Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-17
Latin Thunder, Esq, Kingston Lodge,

county Neatn.
Col. Butler Is husband of the artist,
Miss Thompson, and r. II. Froude is
nephew to the historian whose vindlca-
ton of Cromwell has not been pleasant
in the nostrils of Irishmen. The gentle
men are all Roman Catholics.
The company held its first meeting in
March last in Dublin, and at once sent
colony of forty families to Avoca, many
of whom were plowmen and farm work
ers on the estates of Mr.. Sweetman, in
the County Meath. The company's
pamphlet explains
THE SCOPE OF THE SOCIETY
in the following paragraph:
This company has been formed Tor the
purpose of enabling some Of those who
are emigrating from Ireland to take adj
vantage of the vast tracts of magnificent
tillage land lying idle in the Western
States of America. Few of our Irish
emigrants can now do so, owing to their
want of capital, and they are therefore
obliged to stay in the American cities,
where the majority never rise beyond the
position of day laborers, while those OF
other nationalities are rapidly taking
possession of the best land in the West.
In America, if man is industrious and
sober he is sure to get on; if he is not
there is no one to help him, and he will
sink even lower than in this country. The
company does not offer anything in the
wav of aims, but lends money on good
security-namely: on land when is rap
idly rising in value.
The colonists reached Mankato IN the
early spring; the bridges beyond that
point had recently been swept away. The
colonists were taken to a hotel-thelr
first hotel life-and their expenses paid.
In few weeks they reached Avoca, and
Mr.. Sweetman, who was appointed man
agsr of the company in America, was
back in Minnesota in time--provision
having been made to that end in advance
to see each family supplied with ayoke
of oxen and cart, a cow, household furnl-
ture, and supplies and utensils. MIR.
Sweetman and his agents lent willing
hands, and the newcomers put their
houses in order as soon as possible. 1t was
new life to the newcomers to have lived
at hotel, and it was quite as new to find
in their own houses tea and coffee, and
sugar, and half barrel of pork in the
cellar.
They have worked with a will; they
are tilling land that in the near future
they can BY thrift and industry call their
own, and the sensation, as may be sup
posed, is all new. They do not put on
airs, however, or forget old-time thrift,
for James Cosgrove, mindful of the Irish
mans debt to the pig, has placed one in
his cellar. In Ireland the pig has the
first floor; in America the pig goes down
peg, that is all.
The company limits the settlers to eigh-
ty acres, and tope that in few years the
adjoining quarter sections will be enhanc-
ed in value The land and stock and
supplies, and their passage from the sea-
board, amounts to about 5000, and the
settler has not contributed dollar of the
amount, and is not asked to do so for
eighteen months, and then only pays &C
crued interest, which on the land is 6
per cent, and on the stock and supplies
5 per cent, and in one year there
after-that is, in two and a half years
from the start-he pays per cent. OF the
principal and the accrued interest, and in
easy yearly annual stages he pays for 1.-THE
houlding'' in ten years.
Inaddition to the colony land Mr. Sweet
man has purchased some which he calls
on Buffalo lake. Just now he lives at
Lincoln hotel, Avoca. He has invested
500, 900 in the colony, and he is purchas-
ing blooded stock, intending to raise fine
cattle Just as soon as his colOnlstS are
in order for the winter he will return 10
Ireland, and second installment for the
Sweetman colony will come over next
spring. He has
SPENT ABOUT $50, 900 IN MINNESOTA,
in addition to the cash paid for the land
He has given Bishop Ireland $4,000 for a
new church at Currie, and Neil Currie,
the pioneer settler after whom the town
is called, has donated for its use ten acres
of land on fine side-hill overlooking
the town.
Many of the grown up members of the
families of the colonists who could be
spared have gone to work in hotels and
in private families in the country. And,
as the Irish women work on the farms,
the men in the busy harvest time can be
spared to earn few dollars.
The colonists are, with one exception,
contented and happy. The exception is
Mrs. James EMoffatt, who is home-sick;
she does not like America, and "wants to
British government would send her back,
and she is angry that the late minister to
Washington should have returned to
England without her. Mrs. Molloy, on
the contrary, who was found in short
petticoats at her cabin door sweep
ing, said that "his Honor
meaning Mr. Sweetman-"was the best
friend the Irish ever had" The facts,
which are bare as her feet, fully bear out
the exuberant lady, who with clenched
fist clinched every point she made. Thorn
as Leyland, blacksmith from Y Yorkshire,
is of the number, and a very handsome
little family of children he has. Mrs. Ley
land, although not Irish, took hand in
little patch of corn, but she was in trou
BILE, for after three days. labor on the
crop the gophers came and cropped it off.
1t will not be amiss to say word of the
Connemara colony, poor, shiftless set of
professional burglars who were sent out
to Minnesota last winter. They were i'm
practicals, not willing to work. They
have in one way or another been absorb
ed. There was danger that the thrifty,
the hard working and willing wokers
should be COMPOUNDED with the poor
wretches who imposed themselves upon
the Rev Father Nugent, of Liverpool,
and upon the kindly people of Minnesota
They were failure, of course, but the
colonists proper have conquered sue
cess.