The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-12-12
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

| Mr.. John A. Finn of Lewiston, Me-,
was a classmate of Riel at the college
in Montreal He says Riel in his col
lege days was a visionary sort OF fellow,
but none the less favorite.
Mr.. T. P. O'Connor, M. P.-elect for
Liverpool and Galway will publish this
month new work on the recent poll
tics and statecraft of Great Britain, en-
titled ''Gladstone's House of Com
mons.n
Peter Donahoe, one of the Forty
miners, aud for many years promii:-.
nent fnancier and railroad magnate Oh
the Pacific coast, died at San Francisco
on Thanksgiving day.
Francis Davis, THE Belfast Man. .
sweet poet and a true Irishman, is to
have memorial erected over his grave,
the Belfast Y Dung Ireland Society hay-
ing charged itself with the task of err
Getting it.
Mr.. Michael j. Ryan, who is spoken
of as a talented and eloquent young
man, was the orator Of the day in Phil
adelphia on Nov. %, the eighteenth
anniversary of the death of the Man
chester martyrs.
Justin Mccarthy, NJ. P.-elect for
Longford, is SIS years old, and has two
children, Justin FL. member-elect for
Newry, and an accomplished daughter,
who is as intense Nationalist as her
father and brother.
Mr.. Richard Adams who has bel for
several years the office of municipal
assessor of Dublin, has, owing to his
appointment as parliamentary revising
barrister, resigned the former Office
He will doubtless be SUCCEEDED by Mr..
NJ. G.. McInerneY.
Mr.. Daniel Closhessy, whose death
is announced to have occurred on the Sth
ult. at his residence, Georges Quay,
Dublin, was we'll known and esteemed
TTishnIan amongst the advanced Ma
tional party in London, where he re-
sided for seventeen years. Mr.. Clio
hessey was member Of the Grattan
Club in Dublin in 1s4S. and since then
he was always an ardent Nationalist.
A call has been issued, signed by sew
eral hundred residents of Kansas and
adjoining states, for a national conyen-
ton OF Anti-Saloon Republicans" to
be held at Toledo, Ohio, May 5, 1886.
The call declares for Immediate nation-
al prohibition, but does not intimate
that any ticket will be nominated, ex-
cept in the event of the failure of the
Republicans to do SO.
Charles Gaven Duffy, writing under
date of the 18th ult,, from Cinirez, Alpes
Maratimes, to the Freeman of Dublin,
denies the report that he is i'll. and says
that the statement that he would be a
parliamentary candidate, if he was
selected by a county convention, is not
true. He furthermore declares that his
present intentions is never again to WOO
an Irish constituency, except for a seat
In an Irish Parliament.
Mr.. John @ Hara, the talented author
of Irish Pedigrees' and other kindred
works. is now engaged in the compila-
ton of an exhaustive volume on the
-, no .,,liacf in which he will eIrlbodv
all the matter of general interest con-
tanned in his former works. with the
addition of the authors latest re-
searches in the field of Irish genealo-
gies. especially into the origin OF the
Huguenot and palatine families in Ire
land.
give me one more smoke from the
old clay pipe said Rachel Yarvel, q
Owingsville, KY. Then she died, az |
rho parlv aun f1f ffl1.