The Phoenix herald. (Phoenix, Maricopa County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1879-1882, 1882-09-08
The Black Veil.

sued by his neighbors, he blew hi
own brains out.
The Black Veil.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. A
class of fifty young ladies took The
black veil at the Convent of Notr'
Dame, in this city, to-day. The
ceremony began at eight o'clock il
the morning with a high mass, a
which Archbishoi, Heis, assisted by
the Rev. Father Abbelen, Chaplain
of the convent, officiated The Ger
emonies were held in the chapel Of
the convent. and none but relative:
the class, the sisterhood of the con
vent and priests were admitted. The
po-tulants entered in proce sion
marching two and two, wearing tho
habits of novices, which they have
worn for the past three years. Each
member of The class is 81 years old
or more. Alter mass and the sing
ing of several selections by the nun
ell, ir the postulants listened to an
impressive sermon in English by the
Rev. Prof. Isadore Boudreaux, OF
Marquette College, followed By an
address in German by the Rev. DR.
Otto Zarditli, S. J. After the ad
dresses the young ladies marched to
the alter to witness the blessing OF
the black habits which are hereaf CT
to be their costume. They then
marched by Mother Superior CaIo
line and received the h..bits, in
which they arrayed themselves
Crowns OF thorns were placed upon
their heads, and each was given a
lighted candle. all then stepped
slowly TO the altar, bowed low and
took the binding obligation of their
order. A TIC Deum was then sung
by the nun choir and the ccremo-
MES were at an end. The young Ia
dies who constitute the class are
from all parts of the United States.
The parents of many of them were
present at the ceremonies to bid
their daughters a last, long farewell.
Many of the parting scenes were
deeply affecting. The names of
those taking the black veil are not
made public, and the young ladies
who formed tie class today will
hereafter lie known TO each other
and their sureriors by the nun
names taken with lie veil.
Poor Ireland.
DUBLIN, Sept. Five hundred
special constables were sworn in to-
day. To-rig ht the mob became very
violent and were charged on by the
troops. Several persons were wound
cd. The government officers are in
charge of the troops.
LONDON, Sept. Among those
by the mob last night was
NJ. Moffat, of the Emergency Com
mittee, DIR. Goddard, of the Property
Defense Association, and Col. RIna
Harmon. The mob wrecked the
premises alongside of the runners
office belonging to the National
Bank, on Suffolk street.
Suicide.
SAN Francisco, Sept. A sea-
man named Henry Klompf commit
led suicide yesterday by blowing
up with giant powder cart
ridges.
A shreNd Scheme.
KANSAS CITY, Sept 81. D. Ross,
he ticket scalper arrested yesterday
for selling railroad tickets, was tick
1T agent of the Hannibal road last
spring. He was "fast" man, and 10
meet expenses he printed lot of
counterfeit coupon tickets on the
quincy road and sold them to scalp
,rs. He then went into business at
City and sent bogus tickets
hence to Chicago and st. Louis. 1t
s believed that he has issued, of
Cheyenne tickets alone, not less than
So, 800 worth. 1t is e>timated his to-
al output is 100000. He was re-
eased on Lail to-day, but arrested
IN additional evidence, and is now
Inder $4,000 bonds. The officials
ay the tickets were issued in the
lame of the Philadelphia and Erie
md Lake Erie and Western, to be
lsed over the st. Joseph, Atchison,
Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific
'oads. Tickets were sold to certain
points to parties going only to in
ermcdiate points, and rebates were
given by confederate scalpers at
hese intermediate points. The
ickeis were then destroyed and new
II cached the auditing office.
The true inwardness of the Ross
ticket fraud is disclosed by j. D.
Arniz, General Agent of the Santa
Re road, who returned to-day from
bringing 900 bogus tick
ITS, representing an average of S25
Zach. The tickets were printed by
". H. Folsom, a printer at Quincy,
H., employed by Ross The printing
began over three months ago, while
Ross was located at Hanniba l. Two
nontho ago he removed to this city,
md last Wednesday S. K.
Hooper, General Pa senger Agent
If the st. Joe road, getting an
mixing, visited Folsom and adroitly
worked the secret from him and Sc
cured 900 tickets which had been
'rinted in compliance with IN or