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Show j LATEST IRISH MEWS. I From The Pilot. Cork! James Flynn. a well known Nationalist, Nation-alist, died on Feb. 18. at his residence, Main street, Midleton. aged 66 years. He was honorary treasurer ofthe East Cork executive U. I. L.,-the Midleton branch of the U. I. L., and the Town Tenants' aseociation. He was also prominently identified with tlie Nationalist Nation-alist party in his lown. Right Rev. Dr. O'Callaghan. O. P.. Bishop of Cork, is in Home, where he was received in private audience with ' the Holy. Father on Feb. 14. Before leaving the Eternal City, Biphop O'Callaghan O'Cal-laghan will present the Pope with an address of homage and congratulation from the people of Cork on golden jubilee. ju-bilee. Cavan. The death which has just occurred in lissa Harris, widow of Rev. John Harris, Har-ris, rector of Shercock, County Cavan, ppvers a link with the period of Ireland's Ire-land's parliamentary independence, and brings uk back to the days of G rat tan. Mrs. Harris was the daughter of the Right Hon. Charles Kendal Bushe, one if the most famous of the parliamentary parliamen-tary and forensic orators of his day, and an intrepid and incorruptible defender de-fender of Irish rights and liberties and opponent of the Union in the Irish house of commons. Dublin. James Daniel O'Connor, one of the best known and most widely respected citizens of Dublin, died at Dudley Hill, Bournemouth, on FelJ. 7. Mr. O'Connor, who was in his sixty-third year, had Ijoen In poor health for some time, and was on his way to Biarritz, in the south rf France, In search of health when he was taken suddenly ill and expired at Bournemouth, on the date mentionel. . Jle was the son of Denis and Emily O'Connor, of Ballagh House, County Hoscommon, and all his life had been Identified with the most prominent po- itions with the commerce of Dublin , and Ireland. Deny. John Cooke, of Foyle View, Londonderry, London-derry, has been appointed Lord Lieutenant Lieu-tenant for the County of Derry. He Is bIso the Custos Rotulorum of the county. coun-ty. Patrick A. Toner, a popular ''young man of Coleraine, died on Feb. IS, at IiIb home in Kingsgate street, of peritonitis. peri-tonitis. He was the son of William Toner, one of the leading merchants of the town. Rev. John Cassidy, one of the rising young priests of the Diocese of Derry. died on Feb. 21, from an attack of TiTifumonia. He was born in the town-land town-land of Halfgain. some two miles outside out-side Majrhera. and had served at Run- crana, before his coming to Claudy, where he died. Galway. Sister Mary Raphael died recently in her twenty-fourth year in the Convent of the Poor. Clares. Galway. She was daughter of Patrick O'Donnell of Valley Val-ley Cottage, Westport. and sister of John O'Donnell, M. P., South Mayo. Kildare. - Richard J. McKenna died at his resi- ! deuce. Kearneptown, Hazelhitch. on Feb. 16. He was well known in Dublin and Kildare, where he had many friends. His funeral was the largest held in the district for several vears the line of cars from Celbridge toGlas-v toGlas-v ncvin stretching a mile along the road. IMeath. Miss Anne Beckett, who had reached the age of 72 years, died suddenly of hart disease at her home. High street Trim, on Feb. 19. Ximerick. I On Feb. IS, Rev. Brother E. A. Collins, Col-lins, a member of the Limerick Community, Commu-nity, celegrated his golden jubilee and ' had the happiness of receiving, on the occasion, from His Holiness Pope Pius ; X. the apostolic benediction. I Thomas Nevins of Mount Shannon f Usnaerv. fmintr t t,-i- j,. , . , uuuciitu, w no aiea D Aug. 20. 1902, left personal estate Rlued at 1,888 6s 9d, and probate of Jus will, dated Dec. 1, 1891, has been granted to his son, Thomas A. Nevins of the same fcjace. The testator left 1.000 for masses, and the residue of his estate he left in trust for his wife for life, with remainder to his three daughters. The Month's Memory Mass for the late Rev. Father Casey. P. p., Abbey-, Abbey-, feale, took place on Feb. 20 Riht Rev. Dr. O'Dwyer. Bishop of Limerick, trended. The Office for the Dead was followed by Solemn Requiem Mass of which Rev. John Cagey, C. C ' of ; Mourne Abbey, was celebrant; 'Rev Patrick Casey, C. C. of Ballymacoda,' Tiding deacon; Rev. Father Hurlev C C., being sub-deacon, and Rev. Father . Macnamara. C. C, St. John's Limerick, Lim-erick, master of ceremonies. Wicklow. The death has occurred at Arklow of John Ryan, who was actively connected with the Fenian movement in 1S67. He was a prominent supporter of Mr Par-nell. Par-nell. and spent twelve months in prison during the early stages of the land agitation. Waterford. The death took place on Feb. 16 at Duncannon, of Patrick Dunne, after a few days' illness. The deceased was for many years bookkeeper at Alder-jnan Alder-jnan Fan-ell's flour and grain store, th Quay, "Waterford, and latterly was em-poyed em-poyed in a similar capacity at Mr De-Jaj-ey establishment in Duncannon. ! He was a general favorite with all. Irish is now being taught in all the Convent schools in Waterford, with the exception of the Presentation convent Tne organizer, Seamus O. Eochaidh, hopes to gain the consent of the nuns in charge of the convent to have Irish taught to the children under their care Splendid work has been accomplished in the Boys' school. Ferrybank, and in the Lrsuline convent, Ballytruckle. where the language has been taught continually continu-ally and successfully for years. Indian Empire of Today. (Exchange.) . Sir Andrew Fraser. lieutenant governor gover-nor of Bengal, has just issued a warning to the native government about the violpnt speeches and writings of seditious sedi-tious Indians. It is quite within th-range th-range of possibility that, any day we may head of another great mutiny in India. When we think of the enormous Interests we have in the east, it is amazing that so little is known in England Eng-land about the vast continent. Here are a fe wstriking facts, says London Tit-I Tit-I Bits: I Shared by the 235,000.000 people there I 8-re at least a dozen families of lah- I guages. Somewhere about eighty dif- I ferent languages are spoken, of which I there are twenty languages spogen.by 1 not less than 1,000,000 persons each. :. " , i -'.: glish is very widely understood, while Hindustani is the prevalent language. There is probably no religion which is nonrepresented in India, from ancestor worship to Scotch Presbyterianism. Nearly three-fourths of the total population popu-lation are followers of the Hindu religion, re-ligion, and these, together with the Mohammedans, Mo-hammedans, comprise nearly 92 per cent of the whole. There are about 3,000,000 Christians. India possesses very few foreigners in proportion to its population. In fact, the total number of persons residing there not born in India, including the French and Portuguese possessions, is only 642,000, and most of these were born in countries contiguous to India. The actual British-born population residing re-siding in India amounts to about 100.-000; 100.-000; as already mentioned, the population popula-tion of India is 295,000.000, so it will be seen that we rule India, with a mere handful of men. . Actually the British army in India numbers only about 73,000 men, but the native army numbers 147,000, in addition ad-dition to which there are the imperial service troops and also volunteers. The various feudatorv and independent states of India have armies composed of 32.000 men. but the native chiefs loyally loy-ally offer large sums of money toward the cost of imperial defense, and the Indian government is engaged upon training and equipping picked contingents contin-gents Of troops in certain states. In future the native chiefs will furnish fur-nish contingents of troops fit to take their place in line with the regiments of the Indian army, the special contingents being known as the imperial service troops. These troops number 14,700 men, including sappers and miners, camel an dtransport corps. In war vessels belonging be-longing to the Indian marine, including the submarine mining flotilla. Naturally the people of India are engaged en-gaged in every imaginable kind of occupation, oc-cupation, but by far the gTeater portion por-tion are occupied in agricultural pursuits, pur-suits, in which come earth work and general labor, followed by textile fabrics fa-brics and dress. The people are very imperfectly educated, edu-cated, although much progress is" now being made in educational matters. Five universities have been constituted with a number of affiliated colleges, and Pudiic instruction nas been placed on a broad and popular basis. With all this, the proportion of the total population able to read and write is still very small. Taking the whole of British India In-dia into consideration, only about 23 per cent of the boys of school-going age attend at-tend school, while there are only 2 per cent In the case of girls. As evidence of progress, there . are 774 native papers published in India, these bing printed in nineteen different languages. The vernacular daily paper with the largest circulation is the "Gur-akhi," "Gur-akhi," of Bombay, which has a circulation circula-tion of about 5,000 copies, while the weekly with the largest circulation is "BasumatI," of Calcutta, with an issue of 17.000. About 7,000 books are published pub-lished in the Indian languages during the year. - |