The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-05-07

We Care oi person In q moment OF rage
ana passion beating a policeman, or the
case of n fair man ia. man fght, and he
made an allowance in those cases. But the
prisoners, like towards, placed their victims
IN position in which they were incapable
OF resisting, pitching stones and beating
them severely: His Worship discharged
Byrne and O'Hara, and sentenced the
other male prisoners to six months impris-
onment with hard labor. The woman Knox
was sent to Jail for two months with hard
labor.
Va!ue Of Land in Ire1and.-The Cork
Erdmtne' announces the sale, by auction,
of farm of 71b acres of excellent land,
situate at Monard, held under lease dated
october, 1851, for term of sixty three
years, subject to an annual head rent of
Ely. The farm was thoroughly drained
and we'll fenced, and f6OO had recently
| been expended in the erection of suitable
buildings. The land is held on short terms
by three tenants, who pay collectively
t2SS2 los. a year, from which the head rent
| being deducted, profit rent of f143 los.
remains: 1t brought s625. The Limerick
Chronicle reports another instance of eager
competitor for land. A tenant few days
! ago sold his interest in a small farm con-
tanning acres-the rent of which amount
ed to E %. Sd. per acre-for no less a sum
than f1I5, although the amount of COM
pensati0n he would be entitled to receive
under the Land Act would be only s70.
Poor Ldw Rating.-The Carlow Union
Board of Guardians, at q meeting specially
! called for the purpose OF considering the
proposed changes in the system of levying
rates, adopted, after long discussion, n
resolution proposed by Sir r. Butler, Bart,
seconded by Arthur Fitzmsurice, ESQ.,, j.
| F., to the effect, that tho board did not
think the principle of union rating advisa-
aid; when the rate on any electoral divi-
sion would exceed Is. Sd. in the pound, the
overplus should be levied off other divi-
sions. The opinions of boards of guar
dams, most of whom are er obcio, should,
however, count merely for what they are
worth in a question SO vital to the poor,
and affecting the ratepayers to such an inn
portant extent.
The National Board of Education IA
Leinster PRIEST" in the Freeman's Jonr-
nat, calls attention to a most important
fact. At the Board of Education in Ty-
rome House, Marlboro-street, the Resident
Commissioners, who is Protestant, practi-
caiiy administers the entire affairs, but is
assisted by two secretaries, one Protes-
tant, and the other, for appearance sake, a
Catholic. The Catholic is the senior, but
the " Leipster PRIEST points out that he is
e4ci9ded from the confidence of the board,
and ID rarely present at the meetings.
ihls certainly requires explanation, unless
Immediate and sweeping reforms have al
ready been determined on.
4 Golden Potato.-A ID DAYS ago. a
little girl, living with her mother at Clog
y-beth, Portmadoc, was peeliDg potatoes
for dinner. Her mother, seeing her rather
into her own hands, and slicing potato
discovered two soveriegns in it 1t appear
Ell the family had got the potatoes from a
vessel then in the port, and a short time
previously the captain had lost ten sove-
rejgDs. Suspicion had fallen on one of
al
money very freely, but nothing was found
either on his person or amongst his effects.
1t is believed that, in order t. make him
self safe, the sailor had secreted the money
In the potatoes.-Cdrnaruon Herald.
Poor France.--Here in ireland our hearts
are not yet closed by the terrible scene
now presented in Paris-where the devil
and his agents have the mastery for the
moment. Pity and compassion are the
prePonderating feeling with which we re-
gard present state of France. On Tuesday
evening a reading was given in the Exhibit
ton Palace by Or; Tisdali, Chancellor of
Christ Church Cathedral, in aid of the
Mansion House French Relief Fund, and
though the night was very wet it was most
successful. The Lord Mayor, Lady May
! Dress, and party were present. A touching
and appropriate prologue from the graceful
pen of DIR. Waller, T. G. D., was delivered
by DR.. Tisdall.
who left here a few days ago from Ennis,
en- route by Cork for America, was Peter
Barrett, who was charged with attempting
the life of Captain Lambert, and who was
thrice put upon his trial and acquitted BY
Dublin jary: Since his acquittal he has
lived quietly here with his twice-evicted
parent, who l regret to say, are daily sink
ing from former condition of comfort.
step by step, into a state of hopeless
misery.-COr. Freeman.
Emigrdtion.-The Cork Herald expresses
astonishment at the continued drain of the
population, which it says is going on as
steadily now as in the most disturbed
years. Queenstown is already crowded
with emigrants, although the season has
oniy commenced, and it is expected that
before summer the weekly departures from
that port will average 1000. The people
come principally from Clare, Tipperary,
Meath, Westmeatb, and the Kings County
Street Railways 4" Belfast.-We find that
street railways arc about being formed in
Belfast. A committee has been formed for
the purpose, aud letter in the Northern