The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-02-04
sl1nsuaahed Conversion in Worth Carolina J.
Hon. Atlas J. Dargan.

a 1As "AAAed conversion in North Carolina :
Ia Hon. Atlas J. Dargan
: General Dargan, Senator from Anso
= oouney' has been received into the Roma
eeaeaolic Church by the Rev. J. v. McNa
nara Hts solemn profession of Catholi,
iMsn, ana the impressive ceremony OF hi;
uapeism took place Immediately on conclu
ou OF divine service and in presence o.
assembled congregation. Two Others
were baptized at the same time. We conv
she Following sketch of General Darran
,a un 'ne ba'ty Carotinian, of January 9th,
| is12, published at Raleigh:
| Isnerai Dargan is one of the most hon
ored and distinguished men of North ca
o!ina. He is man of marked abiIitv on.,
uis integrity and talents have kept him for
PERIOD OF about thirty wears renras.rto
Nv i've OF Arson county in the LegisIatnra of
snas State. He is a'lawyer of disting uisIed
of the ssn ana is brother of Judge Dargan,
=. Inc supreme Court of Alabama. He was
T Goan 40 mississippi. His mother was |
rrsnch Huguenot, but his paternaI orand
S Sue came from ireland and settled in the
Ssa.e OF Mississippi many years ago. Can
s. sar nSan family were wealthy. lie
hesTi.S by the results Of tho lata wa I;s
g!eae talents and legal abilities st;lI laars
nm ri.n man of considerable wealth. His
a aaSnei' was Baptist minister, and. if we
..s correctly Informed, he has brother
80 VOW minister of that denomina-
49, nc is relative also of that distin /
!u,sned air. Dargan who acquired such a
a'"e, few years ago, in ireland nj II
throughout the British empire. N I
Inc General belongs to a sect;on of o
;tt,n where the Catholic Church is but y
,ttie known. Wadesboro, his home anS
ne section roHnd about is, to n crest CIV r;
eht, Baptist settlement. We ,,onht r. b.
leIe us another Catholic besides Limsaif Ia
INC ensife county wherein General Oar eff
i , resides. In fact, Catholicity in the d.
!. "o ;ne olate or North Carolina is only in el
S infancy. Wilmington has the Iargost NJ
athoiic population of any place in the CT
"a. n'o. h,shop Gibbons resides there. and WI
enough he las already effected yerv uuci, 10
the Church in his Jurisdiction. he and G.
lew priests who labor in the St:see have fro
th. pu ,;tS 10 undergo than any clergy MI
W." 20 onlted states. Things are promis- Ell
TO assume a more tlatterinc asnect in the
Tito time. Now is the time that calls eys
;, hardships and patience. 1t is not ~ the
ne rel, remarkable that, although the Church gre
oeeh ia5orlng under SO many disad the
less, held in her bosom several of tho pa,
st eminent men that have ever BELONGED the
that State. The great Judge Gas9on nos
!, North Carolina Catholic. His friend far
n1r ~ piother OF the late Governor is b
III J,5s Guntete. Inc late Judge late
nla, We Hnoore, or Newbern, Doctor abil
.rei H. i':, OF wilmington, and he
ts~to the Church. Miss Fisher of rails
soury' the talented authoress, is also the
vert and the illustrious Doctor ives uncl
cn5not he san bishop or North Carroll Eng
DaTno. o SoUIen. NOW comes Cen year
,r;aI -, d man OF powerful mind and in Il
tr;nns esli'y, 10 ada his to so many ter O
trious names who have honored the cure
Ole cause in the old North State. Priv