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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

THE question Of re-enactlng the law,
providing for a meeting of the new
Congress on the 4th Of March, has
been discussed, but meets with little
favor. A special to the Baltimore Sun,
dated Washington November 18th,
says:
There are probably now at least one
hundred Senators and Representatives
in the city The large majority of
these are Republicans. But very few
of them appear to be at all impressed
with the proposition, which has been
so extensively agitated, of providing
that the Forty-fOurth Congress shall
convene on the 18th of March. The
idea that the Democrats will thus be
compelled to show their hands, does
not strike the Republican Congress
men very forcibly. They are disposed
/ TO think that an Immediate meeting oil
/ the FOrty-fourth Congress may result
/ like a twO-edged sword, in cutting
/ both ways. The strong probability i,
/ that there will be very small party
+ in favor Of passing a law to call the
. Forty-fOurth Congress together in adj
vance of the usual time Of meeting, in
7 December, 1870
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25
M BrownsvlIIe 80 ~

The Brownsville States says
We do not even expect 10 disfran-
chise the Radicals. who have oppressed
us so long. We hope this assurance
will permit them 10 sleep quietly.
Soft viii. Thank you. How very
maguauimOus.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25
The GreeueviIIe LntlV'genccr a.

THE Greeueyille LHteHigeHcer asks :
Would it not be a good idea TO sus-
pend the school law for a few years IN
order TO give the people a breath?
We were not aware that ignorance
was required to give the people a
breath" We had supposed, and sup
pose still, and viii continue of that
opinion until some better authority
than the IateHiqcaccr convinces US
otherwise, that the people will breathe
just as free when all the children are
being educated, as when the youth of
the land were growing up in ignorance.
Really, we had not believed there was
a newspaper in the State, that would
ask such a question, and from what
We know Of the editors Of the IateHi-
geHcer, we are forced to the conclusion
that they were not at home when that
paragraph made its appearance.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-13

The Most Rev. II. w. Manning, Archbishop
of Westminster, is not only mau of great
piety and learning but also of wonderful
energy. Referring to the immenee amount OF
work be accomplshes in day the London
Tablet says:
A German ecclesiastic, who has been making
short tour in this country, and who on Sun.
day last followed in the train of His Grace the
Archbishop, from the early Mass in the italian
Church to the sermon at Eden grove was pro-
foundly astonished at His Grace's uptlaq9inp
energy, and at the ndomitabe spirit by Which,
he was enabled to perform such an extraordin-
airy amount of work. Our readers who arc
not strangers to the beloved Archbishop. and
to whom his unwearied devotion is we'll known.
will learn with pleasure that q distinguished
foreign ecclesiastic was constrained to pass n
high eulogium on His Grace's wonderful exer.
tions of Sunday last. In the morning II
Grace celebrated the ga. NJ. Mass at the Italian
Church, and presided at breakfast which he
gave to temperance league About mid day
he opened new schools at Hampstead. and no
sooner finished his work than he started for
Tower-bill, where no addressed q temperance
meeting numbering upwards of 90, 900 persons.
AT the conclusion of The Tower-hill meetipp
he drove to the Church of the Sacred Hear
Holloway, where he sang Poutifcai Vespers
and preached TO n crowded congregation for
nearly an hour. His labors for the day were
not yet completed, for no sooner was Service
over than His Grace addressed another tenn
perance meeting held in the school-room of
Eden. grove, Our readers will perceive that
His Grace was not idle last Sunday.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-13

The Pail Mall Gasette, in that tone of
benign sarcasm and pathetic cynicism in
which it has of late spoken of crimes and
accidents, tells this little story: can
inquest of considerable importance to little
boys was held in Birmingham, on Tuesday.
on the body of child named Dalby, killed
by stone thrown by another child named
reeves, aged nine years. 1t appeared by
the evidence that Daily went out of the
house where he lived on Saturday last to
play in the street. His amusements were.
however, interrupted by severe blow on
the right eyebrow by stone thrown by
reeves. SO severe, indeed, was the blow,
that little Daily died in great pain on the
following day, and a post norton examina-
tion revealed the fact that death had re-
suited from congestion of the brain, caused
by the injuries inflicted by the stone. An
other little boy, however, named Baker,
who witnessed the occurauce, said that
Reeves intended che stone, not for little
Daily, but for boy who had been splash
ing him with WATER but whom, in aiming
the missile, he unfortunately missed. The
jury therefore returned a verdict of homi-
eide by misadventure, and this verdict
must be most gratifying not only to the
boys OF Birmingham, but also to the youth
fui population ofLondon, who are frequent
ly, when pelting each other with stones,
unWarrantably demonstrated with by
strangers having morbid dread of being
laid PROSTATE by a misdirected piece of
flint or granite. The verdict in the case of
young Daily shows that boys who indulge
IN the sport of stone throwing in the streets
have no cause for apprehension if they
happen to kills passers- by. 1t is only when
a boy kill an intended victim that he is
liable to punishment. 1t is, however, to
be hoped that Reeves, and, indeed, all
other little boys, will use sparingly the
trlghtfal privilege they enjoy, and not
inn H. =
solutely necessary to give zest to their
pastfmes..' -------r--
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-13
Freemason Outrage on Pope Plus TX.
New York FIeeman's Journal

/
1t seems to us cruel to Catholic senti-
| ment that we should be asked, not one
| time, nor twice, but almost each recurring
year, to deny that our Holy Father, Pope
rus TX, was ever Freemason.' Still, as
we have received many requests within the
| last few weeks, we suppose it is not out of
place once more to show the shamelessness
of the charge. Tie Holy Father himself,
| about two years ago, in his humility, in
speaking of other calumnies against him,
mentioned this outrageous charge. and
said: "Thanks to the care of the Mother
immaculate, / had, all through my youth,
tender regard for my religious duties, and
never had the temptation to wander into
societies forbidden by Holy Church !"
The baseness of this falsehood, of the
Holy Father ever having been o Freema-
son, comes from the fact that membership
in Masonry was, and is, forbidden to Cath
olics under pain of communication and
that, in him, it would suppose not only a
falling from the Faith, but vile hypocrisy
because, from his tenderest youth, he
was constantly an aspirant for the holy
priesthood.
1t was vile invention of Mazzini in
ls47-4s, to circulate the story that Pope
Plus TX. was Freemason. So foolish was
the fiction that its promoters, when asked
uhen he became such, fixed the year 1908
when Giovanni Maria Mastai. Feretti, now
Pope Plus TX, was not seventeen years
old! Freemasons will acknowledge that a
youth of that age could not have been a
Mason. But, moreover, it happens that
was the very year in which, in October, at
the hands of Monsignor Incontri, Bishop of
Voltarra, he received tonsure, thus enter
ing the Ecclesiastical Estate.
The absurdity of the allegation in regard
to one who has the history of his life &C.
counted for, year by year, from his early
youth. did not need the good natured de-
NAL of the story distinctly given by the
Holy Father. And, this notwithstanding,
we have photograph of Pope Plus TX
circulated through Europe by Jews-from
one Of whom we happened to get it-rep-
resenting the Pope in the insignia of
Grand Master Mason! The Pere Hardouin
carried his skepticism as to all historical
monuments to culpable extent; and SO
was condemned by the Holy See; but,
truly, he seems more foolish errorist who
accepts any document on merely human
authority, without half dozen caveats lest |
he be deceived.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-13

IHE LABOR QUESTION IN ENGLAND
Inc relations between capital and labor ia
England are 81 identity not satisfactory to
the mass of workiDgmen in that country.
Forty thousand miners assembled in the
old Cathedral town of Durham, nominslly
to protest against proposed reduction Of
their wages, but in reality to denounce the
system under which they live, ia an Incl
dent of singular significance. The English
are essentially q slow moving race, not
much subject to those sudden excitements
which lead to revelations in Continental
countries, but they have ever exhibited a
logged resolution in seeking the redress of
their grievances. Discomfort has smoul-
dered during many years in the north of
England, and seems likely to be famed
into flame by the struggle which the cap
itallsts have unwisely challenged. In the
past generation the discomfort of the work.
lngmen was easily suppressed because thew
were ignorant and possessed no organiza
tlon, but the power to day welded by the
trade organizations has no example in the
history OF labor. -ft-is not reassuring for
the domestic peace of England when forty
thousand of the hardest workingmen in
one county assemble and publicly denounce
the system of class government under
which they have hitherto lived. Even the
throne was not respected, and these forty
Thousand toil-strengtbened men inquired,
why II the times were 30 bad the wages of
royalty should not be cut down That
question shows tie existence of danger
Gus spirit. The old traditions of the mon
archy have lost their sanctity, and they
must now expect to be weighed and exam
ined, and if found faulty to be cast aside. |
The evident drift of this labor movement ia
toward republication. The people want
to exercise their legitimate influence in the |
of the country, and have come |
to the conclusion that the absorption of the |
land by few noble families is an infringe |
ment of the natural right of man-that is, |
England is approaching the French Revo-
ution. The people want back their share |
Of the national domain.-Nete York Herald, |
Sept. 2.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-13
Interesting to Young Ladies.
IN. Y. Herald


The nuns OF the Order of the Presentation
who are to take charge of St. Michael'e
school for girls, on Ninth avenue and
Thirty first street, sailed from Queenstown,
Ireland, on the 22d ult., in the City OF
Paris, and are expected here to morrow.
The Sisters of the Presentation devote
themselves exclusively to the cause of
gratuitous Catholic education, and have
long since established for their Order in
Ireland, in connection with this all-im
portant work, national reputation. The
origin of this religious community is traced
to rather romantic incident in the life of
Miss Honora Nagle, who was born in 1928
at Ballygriffin, on the banks of the Black
water, in the county of Cork. Her family
sent to Paris to be educated, where she re-
manned after leaving school, entering with
all the ardor of her nature into the frivo-
lous amusements of the gay capital of
fashion. In the spring of 1850, Miss Nagle,
then just twenty-five, was returning in the
early morning from one of the most distin-
gaishea salons of Paris, and as her carriage
rolled along the still almost deserted street
her eye was attracted by crowd of people
OF the poorer class, who were standing be-
fore the unopened door of a parish church.
waiting to be admitted, that they might
bear mass before going to their days work.
The hard lot of these children of toll made
ueSp impression upon Inc generous heart
of the young Irish lady, and made her
painfully aware of the vanity and useless
ness of her own life, and with noble i'm
pulse she resolved to seek at once some
object worth living for and to devote her
self exclusively to it. With this view she
returned to Ireland, and first opened
schools for poor girls in Cork but finally,
in l777, she established the Order of the
Presentation, whose special mission ia Ca
thOlic education.
There are at present fifty converts of this
order in Ireland, and the schools of the
Presentation rank among the very best in
the land. The Rev. A. j. Donnelly, the
pastor of st. Michael's church, in this CITY.
went to Ireland last winter for the special
purpose of procuring the services of these
ladies for the education of the girls of his
parish.
Aspacious convent, adjoining the school
house on Ninth avenue and Thirty first
street, has been fitted up for them, and
within two weeks after their arrival they
will probably have under their charge
every girl of school age in the congregation.
1t is also quite probable that they will be
invited to open schools in other parts of the
archdiocese. We may, therefore, safely
conclude that the introduction of the Order
Of the PreseD tation is o really important
sVent IN connection with Catholic education
IN New York.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-13
Airing The Babies.
NEW York world.I


st. Johns Guild is still busy with !, !.
noble work OF saving lives among the ch;,
dren OF the destitute and miserable W.
terday its barge carried 962 poor nothes.
and sick children for q sail mp the Hudscss
OF these 294 came on board at the wharf !:
the White Star line, North River. 24a ~
the foot of Market street, and AS az ~ ~
foot of Twenty third street, East River ~
One child among others showed the fasr
full efects of kerosene lamp expIos;o,
which had deprived it of the lids Of hntt
eyes. leaving them forever Enclosed. WE,
in the sunlight or sleeping they must hsn
the protection of an artificial GOVERN
This child was but four years of ace. va
otherwise very comedy and possessed mn
usual intelligence. He said the excnro;ar
was bully !" and his beaming face az
pressed his pleasure better than hia vrords
There were also several cases OF sn;nas
disease that drew towards their victims tie
sympathetic attention of all beholders WIG
The usual bountifully supplied fahIa.
were spread for the mothers, who partooi1
of the feast with rare appetites, as NAV IA
inferred from the viands consumed. Amonn
them were barrel of boiled rice and IsS6
quarts of milk at breakfast; 500 pounds ~
boiled and roast meats, 200 ioaves of bread
40 pounds of butter, half barrel of sods
crackers, half barrel of sugar, and =
quarter-chest of tea at dinner. Five HIM
dred pounds of ice, gift of the Washina.
ton Ice Compromising their confirm.
ton 10000 pounds in all-were consumea
during the day. So endeth the thirteenth
excursion. The fourteenth will take place
to morrow.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-13
Bishops Pellicer and Manucy.

dispatch from New York announces that
the freeman's journal has q special telegram
from Rome stating that San Antonio Texas,
has been made a diocese, and Vicar General
Pellicer, of Mobile, named as first Bishop.
Also. that the Rio Grande district of Texas
has been made Vicariate Apostolic, with
brownsville as headquarters, and Rev. d.
Manucy, of Montgomery, Ala, it's Bishop.
This information, with the exception of the
names of the See over which Bishop Pellicer
is to preside, and the Vicariate Apostolic to
which Bishop Manucy is assigned, We had the
pleasure of imparting to our readers in our last
issue.
The Montgomery, Ala. Adrertiser and Mail of
the 9th'pays the following tribute to one of the
newly-created prelates:
We most heartily congratulate Rev. Father
Manucy on his nomination to the newly
created Vicariate Apostolic of the Rio Grande
he has justly won the promotion by faithful
ana fearless discharge of responsible, and at
many times trying duties, and we hope he NAV
wear MS new honors long aud we'll But re-
greet Tor the loss of noble man, a good citizen
and devoted Christian pastor, tippes orr
joy with a dark shade of sadness and spontane-
ously invokes the somewhat selfish wish that
he will prefer to labor on in his old sphere. nor
leave 1T for other folds, however inviting IT.
VII! be hard to fill his place here, either in
society or in the pastorate, for the affections of
MS people will go out after him, and cline
lovingly around him for long, long years to
come. W.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-13

Alsace has lately offered shining EXAM.
pie of the brotherly feeling that unites two
nations on the common ground of Chris
tianity, whilst in all other respects thew
remain at daggers drawn. On the 9th mat.
the fourth anniversary of the murderous
battle of Reichsoffen was celebrated az
Worth by the Inauguration of Catholic
chapel and of monument erected to the
soldiers that had fallen on both sides. On
this occasion France and Germany had con-
Cured in offering charitable gifts. A large
sum of money was subscribed by French
Catholics towards the erection of chapel
on the ground that had been wrenched from
them the German emperor supplied the
metal for casting the bells, and the Arch
bishop of Munich sent q contribution of
1000 francs. The GermGnia regrets to find
the name of the King of Bavaria icon
spicuous for its absence" among the list of
donors, whereas short time previously this
monarch had offered 90, 600 francs towards
the building of a Protestant church in Ca
tholic Alsace. The ceremony of the 9th of
August was conducted by Father Fischer,
the priest of the Alsatians of Paris, and an
eloquent commemorative address was de-
hvered by Father Joseph of Geneva. It
were much to be desired that celebrations
like the one of the 9th inst. should soothe,
if not allay, the feeling of bitterness and
hostility that has existed between the two
nations for the past four years.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-13
YHE MORNING STAR AND CATHOLIC MESSENGER SIN


Beautiful in name, beautiful in nature, it
is endowed like its neighbors just de-
seribed, with all the wants of the farmer. Its
representatives to our old time legislatures
must have been guided by the spirit of Christ
ianity in bestowing upon it this name.
This parish is divided from the Lake Pontch-
artrain by the parish of Livingston and is
Immediately west of Tangipahoa and Wash
ington parishes, running north to the State
line. Its principal streams are the "Amite -
and " Tickfaw." There are several postoffices
In the parish, the most prominent among them
being "Greensburg," the original location of
the United States Land Office. There are
several fine saw-mills through the country,
and the timber business is carried ON here with
the same activity characterizipg it in the
adjoining parishes Cotton is raised here in
greater quantities than in any of the other
parishes, as also are all other crops. In
deed, 1t is difficult to make distinction be-
tween this parish and its neighbors. The.
climate soil, water facilities, and the DISPOSE
tion OF It's people are SO identical that it would
be invidious to draw the comparison. With
the same remarks applied to Washington
parish, whose position is Immediately east of
st. Helena and south of the State line / will
conclude my article on Eastern Louisiana.
trusting that what have feebly attempted to
portray will not have been in vain, but be in
strumental in attaining that one great need
Immigration. OR,r.Ss
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-13

IHE " GUvRE DE ST. PAUL."-At the
Congress of the French Catholic Commit
tees, which was held iu Paris in April last,
the subject of the Catholic press came
under discussion, and report vas read by
Canon Schordoret on the duties OF Catho-
lies with regard to tie press. Since then
the ideas embodied in this report have AS
sumed more definite shape, ard the con-
grcgation or confIateruity, styled the
Guyre de St Paul" has established two
houses at Lyons, in order to- bring to the
assistance OF the Catholic press the personal
devotion of the religious life. For the
object of the association is 10 co oper ate
not only by prayer for the press, and by
Masses offered by all the priests who be-
long to it, but also by the material help
contributed by writer's and printers who
will devote their lives to this work. The
project has received the blessing of his
Holiness, and the approval of several
Bishops, amongst others of the Bishops OF
Nantes and Roseau, OF the exiled Vicar
Apostolic of Geneva, and of Mgr. de Segur ;
and especially of the Archbishop of West
minister, in the following terms: al heart
lily bless the work of the Apostolate of the
press for the spread and defence of Catholic
TRUTH
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-13

A Joint Committee appointed by the Last
Legislature of Virginia to consider and re-
commend to the next Legislature such
amendments to the State Constitution az
may be needed, has been in session during
the summer, and has agreed upon several
suggestions, the more important of which
are: l. That the ancient :" Bill of Rights -
of the State be restored 9. That capita
ton tax, not to exceed 80, be collected
from all persons voting at the State cleo
tons, such tax to be applied exclusively to
the support of schools. To restore the
riva roce system of voting at elections. 4.
To authorize the Governor to veto any
item in any appropriation bill. s. To
reduce the number of members in the
General Assembly, have biennial sessions,
and authorize the Legislature to grant
charters for the government of cities and
towns. 6. Amending the judicial system
by the abolition of large number of petty
courts. z. To regulate the general tax for
schools 80 that it shall supply only the
revenue needed in addition to the proceeds
of the capitation tax.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-13

A gentleman who has been United States
Consul in China for many years writes to q
New York paper giving his views upon the
pending war between China and Japan.
He regards such a struggle as an absurd
chimera. The distance between Shanghai
and Nagasaki is about 400 miles. China
has no navy to speak of. Her heavy war
junks are utterly untitled for maritime
service, their constru ction and management.
rendering them useful only for police duty
in the rivers and on the coast. Her army
is most whimsical absurdity = the status
OF soldier is contemptibly low, and the
Chinese capacity for fighting armed adver-
saries ridiculously small. The ninety
day" threat against Japan, therefore, he
regards as mere bravado, likely to result in
nothing. At the same time Japan is
scarcely better prepared for the strife. Her
navy is in embryo, and, though the ia
panese nation is more combative and ag-
gressive than the Chinese, the art Of war
is but little understood. The strength of
Japan is her insularity- Tho two neticna
are in the ludicrous position of chained
bull dogs; they cannot reach each other
and content themselves with barking.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-13

A Georgia negro was riding a mule along
and came to bridge, when the mule stopped.
you go ober dis bridge" and, with that he
struck the mule over the head, which made
him nod suddenly. "You take de bet. dem. )
SAID the negro, and contrived to get the stub
born mule over the bridge. 81 won that omar
ter, anyhow" said Jack. "But how win Won
get the money 70 asked man who had been
close by unperoeived. s'Po-morrovE.n Raid
The mule, and I tAl.a thn nlIartEr - -