The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-16
IIscELLANEoUs FOREIGN NEWS.
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prosecutions, and the public are not sorry
tn the end of them. The trial OF Or.
Duggan. Lord Bishop Of Clonfert, conciu
ded on Wednesday in a verdict OF aequ't-
tai. verdict received in Dublin Win an
enthusiasm which will be sure to find an
echoe in every part of Ireland, and indeed
tho whole Catholic world. That the jury
would return n verdict of Not Guilty, was
to be anticipated before the witness for the
prosecution had half concluded his inter
esting cr0ss-cxamina alton; whilo pnolc
feeling against the prosecutions became
terribly intensified at learning the fact
that the Crown had entered the case
against n prelate of the Catholic Church
on the unsupported testimony OF an infor-
mer. 1t was scarcely necessary to produce
witnesses for the defence; but, on the
other hand, the importance of the trial was
greatly magnfed by the fact of the high
and sacred office of the Most Rev. Traver-
ser, and the production of an Overwhelm-
ing weight of testimony was therefore, If
not essential, at least proper, and due to
the character of the accused. Carter, who
of himself, admitted, certainly with un-
paralleled GOODNESS, that he had given in
formation which had led to the arrest of
persons Connected with Fenianism-Carter
sworo point blank that the Bishop had
threatened anatbema against all who would
not vote as he aud his clergy should direct.
Against this were produced cloud of wit
nesses who had been present on the occa-
sion referred to by Carter, and who dis
tinctly contradicted his evidence. This, of
course, rendered it impossible for the jury
to hesitate in giving their verdict, and &C
cordingly they acquitted his lordship,
thereby giving justice triumph well cal
cuated to vastly increase respect for the
law in Ireland. The trial was a most re-
markable one, as we'll for its intense i'm
portance as for the extraordinary amount
of eloquence and forensic ability displayed
on both sides. Mr.. Butt even surpassed
himself in his address to the jury, and his
speech fully equalled the best effort ever
made even by the most celebrated orators
the Irish Bar has produced. Sergeant
Armstrong, on the other side, displayed all
his powers of wit and eloquence and legal
acumen, but was most powerful in his elo-
quent and imprisoned reply to a most I'M
dlgnlfied attack uade by Mr.. Heron, who,
We are sorry to say, marred the effect of
splendid address by an attempt to throw
the odium of the prosecution on the learn
cd Sergeant. His lordship's charge to the
jury, was one of the most powerful, digni-
fled, and impartial, ever delivered in
| court of justice. There was not a point
made by either counsel, that was not
! weighed, not word of evidence that was
not cited, and not fact left unnoticed which
could in any way assist the jury in arri-
| wing at n true verdict. On the announce
ment of that verdict, the Solicitor Gener-
al declared his intention of not proceeding
further in the prosecutions during the pre-
sent after sittings, SO that we may safe
ly conclude that the other traversers men.
toned in tho schedule will never be
brought to trial. The ballot, thank God,
renders recurrence of such scenes impos-
sible.- Waterford Ne,rs, Feb %.
Crimelcss Tppera'y.- In the Cashet
Gd-ctte of Feb 81, last We find the follow
ing report of the proceedings at the Cashel
Petty Sessions Court on the previous We'd
nesday Hon. Martin Joseph French,
X. NJ, Chairman. Mr.. Scully, Petty Ses
sions Clerk, informed the Chairman that
there was no case for trial of any kind, Mr.
Denis O'Kearney [Crux) said as representa-
tives of the Sheriff he begged leave to pre-
sent the honorable chairman with a pair
of white gloves. At present, on account
of the Indictment season, the labouring pop
| ulatlon were unable to earn anything, and
poverty was often an incentive of crime
1t was a happy circumstance that there was
no casa to try, and he begged to make the
presen alton as an emblem of the purity of
the Inhabitants and their freedom from
crime. The chairman said he had much
| pleasure in accepting the presentation. as
it testified to the good sense of the people
in abstaining from crime, and also as a
| token of tho good order of the district,
The court then adjourned" And vet there
is a Coercion Act for Tipperary
Remarkable Longerity-The most re-
markable case of longevity known to any
person in this part of the country is that
of Kate Magrath, whose remains were in
tered in klmoi!y church-yard last Sun
day, She lived to the great age of ia
years! She was sound in mind and body
to the last. Until a few weeks before her
demise she assisted her grand daughter in
the various business of her house. Her
son, with whom che lived is a small farmer
in the parish of Ballyhaigue, and now a
very old man. Her maiden name was Re-
| gan. She was born in the village in which
her remeins now rest for ever. How many
vicissitudes of time and place had this old
woman witnessed. She was born about
the same year that Clement III. received
the Papal Crown. 1t is only the seventh
Pope that has outlIEed her. In the reign
of George III. she was born, and only the
sixth Sovereign of England has survived
her. AT her birth Louis XIV. sat on the
throne of France, and she survived its
eighth Emperor; notwithstanding that
three Republics rose and two fell in the
| meantime. She saw her father nav a
guinea for as much oateu straw as she and
himself were able to carry on their backs
without much difficulty about q hundred
years ago, when there was cattle famine.
out she never saw as much RAIN fall in any
one year "a she had seen in tho Loot x,aor