enter the priesthood. He was received into the Jesuit
novitiate at Sault-au-Recolet, Canada, on the 1st of November, 1873, and
had the happiness of being ordained at Woodstock last August. In the
death of this gifted young priest the Society of Jesus has met with a
loss which can only be accurately estimated by those to whom his perfect
purity of heart, deeply intellectual mind and most lovable character
have endeared him for many years. We deeply sympathize with his aged
mother and family. His mother had not seen him since his ordination, but
was present at the funeral, where she saw her loved son in death. Happy
mother to have such a son before her in heaven, where we trust he is now
enjoying the rewards of a well-spent life.

REV. JOHN J. MCAULEY, S. J., professor of rhetoric at Holy Cross
College, died suddenly of apoplexy, at the residence of Dr. L. A. O.
Callaghan, Worcester, Mass., on the afternoon of December 2. Father
McAuley went with a party of the students from the college to skate at
Stillwater Pond, and during the recreation he broke through the ice and
into the water. He returned to the college and changed his clothing, and
not feeling very well, started off toward the city for a walk,
accompanied by Father Langlois. He called on Dr. Callaghan, but before
reaching his house he became ill and had to be carried inside, where he
soon died, after the arrival of Rev. John J. McCoy, who, with Father
Langlois, performed the last offices. The deceased has been, for several
years, attached to Holy Cross College, and is distinguished among the
Jesuits as a rhetorician of high order. His funeral will take place at
the college. This is the second death at the college within one month.

REV. FATHER RULAND, C. SS. R., Professor of Moral Theology at the
Redemptorist College, at Ilchester, Md., died on the 20th of November,
of apoplexy. The Rev. Father was a venerable and well-known priest. His
loss will be keenly felt by the community as he was a man of deep
learning and truly good.

REV. THADDEUS P. WALSH, first pastor of Georgetown and Ridgefield
parishes, Connecticut, departed this life on the 10th of November, at 3
o'clock, in St. Catherine's Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., to which place he
had been taken. Friday, October 30th, Father Walsh went to New Haven on
business, and it was there that the first warning of sickness, and as it
came out, of death, came to him. He had an apopletic stroke of paralysis
which affect