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The Pilot learns from the Melbourne (Austra-
lia) Adrocatc of December 10, 1873, that an
establishment has been opened at Northcote
for the purpose of retaining drunkards. 1t is
called the Inebriate Institute, and we are told
that
1t is neither prison, penitentiary, nor penal
establishment, it is not an hospital, lunatic or
benevolent asylum, or charitable institntion
properly so-called; there will be nothing elee-
mosynary about it, nothing injurious to self
respect, but the reverse, the testimony of q
noble resolve in o noble cause.
This institute, we presume, is founded on
the basis that drunkenness is a disease physi-
cal rather than moral. 1t does not speak very
we'll for Australia that already nhmber of
wealthy "ladies uncontrollably given to intern.
perance," have applied for admission to this
hospital. The AdUoeate protests against their
admission, on the ground that the Institute
was founded for the poor, and that the rich
have means enough to provide for their own
cure. The Now York World lately gave an es-
Innate of the cost of one drunkard to the
State. from which we take the following sum-
mary:
The plain facts-as capable of an apPraise-
ment in dollars and cents If they were so
many bales of dry goods-are, that the COM
munity at large invests $4,000 in each drunk
ard in the first place; that it loses that and
S32, 900 more. If the 5000 odd liquor saloons
of New York have each two drunkards as reg
ular customers the loss to the community Is
Just what it would be if every cargo of goods
which landed here last year had been sunk off
Sandy Hook and the city had footed the bills.
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Total Abstinence Items.

| Last Sunday the New Orleans Catholic Total
Abstinence Society received Holy Communion
| in the Jesuits' Church at the 7o'clock Mass. The
Society numbers 1876 men, of whom 100 were
present, many of the absentees sending their
excuses for attendance.
st. Joseph's Total Abstinence Society re-
| ceived also, the same day, at St. Josephs
Church, but fifteen of it's eighty-fv members
being absent.
! The st. Louis Hatchman, speaking of the
parade on st. Patrick's Day, says.
| The splendid turnout of the Temperance
Societies was marked feature of the St.
| Patricks Day Celebration. These men were
not crusaders. They never interfere with the
rights of others. They show forth the Catholic
| idea of temperance voluntary abstinence
from alcoholic drinks, for reasons which seem
| to them good, but which they have no idea of
forcing on the acceptance of others.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America now numbers 3O2 Societies, scattered
throughout the States and Canada. Sixteen
Societies. representing ten States, have been
admitted during the past month. Two of
these were from the South, as follows:
Natchcz, Niss.-st. Joseph's-Rt. Rev. w. II.
Elder, Bishop of Natchez, signs this applica-
Wensel, President; Fred J. Maher, Secretary.
Chattanooga, Tsnn.-SS. Peter and Paul's-
Rev. P. Ryan, Chaplain; P. A. Brunrer, Presi.
dent; J. J. Sullivan, Secretary.
Some of our readers may not know that
membership in any one of the Union Societies
entities every member, when travelling, to ad-
mission to the Society of the place where he
may be. Should he be sick he is entitled to
the same relief that he would receive from his
own local branch. This system is carried out
by means of travelling cards, signed by the
several officers of the local, State and general
Union.
A Northern paper, not the Danbury NetrS,
defines incompetence thus:
TEMPTATION!
IMBIB ALTON!
EXHILARAT ION.
A n
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Publication omee-Fo Iie Poydras street. of Camp

considers his impeachment probably. The
Subcommittee have not yet prepared their
report for the action of the full Committee.
DESTRUCTION OF THE STEAMER CRESCENT
CrTY.-The steamboat Crescent City, belong
ing to the Mississippi Valley Transportation
Orleans to St. Louis, blew up on the 25th, ten
miles from Helena, Ark. About fifteen persons
were killed and drowned and eight or ten
wounded
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fair haired youth who expended his
leisure in the cultivation CT his moussache,
and who mustered up courage to have it bar
bered, had his incipiont manhood wilted as
the tender down was lifted on dust-pan, by
q whispered parody from a gentleman stand
ing near =
Take it up tonderly,-
LIN le with care,
Tnahioned - slonderlr
XSnng and 80 Eatrl'
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NEW MUsIC-From the author, Prof. Buch-
holtz, we have received gGlop called "Cecle."
It is we'll and elegantly written, being strictly
conformable to the requirements of such COM
positions
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rsrm.-snslo Copy, Cents; BY Mail. ss-ia Aavasss.
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Man Judges of our motives By our actions.
God judges Of our actions ~ orr motiyoc.
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Morning Star and Catholic Nesssnsaz

The MORNING STAB has been ssnzsaa
with tho approval Of the ecelsaiasaAae
authority Of the Diocese, to supply IN
admitted want in New Orleans. anA ID
mainly devoted to the interests Of No
Catholic Church. It will not Interfere n
politics except wherein they intsT9sse
with Catholic rights, but will sxpass
iniquity in high places. without rsgasA %
persons or parties. Next to the spirisAai
rights of all men, IL will especially chan
p.on the temporal rights Of the poor.
AsprosaI Of As Nest Rsv. A,sAsssAsD
We approve Of the aforesaid nnAes-
a king, and commend 10 to the casheiiss
OF our Diocese.
~. NJ. ARCHBISHOP OF NEW ORIRAssA
Dsesm5sr -. issT.
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From the Catholic wsrid. +
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Forming Star and Catholic Messenger
"a PUBLISHED WEEKLY By
&As Hs1 Orleans Catholic Publication Company, at
10. Il6 Posdras street. corner Of Camp.
a The Directors OF the Company are:
Cost Rev. Archbishop N. J. PERcHE,
@oHs HrNDrRsos.
4 Vice President.
Very Rev. G.. RAYMOND,
Rev. G. MoYN1HAN.
Revs T. j. KENNY,
Rev. T. J. SMITH. c. M.
Rev. B. NE1THARr, c. IS. R.
John T. GIBBONS.
JOHN McCAFFREY.
|wM. J. CAsTELL,
ID. II. BUCKLEY.
All comnunicationsare to be addressed to the
Editors Morning Star and Ga tho!ieAessenger
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-09-05
The Latest Shrewd SHindle.

\ DRUGGIST in Des Moines Iowa, was
recently made the victim of Il rather eX-
pensive practical joke. y man, ap-
parently under the influence of liquor,
entered the shop one morning and called
for Il glass of soda-water. After drinking
it, he staggered against pane of French
plate glass in the show-window, shivering
it to atoms. Seeing the mischief he had
done he hurried away, but the druggist
pursued and overlook him, demanding
payment for the damage The inebriate
protested that he was impecunious, but
the plea did not avail. Two clerks seized
and searched him, and extracted from
somewhere about his person Il 800 bill.
This they deposited in their money-till,
deducting the price of the glass, and,
stufiing the change into one of his peck
cts, sent him adrift upon the street.
During the day the druggist discovered,
to his horror, that the bill was Il counter
felt. OF course no time was lost; officers
were sent in every direction, and the
offender was at length captured and
brought before the bar of justice. Here,
however, legal tcchnicality disturbed
the even flow of equity. The drunkard
urged that he was guiltless of any crime :;
that the counterfeit money happened to
be in his pocket at the time of the acct
dent, and that it was taken from him by
force. Under the circumstances the
honorable gentleman who presided over
the court felt constrained to dismiss the
case, and the druggist, with the fear of
suit for assault and battery before his
ewes, declined to move further in the
matter
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-09-05

THERE arrived in this country four
years ago last spring an honest German
named Charles Meyers, accompanied by
his wife, Wilhelmina, and two children.
They settled in Syracuse. Late in the
same summer, and before either could
talk English with any accuracy, Charles
and his wife went to Vernon and Augusta
to pick hops. While they were ut work
in Augusta the company separated,
Charles remaining on one farm and his
wife, Nilhelmina, going with another
German woman who could talk English
To work on another farm about two miles
from Pratt's Hollow.
Hop picking being over, Charles Mey-
crS and the company with him were bun
died into the ears and sent To Syracuse.
He had no fears about his wife, because
he supposed she would remain with the
woman in whose company he left her.
Within Il day or two, home came the
other woman but no Wihclmina. Said
Charles, ''Whcrc is my wife, Said the
woman, She left me To find you" And
50 Charles Meyers lost his wife. He
could not find her in Vernon; he could
not find her in Augusta; he could not
find her anywhere. For two years did
the unhappy man search for the lost
Wilhelmina. Every cent he could spare
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-09-05

WHEN the train from the West rolled
up to the Perry street depot yesterday,
one of the whccl-sounders discovered II
bulky object among the bars and timbcrs
of the forward truck of the postal car.
At first he could not tell what it was, but
he poked it with stick, when it bent
sideways and in IA moment human form
came creeping from behind the wheels.
He was so completely covered with dust
that it was impossible to tell whether he
was black or white; but after he had
wiped his face he proved to be colorcd
man. He got into the place where he
was found at BROOKLYN, 1870 miles west
Of this city, and all that distance he sat
on an iron strap not two inches wide,
with his back against the upright at the
center of the truck, his body leaning for
ward so that his head almost touched
his legs, which were bent nearly double,
and his hands resting on bar in front
of him. There he rode, subject to IA con
tinuous jolt, envclopcd in endless whirls
of dust, with the pclting of little pebbles
which constantly fly upward when II
tram is in motion. When asked how he
stood such IA ride as that, he replied:
dcclar', Mis'r, it is tough, but I'd held
thar clar to Chicago cf We hadn't fetched
me out" Then it. was asccrtancd that
on Thursday night he rode in that way
from Council Bluffs to Brooklyn, but was
discovered at the latter place and made
to give up his free ride. But he watched
his chance on Friday night and resumed
his journey.-Idoenpor (Io,oo) Gazette.
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and rendered him unconscious for IA con
siderable time. On recovering conscious
ness he found that he had been struck in
the mouth by some object just large
enough to knock out one of his front
teeth. The tooth was broken off close
to the gum. The nerve being left eX-
posed caused intense pain, but the Chief
Justice Waite had blown her first whistle
and the time had come for hin, to leave
for his engagement in the city. So, Gov
ering the exposed nerve hastily with wax,
he took his departure, and, protected in
this prccarious way against the torture
of the throbbing nerve, otficiated in the
services of the Sunday. The most prob
able solution of the apparent mystery of
the hidden blow = that he was hit by a
spent ball from the rifle of some chance
sportsman.-T0lod0C Commercial.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-09-05

down the abdomen the spell was broken
and he sprang to his feet.
These cases in which living persons,
under the supposition that they were
dead, have been cntombed, are sufficient
TO demonstrate that here, if anywhere,
too great caution cannot be exercised
that no corpse should be buried without
having the most positive evidence that
life is really eXtinct.-7r Transmitted from til e
GerWdR for 1pplet0H's J0ui7dal
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-09-05
NO. Sc.
Otm llous and Girls.

THE 4RTTUHETIC LESSON.
IChiid SfUdyjHg at an OpeD ,ciDd0W.l
Two times 'icvcn are twenty-five;
Kitty. don't wish twas Won.
Stead Of me. had this to do:
Two times lcvcn are twenty-five
Three times 'lcvcn are thirtv-thrce:
Robin. in the apple-trcc.
! hear yO": do You hear me ?
Three times 'lcvcn are thirty-threc.
-Four times 'lcvcn are forty-four:
How the sunbcams speck the floor!
Four times 'lcvcn arc-what Il bore,
-Four times 'lcyen are forty-four-
Five times 'levcn are fifty-tivc:
SwailowsI swallows! skim and dive,
Making all the air alive:
Five times levcn are fifty-iivc.
Six times -lcven are sixty-six:
Tip. for shame. sir, Pretty chicks,
Don't You mind his saucy tricks;
six times 'leycn are sixty-six.
Seven times 1cvcn are Scvcnty-sevcn;
There now. Kitty. you can't even
Say the first once 'Ievcn is 'levcn:''
Seven times 'levcn are scvcuty-sevcn.
Eight times 'levcn are eighty-cight;
Some ones pulling at the gate:
Hank, it's Bessie, sure as fate,
Eight times levcn are eighty eight.
Nine times 'lcvcn are ninety nine;
Coming. Bessie, Amt it fine?
That : the last one in the line.
Nine times 1eycn are ninety
-ChriStidH Union.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-09-05
Selected Misrella,w.
TIE HITLER SIDE.
BY JOHN W. CHADWICK.

BY JOHN W. CHADWICK.
CLIMBING the mountains shaggy crest.
wondered much what sight would greet
NY eager gaZe whcuc'cr nv feet
Upon the topmost height should rest.
The hitler side was all unknown;
But as slowly toiled along,
Sweetcr to me than any song
MY dream of visions To be shown.
Meanwhile the mountain shrubs distilled
Their sweetness all along my way,
And the delicious summer day
My heart with rapture overfilled-
At length the ropmost height was gained;
The hlther side was fun in view;
MY dreams-not one of them was true,
But better far had | attained.
For far and wide on either hand
There stretched valley broad and taIr,
With EreennpSs flashing cVcrNwhcre-
pleasant, smiling, home-likc land
Who knows. / thought. bur 50 twill prove
Upon that mountain-top of death.
Where we shall draw diViner breath
And see the long-lost friends we love:
II NAV not he as we have dreamed
Not half 80 awful. strange and grand;
\ quiet. peaceful. home-likc land,
Better than e'er in vision CLEANED.
Meanwhile along our upward way
What beauties Turk what visions GLOW,
Whatever shall be. This we know
l. better than our lips can say.
-ChristiaH Union.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-09-05
Two Young Runaways.

CHILDREN are generally credited with
originality, but it is seldom they attempt
an elopement, and the adventures of
boy and Il girl, each about five years OF
age, living in the southern part of the
city, are now furnishing considerable
amusement for those who have heard the
story. The other afternoon the little boy,
with poorly developed IDEAS of the cost of
travelling, asked his father for six cents,
stating that he wished to set himself up
in the newspaper business. The request
was not complied with, and the boy Wis
tied his fathers place of business, and
was given few cents by those employed
at the same establishment. He then
went to his home, and DOMINIC his best
clothes quietly left the house. Mean
while the little girl, who is the constant
companion of the little boy, visited her
home in the absence of her mother and
donned her best Clothes not forgetting to
place several articles of clothing in car
petbag which she by some means secured.
ceeded hand in hand to the depot, and
like old travellers got upon the cars, ask
ing questions of no one, and keeping
their own counsel as to where they were
going. But their carefully-laid plans
were soon frustrated by Il cruel railroad
official who devoid of all sentiment and
with desire to perform his duties with
out fear or favor, put them off the cars
and sent them home. Disconsolate and
discouraged, the youthful couple carried
their carpet-ba to the building in which
the boys father is engaged and deposited
it in the entry leading to his office. They
then returned to their homes disappointed
and unhappy, but said nothing of their
attempted elopement. The next day,
however, the story leaked out, and ere
ated considerable amusement among the
parents and friends of the children.
Where they were going or what they
were going to do they were unable to tell,
their only desire being to escape from
the control of their lawful guardians and
together fight the battle of life free from
all rcstrictions.-WO Worcester (lHass.) Spy.
THE finest specimen of silver ore ever
produced in Colorado is now being care
fully detached from its position in one
of the Caribou mines. 1t is eight feet
long, four feet wide, and fifteen inches
in thickness; its weight is estimated at
four tons at least, and it is covered with
nuggets and scales of pure native silver,
some of which, as an eyewitness OBJ
serves are large enough for door plates.
The proprietors intend to exhibit their
specimen at the coming Territorial fairs,
after which they will ship it to New
York. where it will remain until 1876,
when it will be taken to Philadelphia, to
be on exhibition at the celebration of the
centennial.-DeHc6rI Tribune.
During the month of March there
were sold by two railroads only in the
States of Iowa and Nebraska 10, 600 acres
of land To actual settlers, for the sum of
Sl34 900. The total sales of the Union
4 &.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-09-05

AT fire in a large city, while the up
per stories of II lofty dwelling were
wrapped in smoke, and the lower stories
all aglow with flame, Il piercing shrek
told the startled fircmen that there was
some one still in the building in peril. y
ladder was quickly reared, until it
touched the heated walls, and diving
through the flames and smoke a brave
young fireman rushed up the rounds on
his crrand of mercy. Stilied by the
smoke, he stopped, and seemed about to
descend The crowd was in agony, as II
life seemed lost, for every moment of
hesitation seemed an age. While this
shivering fear seized every beholdcr, a
voice from the crowd cried out Cheer
him, cheer himI" and Il wild "hurrah"
burst from the excited spectators As
the cheer reached the fireman he started
upward through the curling smoke, and
in Il few moments was seen coming down
the ladder with child in his arms. That
cheer did the work. How much can we
do to help the brave ones who are strug-
Cling with temptation, or almost fainting
in their efforts to do good to others,
Don't find fault with your brother i'll his
trial but cheer him. Give him Il word
that shall urge him on the way, and II
you can't help him in any other way, give
him cheer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-09-05

Next to seeing Il fat woman sitting
on the stoop of her vinc-clad cottage,
sewing ii patch on her husbands
brooches, there is no sight more eNhila-
rating in these times of financial distress
than ii partyof young men gathered on Il
green sward in front of IL boarding house
in the cool of the evening, batting with
dcXtcrous mallct the bounding spheres
through ferruginous loops as prescribed
by the immortal author OF the noble
game of croquet-CincinBotG ERqUirer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-09-05

During the month of March there
were sold by two railroads only in the
States of Iowa and Nebraska 10000 acres
of land to actual settlers, for the sum of
Si34 900. The total sales of the Union
Pacific and Burlington Il Missouri up to
April / were $50, 292 acres, for the sum
of 81, ,99, 20i, mostly within the short
space of three years
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-08-28
Speedy Justice.

When Mr.. Daniel Colby of Railroad
street went to his barn Monday morn
ing early, his attention was Immediate
ly arrested by the fact that his horse
and wagon were missing. On inNcSti-
CATION the team WAS readily tracked
from the barn directly west to Pearl
street, and from thence up to the Union
school house, where there were indica-
tions that the wagon had been upset.
Mr.. Colby then returned home. took IL
team, and together with his son, was
able to track his team to LNndonvil,c.
where they lost the trail. At this place
he enlisted Geo. b. Walker into his
service, and before Il great while the
stolen team was found ut Lyndon Cen
ire. and one of the thieves, james
ReardOn, was arrested. The other kept
out of sight. Mr.. Walker stationed Il
watch on top of his hotel, willie he and
Mr. Colby went diminishing around the
watch on the hotel saw some one come
out of the bush and wade or swim the
river. and enter Il piece of woods on
the east side When this wis made
known small party surrounded the
woods and soon captured john Common,
who owned up the whole transaction.
1t seems that Il man who was watching
with sick person ut Lyndon Centre.
saw this team of Mr.. COlbN'S tipped
over in the road about one o'clock III
the mornings; but he thought the men
with il could take care of 1t. But 1t
seems that after they tipped over, the
horse got 50 wound up i'll the harness
that he could not get up, and Reard"n
and Conner abandoned him to his fate
leaving him cast there, where he laid
until six o'clock in the morning, when
he was discovered and released. III,
wagon and harness were broken. and
the horse thus slamefully abused.
Reardon and Connor were brought to
this place, and had IL hearing before
Judge Howard, and were placed under
800 bonds each, for their appearance
at the county court. in default of which
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-08-28
The Musical Festival. Successful Per
formances and Large Attendance.

The musical festival held ut this place
last week WAS in some respects the most
successful ever had here. The chorus
WAS large. and the part it had in both
concerts was most crrditablc. showing
good material and thorough drill. con
>idcring the time it had been together.
From the first it WAS evident that the
attendance of both audience and singers
was to he unusually large, and the first
concert ON Thursday evening WAS given
to Il full house. The two concerts and
the two matinccs gave such Il variety
and quantity of music that we shall not
attempt Il program of them entire.
On Thursday evening the concert was
opened by an anthem by the chorus
which was well done and wcN received.
Mrs. Dow then sung ''Thc Message.
which was received without much en-
thusiasm. considering the admirable
manner in which it WAS done. But the
audience had not got up to IN cnthu>i-
aStic pitch 50 early i'll the evening.
80. sweet and fair" by Mrs. Porter. re-
ccivcd the first encore of the evening.
\ male quartet 10y the brothers Perkins
The Greeting strongly APP
plauded. Mr.. Cheney of Amherst, sung
''Swcct love. good night in very
sweet manner. showing i light bat very
clean tenor voice and good expression.
The lion of the evening. Mr.. j. f.. Per-
kinS. sung hat old song: ''Rockcd in
the cradle of the deep" The shade OF
disappointment that came over the
audience ut the announcement of the
song, soon gave place to wonder and
amazcmcnt at the power and volume
of sound uttered 10y the great London
hasso. Mrs. Dow sung an Italian piece
Il vocal waltz. or something of that
kind-which showed the compass. tlcX-
ihilIty and culture of her wonderful
voice better. perhaps, than any thing
else during her stay. For an encore
which WAS irresistible. she gave a pleas
! inc little song about the Little Doll 4
part song by IL double male quartet
| taken from the chorus. was good thing.
..Mv heart is like to break" WAS Il
plaimtivr song. done in admirable taste
and voice 10y Miss Ellen Sergeant. A
solo 10y Mr. Perkins from the opera OF