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

hiniry, 3. y. preached o beauti ful sermon, ap
propriate to the day. It was elegant in Ian
guage and chas.e in delivery.
Farmers Mase was sung by the choir in .
manner which could admit of no adverse oriti
oism. The soloist was Miss Nina Jones, youne
lady Of great musical culture, and one possess
ing voice of excellent timbre and great sweet
ness. Her rendition of the Ave verum was eli
that could be desired.
Superintendent Rogers report shows that
26. .094 students were registered in the public
schools of this city during the past year, and
that the average attendance for several conse-
outive months was q. .495. The school accom-.
modatons in the more populous parts of the
city have been insufficient for these large
numbers. The lower departments in nearly
all the large schools have been overcrowded {;
many have been refused admission. It's q
good thing that we generous Catholics educate
| some seven or eight thousand children in our
parochial schools, at our own expense for if
the public school funds are 80 limited tn at the
Directors can't afford accommod ations for 21,-
20 children, and can't pay the present corps
of teachers their salaries all the year round
how could they manage to fod room for %,
ooO or $4,000 children and money to pay the
Howl
The elections for Presidents of Democratic
Ward Clnbs Saturday, Jane 29sh, were com.
paratively peaceful. OF course there were q
few knock-downs and the station houses in the
several precincts were hopored with few
more transient dodgers than usual, but there
were no ssrioas rows. Probably the heavy
showers of rain that fell during the day, while
they prevented many of the "Silk.stockings"
from going TO the polls, had u tendency also to
cool the ardor of the "Short!hairs" The cleo
tions resulted in the choice CT the following
gentlemen for the Presidency of the more i'm.
portant wards: =
First Ward-PI Mea,Iey.
Second Ward-Coute sled between j. Barry
and j. Doyle.
Third Ward-Jo ohn Fitzpatrick.
Fourth Ward-John Connolly.
Fifth Ward Contested between Messrs
Rivet and Arnault.
Sixth Wsrd--A L. Tissot.
Seventh Wsrd-O. Ds Bouohel, |
Eighth Ward-J. Baker.
Ninth Ward-F. Dudenhefer
Tenth Waid-M. J. Sheehan.
Eleventh Ward-Wm. Merkel.
The daily papers and many politicians see in |
the result the complete defect of the present |
City administration and the Civil Sheriff |
The Times says that seventeen deputy sheriffs |
were defeated and that the City Hall is |
"busted."
little baby was found by Patrolman |
Knecht, on the steps of . house on Josephine |
street, between St. Charles and Carondelet, |
last Sunday night about half past eight o'clock. |
The officer first took the baby to the 9Th Pre-. |
cinct Station, bat seeing that 1t needed imme- |
diate attention carried it to his home, No. 80 |
Ninth street. His wifs, fortunately, was in O |
condition to give it what it needed most,
nourishment from the breast. Though Mr..
Knecht has a large family of his own, like all
truly charitable people he has an idea that
where there is enough for eight ther certainly
must be enough for nine go, as n % one called
for the baby, he and his wife determined to
adopt it, They had it baptized in st. Alphon-
sus Church, calling it John Henry, as req nest
ed in the following note found in the basket
with the child:
please call my baby John Henry and deal
with him gently is all l ask in the name of the
Blessed MotherD
Since then Mrs. Hill, siding at 474 Ram
part, who, 80 far as we can see, shows no claim
% the infant other than that she wishes to |
adopt it, has secured an order from Mayor
oisbury to Chief Boylan, directing him to
lave the child delivered to her. Oa this point
he Picayune says:
The offoer, who is the father ofseveral child.
en-, insisting upon keeping the infant and
aising it in his faith, while more prosperous l
amily of different creed offered to take I
harge of the abandoned offspring. The Mayor ,
rdered the Chief TO cause the officer to sur
ender the baby to the latter family. The
question is, do the principles of the Mayor {
each this extent7
That is the question. The mother of the \
hild must be Catholic, for if she were not +
he would never have invoked the name of the I
Blessed Mother. Has the Mayor the right to n
i've the child to q non Catholic family simply I;
ecause they are richer than the Catholic a
smily who have adopted it, and who have 7
rior claim to It'll T.
At last Tuesday's meeting of the City Coun-
IL, the Administrator of Public Accounts pre-
ented his semi-annual report. From one