A little genealogical research turned up this gem:
FREE-WILL OFFERING. – A few days ago “some person or persons unknown,” thought proper to bestow on a worthy parish Priest, the Rev Father MONAGHAN, a very handsome gift, meant we supposed to be a Christmas box, though a little before the time. This was in the shape of a male child, about ten days old, and well stocked with clothing of a decent description, a new single blanket outside, and its bodyclothes of nice swanskin, with a handsome cap on its head. Thus appareled it was placed in the well of his reverence’s jaunting car, where it was found next morning, in the arms of Morpheus, and apparently happy with its cradle. His reverence not accepting the compliment, sent for the police, who searched for an owner but without success, and the “free will offering” has been consigned to Brookeboro “workhouse. We should add that in the bosom of the child was found a slip of paper with his name “JOSEPH KANE” and alleging that it had been baptized by a Priest of the diocese. The writing was evidently the production of a respectable female, as none other could have used the pen to such perfection. – Armagh Guardian.
There’s a story in that.