The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-02-09

! telS NJ II@r SoHStaDHfaly DLrAck III uaiiH
INSTRUMENTATION was >eallss,d by the f,sct
that on that day Il solemn requiem mass
WAS to I've offered mp in our Cathedral here
for the repose of the souls of Allen, karkil
| and O'Biien, who We're executed at Nina,
! chester.
With 1t charitable thoughtf,llness charac-
tcrstic of the demon. Captain McClintock,
I Hampstead Hail. Derry, and his esteemed
lady have made presents Of suitable
| clothing. for this season, aid-ih several
| III! her Ways relieved the wants of u large
number of persons on the BuDcrana pro
peIty. On many other occasions the benev-
altnce ot the McClintock family has been
experienced. In the present instance, like
former OCCASIONS the charities have been
distributed without regard 10 creed.
The usual monthly cattle market and fair
WAS held i'll Limerick on January z.rTle
supply ofcattl. of all kinds was small, and
there were scarcely any buyers, the e0nse-
uncncc being that most OF the stock on the
green remained over till the afternoon UNI
sold. and theli<had to he driven home again.
request, but such
us changed hands sold mt from twelve to
fourteen pounds each. Fat COWS averaged
-siXteen=pnnnds each, hut the
demand WAS very slightly eanfing calves
sold ut three pounds ten shillings to four
pounds eight shillings and yearlings, five
pounds to six pounds each.
crrrence took place near CamlOugh, Ar
magh, by which il man named James Quinn
lost his lite. Quinn, John Smith, 1.-THE al
legged >1perpetrator of the crime,) Henry
McQuade and Bernard McQuade left their
homes on Christmas day and proceeded
into Caml0ugh. where they visited several
public houses, and all, with the exception
of Bernard McQuade, imbibed cOpiously of
whisky. They then proceeded on their re-
turn home. Smith left the three men and
went home. While engaged in the byre
the three nlen-eame to him. Henry Nc
Qllade asked him what spite he had against
him that he wished to have a row on the
with piece of wood and knocked him
down. sMcQuade was then carried into
Smiths house. McQuade next went to the
door, asked Smith why he murdered the
man, and stool was thrown at him which
struck him on the shoulder Quinn fol-
lowed up the other in expostulating with
Smith, when the latter went behind the
door and bringing out u spade OF spade
shaft, and raising it said, 9 m end your
days, any way" telled him to the ground.
He fingered only till December q, when he
died. Smith absconded on the night of the
deed and has not yet been arrested.-Ne,rry
Eraminer.
DAE1se orrRAcE.-onth the morning of the
9th ult., some malicious person threw box
filled with a preparation of phosphorus into
the late letter. receiveriof the General Post
office, by which several letters were burned
The police are on the track of the perpetra-
tor of this disgraceful outrage, and it il to
'be hoped he will BIZ promptly brought
to justice.-Dublin Freeman.
DEArH OF A FENIAN PRIsoNER.-John
Smith, one of the prisoners confined in Kill
Mainham prison, died on recently. He
had been arrested on suspicion Of being
concerned in the Jackinel expedition, and
had been i'll jail since August last. De-
ceased had been suffering from a -gatrstlot
wound, and was obliged to walk on crutches.
H'.-Attd a-eeHf. al attacks of internal hem
olrhage, under the second of which he sank.
An inquest was held on the body, and a YER
diet in accordance with the doctors testi-
mony returned.--
MI NIFICENr BEorEsTs-In accordance
with the-will"f the late Thomas NJ. DOnnel-
IAN, EST, OF Clame, county Kildare, the ex :
ecnt"r, the Rev: Ii. O'Neiu, adm, Carlow,
has paid over the following requests to the
several parties and institutions specified
Al! Hallows College, f2OOO Society for the
Propagation of the Faith, f2OOO Society
Nof st. Vincent dc Paul, ESQ; Institutions
for the Deaf and Dumb, Cabra, ESQ; Mater
Miseiicordi:e Hospital, ESQ; His Holiness
1 hr Pope, eco; the Oblate Fathers, inchi-
core. ESQ; ClOngowes College, GlOO; Con
vent of Clane, { 80 Convent of Clane, for
the poor, flO; Church Of~Adam and Eve,
100; John street Church, (Augustinan)
tl0O; II new Roman Catholic Church al
| Clane, 600; Mount Meller;fy Abbey, c 100
= DEATH OF CENrENARIAN.--Died, at
Ballybanogue, at the age of lO2 years, Mrs
Anne OConnor, who retained her mental
faculties, apparently undiminished by 'her
| gieat-atte, to the last moments of her life,
| and was only one day confined to bed, in hel
Illness. Her husband, Edward ~OConnor,
"a Respectable lllnIer, wis one of the re-
n"wned county Wexford Hurlers,r in the
sreat-1natch which took place about eighty
Years ago, bet Neen thirty of the picked men
of the count >NeNfori on one side, and the
same number of the county Carlow on the
"ther,~eot up by the great sporting charac-
ter Col. Coiclough, one of the chief boon
companions of George w., then Prince OF
Wales, and who commanded the first volun-
teer corps ever raised in Ireland In the