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

he celebration Of the Nativity in other ,
places In barns, amid the cattle and the
have beer peculiarly touching aud sugges-
tive. The intruded pastors have been able ,
TO assemble only q handful of adherents,
principally composed of ofacials-in one
village only two-and another disagreeable
gentlemen. He Ia not q priest at all. but
an adyenturer from America, whose claims
to the ecclesiastical character consist in his
having been formerly Capuchin novice.
Tho Berne Government which appointed
him, and from which he derives his juris-
diction, will perhaps think this sufficient.
DIR. REINKENs AND n. LoYsoN.
The quasi-Pontif of the sect in Germany
does not seem inclined to be answerable
for the doings of his brethren in Switxer-
land. This much we gather from a note
of the Spencer Zeitung. NJ. Loyson, who,
perhaps, intends to rise to an analogous
position in Switzerland, has written a let
risdiction of DR.: Reinkens; whereupon the
Berlin paper. which, according to the
Courier do Brurelles, is more or less the
organ of the Bishop of Bonn," declares
that it is " not aware that DR.. Reinkins
has ever claimed to have any connection
] whatever with NJ. Loyson, whose marriage
has thrown singular light on his CONVEX
sion to Old Catholicism"
DIR. RE1NKENs AND AUSTRIA.
1t 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 Dr..
Reinkens in that country, the idea has been
the acct at Vienna having addressed a let
ter to the papers, declaring that tho " . Id
Catholics" Of Austria had never applied to
the Government to acknowledge DR.. Rein
kens, ss they "hsve no intention whatever
Of constituting themselves into separate
religions community"
THE PRUssIAN BISHOPS.
The campaign against the Bishops ia
being prosecuted with unfsgging vigor.
The fines inflicted on the Archbishop OF
Posen now amount to $500 thalers and the
Bishop of FINLAND has been sentenced to
another fine of 200 thalers for an offence
, against the military oommandant at In
sterburg, supposed to be contained in bis
accommodation of the priest Grunert
The Government is very indignant at the
transfer by the Bishop of Paderborn of al
q his private property to his brother, and, te
9 Liberal paper, at the supposed intention
: of the Prince-Bishop of Breslau to take nj
q his residence in the Austrian part of hi
:, diocese. The Catholics are bestirrinl
a themselves with q view to the approaching
e elections, and the Archbishop Of Munich
v of Catholics in this matter. But the pro
' jecs of electing the Bishops to the Reich
Y stag in order to save them from prosecu
Is tions is not approved by the Bishop
d who is not diocesan Bishop, is said t
a have consented to accept seat.
THE FAMINE IN BENGAL.
The kilograms from India are slight
more favorable, in that they announce tn
20 fall more than once of a certain amount {
IN rain in Behar, but this is neither extensiv
q, enough not early enough to avert the ia
" mine, which seems only too certain. Tn
~ danger is that, as in the Irish visitation,
m should be assumed that everything whic
N is possible to do is being done, and ths
Or all interference with the measures of th
80 Government should be discouraged on tn
" ground till the blow falls, and it is dil
es covered that some more exceptional pre-
u. cautions were really necessary, aud thu
at it is case in which lavish expendtul
m and q complete disregard of the ordinaI
:. economical laws would have proved in tt
es end the most prudent as we'll as the hi
o. manest course.
"a THE FAMINE IN RUSSIA.
er Under date of Dec. 9th correspopdel
rs from st. Petersburgh writes:
a "a. Things utterly incredible and withol
" parallel in other countries take place dali
re In Russia. have told your readers no
es the vast province of Samars is now beir
ga laid waste by famine. The calamity 10 a
~ tributed to drought in the spring, followt
lu by excessive rains during harvest tim
" The truth is, that it is caused less by j
" Irregularities in the weather than by I'll
70 decentralization of the peasantry. The Mo
~, vi eoW Gazette, which is the most honest
pr all our newspapers, gives proof of my a
'fe sertion. 1t states that there is abundan
o. on in a village called Keppenthal, which is
SS' colony of the sect called Memn onists, al
~ ia situated in the very midst of the fami
IL, district. But at Keppenthal those re
e;n gionists keep up school, and possess
on library, and a botanical garden. They a
'ea Germans, and there is no distress among
OF them while alongside of them, in plac
re- where each peasant possesses sixteen and
on o D. half dssiatines of good land, men, wome
. and children are dying of starvation. TT
Il T. reason is, that, inatead of school and
. Inc library, they have in one district ten spir
seq shops, at which from twenty to twenty-6
70 thousand roubles worth of adulterat
OF brandy is sold annually. Governme
en-, multplies the spirit shops al intinitu