The Irish standard., 1892-06-04
PASSED In REVIEW.


PASSED In REVIEW.
The United States Army is said to be-
forty per cent. Catholic. Among officers
Of both navy and army there are and
have been many. Catholics. Several of ;
the army officers have Catholic wives
and Catholic daughters. Nowhere per-
haps is there less sectarian bigotry.
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In speaking of the trial of DR.. Briggs,
who is accursed of heresy Bob Ingersol,
said: 1 have said a thousand times that
liked Presbyterians but hated Presley.
terianism. I have said that I do not
hate a man because he has got rheuma-
tism, but hate rheumatism because it
has GOT the man. That is my objection
to Presbyterianism. 1t is a kind of rheu-
matism of the mind.
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Simon Lyons, who died recently at
Liverpool, had an interesting career, es-
pecially during the Fenian movement of
1867. Mr.. Lyons was arrested outside
Dublin on the morning of the rising in
81, and was kept in jail for nine months
on suspicion. Although Corydon knew
him we'll, he refused to identify him, the
reason being, as stated by MIR. Lyons
himself, that on one occasion he had
been befriended by the prisoner, though
at time when Corydon's real character
was unknown. In securing the escape
of Kelly and Deasy, in connection with
which the Manchester martyrs were
executed, Lyons took an active part, ana
he always retained their handouts as an
interesting memento of the event..
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One of the burning questions before
the late Methodist General Conference
was that of electing negro bishop. 1t
was referred to the committee on epis-
copacy> which, however, refused to VEN
ture an answer. The committees re-
port declared that "the race or nation
atty of bishops must be decided by the
free votes of those invested with the
responsibility of electing bishops"
That is to say, the General Conference
itself must pass upon the question.
The colored Methodists have never had
a bishop of their own race, and to give
them one would be radical departure
from the usage of the Methodist body.
But the Conference cleverly evaded the
question for the present by declining to
elect any additional bishops.
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| The manager of theatre in Danville,
ILL.,, recently refused the use of his
building to one Slattery, who represented
himself to be an ex-priest, and who was
accompanied by woman who passed
for his wife and said she had escaped
from nunnery. Slattery then applied
to the Odd Fellows for their hall, but
they also refused to rent to him. He
afterwards went to Bloomington where
he and his female companion put up in q
hotel. The Catholic girls working in
| the hotel went on strike and absolutely
refused to wait upon the pair of adven-
turers. If they happen to strike Mime
apolis they can secure the Swedish
Tabernacle, and in the ''Zenith City of
the Unsalted Seas" they will have no more
trouble i'll engaging a theatre than
Chiniquy had.
| A more thorough set of braggarts
than the Orapgemen never ran, said
Henry Labouchere in recent speech.
They understand a great deal more about
running than. they do about fighting.
Why at the commencement Of the
Queens reign they formed an idea that
she was not such good Protestant as
they would like. They therefore ap-
preached the Duke of Cumberland, who
was generally supposed to have tried to
murder his valet in England. They
came to the conclusion that he would
make very good Orangeman, and so
they positively met in their lodges and
decided that they would upset Queen
Victoria and put the duke upon the
throne; but they did not do it. Then
again, when the Church of Ireland was
disestablished they declared that they
would: die in the last ditch; but they
didn't do it. It would be the same with
them when Home Rule was conceded.
and he therefore thought the bogy
which the Duke Of Devonshire trotted
out before his Derby audience was not
worth considering.
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At least two-thirds of the chiefs of po-
lice of American cities are Irish by birth
Or extraction. New York, San Fran
cisco, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City,
| New Orleans Atlanta no1ro.I.. r.