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


The record of erimesin England for some
time past has been absolutely -frightful.
Take any given period-say eight or ten
days-and ethe list of murders. suicides
and horrible outrages supplied by the press
seems appaIiing-indicating condition of
society sunk to the lowest degradation On
this subject an English paper says;
seThere seems to be no end to the varieties
of wife-beating, kicking, and other
domestic difficulties which are just now
cropping out in different parts OF the
country,n But it is not wives alone who
are the victims of the murderous pro-
pensities which are now so common In
ERgrnd; sons and daughters poison or
stab their parents; parents poison, choke,
or drown their children; libertines destroy
their paramours; s.loversp kilbtheir sweet
hearts. The state OF things is positively
appalling, and unhappily in HenGghtened
England" the progress OF pubic morality
appears to be from bad to worse.
THE Nun SroRy.--It is precisely because
of the debased and filthy condition of the
English mind that the English people are
so ready to put the worst possible con-
struetion on every fact and lncldenthaving
relation to Catholic converts that seems to
promise them an 'sexposure.n They cannot
believe in virtue above the1evel of their
own and they are unable, consequently, to
regard converts and mopasteries as any
thing better than secret scenes of crime
and horror Wheneyer, therefore, ICON
vent story'' is started for them they rush
at it eagerly; and if the original vendor
has not made itsuggestive enough for their
| taste, the English press know how to dress
and season 1T so that it shall be sufficiently
spicy and sensational. All this false
! coloring/is invariably stripped Off from the
ssconYent story when the full truth comes
to be known, but meantime the Ire fIHs done
! it5 work in laundering to the prejudices and
Dassions of Englishmen. So it has been
| with regard to the latest story of the I'M
prisoned nun at Cracow. shocking
! asnect was at first put upon the case by
| the enemies of the Catholic religion ana
! the believers in none; but the publication
/ of the strict TRUTH as ascertained and de-
clared by unimpeachable authorities, has
now blown the SANDER to the winds. g.
In dwelling upon this point we are
careful not to draw on authorities which
might be thought prejudiced. Conformably
to this view we take the following from
the Pail Mall Gazette, which is a staunch
defender of John Bull
There seems to be no end to the varieties
of wife beating, wife-kicking, and other
! domestic difficulties" which are just now
cropping up in different parts OF the
country. At Ashton under-Lyne, one
Martina Leach GeUS uTunk dSttlu anu
with a sovereign her husband had given
her, and is at last locked up by him in a
room alone. Atnight she is so tremendous
iy uproarious that her husband goes in and
beats her. In the morning she is found
dead. The jury acquitted the man on the
ground that she might have died of Injuries
caused by falling around the room during
her drunknpess. AT Bow, in Middlesex, n
woman is half murdered by her husband
and her eldest son, who came home drunk.
The son holds his mother down upon q
sofa---(the family is described as respect
ablen)-whi1e the father strikes her about
the head with q heavy candlestick; and
| they are, it seems, in the habit OF i'll
treating the miserable woman. Father
aud son are now sentenced to hard labor
! for two months. In Whitefriars, the
! landlord of decent public-house is said
| to be the most tender of husbands when
/ sober, but in his cups he is a very demon
to his wife. Last year he had six months
hard labor, in return for the pleasure be
fonnd in nearly killing her, and now he has
| been exhibiting the same alienation OF
love and brutality. A policeman says that
| he has often sat on the doorstep, expecting
| every moment to be called in to prevent a
murder-a function of the police which
some people will think remarkable. He
has sat, however to little purpose, for the
woman has been nearly killed over and
! over again. The husband is now ced
to another six months, bard labor, and is to
find sureties for his future good behavior
! AT Wells q young man about twenty -four
! years of age has been trying to poison his
/ wife with arsenic. The jury recommended
! him to mercy because of his excellent char.
acter but heartless judge has sentenced
| him to twenty years of penal seryitude.
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KEEF1NG oNE's EYE oPEN.--Nobody is
! MORO like an honest man than q thOrOm Oh