The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-08-11

| SOUTH CAROLINA The Republican Conven
tion met In secret session in Columbia las
week. IL was composed principally of negroes
the old white leaders even being absent. Th
Convention resolved not to put ticket 70
State officers in the field.
RAILROAD AccIDENT-At Mingo Junction
Lonis Road, freight train and passenge
traiN which was going at the rate of foitJ
miles an honr, collided. All the passengers in
the other cars. which were in front and which
coutsiued a large number of immigrants, ter
were killed and twenty-five wounded.
tEkBARNEY IN BosToN.-Denis Kearney, the
leader of the California Worklngmsn's party
has had several interviews with Gen. Butler
In one of them Butler claimed that railroads
snonld be public highways, and was speaking
of Vanderbilt, when Ksarney interrupted him
Pacific Coast" Butler did not blame the man
| so much as the system which tolerated him.
He blamed the workingmen for voting for such
Kearney said, "We must chop both ways,
General hang few OF these thieves and yots
them oft at the same time"
Rearney expressed his views about political
parties. saying, "Hayes and Tilden were alike;
certainly Hayes was elected by fraud; old
Marion voted fourteen Thousand dead men in
California"
In his speech at Faueuil Hall, Kearney is re.
ported to have said Z" If the workipgmen of
the United States possessed within th cir breasts
a single spark from which the fame of freedom
could be famed, they would not permit suoh
monsters to live in their midst they would
control these telegraphs; they would hurl
these Internal lying scalawsgs from power and
elect honest men to trsnsmit plaio unvarnish-
ed news. As to ungrammatical sentences in
ungrammatical speeches, he said, for 81 SO 1
can always hire man to write a grammatical
speech. but it axes millions t. buy an honest
man, be he ever SO ungrsmmatical. Let me
s1sts thIt the country Is in ruin to perdiEion
by band of classic thieves and legal pirates
What workingmen want is common honesty
and common senee, better guides than classical
attainments
On the 3rd Kelly, the Feniau prisoner, was
liberated from Mount Joy Prison on account
of i'll bealth.--Cardinals de Lucs and Lo-
repzo Nina are mentioned in Rome as probable
successors of Cardinal Franchi as Secretary
of Sts ts.-A member of the National La |
Dor Green back Party i'd to the Congressional
Committee now sit ting in New York enquiriug
into the Labor question, that he attributes
the depression in business princpally0to the
bond system saying that the people take their
money out of manufactures and invt ST. IL lie |
bonds, on which they obtain interest. He de- |
nounoed railroad land grants. and thought !
the Government should have built i5s own |
railroads. A great means he declared to re- |
lieve distress among the laboring Glasses was |
for the Government to assist them 10 settle |
menC public lands and insure hem support |
for the first year, until they reaped the irst |
crop. He affirmed that al laws of Congress
ere in favor of large annfacturers and |
dealers, and tended to crush out middle and
small classes. -- Reese Graft 81 Woods,
steel man ufacturers at Pittsborg are bank.
rupt. Liabilities 81 III ,905; assets 5000 O09
M. Bishop S Co., grocers of forty
years standing in Cincinnati, have gone in to
bankruptcy. Bishop is now Governor of Ohio.
hundred journeymen shoemakers
in Chicago have struck for an advance of
wages from nine to twelve dollars. They re-
fused offer of the employers to compromise
for $40. so per week. The employers declare
it is the best they can offer, and if not accept
cd they will get the work done in the East at
D less price. The strike includes all the lead
ing Wholesale houses.