The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-04-17
St. .Joseph's Fair.

! Our readers will please remember that to.
morrow, the 18th inst, the above fair will
commence, to be continued, we presume
during the week. It will be held in St
Joseph's Hall, on the corner of Common and
Derbigny streets. Our readers will also
remember that the beautiful missals, en-
bossed in silver and gold, brought from
Belgium, which we referred to before, are
to be voted for by the congregations Of the
several churches. The handsome hose
carriage, richly mounted in silver, to which
we referred as expected from Philadel-
phia, and which has been received and ex-
hibited for the last two weeks in the win
| dows of the Gauche Building, will also
be set up to be voted for by the fire
companies, and will be the prize of the most
| successful. These, no doubt. will draw
many to the fair, but we hope the good
work for which the fair is held, and to
which the proceeds will be devoted, will
draw a still larger number of our citizens,
who will have an opportunity of showing
their liberality in aiding in the building Of
the House of God.
The energy with which this fair has been
organized, the nobleness of the object for
which it is to be held, and the many claims
to public gratitude of the Rev. Fathers,
whose lives and labors are devoted to the
accomplishment of that object, will be
without many parallels in the history of
the charities of our city. While we ad-
mire and applaud the iberality which ex-
tends beyond the narrow limits of the
parish or the city, and would never divert
it's outstretched hand from its benefcent
purposes, we still assert that the charity
which does not radiate from home is more
or less open to the charge of ostentation,
and that 1T is vain it erects monuments to
religion and piety in remote regions, while
here, in its legitimate centre, it confines
the religion and piety of our own poor
people within crumbling edifices which
momentarily threaten ruin and destruction.
To the lasting honor of our citizens be it
said that the hand of indulgence is never
held out to them in vain. Clergymen from
and hospitality, and it is not asking too
much of them to invite them to evince
their generosity on this occasion of vital
Importance to themselves and their chill
dren, to come forward and aid their pas
tors, who stand by them in all their trials,
who divide with them more of their sorrows
than they participate in their joys-on
whom they can rely in the dread season of
the epidemic-in erecting a church to AL
mighty God, in which their children for
many q generation will assemble to offer
their sacrifices and their prayers, and bless
the memory of their benefactors. We anti
cipate for this fair q decided success, and if
we were disappointed in our expectations
which we do not believe possible, we should
only regret that the high estimate we long
since formed of our people had not a more
solid basis in their piety to God and their
gratitude to their real benefactors.
F.. We append the names of tie ladies who
have taken charge of all the details of the
Fair, and will dispense it's Inequalities
Table No. 1-Restaurant.- Tbos
Eagan and Mrs. Sadler, with host of other
ladies.
No. 2:-Mrs. B. j. Berkery, Mfs. VIM.
Hart, Mrs. j. Douglas Miss i. o,NeiH.
Miss Deeves.
MO. 3.-Mrs. VIM. Lee, Mrs. j. G.. Ryan,
Mrs. Jas. Basby, Mrs. P. Murphy, Mrs. E.
VI. Eagan, Miss M. Lee, Miss A. Coll, Miss
Kate Donohoe.
No. Mrs. H. McManus, Mrs. William
Mrs. VIM. Kelly.
No: 5.-Mrs. Edw. Lynch, Mrs. T. Mar
ley, Miss Kate Carolan, Miss Maggie Mar
'ey, Miss j. Previtt, Miss j. Lynch. +,
No. 6.-Mrs. j. Gibbons, Mrs. G.. Swar
rick, Mrs. VIM. Cullinane, Mrs. j. Powers
No. Mrs. Thos. Eagan, Mrs. j. Ford, .
by any number of charming young y.
aides.
No. s.-Mrs. John Mccartney, Mrs. Philip
lcCabe, Mrs. Mccormick, with their young
ady assistants.
The REBELLIoUs ARMENIANs. - Two :,
olnts call for especial notice in the Brief l