The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-20
BRIEF KILOGRAMS

BRIEF KILOGRAMS
New York.-Three princes of the
church, headed by the Pope's legate,
Cardinal Vannutelli, 200 bishops and
archbishops, representing the whole
Christian world, priests of lower rank
innumerable and not less than 20O,-
600 Catholic laymen, will be in Mon
trial next month in a bOry with the
international Eucharistic conference.
1t will be the greatest gathering of
communicates of single church ever
seen in the western hemisphere, If not
in the world
Chief features of the congress will
be the midnight mass at Notre Dame
church, at which $4,000 men will re-
ceive the communion, the pontifical
mass at st. James cathedral, with the
papal legate as celebrant, and the eu-
charistic procession on the afternoon
of Sunday, September IL, with which
the congress Will be closed. A ponti-
flcal mass in the open air on Fletcher's
field on September 9, will be another
feature. On September IL there will
be a pontifical mass at st. James
cathedral. Cardinal Gibbons will be
the preacher and Cardinal Logue will
be the celebrant
The principal discourses at the ca
thedral, Notre Dame church. ST Pat
rick's and the public meetings will be
made by Cardinal Vincent Vannutelli,
Cardinal Logue, Cardinal Gibbons,
Monsignor Bruchesi of Montreal, Mon
signor Bourne of Westminster, Bishop
Heylen of Namur, Belgium, who is a
permanent president of the congress;
Monsignor Trenchet, a famous French
orator; Archbishop O'Connell of Bos-
on, Archbishop Glennon of st. Louis,
the Rev. A. P. Doyle, C. S. P, the
Able Duchesne. Father Bernard
Vaughan and the Rev. Thomas J.
Campbell. S. J.
Auckland.In the New Zealand bud
get it is proposed to introduce
scheme 10 contribute a share of the
cost of maternity expenses to wives of
low-waged workers and the poorer
small settlers.
Dublin.-Ireland is still losing pop
ulation. The excess of births over
deaths in 1909 was 27,7S6. according
to the registrar generals report just
issued, but as 2S,676 people emigrated
decrease in population of $50 The
marriages registered during the year
numbered 22,650, representing a rate
of SIS per 1000 of the estimated
population. This rate is 0.02 below
that for the previous year, but 0.O6
above the average for ten years
1S99190S. OF the 22,650 marriages
registered during the last year, 16,057
were between Catholics, 3,427 were
celebrated according to the rites and
ceremonies of the Church of Ireland,
1926 were in Presbyterian meeting
houses, 462 in registered buildings be-
longing to various religious denomi-
nation, and by civil contract in the
registrars offices. were according to
the usages of the Society of Friends,
and six according to the Jewish rites.
The marriages of bachelors with
spinsters contributed S9.5 per cent of
the total; those of Widowers and spin
sters were Sc per cent. The mar
riages of bachelors and widows were
"a per cent, and those of widowers
and widows formed 1.5 per cent of the
total marriages. The highest mar
riage rate for county or county Dor
ough areas were 10 per 1000 Of the
population for the county borough oS
Dublin, and the lowest was "a per
cent per 1000 for the county of Mayo. |
Opening the commission of assize |
for Cork City, Lord Justice Cherry, in |
MS address to the grand jury, said |
heir duties on the occasion would be |
light. That was a pleasure |
ne had repeated so frequently during |
he present circuit that it was now al
most like a refrain. They had only |
one case to go before them, a charge
la
During the assizes which were now
coming to a conclusion throughout
in almost every county and
,ity, with only four or five exceptions,
he Judges had been able to testify to
he peaceful condition of the country
generally and the absence of crime
lie could not recollect in any period
within his memory where reports had
'een so uniformly favorable. He had
'een Informed it was in great meas
ire due to the advance of the cause
f temperance. He supposed it was so
n Cork also.
A disease known as black measles,
hitch has BROKEN out in the Tenn
lence district of County Kerry with
/ the past fortnight. has already
aused seven deaths and forty fresh !
asses have been reported to the med {
al officers of health. The disease is
f malignant and highly contagious
haracter, and a curious fact in con- {
ection with the outbreak is that the '
lctims were young men between the {
ges of 20 and 81. s
London.-With the formal an
ouncement made, with all the pomp
nd ceremony of medieval times, that
lie coronation of King George is to l
Ike place next June, the work of ar l
Inging for the grand ceremonial af- I
Lir will be begun and pushed with
gor. There will be none too much !
me- for the work of the coronation l
an English king is no small matter G
very European country will be rep :
scented by some member of it's royal 1
mily, of kingdom or by a special s
nbassy in the case of a republic. The
merican states will also be specially
presented. Arrangements for the
ltertainment of their majestfes I
ust be made, questions of {
'ecedence must be settled, and [
e thousand and one details of the
lgeant must be provided for. One
the first steps to be taken will be L
e appointment of a coronation COM
ittee, which will commence at an