The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-05
FOREIGN CLIPPINGS.


81. Peters Chair at Rome-It is an old yellow
oak chair, formed of four uprights united with
horizontal bars, two being higher than the
other to form the back. " Ihe four oak legs
eaten away BY age, and have had pieces cut
from them These time-wofn portions have
been strengthened and rendered more orna-
mental by pieces of dark acacia wood, which
form the whole interior part of tho chair, and
which appear to have hardly suffered at all
from the same causes which have SO altered
the appearance of the oak legs. The panels
and the front and sides, and the row OF arches
and the tympanum above them which forms
the back, are also composed OF this wood. But
the most remarkable circumstance about these
two different kinds of material ia that all the
ivory ornaments WHICH cover the front and
back of the chair are attached to the acacin
portions alone, and mover to the parts COM
posed of oaIAn Some of the ornamentations is
attributed to the age of ChaTlemagne, and
some is moro ancient the oak work is deemed
likely to be as old as tradition states 1t to be.
It is known that st. Damascus placed it in the
baptistery of the Vatican, and considered pro-
bable that mp to that period it may have been
preserved in the crypt of st. Peters tomb, or in
the Basilica of Constantine. 1t was moved
from chapel to chapel in the Vatican before
the days Of Alexander VII, who enclosed it in
the bronze monument, where, until the ami
yeFsary mentioned, it has since been hidden
Builder.
4 Lanatic Chained up for Sirty Yedrs.-A shock-
ing case of cruelty to q lunatic has just come
to light in WORCESTERSHIRE IN cohsequenco OF
commissioners of lunacy, accompanied by Mr.
! j. Buck, medical officer of the Worcestershire
| and Rutland Lunatic Asylum, several magis-
| trates and police superintendent visited lodge
house in the parish of Sheepshed, near LouSh-
| borough, occupied by n small farmer named
Henry Black. There a shocking spectacle was
| revealed to them. A poor demented creatureI
| IA years old, with his hands fastened in front
| of him by handcuffs, and his feet encircled by
| manacles, occupied small apartment, being
| chained to the wall of the room. From the
| keeper Black, it was ELECTED that the wretched
prisoners name was Bagley Wild, asrelative OF
the late Mr.. Wild, J. Pr of Costock, Motifs. He
| had been under Blacks care for thirty years
and previously in another mans custody for 8
ike period. During the whole of this time ht
had been kept chained up in the manner dc
scribed. Black has been receiving FL weel
| for his CHARGE and it is only fair to state tina
! he was found well nonFished, healthy, aux
clean. He was never, it seems, released from
his chains asleep awake. When taking III
meals he was Fastened to a chair and when N
: retired to bed at night he was fastened by tn
/ chains to the bed, while the handouts eneIrcle
, his wrists He has now been removed to tn
r Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum.
! Inconsistencies of Stc Marriage Law.-In Irelan
! there are five different ways of marriage. First
the marriage soiemnized i'll the Protestan
Church, which differs in no respect from tina
; ! in England. Secondly, the marriage solemn
lied by q Catholic Clergyman, according to th
, canon law, between Catholics. If he presum
to celebrate marriage between 2 Cath9ilc an
, q Protestant, or between u Catholic and pei
: son who had been q Protestant within yea
! before, that was a transportable oiience unit
very lately, and even now is a criminal offence
, subieoting the priest to fine and imprisonment
: | and the marriage so celebrated IS ahsoIntel
! void Tho law in England differs in TIL
respect from the law in Ireland. In Englnn
/ o Catholic priest and a Houc0nformist minist'
: might solemnize q marriage even between wv
Professionals in place duly registered So W
! have in Ireland ono law for Episcopalian Al
= glieans, another for Catholics, d third for Pre-
! | byterians, n fourth for other Dissenting bodl'
and the civil registry. -tfoeH'GH
q AFSpeoiaI charlottesville EoEksblatt, Q eler
e cal Journal Of Linz, announces that Bisho
i ERudiger, recently condemned by jury Tor Oh
!. Iby5the Emperor, viii be named Cardinal on q
8 Eoecasion Of the approaching Council. 7
script emannting from the oface Of the Pope
}, secretary has just informed the BlshsoP 81 2
Z this document, of oil the sufferings and aftii
lions which the peryerse and anti-rciigtO'