The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-05-02
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

The Charitable Irish Society, of Boston, now
13s years old, has a capital of $5.555.
The pastor of st. Patrick's, South Bend, Ind,
has formed q Society for the Education of
Young Men for the Priesthood. Each family
in the congregation pays ten cents a month OF
81 90 q year.
The Freedman's Bank Commissioners have
$4,000 It will require $500. 900 for q twenty
per cent dividend. The depositors number
AZ, 600. Many of the depositors are selling
their bank books at ten cents on the dollar.
The savings-banks of the city of New York
alone hold one hundred and ninety-fve million
dollars which gives an average of accumulated
reserve of one hundred and ninety five dollars
for every man, woman and child in the COM
munity.
On the 18th nit. ffty.nine colored adults
were confirmed by Bishop Gross in st. Bene-
diets Church, Savannah, Ca, and six colored
women received the white veil from the hands
of the Bishop at the same time. They became
Sisters of st. Joseph.
Rev. Canon Dillon, chaplain to the Irish set
tied on the Rio del Plata, Buenos Ayres has
established a weekly paper called the Southern
Gross. We may now hope to receive reliable
information from South America, before it ap-
pears in school histories.
Donizetti, who wrote very rapidly, was re-
| preached by friend with abusing his own
| facility. He said, in answer, "There are
| authors who have to plant and raise flowers in
| their brain, but find them already grown and
only have to gather them.
Viscount de Losgeril has Investigated apoth-
ecaries' profits. He says that bottle of
Seidlitz water, sold for twenty-fi cents, costs
to make it one cent and a half, and that other
profits generally are in this proportion. He
| proposes to tax sales of this class.
1.-THE Ladies of Charity" of Washington, an
Association auxiliary to the St. Vincent de
Paul Society, organized four months ago, now
numbers 1O4 members, and has already dis
| tributed 1000 pieces of clothing among the
poor besides assisting them in other ways.
Some Redemptorist Fathers resently gave q
mission in st. Anthony's Church, Liverpool,
Eng During the first two weeks there were
1000 children in the church every night; during
the second two weeks 5000 women every night;
during the third two weeks between 5000 and
1000 men every night.
| Twenty-foar Catholic societies attended the
dedication of the new Polish church the
fourth Sunday of April in Cincinnati. Such q
demonstration is creditable to the large Cath
Ollie organizations of that city, and will do
much to encourage this small and struggling
band of Catholic exiles.
A log of wood containing a sealed battle has
just been picked up at Havre, France. 1t was
one of the several thrown overheard by the
Prince Napoleon, in its Arctic expedition, to
test the force of currents. The writing it con-
tanned was perfectly legible, although the log
had been drifting since 1860.
A French Christian Brother, returning from
a mission to the Caspian Sea, brought witt
him plant said to be an infallble remedy fol
scurvy. DR.. Demeaux has presented a repor
on it's merits to the Academy of Sciences, fron
which it appears that the plant can be- &C
climatized in Europe and will prove of thu
greatest value.
At q reception given to NJ. Chevalier, the
distinguished French economist, at Birming
ham, England, last week, John Bright mad
some remarks free trade, in the course o
which he said it was ludicrous for the United
States to invite foreign manufacturers to com
pete at an exhibition when q protective TART
prevented them from competing in American
markets.
In many of the principal Protestant churche
of Germany public prayers are offered up TO
the "persecuted Bishops and priests of tn
. Roman Catholic Church" The Bishop o
Munster, noting this fact, earnestly entreat
} our prayers for our charitable but separated
brethren, who are likewise prosecuted .
present in the German Empire, and share will
MS many tribulations.
"Fellow citizens, the blood of those heroe
} comes trckling down from generation to gen
GRAFTON, fertilizing the soil of patriotism, and
making the garden of liberty look like bee
} of fresh asparagus, which"-aud until his wife
: jabbed her elbow in his back and told him tc
stop his noise and go to sleep, he thought b.
was George w. Curtis delivering the centen
NAL Grafton at Lexington.
} In the last published part of the German
history of the war this order appears as issue'
August 80, 1870: g In case the enemy shoulC
, pass on to the Belgian territory, and shoul'
not be disarmed Immediately, follow withou
awaiting further instructions. De Moltke'
If anv officer had blundered into Belgium OF