The Irish standard., 1891-05-23

| Ireland has always been more or less
connected, reflects the ideas of that
| prelate to certain measure, and es-
pecially does it uphold his ~ell-known
views on the temperance question.
New Orleans saw its first English
Catholic weekly in 1860, WREN the
Morning Star shone on the Crescent
City, which is still irradiated by its
light; anG in the following wear the
Central Catholic Advocate made its
initial bow to the people Of Louisville.
The Catholic Citizen put in its first ap-
pearance at Milwaukee in 1870, and in
the same year the Catholic Sentinel be-
gan to watch and ward the Catholic
concerns of Portland. Ore. Two years
later Chevalier Hickey, whose death IS
still deplored. began the publication of
the Catholic Review at BROOKLYN, the
present editor Of which paper, Rev.
John Talbot Smith, is to have the man
agement Of the reception OF his Catho
lie colleagues who attend next weeks
convention in New York. In 1872 the
Catholic Union and Times. that excel
lent paper which Rev. F. Cronin con
ducts at Buffalo. began to record Cath
olic happenings in Western New York,
and in the same year the Michigan
Catholic appeared at Detroit. The
Irish Catholic Benevolent Union Jour
nal, society paper, as its name indi
Gates. saw the light for the first time in
1873, at Philadelphia; and the follow
ing year the recentlY-deceased Bishop
Gilmour inaugurated at Cleveland the
publication Of the Catholic Universe.
One year subsequently, in 1875, Colum
bus, envious as it were of seeing the
other episcopal cities Of Ohio repre-
sented by Catholic Journals, started the
Columbian, one of the neWsiest aud
best arranged of our Catholic contem-
poraries; and in the same year the la
mented DR.. Hendricken Of Providence
began sending the Weekly Visitor into
the Catholic homes OF his diocese. The
Connecticut Catholic appeared for the
first time IN the centennial year. and
about the same time it made its bow to
the Catholics Of the Nutmeg state, Rev.
Charles Kuhlmann began the publica-
tion of che Church Progress at Mar
shall, ILL.,. of which place he was the
pastor. This paper subseq 1ently alb
sorbed the Catholic World of St. Louis,
and is now published in that city. One
of the prime movers in the matter of
bringing Catholic editors together once
year is Nj, Conde B. Pallen. an edi
torlal writer on this st. Louis contem
porary of ours. Ia 1879. the Catholic
Tribune. which for several years had as
Its editor, Rev. F. w. Graham, appear
ed at St Joseph. Mo. where it is still
published.
The Republic. of Boston, issued its
initial number in March, 1882. the week
in which st. Patrick's day occurred that
year; and 1t may be said the Republic
has been pronounced success from the
start, as the speedy enlargement Of its
columns and the many eu]oglstic no
tlces bestowed upon it by its patrons
and contemporaries have abundantly
and repeatedly demonstrated. The
same year that saw the beginning of
the Republic also witnes 5ed the start Of
the Catholic Messenger Of Davenport,
Ia, and of the Catholic Knight of
Cleveland. paper that was originally,
and still continues TO ba to a large ex
tent, Catholic society journal. Adam,
since metam0rphosed into the Catholic
journal OF the New South. made Its de-
but down at Memphis, in 1888, and
about the same time Indianapolis saw
the first issue Of the New Record and
Chicago welcomed the Catholic Home.
Two years later the Troy Catholic
Weekly undertook to i'll the place va
Gated bV the collapse of the Catholic
Telegraph of Albany, and in the same
year, 1885, the Catholic News, of New
York was established by Herman Rid.
der.
Among the younger Catholic jour
nails, whose existence hardly covers as
yet period OF Ave years. NAV be men.
toned the Messenger Of Worcester, an
admirably conducted diocesan organ;
the S3cred Heart Review Of East Cam
bridge. which enjoys quite an extensive
circulation in several OF our large par
sishes; the New Hampshire Catholic:
the BROOKLYN Leader, which replaces
the old Examiner of that city; the Fall
River sAdyoca cate;9 the Citizen Of Chelsea
the Cause of Los Ange geles. and several
other whose names do not occur to the
writer at present.
Yorke ou are 4 stranger
here. 4 presume?
Chicago Mani (haugh htilv l--fS am from l,a1l.
the great city that gew ork 81 jealous. sI
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