The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-03-12
GENERAL, NEWS xTEMS.


To him, alleging, as a reason for his request.
1is great age and political occupa' ions )
and the demand appears to have been fa-
vofably received.
An ascent of Mont Blanc was successful
ly effected ON the 20rh of January by M.
Gabriel Lappe, French painter, and Mr..
James Ealss, whom the papers call an
English geologist. The curious feature of
the exploit WAS that at an elevation of 49,
600 feet they found o temperature higher
than that which prevailed In the lower re-
gions.
il 1t has been reserved for Prussia to pro-
duce General who has really passed eight
decades in active and retired military SER
vice. Field Marshel Count Wrangel was q
"Junker" in 1795, and is consequently q
survivor of the first French revolutionary
war, whom Napoleon 1. had yet to make his
way. The HISTORIAN General will COM
plere his eightieth year in the Prussian
military service in August next.
A committee has been formed in London
for the purpose of promoting attention to
Celtic antiquities and literature. The eff
feet of such foundation will, it ia hoped,
De TO revive devotion to a study SO inter
esting and important ia itself, but almost
wholly unremunerative, pecnniarily, to it's
| votaries, and therefore likely to lSnguish,
unless aided by some public and national
| support.
An analysis of the appointments made by
| Col. FIzhugh, Doorkeeper of the House of
! Representatives, shows the number to be
123-Union soldiers 35, Confederate soldiers
| 10, Mexican war veterans 9, coIored II.
number taking the regular naths 100, the
modified oath IA, disabled Union soldiers
employed by Col Buxton, the former
Doorkeeper, and retained by Col. Fitz-
| hugh, g. Of the l53 places in the gift of
the former Doorkeeper, only 15 were given
| to Union soldiers.
The association which has been formed
in Prague for the promotion of Catholic
education has taken the name of the
Christian Academy" 1t already reckons
among it's members not only several per-
| sonages from the highest Catholic nobility,
but also the principal ecclesiastical digni-
taries in Bohemia. To promote the OBJ
jects of the association a monthly periodi-
name of the Christian academy, and will be
edited by Herr Edmund LANCER.
The Photographed Society of London
has now its fifth part of Fac-similes of
manuscripts ready for distribution. 1t
contains two more plates from the Homer,
and specimens of the old Latin fragments
| OF st. Luke and the Josephus on pspyrus,
in the Am mbrosian Library of Milan. Plates
are also given from the "Book of Kells,"
preserved in Trinity College, Dablin, and
from Greek and Latin MSS. of the tenth,
eleventh and twelfth centuries. The ORR
ready, and will be issued very shortly.
A correspondent of the Dublin Nation
writes: The Sunday closing canvass in
Drogheda has been completed with the
most satisfactory results, nearly g. 400 sig
natures having been obtained. This is the
, largest number relatively scored for the
movement in any district, and includes q
The majority of the trade are anxious for
the accomplishment of the object, while
some differ in opinion as to the means.
All condemn the beer house system, which
is purely an English institution.
The Confraternity of the Holy Family in
Lurgan, Ireland, was formed only few
weeks since, yet it now num5e over q
J thousand mem bers. On Sunday, the 9th
February, after twelve o'clock Mass, over a
} hundred men and boys knelt down to get
themselves enrolled. Father M'Kenna per-
fol med the reception ceremony, and at the
conclusion ascended the pulpit and than kea
the mem oers for two splendid presents
made by them to the altar, consisting of a
) splendid silver chalice and ciborium, both
of Irish manufacture.
Rev. A. A. Lambing, of Pittsburg, ia the
! the possessOr of Bible that is half q CEN
tury older than the 80 called Reformation
/ The Bible in question is in the Lltin Ian
3 guage, is a thick folio of 934 pages, printed
on very heavy paper, in old English type,
3 two columns to page, and is divided into
, chapters, but not into verses. In the place
of verses are the letters of the alphabet in
troduced into the text, for convenience in
quoting. The first books printed, it may
not be generally known, have no title
page but the date, etc, are placed in an
inscription at the end of the book This
a copy of the Bible is FIVE years, to the day,
z older than Martin Luther, the hero of the
4 Reformation, who was born November 10Th
b 1883. The book is in q good state of pre-
eervation, and bids fair to see the death as
/ it witnessed the birth of the Reformation.
s. David A. Wells, the great political econ
mist, writing in answer to the charge that
, he is not Democrat, says 'T desire to
take advantage of this opportunity. to say
that the old and fundamental principles of
Democracy, as l understand them, are
, mainly these Hard Money (spelled with
big H and capitals ongho1t) taxation
for revenue purposes only and such re.
striction on the powers of the Federol
Government that it shall neither do, nor
propose to do for the people, anything
which the people are willing and able TO do