The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-10-19
- :. NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 49,,

= NEW pURLEANS, SUNDA i MI
y: E.[From an occasional Correspondentl I
=. 'I1TTER FROM DUNDALK, FINLAND. |
aa: u .ss'a .. 70 DuNDALK, Sept. Is, 1873.
To tho editor OF the Morning Stars .-.@ a
Knowing that there are many from this par |
ish in New Orleans, and aware that every little
the exile, whether voluntary or forced-for
ce1xns, anipsRss, nutGnt, qat trsns mare cur
sunt-I feel great pleasure in again addressing
Hnd ppt sIone to shose
who left this neighborhoed, bat to your Irish
readers generally. ~
are all.cut down, and either safe In the bag
gard or stacked in tho fields to be drawn home
at leisure. The cereals usually grown in this
locality are wheat, barley and oats All OF
are good crops We may truly say that OF
the dew of heaven and the fatness OF the earth,
God hath given Us abundance of CORN Flax,
which was pretty extensively sown, has been
remarkably good,s and in the memory of man
the potato was never known to grow SO luxu-
riantly as it did this year. The disease was
slow in coming 40 If loath to attack SO promls.
ing o crop, but when the cauterizing fluid did
fail it did its work efeotually in o very short
time. This week all was bloom and verdnre,
next week not q green leaf was to be seen. The
destreying element passed over our fields and
spared none in its course. i am happy to be
| able to say, however, that the tubers, which
large
tres frola the infection. In tho beginning Of
| the harvest, which was earlier with us than IN
| many surrounding places--the land here being
Salesreons nature aha xeps IN d rs;n
| failing not in our old fashioned Irish way but
| in tropical fashion, almost every day. hay,
which is here nearly all upland, that IS, the
product Of annual grasses. there being but few
permanent grass meadows, was bnt imperfect,
| " saved, and that even with difficulty, and
| early cut corr damaged q good deal In straw
is ripe, and Is yet there is no abatement of the
| incessant downpour. Many fields are week
overripe, but as the corn. il cut could not be
tied, their owners hesitate to: start men with
the sickle even, not to speak of the more eHpe-
ditious scythe and respipg machine, by which
1 our crops have been mostly cat ofslate years.
4 PRAYERS begin to be offered in all our churches
for favorable weather to save the fruits of the
earth. After Mass the priest, kneeling at the
i foot of tho altar, recites aloud the Litany OF
Blessed Hss the tSs scrs ars
swept away, the sky becomes serene, the sun
shihes ont in all its splendor and, thanks'b be to
stln rules the world, We have had for the last
three weeks the most delicious autumn weather
it would be. possible to wish for. The peat
too, which, as was the case Last year, was Oh
in danger Of being lost, 30 much we're onr hogs
Inundated, win be available for fuel 90 tha'
| new our forebodipgs, Of n miserable wh3ser a.
regards food and fuel arc not Of the g,oomy
character of three weeks ago. To the Gathol1t
Irishmen, so religious at home aDd-so fond Of
: their country-a fondness which separation o.
thousands Of miles only intensi6es.-4 am sur;
! am confident they Viii ali join their brethren
: at home in Thanksgiving to the Giyer OF ever!
good and perfect gift for the great nero!
. tie immacuiate Mother Of our Saviour.
p They will also be rejoiced to hear that tn
a ! celebrated Father Burke-whose lecture on tn
; Catholic Church in Americ1 was glad TO Sc
j. REPRODUCED in your Issue of the 9TH inst, jus
md IN ar accorded
= long ego in your own great city SO magnifcen
u q reception--preacbedi in the church OF the Dc
& minican Fathers, Dundalk, on sanday last; IN ?
meet the cost of the superb organs whose nal
, monious notes, SO full Of purity OF sound, :
such great compass and soft, epchansl1g me- ss:
y time on that day: What With the celebrity
the pfeachet, the popularity Of the Reyeren
. Fathers os hia order et Dundalk, the Dsau dn
: religious impulse q our people, when u
building or beaptify ing the house OF God
q concerned, the thronG. that tl!ea the saers
= families of this ancient corporate town, ae We
as Ghoae of the surr0pnding country, Wnicn
re almost wholly Catholic, were well repEesente
a. Taking for his text Che 10th verse of the 50t
"A Psalml"To my hearing Thou shalt zgt'
- 10y and kladneSs, and the bones that have bet
ls humbied shan rejoice"--the illuStrious Preac
gre0ation as IL Bpell-bound. There was not
movement among the immense throng, 9lthont
l1s from the heat Of the day, and the way In " NJ
o. people were packed together, i was not Wit
lie ont great effort that they could remain in :
same position for so long period. Every eS
many of them moistened with tears Of Co
Function, was directed to the pulpit, q
to every ear strained, lest a word of the renoWn
In- orator, and unriValed champion OF his de
ow Fatherland, and still dearer Mother Cbnr!
de should be unheard. As be issued from
ess vestry after the first Gospel, aud knelt to
ga, ceivs the blessing of His Grace, the Most b
IN, Dr., McCiettigan, whO SO Yorthily Presides o,
yht the primatisl See, the Gancti6ed Looks OF
= man of God preached as forcibly 70 the ne
of every Iuxnrisus liver in the vast o0DG
he CATION Is his eloquent Mps could poesibl{
R6~-iSSs 'ysNnofvnd the hiozainR of the Il