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Show Vi,V!2flf CP FATHER MATTHEW. ! PatLADEUPSTA, Oefc t. p5ia!. -Tae Catii.iiic s.cieoesof this city h.ui a 'denwnstratioa to.i.ty ia honor of th centennial anairenary o? Fiitiicr Hit-thw, Hit-thw, the yreat Irish tei;?traae fvo eat. Areubisluip Eyaa who daCvBretl tiie oration, sketched ita a master h.:..i the Ufa and aat?r of Ui li-insuious li-insuious Iriaii friar. FiUier Matthew wis bora ia Tbo:natown. Tip-perary Tip-perary ecuaty, IreUad. October 10th. irjt). ami died in X"6. II wm foi-tyijiht year of age when he bejtaa hia grat temperance temper-ance work. Hi-ui( truTeied thronah Ireland administering the pleil, he visited his feUo.vooatryniea in Eii-iaad, Eii-iaad, and afterward cam t.. America Hta iaiiir3 her aaionj hii owa T.wt are not forgotten. Th fonii of th pievte partook of th relions and was accompanieii by the prsMnttiao of a medal to which tho utainst reverenon was attached by the recipient. So eim-plete eim-plete was the revolution in tiie habits of the Trish in Frelaad that nearly all the distilleries and breweries in the country coun-try had to retire from busines. Amonif the suiTurura from this great moral revolution, the members of Father Matthew's own family, who were estensiveiy enjupid iu the distilling distill-ing trade, were some at the mtrliestand most sera rely visited. Ia his deeiiniuif yr the aoveraraent granted him an annual pension of it.'SiMl, in aokrtowl-edjiemenS aokrtowl-edjiemenS of his eminent public services. ser-vices. The Caihiilic temperance societies socie-ties of this country r uaw endeavoring endeavor-ing to rais a fund of $.W.0i)(), with which to endow chair in the Catholic university of America, in honor of the jrreat apostle of temperance. In the parade in this citvtHlav, it Is estimated that there were boys in line. The celebration will ciwieiml with a banquet ban-quet tonight. |