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Show ! cat est Iris!) news. M5t hTEmiS'rant's Gift rrom Ireland. I . rr;ui ma, litre's a piesi-nt; it lias ; J1 'conic a uistaiice, too. .Ti intif iut 01 fnamrocks, and it 5 ' c.mx s uaunshed 10 you. I . tn- way nom jrpland, and the ltS' . .ni ufiv inenti..s more I .h(... wvre fjatlK-red Ji your birthplace. 'I on tut' aiiKj oi wvunmore." I . prom Ireland, do you tell me! O darling, I 1 is it 1 true; t t -ruhia l''t me foci tnem and you say I A ta? there thpy grew? j , mi scarce uclieve it; is it really ) ' ' Vnat you V Krein i'lv "w" birthplace in Ireland, poor ' jivlaiid lar away, f 1 -i in nld auJ stiff and feeble, and in S ,l,irkiHss 5od be praised I v,t Katie, how It stirs me, how my poor I " heart is raised, ! Tn frei it here so near me, the soil that I C:ive me hirth- I tv,c. v-rv soil of Ireland; let me kiss the " " sacred earth. i Tli' Messed little shamrocks'. I rant I I them, yet 1 know j I -Ifrv bring me har k the eyesight of a j ' ' : loilff :'CO. vi cleaniinp ihrough the darkness comc3 ! th vision that I love i Tp dear creen fields of Ireland and the sunny sky above. J f)M' as onre I saw them, when a girl Ilk.' von 1 stood Am: i tii' furze and heather; there's the .htp'l, hill, and wood; Pvv's th' abbey, clad with ivy, and the !S river's winding shore. ,r.i i!" boys and girls all playing on the hanks of Avoiimore. -,;,,. lil-ss the little shamrocks, then, for i railing back the seene, -r !-..- beauty of the sunshine and the I ' brightness of the green. . ; Thi-'.-ish long-, long years to see it, and -to (..- iL nil so ;la in-tO. in-tO. ri-.ibl. I'm sure you're smiling, but I'm feeling young again. .And hough I'm truly thankful for the W.-ssings that Ood's hand 1-l bronchi around me. Katie, in his sreat and happy land. 1 ,,iut forget the old home midst the mmlorts of the new; jv !i. art is three parts buried where r1 ' ' these little shamrocks grew." E. . Sutton. Death of Dr. Woodlock. The death of the Most Rev. Dr. "VVoodlnrk. which took place in All Hallows Hal-lows college on Saturday evening, could not have been wholly unexpected. unex-pected. To use a homely phrase he was "dead to the world-' for the past seven years, having in 1S95 retired from the See of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise and withdrawn to the privacy of the great college which he so largely h-lped to found sixty years ago. And the venerable dignitary was in a louple of months to close his eighty-thin! eighty-thin! year, when the last summons came a call for which failing health during the past' twelve months must t a great extent have prepared him. To the last he preserved his great mental qualities, amazing those amongst whom he lived by his intel-leriual intel-leriual vigor and freshness. The end of a useful life came without any pain, and to those around him at the final moments, almost imperceptibly. Gently 1he flame flickered out and the soul had sped before his friends knew that a saintly man was gone to his reward. His remains were interred on Tuesday in the grounds attached to St. .Mel's cathedral, Longford. His Eminence 'arrlinal Logue presided at the Office nnd Requiem Mass which preceded the interment. The Most Rev. Dr. Lyster, the Most Rev. Dr. Owens, the Most Rev. Dr. Hoare, the Most Rev. Dr. Henry and the Most Rev. Dr. O'Neill were also present. There was a' large attendance of clergy and laity. i Sad Drowing Case. I On Thursday evening. Dec. IS, Miss I Nellie McDonald. 29 years of age, of I pin Lower Gardiner street, Dublin, i while seeing her sister off by the J steamship Lord Iveagh, which left the I Alexandra basin about 7 o'clock, fell I into the water hetween the boat and I the quay eide. Two men jumped into the water and tried to rescue her, but failed. fc?he sank immediately, and did not rise again. The body has not yet I I been recovered. Lives of the Saints. R is just twenty years ago since a vennable archbishop, recently deceased, de-ceased, expressed the pious wish that the -Lives of the Irish Saints" would be completed ere the opening of the twentieth century. Canon O'Hanlon of Sandymount, our modern Colgan, has long been laboring to bring to a successful suc-cessful issue his colossal work in Irish lif.gioiogy, giving all that is known of the ai is of Irish saints. "We now welcome wel-come rart lfl of -the tenth volume of ( "The Lives of the Irish Saints," which brings, the work down to Oct. 10. Already Al-ready nine portly volumes have appeared, ap-peared, treating of thousands of Irish saints, covering the calendar from January Jan-uary to the end of September. When it is Ik. me in mind that these nine volumes vol-umes represent about 5,000 pages in roy.i! o.-tavo, the bare work of tran-s'-ription must have been enormous. Hut when wo mention that these 6,000 pages are cram-full of historical facts, with copious notes and references and thd i the venerable author has exer-i exer-i i."d a scrupulous care in the compilation compila-tion of what has been termed an en-cydopedia en-cydopedia of Irish saint history it will be nothing but common justice to give unstinted praise to the learned writer, who has done for Ireland what the Holla ndists did for the church at large. Th" marvel is, how one man alone io'jM have succeeded even by long-con-tifiued and absorbing labor, to produce Kb i. ;l work. In the present installment t!i. Irish saints' lives are given from ',. fi t Oct. 10. dealing largely with !m. t'auve and St. Aedhan MacHera ' 'hiiinn. It is sincerely to be hoped that ' ii, ,n O'Hanlon may be spared to j , f 1 U to his "magnum opus" a work j ! enduring than any monument, j The volume is excellently turned out by i M' sms. Huffy & Co., and the price of j !i part, beautifully illustrated, is, '''' riie shilling sixpence. j ''at. tain J. E. Vanrenen met with a s"-tun accident at the Curragh camp, K: ,!.ir. , ,n Sunday whilst performing Hi' duti.-s of field officer. As he re-' re-' "I in stables, about noon, his horse, Hirning a sharp corner, slipped, and iz partly upon Captain Vanrenen, bv ko oho of his legs in two places. The ;t i ! ( 1 officer was immediately con-v' con-v' .'" 'l to his quarters, where he re-" re-" ! surgical assistance, and is now j'foui.-ssins favorably. ' Dublin Steamer Lost Founders in a Gale Fifteen Men of the Crew Drowned. j v :--gn-t to record one of the worst ' i i disasters that has marked the "' a!s of the port of Dublin for a con- 'I'-rabi.. number of years. The. Ted- steamer Marlay, with a cargo of left Liverpool on Monday after-'""a, after-'""a, lec. i3j and, according to the ! l"'y of a snt viv-:. foundered on the i I'sa;: u, public Of the crew o-"" o-"" ''teen an are Ka; to have been lost , .. '1't '"f'. It ivpears that the die-o. die-o. r . r" ' tirred some miles north of iiio 7' S aI)ut 4 o'clock on Tuesday i I . ""ling, when there was a fierce gale I i,,!.1"" and a heavy sea in the chan- 1 1 h' 1,ar'a-v had a crew of Beven- 1 ' hans. The survivor, a man J m""'1 '"'ue, was picked up in a '''1 boat on Tuesday by the steam J, Ipr pPter Johnson, off Lambay. "'in Mcdiup'g statement, it would ap-'r ap-'r that the Marlay experienced ter-i.jo'h ter-i.jo'h Wtather off Holyhead on Monday KPK , Tlle vesel labored heavily in ight wcre runninS to a tremendous ileuiue states that he was told off ' with other members of the crew to get the boats ready, and while doing so the boat which he was helping to lower "as struck by a huge wave and dasned away. McC.lue was in the boat at the "me. and, fortunately, on striking the sea the boat righted. He was unable to get her back to the steamer, which, according to his account, drifted all night, and at 10 a. m. yesterday Mo-Glue Mo-Glue was rescued off Lambay by the captain of the steam trawler Peter Johnson, which landed him at Sir John Kogerson's quay about 2 o'clock. His arrival was the first intimation that a disaster had occurred, but it w as known pretty generally during the forenoon that the Marlay was long overdue. Still, the delay could be accounted for by the severe weather she was certain to have encountered on Monday night in the channel. i The Marlay was a comparatively new-vessel, new-vessel, and was considered one of the most seaworthy in the service of the company. She was built in Belfast about ten years ago specially for' the Tc-dcastle company's trade, and since she joined the fleet of the company her 1 record as a good sea boat was excel-I excel-I lent. Claimant For Earldom. George Swifte, a workman living in ineland, N. J., claims to be the rightful right-ful heir to the title and estates of the late Earl of Carlingford. Swifte's case has been before the Irish courts for several years, and is about to be reopened. re-opened. Mr. Northrop and Mr. Keigh-ley, Keigh-ley, wealthy residents of Vineland, who investigated the case, were so favorably fa-vorably impressed that they have ar- i ranged to give Swifte substantial backing. back-ing. The case will shortly be trans- i ferred from Dublin to London. Furious Gale at Holyhead. I A dispatch from Holyhead on Mon-j day, says: For several hours a strong j gale has been raging here. A number of steamers and. .other large vessels j which; had anchored, in the offing have i had a terrible experience; One large steamer' has broken away from her moorings and is rapidly. drifting before the fury of the gale. It-is the Leonora of Rotterdam. She is believed to have gone ashore, and a custom house coast guard officer and . Lloyd's agent have proceeded to the scene. Mayoralty, 1903. Following a meeting of the executive of the United Irish league, held on last Monday evening, a deputation, consisting of Alderman Hennessy, Councilor White, M. P.; Mr. P. Mc-Ardle, Mc-Ardle, Mr. Cole and Mr. J. D. Nugent, waited on Alderman Dowd to see if he j had considered the resolution forward- j ed by the executive asking him to retire re-tire in favor of the present occupant of the chair, urging as their claim that a feeling existed in the city, owing to political developments, that he should defer his claim until some future occasion. occa-sion. Alderman Dowd, in company with Alderman Doyle, Councilors Cox and Clarke, Mr. J. T. Duignan and Mr. M. Derham, received the deputation. After hearing their views, he stated it was his intention to stand by the selection se-lection made by the municipal council and seek election in January next, relying re-lying on the support extended to him on his nomination. Some relics of the Siege of Limerick, when General Sarsfield held, the city for James II and King William invested in-vested it from the heights above Pen-nywell, Pen-nywell, have just been brought to light by corporation employes. They were employed making, excavations outside the old city walls close to where the royalists attempted to storm the breach, when they dug up a twenty-four twenty-four pounder cannon ball, and also a quantity of bones, which were re-interred re-interred in a quarry. The workmen discovered the antlers of an old Irish deer, but the remains proved too brittle for preservation. ' Death of the Kev. Owen Farrelly, Bal-lymore. Bal-lymore. We regret to announce the death of the Rev. Owen Farrelly, P. P., Bally-more, Bally-more, County Westmeath. Father Farrelly served in the diocese of Meath for fortv-one years, and a mere worthy or disinterested priest never ministered in the sanctuary. Death of Eev. T. Mulqueen, C. C. We regret to announce the death of the Rev. Thomas Mulqueen, C. C which took place on Tuesday at the Private Mater hospital at Eccles street. The deceased clergyman passed away in the forty-ninth year of his age and the twenty-fourth of his ministry. Born- in the County Limerick, Father Mulqueen completed his studies for ordination or-dination at St. Patrick's college, May-nooth. May-nooth. He was a curate for some time at Rush, Balbriggan, and Saggart, and for the last seventeen years he ministered minis-tered in the district of Coolock. Father Fath-er Mulqueen was deeply respected by-all by-all classes in the parish in which he labored so long and zealously, but more especially by the poor, to whose welfare he devoted himself with the i greatest unselfishness. He w as In j every respect a most exemplary priest. Tomorrow there will be office and high mass at the Church of St. John the Bajnist, Clontari. at 11 o'clock, and afterwards the interment will take place at Glasnevin cemetery. Intelligence to hand from Schull, Cork, states that a young man named O'Driscoll was drowned there by being washed off one of the rocks by a big sea wave in the presence of his father. It appears that father and son were endeavoring en-deavoring to catch some wreckage at Longilsland. outside Schull Harbor, when a huge wave came on. sweeping the young man into the sea, where he sank to rise no more. The weather on the south coast at present is very wild, and' a high sea is running. -- Within the past few days a well known centenarian in Kanturk. cor", has passed away in the person of Mr. Patrick Aherne of Watergate street. The deceased lived with his niece. Mrs. Timothv Buckley, and up to the time of his last illness was never known to invoke the aid of spectacles in reading. He was a very bright and enlightened old man. and until very, recently was fairlv active in mind and body. He reached the patriarchal age of 0o years His funeral today for Castle-magne'r Castle-magne'r was largelyjittended. A splendid meeting, called by the United Irish league was held in Dun-, dalk on Sunday. The gathering which was addressed by Mr. John Redmond. M P and the lord mayor of Dublin ?v8 representative of the counties of Louth and Armagh. On MondaV morning, the body of a thousht she accidentally fell in wneu Ismg that way, Uking a short cu wiAu Pr'ii house, a short distance iwaT ." ftSihinl case of -drown, I fng there within the past fortnight. Folice inspector Convicted. On Friday. Chief Inspector Grey, aged of the Middlesbro' police force, whose arrelt caused a painful sensation hi the town on Thursday, was brought before the stipendiary on a charge of Saving stolen three sums of money, being be-ing installments of fines raid over him It was stated on behalf of the Sch committee that considerable sums of money had been stolen and, the three charges brought forward had , been taken as instances. The prisoner, who appeared to be I completely broken down, pleaded guilty ! to all the charges. , For the defense, attention was drawn : to the prisoner's excellent character and j to the complete ruin in regard to pen- . sion and career that his fall involved: It was further stated his defalcations , had not been occasioned by gambling, licentiousness or drink. The stipendiary, wh- said he was deeply touched at seeing the prisoner in such a position, passed sentence of six months' hard labor. The mayor of Dublin brought before the corporation at their meeting on Dec. 15. the suffering in the city-occasioned city-occasioned by the number of men out of employment, and it was agreed to immediately undertake paving work in various localities with a view of relieving reliev-ing the distress. The Press association says: The Countess of Clancarty was safely delivered de-livered of a son on Thursday at the family seat, Garbally court, Ballinasloe county, Gahvay. Lord and Lady Clancarty Clan-carty have three other children, two sons and a daughter. The conviction of Mr. Dennis Kilbride Kil-bride by a packed special jury of the. Queen's county raises again, the vexed question of jury packing in Ireland, and Che exclusion and consequent insult to Roman Catholics involved in the accursed ac-cursed system. The time has come when an end ought to be made of it. Argument, Argu-ment, persuasion, appeal, eloquence have all gone for nothing, and some bigger step must be taken very soon to wring the neck of this infamous procedure pro-cedure of the Crown. One other point comes to the front also over this case. The passing of the Irish winter assize act was a fraud, the administration of it is a scandal. An act had been passed for England in 1&74, enabling a winter assize to be convened by grouping group-ing several counties, and a reactionary claim was made on behalf of Ireland, resulting in a bill being tabled. This bill applied a section of the English act with modifications to be introduced by the privy council, and thus the joining together of counties was provided for. Under this system, Antrim might be l joined to Kerry. For it is due the .conviction of Mr. Kilbride by a- jury-packed jury-packed with an- unscrupulous method which puts to shame the palmy days of Peter the Packer. Last week in the court house, Burn-foot, Burn-foot, a Donegal district, about . five miles distant from Derry, District Inspector In-spector Yeates was summoned by a local civilian named Mr. M'Nutt for cycling on the foot path. The complainant com-plainant stated that his horse had been frightened by the cycle ridden by the police officer, and Mr. Yeates refused to compensate him for the damage caused by the horse bolting. Complainant Com-plainant reported the matter to the Burnfoot police, but they refused to take any action. Mr. Smyth (magistrate), (magis-trate), asked Mr. M'Nutt what policeman police-man .was the matter reported to. Mr. Yeates, D. I., said he was responsible. Mr. Smyth said he did not address his inquiry to Mr. Yeates. The complainant complain-ant said he had reported the matter to Constable Ward. . Mr. Smyth More will be heard about it. District Inspector In-spector Yeates admitted cycling on the footpath on the occasion because the roads were rough. The magistrate fined Mr. Yeates 10s 6d and costs. 150 Missing in Belfast. On Monday the Great Northern Railway Rail-way terminus, Great Victoria street, Belfast, was the scene of a robbery, of a daring character. While a man named Robert McKee, of Tubbermore, County Derry, was proceeding through the station premises to the platform he was spoken to by two youths, with whom he entered into conversation. Subsequently M'Kee invited the youths to an adjacent public house, and while proceeding thither it is alleged that McKee's pocket book was stolen. The pocket book is said to have contained notes and cash valued at 150. The police are actively engaged in naking inquiries. Rector's Mysterious Death. I At Cork on Monday, Andrew Moore, j laborer, was charged with the wilful ' murder of the Rev. Mr. Bell, rector of Kilmeen, County Cork, on Nov. 22. The proceedings were formal, and ; on the application of the. police the prisoner was remanded. Nothing new has been j discovered in respect to the murder, but the police are continuing their investigations. in-vestigations. The head of the deceased has not been discovered, though the ground has been turned up and examined. exam-ined. Q Mr. Michael Morris, third son of the late Judge Morris, who died at Spiddal, County Gal way, the other day, was one of the youngest members of the Irish bar. He was a youth of considerable promise, and was popular among his fellows. He was only 24 years of age. A Sad Drowning. About six weeks ago a farmer named Martin Quinn, of Ballinacisla, near Bonmahon, county Waterford. w hen returning re-turning alone from that village in a dark, stormy night, fell into the River Mahon and was carried into the sea. His disappearance was a matter of mystery until about two weeks ago, when his body was found washed up by the sea at a place called "The Stage." by a boatman, Frank Douwan. The head was severed from the body, but was found later near by. The deceased de-ceased leaves a wife and child, for whom there is much sympathy. |