The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

THERE is at last a slight prospect that the
credi tors of Archbishop Purcell will be paid.
At conference of the bishops and clergy who
attended the funeral of the late Archbishop 1t
was decided to appeal to the Pope to grant a
universal jubilee, and have the proceeds of the
donations of the Catholic world go to the credit
ors of the dead Archbishop As the entire debt
amounts TO nearly 81, ,0Oo, 900, the creditors are
very numerous, SO that the announcement will
bring joy to many firesldes. Bishop Elder and
several other bishops have given their approval
to the project, and soon as it will be indorsed
by Cardinal McClbskey the archbishops and
bishops of the country, a majority of them, it
will be formally presented to the Pope for ac-
ton AS his Holiness feels deeply grieved at
the financial condition OF the Cincinnati diocese
it is presumed he will grant the request. The
matter has been kept very quiet, it helng desira-
BILE that the first iDtmation should come.
from Rome. Four hundred years ago jubilee
was proclaimed for the purpose of securing
funds to complete the Church of st. Peter, the
Pope granting indulgeaces TO contributors. This
led TO the revolt Of Martin Luther and the Refor-
nation. A Roman Catholic jubilee might to
some extent be compared to a protestant revi-
val, only more extensive, for when the jubilee is
proclaimed by the Pope it Is announced from
every Catholic altar in the world within linn
tied PERIOD usually year, so that all the Cath
olio world participate in the jubilee within the
prescribed period. The programme generally
laid down is that each church has a stated time,
say a month. for performing the necessary re-
ligious duties to gain The indulgences of the ju-
bilee, which consist OF attending sermons, visit
ing several churches, praying for the intentions
of the jubilee, going to confesston partaking of
communion, and giving a donation of money,
generally called aims. From the latter contri-
buttons it is expected sufficient will be raised to
pay off the debts of the late Archbishop, as the
diocese has repudiated them. There will be no
more clerical banking in the Catholic church,
the Pope having forbidden it.
GENERAL CHARLES P. STONE, chief engineer of
the Florida Ship Canal Company, has completed
his survey of the territory through which 1t is
proposed TO build the canal, and makes a favora-
BILE report. In an Interview in a Florida paper
he says that the work, while it must of necessity
be costly, presents no great difficulties in the
way of engineering. Whether not the neces-
sary funds will be raised for the enterprise Gen.
eral Stone is unable to state. but is unqualified
in his recommendation of the project. He says:
"The canal would save from three to seven
days time for all steamers and sailing vessels
going into and out of the Gulf OF Mexico That
fact alone is more significant than you are prob
ably aware of. The salary and running expense
account of the large ocean steamers averages $5,-
900 month. Three days of this is $500. Che
cost of coal is from $500 to $400 a day. There,
you see, Is some Sl,ooo OF expense saved IN the
mere matter of time. But the navigation through
the Florida straits is the most dangerous
known, ana the annual losses from wreckage
are enormous. On this account the canal would
save from to 1 q per cent. on Insurance.: in it,
self sufficient to pay handsome revenue the
canal. Then the increased safety and the lower
makes use of the gulf. Within very short time
after the completion OF the canal you will find
that very large proportion of the grain and
cotton of the West and Northwest, that now
goes East by rail, would come down tine Missis-
sippi and through the canal and the absurdity
of driving cattle from Texas away up to Kansas
and Arkansas TO be thence shipped by rail to
Eastern markets would also cease. There is no
enterprise now contemplated or in progress that
would confer greater benefits upon the COM
merce of the world than the Florida ship canal,
or that could depend upon larger business"
THE journal is at last able to give to It's read
the gratifying intelligence that Mrs Langtry
has actually sailed for home, and possibly to her
husband. That she has acted very imprudently
must be admitted even by her friends. Instead
of rejoining her husband and relatives at the
end of her season in America, she devoted sew
eral weeks to the watering places, conduct
ing herself in i,nythng rather than a decorous
manner. Before coming here she was re-
garded by the public as beauti-
full but sensible woman, possessed OF
wifely instincts, and in no degree desirous of
unpleasant noJoriety. At the present time she
is only too anxious to keep prominently before
the public, even at the expense of her good
name, and talks as glibly as the veriest amateur.
She sailed on Tuesday, and according to
an abominable custom. was interviewed just be-
fore sailing. While the reporter was talking to