The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-05-31

supply, heifers were at least e S.. undo,
the prices realized there this time twelve
months, and ranged at about 81 heat
sheep were from S.. to los. under last year
And several prime lots of both cattle anG
sheep were driven home unsold.
L0UrH.-On the night of the 9th ult.
FIVE coast guardsmen were accidentally
drowned in Dundalk bay. Their names
were Henry Granton, chief officer DAME
Sweeny, and James Clancy, commissioned
boatmen; James M'Cracken, and Richard
| Frazer. They were all married, and leave
young families to mourn their sad fate
which arose from the capsizing of Their
cutter in o squall.
On the night of April %, a man named
Thomas Corcoran, a pensioner, died in the
Drogheda inirmary from injuries received
in attempting to commit suicide.
The anniversary of the Rev. William
McKeown, &C., was held in the church of
Sandpit, parish of Termonfeckin, on April
o.. There was a large number of clergy
present on the occasion.
Recently, salmon, weighing no less thau
forty pounds, was taken in the Clyde, by
Mr.. Rice, fshmonger, Park street, Dundalk.
CORA correspondent of the Water
ford Ne'cs of May first says: had recently
the pleasure of visiting the schools of the
Christian Brothers, in Cork. They are
large, and very we'll furnished. The school
of design, now part of them, built at the
expense of a single citizen of Cork, is a
splendid apartment. The schools and dwell
ing house are admirably'got up, command
ing an elevated position, and very fine
view of the city. Connected with the es-
Enlistment is small but neat burial
ground, where lie the remains of q few of
the brothers, including those of the illustri-
GUS Gerald Griffin. Within view of his
grave may be seen the burial place of one
even more celebrated, the witty and way
ward &c Fafhor Mnhn
whose ashes rest under his own Bells Of
Shandon," in the burial ground of Shandon
church. .'s.'',-- h"-i--''
A meeting was recently held in Dunman-
way, county Cork, for the purpose of taking
steps to have it constituted an assize town,
and also a polling centre for the West
Riding constituency under the new Reform
Act. A petition to that effect was adopted
for presentation to Government.
We take the following from the Cork
Examiner of May 2: The Freensan's special
London correspondent telegraphed on yes
terday morning that, "Mr. Leader, of
county Cork, Col. Vandeleur, Clare, and
Sir Geo. Grey, member for Morpeth, voted
with the majority, led by Mr.. Gladstone"
On the otherthand, the IrisA Ifmes's CORE
spondent te1egraphs that Mr.. Leader and
Col. Vandeleur voted with the ministry-so
that, at present, it is not clear whether the
influence of the county of Cork was neu-
tralized in the division, or was put wholly
into the opposition scales. Sir George
Colthurst was absent from the House on
the occasion. lit-
Observation-Disclosures the appropriate head
ing "Souper Bazar," the Reporter of the
24th ult says: We regret to learn that an
other exhibition of this disreputable kind,
which is simply an appeal to the public for
funds to enable certain proselytizers to buy
up the souls of poor Catholic children,
while many distressed Protestants are quite
r,or1acfa1 both n Son1 onI 10 OH ,,t
to be made this week in Limerick, to whose
honest and bona fde Protestant charities, as
distinguished from such base arts of per-
version as these, we have always wished
every success. 1t is astonishing that ladies
and gentlemen, who are in some respects
otherwise enlightened and conscientious
after their fashion, do not see the deep
guilt they are mourning by such shameful
practices as these, which are equally sinful
and dishonorable, whether they believe the
Catholic religion wrong or not; for the
poor perverts are all, by this vile process,
tempted into Il hypocritical apostacy, by
bribing them in their restitution.
Mr.. Michael Sheedy, brother of the Rev.
Father Sheedy, &C, st. Johns Limerick,
recently carried off the first prize in the
senior class of anatomy and physiology at
the Catholic University.
VIM Fosberry, Esq, ). l.. of constabulary,
has retired on full pay, after nearly twenty
three years service.
The Limerick correspondent of the Dub
lin Freeman. under date of April %, says:
This being the eve of the great Munster
spring fair, which opens tomorrow with
the sale of horses and pigs, to be followed
on Friday by that of cattle and sheep, the
city presents Il lively appearance, owing to
the influx of strangers and t4tt-a anxiety !
evinced to procure accommodation at the
hotels and lodging houses. Some of the
leading horse dealers have. arrived from
various parts of England, and two from
Paris, said to be commissioned to purchase
by the Emperor of the French From Dub |
lin there are fivc;- three from Scotland, and
several others from Cork, Clonmel, Water
ford, etc.
The Reporter of the 9th ult. says: On
ninety emigrants left Limerick
and on the preceding day an