrees The question which is to be discussed is the fair wages resolution passed by the late Congress at Bristol The question to be laid before the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the Parliamentary Committee meets him is that of the banking of trade union funds At present trade unions although they confer benefits similar to those of friendly societies are limited as to the amount which they can deposit in the Postoffice Savings Bank They desire to have this limit removed Eugene V Debs has entered the lecture field under arrangements that will occupy the greater part off his time qur- tllg tillS grin er an neat epnng oaysa labor correspondent He has flubbed one course in Northern Michigan and ia at this writing flung a course in Iowa which began at Des Moines All reports are to the effect that he is meeting with unusual success This is gratifying to all friends of labor lor it goes without saying that Delia is talking on the labor question in some of its phases all the time His subject in the Iowa course is 1 Labor and Liberty II Whatever may be the differences of opinion when we come to the adoption of remedies all who have heard him and theirname is legion admit that Debs is possessed of wonder ful abilities as a public speaker I am severaland that he made mistake every time he left the platform to take part in the prac tical management of the movement The American Federation of Labor closed its annual session at Kansas City The work of this years convention does not embrace much that is of importance to the trades union movement of the United States Samuel Gornpers was elected President for another year while Thomas Tracey of the Cigarmakers In ternational Union and James OConnell of the International Union Machinists were elected to represent the Federation in the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain and Ireland The increase of the per capita tax of the affiliated bodies may not prove popular although it is calcu hated to bea means of advancing the eighthour movement After a debate lasting several days the Socialist element were again overwhelmingly defeated Detroit was selected as the place for holding the next convention It was decided to sustain the stoneworkers in their effort to secure an eighthour day and before adjourning the convention reaffirmed its allegiance to the cause of silverFor the first time in the history of Georgia and the South the color line has been drawn on negro workmen What makes this more remarkable is that it was done by the committee which was in receptionoccasion of last weeks jubilee says a telegram The Federation of Trades was to take part in the processsion and among its members were several hundred negro quarrymcn and stonemasons These were all ready to march in the line when they were notified that no negroes would be allowed in the procession The white members of their or ganization protested but without effect When the committee flatly refused te permit the negro workmen to join the processionail1 the white workmen who were waiting to pvarch withdrew The VeclaaUo8of+ Trades deuquacedLihe com mittees actiodfaad tkee is much feet lug in the city over ft among both whites and negroes White and colored work men search together on every Labor Day and work side by aide ia every me chanic calling iJo AUBa Both re tbdictation of the committee THoHea may 1w powerful things bat tlwjr OM a itii F j tki tf f E BOOKS BOOKS SUITABLE FOR HOLIDAY PRESENTS A Childs History of Ireland illustrated by P W Joyce LLD 125 125CorrespFitzpatrick 2vol 8vo 300 The Centenary of Catholicity in Kentucky by Hon Den J Webb 1 vol 8vo 175 Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman by Wilfred Ward 2 vols 8vo OW Life of Dr O A Brownson cloth 8vo 3X With a full line of 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