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against Catholics in the well their determination to make up the £50 Stabbing a Priest in Queensland. sistent refusal continuous invitations to lectures low and scandalous yipublic subscription. ruffianly, known writjoin the Nihilists ; he had further
seems to grad his father, telling him of the per- style of oratory which A very serious case of stabbing is re, ten to to which he was being subjected, the prurient bigotry of' &Jew, but secution ported by the Courier to have occurred and most provokQueen Mary and Fronde. and begging to be removed as his life so, at the cost of deep at the Logan on the 10th inst. From was in danger. The father, a Polish ing offence to all peaceable and W a gentleman who arrived from Beenleigh small proprietor of the Government of meaning christians seems to be no end to Mr. T the same night that journal learnt the Volhynia, arrived at Odessa, purposing evening the Mission Fro Saturday On a peculikr trippings, by which following particulars of the affair :-" It to take away his son. But he was a Hall, Salt-market, was crowded to hear appears that, about 9 a.m., the Rev. (Is over the boundary stu he tinhappily stabbed been had boy The late. too Father Scortechini, the victim of the daydeath the day previous to his father's a statement from Mr. Harry Long kith f history into fatsbite. Father Burke to regard to Mr. F. G. Widdows, the selfassault, was sitting in a room at hie in America lifted him up fro& several arrival. Again, with respect to the at- styled Frater Aloysius. residence, Capra Vale, Logan River, Drenteln Baron of of these, in matters connected with Ireassassination tempted with a man named Samuel M'Goldrick, it is he never stood land and the Irish. Mr. Freeman has that Petersburg, said St. in Long Mr. ago days few a when the latter asked for a settlement known that he received some time ago upon a platform with a stronger feeling since that found him floundering in a in connection with his brother's will, of St. a letter warning him of the fate intended of anxiety and distress than on that quagmire of untruth respecting which the rev. gentleman is an executor. added that, as it occasion, and he asked the meeting to Thomas of Canterbury, has picked him letter The him. for The demand was refused, whereupon believed be did not fear bear with him while he endeavoured to out of it, given hith a good shaking for M'Goldrick, saying here's at you, was generally be struck at through explain the most painful position in being so heedless or mischievous, arid he would death, then,' stabbed the other with a knife whom he was known which he found himself. Mr. Widdows set him on his legs again ; and now for his daughter, between the fifth and sixth rib. Mr. the deepest affection. It is came last year to the hallAnd at the another writer, Mr. Louis Weisener, has Plunkett having taken the news to to cherishthat General Dreuteln will fall close of the proceedings introduced detected him at his usual perversity. It probably Beenleigh, the police magistrate (Mr. his immediate predecessor Mesent- himself as a person who had renounced is a habit of Mr. Froude to feign remote like proceeded Fonsworth Dr. Rankin) and his soff; who was murdered last August. the errors of Rome and embraced the and little known authorities for to the scene of the outrage, while ago, also, a colonel of truths of Protestantism. Mr. Long ac- peculiar statements. A. reference to fortuignt a About started Constables Quinlan and Moylan gendarmerie was assassinated at Kiev ; cepted the man's statement, aud, as some book on some shelf in some foreign in pursuit of the perpetrator of the deed. of the assassin had been found. was well known, Mr. Widdows ad- and not much frequented library or M'Goldriek was arrested at Logan no trace night of Thursday, March 27, dressed a number of meetings towards archive, without special reference to the On Village, and conducted to the priest's murder was perpetrated the end of last year in Glasgow, and he book or shelf, gives an air of research political another residence, where the latter's deposition manner in Moscow. hail no doubt most of these present had to his writings, and makes it easier for daring most in the was taken in his presence, after which was having a heard the addresses. Subsequently he his critics to allow many of his stateBatynsky M. certain he was remanded to Beenleigh, to be A party, at which a young took Mr. Widdows before the close of ments to pass unnoticed into common brought up there on Monday next. The sort of evening old, named Bairashevskij, the year to Dundee. The reason he acceptance rather than to contradict latest information concerning the sufferer man, 22 years son of very wealthy parents near introduced Widdows to the public of them by appeal to his pretended sources the wound the although Celt, effect is to the Now and then he is \Vilna, was present. About nine o'clock Glasgow and Dundee was the extremely of information. is a very serious one, no immediate arrived strong testimonials that he possessed. found out. One of the prevailing estiKatschka, Mlle. lady, young a The it." danger is apprehended from and inquired for the host. He on another occasion wrote to Mr. mates of the character of Queen Mary same journal on the 14th inst., publishes at the house, with some of the Widdows, and invited him back to Glas- of England, as given by her foes, is that was acquainted She this supplementary statement :-" Cerinvited to join gow. Mr. Widdows accepted, and of morose, melancholy, jealous, and rewas and persons present, tain rumours very injurious to the Rev. upon enter- received the hospitality of Mr. Long's vengeful disposition. It had begun to and se, did She party. the Renediet Seorteeldni, the victim of' the were own roof for two months. Upon his be found out that this estimate was the guests the where room the ing munlerous assault of Samuel M'Goldrick around looked second return to Dundee the disturb- result of the polemical rancour of the she carefully assembled at Logan Village, have been current a revolver from her pocket ances occurred of which so much men- Reforming party of the sixteenth and since the affair took place. The impli- and drawing Bairashevskij dead on the spot. tion had been made in the newspapers following century, and a more just hiscation, as stated to us, has been that shot handing the revolver to the Then there appeared the correspondence torical research has begun to places Then was brother ,VGehlriek's of will the person she said she "submitted between him (Mr. Long) and Dr. Mary's character in a more favourable nearest that and Scortechini, by Father drown She has refused to give Glancy, the Catholic clergyman, light. But Mr. Froude "to the rescue" faith." to her greater the or whole it conveyed the of her deed, contenting formerly of Patrick, but now at Mother- of the great traditional lie. He pretends explanation any to of the deceased, part of the property she was obliged to well, and eventually that gentleman to discover a contemporary authority, saying with herself the Church of which the rev. gentleman Orenberg, is 19 challenged him that the statement in and indeed her own acknowledgment of from comes it. She do is a priest. We have inquired into the for her re- Mr. Widdows' pamphlet that his mother this evil disposition, made to one of the known well is and old, years matter, and we learn from the solicitor He affects have dis- had dedicated hint to the Virgin and ambassadors at her court. police The beauty. markable by whom the will was proved that the that she had only just arrived given him to the monks of Elmhill to discover this in the manuscript corflees are briefly as fhllows :-Father covered Pctersberg when she presented Monastery was not true, and Dr. respoudeuce of the ambassador Renard, Scortechini drew the will, of which the from St. house of M. Batynsky, Glancy undertook to forfeit £50 should where he is made to say that she had Ilon. J. Mullen, NI.D., was appointed herself at the surmise that the murder was it be proved there was a Catholic told him that the execution of Cranmer, they and religious of the The whole executor. by the revolutionary chiefs monastery in that town. He (Mr. which was soon to take place, was or charitable bequests in the will, in- £rdered victim had been formerly a Long) thought it his duty to defend already relieving her of that melancholy The there. Joseph, of St. cluding £10 to the Sisters the Technological School at Mr. Willows, and believing in his which had weighed upon her from in student or £2,5 (lid not amount to more than was buried on the follow- veracity he accepted the doctor's chal- childhood, that it was now rolling away, He Moscow. £30 ; and the remainder of the prois remarkable that very lenge. lie had since corresponded with that she had never known the meaning It Sunday. ing perty of the deceased, valued at nearly his funeral, and trustworthy persons in Norwich, and of happiness, and that site was about to attended persons few £2000, was bequeathed absolutely to his Mr. Froude's those present there were none of had received the information that Mr. be rewarded at last. among wife." his former comrades. This goes to con- Widdows had never been in a Catholic confident word, supported by a reference -011= firm the suspicion that the murder was monastery in Norwich. He had indeed to two volumes which few ever saw of been in the Anglican monastery of manuscript correspondence in his vol. political. Nihilists. It is further reported that the judges Father Ignatius, after which he went 6 p. 123, gave a renewed sanction to the who are to try Fomin, the Nihilist to the Continent, where he became a dying libel, and made Mr. Froude look All the information which reaches leader who is charged with the late as- Catholic. Mr. Widdows had therefore learned. A recent French writer, M. Western Europe goes to show that with sassination in Charkoff, have received, deceived him, so that he (Mr. Long) at Louis Weisener, has made the . youth each fresh outrage, the audacity and in- threatening letters ; and the president once made arrangements to implement of Queen Elizabeth " the subject of a fluence of the Nihilists increase, and of the court has been actually fired at as his compact with Dr. Glancy and had book. In this he says," After repeated likewise the panic of outsiders, especially he was entering his own residence. paid the £50 (applause). Ile had tele- reference to the manuscript we assert among officials. About four weeks ago The priest who acts as chaplain of the graphed and written to Mr. Widdows that in this despatch of Renard's of 17th a murder was committed in an inn at central prison in Charkoff has declared in Dundee earnestly requesting him to November there is not a siugle one of Moscow, sonic of the mysterious cir- that out of the five hundred prisoners furnish some proof which would justify the wcrds that represent her (Mary) as cumstances of which have only lately confined there two hundred have died him to continue his confidence in Mr. being made debased and detestable by Leen allowed to leak out. In a room, within the lust four months. This ex- Widdows; but the answers he had re- revenge. The only sentence concerning which had not been opened for some actly coincides with one of the chief ceived flout Mr. Widdows were most Cramer in the despatch is this-' L'on days, the body of a murdered man was complaints of the Nihilists. They de- unsatisfactory and did not contain a est apres pour executer la sentence found ; upon his back was a card on clare that the political prisoners are so single fragment of justification of the rendue centre l'Evesque de Canterbury.' which was written : "Traitor, spy, brutally treated while in confinement statement. So far from that, Mr. Wid- Although we have most minutely judged and executed by us, the Russian that their health completely breaks dows, had stated that he was going on searched the two volumes ofmanuscripts Socialists and Revolutionists. Death to dowu, and frequently their reason gives the Continent immediately and did not containing the correspondence of the the Judases and traitors." According way. intend to come to Glasgow at all. The Imperial ambassador, we have not sucto the Moskowa Gazette the murderer is conclusion he (Mr. Long) had therefore ceeded in discovering the quotation a student. He was residing in Moscow come to was that Mr. Widdows was a taken from them by Mr. Froude." So on an English passport. He fled ; but most unreliable person-was, in fact, an much then for Mr. Froude as a hisAn Imposter Unmasked. all his effects were secured, and over a absolute liar (applause). He added that torian, and so much for a great part of he had come to that conclusion as to " English history" *hen it treats of hundred persons arrested on suspicion followThe Catholic Times gives the Mr. Widdows' character apart altogether It is from such writiag-as of being, at least, accomplices. About exposure- from the grave charge which had re- Catholics.so wrongly conceived ideas of a fortnight ago, a boy, only 17 years ing account of the complete that this his greatest ad- cently been made against him. old, who was a student in the Odessa by one who had been the characters of the past get possession Monk, named Gymnasium, was murdered by his vocate-of a Sham of the minds of even Catholics themMr. with sympathized The meeting His offence was a Widdows, who for some time, went fellow students. selves.-Catholic Times. declaring giving Long, and passed a resolution double one. He had met with a pee- about various towns in Scotland
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