The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-06-28

In cash or spade.
Shall yet be made
Our Own!
ARTHUR M. FORESTER.
ANTRIM.
On Wednesday, May 18th. the funeral
obseQuies of the late Very Rev. George
Pye, PIP, VS., Glenavy, were solemn
lied in the parish church, in the pre-
sence of a large attendance Of the clergy
Of the diocese and the laity from Glen
avey and the adjoining parishes. The
Most Rev. DIR. McAllister, Bishop Of
Down and Conner, presided over the
solemn Office for the dead and requiem
high mass celebrated by the Rev. A.
Macauley, p. p, Aghagallon. The
funeral sermon was preached by the
Rev. A. McMullen. PIP, VS.. Bally-
mena; after which the remains were
inferred in the churchyard.
CARLOW.
At Carlow College, on Sunday, May
25th, Orders were conferred on the fol-
lowing:-To prjesthood-Revs. j. J.
O'Farrell, Kildare;J. P. Kehoe, Canada;
j. c. Caraher, Lincoln; w. FL. Brady,
England; G, Canning, st. Louis; P. j.
ORourke. St. Louis; j. Lyons, st.
Louis; D, Leahy, Sydney; J. O'Carroll.
Sydney; J. Reynolds, Los Angeles; y.
MCGEE. Llsmore, TO deaconship7-
Messrs. J. Kane, Kildare: E.. Slattery,
Dubuque; P. Cooney. Dubuque; D.
Griffin. Sydney;J j. Brosnan, Sydney; T.
Mullins, st. Louis; ID. Lane, San Fran
cisco; P. O'kegan. wellington. 10
sub deaconship-Messrs. F. W. Inglis,
Kildare. P. Hipwell, Kildare; W. Ftan-
igan, Kildare; M. McAuliffe. Los An
geles; G. Casev, Dunedin. To minors
j. Fitzpatrick, P. Tracy; L. Dempsey,
M. Bohan, j. O'Meara; &. Mason, 0.
McNulty, w. CUTIE, J. Ryan. w. Lynch,
p. DOYLE.
CAVAN.
On Sunday, Nav 25th, young man
about nineteen years Of age, native of
Kingscourt, but at service with a MIR.
McDermott. Of Summerhill, county
Meath, took gun to shoot crows. The
gun burst, and blew off the thumb, two
first fingers and half the palm of his
left hand. He was taken to DR.. Jones,
Of Drumconrath, who controlled the
hemorrhage and sent him to the Ardee
workhouse hospital. where he was
placed under the care of DR.. Michael
Callan, medical officer of Ardee work
house, who, on examination Of the
wound, decided that the hand should
be amputated at the wrist joint, and
having called in DR.. Moore, of Ardee,
to his assistance. the injured hand was
successfully amputated the same even
ing. The patient remains in the work
house hospital and is going on we'll.
CORK.
A public meeting, convened by the
Mayor was held in Cork on May 27th,
with the view of instituting memorial
to the late DR.. w. X. Sullivan, Presi-
dent of the Queens College. A COM
mittee was appointed to take charge OF
the matter.
DONEGAL.
On the night of May Mth, terrible
tragedy was enacted in the neighbor-
hood Of the town of Donegal. A young
man named Patrick McC ormack, son of
Daniel McC ormack, was suffering from
brain fever, and was believed by all the
family to be dying, and had received
the last rites of the Church. His father
undertook to watch. the sick boy while
the rest of the family went to sleep.
While they were asleep the father be-
came suddenly insane, and seized with
q manical idea that an evil spirit had
got possession Of his sick son, fell upon
him with a heavy pair Of tongs. and
killed him. McC ormack was arrested
and after coroner's investigati0 was
conveyed to Derry Prison.
DOWN
Y In cambridge. on Nav 23d, quite q
sensation took place in ScarVa street,
through 4 most peculiar and unheard-of
Iact. "a cooper named James Sheylin
cut the rIRhtt hand / Of his body with 4
y jiHil The police had "a be brought on