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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-06-07

The sentiment of the people in the
North and in the West is rapidly
changing concerning many questions
IN the South. These questions are
peculiar to southern people, and the
North ard West have about made up
their minds to let the South work out
her own problems without interference.
And when this is done, it will>be done
well tor the Southern people are in
the front rank of all the march OF
progress, and that is enough to vcuch-
safe their ability to settle some other
matters upon which depends much of
*he future good of this region.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-06-07

might suggest that some people we,e
oyermuch given to sitting the trash
pile for stray nickeis.
Now, if this reformation is needed,
let none of YOU who are men whine
IF into a corner and say 1t can't le
Zone.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-06-07

The past few days have been a sea
son OF commandments Of the various
schools in the State. On almost ev-
cry train Oh the main lines Of railroads
there have been crowds of persons
sither going to Or from a commence
tnent. 1t is gratifying to those who
are interested IN educational matters
to see the concern Of so many Of the
best people OF the State for the schools,
b,th ruo'c and private. 1t looks
like there is soon to be revival in
educational work, and that North Car
DINA Will be wider awake than ever 10
the Importance of properly educating
the boys and girls.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1900-03-06

8artlp 8eF am %. Jsbruar bon uns
ieren Sruppen beiebt ipurbe. Die
lopalen ginipobner lesten grobe 8esei-
iterltng an ben Gag. Oas 2anb tpeitz
lid bon Der Giienbabn BON &apitabt
Biz 8imberlep tommt almGbli9 aur
Rube. Cine Mbtbeilung lit bon 9e
9lar na9 8ritstoipn aufsebro9en, unb
Douglas uno prtesta tpsrben in Sur
gem bon unieren Sruppen aufseiu9t
iparban.
Metbuen's S9ilberuns bon Der bes
neutrality-suspicious. Weiie, in peIs
der oas Soipital in kimberley aeleitet
ptrb. ruff ben Duni6 in einem berpor,
etli1e ,inierer 9erpunbeten unbRranz
fen bortbin au ididen.
golenio, Natal, "a. 'sse6r.
Die 8uren, bic 8sritGrtuna erhalz
ten batten, ipiberiebten. ii9 am Dpnz
nerstag BEL @rpbler's aloof unb auf
elmer na9 Often laufenben 6iiselfette.
Sic lparen Ron alien ibren StellungeK
am re4ten Gliisel bertrieben iporben.
Sen. 2pttleton's Oipiiion riidte am
Oonnerstas unter Deduns Der 2cpies
por. Die 8uren i9oifen Elm grsuiotz
8ei6ob uno eiuen n2ons Som" ab.
9ie britii4e Mrtillsrie bate am 5a=
sesanbruh, als Der Gampf besaun, Biz
ipGt am Na9mittds, ais auf beiben
Seiten Elm bsftises @elpebrfeuer itattz
fanb, cine quite 0eduns. Ote britif9e
Snfanterie lit um II Meilen porseridt
unb Bis nab Ountelperben tpuroe elm
beftisss 5euer unterbalten. Die 9u>
rem bebaupteten ibre Stelunssn. Sas
5euer Der britii6en Qrtilleris tpar uns
bsitimmt; es tpuroen mebrere Sdlp.n
in bas bi4te 9sbOl5 seianbt, aus pels
9em bas Ssuer Der 8uren am beftigs
item mar.
Die 8uren i4leuesrten 8cmben in
bas 8epddz zSauptquartier. in bsrNGbe
bes $ooipituls, oc9 ipurbe tein peIents
li6er Shaoen aneeri6tet. Sen.
Mpnne puroe lei6t bsripunbet.
Die Stellunsen Der 8uren perben
ni6t als fart anseieben. nit Musnab=
me BON 9ropbler's Glopf. Die 0itli9
eelesenen 9iisel iinb niGt 10 bob unb
tDnnen ni9t 10 gut psridanst psroen,
ipie bic bon ben 8riten senommenen
Siisel.
Die .SomerIets1 iparen bi, GrIten,
ipel9e am Mittpo6 bic Yontons Bride
iiberitbritten. sic iparen fiinf Stun.
bsn lang einem beftisen Syeuer aussez
Iebt. Gs mar baS erfte Mal. baB lie
i'm 8efedt tpuren, uno iie bisltsn iicb
portrsfflid).
Mm Jrsitag friib ipurbs auf benz
re6ten ssliisel unb in Der Sront bon
ben ipdbreno Der Na9t bebaupteten
StelIuRsen lebba5tes s5euer unterbols
ten. Die britii9.n Marinea@,Idiibe
Saubiben. Berg unb Jslbs8atterien
sombdrbirieH ute SganSgraben Ser
8uren unaufb0rli6. Die Nuren ers
mioertsn nit Stpei I9ipsrsn @sIbiiben,
beren 9ei4oife gum Sbeil obsrbalb bes
6oipitals szplpbirtsn. an dolas BEL.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1900-03-06
Selegrapbii6e 9epei6en.
S1IeaD.
Nor6 nnb GelbitmnrS als Wefolse
Der lln3ud)t.
9rod. Nebr. 26, ssebr.

8rod, Nebr., 26. Sebr.
Milfon Watelin, elm angeIebener, ;
Weilen nDrbli9 bon bier ipobnbaftel
Sarmer. ermorpets leBte Nadt iein,
6rau, inbenl er ibr nit etnem Haiir;
meKer ben gals burdfbnitt. Nad
@eriibuns Der 8lutt6at sing er mad
benz Griebbofe unb bradte ii9 baielbT
auf benz @rabe leiner erien Jrau aipei
10 srGBlibe S9nitte am 9alie bsi, bat
Ct borniiber binitiirate unb fi9 gu 5pbl
blutete. 5rau Watelin bate Dor meb=
reren Sabren bas Mmt elmer prGibsn=
tin Der Union Der gbriitliden Sempe=
ren3lerinnen spon Nebrasta befleibet
sgamilienaniittsteiten tparen bic rria-
DE ber i9redliden SrasSbie. Dateliu
bate NIT einem Grauen5immer. bic E,
in fein 9aus senonlmen bate, Elm 2ies
besperbGltnib unterbalten.
NuBer ben sipei S9nitten i'm Gals,
bic er fi9 beibra4te. bat iidb iibrisena
Wafelin nod eine Rusel in bic 8ruil
sef9ofen. Der ReDolper unb bas Ra>
iirmeEer tpurben Bel Der 2eide aefunz
ben. SSrau Watelin bate Mnitalteu
setroffen, ibren Wann gu perlafen. sSn
sinem tpeiteren 3ettel. ben Watelin gu.
riidselaien, iaste er, er ipole sgrau
gorbell. cine Greunbin ieiner sSrau
t0bten, neil bieIelbe ibr ner1proden
babe. ibr au bslfsn. nm bon ibrem
Mdnne lossutommen.
Gan3e 1amilis pnm 3use sstGbtet.
Buffalo, 81. g., 25. Gebruar.
Cine Spe3ialbepei9e aus @enspa
beiast: Nm Samstas turS na9 Mit=
ternabt iiberfubr Der ,Mibnisbt Grz
preB" Der 2ebisb @alleps8abn bel
2uttler's Rreu5uns. etipa 25 Meilen
Oitli9 BON &o4siter. eine 2utI9e nit
iieben perionen, bon benen fiinf ios
fort set0btet unb bic iibrisen itlimm
perlebt ipurben. gllIe tpdren Mitslies
Der Der Samilie Smith.
Die Gamilie bate ben Mbenb in benz
9auie zines 8etannten In Der NGbe Der
Suttle Corners groi5ins ausebra1t
unb mar tur5 por Mitterna4t aufse=
bro4en. Die 4uti6e, in ipelder lie
fubr, mar elm breiiibises Jubripert.
porter Smith unb fein Sobn Garbner
nabmen ben 8orberiib Elm. g9e lie an
bie Rreuauns famen. belt bic &uti9e
an unb 81 Smith bor9te. Of Elm 3ug
in Der NGbe lei. Wesen bes beftisen
Sturmes tonnte er iebo9 ni1ts bDren.
Die pferbe batten eben bas Geleile ses
treuat. dls bie Qotomotipe bes GrpreBz
auses 9egen bas Gubripsrt itieb. Garbz
ner Smith. Der am ipenigiten perlebt
ipurbe, 5&leppte f4 mad elmer bena&z
barteu @tctiax unh hnlta Aitfe krhei.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1900-03-06
MisSIanD.
6 ii b = Mfrtra
Bonn GrieSsi i@auplnbe.
paarbeberg OraniesJrsiz

uuI OtUcl g, SldHIe>SrelS
,itaat. %. 5ebr.
General gronie's Gage lit boffz
nunssloier als ie. unfere aanpnen
beberriden bic abf9iiiiisen 9lnb0ben
auf allen Seiten uno bur9 benSturm=
lauf Der Sbropibires bas Slubbett
binauf in Der Na9t pom Mittipu9 pers
loren bic 8uren 200 Darbs bon ibrer
Sedung.
4usreiBer fasen, bas britii6esseuer
lei fur9tbar t0btli1 setpefsn uno &C.
neral gronie lei pilIens. iicb gu ersez
ben, d6er bic iunsen 8ursn aus benz
SransDaal pollten bon elmer uebsrz
sabe ni4ts ipiEen.
8ei ben 8urenz9ruppen befinben
fi4 Jrauen unb &inber. General Hos
berts i6lus por. iie absiebsn au lai=
len, aber bieisr 8oridlas, fotpie bas
Mnerbieten Gratli4er 6iilfe puroen
auriidsepieien.
2onbon, 25. Gebr.
3 ll6r 55 Min. Nd9mitta9s.
Dds Rriessamt bat folssnbe Oepe.
l9e bon 2orb Roberts ber0ffentlibt:
paarbebers. "a. Jebr., 12 llbr 90
Minuten Na4mittags. 2lbtbeilungen
bon 8uren, bic tiir3li4 aus Ratal eins
trdfen, sriffen geitern pieber unIere
8orpoiten in siemli9er StGrte an. Sic
perloren aiewlib biel Sopte unb 8er=
ipnnbete unb beinabe bunoert @efau=
gene, barunter einen Gommanbant unD
brei Gelbcornets. Infer 0erluit mar
bier Sffisiere peripunbet, 8 Mann sez
tObtet. % Mann bertpunoet, aipei pers
mi6t.
Mm 21. unb %. ipurben 1 Offi5ier
unb 13 Wfann pertpunbet.
Gefte-n ipurben feds Mann bur1
rboblnaiise" Mauierfuaeln perlpunbet.
Die Nidelbiilie pirb pierfaG ssidliBt.
tpobur4 bas GeidoB pie mDsli1fe
@usbebnung uno Grploiirtraft erbdlt.
Gin geitern in unier 9ofpitul sebra9s
ter Bur bate feGsais bieier auseln
in ieinen Safden.
Set Dem Vormdrl9 duf Kimberley
unb BET &imberlep ielbit mar unier
Werluit folgenber: Offiaiere, 2 tobt.
13 perpunbet. Mann, 4 sttDbtet, 7S
pertpunbet.
Stertfroom. 25, 5ebr.
Sen. @atacre bat semelbet, bob sss
tern BEL S6oeman'S Farm GapitGn
Wontmorencp, Gommanbeur BON
Montmorencp's Runbi4aftern uup
Sberits2eutnant s. 8. Sostier bonn 3.
Mibbleier Greiwtllisen 9lrtia.ris>Hes
giment sefallen iinb.
3onbon, 25. 5sbr.
3 llbr 55 Win. Nahmittass.
2orb Roberts bat foisenpe tpsiiere
Ha4,i4t on baR 2riessamt seihidt:
pdarheberg, Samstas Na9mittag.
-. HGhrnnx. m2ethuan hsrimtet. bah
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1900-03-06
g d IN eta.
Sent. %. srebr

@ent, %. Gebr.
Der MSrber Der Raiierin Glifabetb
bon Oeiterrei&. 2uc4eni, bat ben 0ers
tu@ gema&t, ben StrafanFaltsbirets
tor perrin NIT einem Mert3eug. bas
sum Seffnen bon gonierben benubt
ipiro unb bds er Dorber f@arf seidlifs
Ten bate, 3u ermorbem perrin bate
Nue@tnt atpei Mal porgelaHen. neil
bsrielbe beri&iebtne Hei@nerben erbes
ben ipoutt. 4ei ber apeiten 0orfiibs
rung iprang 2uc9eni NIT benz Nnfrus
ment auf perrin los. tpurbe aber bon
oieiem 3uriidgekoben unb BON ben 6ers
bstet!euosn Wufteteru ubespaltiot.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1900-03-06

l q
brd9ten.
Sur Wiirbe einesGrsbii9ofes tpurbe
Der 0eritorbene am II. September
1893 erboben unb bic @elesenbeit mar
llria9e elmer neuen, beseiiterten auub>
sebuns Der 2iebe unb Mdtuns in tpel@,
der Der peritorbene prdlat Bel pries
ftern unb Bolt Fanb. i
Die gefunbbeit grabiidof Sennei>
fp's tpurbe suert bur9 einsn S9lag>
anfan am 90. Mdrs 1899 erfdittert.
Cine grbOlunssrsiie nad europa
tonnte bic Derberbli9en Golsen bes
Gnfalles nur ausidieben. Gin 5tpeiter
9lnfalI foIste am DOnnsrstas ben Is.
Jebruar 1900 unb Der Sob trat am
Sonntas. ben 4. Wadra Nadmittass
I'm 2:4O elm. grabii4of Rpan bon
pbilabelpbia, Der betannte S9ulses
noffe grsbii4Of Sennefeb's mar
Sonntas Morsen einsetroffen uno
bate ben Rranten beiu9t. Derielbs
iolI beim Sobesbette seipeint unb sez
Sast baben: uGr35ifdof SenneFsp, es
1T Sein alter Jreunb grSbif9of Rban
bon pbilabelpbia. Der Did beiu4sn
tam. Du biit iebt In ben 6Gnben bes
Mumd@ti wOties. benz Du eir 10
treuer unb pertbpoller Diener setpefen
purit.1 Der Sterbenbe foa i'm barz
dufbin ertannt baben.
Dieies mar Sonntas Morsen uno
Der Sob trat Nadmittass elm. Sn ben
lebten Susen batten 2dbmunsen ii9
einseiteut unb felt Jreitas mar Misr.
9enneifp fait beitdnbis beipuBtlos.
Seine 3unse unb Der gals iparen ses
Idbmt. Nm Sobesbette betete Misr.
Npan bic Sterbesebete por unb es ipae
rem nod susesen Dr. Slatterp. Misr.
Rban, Rep. Soomep, Donlon unb
Gonrob, Mi4ael 9enneFp, SRI. 6.
9enneiip. bic Grls. M. unb 6. Gbse>
bp. Ottilia unb Mlopiia, Mutter Siaz
bella unb Jrau Dailp.
so iturb Grsbifaof Sennsffp, Elm
grsbiidof. beKen tirdli9er @inn ii9
beionbers in ieiner 2iebe fir bic to-
tbolifhe G9ule betunbete unb Der ME
ii@ bur9 Snterpieus unb Reporterss
seidmds cine 8l0bs CAB unb als Elm
boraiisli@er Ranaelrebner einen gfuf
i'm sanaen 9anbe bate.
Die Glode Der Ratbebraltir9e pers
tiinbiste ben Sob bes Oberbirten benz
@olte unb in ben Rir@en tpurbe iiber
Sonntas fir bic @eeleHrube bes Wers
itorbenen gebetet.
Die 8eerbisuns pirb anse6li9 am
nd4iten Donnerstas ftattfinben unb
5ipar no@bem bic 2ei4e mebrere Sage
lang ben Gldubisen aur 9eii&tisuns
ausseitelt norben 1T. Die 8siiebuns
lou entneber unter benz Mltare Der Ra.
tbebrale neben ben 8i190fen Smpt6
nnb 2oras itattftnben. 8ei Der
Geihenfeier, tpel9e natiirli9 einen
groben Gonturfus Der betannteiten
tirdli&en Wirbentrdser bes 2anbes |
peruria&en uirb. foG ansebli9 Mfsr. |
Geeban. Gr5bif9of bon Chicago pontis
fi3iren unb Grabii4of Hban bic panes
sprit balten. Die Suffrasan gii&Sfe |
Geannel bon Omaha, 2inheban bon
ghepeAne. gossrope bon Davenport,
9onaeum bon 2incoln iperben natiirz
li9 antpefenb fein.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1900-03-06
9retle ner A1t,stern.

9retre ner A1t,etnen.
Sober Sol BET Spats per Sabr $500
" 8 Wpuate 800
" q" 3 Wpnate 600
9ocaIs9 9ott3en:
Sir iebe Ssile grepier obsr bereu Rauul, bas
erfte Wal Is Gsuts.
9eiratbs' naa 1Obesan,eisen nit Spru1.
$50; obue Sprad sl.OO
an3egen. bic benz Setile Der fotboliibeu Ssirte
supiber finb, finoeu feline aunabme.
Gn3ei8ett ienoe man it6tes
ftens a'n Dso"tas Mors
gen etn.
Sob'slrbeiten allsr Art prompt uub billtg
ausgefiibrt.
Sffee: Ode Der 6. uno Soua=straBs.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1900-03-06

3 llbr 55 min. Nachmittass.
2orb Roberts bat foisenpe ipeiiere
Ha4,i4t on baR &riessamt seI6idt:
A3aarbebers. @umstds Na9mittas.
-. HGhrnnx. M}ethuan herimtet. baB
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-18

Philadelphia where the stone that covers
him may yet be traced. Such are human
hopes, doomed so frequent to dust ana
ashes"
After this melancholy episode it be-
came necessary, of course, TO appoint an
other priest for the vacancy, ana the
Pope's choice was made again from the
ranks of Philadelphias clergy in the per-
son of Very Rev Francis Xavier Garland,
d. D., pastor of ST. Johns Church. ana
vicar general of that diocese, who was con
secrated Bishop of Savannah at his pa
rochial temple, Thirteenth street near
Chestnut on Nov. 10, 1880.
native of Philadelphia who had
already gained ripe experience IN
the ministry Bishop Garland,
brought hither all those STERLING
qualities of mind and heart that make
successful missionary. The Pope hau lols
been conversant with his worth; for ne
acted as theolosian several times at the
Councils of Baltimore and inquired espe
orally at the sixth provincial couhcll Oh
May, 1919 which separated Georgia from
The See of Charleston, to which II belohs-
ed from 1920. AS matter OF fact' th7
Catholics of Georgia scattered over Ndss
territory, for the most part destitute VI
churches chapels and schools, were class
flied as members of the diocese Of South
Carolina from 1920, when Bishop Johh
England a native of Ireland, became llrsl
prelate of Charleston, until 1850, wneh
Bishop Francis Garland, was installed at
Savannah as it's earliest suffragan II
may be added, that both these sees, To-
gether with Richmond, Va, Wheeling
w. Va, Wilmington NC, st. Augustine
Fla and Wilmington, Del, yet belong to
the Archiepiscopal Province of Baltimore,
which once covered the whole country
While tracing the expansion of Savan-
nah as a see, it may be well to observe
that in the providence Of God, every
Bishop OF Georgia except the two last,
lad but brief incumbency; thus, during
the half century of its existence, half
dozen prelates have been called TO rule the
diocese; the majority Of whom vanished
from earthly scenes just when the SEED
they watered with their sweat was com
mencing to fructify. The first beloved
chieftain, Bishop Garland, died from the
malignant scourge of yellow fever
Sept 90 1854, after snort
administration replete with deeds of
love and mercy, and by one of
those strange condolences in life which
at times evoke comment, a retired Bish-
op Of Europe, who had come TO Georgia
IS a missionary priest FOR the sake OF
a ding its incumbent to spread the Sospel,
ut Rev. Edward Barron, d. d. died
from the same disease al the same period,
and both were buried at Savannah beside
each other. Accordingly, the diocese was
vacant again less than five years after
he mitre had been placed on Bishop Cart
lands brow.
Very Rev. John Barry. vicar general of
savannah, became administrator after
Bishop Gartland's death. and was ap-
pointed successor to the deceased prelate
In 1857. DR.. Barry was then nearly CD
years old, but. he yielded 10 the PoRes
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-18
CUSTAvE ECKSTEIN & co,

of the Standard Oil Company, and man
agement through men prominently con
nected with the Standard Oil Company.
had been definitely proved. The volume
of testimony is too great for presentation
in a letter of this sort, nor indeed Is 1t
completed nor any considerable portion
of it published. But i think there Is one
interesting phase of the matter which 1t
is fair to call attention to. The Governor,
Frank Steurenburg, was elected as
Democrat The state auditor Bartlett Sin
clair. was elected as a silver Republican.
The Democrats and silver republicans In
the nation are fuslng on national lines
and equally so in many states on state
tickets. Yet the men who are conducting
the investigation. which is practically a
prosecution of these officials. Congress-
man Sulzer of New York. and Congress-
man Lentz Of Ohio. are Bryan Democrats
of the most extreme type Imaginable ana
each one a receptive candidate for the
vice presidency. The Idaho Democrats
who were guilty of undemocratic and des-
potic methods, are defended only by meni-
hers of the Republican party, just as Sen
ator Clark OF Montana, protesting himself
a Democrat, finds his chief supporters
among the Republicans; and ex-Congress-
man Bynum, chairman of the so-called
rold Democratic party, was able to get
The signatures of only the Republican
members of the Senate Committee on
Finance to the report declaring him
Democratic appointee In the sense or the
statute providing for appraisers or the
port Of New York 1t would appear that
the parties are getting mixed up.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-18

had brought him prominently forward to
Bishop Fersico's attention, Savannah's
late Cathedral stood uneXcelled amid the
churches of the South, as it will yet stand
uneXcelled among them, after its restora-
ton is complete and this temple rises, like
a Phoenix, from its ashes. Bishop Per
sico was it's founder; but his successor
Bishop Gross, finished it's massive proper
lions and dedicated it to God-an event
indelibly written upon the annals of the
see.
Desiring to return once more to the
scenes of his childhood and spend his de-
Ginning years in Italy, Bishop Persico re-
signed his diocese in 1872, and was sue
ceeded by Rev. William Henry Gross, c.
IS. r., a member of the Redemptorist
Order. then stationed at Boston, Mass
but by birth a Baltimorean. On April a.
1873, this celebrated churchman was con-
secrated at the Cathedral of Baltimore
and it is a noteworthy fact that one of
his assistant Consecrators" was the late
Bishop Becker, then the incumbent of
Wilmington, Del, who was transferred to
Savannah thirteen years afterward. With
a single exception, it was the only eps-
copaI conservation at which Archbishop
Bayley of Baltimore presided dur
ing his brief incumbency from ~
to IT. and the event derives
still greater interest from the circum-
stance that the present Cardinal Gibbons,
then Bishop of Richmond, Va, acted with
Bishop Becker as an assistant consecrator.
He succeeded Archbishop Bayley as head
of this province after the latter's death,
oct 8. 1877.
For thirteen years. Bishop Gross name
was a household word among the Catholics
of Georgia as their beloved prelate; during
which he moved time and again among
them; opening churches schools and insti-
tutions at Savannah, Atlanta. Augusta
and various other points, besides preach
ing on numerous occasions at missions,
confirmation services and similar festivi-
ties His merits as a self-sacrihcing pas
TOR gained recognition at Rome and when
tbe Metropolitan See of Portland, Ore,
became vacant in 1885, PoDe Leo XIII ap-
poluted him its archbishop. As such ne
died two years ago, while visiting Balu
more his native city; where he sleeps
among his religious brethren. His imme-
diate predecessor, Perslco, had dled at
Rome as a cardinal in 1895.
The fame of the prelate. whom Rome de-
clared Bishop Gross successor, March 20,
1886, had long been known TO the priests of
Georgia as well as 10 many
of the Catholic laity The Bishop
OF Delaware from 1868 until 1886,
Right Rev Thomas A. Becker deserv-
edly took rank apong the greatest mem
hers of the American hierarchy ma
five of Pittsburg Pa. born in 1893, and
formerly a Presbyterian, he had embrace
ed the doctrines of Catholicity in early life
during n visit to Rome where he after
ward entered the Propaganda College as.
a sacerdotal student. Ordained priest In
its shadow. he returned home in 1858. and
thence until his appointment to govern the
See of Wilmington ten years later. he La
bored in the ministry al WINCHESTER. va
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request that he accept the burden Of tho
Episcopate and was consecrated second
Disilop OF savannah at the Cathedral of
balt more on Aug. p 1851 He died on Nov
a. 1919 TWO years after his installation.
ana was succeeded by Rt Rev. Augustine
erot. D. D., who had been consecra ted
IA baltimore April %, 1853. as first Vicar
AposSollc or Florida, which jurisdiction
ne also supervised conformity with the
savannah See for some time after his an
Pohlment' and finally, at his own re-
quest, returned to Florida, as its actual
Incumbent on March H. 1870. where he
uIeu suddenly at ST. Augustine June TO-
800 his eminent prelate was a French
man short, stout and unpublished" as he
USED to style himself facetiously though,
IN reality, few theologians of the land
could compete with him in point of erudi
'loh, and he was withal a man of genial
personality Before gaining his mitre, he
had been a college professor in Howard
county, Maryland, and also an active mis-
slonary priest in the Archdiocese of Bal
tlmore After his voluntary transferal
PACK to Florida, Rt Rev Ignatius Persi-
co. D. D., of Edgefield S. c., diocese of
Charleston, was preconized his sue
css5or, and assumed control of
the Georgia See in 1870 DR.
Fersico differed from all his predeces-
sotS IN the fact that. at the time of his
appointment, he had already been bishop
tor many years; having been consecrated
Blshop of Bombay, India, in the SOS,
which he resigned owing to impaired
health and the climate of that country
He connected himself with the See of
charleston, as missionary at Edgefield
IN 1867 and for several years was L valued
auxiliary to the late Bishop Lynch; who
ike all the prelates of the south after the
civil War; which ragged so fiercely from
81 10 90 had much 'up-hill work TO do
in rebuilding his fallen temples and ruin
ed institutions, around the stones of
which time had wrapped the moss and ivy
with manifest conjunction. Bishop Per-
sico was an Italian of commanding pres
ence, who made his mark as Bishop of
savannah and who won the respect and
affection of all with whom he came in
contact. The greatest work of his incum-
bency was no doubt the commencement
of a cathedral, which ranked for many
years among the noblest fanes. but which,
like numerous fabrics reared by mortal
arms, was destined to fade away in fire
and smoke, leaving no vestige of it's love-
illness behind except dismantled walls and
columns Who that ever wandered
through its aisles will forget it? The
work of Baltimore architect whose kin
ship to Archbishop Elder of Cincinnati,
now the oldest prelate in this country,