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The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-03
Z Our Glorious Fire Department,

VI 'ne many organizations peculiar to our
Guy and for which it is famed, none is more
deserving OF the gratitude of our citizens than
'ur volunteer Fire Department.. Organized
upon q basis OF purely voluntary service, these
men not only devote their time and MONEY!
Dut also FISK their lives for the benefit of the
people. In the list of gallant firemen who have
nooly SACRIFICED their lives in the DISCHARGE OF
tnelr DUTY from Trad Ferry, Straw bridge and
Clayton down to Clavier, Fox and Nicholson
we nave koll of Honor of which anv citv
may well feel proud. While to some of onr
cltizens the names of the gallant dead NAV he
unknown, the living members of the Dena,t-
ment never forget them. Nor are their families
ever forgotten or neglected, for from the
Jay OF the death of any member, if his family
DC IN need of assistance, it is succored
Win generous hand. The relief thus dis
trlouted to widows and orphans during the
past year amounted to the enormous sum of
Soo,ooo. Fer these reasons and others too NM
merous to mention, the 4th of March, the an
nlvefsary of the Fire Department, has fol
years been one of the great holidays of thu
Crescent City. On that day the whole of on
population congregates in the principa@
streets, to witness the grand procession a.
gallant mon, beautiful engines decorated &C.
the occasion by the hands of beauty. anE
poble steeds, some, on which the mar
Exempt tells that they have been faithfu
workers in the cause, but the sickness a.
whose appearance says that they are tenderl
cared for in their old age by the BOYS. otbeI
IN the fullness of their youth and STRENGTH
impatient, as it were, to be the first to read
the point of danger.
Tomorrow, being the 4th, the DepartmenG
according to the programme published elsG
where, will celebrate its thirty-fifth anniye&
sary, and we are satisfied that the processid
will equal if not excel any ever before seen. M
MARKS TESTIMONIAL M
On this great occasion nothing could ~
more appropriate than the ceremonies ~
ranged for the purpose of testifying the lot&
and respect of the whole Department to n
illustrions head, Mr.. I. N. Marks For sixteen
years Mr.. Marks has been President of the All
ISOLATION, and, by his splendid administrative
abilities, energy and tact, has successfullA
guided and directed its workings.
The ceremonies will take place at tbA
Varieties Theatre, Immediately after the prod
cession.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-03

THE VACANT SEE OF BALTIMoRE.-Recard-
ing the question, which now possesses great
interest to all Catholics, as to who is to be the
successor of the late Archbishop Spalding, the
New York Freeman says:
In regard to who is to be next Archbishop,
the ultimate decision rests, of course, with tile
See OF Rome. Those most deeply concerned
are the sutragan Bishops of the Province of
AS they were all gathered at tho funeral
oose4ules OF the deceased Archbishop, it may
be taken for granted that the question of the
Succession was discussed, and most probably
the list of three, DignissimaS, Digaior, and
DiJn"s -" agreed on, and tho CONSEQUENT re-
communication to the Holy See already ex-
pedited
Rumor, helped by some secret that even
before tho Tate Archbishops death, had been
trusted to SO many as to have become very
public property, has pointed to the RI Rev.
James Roosevelt Bayley, Bishop of Newark as
the Prelate most likely to be charged with
this high Office We, of course, know nothing
about the truth of it, as these conferences Of
he Bishops are not given to the public
But the probability of this recommendatory
nomination seems to have taken possession Of
the minds of clergy and laity.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-03

THE CATHOLIC UHIoN.--We call especial
attention to the letter of Bishop Martin, OF
Natchitoches, published in another column,
on the subject of the Catholic Militant
Union. 1t is SO eloquent, forcible and con-
vincing that, if we could afford the. space,
We should like to keep it standing in our
columns for long time to come. We
earnestly hope that no Catholic will fail
to read and ponder over it.
The encouragement thus coming in on
all sides, from the very princes of the
Church, ought to convince our people, with
out any argument, that they cannot go
amiss in espousing the cause of the
new association. Many do not see at first
what is expected to be done, but they may
be assured that there will be no lack of OBJ
jects to be accomplished and means to be
applied. This cannot be foreseen and de-
veloped all at once, just as those who in
convention frame State Constitution and
provide for q judiciary-caunot foresee all
the legal questions that will como up be-
fore its tribunal. There will be plenty to
be done and that will all be in furtherance
of most cherished purposes of the Church.
Its schools, its properties, its social stand
ing, its history, will ali be vindicated and
protected.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-03

"S1STER HELENA."-We would direct es-
pecial attention to HERAIINE's inspired Golden
Wedding Song in another column. Every
Sister of Charity and each pupil of St.
Joseph's Vale, Maryland will recognize it's
application to the humble aud ever-cheerful
Sister Helena, whose fiftieth anniversary of
profession occurs on next Sunday, 10th inst.
1t may interest the mass of our readers to
know that the venerable subject of this poem
is own sister of the Right Rev. Bishop OF
hatcher also of our esteemed fellow citizens
Messrs. Thos. S. and Chas. d. Elder.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-03
A Serious Charge.

The Times of last Friday accuses the
Picayune of having come out in its Wed
| nesday's edition in favor of Grant for the
next Presidential term provided the State
can be relieved from Warmothism through
an alliance with the GRANTEES. The Ian
guage of the Picayune, as quoted, certainly
gives occasion for some misgivings as to
it's position.
There can be but little doubt that Gen.
Grant would consent to the enjoyment by
the people of Louisians of very decent
agree to join lis wing of'the Republican
party in throwing the State vote for him.
No doubt, arrangements could be thus
made by which carpet-baggery and public
plundering would be stopped entirely and
the people reinstated in their rights of self
government. But this local relief would
be obtained at the expense of treason to
our Northern allies and friends. 1t would
involve an abandonment of the National
Democratic organization and a n active OPP
position to it. Can this relief be honorably
bought at such an expense of good faith
and principle7
: Even though the Democratic party
should not propose Presidential candi-
date of its own it will at least, certainly
unite with the Republican wing which op-
poses Grant. 1t will combine with the ele-
ment of Republication which favors am-
nesty to the South and the restoration of
Southern rights. 1t proposes to be our
friend and fight our battles for us. Would
it be loyal and manly in Us to desert its
standard and join hands with our oppres-
sors and enemies because they offer to con-
cede the very rights which our friends are
about to wrest from them9
This would be not only very mean and |
ignoble but it would be very impolitic.
Our true policy is to strengthen the hands
Of our friends and to beware of fawning
enemies. Timeo Danaos ct dona .ferentes.
Once commence by buying an alliance, and
every favor would have to be bought there
after. If we get our rights as the gift of
every justice may thenceforth
oe counted on as the spontaneous offspring
If a hearty good will.
We hope the Times mistakes tho tenor of
he Picayune's article. Certainly it would
'e, grave mistake in any journal to at
empt to engineer an alliance between our
people and Gen. Grant of such nature as
o favor his dominance or that of his party
n national politics. The project would
fall and carry the paper down
With it.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-03

ST. PATRICK's DAY.-From the notes of pre-
paration which are to be heard on every side
it is evident that the feast of the great apostle
of Ireland will this year be celebrated by our
Irish fellow-citizens with more than ordinary
magnticence. The Hibernian Mutual Aid and
Benevolent Association, which, Mt this time
last year numbered only about six hundred
men, will probably have in line on the 18th
inst, at least fourteen hundred men. Mcssrs.
r. II. BARLEY, John McCatfrcy and John r.
Gibbons, have been appointed a committee by
the Central Board of the organization, to make
all necessary arrangements. At the last meet
ing of the Board, Mr.. James Grant was elected
grand marshall
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-03

DEATH or \ PRIEsT.-Rev. Philibcrt Marie
Biron, Pastor of st. Peters Church in the civil
Parish of st. John the Baptist, died last Sun
day at the rectory attached to that Church.
Father Biron was born in the diocese of
Nantes, Franco, where he had exercised, with
much good, his sacred calling, and had been in
this country only six month. Sent temporarily
to ST. Peters during tho illness of Father
Lacour, upon tho death of that good priest
he was, in accordance with the manifest
wishes of the pensioners, appointed pastor
Translated from the PropdgdteW Catholiquc.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-03

DEATH OF THE ABBE GRATRY.-The Paris
Cuicc'S, of the Sth of February, in brief
note, announces the death of Pere Crafty. He
expired at Montreux, in Switzerland. Before
his death he had the happiness of making q
public retraction of all that he had written
against the Council of the Vatican. He died
in the most edifying dispositions of absolute
submission to the Church's DEGREES.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-03

PERsoNAI"-We were honored last week
with a call from Mr.. Walter n. Hammett, the
special correspondent of the Vicksburg Irish
Citizen. The Cit:c' is n most interesting and
able weekly paper, edited and published by l.
{. Patrick, Esq, and is specially devoted to
the interests of the Irish people.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-03
DIOCESE OF NATcHEz.
EPISCOPAL VISITATION.

February 25-Meridian, Lauderdale county.
March 3-Pauldiug, Jasper county.
March 1O-Raleigh, Smith county.
The above, though posted at Natchez on the
18th ult., as shown by the rostotiice stamp,
only reached us on the night of the gath, too
late for insertion in our last issue.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-03

DEATH or FATHER CosKERY.-Nery Rev
Henry Benedict Cosiery, Vicar General and
Administrator of tho Archdiocese of Baltimore,
died at the Archicpiscopal residence in Balti-
more on the 27th of February, after several
weeks, illness Mt the ago of sixty-four Years
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-03
THE. CONQUERED BANNER.

At the earnest solicitation of many of
our subscribers, VIC will publish The
Conquered Banner" and Sir Henry Hough-
toms answer to it, in our next issue.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-03

- D. ELDER, CATHOLIC BOOKSELLER, 124
CAMr STREET, WILL surrLY, AT SHORTEST
NOTICE, ALL ORDERS FOR Books, STATIONERY
AND DEVOTIONAL GOODS or EVERY KIND.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-03

Tho story of ELLEN Fitzgerald" to-day
reaches point when the reader can utter but
one comment, "7is trre, IT'S pity, and pity It's
i;is true"
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-02-29

HOUSEHOLD -SINs.-Some cooks will
throw out the water in which meats have
been boiled, without letting it cool to
take off the fat.
Bits of meat are thrown out which
would make hashed meat or hash.
The flour is sifted in a wasteful man
ner, and the bread-pan left with the
dough sticking to it.
Pie-crust is laid by to sour, instead
of making a few tarts for tea
Cold puddings are considered good for
nothing, when oftentimes they can be
steamed for the next day.
Dish cloths are thrown down where
mice destroy them.
Vegetables are often thrown away that
would warm nicely for breakfast.
The scrubbing brush is left in the
water.
Tubs and barrels are left in the sun to
dry and fall apart.
Nice handled knives are thrown into
hot water.
Silver spoons are used to scour kettles
Cream is allowed to mould and spoil
Coffee, tea, and pepper and spices are
left to stand open and lose their strength
The cork is left out of the molasse:
Jug, and the flies take possession.
Vinegar is drawn in tin basin, and
allowed to stand until both basin and
vinegar are spoiled.-Nat. Independent.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-02-29
The Red River Raft.

Having heard of the "great raft" in
the Red River, since our geography days,
we are all apt to suppose we know all
about it. We are well aware that it is
mass of drift wood, completely OBJ
structing navigation at the point where
it covers the water with its countless
trunks of forest trees. We know that
the river passes under this mass us if it
were bridge and we may remember
that in 1888, when the raft was one hum
dred and twenty-four miles long, the
general government began the work of
removing it, but after working at it for
twenty-five years, abandoned the at
tempt as impracticable, and confined its
efforts to the opening of some of the
lateral channels or bayous. We may
know all this but still be ignorant of one
of the most curious characteristics of
the great raft, which is that it, unlike
RATS in general, moves up the river
against the current instead of down.
The movement is very slow, being but
mile or two in a year. The explanation
of this rctrogade movement of an ap-
parently stationary mass is simple
enough. The logs of the lower end of
the raft are continually broken away
and carried off by the floods and fresh
cts. Thus the raft, always falling away
at one end and growing at the other,
gradually moves up the river, and it is
calculated that it has moved since its
forming about four hundred miles.
Scientific writers have suggested the
idea that this vast mass of timber, after
lying in the old bed of the river for quite
a number of ages, will become a coal
bed. But when the Red River country
becomes thickly settled, this enormous
collection of driftwood may be utilized
in some way or other, and thus incalcu-
lably distant generations may be cheat
ed out of many good coal fre.-Er-
change.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-02-29
Something About Faces.

1t is trite remark that among all the
multitude of people who inhabit this
globe, no two can be found that exactly
resemble each. other. Even in cases of
twins, where strong similarity exists,
of difference by which those most init
mately acquainted with them are en-
abled to distinguish one from the other.
And it may be further observed that.
those most alike in early youth, lose
their. resemblance, to o greater or less
degree, as age advances No face leaves
this world at mature years without hav-
ing undergone changes that astonish
even the most intimate when compari-
sons are rendered possible. In this age
OF photographs, almost any one is able
to make such comparisons, and to note
how the various circumstances and trials
of life carve their impress upon the fea-
lures. Very few have, however, fully
estimated the infinite variety and num-
Der of indirect, direct, near, and remote
influences that have operated through
ages to work out the form and features
of every face upon earth.
A skilful physiognomist may often de-
termine character approximately by the
countenances of men but, as a sheet of
paper, printed and reprinted, must at
last become a confused tumble of indis-
tinguishable characters, so are most peo-
pies faces too much interlined and cross
lined, by the confused imprint of circum-
stances and events, to be intellgible
even to the most practised reader of faces.
There are, indeed, some traits of charac-
ter, and some passions, that ordinarily
stamp themselves upon faces more con-
spicuously than others. OF these may be
mentioned cruelty, settled melancholy,
and jolly good-nature. As a rule, these
traits are easily distinguished by look
at faces but it is not unfrequent that
good faces conceal bad hearts, and sane
timonious appearances cover secret vices.
A man who was tried for and convicted
of murder, and who confessed his crime
before his execution, was admitted, while
on trial, to be as fine-looking and pre-
possessing in appearance as any one on
the bench, at the bar or in the jury box J;
yet that court contained some men
whose lives have been in the highest de-
gree honorable, and whose personal ap-
pearance could scarcely be excelled by
any equal number of men anywhere. 1t
is quite notorious that circumstances of
easy living, the absence of business cares
and worries, will do much towards
smoothing away the marks of crime ;
while the faces of Criminals that have
lived in circumstances of physical hard
ship gathera rough brutality from which
we instinctively shrink.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-02-29
The Romance of Medicine.

1t really appears, says an English
magazine writer, that man may have
serious attacks of disease and know lit
tie or nothing about it. Here is a cur
ious instance Some gentlemen had
been supping together, and had after
ward taken pipes. One of them laid
down his pipe and said he was struck
with paralysis. His friends declared
that they could not perceive it, but he
persisted that his mouth was drawn on
one side, and he asked friend to ae-
company him home. This friend called
next day, but found him very angry
with his barber for not seeing any alter
alton in him. But in the course of the
day his unbelieving friends saw him to
be manifestly worse, and he died in
about six months. 1t is not unlikely
that there are many cases of incipient
paralysis which are quite unnoticed by
the sufferer.
The case of Mr.. Humphrey, one of
the leaders of the Midland Circuit, in
England, was very remarkable one.
He suffered from a peculiar cancerous
affection, the nature of which was not
discovered until after the performance
of an operation. The case was SO rare
that an anonymous account of it was
published in medical work. At this
time Mr.. Humphrey was to all appear
ance established in perfect health. He
happened to read the article and recog-
nized his own case !: Whereupon he pro-
ceeded to arrange his affairs and put his
house in order, dying within the pre-
dicted time in the midst of his family
with the fortitude of an ancient Roman"
1t is probable that each condition of
life may have a tendency to develope
some of physical danger at its shadow.
Thus we have the miners lung, the
painters collie, the artists dropped wrist,
the cOryphees infammable dress, the
clergyman's sore throat. The number
of odd remedies is always increasing.
Both petroleum and chloral-hydrate are
prescribed for sea sickness. The hom9-
opathists say that petroleum is, in fact,
specific. The white of eggs is used
medically. 1t seems that opium, al
though it has been often called a doc
tors confession of weakness, might be
used in moderate doses, to a greater ex-
tent than is at present the case. When
Mr.. Winn went out to see the war in
France, he was in the habit of admins
tering heavy doses of fifteen drops OF
laudanum, even when it had been re-
fused by the surgeon, and found it a
very elirir cite to many poor sufferers
during the campaign.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-02-29
Cold Weather in Europe.

The recent cold weather in Europe
has called forth the following facts,
which appeared in the Journal des De-
bats:
In $50 A. d. the Euxinc was frozen
over.
In sos the rivers of England were
frozen over for two months.
In 55S the Black Sea was covered with
ice for twenty days, and in 763 the ice
was so feet thick.
In S2l the Elbe, the Danube and
the Seine were frozen during four
weeks.
In 1928 the Mediterranean was entire
ly frozen.
In 1405 Tamerlane made an incursion
into China, and lost his men, horses and
camels by the excessive cold.
In 1920 Paris experienced so great
cold that the city was depopulated,
and animals fed on corpses in the streets.
In 1888, at Paris, snow fell during
forty days and forty nights necessarily.
In 1869, in France and Germany, wine
was frozen so hard that it was cut in
blocks and sold by weight.
In 1870 the intense cold lasted three
months, and all the fruit trees of
Provence and Languedoc were destroy
ed.
In 1907 provisions and fuel became so
scarce on account of cold in Paris that a
small bundle of kindling- brush cost forty
cents. The cattle froze in their stalls,
and the Seine could be crossed by heavy
carts.
The year 1909 was one of intense cold
all over Europe, and mass could not be
said for many weeks in certain province.
because the wine could not be kept in
fluid state.
In 1875, in Chinese Tartary, the ther.
mometer fell ninety-seven degrees below
ero-Fahrenheit.
l740 was a winter of such rigor il
Russia that an ice palace was construct
ed at st. Petersburg tifty-one feet Ions
and seventeen feet wide. Six ice can
non were mounted on the walls, and tive
mortars for bombs. The cannon helc
balls of six pounds weight, were charged
with powder and discharged, SO that tn,
ball pierced board two inches thick q
a distance of sixty feet. The cannon
did not burst, though its walls were les
than ten inches in thickness.
l765 was year of intense cold; ais
1888. Since that year the cold ha
never been SO great in Paris until thi
very year of 1871, when, for the frs
time in a century, Jack Frost came agail
to the tune oftwenty-one degrees beloy
zero-centigrade. a.e.ssgr
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-02-29
HumOrS of the Street.

A ludicrous accident occurred on San
Francisco horse-railroad recently. An
elderly and very portly lady passenger
signalled for the car to stop at a certain
street, but of course the rear platform
went little beyond the dry crossing,
and as a consequence the step was just
over the mud, which was very deep. The
old lady growled a great deal, and the
conductor stepped off the car and offered
his hand to guide her to the crossing,
when forgetting her exceeding weight,
she sank bodily into his outstretohed
arms, and, as consequence, the conduc-
tor sat quietly down in the mud and the
passenger fell over his head. He swore
and she stormed, and the other passengers
laughed, but being behind time the
conductor was obliged to go ON his way
leaving the old lady trying to wipe the
mud off her clothes with a seven-incl
square handkerchief, Indignantly vowine
revenge against the railroad company
and all conductors.