The Irish standard., 1894-01-20


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| The Catholics of New England hare
1916 churches, $26 1915, COS Of property ana and
1,yO4 800 comm nicants, Or q per cent
Of the population.
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| IT il stated that the Catholics OF the,
New York archdiocese annually expend
$3.50 900 for the maintenance Of their
parochial schools, Of which institutions
there are about 100 in the archdiocese,
attended by upwsrds Of 40, 600 children.
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Edward Blake, member Of parliament
for Longford, Ireland, and one OF the ex-
ecutiye committee Of the Irish parlia-
mentary representation, led by Justin
McC arthy, is on brief visit to this coun-
try. He will lecture in Boston on jan.
81. Mr.. Blake says it takes $4,000 q
year to support the Irish parliamentary
party.
| Rev. Albert Barry contributes learned
article to the Irish Ecclesiastical Record
in which he maintains that St. Patrick
was neither Frenchman nor Scotch
man but native OF North Wales. Father
B-rry supports his arguments with nc
mean skill, and his contention, whether,
it be accepted or rejected, must excite
widespread interest.
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The author of "The Man Without a
Country" Edward Everett Hale, says
that San Francisco was named not after
St. Francis, but after Sir Francis Drake,
of the Pelican, who was knighted by
Queen Elizabeth for being a successful
pirate and freebooter. The lineal de-
scendant of Nathan Hale, the American
spy. is delightful writer of fiction, but
appears to be poor historian.
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The Teachers Club of Jersey City re-
Gently had q fair for their benefit. On
the opening night Mgr. Seton made an
address, in which he said: "There is no
aristocracy in this country but the aris-
tocracy of brains, and the true gentle
women of the country are our school
teachers" Coming as it did from scion
of one of the oldest and noblest families
in Europe, the compliment was all the
more appropriate. 4..
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A dispatch from Fort Wayne, Ind,
brings the pleasing news that one W. P.
Bidwell, editor of the American Eagle,
an A. P. A. organ, was arrested in that
city by Bishop Rademacher on the
charge OF criminal libel for printing an
article saying that q young lady was
locked up in a dungeon by one of the
priests. Unless the slanderous editors
of A. p. A. sheets in other cities exercise
better care, they will be treated in the
same manner as Bidwell, of the Ameri-
can Eagle.
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The Women's Protective League is q
new Catholic organization just formed in
St. Agnes parish IN East Forty THIRD
street, New York. It is formed on the
came lines us the Catholic Benevolent
Legion and the Catholic Knights Of
America, societies for men. The league
starts out with membership of about
sixty, and has the approval of Arch
bishop Oorrigau and of Rev. DR.. Henry
A. Brann, pastor of st. Agnes church.
The league will insure it's members for
from $500 to $4,000, and viii! also have
sick benefit fund.
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Chauncey Nd. Depew, the railroad mag
nate, has accepted an invitation of the
Catholic club of New York to address it's
members on his recent visit to Rome and
famous interview with the Pope. The
Know:nothing sheets will soon charge
Depew with being Jesuit in disguise
as they have already charged the Associ-
ated Press with being controlled by the
papacy, because it gave the world De-
pew's interview with Leo XIII. The
Romans of the Eternal City are not over
pleased with Depew's description of
Italian affairs and say he exaggerated
matters.
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Hugh 0. Pentecost, who has exchanged,
the pulpit for the bar, recently spoke of
the A. T. A. as follows: Tn view of how
un American the a. p. A. is it should be
called the American Paradoxical Associa-
ton, the American Pharisaical Associa-
tion, the American Polluting Association,
the American Paltry Association, the
American Pollywog Association-any-
thing but the American Protective Asso-
citation. It is not that America does not