The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-04-19

| CoRx.-The Cork Esassiner Of the 18th
ait. says: The national festival was cele-
| brated yesterday with the usual earnestness
IN this city and in other parts of the south,
| and there was everywhere q complete ab-
sence OF the intemperance and disorder
winch were at one time the cOncOmit&nts
OF the patriotic displays of the day. -fliisze.
The action entitled g Flannery Ys. Stud
dert, for alleged libel published in the Pail
Mall Gazette, was tried at the Cork assises,
and ended in the withdrawal Of the case, on
defendant making an open retraction of the
imputations against plaintiff, and paying all
tcosts of suit. Plaintiff is a respectable far
mer, residing at Drumcliffe, in the vicinity
of Ennis. Defendant is agent of n Mr.. Whit
lock, an absentee landlord, residing in Eng
land, who published in the Pail Mall Gazette
letter written by Mr.. Studdert, and which
contained the libel concerning plaintiff, who
in it was called Fenian Head Centre,
lately discharged from jaiLn
The Examiner of q late date says: We
are glad to learn that in virtue of letters
which have been recently received from the
Holy See by the Venerable Bishop of
Cloyne, the Very Rev. Mr.. OBrien, PIP,
ST., .titchefst0wn, has been appointed
dean. and the Very Rev. ID. MahOny, PIP,
N.G., lnniscara, archdeacon of that diocese.
LlsIERrCK.-A correspondent of the Dub
lin freeman, writing under date of the 18th
ult., from Limerick, says: 1t may appear
incredible, but it is, nevertheless, true and
authentic, that on Saturday and yesterday
evening at least three Thousand letter pack
ages containing shamrocks, and addressed
to all parts of England and Scotland, for
Irish relatives and friends to display as en-
blems of nationality aud the patton saint of
Ireland, on st. Patrick's Day, (Tuesday,)
passed through our post-offfce, circum
stance unprecedented in the annals of the
times we live in, For Manchester some large
Sckn \
mitted to be delivered to respectable parties.
During the early part of this month similar
letters were sent in large quantities to Am
erica, containing the native shamrock en-
bedded i'll its own soil. This, doubtless,
shows more than tongue Will tell of the
feelings of Ireland and the Irish at the pres
ent time In the first week of March, two
cases, fully laden with shamrocks, and
marked S. cereals" were sent hence by rail
way to Queenstown, en- route to Massachu->
sets and New York, addressed to seed mar-
chants there.
Ply ut being able to state that the festival of
Ireland's great apostle, ST. Patrick, which
fell upon this day, passed off in Limerick in
a most becoming manner. Erin's native |
shamrock was worn in nearly every hat and !
in several bonnets, and not one that we |
could see, either i'll the streets or police of |
flee, disgraced themselves with being guilty |
in the slightest degree of drunkenness.
The same paper says that George Ben
nett, Esq, of Rathanny, has been declared
purchaser of Tull. break, the property of |
Thomas William O'Grady, Esq, which was
sold in the Incumbered Estates Court for |
S4545.
CLARE.-A meeting was recently held lin |
Ennis to take steps toward the erection Of 7
q suitable dwelling in Ennis for residence
Of the Christian Brothers. Very Rev. Dean
Kenny presided, and those present seemed
o enter most zealously into the project.
some time ago the Christian Brothers were
endowed by the late Miss Kenny, the ami
.ble and pious sister of the venerable dean
If Ennis. That lady, before her demise,
purchased at a cost of six or eight hun
1red pounds, the rent charge on the
purchase over to the Order, 80 that the par
shioners of Ennis are for ever rid of the in
'umbrance of paying rent for the schools.
T1PPERARY.-TheT ipperary Free Press
ays: Our town to day was dense1y thronged ,
~ the peasantry, all of whom sported cold
Irin's Native Shamrock" in their hats, !
round brooches, etc. Acting upon the good &
'eople generally refrained from Intoxicating /
rink, and the degrading exhibition of a 8
runken man was not to be seen throughout q
he day. Old friends, long parted, met, and t
ands We're warmly enclasped, and if the C
was Crowned I" amongst them. t
ucH WeIoSuOI ONcI COplOuS. Inc
eOple departed for their homes at an carly
our of the evening. ri - II
KERRY.-The Cork Examiner says: The n
estival of Ireland's national saint was cele- t
rated in Tralee with particular devotion b
nd reverence. There were special services e
4 each of the churches in the town, and the t
clergymen advised their hearers g
D mark their sense of respect for our ma IL
onal saint by their steadiness and sobriety. L
he exhortation produced good effect, and p
'e have not observed any cases of drunken c.
ess or exhibition of disorder. Consequent 81
7, the streets were thronged with people Il
all classes, dressed in their holiday attire
arge punches of shamrock are worn by T.,
ersons of all classes, and there is plentiful a.
isnlay of rrean ribbons in the hnnnats of t6