The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-04-27

story Ln8G ORDERS TO u0SLr0y bno ETenCn
flags were sent by the Marshal to General
Soleil, but were not carried out in time.
And brigadier-forestier declares that it
was he himself who sent the despatch which
Marshal Bazaipe asserts that he never re-
ceived. The effect Of the revival of the
| controversy has been still further to en-
bitter the public feeling against the accus-
ed, and if it true that NJ. Theirs wished to
let him out on parole, he could not do 30
now.
Municipal Institutions Decayiny.-The
important manufacturing town of Vile
franche, the most popular place in the De-
partment of the Rhone, has just reelected
it's municipal council. Never, since the
last elections of the Commune of Paris,
have candidates been elected by more alb
surd proportions of their CONSTITUENCIES.
Here are tue figures: Out of the first Sec
ton, which contained ,l63 electors, only
.:S29 voted. The numb Der of town council
lors to be chosen was seven, three of whom
could not be- elected at the first scrutiny,
owing to theft not having polled the requi-
site number of votes, The second section
contained 1854 on the register, of whom
only 4l2 voted. The third sent 263 voters
to the poll, out of .O39 on the register.
The single candidate could not be elected,
for the reason already mentioned. The
place on Sunday last, exhibited a still
greater degree of Indifference on the part
of the townspeople. These are the sort of
persons who were elected: two grocers, a
retired butcher, gardener, house car
penter, bootmaker, q journeyman silk
weaver, (cGnut), clerk in an insurance
office, and broom seller. Such are the
kind of men to whom are entrusted the ad-
ministration of the interests and the mani
pulatioD of the municipal finances of q town
Of $4,000 Inhabitants. The connections
which such persons are known to have
formed with tue radical committees enable
one to predict accurately the way in which
they will discharge their duties. They are
pledged to abolish the octroi, and to estab-
lsh secularist schools, and expel the Christ
ian Brothers.
Progress Of the Revolution.-lt is bad
enough when such municipal council ors
get the management of affairs in one i'm
portant town but, unhappily, the case is
not an exceptional one. Nearly al. French
lutionists. This is of itself serious dan
ger; but there is worse behind. We are
not far from general election. The Con-
sentative party would, as / have already
remarked, be glad to prolong the existence
of the National Assembly until the month
of April, 1874, but it is foreseen that the
Radicals will succeed in bringing on the
general election at an earlier date. In an
tcipation of that event the Democrats are
carrying out vigorous organization to Sc
cure the return of their Candidates. 1t is
at Lyons at the present moment that the
efforts of the Radical party are being CON
centrated.
Charity and the Church.-To the Communal
Charities Bill the Bishop of Orleans, in an
eloquent speech, supported and carried the
addition of an article providing that
the parish priest should always be one
of the commissioners. The Left at
tempted to put him down when he ad-
0Gced the argument that charity was
the creation of the Christian Church, and
that in pagan times it was unknown.
NJ. Grevy characterized the Interruptions
as most indecent, and the article, placing
on commission the parish priest and the re-
pr 4sentatives of the legalized Com 10 unions,
If they existed in the Commune, was carried
almost unanimously. In the course of his
speech the Bishop mentioned the fact that
100 hospices, in which 900 aged persons
were cared for with the most delicate char
lty, had been established in France by the
Petites S9urs des P9uvres, and when a
member on the Left called out chow
about the heirs 2" he informed him that in
his own diocese the Petites SeGrs des Pau
vres had just refused, without even asking
his advice, legacy of 1,500, 900 francs
although the relations of the testator con-
sented to the bequest-on the ground that
if they accepted it they would no longer
be the little Sisters of the Poor.
SWITZERLAND.
The Persecution in Slcit.erland.-The ell
ection of a cure of Geneva seems certain to
result in the intrusion of the ex- Pere Hyac-
inthe. WHO has been lecturing again, as the
real Catholics will not vote. Ia the Jura
the population is subjected to yet more
terrible trials. The party in power talks
of nothing less than military occupation
and the imprison pent of the Bishop, and
bitter regrets are heard that Mgr. Mermillod
also was not imprisoned instead of bannish-
ed. In the meanwhile theSparish priest of
Bienne, who made vigorous and manly
protest when summoned to rebel against the
Church, has been incarcerated in the town
prison at Lajoux the cure, when about
to say Mass on Sunday, was driven from
the altar by the soldiery, and the country
is virtual y under State interdict. No
not even baptism, can be pub ]
licly administered. No Mass is said in
about 12G churches, and from the villages
near the frontier the Pensioners have had
to emigrate on Sunday in body across the
border IN order to hear Mass in France or
in Alsace. At Ferney, the whole popula-
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