The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-24
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

netted $4,000
A round hundred of the parish priests of
Posen celebrated Easter this year in JAIL
A. son of General Rosecrans, q Catholic
priest, is giving very successful missions in
Vermont
The Peter Pence which the American pill
| grims carry to Rome is estimated at half o
million of dollars. So says the Cincinnati
Telegraph.
Alex. Stephens has returned to his home in
Georgia He is more wasted and emaciated in
flesh than ever before, his weight being II
and Z pounds.
In 1921 the population of county Waterford
was l56, 900. In '46 it had risen to 100000, but
since then it has been rapidly decreasing and
now numbers only 10000.
According to the Vienna papers, tenor
| singer has recently presented himself to the
physicians of that city who, by means of some
| abnormal formation of the vocal organs, is
| able to sing two notes at once.
Prof. Won Ranke is engaged in re-editing bis
History of the Popes," with reference to the
relations between Pho Mono and the German
Empire. The Professor is now more than sew
| enty years old, but is as active as ever.
A Georgia paper says: every village and
borough in the State is projecting the erection
of factories of various kinds. We never knew
period in the history OF Georgia when SO
much money was put into manufacturing bus
mess at present"
In conversation with his personal friends,
Mr.. Gladstone is said to express regret at hav-
ing given so many years to politics. To one
of these he recently remarked: How little
do politics affect the life, moral life, of a ma
a; IN ipdu ha
pie vast deal more"
Tho extent of the lumber business in Pen
sacola Bay may be understood by reference to
the port statistics. During the past five months
227 vessels of 1898 aggregate tonnage en-
tered the port from foreign ports. These YES
sells bore the flags of Great Britain, Norway,
Sweden, Germany, Holland, Russia, Spain,
France and Denmark. They exported $3.50 sos
cubic feet of ship timber and $685. feet of
lumber.
Young Bennett of the Herald, and a Mr..
Whipple of New York, recently had a walking
match for $4,000 side. The route was f. ON
the corner of 3sth street aud Fl fth Avenue, to
the club house at Jerome Park-9 miles and 7
furlongs. Bennett won in one hour, As min
utes and IS seconds. 900 are said to have
changed hands, the odds being heavily in ia
vor of Whipple before the start, he having o
big reputation as pedestrian.
Whether the Archbishop of Canterbury is o
kind of Protestant Pope or not is shortly to be
decided for we learn that joint Committee
! of both Houses of Convocation is to be APP
pointed to consider and report upon the exact
position held by the Archbishop of Canterbury
with regard to the different branches of the
| Church which are scattered throughout the
world, with view to general conference of
| the Anglican Communion, in continuation of
that of 1867.
Mgr. Dupanloup. the Bishop of Orleans, has
addressed beautiful letter to q member of his
diocese, full of most admirable expressions of
devotion to the Holy Father. He writes at
Turin on the way to Rome, and says: 81
wish to afford myself the consolation of once
more Frustrating myself ct the tomb of the
Holy Apostles and of offering before die,
last homage to the Holy Father in his grief
and to make o new protestation-alas too
powerless, of my devotion to that pontifical
sovereignty for which have 80 long con-
tended"
remarkable instance of a country, in spite
| of recent political commissions, becoming rich
and prosperous hey ond the most sanguine ex-
pectations, is afforded in the case of Poland.
The most trustworthy evidence of this is
given by the report of Consul-General Mans
field, which has just been made public. Polish
fabrics of every kind are gradually driving out
OF the market, both for the kingdom and the
empire of Russia in general, a vast number of
articles of inferior quality hitherto imported
from Germany, and the industrial production
for expectation into Russia is assuming very
large proportions In many cases the con-
tractors eau hardly meet the demands.
Mr.. Hebert, of Paris, has recently brought
homo with him from Rome painting of the
"virgin and Child" which has created great
sensation in tho artistic world. The subject is
conceived III a solemn, poetic mood, with q
tinge, we should imagine from the descriptions
we have seen of it, of the old Byzantine
melancholy. The type of the Virgin, however,
is purely human, being that of the Syrian
woman of the present day, with fine black
eyebrows nearly meeting AS in The Shado,e Of
| Death by Holman Hunt, in this picture by