The Irish standard., 1893-02-04
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Irish butter is rapidl driving Danish
and French buffers out Of the market il
South Wales. This is due to the influence
OF dairy schools ii the south Of Ireland.
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In the State Of New York, outside the
metropolis, there are said 70 be 405 mil
lionaires, Of whom IT'S are assigned to
Brooklyn. The list il New York City is
compiled separately and contains 1103
names.
A daughter Of Senator Voorhees,, Of
Indiana, athe tall 8, camore Of the
Wabash" !" has become Catholic The
favorite daughter Of the late Senator
Hill, of Georgia, and her two children
have also joined the Catholic Church.
Her father was bitter enemy to Oatho-
licity and ran as the Know-Nothing can
didate for governor Of Georgia.
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DR.. Phillips Brooks, the Protestant
Episcopal Bishor Of Boston, was divine
who was honored by men Of all religious
creeds. The Catholic press is unanimous
in paying enlogistic tributesto his mem
ory. He was broad churchman who
saw good in other churches besid ss his
own. After having read the recent article
Of Bishop Spalding against exhibiting
obscene paintings at the Worlds Fair, he
said: ",This is great article, grand work,
that ought to be memoriRed and preached
by every minister throughout the land"
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The February number of the Review
of Reviews has good portrait OF Mayor
Eustis, of this city, with an extract from
his inaugural address. DIR. Shaw, the
editor of the Review of Reviews, was the
leading writer on the Tribune under the
Blethen regime, aud it is not surprising
to have him say in his New York maga-
zine that Minneapolis has been one of the
most fortunate of all the American NUM-
cipalities, and that the development Of
it's park system, it's educational system
and some other OF it's departments and
local services, has been extremely credit
able.
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In letter to "The Independent" of
Moorhead, Mimi, Mr.. T. Costello ably
defends the Catholics from the structures
of the News, and sagely says: Catholics
were the first to bring the Christian re-
ligion to America-it was here before the
Mayhower-it has stood for over one
thousand eight hundred years-its age
alone ought to make some people anxious
to know the truth about it; but as some
people are hated because they are not
known, and they will not be known be-
cause they are hated, so it is with the
Gath olic Church-some blind bigots hate
it because they don't know it, and they
cant't know it because they hate it.
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Last Friday was the feast of st. Blase,
the day on which the faithful get their
throats blessed. That the most be.
fetal effects have resulted from the o.
servance Of this pious custom is attestes
by the experiences Of many. Those who
criticise Catholics for having their houses,
fields, throats, ETC., blessed only show All
ignorance of the object which is hoped to
be attained by the faithful the blessing
of God. In the old law God said to tho
sons of Aaron: "They shall invoke my
name on the children of Israel, and I
will bless them;" and Christ said to his
disciples, Into what soever house you
enter, first say: Peace be to this house;
and, if the son of peace be there, your
peace shall rest upon him. Accordingly
the Church provides for the solemn
blessing of her children by the hands of
her ministers; and very many can bear
witness Of the fact that their throats have
been benefited by having them blessed
on st. Blases's day. .
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The antecedents OF e1-priest Slattery
and his wife, who lectured in this city
few months ago on the evils Of "Reman-
ism," have besn traced to authentic
sources. Slattery was priest in Ireland
and was unfrocked for drunkenness.
Archbishop Walsh, Of Dublin, in letter
to Bishop O'Donnell, Of Brooklyn, saye
that Slattery in Cardinal McCabe's time
broke down very badly from intemper-
ance, and two weeks before the Gard lnal'g
death he got "the last chance" on .condi
tion OF taking and keeping total absti
nence pledge. He took the pledge and.
broke it. Archbishop Walsh gave him.
another chance, but he fell again and
drltted away to America where he picked.
up woman who accompanied him as his.
wife. She calls herself an ex-nun and
claims that ahea eacana1 from St Toea,,h,e.