The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-05-16
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.


cestor.
The POPE has sent to the Qneen Dowager of
ponar;. n nalmtree from the Vatican gardens
as an Easter gift.
over6ooO persons attend Mass every Sunday
~ .ha Church of St. Paul. West Fifty-ninth
street. New York city.
A new factory, called the Vaucluse factory,
will shortly be built near Augusta Ga. Its
capacity will be ten thousand spindles.
Mrs. Jane Mitchell, in her petition to the
Brooklyn surrogate, to be appoi N ted admins
trotor Of her husband. John Mitchels, estate,
stated that he had left only $500 to be divided
between herself aud three children.
The Bishop of Orleans mgr. Dupanloup> has
published work, in three parts, entitled
"Etuae sur Ia Franc Macoanerie." The antagon-
ism between Freemasonry and religion, the
status of Mason, and the political and revo-
lutionary action of the Freemasons on the con-
tinent, form the three portions of the learned
Prelate's brilliant essay.
The fair young Sergeant Bates is turning his
eye toward Canada now. He is about to carry
our country's banner all the way from Windsor
to Toronto, to show how the Canadians are
fond of us. After that he will cross the bound
ing deep and bear the banner from Calais to
St. Petersburg, where frantic popular demon
strations will doubtless-not await him.
Messonier's third picture in four years has
just been exhibited in Paris It is less than a
foot in height and barely more than q foot in
width, and represents q halt of horsemen in
the days of the First Empire. 1t is praised as
miracle of accuracy and of spirit; and has
been bought at the price of 12o, 900 francs, or
$24 900 in gold, by a private collector who
ordered it three years ago.
The conservation of the Right Rev. j. J.
Kahn, D. D., Bishop of Wheeling, will take
place in ST. Joseph's Cathedral, Wheeling, on
Trinity Sunday, May 23d. The Most Rev.
Archbishop Rayley, of Baltimore, will be the
Consecrator, with Right Rev. DR.. Gibbons, of
Richmond, and Right Rev. DR.. Becker, of Will
mngton, assistant Consecrators. The sermon
will be preached by Bishop Gibbons.
German military men are making great pre-
partitions for an unusually extensive series of
field operations that are to take place this fail
in the provinces of the Rhine. A regularly
fortified place is to be besieged and approached
by saps. During the progress of the siege the
fortress is to suffer several bombardments 1t
is expected that n large number of officers
from several European armies will be present
Henry Seybert, citizen of Philadelphia,
has offered to place bell and clock, worth
$50, 600, in Independence Hall, in commemora-
ton of the Declaration of Independence, the
bell to be rnng upon the 4th of July, 1876, as
herald of the festivities. A condition of the
gift requires that the names of Mr. Sey bert's
immediate family be inscribed upon the bell
which has just been accepted by the Phil adel-
phia City Council.
NJ. Eugene Pereire, the Paris banker whose
great grandfather invented the system by
which deaf mutes are taught to speak and to
understand from the movement of the lips,
has just announced that school of instruction,
to be supported by his family, will be opened
in Paris in August. The institution will be
under the care of NJ. Magnet, who has shown
such excellent results from the Pereire system
at his school at Geneva.
Ex-senator Pratt, who has been appointed
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, makes the
eighteenth member of the last Congress who
supported the force bill and failed to secure
reelection, who has been given Office by the
PRESIDENT. AS Douglas was officially told that
his resignation was not demanded on account
OF any disapproval of his acts. there can be no
other reasonable inference than that his place
was wanted to relieve one of " the faithful,
whom the people had no further use for.
Poor Monsieur Vilemesssnt, of the Figaro,
little expected all the trouble which his i'm
prudence in addressing the bishops would
0rlng upon his head the letter of the Bishop
Oh Anglers condemning his paper, was speedily
followed by one still more severe from the
venerable Archbishop of AK. All the papers
o' Far's-Cstholic, Protestant. and Intidel-
nave said the severest things about the Figaro,
ana heartily endorsed the opinion of the epis-
'oPacy' 1t Is reported that in consequence of
'nlS protest of the bishops, NJ. de Vilemessant
has lost Is, 900 su bscrbers.
vi the Centennial monuments to be erected
III Fhllade'phis, the N. Y Tribune correspond
0n'o says: The most important of these
monuments is the Catholic fountain. for which
F40'Ooo has been raised by the Catholic Tenn
perance Union of America In the centre of
o un'a'n there will stand colossal statue
=, 1i'Ses shifting the rock, from which the
""'er Will flow into a marble basin, on the