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EEBIGMD.
The Liberal Cabinet, have placed their
seeugaatkmain the hands of the quean.
This course was decided upon only af
ter mature consideration of' the possi
bilities and probabilities of the, political
future. The election oxeiieimmt has
subsided, and Lord Salisbury wiii un
doubtedly be entrusted with the forma
tion of a row ministry. 'The Cousorva
tives themselves freely confess that they
are numerically weaker than what they
expected, and accordingly it is pro
bable that a coalition government will
be formed in fact, the Tories i:ave al
ready matte overtures to the TJnioukts
this direction. They naturally fear
to accept the reins of power without
some assurance that the latter will not
cause their downfall ou some question
revenue like that which turned out'
Mr, Gladstone year ago, or gome pro
position of agrarian reform, like that
which shattered the last Tory Cabinet.
The only tiling in common with the
Tory and Uuionisb parties, as they new
«y.ia&, is their opposition to Mr. Glad
stone's* Home Rule measure. If they
•would stand together tliey must secure a.
broader base for joint action than this,
as undoubtedly th?. first, question to be
arbitrated upon is the one aifeetiug the
Irish people, and upon this point, ae
sordi.r to the utterances of both par
ties there is as much difference as be
tween day and night, and it might be
.reuvarked that they diiier widely be
t-ween themselves. Self-interest is the
predominating characteristic of the
Todo.fi, and consequently they propose
!o buy the Unionists by a lavish distri
bution of place and patronage. In fur
therance of this time-out-of-mind Tory
policy they propose to give the Union
ists four seats in the Cabinet, although
strength in ratio as compared with
the Conservatives will be only as 1 to 4
Beoidos this, it is stated that Lord
Harfeington has been offered the leader
ship in the British House of Commous,
but his lordship lias not committed him
self so far as to preclude tiie possibility
Jiim retiH'v-ing to liis first love. This
is the price the Liberal dissidents are to
deceive for their treachery, and it is just
•possible that they will accept it. We
fail to observe whether -Judas Chamber
kin will receive his twenty pieces of
silver or not. But even under this new
order of things it is probable that the
success Mr. Gladstone's opponents have
scored will be short-lived and fruitful of
interminable perplexities arising out of
ihe Homo Kule question.
A sad circumstance in connection
with the Cabinet'meeting held Tuesday
iu Mr, Gladstone's office in Downing
street was the statement by tiie old po
litical war-horse, referring to his stay
ing powers, that he would be unable to
iight much longer iu the face of an em
bittered Parliament, but he would do
JHB
best, although he urged his follow
ers to rely on other leaders. This, of
^course, does not necessarily mean that
-•Mr. Gladstone will go out of political
•life, but simply that he can no longer
-stand the strain which is of necessity in
volved in leading a great political
party. Millions of people devoutly
hope that he may be spared many years
to give the world the benefit of his
THE DEFEAT AND ITSOATISES.
The causes to which the defeat of Mr.
Gladstone can be ascribed are innumer
able and as variegated as the colors of
the rainbow." The first one is an inher
ent prejudice in the minds of so many
Englishmen against the Irish people.
This prejudice is not a new-born plant,
but has existed for centuries, although
recent events would lead one to believe
that it has moderated somewhat. (This
is to be observed in the Jate elections,
when many of Ireland's most pro
nounced haters voted for the principle
of self-government for that oppressed
nation. Another
cause
was the dishon­
esty of Chamberlain and his associates.
This unscrupulous tactician told
every audionce he addressed that Glad
stone'a policy meant iiimply taxiug the
Euglisli people £150,000,000 for the
sole purpose of buying out the Irish
landlords. Of course this was malicious
mendacity, but in their case the end
justified the means. The toiling
masses were uneducated on the funda
mental principles of Mr. Gladstone's
Home Rule bill, and it was in thi3 the
great- mistake was made. Thus the bat
tle was waged and won.
COMMMCJB OF CHARITIES AND
CORRECTIONS,
The conference of charities and cor
rections which has been in session in St.
Paul for the past ten days illustrates the
amount of good work that can be accom
plished when brethren dwell together
in peace." Attending the conference
were such eminent prelates as Bishop
Ireland of the Catholic Ohurcli, and
Bishops Whipple. Gillespie and Kmck
erbacker of the Episcopal Church. The
list includes eminent clergymen and
doctors of divinity in all the denomina
tions, including the Hebrews, repre
sented by Rabbi Sonnescheim, of St.
Louis, and people of no religion at all,
taking active parts in the proceedings.
One of the most noted speeches was
the one delivered by Bishop Ireland. In
referring to the interest manifested by
Catholics iu matters of a charitable na
ture, he said
'•From principle and tradition the
Catholic Church is one vast storehouse
of charity Catholicism is nothing if it
is not charity. The vital doctrines of
the Church demand work of charity as
the neciessary external evidences of in
ward faith her most loyal and devoted
children are known by their consecra
tion of will an 1 energy to works of char
ity her m- it glorious monuments,
strewn fdon.v. the course of time and
marking her passage through nations,
are the homes
.if
charity her monas­
teries, her hospitals, her asylums, the
decrees of her councils, the letters of
her Pontiffs, the lessons of her theo
logical and ascetic writers urge, com
mand charity.
In concluding an eloquent address on
this subject, Iiis Grace said
"The Catholic Church has not yet
had. the time nor the opportunity to
build up as fully as she would have de
sired her charities in America. Still
she has not been idle. There is no city
without her institutions, no village with
out. an efficient representative of her
charity. She will do more in the future.
For freedom of expansion is allowed her
by our generous laws and the noble
spirit of our people. She will watch
carefully over her own works at the
same time she will bless all other agen
cies of true charity. Tiie field is broad.
There is room for many workers. The
Consideration of the labor of others will
fire our emulation to do as well aa they,
and the spirit of love for the neighbor
which inspires us all will lead, us to love
one onother most sincerely and to re
joice in all the good that is done, as our
Heavenlv .Father above rejoices in it."
OBITUARY,
The grave has just closed over the
mortal remains of au old Irish Catholic
citizen, whose memory will be long
treasured by all whose good fortune it
was to make his acquaintance, and
whose life would serve as a brilliant ex
ample for all who seek to live honorably
and meritoriously. Few names are de
serving of greater respect than that of
Thomas Way Bayley, who died in his
79th year, on the 27th ult., at his resi
dence on William street. He belonged
to a family that was distinguished tor
opulence, talent and social standing.
He was born in 1807 iu Waterford, Ire
land, and educated in Trinity College,
Dublin. He practiced for many years
at the Bar in the Irish metropolis and
held important relations with Daniel
O'Connell and the Duke of Wellington,
He was thoroughly versed in the Latin
and Greek classics, eminently skilled in
mathematics and British literature, He
wrote beautifully in prose and verse.
His conversational powers were of a high
order. He was most gentlemanly in his
deportment, and most enlightened in the
principles of the Catholic religion. His
life was an excellent preparation for his
death. His. loss will be felt deeply and
extensively. T. W. Bayley represented
a class of men rarely seen, insufficiently
appreciated and at all" times worthy of
being admired*—Yesper Chimes, of
Montreal'.
The deceased was the father of Wm.S.
Bayley, of this city, state secretary of the
A.
"THE EMIGRANT'S BURIAL."
The Liverpool (Eng.) Mercury prints
a poem, which it says was written by D.
B. Buffield, of Detroit, Mich., and
which we do not remember to have seen
in print before. We quote three stanzas
of it, with the accompanying note from
the Liverpool Mercury The title of
the poem is "The Emigrant's Burial.''
It appears that among the passengers
on board the steamer E. W. Kandall
were some Irish emigrants, and among
the number a husband with his wife and
children on their way to Iowa. The
mother was brought from the ship to
the steamer at New Orleans, and after a
few days' illness died. When the kind
hearted Captain Thomas asked the
stricken husband where he would bury
her, he pointed to the shores of the
Missouri and said, "I'll bury her there
in the name of God.''
He stood on the steamer's noisy deck,
Bowed by a grief which he might not check,
For by him lay all bereft of life
The shi-oudless corpse of his fuithful wife,
Dark swept the Mississippi's tide
While the pall of ninrht eaine down to hide
From the careless gaze of straugers near.
The pale thin form ou the piue piank bier.
They had gone from the lordly Shannon's
stream
To the grand new world where the free stars
fleam,
Seeking- a home they may not find
In that land of their love, they left behind.
And while the proud floet ship would toss
The spray from her wings like an albatross,
Their shouting children sung with glee
With songs of their new-born liberty.
But the mother's blinding tears would come
As she thought of her own loved cottage home,
Of the haunted spring by the hawthorn gray,
Where fairies sang at the close of day.
And while the fierce lever sure though slow.
Quickened her life blood's ebb and fiow,
With a wasting grief as deep as vain.
She pined for her own dear land again.
0ATHQLI0 TOTAL ABSTINENCE
UMS CONTENTION.
The sixteenth annual convention of
the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America will be held in the University
of Notre Dame. Ind., on. Wednesday and
Thursday, August and 5. The board
of government will meet on Tuesday
evening, August 3, Washington Hall,
Notre Dame. On the morning of the
4th, Pontificial High Mass will be cele
brated in the beautiful Church of Our
Lady of the Sacred Heart. Societies
will be present from Chicago, III., Lo
gansport, Goshen, and South Bend,
Ind., and fether places. They will es
cort the delegate?!. On Wednesday
evening a public temperance meeting
will be held in Washington Hall, On
Thursday evening the drama of
"Drink" will be presented by the Co
lumbian Dramatic Association, of Val
paraiso, Ind.
The president of the Indiana Union,
the Bev. F. 0. Weichman, writes
"Other places may present many attrac
tions, but Notre Dame will surprise
everyone." A.11 delegates will be enter
tained during the convention at thf
commodious and elegant University
building free of charge. The Bev,
Thomas Walsh, C. S. C., President of
the University, will invite personally all
the Bishops of the country, and it ia ex
pected that a goodly number will honor
the convention with their presence.
ORGANIZING IRISH MILITARY
COMPANIES.
One of the results of the recent en
campment of Irish soldiers at Newark,
1ST. J., was the formation of the Irish
American Military Union of tbe United
States, its object being the organiza
tion of Irish-American military com
panies in all the States. Officers of the
union were elected as follows Presi
dent, Capt. W. H. Murphy, of Wash
ington, D, C. vice-president, Capt.
Fahey, of St. Paul, Minn. secretary,
Capt. .J. .Francis Baker, of New Haven,
Conn. treasurer, Capt. M. J. Slattery,
of Albany, N. Y. Uniform similar to
that worn by the United States troops
was adopted. Tiie next encampment
will be held in Washington, D. C., in
May, 1877.
EXTINCTION OF ORANGEISM,
Medical men are a unit in asserting
that by removing the cause the effect
ceases. This theory is just as appli
cable to the affairs of state as to the ills
the fteshis heir to. Mr. J. L. P, O'Hanly,
of Ottawa, Can., a letter to the Irish
Canadian, predicts that in two genera
tions hence an Orangeman in Ireland
will be as rare a bird as a nightingale.
In referring to the origination of the or
der the same gentleman says that in the
past it was felt to be the interest of the
foreign garrison to keep the Irish people
divided and cutting each others1 throats.
With devilish ingemuty they invented
the Orange system, the most perfect
adaptation of means to an end that
human skill inspired by Satan conceived
and ever accomplished. With national
independence all motive for keeping up
the organization will cease there will no
longer be any use for it and Irish Pro
testants will be as amazed at the exist
ence of such abomination and the
credulity of their ancestors, as we are
to-day at the degraging superstition
which burned witches at the stake.
THE New York Municipal Council of
the Irish National Land League within
a year has sent $16,000 to the National
Treasury. Philadelphia sent $50,000.
THE CROPS.
Conflicting reports reach us from dif
ferent parts of che country concerning
the condition of the crops in the North
west. The small grains in Minnesota
and Dakota are ripening fast under the
hot dry rains, and it is believed that the
harvest will not be as bad as what was
predicted. In a letter from Mr. J. J.
Carrigan, Bnrnsville, Dakota county,we
learn that the chintz bugs are commit
ting greatdamage, and the same reports
reach us from Pierce and St. Croix
counties, Wis. The Northwesters
Miller will present the bright side in its
next issue aBd will say:
"It might as well be understood at
once that if the Northwest is not del
uged during the harvest now in pro
gress, the spring wheat crop of the
Minneapolis belt will be a large and
fine one. A wonderful change for the
better has occuredin the past fortnight,
and everything now indicates that the
damage has been overestimated. From
whole counties from which previous
reports had claimed almost total de
struction of the crop, reports now come
that, the wheat has attained a good
heighth. carries large and well-filled
heads, aud is about ready for the reap
er.. The harvest is well uader way in
southern Minnesota and Dakota. The
most favorable reports of the week
come from the various lines of the
Omaha system, penetrating sections in
which, three weeks ago, it was declared
that no wheat could be harvested."
THERE were serious riots at Tyrone
on the 17 th.
W. J. REYNOLDS. Parnellite,
been re-elected for Tyrone.
HARCOTTRT
AT
is right. Whether or not
the Liberals are beaten, Home Rule is
au assured event of the future, and the
defeat of Mr. Gladstone may even
hasten its advent.
IT is said that Sir Michael Hicks
Beach and other members of the late
Tory cabinet will oppose the admission
of the Duke of Argyll and Goschen into
the new cabinet, and urge that the
Duke of Abereome be appointed vice
rov of Ireland.
THE Russian fleet threaten A Lazereff
because England, during tb.e Afghan
dispute occupied Hamilton. The Chin
ese fleet has proceeded to iadivok
stock, and the Russian minister of war
is visiting tha far East. His preseuce
there is regarded as significant.
THE following remarks were made by
Bishop Ireland: "The cause of so much
pauperism among foreign-born citizens
is intemperance. The politicians were
the first to take the newcomers sa
loons for their votes. People should
stigmatize the cause of thi.3 evil. The
cities were, the emmigrants' ruin."
THE agricultural bureau looks for
about 116,000,000 bushels, wheat and
flour, for export from this year's crop
and, even with the discounted June ex
pectations, the spring wheat output is
placed at 139,000.000 bushels, with an
admitted probability of depreciation
during July. The statistician is hope
ful.
THE Irish people of the United
States sent $100,000 to the Irish Parlia
mentary fund iu two weeks. This sum
had no connection whatever with the
hundreds of thousands of dollars that
had gone for similar purposes before.
It was ail collected in a few days and
cabled to the old country with spirited
alacrity.
FATHER NOKTHGI":A VES5 book, "The
Mistakes of Modern Infidels,seems to
be rapidly gaining in favor, not only
among Catholics, but Protestants as
well are taking a great interest in this
work, which aims to controvert in a
simple but intelligent manner the in
fidel lies of such men &3 Ingersoil,
Payne, etc.
THE Loudon Times urges that the
strongest and most capable statesman
in the Irish party be chosen to adminis
ter Irish affairs. Another change, the
Times says, which is absolutely necess
ary, is the transfer of Mr. Hamilton,
under secretary at Dublin Castle, who
is the driving wheel of the administra
tion, to some office.
A FRENCH paper, Le Paris, pub
lished an interview the other morning
between one of its correspondents and
Mr. Gladstone, which the latter is re
ported as saying: "The Liberals who
followed me and the Irish members
constitute a. compact minority whose
wishes it shall be less possible to disre
gard, because among the victors are
some who, perhaps, are less indisposed
than is believed to enter the path of
thorough reform for Ireland. If I lis
tened to the warning of age I would re
tire from public life, but I would be
committing a guilty action in abandon
ing the field after raising so much ire
and inspiring so many hopes if I did
trot seek to appease the one and satisfy
the others. I have worked all my life
to deliver the suffering people, and I
mean to die as I have lived."
CLAIMS.
has
TIIERK was a Nationalist demonstra
tion at Monaghau on the 17th after the
result of the polls had been declared.
THE opinion of Thomas Power
O'Connor should have great weight.
He says that Salisbury's great object is
to crush the National League.
SPLENDIO FISHING
THOMAS ADDIS EMMET, a grand
nephew of the patriot Emmet, has been
appointed by the New York park board
as general inspector of parks.
THE motion for anew trial in the rail
road right of way cases tried at the last
terra of the district court Luverrie
.Minn., has been denied by Judge
Perkins, and appeals will accord
ingly be taken to the supreme court.
THE Orangemen know that they
have treated the Catholics in the most
intolerant manner, and it is the fear
that the Catholics would pay them back
in their own coin that frightens them.
But their fears are groundless. In the
event of Home Rule, the only revenge
the Catholics will take is to heap coals
of fire on the
heads
THE FRAGRANT COFFEES!
You get at Ray's
Tea Store can not b3 duplicated
for price and fine drinking any where, and as it is
BOASTED DAILY
It doubly assures you of getting the finest drink that ever tickled a palate.
A discount in 25 and 50 lb, cans, and the acknowledged
place for fine and medium gcade TEAS is
FLA.1T
S TEA STORE.
Established 1872.
JOHN T. RARNIJM,
TBUNK MANUFACTURER,
DEALER IX
Traveling Bags, Dog Collars, Etc.
Repairing aad Sample Work Specialties.
240 NICOLLETAV.f Minneapolis--Nicollet JECouse Block
PENSIONS,
BOUNTIES,
And all other Government Claims suc
cessfully prosecuted. Pension Vouch
ers carefully executed. No fee until
claim is allowed.
OFFICE HOURS—9 to 12 a.m. 2 to
5 p. m.
Ho! For the Motor!
TO
lVLi:nrj,©li.a..l:ia Falls,
Lakes Minnetonka,
Oalixouiri. and Harriet
MOUND TRIP TICKET8
Twentv-five Cents to Minnehaha and Lake Calhoun!
Seventy-five Cents to Excelsior and Helurii!
TIME O.AJRJD
Trains leave for Minnetonka as follows: 5.80 a. m., i) a. in., 1.20 p. ir.. 5 in.
Returning, leave Minnetonka as follows: 7.10 a. m.. 12.10 p. m.. 4.10 p. m., and
6.38 p. m. Trains leave every hour for Minnehaha.
of their old ene­
mies by treating them with kindness.
ALL
the great reforms chronicled in
English history were only carried in the
long run after repeated defeats. The
Repeal of the Corn Laws, Free Trade
Catholic Emancipation, were only sue"
cesstul after many vicissitudes and dis
asters. Home Rule is now going
through the same ordeal. As a politi
cal measure it will only be retarded,
not killed, by the apparently hostile
majority against it.
THE Crusaders' Total Abstinence So
ciety of the Immaculate Conception
parish held a very enthusiastic meeting
last Tuesday evening,and discussed the
oroject of a new hall at considerable
length. It was resolved to lay the mat
ter over for one week, and it is expect
ed that a final decision will be given
at at the next meeting. All members
will be notified by post to be present,
and every member interested in this
work should be there.
IN Marseilles Tuesday evening mobs
attacked the offices of the Royalist pa
pers. Gendarmes defended the build
ings successfully, preventing the riot
er's from carrying out tljeir purpose of
sacking the premises. The mobs then
turned on the gendarmes, and severe
fighting ensued. The police and sol
diers together overpowered the rioters
and restored order. A number of riot
ers were arrested. Many of the police
and soldiers were arrested.
IT is a coincidence worthy of note
that so many Irishmen should one
way or another be connected with Mgr.
Taschereau's Cardinalate. In the first
place, came Archbishop Conroy as the
Pope's representative to settle the re
ligious disputes in the country and to
pave the way for the great honor con
ferred upon the Catholics of Canada
the creation of its first Cardinal. Then
is chosen to convey to His Eminence
the beretta, Mgr. O'Brien, a leading
prelate of the Pope's household, who
arrived Quebec on the 17th mst
And later, the honor of conferring the
beretta on the new Cardinal's head was
reserved for another Irishman, His
Grace Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto.
A. MOBECK,
SOLICITOR,
41 Wash. Av. S
Minneapolis, Minn*
Address corre
spondence to P. O.
Box 520.
AND BOATiNS!
THE Pacific coast produces annually
1,500,000 cases or canned goods, valued
at $4,610,00(a.
THE cholera in Italy is continually
decreasing in the worst districts, and
is stationary in others.
THE secretary of the treasury has
called $4,000,000 of 3 per cent, bonds.on
which interest will cease September 1..
THE dies from which the first United
States—the so-called Franklin—cents
were cast are now used as paper weight?,
in a New Haven counting room.
THE convicts in the 7llinois peniten
tiary at Joliet are to be leased out
to the highest bidder, but, not more
than seventy-five men to any one branch
of manufacture.
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the anarchist trial at Chicago Mon
day, Officers lirueger and Wessler iden
tiied Fielden as a man at whom they
both shot after seeing him fire on the
police with a revolver.
THE authorities of the Wash ingtoniaa
home in Chicago have informed the
city authorities that all persons resid
ing in Cook county are received and
treated without pay, so long as they ex
press a desire to reform.
ON a farm near Janesville, Wiscon
sin. during Sunday night, Henry Search
and his wife were murdered for money.
Officers are in pursuit of a farm-hand,
who started for Chicago. The murder
er failed to find $47-5 in gold secreted in
the house.
MR. GLADSTONE, in a letter to a
friend, uses the fbllowing expressions
"I am am axed at thedeadness of vulgar
(common) opinion to the blackguard
ism and baseness which befoul tbe his
tory of the Union. It is an open ques
tion in my mind, whether, if this folly
lasts., the thing may not contribute to
the Repeal of ihe Union."
SOME ten or twelve umber rafts were
started from the city mills, Eau Clare.
Monday and Tuesday on the artificial
rise of water furnished by the Dells
Improvement company's dam. A num
ber of drivers reached there from the
Big Elk river, where they were engaged
in driving logs for the Quail Bros., but
had to abandon the work on account of
low water.
A LATE dispatch says that Gladstone
has indirectly advised Parnell against
pursuing an obstructive policv in the
coming parliament, as he believes that
1880 the tactics pursued by the lush
members did much to throw discredit
upon the Irish cause. Gladstone hoped
the Parnelhtes would not resort to the
methods practiced during that session.^
Parneil has replied that he is desirous}"1
of following Gladstone's leadership,!^
giving entire liberty to action the\'
Tories of trying coercion.
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