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The daily gazette., 1878-12-27
NOTICES..
OFFICE OF THE DELLA WARE
RAILROAD COMPANY.

RAILROAD CUMPANY.S
DOVER, DEL. December 20, 1873.
nIVInEND NOTICE.-The Board OF
~ Directors Of this company have de-
claI ed the usual semi annual dividend OF
rec per cent. payable At the Office In
Dover. on and after January I'd, 1879.
dec26-6t NJ. HAYES, Treasurer.
MOT E.-THE PHILADELPHIA,
IN WILMINGTON a BALTIMORE
RAILROAD COMPANY.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2Oth. 1878.
The Board of Directors have declared a
sem mi-anDual dividend. OF four per cent. ON
the capital stock OF the Comp payable
on and after January End, isIy.
ALFRED HORNER,
dec23-d2taw2w Secretary.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05

TREMENDOUS DECLINE OF ENGLAND's Con-
MERCE-The prophets Of commercial evil ac-
cordIng to the London Spectator, were never
buster in England than they are at this mo-
ment. According to them, the country has
lost within q few years one-half of its invest
ments in foreign securities, at the lowest,
&400, COO 600 sterling The iron trade has gone
to pieces and will not revive, as American and
Continental foundry men can at last rival
sell our iron founders, owing to their superior
protection against strikes. Coal owners are
selling at cost price, and living Cd the wild
proits made in the panic four or five years
ago. Ths cotton trade is threatened with
competition from India, where a protective
duty of only five per cent moltiplies mills by
dozens year, and cOmpels English mill
owners to go oQ working nj positive loss
The silk trade is passing away into French
hands The sugar-refuinE trade, crushed by
French bounties, is already in French hands.
industry is completely ctushed, the Cornwall
tin owners heing quite unable to compete
with the Dutch and natives in Banca and Su-
matra, where people turn mp tin almost ss
easily as Irishmen do potatoes. Lead mining
is threatened with extinction, the price having
already fallen before the fear of American ex
ports, which will, the Americans say, be end
less, and will be sold, freight notwithstanding,
at half English rates, the eilvermen selling
are already half ruined. AS to corn, who can
grow corn with wheat from India a. 42s, while
the farmers last stsndb by, his magnificent or,
q work of high art, eaten at q chilling pound
all round, is threatened by French refrfRerat-
ing ships which bring over cheap fresh meat,
by the rinderpest, by the foot.and. mouth dis.
ease, by vegetarians, and by high rents.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05
Whore the New York Poor Live.
RIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE IN TRNE-
MRNT HOUSES.


There are according to the records Of the
Department of Buildings, 81 900 tenement
houses in the oiCy of New York in y total of
7S. 900 buildings of all kinds. Taken all
through the city, the new and the old, the fret
and the second classes, they average four
stories in height, and are constructed to hold
two families and q half to each floor, or ten
families to q house. Accordingly, if all
population of New York is 10000 families,
which, at i've persons to family, would make
,O50 600 men, women and children. This is
evidently an overestimste, but certain expert
enced agents of tenement. houses on the east
side cay that 90 per cent is all that need be
deducted for houses parts of houses not
occupied. That deduction leaves net teue-
meut.ho population of $40 900 souls. When
it was suggested to the agents mentioned that,
If this is go, nearly the whole population of
New York, according to the numbers given in
the last census, must live in tenements, the
reply was that the census might be wrong, but
that certainly the tenement population num-
bered not less than $4,000.
1t has been said that the teDements averaged
two and half families to a floor, or ten fami-
lies to a house, bot the population is not at all
equally distributed in some buildings there
are as many as five families on floor, and in
others only one or two. Most of the buildings
are so built as to eheot the greatest possible
economy in space, in ventilation and in safety.
High and narrow, wi b contracted Railways
and walls of the minimum thickness allowed
by the Department of Buildings, with little or
no open space in the rear, and frequently o
rear tenement building instead of q court,
they are hardly bearsble as places of hAbita-
tion in the winter, and still less go in the sum-
mer. Indeed, it has become common sight
to see tn cir inmates sleeping on the roofs of
their dwellings, or in carts in front of them,
rather than suffocate within doors. 1t is their
cheapness and their cheapness only that gives
them any attraction to the poor, and their
oheapness is due to the possibility of packing
them with tenants aud to the practice of build
ing them on the most economical plan.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05
a0RNNe STAR AND CATHOLIC MESSERGER Sunday MAY

newspaper does not even appear at the fret
resurrection. The New York Tribune, under
the able mnnagem ent of Whitelaw Reid, has
been laboripg in vain for i've years to regain
its lost circulation aud prestige, while the
trustees of the Greeley estate report the stock
held by him at his death as still worthless.
New talent and fresh capital 10 only tempo
rary relief-Rt least 90 it has proven time and
again. Nowhere, outside of Paris, is the road
ing pu blic hook of sheep to follow the blind
leadership of one man. There newspapers
have nothing but q transient sale, and fire.
quently spring up like mushroom udder the
Inspiration of some talented and enter rprisipg
leader but 1t is differ ent in the United States.
Here t takes years to build up o pay ing cirou-
lation, and the regaining of lost patronage is
not only question of time, but Of opportuui-
ties. 1t necessitates q state of inactivity on
the part of competing journals which 10 not
usually the case. 1t also req uires energy, en-
terprise, and above all, newspaper experience
on the part Of those attempting the task.
very true saying ie is that every man cannot
run q hotel, and IL is equally true
regarding newspspers. man may be o good
President Of the United States, q good banker,
merchant or railroad superintendent, but still
out OF place entirely in ne Sspaper office, or
editorial room. The years during which q
newspaper is running down, it's rivals are
getting . start both in circulation and income,
which must all be reRained before they are
run on equal footing. Hence it is that we do
not hear of the resurrection of any dead pews-
papers, while we hear of the collapse of 60
many new ones.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05
4 VoLLEY FROM TIE COL UMBLAN.

That man may be q good Bishop and a
good Editor at one and the same time is ex-
emplifed by the Right Rev. DR.. Rosecrans,
Bishop of Columbus, Ohio. As q Bishop he
ranks with the foremost ecclesisstos of the
Church in this countr7. As an Editor, be
publishes bright, interesting paper it's edito-
rial page bein z usually filed with pointed
editorials, not one of which is over twenty
Eve lines in length. As eamplos of these, we
copy the following, which, with o dozen
others, appeared in the last issue of the ColaBs.
1idR:
Call it "a mutual admiration society" if you
please, but we would rather hear people
speaking kindly, than harshly, of one another.
grow insipid to the taste, but never ending
vinegar will destroy the life.
Every Catholic ought to be an Apostle ao-
oOrding to his sphere and ability. He will be
sorry for it who negleots to show his kindness
and good feeling for his neighbor in spirit
ual way. Many think to show their love for
perversities. But such friendship is o snare.
"Hew can one help speaking unkindly of
Others, when there is scarcely any other sub
ject of conversation in society p is question
often asked by people that have conscieuces.
The best way to help it is never to harbor any
feeling of unkndness towards them. If they
have done wrong, let them answer it to their
Master. Wait to be appointed judge before
beginning to pronounce judgments. Then
you will fiud excuses for their faults as easily
as you find them for your own,
1t is q mistake to suppose that by learning
the evil others do one is helped to do we'll
himself The reverse is true. 1t is better to
be satisfied with knowing, in general way,
than to learn it in sickening and horribls de-
tail. What benefit is there in satisfying Curl
osity by studying in to the details of how this
fone fell and that one went astray. The devil
has no better allies earth than the ingeni-
ously obscene. Bad books have destroyed
more souls than even bad examples. Perverse
principles harm more persons than even single
wicked actions. The founders of heresles and
propagators of corrupt maxims make the final
judgment necessary.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05
KsrnIng Star and Catholic hsssssngsr.
LOST.

A wild rcss by the wayside hung
Dew. .glitteripR on the morning air,
A pure ,osI CO conscious perfume hunR
Ilooked and found he hOweret fair
So fair. 1 sougbt with sudden zest
To wear its -uty on my breast.
The trs mbipg petals a. my touch
A sweet or. subiler fragrance shed;
'Tis strange loved that flower so much
And-it was dead.
In that high mood. when thought hath wings,
And finds alone Its speech In song
stI uck an old harp's umbeting slrln9s
And drew an idle hano slong;
Nor deemed the careless choros had caught
The life note that my spirit sought
Till sudden on my startled ear
Its dream m-created accents woke.
Alack bought the rapture dear
The stling had broke.
heard Q wild bird ON the shore
Singing q wild song to the sea;
And bold the burden that 1t bore,
And fwee or than all else to mo-
So sweet. Gagged the bird TO hear
His magic minstrelsy more near,
Uptamed; the captive's swelling throat
In one sad song hls whole soul cast;
Too well know bis loveliest note
Had been his last.
And yet, while memory hath power
To count tho hours too vsinIy spent
The fragrance Of that faded flo wer,
That harp's last dying music. blent
With the wild birds weird death song, will
Haunt every waking moment still,
Teaching my heart the bitter cost
or all the eye of hope hath seen,
OF all that life hath won aud lost
That might have beea.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05
DEATH OF TWO DISIING UISHED
ECCLESLASTICS.
VICAR. GENERAL DUBREUL.

Joseph Paul Dubreu1, D. D +, Vicar General
of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and rector of
st. Mary's Seminary, of the Society Of St. Sui
pice, died at Baltimore, Md April Goth, at
weeks ago, which developed in pneumonia on
Thursday. Vicar-General Dubreul was born at
st. Etienne, in the Diocese of Lyons, France,
November -, 1914. He pursued his early
studies at the Seminary of Monistrol, in Lyons;
studied moral philosophy at the Seminary of
Alx, and theology at Lyons, and at St. Sui
Sooiety of St. sulpIcs. Issy, where be was er-
dained priest May %, 1889. Till 1s49, be was
Professor of Theology at orleans. Father De
rived Mach 20, 1850 In the s September @ @ fol. o
lowing he was made Vice President of st.
Marys then a secular college in 1860 he was
appointed vice rector, and on September 90,
1860, succeeded Francis L. Homme as rector.
Vicar. General Dubreul was the sixth President
of the Seminary. He was appointed Vicar
General by Archbishop Bayley, and managed
bishop Gibbons. The Vicar.General took
conspicuous part in the Plenary Council Of
Treasurer of the Seminary, will probably be
appointed President by the Superior. General
Of the society in France. Father William E.
Starr, may be appointed Vicar General.
THE LATE VERY REV. PATRICK FRANCIS LYy-
DON.
DR.. Lyndon had been priest for thirty-six
years, and DR.. Dubrenl for thirty nine years.
DR.. Lyndon was born of poor parents near
Drogheda, in 1912 ; he was of studious habits
and managed to obtain good classical educa-
tion before coming to America in his twentieth
year. Having earnest vocation for the
priesthood, he became q student in the Catho-
lie Seminary at Montreal, and after gradual.
ing there, went to St. Sulpice in company with
the young gentleman who after Yards became
Archbishop Williams. He was ordained in
1912. and went to Boston, where he entered
upon the life of active duty which has now
closed with q happy death. His old friend be-
came Bishop of Boston in 1866, and Dr.. Lyndon
was made Vicar General which office he held
until his deeth.-Catholio Rerie,p
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05

"Almsdeeds," says st. Augustine, "com
prise every kind of service rendered to our
neighbor who needs such assistance. He
who supports q lame man bestows an alms
on him with his feet he who guides q
blind man does him q charity with his eyes;
he who carries an invalid or an old man
upon his shoulders imparts to him an aims
of his strength. Hence none are so poor
but they may bestow an aims on the
wealthiest man in the world"
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05
CARDINAL MANNLNG,S RETURN HONE
FROM ROME.
WHAT HE had TO SAY ABOUT THE coNCLAvs

WHAT HE had TO SAY ABOUT THE CoNCLAvE.
On the 10th of April Archbishop Manning
returned to London, and was received by
large delegation, consisting of the most promi-
nent Catholics of his Diocese. In reply to an
address which was read to him by Lord Ripon
he said:
My Lord Ripon, My Lords and Gentlemen-Any
expression of confidence and attachment on
the part of the Catholic lsity of England,
gives me consolation aud strength; aud though
In the pact sooh expressions have been many
ana beyond any claims of mine both strong
and unequivooal, yet the kind address have
Just heard giVes me especial encourage
9ent as coming at this time. You have SO
clearly indicated the reasons which make this
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05

Very few people have any idea of the amount
of capital and time required to place q daily
newspaper on q paying basis. The Chicago
Inter Ocean has already expended half mil
lion dollars in endeaverinR to compete with
the Tribune. The daily newspapers which
have been started in the last twenty five years
only to fail are numbered by hundreds. And
next to starting a new newspaper there is
nothing 30 near a job as resusctatiDg a news.
paper which has once been prosperous, but
has, through mismansgemeut, dropped, as it
were, into the sers and yellow leaf. A dead
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05

ACCURACY OF DEFINITIoNs-Web Webster.s I'm.
abridged Dictionary We understand that in the re-
vision of this work q Catholic clergyman had the
supervision Of the definitions of words expressing
points of Catholic dogmas. discipline ceremonial
and had we been told nothing OF it the accu
raoy of those def ntons wonld have led suspect
1T. Websters orthography is good enough for His
defipitions-the substantial matter of dictionary
establish beyond question his imme superiority
any other of the English guage
We glad to his work being Ally adopted
by Cath Ollie schools-Cdthole Telcgrdph
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05

In spite of the wisdom and JUNCTION with
which St. Francis preached, his sermons
were of no use to thoee who listened with
hardened hearts. If we would hear preach
ers Alright, we must examine our own con-
science, and not criticise their speech.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05
POPE LEO XIII.

AGENTS WANTED TO sell splendid photo
Rraphs Of POPE Plus TX and POPE XIII. In Con-
alteration Of the bard times have put the prices as
tho GLOWING low figures seDt post paid, vE " 50 por
100. e20 1000 s75 per 5000 Parties ordering 600
viii be given exclusive agency. They sell very fGss -
10 ceBts each. One sold $50 In one day with
very little sHort. Eanpss 10 cents post paid. HAnA
frames with Rass and ring all rea1y to hang
suitable for abnve S3 per 100 be sent only
by Order and secure the nrEt chance
In your town. Mention tits paper.
Address, KENDALL & CO., % KIlby st..
APPS i'm Boston, Mas.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-03-30

The life of General Comfy. our dis
tinguished Minister to the Hawaiian
Islands, is not so devoid of variety as
one might suppose, considering that
the Hawaiian Islands are far out In the
middle of the Pacific Ocean. In one
of his letters General Comfy says: "Do
you know what it is to the Minister to
have a man. of.war visit his post? First,
the Admiral sends his staff officer to re-
port his arrival. Then they took drink.
then the Minister runs up his flag. and
sends dispatch to the Minister OF For
eigu Affairs, notifying his Majesty's Gov
ernment that the Admiral has arrived
and desires to salute the flag. Then
His Excelency replies, and sets the time
when the Admiral may shoot, and His
Majesty's big guns will be all loaded
ready to reply. gun after gun. Then the
bombardment takes place. Then the
Admiral calls on the Minister, with his
staff in all their good clothes. Then
they all drink. Then the Minister goes
aboard the man-of.war in his good
clothes and the Admiral's yawl. Then
they all drink. When he leaves the ves-
sci, after being presented arms to, and
all kinds of bother, he gets only about
thirty yards away when his ears are torn
and his head burst by the big guns Of
the vessel firing fifteen-gun salute. The
mariners have their oars peaked and
their eyes on the Minister, and he is ex-
pected to take off bis hat and grin hor.
r,bly gastly smile. az il he really en-
joyed the honor of having his head burst
In this way. Then the Admiral comes
ashore with his staff, and the Minister
takes him to call on His Majesty's Gov
srnment. We 20 first to the Minister Of
Foreign Affairs, who tells US when we
may have an audience at the palace to
present the Admiral and other officers to
His Majesty. Then we visit the other
Ministers, the Governor of Oahu, the
Justices of the Supreme Court and the
Marshal of the Kingdom. Then we take
drink. The Admiral invites the Min
lister to lunch, and they take drink "
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-03-30
WHiRLPOOLS,

1t Is amusing to see how many Mrs.
"Pfoudies there are in Washington.
And it is-not-amusing to see how
many nice little wives, and good plain,
mothers are spoiled by a taste of gayety
in our Republican capital. One mem
ber's wife, when she came here first, a
few months ago. was really homesick
for her little village. But after the cards
came in to her, and she began to realize
that she was the wife OF a member of
Congress, what airs the country mite
took on herself. Ladies whose claim 10
distinction rested upon their innate re-
tinement and intelligence, and not upon
the accidental position of their husbands,
were passed unnoticed save by the faint
est smiliugless inclination; and the grade
or rank of d lady or husband could have
been told by O looker-on, by the warmth
or GOODNESS with which the wife of the
new member Welcomed them. The
change in the toilet OF the lady was
marked. Her eye eagerly ran over the
dresses OF her acquaintance. From a
modest lady in plain black silk and
smooth brown locks she burst into the
less distinguished style of light satin and
bare shoulders. and pyrsmid.shaped
head with the surroundings thatch of
frlzzes which hides the broad, beautiful
brow and makes every woman look like
an idiot. The lady trips to her hired
cab every day and gives her orders to the
coachman with an icy. fault-fnding tone,
which she, poor soul, does not know in
dioates her newness to the luxury of q
hired team and livery. Her days are
round Of ceaseless, meaningless toady-
istn; her nights wild reves, where
neither sense nor comfort ever shows its
plain, old fashioned faces. This woman.
before her husbands election, would
have sat up with her neighbours s child
She would have made its tiny grave
clothes and pnt flowers in its dead hands.
the while her eyes were misty with
sympathy. But now she 10 spoiled for
everything. She will fly her round,
fritter away her day, drop out of life,
and not a ripple on the tide of fashion
able society will show where she has
gone down. The wheels of folly roll
round forever here. There are half
naked women crushed in the cram with
srmi.respectable people, men and wo-
men. There are champagne, and punch,
and Holsters. and flowers; ruined toilets,
lost tempers, and finally, bitter disap-
pontment and rsmorse. - Chicago
Times Correspondence.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-03-30

In the Turkish Chamber the Greek
members for Mytelene and Smyrna called
attention to the massacre of the popula-
ton of Christian village near Bourgas.
and presented official depositions stating
the facts. The village was called Statho-
pulo. During the panic caused by the
Circassians and Bashi. Bazouks the Gov
ernor of Bourgas oonfided the care of
Stathopulo to an Albanian detachment
Of regular troops. When the Albanians
were thus constituted the guardians of
the village, they demanded ransom of
TWO thousand pounds from the Greek
Inhabitants. 1t being impossible to pay,
the villagers sent messengers to the Gov
eernor OF Bourgas. When the Albanians
beard this they became furious, and
began the attack. Then commenced.
says the deputy, supporting himself by
Official documents. the suffering, or
rather the martyrdom. of the unfortunate
population. The troops pursued the in
habitants with firearms and yatagh hans,
and the terrified people took refuge in
the church The Albanans besieged
the building for three days, during
which they constantly fred upon the
occupants. Only two hundred out OF
eight hundred succeeded in escaping.
Ibe rest were cruelty massscred. The
women were dishonored. Even little
girls Of ten were not spared. The
Chamber decided that urgent measures
should be adopted.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-03-30
IT WAS ALIVE,
shenandoah Herald !


Ha was rather an uncouth looking in.
dividual, and as he sauntered into the
stors the crowd sitting on the barrels
winked at each other and mads remarks
about his person.
"Where did it come from?" asked
one, pointing at him.
Somebody left the door open and it
blew in," remarked apother.
- don't think it's alive" said a
third.
" Touch it and see," remarked a
fourth.
"Yas, it's man-see it move?"
queried the first. All hands laughed
boisterously.
I'm poor man, and don't want to
have any trouble with anybody I'm a
Christian and l don't believe in turmoil
and strife. and can't participate in it. I
pray you, worldly minded people, that
you will allow me to depart in peace, !"
said the new arrival.
One of the crowd more daring than
the r-st, hammered the mans hat down
over his eyes. aud another dabbed his
nose full of molasses from barrel stand
ing by.
Then the poor Christian took small
volume from his pocket and began read
ing the Scriptures in drawing, sing
sonl tone.
While he was engaged at this the
crowd played all sorts of tricks on him.
One put some eggs in his pocket and
another mashed them.
Then the biggest man in the house
poured some oil on his hat and lighted
it,
Then the clerk Lit him under the nose
with Goldfish.
Then the man quietly put the little
volume in his coat tail pocket. and the
CLERK went head first into the molasses
barrel. When the biggest man in the
house picked himself from under the
counter 1t was next to an impossibility
to guess where his nose left off and
where the Goldfish began. No. made
work for the glazler as he hit a ventllator
in the window. No 2 Matched out half
barrel of eggs, and No. 3 got up on the
pie shelf and stayed there. As No. a
walked out of the door on his back he
wond red how much it would cost to
make him as good as new, and the poor
Christian man remarked
1.-THE next time you folks pick me up
for slouch look out you amt 10 the
wrong pew. Good day fellers."
The clerk is waiting for them to come
round and settle for damage done. bu
they must have forgotten where th'
place is as they pass right by withou
looking in, and their bills remain unpaid