The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-01-10

4AOu. ". LAW SUu-DuIueT, VINO was 1Or many
years M. p. for Portarlington and for Dorches-
ter.
A Monasterevan correspondent, under date
OF December 2, says: One of the largest floods
which has been seen in the river Barrow for q
number of years, commenced to rise on We'd
nesday last, and, owing to the nearly incessant
rain since then, it has continued to increase to
such an exaent that it has completely inundated
al! the low-lying land along it's banks, especi-
ally between Portarlington and this town, the
whole country being one great sheet of water.
M. p. for Queens County, is the eldest son of
Mr.. Kenelm Henry Digby. of Kcnsington, the
learned author of "Mores Catholici," etc, who
became a convert to the Roman Catholic Church
more than thirty years ago, by Jane Mary,
eldest daughter of Mr.. Thos. Dillon, of Mount
Dillon, Ireland. He was born in 1S43.
sL1Go.-Mr. Denis Maurice O'Conor, the Lib
erai member of Parliament for County Sligo,
is the second son of the late Mr.. Denis O'Conor,
Commonly called Z" the O'Conor Don," of Be
lanagre, in the co6nty of Roscommon, and
brother of the present O'Conor Don, who now
holds the seat which his father held before him.
Mr.. d. NJ. O'Conor was born in 1910.
The verdict of the coroner's jury, in the case
of Capt. King, shot during the election for the
shot from pistol, carried by his friend Mr..
Weber, said pistol going off accidentally.
TIrrERAKY-The Tipperary Adrocate says:
Several actions at law%have sprung out Of the
suit of Mr.. Lyster O'Beirne, M. r, against Mr..
Munster, claiming f500O damages for SANDER.
he has also commenced an action for libel
against local paper, and member of his
committee has brought an action against
of Mr.. MINISTER'S committee
WATERFoRD.-Rev. j. A. Anderson, of the
Order of Augustinians, who periodically OPP
posed the reelection of Sergeant Barry in Dun
MIR. NJ A. Anthony, who, or the hastings, call
ed him degraded Friar" and q "would-be
Priest" The Bishop of Waterford did with
draw" by letter from Father Anderson "all
faculties and appreciation to hear confessions
within the limits of the diocese of Waterford
and Lismore," but that was no justification of
AnthOny's libel.
Mr. james Delahunty, the new Liberal men,
Der of Parliament for Waterford, is the eldest
son of the late Mr.. Tobias Delahunty, Of that
city, by Bridget, daughter of Mr.. Martin Kelly
of YOUNGSTOWN, county Kilkenny. He was
born in 1907, and was educated at the Roman
Catholic College of st. Johns, Waterford. He
is engaged as a merchant in his native city.
Mr.. Henry Mathews, @. c., of the English
bar, who was recently elected NJ. 2. for Dun
garvan, by a majority OF fifty votes over Ser
geant Barry, is an English Catholic, aud may
The Lord Lieutenant has appointed James
Mehan Esq, j. r., to be high sheriff for Car
rickfergus for the present year.
On the 5th u1t., the body of man named
Michael Connolly, aged about forty-tive years,
n publican of George street, Paisley was found
floating in Clarendon Dock. Belfast. ~.
WEXFoRp.-Mr. John Talbot Power tile re-
Gently elected Liberal Roman Catholic Nj. p
for the county of Wexford, is the eldest son of
Sir James Power, of Edermine, who occupied
the same seat from 1885 to 1S47, and again from
1865 to the recent dissolution He was born in
1S45. His mother was daughter of the late
Mr.. John III. Talbot of Ballytrent many years
NJ. z. for New Ross.
A correspondent writes as follows: On Sun
day last December 81 the Rev. L. Roche, p p,
Lady's Island, solicited the prayers of the con-
gregation for the repose of the souls of the
Manchester martyrs, Allen, Larkin and O'Brien.
WICKLow.-A correspondent of the Irish
Times, under date of December 4, says: The
usual haif-yearly reunion of the tenants of w.
r. O'Byrne Esq, J. p, of Cabinteely House,
county Dublin, on the Wicklow division of his
estates, came off this evening, in the Green
Tree Hotel. Rev. Mr.. Molony proposed in elo-
quent terms the health of Mr.. O'Byrne. The
inhabitants of Wicklow" he said, ..wcre the
first to be conquered by good landlordism under
Mr.. O'Byrne. They might well be proud of
him. Although born in France, and educated
i'll England, yet in the various scenes of his life
MIR. O,Byrne had always preserved an Irish
heart lCheersO Mr.. O'Byrnc, in responding
thanked them for the manner in which they
had received him. He said that on his family
escutcheon there We're three right hands-the
right hands of fellowship. The first he held
out to his Church the second he held out to
his tenants and the third hand of fellowship
| held out to the world at large. Cloud APP
plause.)
The Hon. William Henry Wentworth Fitz-
William the new Liberal member of Parliament
for the county Wicklow, is the second son of
Earl Fitzwilliam, X. C. He was born in 1910.
Mr.. George H. Major, solicitor, has been APP
pointed seasonal crown solicitor for the county
| Wicklow.
| Mr.. Dane has been appointed clerk of the
crown for the county Wicklow.
Over 600 tons of ore from the Wicklow mines
We're shipped at Kngstown during the week
ending November %.
| WEsTMEATII.-Mr. John Ennis the new NJ.
! T. for Athlone, who has succeeded to the seat
| held in the last Parliament by Mr.. ID. j. Rear
den, is the son of Sir John Ennis, of BAHAMA
howen, county of Westmeath, who sat NJ. z.
| f,, ,,,1 liz - a
and is magistrate for the county Westmeath,
of which county he served High Sheriff a
| year OF two ago.
| Ho,c it strikes a Foreigner-The Paris Moniteur,
reviewing the condition of things in the United