Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1887 — A NEW DEPARTURE. [ARTICLE]

A NEW DEPARTURE.

Eleotion of a Catholic IVicgt, an Principalof a Public School* At an eleijjion for principal of the thirty-third school, at Pittsburg, Pa.,. Monday night, Rev. Father McTighe,a Roman Catholic priest, was chosen. The election ha's caused considerable discussion in religious circles, as it is believed to be the first time on lecord that a Catholic priest has ever been called upon to filtH-similar position in the public schools. The reason that the Catholic clergyman applied for the principalship was, as he claims, because there are over four hundred Catholic children in that ward, and only thirty or forty Protestant children. The Catholic people will not send their children to the public schools on account of tber.e being no religion taught there, and Father McTighe claims that when they pay most of the school taxes in the ward they should have some of the benefits.

Epidemic of Drnnkeunegs at Washingtou,An epidemic of drunkenness would seem to have prevailed in the army and navy during the summer, affecting even the Military academy at West Point and the civil bureaus of both departments. . .•