The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-08-15

OF those WORTHLESS now remains. In their place |
is the smallest and flthiest lane In Tralee, and
the gravestones-with the exception of q part
of one which contains . muoh-defaced repre- |
sentation of q knight in full armor, and which !
is bRilt into the entrance wall of tho present
Abbey--have been split up and turned into
kerb. stones For about $50 years the Domini-
cana knew not their ancient place in Tralee.
It is only ten or twelve years ago that Dr..
Rust, Galway man, became Prior, ard COM
menced the handsome little church of which
haTs spoken, and the Prior who preceded
him was martyred in Killarney in about the
middle of the seventeenth century. The other
ecclesiastical buildings the Protestant
church, q handsome structure, too; Presby-
terian church and Wesleyan chapel-both of
which are Gin accordance with the proportions
of the Presbyterian and Wesleyan congrega-
tions) of very slender dimensions. The Pro-
testants have built for themselves, besides
their church, which they got built, q hall for
literary and social meetings. Then there is
the courthouse, pretty circular edifce, ap-
preached by q considerable flight of steps at
either side of which stands one of the oannons
captured from the Russians In the Crimean
war and. finally, there are the fine pile of
stone buildings in which the Christian Broth
ers and the Sisters of Mercy carry on their adj
mrable work of instructing the rising genera
ton of the people. One of the most cheering
sights possible is that presented by the indus
trial schools conducted by the Christian Broth
ers, where over q hundred poor boys, taken
from the highways and the byways of the
county, are constantly being trained to all the
useful trades and grounded in the maxims of
religion. I should not omit to mention that
the Presentation Nuns have also an excellent
school.
Tralee is a good business town, being the
centre of comfortable farming district, and
does considerable business in exporting eggs
and butter. 1t is, however, very badly stu
ated for traffic by the sea, with which it is
connected by narrow and shallow canal-the
brilliant conception of some local merchant.
1t is, unfortunately, situated badly in other
respects also. It is like most other towns of
its class somehow dominated over by g. little
clique of persons not gifted with patriotic
sentiments or very enlarged intelligences
who spend their time in looking for favors to
Government, and especially to Wing Govern
ments. These are the chief mainstay of the
| wretchea ODonoghue. 1 am glad to learn
| that their power is on the wane, and that it
| may be expected to disappear altogether in the
course of few years. With the advance of
eduoation-and it is advancing rapidly here
the people will inevitably assert their suprem-
| acy, and the little local magnates who now
| turn up their noses at any person not Of their
own class, will descend to their proper position
of obscurity. It will be the same in the coun
| try districts. When the sight, which saw a
day or two since on the road some seven miles
Of 40 of l;ttlo rla
tramping to school (some of them without
boots or hats)-shall be no longer novel one,
the day when q neighboring aristocrat, though
| Q bosthoon, o ibertine or q drunkard, could
ride rough.sho over his humsn dependents
will have passed away forever.
When I arrived in Tralee last week, the
| assizes were in full swing, and Judge Keogh
himself was one of the presiding Justices.
Some of the cases for trial possessed a consid-
cradle more than local interest. Judging from
the details of of them, libel action
| brought By two. magistrates against another
| magistrate, an Englishman, who had charged
them with partial, if not corrupt, conduct on
the bench, imagine it must be very difficult
and dangerous for any one to say anything
Except it be in praise) of the members Of the
ruling class in Kerry. An attorneys letter and
an action at law, with possibly verdict with
sweeping damages, may be the result. This
feature of Kerry life, however, has got severe
| shaking from the Euglishman I have just
spoken of, and the ewspapers-amongst the
| rest the 1ralee Chronicle, the Cork Examiner and
the Dublin Weekly Ne,os (Which, find, circu-
lates extensively here)-are it's deadly enemies
One word more. While all the rest of Ire
land is preparing to take part, in one way or
another, in the celebration of the O'Connell
| Centenary, it is ourions to find O'Connelps
native county of Kerry, as a whole, not moving
| in the matter at all-neither subscribing
penny towards the expense of the celebration
nor sending a deputation to take part in the
festivities in Dublin. To be perfectly accurate,
believe only some half dozen gentlemen in
this county, clerical and lay, have subscribed
to the funds of the Centenary Committee.
Those who have most studiously avoided con-
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