The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-03-22

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A Protestant correspondent OF the North
| sccsterw CAs0Sic9e relates the angular but
| significant fact that at festival held IN an
Episcopal church, 4alu.:ple sliver casket
i was voted tor as o present to the min1ste1
having the greatest number Of votes, Father
McDermOtt received over twO-thirds of the
votes. A similar incident occurred at a
Presby tarian festival, the prize being a
silver pitcher, when the same Rev. gentle
man got large majority Of votes, aud, OF
course, the pitcher, q large preponderance
of the voters being Protestante.
| DIOCESE OF CINCINNATI.-The receipts
from the orphan's fair lately held in chi
cinDati amounted to between ten aud twelve
thousand dollars. - .-:s, ~ - ~
health of Right Rev. Bishop Carroll, OF
Covington, has much improved within q
few days, and hopes of his recovery are en-
tertained Telegraph.
We learn from the Jaspar (Ind. y Courier
that the Rev. Father James Meister, priest
st. Anthony, Dubois county, lost his life
under the following circumstances: On last
Tuesday morning some young lads were
cutting q tree for wood near the priests
residence and were playing around SO as to
be In danger of getting hurt, when he went
just as he arrived at the place the tree fell
and in falling broke q large limb off from
another tree, which hit the deceased on the
head, breaking his skull. He fingered
until about eleven o'clock at night, and
| then expired. Father Meister was a re-
markable man, even in the priesthood.
Although over eighty years of age, he was
energetic, active, and always industrious,
and ministered to the spiritual wants of his
congregation with n fidelity unsurpassed by
any. He was native of France, but had
lived in this country for several years, and
\ Ill.
| been ordained a full priest fifty years
Catholic Inteliigencer.
ARCHDIOCESE, OF New YoRK.-We learn
from the Brooklyn Eagle that the Lazarists
are about to erect a college in that city. a
lot seven hundred by two hundred feet has
beeu purchased, and friends of the cause of
education are giving substantial support to
the undertaking, among them the mayor,
I Hon. Martin Kalbfeiscil.
| The church of st. Charles Borromeo, Sid
ney place, Brooklyn, took fire from the
heater and burned to the ground on Sunday
morning just before daybreak. The conse-
| Grated vessels and a portion of the vest
ments were saved but the paintings, sculp-1
ture, and organ were lost with the building.
The loss on the church is estimated at
500, 1000, and on the furniture at $12, 900. :
DIOCESE oF PHILADELPHA.-The Legis-
lature Of Pennsylyania have kindly apPro-
priated $4,000 in the general appropriation
bill, for st. Johns Orphan Asylum, for the
year 1868.
On St. Patrick's day the Right Rev.
Bishop Elder was to deliver lecture at
Agricultural Hall, Philadelphia, for the
| benefit of the House of the Good Shepherd.
Sister M Antoinette, Superior of the
Convent of the Sisters Of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, died at Philadelphia ON the
9Th instant Her mortal remains were
taken on the following day to the convent
at Reading, Pennsylvania. -.
Some of our readers may not know that
| there is in this city well-directed academy
for colored children-at No. 400 Lombard
street, under the charge of three Oblate
Sisters of Providence. 1t contains several
boarders and classes of male and female
scholars, who receive a solid Catholic edu-
cation. Sister Mary Theodore is the Supe-
rioress of the Community in this city; and
the Jesuit Fathers of st. Joseph's Church
attend to their spiritual wants, and manifest
considerable interest in behalf of the insti-
tution.-Standard.
DIOCESE OF BosToN.-The new Catholic
church lately erected in Cambridgeport,
was dedicated on Sunday, March 8, by the
Right Rev. Bishop Williams. The sermon
was preached by Rev. George F. Haskins.
The Rev. Thomas Scully is pastor.
DIOCESE oF-CHIcAGo.-A correspondent
writing from Dixon, Illinois, says: Our
good pastor, the Very Rev. DIR. Lightner,
than whom a more upright man in the dis
charge OF his spiritual duties is not easily
found, has lately determined to build new
church, the better to accommodate the
growing of his increasing congrega--
ton, the old frame building being now in
sufficient to contain them all.
DIOCESE OF MoBILE.-Bishop Quinlan,
who has been absent from Mobile about q
month, returned to that city on Monday
last.
PErER's PENcE.-A correspondent at Am
sterdam writes us that the subscription list
far tho HOLY Eathar closed ON Saturdar