The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-12-04

DRY was held in reyerential affection for nm n
year IN the extensive and widely-separate
uistricts where he had spent the different M,
tions OF his beneficially employed life,
we shall just remark, in passing that Dixo
was not appointed to the parish, as he expect
s gu, On 'he promotion of the rector. It was be
| slowed on a man whose mild and tolerant
spirit was more kindred to that of his beneyo
!ehS predecessor-one, in fact, whose zeal in
VIC way OF persecution was Gas the curate
mia;r WARDS expressed it, in his bitter com
plants regarding the appointment) but as the
Rhhy name OF rush light, in comparison with
the flame of his own.
Alter having got over his concern for the
loss OF ms little "hangel," Heavisides still
ecnunulng TO retain his matrimonial inclina.
lions, he was, in the next town, in which he
, was Chartered, Joined in ,oly wedlock to q
oINom widow, who had some money, and
WI Gnose age rendered her far more suitable
lor nin imam would have been the rosebud
OF BallintuPber She was as good -humored
rs himself she was also as careful and
.Da;ssthng, and made him an excellent soldiers
wue, though he often declared when he had
an extra glass n, and was out of ear-sbot of
ms spouse, that he would have preferred th,,
little rosebud after all.
sr John Ingram, the highest in rank, and
one Of the most prominent of our dramatis mr.
sona-what shall we say of him 7 He met With
no Strlklng reverses misfortunes such as
Che reader might look for MS an instance Of
poetical justice. But poetical justice is not
always the arrangement of Providence. Crimes
ana faults are not ON all occasions, punished
IN this life, at least outwardly But who can
say that chastisement was not inflicted on Sir
John, even heref He lost his children in their
ii 4; and their mother. D beautiful and.
= born, bur unpfincip1esi woman-deserted
hm to hy to the continent with a profiieate
iy you scion Of nobility. He retained to the
standing severe check he received, through
1he strong and strongly-supported Representa-
lions or MIR. Gordon, after Ellen's abduction
'nd his wealth and influence seemed to in
aVarv I,
dishonored husband and O childless father
md, although his prosecutions did not draw
. 10, n human vengeance on his head, who may |
cience, which
:" In itself can comprehend
woe without name, or hope, end"
hat he felt the gnawing of the worm that
leth not, no one, that knows the hnman
n his death-ded. His latest rawlings were of
be priest-hunter and his victims.
Dare not ruffian, to insinuate that / |
your numbering him--an old man
oo-the bloody-work was all y0ur own-foh,"
ere the last struggling words he gave utter
nee to, ere consciousness had entirely desert
him half an hour before the separation of
lind and body, He left to other ,imes thu | I
name of ruthless and remorseless ,
The winds that flutter the rich ivy drapery l
al sing their monrnfnl dirge through ruined e
oister and AISLE sweep over the bones of .per-
sether within the old abbey walls. .
The deeply blood-stained priest hunter
no seemed, through life, TO have neither c
we'd nor feared God or man-was also inter- n
In little dismantled chapel adjacent to the
'bey and the ash tree which shadowed his o
ave was long an object of curiosity to the I
sitor at Ballintubber. This tree-or rather, q
r the last half century, branchless and leaf
" trnnk-after springing up Tor some feet on p
g side of the grave, took an extraordinary E,
nd downwards, till it reached the ground on az
Q opposite side, and then shot upwards, once X
IRE, to some height. 1t was, as may be sup ri
sed, an object of awe, as well as of'wonder, y
long the peasantry of the district, whose L
neral belief was that it's singular growth
IS ordained by Providence to mark out
, grave of the priest hunter, as well as -,
protect all Christian bodies from being pol IN
eds by coming in contact with the desecra- OF
bones beneath. 1t is now entirely PROSTATE n
1 cruntiing away, so that in few years
IRE will, probably, be no vestige of it.. oy
DUR say is said and if We have been en- If
ed to present the reader with picture of
country in her days of darkness and per- On
ution-if we have awakened the sympathy of
The generous mind, however different its re- =,
Gus faith, for patient and long-suffering ae
pie, who chung to the ancient faith of their &c
hers amid temptation and peril, and Pro-J a,
ption and death, OF if we have convfneed In
prejudiced that lpersecution but defeats its sW
end and aim, and that evil laws are en- M
RACERS only to evil doors, not in vain will Ai'
deem to have been penned the tale of in
zen Soggdrth. o..
eader, farewell. 70