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Show f BUTTE. : Office of The Intel-mountain and Colorado Catholic, 47 East Broadway, Butte, Mont. F. Campion, General Agent. MEAGHER GUARDS ENTERTAIN. On Friday evening. Che 23rd inst., the members of the Meagher Guards? jrave another social and literary entei tain-inent tain-inent at Armory Hall, which was much appreciated by the large audience in t attendance. The exhibition drill by the guards was thoroughly enjoyed by the dolis-hted R-ut-sts, after which the following fol-lowing lit-enary programme was ren-d-rt.-d, witli Major AV. K. Downey in the chair. He gave a brief addiesy on the wt-lfare of the guaiis: JiecMati-on, "Sack of Baltimore" J. P. Moore. Song, "Irishman's Toast" Martin Dougherty. Recitation., "Der Boer und sein Kind" Charles Lehrmann. Song (Sciotch), "We Drap ote" William Wil-liam Malcolm. Audreys, 'Taul Kruger" Joseph Carey. Ca-rey. Song. "Dada Dinner Pail" J. J. Gloason. A duress, "American Flag" J. L. Gavcgan. Song, "Kathleen" Robert McClelland. McClel-land. Recital ion. "Buller Dining in Pretoria" Preto-ria" Captain John Oic-a. Song, "Gems of the Kmerald. Isle" Jamea Mahon. Jioeitation, "Iiattle of Dundee" P. J. Gilligan. Soig, "DavKt's Dream" James Council. Cou-ncil. Address, "England'a Cruelty to Other Nations" W. Tleurx. An exhibition German aword exorcise between Paul Bertleman the challenger challeng-er of Count De Malchin) and Tom O'Neil. Sng, "The Star Spangled Banner" Iliohard Moye.rsa. Recitation, "The "War of the League" P. Marron. Song. "God Save the Transvaal" Professor James Tuite, assisted by the whole company. Arthur E. Gallagher of this eity and Miss Vinnie Phillips of Eureka, Wis.. ' -wore united in marriage in Helena tm ! rhr 19th, Rev. Father Aiken of the Catholic Church officiating. Mrs. Wilb'am Goggin arrd her daughter. daugh-ter. Mamie, have arrived from the East and are gur-at,s (f their daughter. Mrs. John Driseoll of Kn. 53 Owsley block. Married Feb. 21." by Rev. Father Callahan. Mr. J. J. Edder and Mi Alice Shean. The bridesmaid was Mips Katie Shean and the groom's man. Mr. WiHiam Frizzell. The wedding pai'ty was eivtertainod at Crystal Springs after af-ter the ceremony. Friday evening the members of St Patrick's alumni gave thair annual ball at Hibemia hall. The committee, oonsisting of Tessie Rermiiigham. Imdie Gibbons. Debbie Gibbons. Edar , Andrieux and Myles Hogan. did all in their power to make ae.h participant njoy himself; nor were fiheir efforts in vain, for all prewrtl pronounced the affair a nwn J.Mightful one. A feature of the evening was the grand march, led by Miss Katheryne Quill and Mr. Dan Eagan. aisled by Mips Josephine Laird and Mr. Harry Burke. Mufic was furnished by members of Beigstrom's orchestra. Over a hundred hun-dred guests were present, and dancing was continued until an appropriate hour, when all departed, bestowing treat praise to St. Patrick's alumni. On the 2-J tli inst. William O'Neill and Man- Mnrnhv were united in marriage by Rev. Father Harrington at St. Pat-j Pat-j ick's church. The Intermountain Catholic is always on sale at the Posioflicc News Stand and City News Depot. j CATHOLIS AND TRANSVAAL. ' i D'Vtor Intermountain Catholic: Sir In reply to a letter in your late is-sue about the status of Catholics in the Transvaal, will you kindly allow me to make the following remarks? 1. It is against the law of the South Afrioan Republic for any Catholic to i h .ld office of any kind in the State, or I " to vote for the raad or the president, ! no matter how long he may have been 1 in the country. Catholics and Jews are ranked with colored people and "ille-i "ille-i inmates" in these disabilities, i -2. President Kruger, to gain their fa- v,-r, quite recently proposed to remove Jews; and Catholics from such a d?-: d?-: grading category, but whether he was Hinct-re or not. the raad rejected his j imposition. C.v.-4viiuer.tly if the rather wild assertions of your correspondent "that they do hold some few position's" be true, this would simply mean dert-nner dert-nner of the law. and an enemy would ni.relv have to draw the attention of the government to the fact in order to oust such Catholics from their oflices. ". The onlv people who employ Catholics Cath-olics at all in the Traysvaal, aye. and ' libr-allv support Catholic institution?, are the much decried capitalists, vho employ 100.000 people, irrespective of creed or nationality, and pay $20,-j $20,-j (miO.ooO annually in taxes to the guern- ment. ' 4. As to Lcyds, he must have con cealed his Catholicity very sueeesaful-lv. sueeesaful-lv. 1 for one should not be more astonished aston-ished if I heard that Satan himself were a Catholic. .". As to the Pretoria nuns holding property, the gift, if any. was from the British government, which, in 1S81, stipulated for the non-disturbance of 1 xisiintr insci tut ions when handing over j., wsesMion to the Transvaal executive. My own oonviotion is, however, that i there was no gift at aii, but simply compensation for destruction of proper! prop-er! v during the siege, the British garrison gar-rison having occupied the convent as j thp best strategic position for the de- fense of the town. 1 am. etc.. J. J. O'REILLY. Catholic Priest of Wynberg, South Africa. Af-rica. Editor Interrrrountain Catholic: Sir In the interests of truth, kindly publish the above letter, which is an answer, sent from the spot, by Father )'Ri!ly, to assertions published in the Cork iWa.ld. and now being spread broadcast through the United States, th.U Ctholie.s have not only "tolera-tjon." "tolera-tjon." but "positively good treatment" at the hands of the Boers. Though as-HJiming as-HJiming responsibility for the authenticity authen-ticity of the letter and position of the writer. I do not give you my name for publication, though 1 do so in accordance ac-cordance with your rules, and remain, tYour well wither. SAMUEL S. BIGGS. Catholic Priest. Mount St. Philip, 5 Granville Center, Wis. 15 |
