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Show j Eatcsi Irisi) news : J : ri.sri:i:. 1 ; ;, Mrs. McWiiliams. remarkable Irish ' ': centenarian, residing near Tenne- ! , Lridg;p, Antrim, who celebrated hir 10 Mil birtlilaj- on Ocloixr :. mwivcd '. ;. a. cheque for C.V from King George. :- Thomas McI.olkuHl, farmer. Hallin- ' '; nieen. Garvagli. was engaged recently i in smearing- ih' roof of a wooden shed villi tar, when the ladder on which lie was standing slipped, and he was precipitated to the ground, sustaining .'. ' a broken arm. a pevere incised wound on the forehead and other injuries. )y Married. September 24, at .St. Eu- ; gene's cathedral. Derry, by the Rev. , John Doherty. .'. C. Thomas Crossan. postoffiee, Derry, to Margaret Sausse. , ' third daughter of John Sausse, Rap- hue, Donegal. On Sunday, October Most Rev. Dr. McKenna. Bishop of Clogher, 4 blessed the foundation stone of lr- j , ' vinestown new church in the presence j of a very large attendance. j ; muxstkj:. The death occurred at Harrington's hospital, Limerick, on September IT, as the result of an accident, of Pat-' Pat-' '.' rick McDonnell, native of Tatricks- ., , veil, for twenty-five years an official l of Waterford and Limerick railway, i, and twenty years an official of the Limerick corporation. The funeral i from St. Michael's chapel. Limerick, vag large and representative. 1A very successful sale was held on October 0 by Messrs. Edmond O'Shea & Son, auctioneers, for James ' Conway. Ballintaylor. The farm was sold to Jeremiah Dee (Voughal) for ,' i50 and commission. Died. Recently, Miss Jane Xagle, Lismore. October 4, Master James Lucas, Carrigeen. October 9, Denis Walsh, Augustine street, Dungarvan. At Kenagh quarter sessions. Miss j Williams. Cloughjordan. a victim of the recent Roscrea railway collison, ! was awarded 40 damages. The local government board has recommended the board of works to issue a loan of 2.280 for the Tippe-rary Tippe-rary workhouse electric lighting, cooking and heating scheme. Messrs. Duggan and Walsh, auctioneers. auc-tioneers. Thurles, have disposed of .,. Thomas Millar's licensed premises at Rossalty, Thurles (rent 25s yearly), for 530, a record price for the lo- , oa liiy. i LEIXSTKH. ! ' . Died. at Rossena, Ballickmoyler, on October 10, Mrs. Elizabeth Fleming, Flem-ing, in the S3d year of her age. Oc- l ; tuber 2, at his residence, Boley, Inch, , '-, Jlallylinan, John J. Moore. October i i S, Karnes Rogers, Courthouse, Car- ' - ' low, aged S't years. October 9, Evans '. Johnson, Bagnalstown. !" Married. at Parochial church, , Myshall, by Rev. T. Dowling, P. P., ; assisted by Rev. J. Murray, P. P., :. : A l ies: Rev. M. Brophy, C. C, Myshall; Kev. A. G. Byrne, C. C, St. Mullins, and Rev. P. Mooore. C. C. Bernard v. McDonell, Aries, to Lillie, second i daughter of Michael Kelly, Raheen-leigh Raheen-leigh house, Myshall. 5 f Miss Xeary, of Tarmon, has been appointed nurse in the Langford ;r county infirmary by a majority of r,- eleven votes to four. There were four ,: candidates for the position. ',1 On Sunday. October 9, the Most j Rev. Dr. Gaughran, Bishop of Meath, f) dedicated the Church of St. Mary's, Collinstown, County Westmeath, and ( the sermon was preached by the .) Very Rev. John Curry, P. p., of St. Mary's, Drogheda. ' ; Mr. T. Revel sold by private treaty ; '' to William Doyle, of Ballydarragh, the residence known as Ballytegan I cottage, a short distance from the ' ' town, together with the farm at- tached, containing about forty acres. " Mr. Doyle has recently disposed of a ' ; large farm in the Newtownbarry dis- . I, trict. : COXXACHT. v ' Died. October 7, Mrs. John Kar- . rett, Lack, Turlough, aged 66 years. ' October 10, John M. Fahy, Linenhali ; (street, Castlebar, aged 53 years. At ; the age of 8 7. the death has occurred at 12Enniskerry road. Dublin, of Mr. t H. W. Fausete. J. P., late of Glen i- illa, Ballycastle, County Mayo. There was no criminal business on the calendar at the Carrick-on-Shan-non quarter sessions, which opened on October 12, and in the unavoidable absence of the sub-sheriff the clerk of the crown and peace presented his honor with a pair of white gloves. Joseph A. Glynn, Solr.. Tuam, who has been acting on behalf of the tenants ten-ants of the Blake estate, has received a communication from the congested districts board informing him that j vhe board have entered into commu.it '; cation with the landlord. with the ob- ject of arranging a sale to the tenants ; ' through them. ;; . At the annual distribution of privies j in St. JarJath's college, Tuam, tin-Most tin-Most Rev. Dr. Healy said: When I - read of the brilliant success of so many of our Irish students in the i ..; schools and colegcs, I begin to be afraid that their literary success may ; ' divert them too much from the work that is necessary for our veryefiistence in Ireland, that is to say, agricultural work. It is all very well to have learned men learned priests, learned j lawyers, learned doctors, and s0 on with the rest of the professions, and ; learned gentlemen ruling the country. but if we'have not the agricultural ; products, which can only begotten by hard work in the field, we will profit . ; very little by all the rest. We would never get a dinner by it. I am told : by practical judges throughout he i country that there is a great lndisposi- tion to work in the fields among the ' young people if they can get any other ' employment, such as clerkships, poor- ; !y paid and very uncertain of tenture. .Yet for vacancies for such positians there will be twenty, thirty or forty applications, even in the case of ' young men who. if they stayed in the land, would have been happier, more healthy and more innocent lives. XATIOXAL UNITY. . The following very timely, good and 1 commonsense vows were sponken by President Michael J. Ryan in his elo- ' : . quent speech at ibe recent convention of the T.'nited Irish League at Buffalo: ' "May I present to thinking Ameri- . ' i cans the suggestion that no political il i . movement in history gives more con- - . ' crete evidence of unity than is shown 1 by the United Irish League of Ireland. Measured by any test that can be applied ap-plied by human mind to human n-deavor. n-deavor. it is unquestionably the Xa- tional Organization of the Irish Peo-j Peo-j pie. Absolutely adhesion to one opin-j opin-j ion or to one man by all the inhabitants inhab-itants of a country is humanly impos-j impos-j sible. Diiferenees of opinion must ex-i ex-i isl between men as to the claims or, rights of individual" for leadership (and to i he justice and the wisdom of i nearly every measure proposed by ! human mind. We hear men proclaim I that the Irish people should be as ont land that from out their serried ranks I there should never come a discordant note. Such condition is not ideal, for I it would mark the dead level of de spair and certain it is, it is humanly human-ly impossible. It has never existed in any political movement or characterized character-ized any people struggling for freedom. free-dom. "I will not venture, as I might, to point to present day proofs in our own land (America) but in 'the time that tried men's souls' let me remind my fellow citizens of all degrees that during dur-ing the entire period of the Revolu-! tionary war. New York City was in continuous possession of the English: j that the British forces entered in tri- I umph the then caoital of the infant j republic, and that their entrance was j weicomea Dy me wealth anu rasnion of the Keystone colony: that two years after the Declaration of Independence Inde-pendence the French minister reported report-ed that 'not one-fourth of the people favored the new government;' that the now most treasured names of Massachusetts Hancock and Adams were then denounced as 'autcasts' and 'rebel agitators:' that of all who; j died amid the snows of Valley Forge, the name of but one soldier is known; i that the great Washington, whom we now idealize, was then the object of continuous calumny; the wicked con-i con-i spiracies having for their object his overthrow, proved nearly successful; I that even as President, years after the Revolution, he was repeatedly burned in effigy; and that in our own day it took the bullet of the assassin to make England speak with respect of the mighty Lincoln. "Humanity is the same everywhere, and the heart of rail pulses his hates, his passions, his ambitions in Ireland as in America. But this can be written today of the Irish people: Notwithstanding Notwith-standing the croppings of malevolence which we see all round and about us: notwithstanding the assassions of character who in Ireland and America aim their poisoned darts at our leaders lead-ers and our cause; notwithstanding the wickedness of assault which, because be-cause personal, seems fiendishly accentuated ac-centuated our people have shown themselves to be a grateful race, and in this crisis in their history have demonstrated themselves to be practical, prac-tical, determined, and worthy of liberty, lib-erty, for unswayed by prejudice, the most malign; heeedless of appeals to their special interests; regardless of influences from any and eveiy quarter; quar-ter; they have rallied to the support of the Irish Pledge-bound Party and its superb leader with a fidelity and generosity unexampled since that glorious glo-rious day thirty-one years ago. when in Straide, Mayo, Michael Davitt proclaimed pro-claimed the conquering doctrine of 'The Land for the People.' " The Irish people everywhere are united and practically solid in sup-1 port of the National cause, and the cause is, therefore, marching on with ' bright hope and procpect of speeedy j victory. Freemans Journal. DR. GLADDEN OX COLUMBUS DAY. After the big Columbus day parade in Boston, three weeks ago. Rev. Dr. j Washington Gladden of Columbus, O., addressed the delegates to the Plenary Council of the Congregational church as follows: "The fact that this great concourse of the sons of the Puritans was punctuated punc-tuated by the festivities of 'Columbus day,' was a coincidence which could not fail to provoke reflection. What would the men of Winthrop's day or the men of the days of Sam Adams have said if anyone had predicted that a time would come when an army of 50,000 Roman Catholics, with bands and banners, would march over Beacon Bea-con Hill? Yet I have not been able to discover that these sons of the Puritans Puri-tans now encamped in Boston have been seriously disturbed by this exhibition. exhi-bition. Considerable inconvenience was caused by the parade to many of them, but I have heard no ill-natured word spoken about it Nor have 1 heard any outcry of alarm over this display of the power of the ancient Church in the stronghold of Puritanism. Puritan-ism. It would be difficult to feel that these thousands of clean-faced, well-dressed, well-dressed, orderly, self-respecting men and boys were a dangerous element in our society. We know that their essential es-sential loyalty to the fundamental principles prin-ciples of our democracy is beyond all question." HOME RULE. J. L. Garvin, editor of the London Observer, a Unionist paper, who has attained wide journalistic fame as a writer of information and power, in treating the future of English politics, writes as follows on the home rule problem; "Recent utterances and efforts, public pub-lic and private, have made it quite certain that the battle of home rule can never again be fought by any par, ty upon the old lines. "In the future interest of Anglo-American Anglo-American relations the Irish difficulty cannot rest where it is. d'ecil Rhodes pioneered with far-reaching vision the theory of a federal solution of. the Irish .question just as he was the mortal mor-tal founder of South African Union. It is well known that the most ardent advocate today of the federal solution of the Irish question is Lord Grey, Governor General of Canada, and Lord Grey is certain to be one of the energizing ener-gizing leaders of the Unionist party and of all its imperial causes when he-returns he-returns to England. "Sir Wilfred Laurier is no iess convinced con-vinced than is Lord Grey that a great effort to settle the Irish question by-consent by-consent is essential to the life and vigor vig-or of the Empire. Mr. Alfred Deakin, General Botha, and Sir Percy Fitz-patrick Fitz-patrick (governing administrators of other parts of the British Empire, where full self-government prevails to i the satisfaction and welfare of the inhabitants), in-habitants), hold the same views in favor of Home Rule for Ireland. "The coming necessity in politics is to see whether a moderate settlement of the Irish question cannot be at- tempted on terms which would ensure la long stride for the security of Imperial Im-perial union. . "The Unionist party must face the new phase of the Irish question. It will have to recognize that one age of the Jrish question is closed forever, and that another age is opened." Mr. Redman Says: "Our minimum demand is for an Irish Parliament with an executive responsible to it. and full control over all purely Irish affairs. This is the definition of Home Rule to which the British Prime Minister Min-ister and the entire Liberal party are pledged, and is our minimum demand. A council in Ireland without legislative legisla-tive powers was proposed in 1907 and rejected. Devolution is dead and there will be no resurrection of it. "I think we could agree that our Home Rule Constitution should be of such a character at to fit in with a gtneral scheme of federation later on; but it must be clearly understood thrtt Ireland cannot wait until England. Scotland and Wales have made up their minds to get Home Rule for themselves." The general trend of British thought (towards a satisfactory solution of Ire- land's troubles wiil not be set aside by the views of the aristocratic gamecock, game-cock, the "Saturday Review," but its views t;re worth quoting for their piquancy. The "Saturday Review" says: "It looks very much as if all the stuff about Federation and Home Rule all round, which filled the press a week ago. were mere material for a mare's nest. The idea has been that we were on the dizzy verge of a glorious glori-ous union with the Home Rulers, and that England. Ireland and Scotland would he able to live happily ever afterwards. aft-erwards. But alas: the eggs which the enthusiasts have been warming into life look like chalk eggs; and the to-do in the political farm yard is dying dy-ing out; the combs of the Irish fighting fight-ing cocks. Mr. Redman and Mr. Dillon and Mr. O'Brien, appear to have grown furiously red over little or nothing." . For a wonder the London "Times" has published a series of articles strongly favoring federal Home Rule. These articles, supposed to be written writ-ten by a close friend of Mr. Balfour, have attracted much attention, and with the speeches of prominent Liberals Lib-erals are preparing the way for the advance measure of HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. |