The Irish standard., 1893-01-14
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cemetery, u fsw days ago, on u u
tomb stone the following 1iins crip, 81 !.
.s.,sacred to the memory Of . lawyer anclI
al honest mar. 4 by the powers I, said
Mike, q hats 4 strange custom % burr,
two men IN one grave, and bad cess % No,
Il 4 don't feel sorry tor the honest man. :
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a few weeks ago we mentioned that
Frederick Prentice, Of Wisconsin, would
donate and erect on the Worlds Fair
grounds the largest single stone ever
quarried, the N onolith being ITO feet long
or nearly twice the length Of Cleopatra's
needle. Now comes the new state Of
Washington with stone which throws
the Badger stone into the shade. The
greatest nonolith ever quarried in Amer
ioa will be shipped by the Vantine Stohe
company Of Tacoma to jackson Park,
Chicago, it the Worlds Fair commission
will pay the freight and the railroads
carrysit. It will have to be shipped on
four cars, two Of which must be specially
constructed as they will carry all the
weight which is about 100 tons.
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The Catholic Truth Society, Of st.
Paul, has undertaken the tack Of collect
ing all possible information respecting
the history Of "ex. priests, z "sx-nuns" and
other irreligious monstrosities. The.frst
thing an "sx-priest" does after being
driven from the Church is to 90 on the
lecture platform to declaim ag&inst
Catholicity OF sRomanism, as he calls It.
The next thing is to write and publiAh
his life to sell among his dupes for the
almighty dollar. The autobiographies
Of t'ex-priests" may be olassed among the
curiosities of literature. They contain
but little if any truth and overflow, with
the Rrosseet falsehoods which would have
broughta blush to thecheeks Of Ananias,
"Chiniquy's Fifty Years III the Church
of Rome" and "The Monk Of Gsthss-
name Abbey" by ex7priest Walsh Of
Brooklyn, are samples OF the lives Of
these adventures. The Catholic Truth
Society is accomplishing good work in
collecting material for the publication Of
the real lives and evil deeds OF such
reprobates who are the active agents OF
Beelzebub.
The North Western Witness, OF Du-
luth, is doing valiant work for God and
country in exposing the Vaccinations OF
anti Catholic frauds and adventurera.
It shows commendable enterprise in fer
reting out John D. Gill, a shyster lawyer
who infested Duluth with his presence
for several years and then mysteriously
disappeared. He was conspicuously
noted for his intense Americanism and
was looked upon as blatant demagogue
by his fellow citizens. Last wiuter he
was self-constituted manager OF q lee
ture bureau for the ostensible purpose Of
procuring funds to buy flags for the pub
lie schools Of the Zenith City, but his
real object as since revealed by himself
was Ito see if I could raise the public
schools of Duluth above the church of
Rome To show his duplicity and
double-facedness, it may be mentioned
that he enlisted the cooperation OF
Bishop McGolrick in making his lecture
course financial and literary success.
The Bishop is q patriotic citizen who
loves the free flag of his country aud is q
favorite with the grand army posts Of
Duluth. Before leaving Minneapolis ha
waved magnificent American flag over
his parochlal school and the Cathedral
parish school house in Duluth was the
first school house in that city over which
the stars aud stripes floated in the breeze.
The Bishop we'll knew that Gill was a
sham patriot, but he encouraged Ills
scheme and suggested the names Of en-.
inent lecturers who were free from re-
ligious prejudice. These we're invited
by Gill, among them being Dean Pattee;
Of the State University, and DR.. N. D.
Shutter Of this city. The public school
authorities frowned on Gill's undertak-'
ing and declined to give him the free use
of the High School hall. He was obliged
to hire Temple Opera House, and the re-
suit was that he lost by the venture and
in fact became financially bankrupt. His
own letter published in last weeks Wit
ness tells the whole lugubrious story.
He is now in Detroit, Mich, working
against "Romanism" under the fictitious
name Of Richard Steele. Detroit is the
supposed center Of the reformation, but
If this is the birth place I pity the rest
says John d. Gill, alias Richard Steele
The A. p. A. 10 an object Of pity il no
better man than Gill can be had to engi-
neer its nefarious work. The Witness is
entitled to the thanks Of the community
at large for discovering Gill and remov-
ing the mask from his satanic sounten-
ance He enjoyed savory, record II
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