The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-07-28

MOTOR E A. BurFe will be prominent Cal
didate before the Baton Rouge Convention fc
State Treasurer.
The Social Labor or Communist Party !
this city numbers four clubs with total men
bership of about 300.
Two negro women were last week oaugh
stealing the ornaments on several tombs i
Greenwood cemetery.
G. a. sauvinet, who WAS sheriff during th
Radical administration OF 1872, committe
suicide Hast Tuesday BY shooting himself.
A public bath house has been erected in tn
river at the foot of jackson street. The swim
ming basin 10 90 by 80 feet and ten feet deep
The new Parish Committee was organized
permanently last Monday night by the election
of the following officers Ben Onorato, Presi
dent; K scratohley, Vice President F. g
Freret, Treasurer; A. J. Kelly, Secretary and j
J.. Flynn, Assistant Secretary.
The Times thinks that the streets should b,
cleaned by the prisoners committed to tn,
Parish Prison, the Legislature at its last ses
sion having passed an act with that object il
view. It says that the city now suppo1t t.
these prisoners in absolute idleness and that
any work they might be compelled to dc
would be just 60 much clear gain to the com
munity. The Times estimates that at least 300
prisoners are now available for the work.
The City Surveyor has recently made a sur
vey of the new canal which is to connect the
Mississippi River with Barrataria Bay and
Grand Isle. The location of the canal will be
about fifty miles below the city, and about ten
miles of dredging of a small canal already dug
viii be necessary to reach the deep water
bayous. The establish ment of this canal will,
it is said, shorten the trip to Grand Isle to
about five hours instead ef twelve, the time
now occupied to reach the watering place,
and the trip will bs made directly from the
steamboat landing, without change of any
, kind.
The committee in charge of the matter have
+ decided that the Great Southern Commercial
Convention shall meet in this city on Tuesday,
December 3rd. They have also decided to in
Z vite the attendance of delegations % follows
Ten delegates from each State to be appoint
4 ed by it's governor five delegates from each
city or town interested to be appointed by it's
mayor; one delegate additional for each
B II, 900 of population in excess of 50. 600; FIVE
3 delegates fro m the various cotton exchanges,
chambers Of commerce, boards of trade, and
certain agricultural bodies; one delegate addi-
tional for each fifty members in excess of one
hundred,
4 During the Forty Hours Alteration, at the
Church ofthe Immaculate Conception, prepara-
tory to the Feast of st. Ignatius of Loyola,
founder of the Society of Jesus, the exercises
will be as follows:
On Monday, 29th July, High Mass at O'Clock
o. M, and English sermon at = O'Clock p. m.
On Tuesday, 30th July, High Mass at O'Clock
a. m, and French sermon at o'clock p. m. On
both days the Blessed Sacrament will be ex.
posed to the alteration of the faithful. On
Wednesday, 31st July, Feast of st. Iguatius,
High Mass at o'clock q. m. Panegyric of the
Saint by the Rev. Father Lamy, CSS.R, at 7
o'clock p. m, followed by solemn Benediction
of the Blessed Sacrament.
The Crescent City Ice Company, which
monopolizes the ice business here, last Thurs
dayg raised its price to $50 ton. OF course this
esused considerable excitement t. irritation and
Suffering in the community, for ice has long
Deased to be luxury with all classes of people,
and is considered by some as more n necessary in
summer than bread even. We see but one reme-
dy for the evil, and that is that some of our en-
terprisiDg fellow citizens, who can control lit
he Oash, should go into the business at once.
0hAey would thus att ain the double object of
. Sking money and forcing the c. C. 1. Co. t.
ao3me down in its prices. This would be per-
manent cure, e,ipreventiDg recurrence of such
faminesr as we've had during the past week
Meanwhile the Mayor and certain re tail deal
era have made such arrangements as will en-
sare large supply of ice in day or two, and
the reduction of prices to about one cent q
pound at retail.
SOCIETY ST. VINcENT DE PAUL-The Cen
eral Communion of the members of this Society
book place last Sunday morning in St. Joseph's
Church. The attendance was good. Very
Rev. T. j. Smith, C.M briefly addressed the
congre CATION, congratulating them and the
Vincentians upon the large number who ap-