The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-01-26
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snnnvrronr. Ia. January Is, 1878.

% you, Father Time has made his nnnuai
. rouuds.n and borne away with him into the .
Ioreysr-departed past another year, 1877. VINO 4
II us can read its records and mourn that 1t Is
comet No year Of all cur past has given us ]
less to mourn for. No Catholic can regret IL, !
certainly, for it has but widened and deepened
the pail of dismal darkness its predecessors
spread above our Holy Church in Rome. Inc
sorrows of our Holy Father are not hgheeneo'
his feet are fettered still, though that 1oo-
empowered hand is free, its royal signe' r'cn
and radiant with its Heaven-born power Al
Germany-tha "Fatherland" alas! no more
the Church has felt the tyrant's heel, SO soreiy
pressed upon the devoted sons Of st. 1gnatius;
France-once the Churchs summer-lano-
Rome,s "Flower of Love" alas: " lies bleed
ipe.n In other countries martyrs crowns are
woven fast, and many are made to wear them.
Then
Of ss n. ,s%S ao ~ e.
Who. telling Ter 1t. :S11U~' s Uns y ono
G &so 1 ssss pal.
Gay s:S hid On. Sd
And haste the coming Of brighter oAy'
Threueh all Of the many trials and troubles
of our Holy Father and the Church, nave
never for moment doubted the triumphaA re-
sults yet look forward to. Ny Irish Cathoiie
faith, or " superstition" a. Justin McCarthy
vould term it, teaches mo impressively that
He who "dosth all things WELL" has his swn
good and great ends in view, inscrutable
tb.uob thew be to u.s. He who marks the
suarrov's fall, knows and permits these trials
Of His Church, and in His own good time we
will see His own great triumphs. To judge
alone by the past of the Pope and his temporal
mower and of Rome and her rulers, am one
who believes most firmly that Rome and Italy
will vet be more closely linked to and united
with tho Church than they have been hereto
fore. The Devil is abroad in the land, but his
power and workings are permitted and therefore
, limited
3 The tracipgs of the old years havoc have
/. carried me far away. Rome is q considerable
|, distance from Shreveport-though1 must say
,,n.se is much similarity between the two cities
of late, in that the Devil has had mnch to do
t with both places. am firm believer In the
= future of both cities-from very differen,
J. stand points, however.
! As to Shreveport, will tell yon in the word'
:. of the song:
SusSes have Sriehtened and tears have been wept
hssS sssans at he o%S
Of This is socially speaking; there have bee'
r modest marriages and sudden, saddenine
- gloomy deaths much murmuring and On
O. little gaiety and rejoicing. Socially 1T ha
DO been the dullest and financially the gloomiest
no most trying year we have passed through sine
IA the war Until very recently Shreveport ha
on been literally out of water, ont OF provision
es and out of money, and entirely cut ON ITO
q her supplies Expenses of living were no jok
rst nartieularly with the poor with -four at $40
~. s25 per barrel bacon, lard, coffee, sugar,
- 25 cents to IS cents per pound; coal oil, y
NO. gallon I; meal, 81 so per bushel; butter 81
zen pound eggs, 81 per dozen, Irish potatoes n
for to be had, and great many other things dit
hsr Warehouses full of cotton, but none could
to shipped, and no money here with which
em either bay or advance. Very many perso
A"A were reduced to wartime diet The mi
stubborn of the wagon trade" and anti-ra
for road men q regret to acknowledge q
rth- amongst us), are thoroughly convinced now
"a ga the necessity for railroad connection with
ers, outside world they have never had 1t so
cry, cibly demonstrated to them before, as tt
s sm have had during the past gear. Railroad G.
Law. nection with New Orleans would have t
the heavily in her favor during the past sunni
q se 70 and fall but now, NO sooner does the wa
rau- permit, than steamers are at our wharf IT
IONS st. Louis and Cincinnati, freighted to th
res roofs with all kinds of merchandise and W.
lars OIL 49,. IT,. 80, tall,
late compressed COTTON o"ioo' "A'o'' "O'
red ETC. However, if New Orleans can STAND IL
locs -, f,r wa will have railroad connection "
till con, " t-a,va ,,ontbs
ally 30. Louis "iSnin 'no nA -,
the DESPITE tho "hard times" of the past u
we're our CITY has steadily improved and 1ncreas
this - Ill oa,,;11. from the preac
the Ne" eo"eFS VI Oh 81 49,;
the to the cobler, lawyers, ooctors anu "ou'i
;eep merchants and mechanics of all kinds, clat
oily ,-,:.: h,,zo ,ora and settled, Our
With anu reAisionS N"'o SoO -. H.,
rock tholic congregation Is no0 "lInou' ITO 'n"'
hem the now Corners, and We confidently look
heir -, aor,v dax 70 the Increased n,
bers that will call, permanently to our mi
ron either our Right Rev. Bishop or the Kede
ne to torist Fathers.
"a 1I-;.h;,o you n nost happy New Year,