IRISHMEN IN THE NORTH-WEST.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 5, 23 May 1884, Page 27

IRISHMEN IN THE NORTH-WEST.

That Irishmen have made Iheir mark in the North- west in commerce and [in tbe professions as well as at the plough, will be seen at a glance. "The Hon. P. H. Kelly, millionaire merchant of St. Paul, is in the grocery business what A. T. Stewart was in dry goods. He is also a member of the National Democratic Committee. His brother, Mr. Anthony Kelly, of Minneapolis, is also a merchant of equally high standing, although not known as a statesman. Tbe Mayor of St. Paul, the Hon. C. D. O'Brien, son of the late Dillon O'Brien, bad fame as a lawyer before he took the municipal' reins. Judge Wilson, of Winona, left tbe bench because the practice of the law was pleasant to him, and perhaps be cause the emoluments of a gcod lawyer are greater than those of an honest judge. He stood very high as a judge, and stands equally bigh as lawyer. The Hen. Ignatius Donnelly is only ode remove from Irish birtb. He is the best stump crator that Minnesota ever bad, and in recent years has made time from his plough for speculation as to where the garden of Paradise was, and as to whether comets came in contact with this planet, hence "Atlantis." which showed the location of tbe garden, and " Ragnarok," which charged the Chicago fire to a comet, and let out Mrs. O'Leary's cow. Mr. Donnelly is busy now, in his spacious mansion in the woods at In ininger near Hastings on the Mississippi, on a thesis to pTove tbat Lord Bacon wrote the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare. Further down the Mississippi is the Hon. P. H. Rahilly, a farmer on a large scale who has been in the Legislature more than once. His wealth has been a cause of loss to him this winter. He stored 2,000 bushels of wheat because he was dissatisfied with the price and a stray spark from a pipe cau&ed tbe destruction of tbe granary and its contents. « Still further down the river, at Winona, Mr. Andrew Hamilton, lumberman, ranks with the millionaires. At points here and tbere through tbe State,, Belle Plaine, Albert Lea, Bosemount, Oakland, GraoeviUe — named in honor of the esteemed Bishop of St. Paul — and, in fact, in all directions, are well-to-do Irish farm communities, with chnrches and resident pastors. Tbe priests have been most industrious. The Rev. Father Theodore Venn, of Blue Earth City, Minn., has built a dozen churches in different sections of the, State, and tbe Rev. Father Stariba, for some time pastor of Bed Wing, same State, gives up a settled mission to plant tbe Crops in a rather poor outskirt of St. Paul. In every city of Minnesota there are prosperous Irish merchants and professional men.— New York Sim.