The Irish standard., 1892-12-31
I ASSE;D 1 & VIE

came up 10 Inc entrance. w len ference
Maloney appeared rather protraoted
conversation ensued and the last words
the priest said to him were: Now, you
know who you're to vote for. just make
the cross and put the ballot paper in the.
box" As Terence came out of the booth,
he was asked it he had recorded his vote
all right. "Bedad. yer reverence" heck
claimed with q merry twinkle, II did %
ye told me. As soon as the gentleman
gave me the paper, I just crossed myself
and dropped it ms
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Mrs. Annie Tormey, widow OF an Irish
pioneer, who left nearly $500, 900 when hu
died, three years ago, has just fled an in
solvency petition showing that she owes
$179, 701, which more than covers her Is
sets. She lives at Pinole, on the bay
shore, twenty-four miles from San Fran
cisco, with her three daughters. As soon
as Tormey was buried his wife and
daughters started out to cut wide social
swath. They thought nothing Of spend
ing $4,000 or $4,000 on visit to the city,
and the result is that their bills for fe.
male tinery run up to $4,000. Mrs. Tor
mey was also inveigled into losing invest
ments, and one Of her worst ventures
was with Allegresti, the candy Aker,
who has invented process tor preserv-
ing fruit against decay. Allegretti failed
last week, and his failure brought Mrs.
Tormey's affairs to crisis.
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An acute cause of controversy has
arisen between Tim Harrington and John
E. Redmond. There Is likely to be
lcanoy shortly in the Office of Town
Clerk of Dublin. It is the principal per-
nanent Office in the corpora ion, and has
attached to it salary OF about $1,000
year. Both Redmond and Harrington
ara canvassing privately for the place.
The Dublin Council is Redmoodite, and
neither Redmond nor Harrington can So
cure the Office unless their party is split
in two by their opposing candidatures.
Harrington resents Redmond's claiming
the position as being beneath the dignity
of party leader, while Redmond resents
Harrington's candidacy as an act Of in
discipline. AS the Town Clerkship GOULD
not be held by member Of parliament,
either Redmond or Harrington must, in
case of. election, hold himself ready to
abandon politics. It would be for the
best interests of Ireland if both malcon-
tents were retired to private life.
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The following eloquent passage from
the first speech ever delivered by Gen.
Thomas Francis Meagher Is as true to-
day as when it echoed through Concila
ton hall in the days of O'Connell: It i'll
becomes country like ours "A country
with an ancient fame-a country that
gave light to Europe while Europe's old
est state of this day was yet an infant in
civilization and in arms--a country that
has written down great names upon the
brightest page of European iterature-a
country that has sent orators into the
Senate whose eloquence, to the latest
day, will inspire free sentiments, and die
tate bold acts-a country that has sent
soldiers into the field whose courage and
whose honor it will ever be our proudest
privilege to record, il It our noblest
duty to imitate-a country. whose sculp-
tors rank high in Rome, and whose paint
ers have won for Irish genius proud
prominence even in the capital OF the
stranger-a country whose musicians
may be said to stand in glorious rivalry
with those of Italy, and whose poets have
had their melodies reechoed from the
most polished courts OF Europe to the
lowliest dwelling in the deep forests be-
yond the Mississippi tit i'll becomes
country so distinguished and respectable,
to serve as the subaltern of England,
qualified as she is to take up an eminent
position and etand erect in the face of
Europe.
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The S3rd birthday of William E. Glad
stone, sThe Grand Old Man." was
celebrated last Thursday, December -.
Mr.. Gladstone is of Scottish descent, be-
ing the fourth son of Sir John Gladstone,
merchant who removed from Glasgow
to Liverpool about the time OF the close
of the American Revolution, made large
fortune in the West India trade, and was
afterwards created baronet. While a.
student at Oxford University he shared
with Manning and Newman the distinc-
ton of that superior brilliancy Of genius
which made all three afterwards 80 fam
GUS. His gifted friends chose religious
life and continued their earnest, prayer
ful search for the Truth until they found
themselves within the fold Of the Catho-
lie Church, IN which both rose to such
eminent distinction, retaining still by