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Show i HE (AM WW ! Delegates from all the Gaelic societies of the. United States and Canada were assembled at the Lexington Assembly Rooms. 151 East Fifty-eighth street, New York, Tuesday afternoon last, under un-der the presidency of the Rev. Dr. Henebry- of the Catholic University, president of the Gaelic League of America. Business of the greatest importance im-portance to the various branches of the League Avas transacted. On Tuesdny evening a. oaenc enieuauimv."-given enieuauimv."-given by popular Irish artists; a real Irish piper, with genuine Irish pipes, was one of the features of the occasion, and addresses- in Gaelic were delivered by the Rev. Dr. Henebry. Mr. John Casey, Ca-sey, president of the New York Philo-Celtic Philo-Celtic Society, and Professor F. N. Robinson of Harvard University. An 'appointment has just been made by the Hcly Father to his Secret Participating Par-ticipating Chamberlain, the Very Rev. Mgr. Merry Del Val. son of the Spanish Span-ish ambassador to the Holy See. The distinguished young prelate, who enjoys en-joys the respect and esteem of all who have the honor of knowing him, is one of the mcst important members of the Pontificail Court, and held in the highest high-est estimation by the Holy Father, who has watched his promising career from it;? commencement. His new duties in his appointment as President, or Rector, Rec-tor, of the College of Noble Ecclesiastics, Ecclesias-tics, will take Mgr. Merry Del Yal from the Vatican to the college in Piazza deJla Minerva, where his official residence resi-dence will be. Mgr. Del Val was the delegate to Canada and settled the , Manitoba school question. j As the result of the apoear made at the general meeting of the Maryland Society of Colonial Dames for relics to be depositee! as loans in the National Museum at Washington, two interesting interest-ing articles were presented to the board at their recent meeting by Cardinal Gibbons, who called at the society's i house, 417 North Charles street, for I that purpose. The articles are the. pec-I pec-I toral cross worn by 'Archbishop Carroll j at his consecration 'of- Bishno rf Rn1,!-! Rn1,!-! more, and a box made from the "old i mulberry tree" Which formerly si-oji ! in St. Mary's City and remained there until a time within the memory of many persons still living. The box was a gift to Cardinal Gibbons from General Gen-eral Bradley T. Johnson, who had it made. ! The conduct of a Catholic girl who gave her Protestant fiance his dismissal I ueeause, arier nnvrng piom:seu iu uu marriad by a priest, he declined at the last moment to con?er.t to such an ar-j ar-j rangement- is thus commented "upon by the Michigan Catholic: "We commend j the young lady on her action and hope ! her example will teach all Catholic girls a lesson. It is too bad that the yuung ! lady had ret, in the beginning, weighed j well the promises of the man she was ! about to marry. She might have foreseen fore-seen what his future conduct would be like. She would have snared herseif much humiliation and sorrow, but it is t good that she understood him in time, I as all's well that ends well." I 0-S-0 |