The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-10-04
aoralng Star and Catholic Messenger.
Ssw oRI.KANs. SUNDAY. oGToBER 4. Il
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

Miss Mary d. Brown, who died recently in
Philadelphia, left $3.50, 900 in charitable be-
quests to institutions in that city.
The great bell of the church of Notre Dame,
Montreal, weighs 1o,5oe pounds, and can he
heard forty miles, at least SO says one OF our
exchanges.
France possesses at the present time (Paris
not being included in this calculation) 1868
public libraries, furnishing students with
1,474,637 works
Talking of fall fashions" theatre-going
person remarks that there's no indication OF
fall in the Elevated style of ladies coiffnres,
which still remain at the height of absurdity.
james Newsome, ESQ.,, of Bullock county,
Ga. has q watermelon vine from which he
gathered $50 pounds of melons this year, many
of them weighing from forty to fifty pounds.
The vine covered seventy feet from side to
side.
At the spring exhibition of paintings in
Paris NJ Frederic de Waldeck, the Oldest
painter in existence, being no less than one
hundred and seven years of age, exhibited
painting entitled Les Loisirs dun Cente-
.naire," representing an antique love-scene.
Three Highlanders sat by their toddy on a
rainy day. and as an Epglishman was present
they iuduiged themselves in the idiom Of his
country. One said This is the best whskey
1 never tasted any more.' The second said,
$50 did 1 NEITHER" The third concluded
"Neither did too"
The uluagers of the Brighton Aquarium
were recently legally warned that their exbi-
bition should be closed on Sundays, but in view
of the circumstance that the octopus couldn't
be expected to be Sabbatarian, that all days
are chews.days for the dentulous surians, and
that fishes are not to be judged by human
scales, they resolved to disregard the warning.
The Haytians have q constitution whereby
foreigners Il. e., white men) are subject to all
the obligations, taxes, ETC., of citizens, and
denied, at the same time, oil the rights of citi
zens. 1t is reported that the object of this
constitution, under which white men have no
rights which black men are bound to respect,
is to drive the whites from the country. Such
are the civil rights of the black Republicans of
Hayt.
Archbishop Manning thus describes the pres
ent state of England, and the description suits
America perhaps equally as well. christian
ity is being pushed out of public life, it is
vanishing out of private society, the press
teens with books against Christianity, the
growing multitude of so-called scientific men
in all branches Of literature and science are
now telling the people that there is no God, no
Creator, no Redeemer; that miracles are i'm
possible; that there is no resurrection, inn
mortality, no soul, no conscience, no law, no
right, no wrong"
Before Professor Huxley left Belfast one of
the theologians (Presbyterian) who on the pre-
yious Sunday had preached against his and
Professor Tyndall's views, delivered to him a
challenge coached in these words CT hereby
request you will return at your earliest con-
venience, and discuss with me, before an
Ulster audience, tho question, Do animal
organisms, furnsh, in their structure and action,
evidence of the existence aud operation of an
antecedent Intelligent cause?" When this
challenge was previously delivered orally,
Professor Huxley was leaving by the limited
mail. it was declined.
Early in September disputation was held
in Maynooth College by the candidates for the
vacant chair of Theology, DR.. Molloy, the last
holder of that chair, having been appointed
e Professor of Geology in the Catholic Uriver-
sity. The President, DR.. Russell, presided, and
there we've present n large number of Bishops
and clerEymeu from various parts of Ireland.
The candidates were the Very Rev. DR.. Logue,
Professor in the Irish College, Paris; the Very
Rev. Mr.. Carr, Dean of Maynooth and Father
o'Mahony,= c. c., Cork. Daring the contest
the greatest interest excited, the COM
batants talkin Latin with remarkable fluency
and the utmost vivacity, and displaying great
dialectic skill. The decision will not be
known for some time.
Four hundred Mormon converts arrived in
New York on the 10th nit, and proceeded to
Utah in charge of fourteen elders" The
"conrerts" consisted of men, women, and
children, and the report says they were gath
cred from the agricultural districts of Nor way,
Sweden, Switzerland England, Scotland, and
Wales. Tie men are strong healthy fellows,
averaging thirty years of age and divided
about equally in occupations as farm laborers
and mechanics. The women are young. we'll
built, have an intelligent look, and have their
children clustered around them. Ooe woman
had six children with her." 1t is a curious
fact, say the agents of these societies, that