The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-10-26

present Judge Keogh turned out of the repre-
sentatiou Of Athl0ne, occupied the chair. An
other of the "Callan curates n-so-ealled be-
cause they had been stationed in the town OF
Callsn notorious for the OKeeffe scandal-was i
also present-namely, Father Matt Keefe, the
eloquent p. p. Of Aghaboe, and cousin, by the
way. OF the unfortunate Father O'Keeffe OF
CalIan. MI. Edmund Dease, u. p, one of the
members for the county, was also present. The
other. Mr.. K. T. Digby, was unavoidably abb
sent. but wrote letter. All these gentlemen
whom have named, accepted the programme
of the Club, and consequently went in for
Home Rule The result 10 that there will be |
no contest in the Queens county at the general
election if the present members are then aiive,
thew win be reelected without penny of ex-
pense and one county in Ireland at least will
have done its duty in the great struggle for
self-government.
| The negotiations for the Homo Rule Confer
ence are making satisfactory progress. No less
than four lords hava signed the requisition
this week. Mr.. MCCARTHY Downing, NJ. r. for
J Cork, has not only signed it, but has written
: letter in which he says that the coming Con-
, ference will be the greatest event In Ireland
, since the Dungannon Convention in 17s2.
? Dean O'Brien, of Limerick, seeing that the
r Times had asserted that the Irish Catholic
] clergy were Indifferent to Home Rule, If not
: actually opposed to it, has publicly appealed
y to the twelve hundred clergymen who with
# him four years ago signed the Limerick Decla
r ration in favor of selfgovernment to come for
y ward now and report the declaration that NJ
1T settlement of tho Land, the Church, or td'
lg Education questions would remove the neet
Or or the wish for self government in Ireland
at and it is probable that they will respond to hi
90 appeal immediately. Finally, you may soon ez
k peot to hear that Dr.. Duggau, Bishop OF Ciol
'n fart. and his clergy, have followed the exampl
al of the diocese of Cloyne; for ME- Mitchell Henri!
at M. p, Mr. Bott, NJ p, and Sir John gray
he p, all Home Rulers, are at present at Loughf'
Ter on a visit with tho Bishor. As they entert
tho town they were received with a graz
his ovation, in which cheers for Home Rule we
I'd, vsciferously given. This meeting means oui
the ness, you may be sure. BY the way, IL
the worthy of remark that those three geutlem
ave who are thus enjoying the hospitality OF q
ink tbolio Bishop are all Professionals. VOL,
the zee Protestants and Catholics in Ireland
but not cut off from social intercourse WIN %
and other, as our enemies, the Enghsn' soineSin
test assert 80
son Father OhecH0 Al tcH SAA neo so'
tiers his Bishop. He went to him, it 10 true.
t be asked him what were the terms upon whic
reconciliation might take place between tn
;,.a and even agreed not to say Mass until ne
80 his answer. But when the terms were m
~. known to him he wrote to the newspaper
it'd English and Irish rejecting them
, ~ scornn Those terms were that he should
~ MP the parish and live in retirement ON
- sion of one-fourth of the revenues OF tne
;. - ish, in addition to acknowledging the vau
80 of his suspension. In his last letter ne m
80 it painfully evident that it was simply
.I,s solely because his finances were exhau
80. that he attempted to be reconciied to
:. ~. Bishop, and he Furthermore makes it evi
. p;u that if he got larger pension he would
~ on baby have agreed to DR.. Moran's terms
80. fact. his passion for money seems to have
"a - ut the bottom of all his delinquencies fror
,,s;,s yery commencement. The negotiations
$3.50. ACCOMPLISHMENTS broken down, he res
80, saving Mass last Sunday in the Callan
80. Chapel, and now the aspect of the whole
,tho,;c ter is, 1 regret to say, apparently as
,sss;on over it was. -.f.s .e o