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The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-23

MIssrENT EVENINGS. - The boy who
spends an hour of each evening lettering
on street corners, wastes, in the course of q
year, three hundred and sixty-five pre-
cious hours. which, if applied to study,
would familiarize sciences. If, in addition
to wasting an hour each evening, he spent
ten cents for cigar, which is usually the
case, the amount thus worse than wasted
would pay for ten of the leading periodi-
calls of the country. Boys, think of these
things. Think of how much precious time
and good money you are wasting, and for
WHAT The qualification afforded by the
not only temporary, but positively hartful.
You cannot indulge in these practices with
out seriously injuring yourselves. You
acquire idle and wasteful habits, that will
cling to you through life, and grow upon
you with each succeeding year. You may,
in after life, shake them off, but the proba.
bilities are that the idle habits thus formed
in early life will remain with you to your
dying day. Be warned, then, in time, and
resolve that, as the hour spend in idleness
is gone forever, you will improve eacn pass
ing one, and thereby fit yourselves for use
fitness and happiness.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-23
Cheap Catholic papers-can They Pay7

enforced at this time of day. Archimedes,
whan he asked for q fulcrum on which to
place lever wherewith to move the
world, must have had penny paper in his
mighty minds eye. There is not branch
of politics, professions, trades and religions
that cannot boast its special organ, to ad-
vocate particular views and direct, echo,
or agitate the opinion of its special audi
ence. Catholics have been among the first
to recognize the power of q cheap press,
and the last to make adequate use of it.
Their FIRST efforts in the direction of repre-.
sentative papers were devoted to strictly
controversial periodicals., intended to COM
bat the prejudices while they did not fail
to provoke the passions of the period.
Their next attempts were in the direction
of decidedly respectable but heavy week
lies, issued at price to place them beyond
the pockets of the bulk of the Catholic
population. AS rule, we might say al
most as necessity, these were started in
utter defiance of the usual rules that regu-
late ordinary commercial business capital
was inadequate or entirely absent; enter
prise feeble and results unsatisfactory.
These might drag on dull existence for
some years, bnt they only prolonged the
pain of their promoters, and surely sank in
the slough of insolvency. After all, peo-
pie did not care to pay sixpence for stale
news, and wanted something more for their
LuOuoJ Un6u controversy (which
is out of place in paper at all times) and
uninviting letters from Rome. Sometimes,
like shaky insurance societies, these de-
crepid journals amalgamated and alb
sorbed each other, but it was the Kilkenny
cat process over again, and nothing but
bankrupt tails were left of them. Still the
necessity of taking advantage of the power
of popular press remained: Clergy and
laity were equally sensible of the immense
influence that might be exercised on the
masses, and this feeling is briefly embodied
in the words of Archbishop McHale, when
treating of the use and abuse of this mighty
mental machine: 'tof such O powerful
instrument of good and evil, we should all
be anxious to extend the beneicent and
check the baneful influences"
The first determined effort to start a
cheap weekly paper in the metropolis
proved, if not as triking success, at least
success enough to encourage enterprise in
that direction. 1t has lived several years,
and every year in the life of newspaper
adds wonderfully to it's vitality; it hardly
ever grows decrepid with age. A daily
penny paper was often talked of in Lon
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-23

A RIFLE VICTORY FOR IRELANp.-The
Irish Rifle Association, the contests in CON
nection with which now occupy an entire
week of the month of June in each year,
commenced it's proceedings recently on the
Dollymount Strand, in the immediate
neighborhood of Dublin. The match of
greatest general interest decided was be-
tween an Irish Eight and an English Eight
the latter team having come over on The
invitation of his Excellency the Lord Lieu
tenant. The conditions of the contest were
fifteen shots each at 900 yards, and the
same number at 1000 yards, with liberty to
select any rife, the same rife, however, to
be used to the close. The Irish Eight CON
sisted of j. Rigby, r. s. Greenhill, A.
Lloyd, Lord Cloncurry, Major Leech, Mr..
vignolles, Mr.. Pollock and Mr., Doolin.
The aggregate score of the Irish Eight was
33l at 900 yards, and 800 at 1000 yards
that of the English Eight was 296 at 900
yards, and 2l0 at 1000 yards. The Irish
men thus won by thirty five points. At
the close of the match Mr.. Wells eaid his
team had been beaten, but he had much
pleasure in acknowledging the superiority
Of the Irish team
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-23

THE GIRLS OF JAPAN AT SCHOOL
japan it is the universal Gus
.n for young ladies, when arrived at the
ee Of fourteen or fifteen, to be placed in
bat may be appropriately termed finish
g establishment. This establishment has
r following among other peculiarities,
P: All the masters pay for the privilege
teaching, instead of (as is the case with
, being paid for their lessons. This
Akes the instruction labor of love.
ben, again, to a certain extent, q Japan
} young lady is allowed considerable
edom as to the selection of her instruct
|; she generally prefers the best looking.
e scholars do not sit in close, pent-up
Pm, filed with girls bolt upright, each
sched upon an educational stool, but in
elightful garden, fragrant with tea and
Ters, surrounded by a number of little
hmer houses uncovered in the midst of
most charming vegetable product. Here
the bright eyed damsels, with cheeks
X as the roses, moving around with
Pceful steps, each bearing small lacquer
y with tea and cakes. La each of these
nmer houses there is q master or profess
either waiting the return of one of the
demonstrating damsels, or else Sit
3 by the side of one who has already
ne back. Japanese girls remain in
hCational Summaries of this kind until
rriage, and they make excellent wives.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-23

WHAT THE FRENCH DID FOR MEXICO
A correspondent of the Louisville Courier
Journal, writing from the City of Mexico,
says:
The occupation of the French left it's
traces of benefit to Mexico. They per-
meated the whole country, and, as the
native Mexicans are quick and absorbtive,
ideas and ways are seen to be left as insti-
buttons. In looking around the city see
blocks of splendid houses, monuments,
gardens and fountains, the taste for which
the French brought with them. And when
1 take morning or evening stroll upon
the Garden of the Plaza de Armas, 1 cannot
help thinking, as everybody must, of the
good and noble Empress Carlotta. Six
years ago this vast square, upon which
fronts the palace, the cathedral, the NUM-
cipal building and the portales, were moth
ing but one sun rejecting plane of flag
stones. The sight must have been painful
to Carlotta, for she sent for two or three
landscape engineers. Plan after plan was
shown off, and at last the Empress selected
one and appointed it's author to superin-
tend the work.
After the fall of the Empire it was pre-
dicted that the Liberals would efface this
garden as they tried to efface every thing
that could revive its memories. But this
was too beautiful, too attractive to the in
habitants, and it has been preserved as
Cariotta designed and left it. 1t is the
most perfectly beautiful spot my eyes ever
rested upon. 1t is a beautiful garden, in
the heart of the city, surrounded by not a
fence or gate. 1t is open by hundred
walks from the sides, and is composed of
plats of trees, flowers, fruits, fountains,
etc. There is not an angle in it, and the
undulations of each plat differs from the
other; orange trees grow, aud although
the lowest of the population, as we'll as the
highest, and boys of all grades saunter
there. not an orange or a flower is disturb
ed nor is there even u sentinel in sight
that l have seen. The trees have grown
amazingly in that brief time-some of the NJ
are thirty to forty feet Highland already
there is a shade everywhere.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-23

ANEoDoTE OF WEBsrER.-What but a
suppressed sense of humor, in both speaker
and auditors, could possibly have carried
of such speech as this, which is attribut-
ed to WebsterP Men of Rochester,
your noble city. Gentlemen, / saw your
falls, which, am told, are $50 feet high
That is very interesting fact. Gentlemen,
Rome had her Caesar, her Scipio, her Bru-
tus; but Rome. in her proudest days, had
neUer waterfall $50 feet high! Gentle
men, Greece had her Pericles, her Demos.
themes and Socrates; but Greece. in her
palmiest days, never had waterfall $50
feet high. Men of Rochester, go on. No
people ever lost their liberties who had a
waterfall $50 feet highr'-Bench and Bar
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-23

don-and like most other Catholic pro-
Jects 1t was only talked of. 1t existed but
on paper, and never got beyond its pros
pectus. In the Irish metropolis attempts
were made to obtain the circulation"
which In newspapers, as in men, 10 the very
essence OF life. But its commercial weak
nets was aggravated by proprietary differ
ences, and, as natural consequence, q col
lapse ensued, and the disgrace remained
that the many millions of Catholics in these
countries were without q single worthy
representative to daily cope with the
hundreds of metropolitan and provincial
Journals that either wilfully libel or igno-
rantly misrepsesent Catholics, their re-
!igioD, its clergy and institutions. There
is daily in Dublin, truthful and generous
In tone, but it is not exclusively Catholic;
and the two Journals daily issued in Bel
fast and Cork are unfortunately obliged to
confine their energetic and eloquent advo-
cacy within local limits.
Of newspapers in England, there are at
the present time, besides the Catholic
Times, in the provinces, one penny weekly
in London, a cheap fortnight "news- letter."
q penny record of Catholic opinion, and
three high priced papers. All are engaged
in working out the pulling problem How
to Pay" The cheap ones at least are in
a fair way of answering it; the Catholic
public have yet to render it's solution COM
plete and practical. - Liverpool Catholic
Times.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-23
FACTS AND FIGURES!

In the year 1869 we sold readers will remember
SO 7s Machines but sold last year us1O) l27 sa3
CONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SEVEN THOU.
SAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE
Machnes showing beyond the sales Of
over FORTY THOUSAND. and. shown by the table
below, OVER FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND Machines
more than any other Company
The reader may naturally ask whether this 10 mere
boasting in answer to which say that those
figures, and the ones given below, from SWORN
RETURNS made by licensees to the Receiver appointed
by the owners of the most valuable Sewing Machine
Patents who license the Companies Of lesser import.
anve; ~
Machines.
Tho Singer Manufacturing Company sold Ie7, s3S
Whealer g. Wilson Manufacturing Company sold. e3 2Os
aows MaGsas SS%Rany sOld :d
Weed Sewing Machine Company sold 80 OO2
Wilcox Gibbs Sewing Machine Company sold. .2ss9O
Florence Sewing Machine Company sold 1860
From above figures will be that our rivals
in trade far behind us, and that the popularity
what is known
NEW FAMILY MACHINE
is steadily and largely increasing. We vain
business capacity much to the merits of our
and use and personally interested In comparing the
ton
Saving Instruments.
Call and examine them send for Circular and
Sample of work.
VIM. E. COOPER & CO., Agents,
iy9 u " and Camp stree t.
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looming Star and Catholic Messenger.
THE ANGELUS,
HEARD AT THE MISSION DOLORES. 1863.


Eells of the Past, whose long.forgotten music
Still fills the wide expAnse.
Tipging the sober twilight OF the Present
With color Of romance.
1 hear your cali, and see the sun descending
On rock, and wave, and sand
AS down the coast the Mission voices blending
Girdle the heather land.
Within the circle Of your Incarnation
No blight nor mildew falls;
Passes those airy walls.
Borne on the swell of your long waves seeding
/ touch the farther Past
! SEQ the dying glow of Spanish glory.
The sunset dream and last!
Before mo rise the dome shaped Mission towers,
The white Preside;
The swart commander in his leathern jerkin,
The priest in stole of snow.
Once more see Portala's cross uplifting
Above the setting sun,
And past the headland, northward slowly drifting
The freighted galleOn.
o, solemn bells whose consecrated masses
Recall the faith of old
O. tinkling bella that lulled with twilight music
Tho spiritual fold!
Your voices break and falter in the darkness
Break. falter, and are still
And yelled and mystic, like the host descending,
Tho sun sinks from the hill.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-23
SEWING MACHINES.
SEWING MACHINE SALES FOR 1870.

DxzAVIIANI| ISIV.
THE SINGER STILL TRIUMPHANT!!
THE NEW IMPROVED sINGEv FAMILY SEWING
MACHINE.
Over 900 Singer Machines in Daily Use!
Twenty-Five Years of Popular and Constantly
.. Increasing Favor.
The Most Popular. Durable and Reliable Family Machine
in Existence.
BE SURE AND EXAMINE THE SINGER BEFO
BUYING ANY OTHER.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-07-28
IMPROVEMENTS.

A new and most substantial floor
has been laid beneath the new passen.
ger shed. A pair Of rejecting lamps
and a neat and convenient new ticket
office have been added to the shed.
The Council of Goodson has com,
menced the long-necdcd Improvement
Of the channel of Beaver Creek. The
first expenditure will be from the rail
road culvcrt to Cumberland Stree:
Bridge.
Rev. G.. 4. Caldwel's new house
has been placed under cover. We
think the usual mistake has been
made in giving the steep pitch to the
roof; otherwise it will be fine look
ing building.
Or. J. J. Ensor's new house ap-
proaches completion.
Mr.. W. w. James has erected a
brick front to his new building near
Cumberland 81. Two new houses
have been erected near the railroad
above Archer's.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-07-28
A Few Words to the Ladies.

Many ladies, particularly mothers nurs-
inr. COMPLAIN of tired, hstless feeling, or
COMPLETE exhaustion, on arising in the morn
ing. On the wife and mother deyolyes the
responsibility of regulating the duties of
tEc household Her cares are numerous,
and the mental rs well rs the physical pow
ers are frequently called into requision.-
She often finds her slightest occupation a
weary task and existence a burden, while
at the same time she has no regular disease
Uostetter's Stomaeh Bitters, if resorted to at
this period, will prove an unfailing RENE ly
for this ANNOYING lassitude. The effect of
this potent agent are soon seen in the rosy
cheek and elastic step of the head of the
family, as with restored health and renewed
shirts she takes her accustomed place in the
family circle. If this friend in need be reg
ularly used, depressing symptoms will
never be complained of, and not only would
lassitude not be experienced, but many dis
eases following its advent be avoided. As a
medical agent it has no equal, while Its
pleasinc flavor and healthful effects have
made il general favorite. 1t is free from
all properties calculated to impair the sys-
TEN. and its operations are at once mild,
soothing and efficient. All who have used
the Bitters attest its virtues and commend il
20 use. -.-t-
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-07-28
Laws Relating to NEWSPAPERS.

We have been asked to give the law, as it
stands, relating to newspapers and subscriI-
prs:
!. Subscribers who do not give express no
tice to the contrary are considered wishing
to continue their subscription.
2. Ifsubscribers order the discontinuance
Of their periodicals, the publishers may con-
tinuc to send them until all arrearages are
paid.
). II Subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their periodicals from the office to which they
are directed, they are held responsible till
they have settled their bill, and ordered
thom discontinued.
I. II subscribers nova to other places
without informing the Publisher, and the pa
I,rrs are sent to the former directions, they
are held responsible,
5. The courts have decided that refusing
to take periodicals from the office, or remoy-
ing and leaving them uncalled for, is PRlMA
FlCIA evidence of intentional fraud.
e. Any person who receives newspaper
and makes use of it, whether he has ordered
il OF not, is held in law TO be subscriber.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-07-28

Serious Accident. Mr.. Benz.
Chance, of this vicinity, lost hand
a few days ago, at the Tenn. Depot,
by the gross carclcssness and crimi,
nal neglect of an engineer. Mr..
Chance was under car attending to
some repairs, when the engineer,
without notice, backed his engine vio-
Iently against it In cndcavoring to
get from beneath the car. he placed
his hand on the rail. He is a clever
gentleman and has family.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-07-28

4 Sciadler named f. T. Koch,
a1iaS Hall, who stopped here on the
9TH inst, utterly failed to do Bristol.
lie proposed to establish large car
riage and wagon factory here and he-
go.iatcd for business site for S500
gold. He presented several drafts
but failed to find any one green enough
to cash them. Seeing a certain tete'
gram in official hands he decamped
leaving his hotel bill unpaid. lie i;
of stout figure, is about five feet nine
and is minus a right eye which some
policeman doubtless got.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-07-28
Personal.

Gov. McMullin honored our Office
with his ubiquitous presence on Satur-
day last. He is still ringing the bu-
gle Of retrenchmcnt and reform, and
looks hale and vigorous enough to
survive the contemplated marriage OF
his infant daughter when maturity
shall have added to her present beau-
ty its accomplishments and develop
mentS.
PERSONAL---VERY.. Z II, Smith, the
polite and efficient conductor on the
Mobile & Ohio railroad, was in town
on yesterday. lie is on so days
furlough among the mountains and
springs of East Tenn. lie reports
Jackson as lively and thriving town
of 6O00 inhabitants.
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IL z::..::::.:;:;.::;: !. -
RIVAL AND DEPARTUREO OF TRAINS
BRIsTOL-GOoDsON DIRECTORY.
CHURCHES.

EPISCOPAL Corner Moore and Cumberland
S,s., Guolson, Rev. PENpIEToN BRooKF
Rector, Services every 4th Sunday at ]
4 VI and s i NJ.
PRESBYTERIAN-On 9Th ST., Bristol
Rev. q. A. Caldwell, pastor. Services
on sunday at II A VI and 5 p VI. Prayer
meeting, Thursday evening at o'clock.
METHODIST-On Lee ST., Goodson, Rev.
W. W. BAYS prescher in charge. Seryi-
ces on Sunday at II \ VI and NJ.
Prayer-mecting, Wednesday Evening at
o'clock.
BAPTIST-Corncr Of Main and Virginia
Str. Goodson, Rev. X. B. EoATwRIGHT
pastor. Services or Sunday at il A NJ
and = NJ. Prayer-mect.nG, Wednesday
Evening at 8 O'Clock.
CHRIsTIAN-On Depot ST., Goodson, Rev
SAMUEL MILARD, preacher IN charge
Services on Sunday At II NJ
CATHOLIC-On Depot St, Goodson.-
Services every 4th Sunday at ii NJ at
Mr.. Joseph Shsy's residence, by Father
L. 4. Boycc.
Strangers are welcome and cordially inyi-
ted 10 worship with either Of the above de-
nominations.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-07-28
Oar Golden Opportunity.
Shall we Have a. Read TO Rus
self "a - -

- sG -- & EfT
Rev. ID. Sullins has, just returned
from trip, on horseback. to Russell
County. He reports great anxiety on
TIE part Of the people Of that county
for road to Bristol. They will meet
us with road on top Of Glinch Noun
tain. say at the gap below Esq. Jos.
Fugate's. Our route on which to
meet them win be by the proposed
Few road from this point to Widow
Smiths, thence by the Handy farm,
by Barren Spring Church, by the new
Saw Mill, into and up the Rich Valley
road, leaving it near DIR. Fleenor's
and by Wolf Run to Kindcrhook. 1t
will then devolve on us to make the
road to Widow Smiths aud the one
from Undertook to the top of the
nTouHtain-in all not more tl-an three
miles-the other eleven or twelve
being already made. The people of
Russell are anxious to reach Bristol
for trading point. Let us come to
this matter practically and secure the
trade OF Russell.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-07-28

Please Settle. for Your Lots.-I can
be found generally. either at the
Mayors Office. in GoOdsOn. or at the
office of the Bristol NearS. tor the
purpose of settling with the purchas-
ers of lots at the recent sale.
Bonds with semi-annual coupons at
tached have been printed and pur-
chasers will please report and settle
promptly within thirty days.
In my absence Recorder Willard
and Mr.. Geo. Harmeling, Clerk, will
settle with the parties. .
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-07-28

AcrcsS the Line.-A lady of Good.
on was recently arrested upon a
charge of assaulting a colorcd We
man. The evidence showed that
complainant stood in Tennessee and
leaning upon The fence, which is the
state line. called defendant liar
Result: defendant, standing IN Va,
dealt blow upon the head Of CON-
plainaut. who was in Tennessee. The
Mayor allowed complainant to pay
the costs.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-07-28
m. w. College.

Prof. r. w. Jones. Of Petersburg.
has been elected President of Martha
Washington College, at Abingdon
He is a gentleman of fine character
and accomplishments, a thorough
scholar and seems destined to add to
all the usefulness of his predecessor
a popularity he never possessed
Both the University of Va. and r. NJ.
College have conferred upon him the
degree of A. NJ. The session will
open on the 18th of October next.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-07-28
FOR SALE.

I am ready to negotiate on very
favorable terms, the sale of the most
valuable water power within the vi
cinity of Bristol. 1t is within one
mile of Main Street and furnishes a
fall of II feet with room above that
point for more than one Factory with
fall of twelve or more feet. The
property is peculiarly valuable and
can be had at price low enough to
cntice manufactures to our locality.
/. C. FOWLER.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-07-28

The AJinyIoa CancaSs.-We pre-
pose to give in our next issue some
points pertinent to the present phase
of the Washington County Canvass.
These points are rendered necessary
on account of certain allegations
which are as unjust as they are untrue,
and rs truth can do no harm we pro.
pose to give it.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-07-28

Proof Of tie Pud,li'g.-Mr. Mel
vim has shipped another car load OF
live chickens TO New York. This is but
one of many new enterprises which
consolidation has made possible and
profitable, and hereafter we will men
ton more of them.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-07-28

DR.. WhiHen'S Card.-We present
our readers this morning with the card
of DIR. Written. He is graduate
of Richmond Medical College and
has from the officers of that sound
Institution the most fattering recon-
dations. lie is gentleman of fine
character and is whorthy of any re-
commentator which the News can
give him.