The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-03-08
R,rnIng Star and Catholic Messenger.
EEW oRLEANs, SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1874.
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS

The United States debt decreased o., 500, 00C
during the past month.
Woodford, Vt, now one hundred and four
years old, has just dedicated it's first church.
Utah man, who is trying to make both
ends meet, lives on head cheese and ox-tail
soup.
The proposed cost Of the shrine which will
be built on the summit of Montmartre, in hon.
or of the Sacred Heart, 10 million and o bali
dollars.
The Emperor of Germany Is going to Italy
next month. He will visit Rome and take
up his abode at Sorrento. Naples, where the
Russian Empress passed last winter.
The Steele says that seventy-two journals in
Paris and the provinces have been suspended
or prohibited from circulation in the public
tbroughfares, since the oath of May last.
Galveston contains 34,45O inhabitants not
including the floating population, which is
estimated at $500. The census of 1871 gave
1888, showing an increase in three years of
22,022.
Senator Chandler has brought suit against
the Detroit Free Press, claiming 100000 dam.
ages for alleged libel in q telegram charging
him with intoxioation and disgraceful conduct
in the Senate.
On January %, his Majesty, fthe King of
Bavaria, received q deputation of his nobility
who read him a memorial in which they en-
treated him to dismiss his minister Won Lutz,
on account OF his essentially anti-Catholic
principles.
Mr.. Mowatt said, in o recent address in New
York, that he "could understand the red In.
dams talking about these pale-paced foreign
ers,' but for the grandchildren of these re
Gently arrived pale faces to make any great
fuss about more recent arrivals being for
eigners,' was ridiculous"
"What do you sell those fowls for 7" in
quired person of a man attempting to dis
pose of some chickens of questionable appear
ance. II sell them for profits" was the ans
wer. "Thank you for the information that
they are prophets" responded the querst II
took them to be patriarchs"
The first and only Irish monastery of the
Benedictine Order in the United States is about
to be established at Creston, Ia, 100 miles east
of the Missouri River, on the B. NJ. RR. The
prior, Very Rev. John A. Burns, of st. Cloud,
Mimi, has purchased 400 acres of excellent
land for the site of the monastery.
On January 25th the Supreme Pontiff ap-
pointed an English Marist Father (Dr Francis
Redwood) to the vacant see of Wellington,
New Zealand. This youthful Bishop was ed
ucated at Dundalk and Lyons. He will be
consecrated at London in March, and leave for
his distant diocese at the end of the summer
The clergy of the diocese have selected Canon
Mccarthy, parish priest of Mallow, Dean
OMahony, Mitchestown, and Canon Cullinane
of Macroon, candidates for the vacant
bishopric of Cloyne. The Archbishop of the
province and the Bishop of the diocese will
meet Immediately to consider the merits of the
candidates, and forward their names to His
Holiness.
Tennyson says, in a recent letter concerning
certain publication which resuscitated some
of his earlier work al object to rarioru,n
readings. When the carpenter has made his
table, why should he treasure the chipsf and
when poems have been rejected, why not let
them be rejected And as for biographical
illustrations, etc., it to me that these had
better wait till my DEATH"
One of our exchanges puts it this way :
james Gordon Bennett, of the New York
Herald, last week gave $50, 900 to the suffering
poor of New York city. About the Same time |
Robert Bonner of the New York Ledger, gave
$4,000 for farm near Taraytown, on which |
to keep his horses. In the amounts of the |
two investments there is slight difference
In their character the difference is immeasur-
able.
A few Sundays ago, DR.. Talmage, Pastor of
what is known as Talmage's Brooklyn Ranting
Place, being in need of $4,000 to complete
payment on his new church, had it dedicated
and took advantage of the occasion to call
for subscriptions. The subscriptions began
and became a great success, $4,000 being
in few minutes in sums of 81 900
zach, and the remaining SEQ, 900 coming quick
y in amounts running from $25 up to $500.
The South Carolina Legislature has immor-
5alized itself by coming the word "insinu-
'ndos." Seeing the Wilderness of it's application
he Tribune begs to be permitted to express
he obligations which society, and especially {
ociety's representatives in official life, legis-
ators, cabinet officers, and such, are under for
m uncommonly fresh, beautiful, and express
i've phrase. It admirably fits the time. It is
contribution to current politics as we'll as to a
'hilology."