The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-08-09
IRISH AND iRIsH.AMERicAN NEWS.

IRISH AND IRIsH.AMERicAN NEWS. |
There are LII Irish officer in the
English army and only 500 Scotch. |,
The Irish team were the champions
in tine Elcho shield match at Wimble-
don.
"The Lily of Killarney" by w allace.
the Irish composer, will be brought out
in New York by the Kellogg opera
troupe next season.
In 1841 the population of Ireland was |
S.171.124: in 1871, 5.412,377. La the
last census there were 724 persons re-
turned as over one hundred years Of
age.
Hugh Donohue completed at Mystic
Park. Boston, on the 23d, the task OF
100, miles in l, 100 consecutive hours.
He was in good condition at the close.
John Lee Carroll, nominated for Gov
ernor of Maryland by the Democratic
convention at Baltimore, is descendant
of Revolutionary sire, Charles Carroll,
LOT Carrollton.
The crops in the locality of Kilkenny,
are in a fiourishing condition. Wheat is
excellent, but not SO plentifully sown as
it was few years ago. Oats LOOKS re-
markedly well.
The Archaeological Association OF Ire
land has netitioned the commissioners of
education to have the Irish language
taught in the schools, in order to pre-
serve it ''from being lost" It is part OF
the internal policy OF England to destroy
not only the Irish but their very langu-
age.
A government proclamation has been
posted throughout county Ca
van, cautioning parties against carrying
, firearms iu professions, and stating that
) parties not having licences are liable to
be prosecuted, and persons having licen-
, ces and carrying arms are liable to have
them revoked under the provisions OF
the Coercion Act.
< Ireland has indirectly declined the
honor of a royal residence on her soil.
Int the New York and St. Louis papers
, are getting out editorial invitations for
: her Brittanic Majesty's visit to the Unit
? ed States. Alas, that snObism cannot
have little royalty at home to save the
nations dignity in running alter strange
e gods.
Wheat and Crops.-A correspondent
!. from Trim, says: 1.-The hay and potato
crop REQUIRE fine weather now. There
y 10 an old tradition about this place,
!. which many old women believe in, that
. the approaching assizes OF Meath (Which
I will be on the 18th inst. seldom comes
without bringing successive wet days
after. no matter how fine the morning
e may be-"
y Another attempt has been made to de-
J. strov Foley's statue of Prince Albert in
Il Dublin. Two men were arrested a
d midnight while preparing to injure in
% They had covered it with q canvas
shroud saturated with paraffine oil
= which was to be set on fire, and were II
: the act OF forcing tin can down upoi
!, the head of the statue which had paint
~ ed on it in large red letters, mo resi-
a dence for Royal Princes"
be The Dublin Freeman, (Protestant)
" speaks as follows on Irish love tor tn
,e HOLY Father, Pope Plus TX; If there j
scarcely an agony to which the hesrt
Plus TX. has not been subjected, so mel
g Their is their consolation with which
te has not been rewarded To the peepl
rs of Ireland Plus TX is cherished
~ household name. They do not forge
81 how ardently he wished to welcom
II to Rome their illustrious Lit
H. orator, and the honors he paid his mem
ory when death struck him down
st Genoa, and they have come to link u
GO Plus TX, and O'Connell as almost on
r. in their memories and their love. In
a people of Ireland will therefore pra
N for Plus TX, and will heartily unit
to with their brethren all over the worl
Dir in asking that God may spare him fe
wears to come, and speedily gladden. h
ewes and his heart with sight of thos
"a brighter days which they feel, almost
ng an instinct, to be yet in store for him
OF An Irish Witch" was hanged
or Boston in 1858. The Rev. Cotton Natl
en- er tells the story in his own peculis
re and puritanical style, and after readin
IS we were only sorry it was not Cotto
St. himself who was hanged, rather ths
re the poor old Irishwoman, who, by-th
TOR way could only converse in her natul
on tongue-Irish. Another reason why 81
he was executed.
h
ID. ireland's Ancient Greatness.
ng Perhaps the annals of the world ca
co. not furnish more striking instance
Al