The Irish standard., 1889-11-02

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III E. j. McGnire, OF Chicag 60, has been
the guest Of ] 81 +. McG Guire this week.
q Stove rep.irs for all st, ives made, at
lS6 and 1873 West Seventh street, st
Paul.
On Sunday afternoon next at Cretin
hall the Crusaders will give their fret
rally Of the season. A fine musical and
literary programme has been prepared,
and everybody is invited. Seats free to
all.
What came very near being a disastrous
fire was controlled by the fremen at
1890 Tuesday morning, in the saloon OF
Chas, Boggs on Jackson street. It was
lucky fer Mr.. Boggs that important
business kept him behind the bar till
that hour.
Doudel & Coffee of 488 Rice street have
been awarded the contract for furnishing
forage for the fire department. $1,000
bushels Of oats at 241 cents per bushel,
500 tons of upland wild nay at $7.88 per
ton. so tons of straw at Sc 81 per ton are
the quantities to be used and prices paid
for the fodder.
On ThurEday, November ], large
delegation of prominent Minnesota
Catholics will depart for Washington
and Baltimore, to attend the Catholic
congress and assist at the Inauguration
of the Catholic university. The delega-
tion will be headed by Archbishop Ire.
land and Bishop McGolrick.
On Sunday last number OF promin'
ent young Catholic men met and organ.
izsd what is to be known SIS ''The New.
man Literary and Debating Society. .
The society will meet every Saturday
evening at 7:3O. The following are the
officers elected: j. Monahan, president;
j. J. Began. first vice president; M. "a.
McMahone, second &C. president; John
Cavanagh, secretary; FL. De Wallace,
treasurer. The objects Of the society
are excellent, namely; exercises in de-
bate, defamation, composition, and par
liamentary practice. The name is lofty
and beautiful one. and we wish the mem
bers every success.
Cretin hall was filled on Monday even
ing as it was never filled before. The
previous day it was announced that
Father Nugent of Liverpool would be
rendered q literary reception by the
Catholics OF this city, and long before 8
O'Clock every available space was taken
up On the stage were seated Arch
bishop Ireland, Bishop Brondel OF Mon
tana, Bishop-elect' Stanley, Fathers
Raleigh, Fleming, Gibbons, Hefron,
Conway, Cosgrove, Lawler and Byrne.
John W. Willis. b. J. and J. E.. Nc
Guire. The boys orchestra opened the
exercises with appropriate music, after
which, J. F. Mcclure read the following
address, which he presented to Father
Nugent: The address was beautifully
and handsomely embellished
Very Reverend Father: The Catholics
of St. Paul welcome you to our city. We
welcome you as one liuked by many a
tie to our affections and esteem. Your
personal worth calls forth our admiration
and our voice can be but an echo Of the
common eulogy sent out both in the old
world and the new. The cause. whose
ardent champion you are, is common
one with us ALL Your noble boast is,
bhat as priest of God. true to the char
ity of Christ, you have enlisted in the
service Of your fellow men the lofhest in
stincts of yoor noble soul. To the poor,
The lowly and the unfortunate you have
been, and are, q wise counselor and a
good rather. But with Christian philan-
bhropy you have joined the far-seeing
wisdom Of philosopher, Not content
10 relieve the wants, assuage the mlser-
les and smooth down the rugged paths
Of the poor and thriftless, you have
pushed OH farther, and have gone to the
roots Of many evils. You have seen, as
all must see, that many Of the dire things
that torture men and degrade them are
not without hope of remedy. Your work
N the cause of total abstinence has not
been spasmodic, but rather long, we'll
sustained, practical effort in one Of the
social reforms uf the age. You
began that work at a time when it was
neither fashionable nor easy to advocate
such reforssn. You have persevered in
it with ariS intelligence and an energy
which call forth the plaudits OF all
thoughtful minds. You have conferred
benefits upon society by rescu-
ing the fallen aud by preventing the re-
cruiting of the criminal classes; you
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