The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-01-25

straw, by an immense multitude, must
have been peculiarly touching and sugges-
to assemble only q handful of adherents,
principally composed of oHacials-in one
village only two-and another disagreeable |
revelation has oozed out about one Of these |
gentlemen. He is not priest at ALL but |
an adventurer from America, whose claims |
having been formerly Capuchin novice. |
The Berne Government which appointed
him, and from which he derives his inris-
diction, will perhaps think this sufficient.
DIR. REINKENs AND NJ. LoYsoN.
The quasi Pontiff of the sect in Germany
does not seem inclined to be answerable
for the doings of his brethren in Switzer-
land. This much we gather from a note
of the Spencer Zeitung. M. Loyson, who,
perhaps, intends to rise to an analogous
position in Switzerland, has written let
ter to O French paper repudiating the ju-
risdiction of DR.. Reinkens wbereupon the
Berlin paper, which, according to the
Courier do Brurelles, is more or less the
organ of I" the Bishop of Bonn" declares
that 1t is " not aware that DR.. Reinkins
has ever claimed to have any connection
whatever with M. Loyson, whose marriage
sion to Old Catholicism,'
DR.. REINKENs AND AUSTRIA.
It seems that whatever may be the
truth about overtures said to have been
made by the Prussian Government to
Austria to obtain the recognition of DIR.
Reinkens Ia that country, the idea has been
dropped. in consequent of the president of
the sect at Vienna having addressed a let
ter to the papers, declaring that the cold
| the Government to acknowledge DR.. Rein
| kens, as they "have no intention whatever
! of constituting themselves into o separate
religious community"
THE PRUssIAN BISHOPS.
The campaign against the Bishops is
being prosecated with undagging vigor.
The fines inflicted on the Archbishop of
Posen now amount to $500 thalers and the
Bishop of Ermland has been sentenced to
another fine of 200 thalers for an offence
against the military commandant at In
sterburg, supposed to be contained in his
accommodation of the priest Grunert.
The Government is very indignant at the
his private property to his brother, and, to
Judge from g. Berlin letter in a Belgian
| Liberal paper, at the supposed intention
of the Prince Bishop of Breslau to take up
his residence in the Austrian part of bis
diocese. The Catholics are bestirring
Themselves with view to the approaching
elections, and the Archbishop of Munich
| has put forth q protest concerning the duty
of Catholics in this matter. But the pro-
ject of electing the Bishops to the Reich
|
tions is not approved by the Bishops
themselves. Mgr. Namzanowski alone,
who Ia not q diocesan Bishop, is said to
have consented to accept seat.
THE FAMINE IN BENGAL.
The telegrams from India are slightly
more favorable, in that they announce the
fall more than once OF q certain amount of
rain in Behar, but this is neither extensive
enough not early enough to avert the ia
| mine, which seems only too certain. The
danger is that, as in the Irish visitation, it
should be assumed that everything which
is possible to do is being done, and that
all interference with the measures of the
Government should be discouraged on this
ground till the blow falls, and it is dis
covered that some more exceptional pre-
cautions were really necessary, and that
it is a case in which lavish expenditure
and complete disregard of the ordinary
economical laws would have proved ia the
end the most prudent as we'll as the hu-
mauest course.
THE FAMINE IN RUSSIA.
Under date of Dec. 9th a correspondent
from St. Petersburgh writes
| Things utterly incredible and without
parallel in other countries take place daily
in Russia. / have told your readers how
the vast province of Samara is now being
laid waste by famine. The calamity 10 at
tributed to drought in the spring, followed
Oy excessive rams during harvest. time.
The truth is, that it is caused less by ir-
regularities in the weather than by the
decentralization of the peasantry. The Nos
cow Gazette, which is the most honest of
all our newspapers, gives proof of my as
sertion. It states that there is abundance
colony of the sect called Memnonists, and
is situated in the very midst of the famine
district. But at Keppenthal those reli-
gionists keep up school, and possess a
library, and q botanical garden. They are
them while alongside of them, in places
where each peasant possesses sixteen and a
half dssiatines of good land, men, women,
and children are dying of starvation. The
reason is, that, instead of a school and a
library, they have in one district ten spirit,
thousand roubles worth of adulterated
brandy is sold annually. Government
multiplies the spirit shops dd infinitan,