The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-07

go, nave pledgeO themselves TO SEM
$4,000 to aid the cause of Home Rule
before the opening of parliament, Feb
ruary TO-
Plans for PauIst Choristers.-Plans
for the Paulist Choristers are more
comprehensive at the present time
than ever before. A junior division of
boys, from eight years on, will be es-
tablished under the direction of Mr..
Thomas McGranahan, assistant choir
master. Mr.. McGranahan was the first
Alto Sociology of the organization, in
1904, and is at present the leading
tenor of the Choristers.
Federation at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
Jan. 25th, a meeting of all the Catho-
lie Societies of Milwaukee was held to
reorganize the Federation of Catholic
Societies of Milwaukee. The Archbish-
Cd addressed the meeting.
Pastor Gives Marble AItar.-A mar
BILE altar of pure Gothic type has been
shipped from Pietrasanta, Italy,
where it has been in process of con-
struction for several months. It will
cost over $4,000 and will be presented
to st. Mathews church, Auburn,
Rhode Island, by the pastor, Rev. John
F. Sullivan.
To Honor De Grasse.-A monument
to Admiral de Grasse, who commanded
the French fleet at Yorktown and COM
PEELED the surrender Of the British
forces under CORVALLIS in the War Of
independence, is proposed by officers
of the National Society of Sons of the
Revolution. The admiral is the only
prominent officer in that struggle
whose services have not been COM
memorated with a monument.
Mayor MitchePs UncIe.-While New
York is paying tribute to its newly
elected Mayor, John Purroy Mitchell,
Charleston, S. c., is to pay tribute
to his uncle, Capt. John G. Mitchell, on
the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary
OF the death of the officer who COM
manded the Confederate forces at Fort
Sumter during one of the severest per-
iods of the long siege and who, in dy.
ing, said: 81 gladly give my life for
South Carolina I only wish it was
for Ireland
Aged Couple Enter Church.-Mrs.
Mary Long, an excellent Southern
woman of 80 years and lifelong ad-
herent of the Baptist faith, was recent
ly received into the Church by Father
Clancy at Albany, Oregon. Her hus-
band was also received into the Church
on January 81, his ninety-frst birth
day.
Canadian Minister CathoIic.-Hon.
Wilfried Gariepy, member of the AL
berta legislature for Beaver River,
has been taken into the cabinet OF
Premier Sifton and has been given the
portfolio of minister of municipalities.
He is Catholic.
Governor GIynn to Speak-Governor
Martin H. Glynn, of New York will
be the orator on the occasion of the
celebration of the 136th anniversary
of the birth of Robert Emmett, to be
held early in March, at the Academy
of Music, Brooklyn, under the auspices
of the Clan-na-Gael.
Priest Welcomes Mine Workers.
Among those asked by the Central
Labor Union to welcome the Mine
workers Convention to Indianapolis
when it assembled in Tomlinson Hall
Tuesday morning, Jan. 20, was Rev.
Francis H. Gavisk, chancellor Of the
diocese and pastor of st. Johns
church.
Irish Music Confession February
22nd, the anniversary Of Washington's
birthday the State Board of the Gaelic
League in California will hold mu-
steal festival. The object Of this COM
petition is to create greater interest
in Irish music. The trial of skill
will be in three distinct sets Of mu-
steal instruments viz: bag-pipe, violin
and flute.
Grand Opera In Gaelic.-There Is
one grand opera written in the Irish
language which has been pronounced
by leading musicians to be among the
best efforts of modern composers, and
that is "Murgheis," written by O'Brien
Butler and published by firm of Ger
man music publishers. "Murgheis" has
had successful hearing at the Thea.
tire Royal in Dublin. Another grand
opera in the Irish text, by O'Dwyer, a
native composer, is under way.
1.-THE Padre of the Rains."-The
Sacramento friends and admirers Of
FIR. Ricard have arranged for the
Padre of the Rains" to speak in the
California capital, February II, in the
High School Auditorium. Mr.. S. GleI
Andrews, the secretary-manager of the
Chamber of Commerce is taking al
active interest in the matter, and a:
a result in order to aid in what is re
garded as a scientific discovery thu
Chamber of Commerce has decided tt
charge admission to the lecture and tt
donate the funds thus raised to Fathel
Ricard, to be used in his research anC
for the purchase of apparatus to b.
used in his work. The general public
will be urged to attend and thus hell
Father Ricard complete a new scien