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Show I 1 Latest Irish News p,... I- s. ' Armagh. - f Cardinal Logue presided on January I 10, morninfr. at the reception, in ihe ? beautiful chapel of the Nuns of the j- Scored Heart. Aimagh, into that order It of Madame Margaret Mary Heydon, f only surviving daughter qf Mr. .'ind j 1 Mrs. Heydon, Brownstown. county Kil- ' . : dare, and the granting of the cross, aft- i j er the usual number of years, to Sister !j j Runan, a member of the community, f 1 ' His eminence guv? an eloquent address ? I and subsequently entertained those present at his residence. '? Carlow. I i On Sunday, January 6. at the Cathe- I dral, Carlow, the Right Reverend Dr. I I Foley. Bishop of Klldare and Leighlin. i l ordained to the priesthood the llv. M. I ; I?rophy, diocese of Kildare and Iveigh- sj lin. Bishop Foley was assisted at the solemn function by the Rev. Laurence Krophy. S. T. Li., vice president of Car-low Car-low College. I Mary Dowling. widow of the late ' ; Timothy Dowling, died at her late resi- i dence, Templepeter, on January 13. ; I The death occurred on January 8, of 'f Mr. "William Brady, Innisibeg, Butlers- bridge, a nonage. iarian having reached ' the age of 97 years. Deceased formerly was widely known as deputy tax collector col-lector under the late Mr. Thomas Jtcillv, Derrygarra. Butlersbridge. I , Cork. ' ! Mr. Cornelius OSullivan. F. R. S.. the f celebrated brewing chemist of Messrs. ! Bass & Co., who had been in their em ploy for ovt-r forty years, died on January Jan-uary R, at Burton-on-Trent. Eng. He was a native of Bandon. and was 67 years of age. His remains were interred t Bandon on January 13. At the meeting of the Skibbereen Vrban council on January 9. a resolution resolu-tion was proposed by Mr. T. Sheehy, M. C. C, seconded by Mr. P. J. Collins, solicitor, and adopted, condemning the action of the White Star company in withdrawing their vessels calling at Queenstown. and requesting the government gov-ernment to withdraw the mails in the event of the company persevering with t his move. Miss Pope Hennessy, sister of the late Sir John Pope Hennessy. former Governor of Hong Kong, Mauritius, etc.. was found dead in her bed at Friar Mreet. Toughai. on Jan. 14. She had been an invalid for some time. Donegal. A young girl, a native of Carrygait, bae presented the Rev. Father Donnelly. Donnel-ly. S. J., for use in the Church of St. Ignatius. Stamford Hill. London, N. Eng.. with a magnificent set of vestments vest-ments worked by her own hands. The r tes. which are of beautiful design, took two years to finish. The R?v. John O'Kane, a beloved and patriotic clergyman of Culdaff. Inish-owen. Inish-owen. died on January 11. to the grief cf his parishioners and hosts of friends. Down. After a good many years of retirement, retire-ment, and at the patriarchal age of ninety-two. Rev. Matthew Macauley. J. . P.. passed away on January 5. at Park- mount, Banbridge. He was a widely- I known and highly-re.cpeoted minister of I the Presbyterian, church in Ireland, I . and one of the oldest ministers of the I ' , peneral assembl. He was licensed to I " prench it; November, 1843, and three 1 , . years afterward he received a call to 't- the newly formed congregation of Mc- 4 Kelvey's Grove, near Castleblaney, i County Monaghan, where he labored j vntil 1SS6. when he retired. He was a prominent Liberal in politics, and a strong supporter of all the remedial land legislation of the past forty years. Dublin. i On Jan. 10 a terrible explosion oc- ! . curred at Dublin gas works, which so- riously injured seventeen workmen. The Very Rev. Canon Bannan, rector of Bilbriggan, died on Jan. 5 at the age of 65. Commander Holland. D. S. O.. v.ho took up his duties as marine superintendent superin-tendent at Fleetwood. England, on New Year's day, is a son of the late Mr. Denis Holland of Dublin, founder of the Irishman newspaper, now out of print. In 1S96 he married the eldest daughter of the late Mr. Edmund Dwyer Gray, proprietor of the Freeman's Free-man's Journal.. The death of the venerable Arehdia-fou Arehdia-fou Flanagan, rector of Baldoyle find Howth, took place on Jan. 8 at the parochial pa-rochial house, Baldoyle. The archdea- If-on. who had reached a ripe age. was one of the best known clergymen in the archdiocese of Dublin. t Kilkenny. , The interment took place at Fr.sh- i ' ford on Jan. 5 of Mr. AVi'liam Mere- !oith. .1. P.. of F.-ech Hill. Ballyraggot. He had reached the tine age of 80. Kildare. I The Rev. Patrick Bolger, the beloved I parish priest of Caraph. died on Jan. !2 at the parochial house, Carragh, at the age of 49. Leitrim. The Rpv. J. A. Cunningham, In t e . lector of St. Thomas', Baltimore. Md., v.hose recent sudden death was ::o -widely mourned, was a brother of Mr. Francis Cunningham, of Fawnllon, Fivemilebourne. Mayo. The Rev. Father Cawley recently organized or-ganized at Swinford a concert in aid of the Midfield chapel building fund, Ly which he realized n early ln). Sligo. Mr. John Harte, the venerable I'.Uher ' of the Very Rev. Canon Harte. rector i nf Castlerea. died at Dromore West on Jan. 8, aged 88. "Waterford. Very Rev. Dean Fiynn. V. (i., Bally-bricken. Bally-bricken. is rapidly, recovering from a serious illness, :o ih? great delight of Jiis numerous friends. Westmeath. The Right Rev. Dr. Caughrnn. bishop nf Meath, presided at a large meeting beld in connection with ihe education ouestion. on Jan. 9, in Mullinger. Vigorous Vig-orous speeches were delivered by Messrs. Dillon. Hayden, Ginnell, Murphy Mur-phy and Sn:ith, M. P.'s. Wexford. The New Rose '9S memorial will be ; unveiled an St. Patrick's dny by the Rev. Father Kavanaugh, O. S. F., the noted historian. Under the auspices of the County Wexford National Teachers' association, associa-tion, a most, representative meeting, in v.hich people of all creeds and politics took part, was held in the town hall on Jan. 9. to consider the present condition con-dition of primary education in Ireland. Vigorous speeches were delivered on the subject, and they met with the bcarty approval of the gathering. The tribute which our contemporary, r ;;;;;'"'v;.;;:;.;-:.::,.... f::.":.v the AVexford Echo, pays to Canon Furlong, Fur-long, the beloved pastor of Taghmon, is as graceful as it is true. On Jan. 9 Cornelius Mernin, a well known jail-breaker and burglar was sentenced to seven years' :enal servitude servi-tude at AA'aterford quarter sessions for the robbery of rum, tobacco, whisky, tea, etc., from the picmises of Mr. John Higgins. The: judge, in passing sentence, sen-tence, said the prisoner had beeen twenty-two times in jail, two of these being penal servitude for seven years, only a portion cf which he served, however, owing to nn informality. Wicklow. A conference held at Arklow on Tuesday Tues-day of representatives of the department depart-ment of agriculture, of Messrs. Ky-nooh, Ky-nooh, Limited, and of Arklow harbor commissioners, with reference to the improvement and development of Arklow Ark-low harbor, decided that the department, depart-ment, if the government gave the grant of 14.000 which was allotted to Arklow. should carry out the impt-ove-ment scheme agreed upon provided also that the government gave its sanction to the proposal j The Very Rev. Laurence O'Brvne, I rector of Rush, was presented with an address and testimonial by a deputation deputa-tion from the county council of the AA'icklow Gaelic league during the Christmas week. Father O'Brvne was president of the AA'icklow Coisde Ceann-tair Ceann-tair for several years. Calendar of Irish Saints. For the benefit of those who would like Irish names or their English equivalents equiv-alents for their children at baptism or confirmation, or for other purposes, and also to promote devotion to 'the great Irish saints, a calendar has been prepared by the reverend editor of the Irish Messenger. The members of Gaelic societies and all who are interested inter-ested in revival of the ancient Celtic language will be interested in this carefully care-fully prepared list of saints. The English Eng-lish form of the saint's name is given as well as the Irish; the sex is denoted by an initial letter, and wherever possible pos-sible the author has given the date of the saint's death and the locality where he or she was especially honored. Many of the names in their English form are pretty enough to please any fond mother moth-er who- wishes to bestow on her offspring off-spring a name that sounds well and is both uncommon and appropriate as a prefix to a distinctly Irish patronage, j To pick out a few from the large collection, collec-tion, these masculine names are in the list: Erard, Ernan, Conan, Erill, Ro-nan. Ro-nan. Kieran. Enda. Kevin, Conall, Duncan, Carrol. Ivor, Kenneth. And these names are feminine: Eina, Dera, Olora, Felima, ' Mona. Fannia. Keara, Ita. Bria. Cheap popular forms of the lives of many of the saints named have been published by the Irish Messenger. Messen-ger. "Many of the names may seem to us." says the editor, "peculiar and uncouth. In some cases this may. perhaps, per-haps, arise from our want of knowledge of the' language. When we are ignorant ignor-ant of a tor.gue its proper names, being foreign, sound strange -n our ears. It is humiliating for us Irish to have to confess that the names of our greatest saints and hero3 are in a manner foreign for-eign to us." That Ireland deserves the title. "Island of Saints." this little calendar, cal-endar, which is only-a partial list of her eminently- he-ly men and women who won a plac;e on the church's bede-roll of sanctity, is proof. The calendar is published at 5 Great Denmark street, Dublin. Famous Irish Surgeons. - Three of the greatest monarchs of modern Europe had each an Irishman as his medical attendant. AA'ith Napoleon Na-poleon was Barry O'Meara; with So-bieskl, So-bieskl, Brian O'Connor, and with Loui3 le Grand, George Marshall. A Bottomless Lake. In County Sligo. Ireland, among the. hills, there is a small lake renowned for its depth. A professor happened to be in 'Uiat part of Ireland last summer, and started start-ed out one day for a rr.mble among the mountains, accompanied by a native guide. As they climbed, Pat asked him if he would like to see this lake, "for it's no bottom at all, sorr." "But bow do you know that. Pat?" asked the professor. "AA'ell, sorr, I'll tell ye: Me own cousin cou-sin was showin' the pond to a gentleman gentle-man one day, who looked incredulous like, just as you do, and me cousin couldn't understand it for him to doubt his worrd, and so he said. 'Bo-gcrra. 'Bo-gcrra. I'll prove the truth of me words,' and off with his clothes aiid in he jumped." The professor's face wore an amazed and quizzical expression. "But," said the professor, "I don't come up again at all. at all." "But," said the professor. ' 'Idon't see that your cousin proved the point by recklessly drowning himself." "Sure, soi r. it wasn't drowned at all he was. The next day comes a cable ca-ble from him in Australia askin' to send on his clothes." A Remarkable Story. The following notable story is related relat-ed by Father AA'alsh. S. J.. in a publication publi-cation of the Irish Catholic Truth sock so-ck ty; More than fifty years ago an Irishman Irish-man was hanged for an attempt at murder, then a capital offense. I myself my-self remember the circumstances of the case, but I hae the facts from the priest who prepared the convicted but ii.nocent man for death. Tills man was arrested, tried, found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. A strong effort ef-fort was made to get a commutation, but in vain: the government would not yield. AA'hen this effort to :cura commutation was being made, the only one who wished it not to succeed was the condemned man himself. He was a man of simple faith, who had the habiffor years of reading portions of the New Testament every Sunday; and therefore came, as a matter of course, to have great admiration and love cf Our Lord, the divine Model. Hence, he said to the priest who prepared him for death: "I could never be mad? so like to Christ as I should be if Dut to death as a criminal and yet innocent and resigned." And so he went to his God rcjoicinc. A"as ever the gibbet more effectively robbed of its ignominy? Ave Maria. |