The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-07-21

RedemptoTist Fathers who supervise tn,
affairs Of the school
Last Wednesday morning o man named p
Schumacher tried to commit suicide by drown.
Ing himself in the Bayou st. John. He wai
rescued by q negro named Price. He stated
that he wished to die because he could not get
work, his wife had abandoned him, and his
children were starving. The police ofi oer
who brought Schumacher to the station stop.
ped at his hut near Bayou st. John to see II
| his statements with reference to the children
were true. He there found four children the
Oldest II and the youngest about gall In q
most destitute condition. They were naked
aud almost starved. There are, We regret to
say, many cases of like destitution in this city
| at present.
| The FIRST blow has been struck by our
Board of Public School Directors In the new
| movement which has been gradually gaining
| strength throughout the United States, to
abolish the High Schools. At it's last meeting
the Board decided to consolidate the two girls'
high chools and in future to have only one
for the whole city. II this school be located
above Canal street few girls residing down
town will be able, unless at great expense, to
attend it; If it be placed below Canal street,
the uptown young ladies will be placed at q
similar disadvantage. Great dissatisfaction
will necessarily result and soon the Board will
be forced to q choice between re-establishiog
the two high schools or having none at all.
SUCCESSION OF PArRIc X IRwIN-On the 13 ii
inst, the succession of Patrick Irwin was
closed by a Judgment of the 2ad District
Court putting his widow, Mrs. Catharine
Irwin, in possession of half the property in her
own right, and of the other half as usufructu-
ary. As en- attorney TO absent heirs has been
appointed, this action was had contradictorily
with him and all necessary proof bad to be
made. The marriage between the parties was
shown to have been solemnizsd by the Very
Rev. j. Mullon, then Pastor of St. Patrick's
Church, his certificate being produced as also
the original bond and affidavit on which the
license was issued by Hon. Daniel Byrne, 1st
Justice of the Peace, all of the date of 2ad
September, 1S47.
During the past three weeks tie price of
ice has more than doubled. This is due to two
causes first, to the shortness of last winters
crop at the North and, secondly, to the fact
that the Louisiana Ice Manufacturing Com
pany has made o contract with the Crescent
City Ice Company wh ereby the latter takes
all the ice made by the former. As the exces-
sive heat inoreased the demand for ice the |
Crescent City Company made a combination |
with Mr.. j. r. Warner, our only other whole |
sale dealer in ice, whereby it was agreed that |
they should raise the prices both of Northern
and Louisiana ice. There's money in it for !
them, as they pay less than $40 per ton for !
Northern ice and sell it for $25 and SO for |
T iria ch 900 far |
our corner grocers will sell lump about the |
size of goose egg for Sets. It's time to es.
tablsh three or four more ice factories here
Last Tuesday quite an interesting shooting
match occurred in Mobile between teams repre-
senting Louisiana and Alabama. At 3 O'Clock
p. M, this Interstate contest began. The wind
was blowing pretty hard, and "Our Boys"
seemed to have got the worst of it until the
500 yard range was called, when Bercegeay
and Holt came up 10 the scratch. The utmost
enthusiasm prevailed on all sides. 1t finally
eliminated when our friend Bercsgesy, by
most excellent shooting, gave the bonors to
louisiana, by one point in the last shot. The
irst prizs for individual soldiers was woo by
DIR. Bre ssler, of the Alabama State Artillery,
~ a score of 81 out Of q possible 80. Mr.. J. K.
2enaud of the Continentals, won the second,
md Mr.. Nj @ 1ithy, of the same command, the
hird.
The sweep-stake matches were the feature Of
,he evening. The following gentlemen secured
prizes in the order named: Col. Glynn. On.
}. y Lieutenant Vass (Mobile,) D. Rosenburg
N. o y ]. K Remand IN. o.
Eight o'clock, the same evening, the prizes
we're presented ct Frasosti by ex.Mayor Bes-
;or, after which a publication" ensued, fol-
owed by the departure of the New Orleans
cam for home.
In the testimony elicted by the Investigating
Committee from E. L. Weber, at one time one
If the big wigs of the Radical party and for
our years State Senator, was the following:
In 1875 or 1876. Mr.. Thos. C. Anderson was l
member of the State Senate. together with my |
elf There ives at that time in existence a =
combination, which consisted of nineteen or | . .
wenty Senators. majority of the Senate.
Mr. Twitcbell was President of the combina- {
ion, Mr.. w. w. Wharton, Secretary, and Mr.. q
l. G. Anderson, Treasurer.