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The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-08-11
Msrning Ss.r and Catholic Messenger.
AMW oRLEANe, SUNDAY, AUGUST II 1878.
.SaRIKIEG LII LUSTRATION OF THE EVILS
OF MIXED MARRIAGES..

& CATHOLIC CENTENARIAN, ALL OF WHOSE
800 DESCENDANTS ARE NON CATHoLIcs.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-08-11

uIBERNIA INSURANCE COMPANY,
Office, No. 81 Camp Street.
JOHN HENDERSON, President.
JOHN II. HANNA. Vice President.
THos. E. BRAGG, Secretary.
Losses Ra1d. oOiSSooe
Net FronrS. ""...''''.--ss~ - TTe
At election held on Monday, the 9th inSs' u.
following named gentlemen were chosen Director
this Company to serve for the ensuing year;
John Henderson, John A. Hanna,
Thomas King, Thomas smith,
ThoB. Gilmore, W. j. CaSteu'
John 7. Gibbons, William hSrb
Emile 0auche. David Jackson
E.J. GasQuet. NJ. Z. Garvey,
George MoClOskey.
And at a meeting of the Board held MAY y1r-T ,S1-'
JOHN HENDERSON was elected President o
II. HANNA, Vioe-President and THoS F' O''->N
Secretary. - =, aha
The Board declared ont Of the net pronIo VI -
COMPANY for the past twelve months ten wv ~ nnt
interest thepaid up capital and ave t'' PLtDc ~
dividend on premiums paid by stockholdere Ga
with the rebate, 90 per cent on preminmN ~.
interest and dividend to be placed to the creul'
stock notes. .hI.iu
Interest and dividends full paid stock
cash at the Office OF the Company on and after
~ or,..r, JuDsl :. 1sTs myis7sly
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TRUS TEES.

John I. Noble, B. F. Eschelman,
john Chaffs VIM. c. Black,
Richard MIllikin, Charles Cbaffe,
j. 1. Warren, L. G. Jurey,
Samuel Friedlander, VIM. Hartwen
A. A. Yates, G. J. Leeds.
R. NJ WRlmsley, A. T. Janin,
A. h. May, Joseph Bowling,
T.Lytt. Lyon, A. II. Btokham,
Samuel 81. Boyd, Henry Abraham,
Joseph McElroy, Louis Bush,
William J. Behan, A. Brittin,
es G.. W. Senteli.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13

As demonstration on small scale that
the rigid monotony OF Chinese history is
not necessary consequence of the charac-
ter OF the people may be cited the APP
pearance at New Haven Of Chun Lung, .
Chinaman, who at a college exhibition de-
livered an address which is counted supe-
rior to that of the students who were not
compelled to begin their collegiate studies
by acquiring the English language. Here
is man who has SO completely gotten out
Of the Chinese groove, SO entirely departed
from the mental and moral mould of the
quaint nation Of which he is a part, that
he has made great advances in the
widely different culture of the West,
and has acquired the habit of regard
ing China from critical and literary
standpoint. His own example supports his
argument that the stationary character Of
his country and his countrymen is
due only to that sort of second
nature which results from their educa-
ton. Chinese education has its peculiar
methods. They are much as if in the study
of the horse one were forbidden to study
the real animal, but required to get him by
rote from wooden model approved by the
government. All their studies are moral,
but they do not study real morals.
They get by rote moral precepts laid
down by Chinese who lived few thousand
years ago. Detects like this in the studies
of people may account for any condition |;
but the Chinese student also invokes as o
cause the absence Of supernatural element
from the religion Of the people.
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damages done to its property at the time OF
the battle near that city. What do We say
a prosaic demand? On the contrary, it was
extremely poetical-poetical to the verge OF
hifalutin and Mysteries. Perhaps the claim
will be paid. for there is tender place in
the national fancy for that old school on
account OF some colonial memories, and
then an educational institution seldom APP
peals in vain. Yet only the other day they
refused to pay for Gettysburg first class
victory. Can it be possible that, with such
precedent. they will pay for that dull lit
tie fight on rainy day in the muddy mid
die Of the peninsula?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13

Mr.. Schleicher. of Texas, is reputed to be
an able man Of q practical aud business-like
turn of mind but his bill requiring the
government to go into the building business
on a large scale is deviation from his
customary good sense. His reasoning seems
plausible until we descend to particulars,
but cursory inquiry into details suffices to
explode it. The government is paying the
large sum Of $9OO,OO0 for the annual
rent Of rooms and buildings in various
parts OF the country. Mr.. Schleicher
maintains that it would be economy
for the government to erect and own all the
buildings needed for public uses, inasmuch
as it probably pays ten or twelve per cent
ofthe value of the property it rents, whereas
government ownership. Mr.. Schleicher
therefore proposes to capitalize the annual
sum now paid for rents and to use the
amount as fund for the immediate erection
of public buildings in all places where rents
are now paid by the government.
This specious scheme is exposed to grave
objections. In the first place consider
able portion OF the rent paid by the govern
ment is for single rooms or small suits OF
rooms needed Tor purposes which may prove
to be temporary. The assessors and col
lectors OF internal revenue are widely dis
tributed for the convenience Of easy contact
with the business of their respective dis
tricts but in each district nothing is needed
but small, simple Office. It would be
absurd to 60 to the expense OF erecting
separate buildings for their accommodation,
even if it were certain that the internal
revenue is to be permanent part Of our
fiscal system. The same remark applies
to the land offices scattered through
the West, to the recruiting Offices
for the army, to various Offices connected
with the purchase Of supplies, to the vast
number OF post Offices in small towns where
a single room or couple of rooms sufices
for the transaction of the business. Even in
the large and permanent establishments,
like the custom houses at the chief ports Of
entry and the post Offices in cities, the gov
eminent probably saves no rent by its
ownership of buildings. although it gains
something in convenience. The ornamental
architecture adopted and the jobbery which
infests the construction Of all public works
always prevents such buildings from being
an economy to the government, although
they contribute to its dignity and crafty
the local pride of the places where they are
erected. Mr.. Schleicher's bill is an in
genious fancy which will not bear much
scrutiny.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13

Some days ago we pointed out that upon
England's initiative the Treaty of San
Stefano was practically subjected to Euro
pean discussion. With tho treaty in hand
England blurted out boldly and loudly her
objections to it, and with the treaty in
hand also other Powers conned the sum-
mary of those objections. Berlin seemed to
smile spprovingly on certain points of the
objections; but, with solemn shakings of the
head at other points, held its peace. Austria,
on the contrary, was jubilantly noisy. All
the Vienna statesmen chartered with the
kind of excited glee that seizes upon a large
family of monkeys when flight of birds
sweeps past their window and alights near
by. Now, finally, Russia has shown how
really the treaty is under discussion before
the world by her keen and capable reply 10
the English circular note. In these facts
is to be seen q significant indication
Of the share of the newspapers in the great
transactions of the day; for here, in the
journals of Europe, is actually conducted
the debate that would have been carried on
in the Congress if that had been held. 1t
will be observed in the dispatches that
the Ageace Russo does not fail to note this
fact of the actual discussion of the treaty as
a refutation Of England's position that it was
not worth while to hold the Congress be-
cause Russia was determined the treaty
should not come before it.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13

1nE wEAInEn.-The high pressures east of
the Rocky Mountains extend over the Eastern
Gulf and xber Platte Valley, while the lowest
extend honthe upper lakes southeastward to
the New England coast. Rains have fallen over
thislatter region and very heavily in places The
st6tf1 6ehtfe n the regions north of the lakes
has moved somewhat to the southeast again,
involving the lake region and st. Lawrence
Valley within the area of its influence. High
winds from the northwest and west prevail In
the districts westward of the Allegheny range
aud north of Tennessee. On the Gulf coast the
winds arc from the south and southwest. A sub
sidiary disturbance, which was developed ON
the Atlantic coast, has moved TO New England,
aud is central in the vicinity Of Port
land, Me. Another depression is advancing
from the southwest, and has already ex-
tended It's margin to the Central Mississippi
Valley. Temperatures have risen decidedly in
ehe western and central districts and are very
high Ia the south. They are lowest in New
Brunswick and in tho far Northwest. The
weather in New York and its vicinity to-day
will be warm and partly cloudy or fair, possibly
with strong westerly winds. Tomorrow IL will
be partly cloudy or cloudy and cooler.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13

There was skirmish in Albany yester-
day on o topic that Is not, perhaps, Of the
greatest interest throughout the State, but
is evidently of the liveliest sort Of interest
in spots. In the possession Of the Ways
and Means Committee there slumbered
peacefully little bill "for the relief Of
towns, villages and cities which have issued
bonds in aid Of railroads." and tho bill was
likely to slumber thereto the dismay Of
members from places vitality interested on
that great issue-and so the bill was by vote
taken from the hands of the committee and
handed over to the Committee of the Whole.
Mr.. Alvord's account of the bill was that the
towns, villages and cities referred to hav-
ing been disappointed in the results of their
operation with railroad schemes want the
rest Of the people of the State to ''put their
hands in their pockets and help the said
towns. villages and cities out Of their
scrape II that is the nature Of the bill it
certainly should not pass. Many towns
have made bad investments in that way,
and they ought to have them all to them
selves. Some towns, 1t Is believed, have
issued bonds equal in amount to a valua-
ton of fifty per cent on oil the property in
the town. These bonds were generally
voted by the people--when the impecu-
NOUS multitude never likely to be respon-
siblo outvoted the property holders who
might suffer. 1t will be q hardship II the
cases come to liquidation. and may make
many converts to that proposed amend
ment to the constitution that limits the
suffrage on financial subjects to property
holders but, even with that possibility in
view, the towns in trouble should have
their trouble oil to themselves.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13

If the bill for the gradual substitution OF
iron supports for the telegraph wires be-
comes law and is the best that can be done
in that way the public ought to be thank
full for it as promising great improvement
upon the poles now in use. Its good fea-
lures are that it requires all supports erected
in future in the streets to be of iron re-
quires them to be made on o pattern ap-
proved by the Board Of Public Works, and
establishes o public inspection of the sup
ports, with power to compel removal when
deemed necessary. With good pattern of
pole. and with all tho poles made uniformly,
this would eventually convert this great
machinery Of modern life into an orna-
ment rather than an eyesore in the streets,
as it now is in o great degree. Some
telegraph poles have been made
there is one on the INTERPRETATIONS by
comparison with the ordinary stick more
or less perpendicular and in all degrees Of
dilapidation and irregularity. This change
would be q slight burden on the company.
as the substitution system would spread the
expense over q period OF some length.
There is but one change, however, that can
be made in the disposition Of the telegraph
wires that will be thoroughly satisfactory.
This is to put them under ground. That is
the best place for them for all reasons.
They are safer there. they cease to be an
obstruction in the streets, and it is great
economy to the companies to put them
there. They have found in London that
the economy in the breakage and destruc-
ton of wires alone is. at yearly rate, suf-
ficient to pay in ten years the whole ex-
pense Of making this change.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Admiral Porter Will return from Florida 10 WASH
ington next month
Josh Billings 10 for o spell In foxaA He IL pro-
nounccd success.
Miss Waite, daughter OF the Chief Justice, will NOT
return from Europe until autumn.
Captain Jennings, OF tne White Star steamer Adsi.
atic, 10 nj tho Great Western HotoL
Count Llita. Secretary OF the Italian Leg tion at
Washington, Is az tho Everett House.
Better dinner with green pea soup whore love Is,
than cold bologna sausage and hatred therewnh
The Boston Iost thinks that q portrait OF Dom
ria.t might DO taken Tor that OF Charles Dickons
Jesse Grant. while abroad, - having fun poked ut
him II Is thought that no poses gawky and tries 20
appear learned.
The man who leaves two-thirds Of cigar In a dark
nook on me front stoop whom no goes to sec his gri
will maze . thiifiy husband
John b. Anthony, Of Providence, reported as presi-
dent OF tho Union Mills corporation oil Fall River,
sold out and left that position yoar ago.
Colonel A. d. Shaw, recently United States Consul
at Toronto. 10 at Waterfowl, N, Y, whence he Will
soon 60 10 hrs pos. at Manchester. England.
The shah returns TO Europa Tho Neuc Free Pressc
Of vonns, says he Will only stay days thcir city,
but thirty ave rooms have engaged Tor him IN
hotel
secretary OF the Navy Thompson left Washington
yesterday hnuto, 10 % nbSont about
two weeks. Rear Admiral Howell 10 acting Secretary
70 the Navy IN the meantime
Secretary Evmn returned yesterday from tho
West, bringing with him his Invalid son William The
latter SO much prostratcd that he was carried
into the residence OF mis- iaihoL
President MacMahon Is In .uck. mandarin, 40
companying about ono hundred rich Chinese mer-
chants, 10 bringing him presents Of great vaius'
from the Emperor Of pgtaii Celestials
A Georgia journal says that tho prolonsine OF A. II
Stephens life ~ nm evident act OF God. Well hov
about William Lloyd Garrison's and John @. Whit
tiers, not TO speak Of Tom Thumbs and Brignoisf
Major Anderson, OF the New Jersey Commissioners
OF Fisheries, has . salmon caught Two mics above
Trenton, IN the Delaware II weighs twenty three
and a quarter pounds and Is thros and a hall feet
long.
Henry y 0illey, principal Of the American Ex-
change al London. had an Interview With President
Hayes yesterday, and met with . cordial reception
IRON other prominent gentlemen In oical circles In
Washington.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13
Liquor Registration Tax BAH Re-
ported.

The Assembly Committee on Cities has
reported favorably bill for the collection
of retail liquor tax by registration. Some
of the members of the committee took occa-
sion to announce that they are not commit
ted to the bill, but 1t is to be hoped that
they will support SO wise and beneficial
law when the matter comes up for consider
alton. 1t is difficult to understand what
opposition there can be to the measure il
we are to have any excise law at all, unless
it may come from the smaller retail dealers.
who are unwilling to pay so large tax for
the privilege Of selling bad liquor, on which
they mako an enormous profit. The respon-
sible dealers do not object to the tax the
people at large will DO greatly benefited by
it, and the temperance advocates should
certainly favor il next to total abstinence.
There is no practical difiic ulty in the way
of the enforcement Of such law. pro-
vided system Of registration which can
not DO evaded Is secured The mode
of registering and collecting the tax may
properly be left to the State Tax Board, and
the amount collected in each county would.
OF course, be retained by such county, to be
applied to tho decrease OF its local tax rate.
The State might require that the several
counties shall pay their quota Of the State
tax specially out Of the excise moneys. in
whole or as far as the amount collected will
20, and thus relieve the State Treasury from
the inconvenience experienced by the DELAY
in the collection of general taxes. The Comp
troller has called the attention of the Lecis-
lature to the necessity of providing for sort
of revenue bond issue for the State, in anti
cipation of the coming in Of the taxes but
as the excise registration tax would be col
lected monthly, or probably twice month.
the quota Of the State tax could very well be
paid out of the Excise fund and the neces-
sity avoided. New York city especially
needs a tightening of the burden Of taxa
ton, and no method of relief has vet been
suggested that would be as just and as ef.
fective as n registration tax on the retail
liquor trade
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RIGHT REV. GEORGE AUGUSTUS sELwYN, D.
D., BISHOP OF LICHHIELn.

D., BISHOP OF LICHHIELn.
cable despatch IRON London announces the death
or tho Right Row. George Augustus Seiwyn, u. D.,
Bishop OF Lichncid. DR.. selwyn was wolf known
a. o zeaious and successful missionary In shs
South 5ea Islanda Ho born 1870 and
was son OF lato william selvyn, Esq, Of Rich
moud. Surrey. He was educated Econ and ut
st. Johns College. Cambridge, where he took his
Rrco as junior optimo In mathematics and arst class
In classics Having entered the Church. he APP
pointed curato of Windsor. and At tho time dis
charged the duties OF ~ Elton. Altar spending
some time there be was In 1S4l appointed
nrst Bishop Of New Zealand which vas that
time n position Of much difficulty and little
personal danger, owing TO the ierociy Of the then
savage Maor and tho scarcely oss tracabio horde OF
escaped convicts from Australia aud Van Diemep's
Land who were the arss white settlers In the island
Ihcrc was, besides, much competition IN tho misslon
AIRY ncIo OWING 70 the presence OF . humber OF able
aud devoted French Catholic priests who had already
learned Inc Maori language and without resources
established several congregations and schools among
shs natives Dr. Seiwyn, by dnt OF unceasing labor
and tho display OF considerable tsct succeeded In
%a sho fTSa s " cnaren i
ing condition. IN New Zealand. He az
tended b. m'.soosIy labor. ,o over s.ss,
at one period guided \ small ship Tor many thousand
miles 10 apu tho scattered islands oil the south
pac'ao owing 70 inc rapid innax o. white soions.s
ilx ,ton tho diocese became too large for 10
admin,stss, and 1851 no succeeded In
Sioo Of tho sec. He found the church 10
ms infancy on his advent 20 Nov Zealand
and the country prey 20 w.r.ns tribes Of savage.
nourishing and popuous colony, governed BY IN own
Legislature, with . numerous and we'll organized
religious community ana the natives TAR advanced
pointed Bishop OF Lichneld, England, In December,
iso1 and from thai ume 10 his death resided In Eng
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13

tive perusal Of the extracts furnished by
our Washington correspondent.
American manufacturers should recognize
their obligations to the Secretary OF State for
the fresh, useful and timely information he
has furnished them on subject which SO
nearly concerns their interests. Even with
out any change in the tariff they can secure
large sales OF their goods in foreign markets
if they will DO as alert and as attentive to
their own interests as their foreign rivals.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was active and strong, particularly for the
Northwest stocks. Gold was lower. selling at
1902 Government bonds were firm md &C
tive ut the close, State bonds dull and railroads
quiet. Money on call was easier at 6 per
cent, closing at 8 per cent.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13

THE YACHTING OUTLOOK in Massachusetts this
season is excellent. All the clubs are in good
condition, and il will be seen, by the article
elsewhere printed. the roll Of their membership
embraces the names of many of the most distin-
guished citizens of the old Bay State.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13

MONMOUTH COUNTY, n. j., wants monu-
ment on its famous battle field. There are SO
many unfinished monuments all over the coun-
try that it is to be hoped Monmouth county will
see that all the money is raised before she be-
Gins to build.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13
DETAINED By A FOG.

Tho admirers Of Bayard Taylor, who accompanied
him DOWN tho bay on Thursday, owing to tho denss
fog on tho Hook, unabs TO nd tho tug that vent
down 10 take them on The Holsasia Tho latter vessel
in consequence lay 70 until yesterday morning when,
the log hitting, the tug steamed alongside ana upon
they returned early TO the city. Murst Hastead, OF
Cincinnati, whose family were on the Holsatia did
not intend 10 depart with them, but be was 80 pleased
with one nights experience on tho vessel and the
company In her that At tho last moment no decided
q make
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13

The private viow Of the pictures belonging 10 cosssr
Co., OF Eif,h avenue, will sako place this evening a
tho Lsavnt Ars Rooma The collection h sold IN the
nrm intend dseonunuina that branon Of their buss.
mesa The sale Uy tho Messrs Loavitt viii DO undes
the management OF MI =. p. Avery, and will take
place at Association Hall on the evenings OF tho 23d
and Gath inst Among tho names represented wo no,o
those Of Dlldera, Coros Deiacroix, Daubgny, Diax,
Dupre, Hamon, Harp,gnes, lsracis, Jaoquea Maris
Mauve, Michel Mshss, Robot Rousseau, koybss. Tro.
ron. velden, vollon and vorveer
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13

IT BEGINS 10 LOOK as if we shall not have to
wait until January next for resumption. The
Senate Finance Committee is seriously thinking
Of reporting n bill providing that the legal
tenders shall be receivable next July for all OBJ
legations not otherwise stipulated.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13

THE NEw MARKET HOUSE projectin Brooklyn
begins to look better. The commissioners up
pointed for the purpose suggest the sale of the
grounds around the Navy Yard for about half a
million dollars.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13

The DEATH of woman from what is said to
be hydrophobia resulting from the bite of cat
is reported this morning. The symptoms were
the same as in death from dog bite.
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Il RIPPLE SH e e T
NEW YORK, SATURDAY. APRIL IS. 1878.

IMPORTANT NoTIcE TO ADvERTIsERs.-Ib
insure the proper classification Of advertisements
Il Is absolutely necessmy that they he handed in
before eight o'clock crery erening.
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The probabilities are that the Meolaer in Neso
York and is vicir,ify to-day wiu be scarm and
partly cloudy fair possibly .ch strong ,cesterly
scinds. Tomorrow Il sciu be partly cloudy or
cloudy and cooler.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13

PRESIDENT DIAz has Mt last been recognized
by our government. 1t is to be hoped he will
now recognize the necessity Of restraining his
border thieves
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-13

MR.. BERcn's Acrios in stopping United
States mail wagon some days ago has been ap-
proved by the Post Office Department. Gov
ernmcnt contractors have special privileges
to torture MANNED animals.