The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-09-26

ABOUT at tne next electlon toSeIueE WIN hi9
neghbor aud friend, The ODonoghue, sur
named " The Apostate of the Glens."
Irish genius, driven from home, is now, as
ever, asserting itself abroad. An Irish artist, |
Mr.. Joy, has been commissioned to execute the
statue to be erected in honor of the late Mr..
J John Laird, NJ. p. for Birkenhead. Mr. Joy is
pupil of his illustrious compatriot Foley, and
the son of respected medical practitioner of
Dublin. The competing designs were sent In
anony mously, and the first prize (tloO) was
awarded to Mr.. JOY. The same artist was also
selected some time since by the Dnbin College
of Physicians to execute the statue OF the late
DR.. Graves. The Liverpool papers speak of
the memorial to be erected in their neishbcr
hood as a great ornament to Birkenhead.
have some gratifying items of temperance
news. On Sunday night, the Rev. Father
Nagent, the Irish priest who has worked In
Liverpool a reformation second only to that OF
Father Mathew, addressed crowded and en-
thusiastic meeting in the Mechanics Institute.
He W as merely passing through Dublin on the
previous evening for brief vacation in the
country, where he as waited on by some lead
ing temperance men and asked to attend at the
Institute. The popularity and influence OF the
reverend gentleman and the admirable charac-
ter of the temperance organization in Dublin
are shown by the overhowing audience which
assembled to meet him at such short notice.
In the course of powerful address, he declared
that nine out of every ten of those who pass for
one crime or another into the borough Jail OF
Liverpool (of which he is resident chapla1n)
owe their sad position to drink, and that If
the Irish in Liverpool would only all keep
sober, they might rule the town. At the close,
the entire audience rose and cheered him
heartily for several seconds and before he re-
tired some $50 of those present took from him
the total abstinence pledge. may here add
that Father Nugent is a very effective orator
but a poor writer, a small man physically with
a close cropped head of gray hair, and possesses
| wonderful energy. On the occasion of the
| Centenary be brought over with him several
| hundred members of the Total Abstinence
| League of Liverpool and the baud of the
Refuge for the Poor Boys which he has estab-
! lisbed in that city. These latter he calls by
the pathetic name of "Nobody's Children"
| The band, though entirely composed OF
| Juveniles is really first class one and did not
return to Liverpool until it had delighted by
| its performances the in h abitants of Waterford
Wexford and the other provincial towns OF
Ireland to which most of the boys belong.
Another Temperance orator, by name Will
liam Noble, and hailipg from the United States,
has been addressing the Dublin folk, also
within the past few days. MIR. Noble delivered
two addresses last week-one in the Rotundo
to a very large audience He IS an enect'Ve
sneaker. On Sunday there was an ope"0ir
demonstration in the PL0nix Park under tue
auspices of the Dublin Total Abstinence
League and under the presidency OF WORKING
man. Other workingmen spoke 10 some OF tne
resolutions. A similar denomination has been
| held in the same place every Sunday LOT the
| last three months, and believe 1t Is contem-
plated to continue in this work TIL success
crowns the movement. Finally, the very heV'
Canon Kennedy has established Total Ao-
stinence Society in St. James parish which
meets every Sunday under his Craftsmanship
At last Sundays meeting a large number TOOK
the pledge from Canon Kennedy, and the recent
declaration of Cardinal Manning that total
abstinence vas necessary for many, and good
for every one," and his advice that all parents
should train up their children to aVolo
alcoholic liqu uors altogether, were hailed Win
the utmost thusiasm. In short, the temper
once movement in Dublin goes on very SAILS
factorly.
A few days since there were great reJ IS
in place in the county Cavan over the cur
cumstance that a Mr.. Smith, a Catholic Irish
man, long resident in Liverpool had taken
possession of large estate in the neighDor-
hood 1t appears that the estate in question
had for two hundred years at least been In the
hands of the descendeDts of that bloody and
Internal monster, Sir Charles Coote' who' with
the exception of Cromwell alone CAnd perhaps
even Cromwell should not be excePted) was
the most inhuman EngIiSh governor ever sent
to this country. He took this estate In caYsnI OF