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lLSBAPrEC SLUMMART
on- soa .
Ewaorsaw..-Parliaupeetwas prorogued on the
5th inet. The resent elections would indioate
that on reassembldig, the Liberal party will
fiAnd itself in a hopeless minority. Even Green
wich, which, since 1852, has always elested a
Liberal, at the last election gave a majority to
the Conservative candidate. It is already
stated, on good authority, that Gladstone will
not seek re-election at the hands of his Green.
~wich constituents, and that he contemplates
Sglng from paoliamentary life.
cw.-Nancy and Belfort were evacuated
eatbe 1st, by the Germans who burned all the
goods which oohld not be carried off. On the
6th, the French troops entered Nancy amidst
the wildest enthusiasm of the people. An
event of the greatest importance to France
took place last week. This was the reconcil
lation of the two branches of the Bourbon
familyftwbch was effected at Vienna, where
the Count of Paris visited the Count de Cham
boritfa acknowledged him as the head of the
Ho w dBourbon and of the Royal line of
Franle. The Conservatives have elected the
majority of the members of the General Coun
cils in the Department of Sevres, Enre and
Otne, and the Radicals have carried the elea
tions in Drome and the Lower Loire.
Gxa-nn r.-The German Government has
instracted its representatives in Spain to co
operate with the English and French repre
sentatives for the proteotioen of foreigners and
their property, even if force is to be employed.
ITALT,.-A etatement made by the Ministerof
Finance shows a great increase in the number
of veasels engaged in commerce between Italy
and the United States. The duty on raw ma
terial is officially abrogated. Difficulties have
arisen in the execution of the law for the reor
ganization of the army.
SBrA.-Many persons who joined the insur
rection in the South, in favor of the indepen
dence of the Cantons, have abandoned that
cause, in consequences of the excesses commit
ted by the insurgents. During the occupation
of Seville by the insurrectionists, many bnild
legs in various quarters of the city were set
Sre to. The bombardment of Valencia has
beet suspended, the insurgents having sent a
flag of truce to the government forces. Much
damage was done to the buildings and many
inhabitants were killed and wounded. The
Carlists claim a victory at Elegnetoro, in Gaip
uzcoa, ten miles from San Sebastian. They
state that they captured one Republican gen
eral and six hundred prisoners. The Carlists
are inoreasing in number in the Basque pro
vinses, Navarre and Catalonia.
JAPA.--Japan correspondence states that
a serlbhs ontbreak bad taken place at Fokn
ko, in the province of Taikusin. On the 21st
of June 10,000 men arrived with bamboo
spears, assisted by former Daimo retainers,
and attacked the Government castle at Fuku
koo; they readily effected an entrance and set
fire to the building and destroyed all the offi
cial bodka and pspers &x-officers were killed,
and four ate sad to have died by their own
hands. Two osaers only escaped and fled to
Lags, six miles from Nagasaki. The houses of
all the inhabitana of Ieokota, who refused to
join the insurgents, were burned on the let of
June. But little blood had been shed so fart
The rich merhobants and native banks are plun
dered of all the money that can be found.
Some 30,000 men ace reported at Ruemeri Ken,
and another force at Me.tesmai. The cause of
the risings is said to be the heavy taxation.
Mrzxco.-Cify of Merico, August 1.-Lozada,
chief of Topic rebellion, was pursued and cap
tured by Prosales, who formerly fought under
him. liHe was tried by a court martial on the
18th nit., and shoton the morning of the 19th.
He refused to have his eyesba daged, and
kneeling with his face to the S party, died
with great courage. The Jesuits having ap
pealed to the courts against the decree for
their expulsion, the Ch'ef Justice of the Sn
preme Court has pronounced a decisionin their
favor, granting them the protection of the
laws.
UNITED STATES.
PoLrTICAL.-The Democratic Convention at
Columbus, Ohio, was attended by more of the
leaders of the party-than any Convention held
in years. The reedltion adopted state that
they intend to revive no dead issues, but in
sist on a strict cons o n of the constitn
tion. They oppose terference by law
with the private ffa ' business of men not
required by the public peace or safety, and ad
vocate the greatest Individual liberty con
sistent with public order. They state that the
present danger to free institutlons is the wide
sppread *ogption that threatens the utter de
traetls btlis virtue. .Wiih regard to the
they resolved. that the act
of tbRnL.ttng up, by the bayont,
a go A lislana not chosen by her
peop and lavl g no title whatever to role
over hem, was a flagrant violation of her
rights and of the Federal onstitntion. Wai.
Allen was unanimously nominated for Gover
nor.
In Virginia the Conservatives have held a
great oonvention at which were assembled the
most distiguished men of the State. Gen. J.
L. Kemper was unanimously nominated for
Governor and Col. R. E. Withers for Lieuten
ant Governor. Among the resolutions adopted
was the following: That the Conservative
my of V llia, dieisaimin all purpose of
captious k5gtity to Gen. Grant, will Judge
him impartlially by his offcicl action, and will
cordially co-operate in every measure of his
Administration which may be beneficial in its
design,.and calculated to promote the welfare
of the people, and to cultivate sentiments of
good rill between the different sections of the
Union.
Gaanum STATE COHVENro.x.-Mil.mk.,.
Aug. 7.-The German State-Convention ia sea
sion here have adopted resolutions denoaniug
all sumptuary laws, advocating free trade and
deprecating corrnption in Government ofi
cials. Whiile they deolore the habit of exces
sive drinking, they oppose all laws interfering
with the inherent rightsguargtnteed by the
constitution of the United States.
English Newspaper.
(Mr. Henry Watterson' Lonadon Letter in the Conrier.
Journal.
The Times is losing, slowly but surely,
its influence with its circulation. It is al
ready exceeded in the latter by the Tele.
graph, and will presently be equalled by
the News. That it feels this, and chafes
under it, is shown by the pendieg contro
versy it hfis with the Telegraph, in the
course of which, having the Telegraph at a
disadvantage, it has giggled and snickered
rather like a fille de hambre than a fat but
ler or a Jupiter Tonans.
Its competitors, the Telegraph and the
News, are brighter, but they are miserably
behind the American journals in every
thing except their moderation and culture,
and a certain good faith in the matter of
advertising, which they have found profit
able, and which every newspaper which
adopts it will find equally so. The Tele
graph is certainly better written than the
New York Herald, but it is neither so bril
liant nor so enterprising as the New York
Tribune. I do not hesitate to say that the
Chicago Tribuns and the Cincinnati Com
mercial are inferior to -the London News
only in typography, or rather in the quali
ty of the paper on which they are printed.
The London press is obliged to move within
a circle of English common-places. These
are little less than prejudices which have
hedged society round with a narrow strip
of red tape, the overleaping of which is so
cial death. There is no nerve, and very
little vigor; and if there should be it
would go for naught, or prove ruinous.
Punch, which is still read in England, is
but a dull ass, and if the Americans had
not demonstrated Martin Farquhar Tepper
to be the same sort of an animal, he would
be accepted at this moment in London as a
miracle of wisdom and philosophy. Even
the Pall Mall Gazetle, which started out
with the purpose of being bright and read
able, is good for an after-dinner nap three
days in the week.
On the whole I see no reason to modify,
but rather to re emphasize some observa
tions I had occasiae to make touching the
English press not long ago, and which ob
servations some of the English critics have
been good enough to honor with their dis
approval. The press of London is cer
tainly much behind the press of New York,
Chicago and Cincinnati in enterprise and
in power. It is decent but dull, and
strong only as it represents and illustrates
the conventional weakness of the English
character.
OvU Boys.-Dio Lewis has written a
work for " Our Girls," and numerous.
others have criticised the " Girl of tub Pe
riod ;" but no one, to my knowledge, has
yet told as what to do with our boys. All
t',e way from the cradle up to womanhood,
a girl seems to fall naturally into the
place assigned her, and never appears to
fall awkward or in the way. But there is
a period i; the life of a boy, when neither
he, his guardian, nor his friends know
where be belongs, nor how lie should be
treated. A girl glides naturally along
from childhood to womanhood ; and some
times in this fast age so rapidly, that you
almost conclude that the period of girl
hood is left out entirely. With boys it is
very different. There is a time in a boy's
life when he seems to feel that he is out of
place everywhere: And at this very time,
when he needs sympathy the most, as a
general role he gets the least of it. lie is
too big to be petted like a baby, and not
large enough to be treated like a man. lie
is too boisterous to be in the parlor ; the
cook sends him out of the kitchen, because
he asks too many questions; the father is
too much engrossed in business to notice
him, or give employment or direction to
active, enquiring mind ; the mother is
busy preparing dainties for his stom
r flounces for his sistoe-' dress, to
.much attention to her son's brain or
Sand as a natural consequence, he
goes ito the street. The education he re
ceives there, is soon made manifest.
An exchange says that the man who
never told an editor how he could better
his paper was in town the other day search
ing for the woman who never looked into a
looking glaes.
*re n0 OuOwn Corrsspondent.
OUR IRISH L>IZR.
IDuaLne, July 24, 1873.
This week has not been distinguished by
any political event worth talking of, but there
are a few items of social and religious interest,
and these I proceed to notice.
And first oPall, we have had the consecra
tion of the new bishop of Waterford and Lis
more-the Most Rev. Dr. John Power, lately
parish priest of Clonmel. It was an imposiog
ceremony, carried oat as it was with more
than usual solemnity and in the presence of no
less than five prelates, not including his Grace,
the Archbishop of Cashel, who was, of course,
the consecratipg prelate. One of your Ameriean
bishops--the BRght Rev. Dr. Hendricken, was
amongst the number, and here I may say-en
praentheee-that I have heard within the last
few months, of several Catholic bishops of the
Uuite States being in Ireland, at route for
Romb. The clergy of the diocese were pres.
eut in Waterford Cathedral in large num
bers, and so, of course, were the laity.
Conspicnoes amongst the lather were the May
or and members of the Town Council of Ktl
kenny, in their official robes, the Mayor and
members of the Towtn Council of Cloumel in
their official robes, and the Cato lio members
of the Waterford Town Council in similar
garb. The present Mayor of Waterford bei-g
a Protostant, was, of course, absent. This
habit of Catholic corporations going in the
disguise of their oflbfes to such ceremonies, is
steadily growing. It is a matter for congrat
ulation. I need hardly tell the reader that
before 1i29 it did notL exist at all in this Cath
olic land. oBt since emancipation, we have
been gradually getting rid of the social bonds
in which a Protestant power kept us enslaved
and have been gradually making a mnore and
more public profession of our faith as a thing
of which we should be proud. Thus every
year we have a Catholic Lord Mayor in Dub
lin, his Lordship and his Catholic brethren of
the Town Council go, on the first Sunday ir.
January, in foll civic state to the Cathedral,
and next month I observe that the Mayor and
corporation of Limerick, ate to attend in their
official robes at the dedication of the new
church of Rathkeale, when the Archbishop of I
Westminster will preaob. The Mayor of Clon- 1
mel did not go empty-handed to Waterford.
He bore as a gift to Dr. Power from his late
parishioners, the sum of £800 sterling. Usu
ally, the sermon at the consecration in this
country is preached by a bishop. On this
occasion, the preacher was the very Rev. Dr. 1
J. V. Cleary, President of the Diocesan Col- t
lege in Waterford. No better selection could
hfve been made. Dr. Cleary is a very learned
man and is ver loquent, and if his manner e
is at all worthyof the matter of his discourses,
it moat be delightful to listen to hin. On the I
whole, it was, as I have already Intimated, a
very imposing spectacle. The new bishop is
not unlikely to prove a distinguished meanber t
of the hierarchy. He comes of a family which I
has given several distinguished ornaments to c
the Church. lie has two brothers parish
priests in his diocese, and cousins of his are
also in the sacred ministry. Let us hope that t
his lordships' reign may be longer than that e
of sqme of his immediate predecessors. tWa- 1
terford diocese alone, I believe, of Irish dio- b
ceses has had no less ihin seven chiefpas c
tors since the commencement of the century. t
Montgomery, the sub-Inspwoector of Police,
haf been put on his trial for the third time t
this week in O'Magb for the murder of the 1
bank clerk in ewtown--stewart some two sw
years ago. As I fully detailed for the readers S
of the TAR tlhe circlnlnstlcuee of this horrible
critme at the timie of the tirbt trial about this
timitwolve months, I nerd nrot eter into
them now beyond mentioning that in the very
middle of-a bummer's day the unifortunate
clerk who was alone in the bank at the time
arranging his casb, was suddenly knocked
down dean at a single blow of a bill-hook, by
a man who mast have been well known to
him, who rmnst have bieen conversing in the
ofice with lini, and who, when he had made h
sure by four other mortal wounds and driving
a file through his head, that his victim was
quite dead, q tietly took all the notes he could
get-he took no gold at all, strange to say
and walked cooly ooý of the office, shutting t
the door after him, ino the open street. The
caPe against Montgomery is very strong. It
has irst been shown ti'as he was in want of
nioney. Then it has been proved that lie was 1
seen leaving the bank at about the time the
murder mest have been committed; that lie
owas late that night near the wood where the
money and the weapon were subsequently dis
covered; that ho bought lead sometime pre
viously such as was on the bill-hook; and
that he said and did things on the day of the
murder which are quite consistent with the
supposition that he is the siurderer. Other
damaging circumstances too, have been proved
and against this body of testimony I cannot 1
remember that p e has set up anything posi
tivre Nevertheles, two juries have disagreed
on the question whether he is guilty or not,
and the tendency is, when two janries have not
agreed for the third not to agree either; in
whichs, the prisoner is generally sent out
of the untry without being tried anymore.
It is not iý aible that this may be the result
of the presblrial. The crown, however, are
pressing the prosecution with great vigor
it greater vigor than ausual, I imagine be
cause Montgomery belongs to the force
which is supposed to be at least the protectors
of our liles and property. On one of the for
mer oecasi6ns the crown was represented by
the Attorney-General (Mr. Pall.s), and on an
other by ergeant Armstrong. New-baoth of
these able scansel appear for the prosecution.
No man at the Irish bar sie surpass the At
torneyGeneral In subtlety of rssoniug; and
few men at any bar can equal the Primoe fer
geant of Ireland in rough efeotlveness when
alking to a jury. The ojudge is Judge Barry
Y-aI very able lawyer ahivery impartial judge.
e he prisoner is defended, as before, by dr.
Maodonough. Q. C., who is, on this occasion,
fed by the crown, as Montgomery has exhaust
ed his funds, f cours e erson for whom
-the greatest sympathy is felt is Montgomery's
young wife, to whom he had been married but
a few months when he was arrested on this
Sterrible charge. In my next letter I shall
doubtless be able to announce the result of
the trial. I cannot help addtng one more word
in regard to the prisoner's demeanor in the
dock. lie hs preserved since he was arrested
the most singular coolness and even impas
Ssiveos. Nothing seems to unman or disturb
him. At the last trial Sergeant Armstrong in
his ddress to the jury, describing the manner
in which the murder must have been commit
ted, struck the table near him a terrible blow.
I have no doubt he did this to see if the pris
er would start or become uneasy, but if so,
e dlid not achieve hil object. Montgomery
was probably th only man in tire court who
did not manifest any emotion or surprise.
I htive already, I believe, told yon of the
gratifying fact that the present oasizes in Ire
land have discovered an almost total immu
nity from scrions crime or indeed from crime
of any sort. uo light have been the criminal
calendars everywhere that the London .Times
of yesterday which is ever most ready to de
non ace Irish crime to all the world, in all the
moods and tenses, while leaving utterly un
notioedthe hideous moral state of England,
falls into an ecstacy of wonder at the tranquil
state of Ireland. There have, however, been
two or three serious crimes committed during
the last half year-amongst them more than
one murder; l,ut these are in every ease trace-I
able to the influence of the public house and
would in all probability never have occurred
I,ut for indulgence in intoxicating drinks.
Thus-the mostr lamentable of all-Edward o
Walsh, a Castlebar publican, has been found F
guilty, at the Mayo Assizes, of having murder
ed his wife under circumstances of reoss brutal
ity. lie had been several years married, had r
had five children bern to him, and had good I
business prospects. But he became an habit
atl drunkard, and one say in oneof his drunk
en fits beat his wife to death. The Judge in
in passing sentence took occasion to point out,
in very impressive terms, what it was that e
Walth owed his unfortunate position to, and
his remarks are not likely soon to fade out of p
the memory of those who heard or read them. a
The tenant-farmers-at least in Dublin and a
*Wicklow counties-are at last taking some
steps to assert their political rights ; and er
tainly in noother county or counties in Ire-tl
land have that clam suffered greater political
oplpressions. They all to a man hold liberal
ned popular views, if not natiens)views; yet
their representatives have been of the extreme tI
Tory type. They are now taking into practi
cal consideration the necessity anrid expediency
of putting forward at the next election men of a
their own class as candidates for the represen- L
tation of their respective counties. They are
even thinking of paying their members.
This would be creating a revolution in ae
our political system atnd no mistake, if it were h.
carried out' and there is every probability cr
that it will be.
Father Burke has just been conducting a re
treat foi the clergy of the archdioceiqe of f
Tuanm-the diocese of Dr. Macllale. He o
prechitd a great sermon last Sunday in the
Caltedral there, amongsil' his listeners being
lthe great Archlbishop himself. Subsequently, it
the pe-n'le of the town presented himn with a f
ur,r, littering addresis, the sentiments of
which were echoed in eloqnent terms by Dr.
Ma- Il.e, who entirtained the Dominican ora
tr aui thie deputatioe n it a dajeuncr. tl
JJ C.
T'ie "rights of women" Iave had their advo
Stea urmon us for a good many years, and
id the " rights of children" have found an q
adrocatr who, mirabilr diclu, is a schoolch- her. pi
At a convention of the school', held recently id
at RVomcester, Massachusetts, Superintendeut
Marble read a papet,'tn winch he maiutained ti
that every child in school, however young, in
" has the samo right to his opinion, his judg- re
ment, his will, and his way, which a full-grown
man would have if lie sat in the saute seat.
The fact," said le, "that he is weak and i gor- ti
ant -acs not alter the ecse. If tho child's al
olsinioin or judgment be at fault, we tshoul
correct himn in the same rational way as we
would an adult. If his will be obstinate, and 5
his way be productive of harm to lilms or
others, we hould first point him out the ght
way; and if le didl not desist fritd his eril
way, we should enforce both adult and child
iu the same manner. The qualities of reason m
and intelligence should always bo recognized a
both in the child and in the adult. The e0
first right of every child, then, as of every t(
human being, is to he treated as an equal and g
not as an inferior. It seems to be the opinion a
of some people that to teach is to stamp one's b
own image upon the child; that what I know c
the child musat learn; tlat what I think he
must be taught. We have no bnsiness to do 0
any such thatg. A child is weak, but we have
no rigbt to bully him. He is undeveloped in- r
telloctually; no more have we a right to d
imposeonr opinions upon him without his
choice." t
The following advertisement appeared re
cently is an English paper: "il James'
Churh--On Sndsy nexat, the afternoon ser- I
viee will eommeaee at half past 3, and eon
taue until further notiee."1
!T PROM Y -g
July 31, 1873.
e. The annual examination of the Cathedral
er. School for boys, under the management of the
", Christian Brothers of D'Evereauz Tall, took
m place last week. The attendance of parents
's and friends of thi pupils was quite large, and
t we had also the pleasure and honor of the
11 presence of our Right Rev. Bishop, Dr. Elder.
,f The boys in the school number over one hea
'd dred, and are divided.into three classes. The
4 exercises of the third class were held on Tues.
s. day. When the little fellows were questioned
b they seemed to vie with each other as to who
I should answer the most questions. They
p. passed a most excellent examination, and re
flected great credit on their teacher.
The second class was then examined, and
y the way they disposed of numerous questions
o and problems given them was truly gratifyling.
Their exercises on the blackboard deserve
special mention-Masters Owens and John t
-Roaf t.kling the honors.
The first class were subjected to a rigid cx
a amination, and proved themselves very worthy, I
- showing close study and excellent teaching. i
Masters Walter Duoie and John Dix deserve t
special mention, and carried off the first honors. U
On Thursday evening the exercises closed ii
with an exhibition; the plays chosen for re- b
presentation being a farce entitled "Now f
Brooms Sweep Clean," andp four act drama, [,
' The Fanamily of Martyrs." ,
Immediately after the performance of the ,
drama, the Bishop and the worthy teachers tI
proceeded with the distribution of premiums v
and awards; the pupils stepping forward and bi
receiving the premiulln rom the hands of the
Bishop.
After all the awards had been made, Bishop ,
Elder delivered on address replete with prac.
tieal advice to parents and children, oompli, is
menting them on the ascessee of the past and
predicting greater ones in the future. In con. fo
elusion, I would say that the highest praise is lit
accorded by every one to the Brothers for the as
excellent manner in which they have managed q
the school. r. ye
S8. TnlERisA'8 AsvocIATIro. -Sunday last, at Hi
their Hall on Erato stres the young gentle- tic
men of this Society entertained their friends
with the performance of the drama "St. of
Louis in Chains," and the farce, " ~5gs of hi
Windsor." The acting, on the whole, was ex- lest
cellent. But some of the participants might go
have spoken louder, anld thereby greatly in- fo
creased any favorable impression otherwise be
made. Besides, a little more attention to the th
forming of tableanx would not have been out be
out of place. Probably all this would not have te
been noticed by us, had we liked the play ca
itself. We have never felt any special liking an
for tbhe drama, " St. Louis in Chains.' There of
is not suflicient acti,n in it, The dialogue, Os
with but very few exceptions, is tame, while In
the plot is one that can be met with in every an
plany hlle sixteenth order. The farce was teo
received much better. At least, we thought ho
so. Here rho acting was more natural, conse- pa
qucntly a person could look on and feel lat
pleased. And it should be the same in alt Ch
plays, whether comedy or tragedy : no affecta- by
tion of step, voiceor gestaro--a distinct read- en.
ing, natural pauses, proper emphasis, and cor- mm
rect conceptions. We are unwilling to be mis. ws
understood here. We do not intimate that de
this Society is wanting in all thdparticulars wl
above mentioned. lint, really, we think they ho
can take to themselves a little of it in the tal
same way in which it is given-in good part.
A CONTRAST.-In Mexico there are four th
million Indianu ; in Central America there b
are one and a half millions; in South Am- of
erica there are seven millions -making a Mi
total of 12,500,000 Excepting the Pata- cii
gonians and one or two animportant tribes, do
all these Indians have been reclaimed from
barbarism. They have been converted to oh
Christianity-civilized by the cross, not
extirpated by the sword. Inai the terri cr
tory comprised by the United States there
remain some three hundred thousand In
dians. Of these, 97,000 are designated th
"civilized," 125,000 "semi eidlized, and Th
the rest (78,000) "wholly savage." A com* ft
parison of the two. results is very sugges- t
tivre. JP Central and South *merica Ca- 8f
tholio tllneaees were always predominant.
In Nortb America, on the other hand, the lee
.ctwvismng of the red man was eonducted le
under Anglo-Protestant inspiration. wE
-LiTe IlOW ROmUTN, Ts.
The first Catholi pri who ever came to
i this part of the atae as permanet msaionere
'0 were the late Bisehop Timan of Buffalo and the'
k late Arobbishop of New Orlens, Mgr. Odin,
Swho was at that time YIoar-ApoetollrofrTexas
l They arrived In Ioneton in the year 1840
Houston was then the capital of the Republic
of Texas, and Father .Timon, by request, de
- liverel an address to th! Legislature of the
Republio. The present churoh et t.. Vincent
de Paul was not completed until the year 1542,
I bnt mass had been celebrated for the prece.
ding two years in a private dwelling house
which was torn down only a few days since.
When the present energetio pastor of the
Annunciation, Father Querat, arrived here in
I 1860, he found the church very dilapidate.
' and in need of most of the articles Lecessary
for a proper administration of the Saorasaents.
The congregation was also small in numbers
Sand very poor.
During the time he has been in charge,
which is only seven years, be has built oneofthe
finest brick churches in the State. It is 130 foot
in length by 60 feet in width,-45 feet from
the floor to the coiling, and willshortly have two
towers 10t) feet in height. le is now engaged
in building a fine brick convent which is to
be completed in October; it will be 112 feet
front by 70 feet in depth-will be three stories
in height and is intended for the Sistersof the
"First Order of the Incarnate Word," who
will devote their time to the education of the
the girls of the two parishes. When the con
vent is completed, Father Qaerat intends to
build a fine brick school house for the boys,
and.hen all contemplated improvements are
completed the church property of his parish
will occupy a square and a half of ground
which has long been paid for. I doubt if there
is a parish in the entire State that can make a
more favorable showing-and it speaks well
for the energy of the pastor as wall as for the
liberality of his congregation who, with a few
exceptions, are poor in worldly means. Father
Querat has been in Togas for over twenty
years, and daring that time this is only the
second parish that he has had under hise ars.
His Ipresent church is named " The Annunnoia-.
tion."
The Conference of the Annunciation, Society
of St. Vincent de Paul, which Is attached to
his parish, although hout a few months in ex
istence, has accomplished a vast amount of
good. Through its exertions many needed re
forms in the city hospital and prison have
been introduced. I am also pleased to note
that since my last visit to HIIonston, there has
been organized another Conference, that of
St. Vincent de Paul. It is attashed to Bt. Vin:
cent de Paul's church, is exclusively German,
and is itn a Ilourishing condition. The Feast
of St. Vincent de Paul was celebrated both in
Galveston and Houston with due solemnity.
In Gjlvesto:t the Conferonce attended Mass
and went to IHoly Communion in a body. At
ten o'clock Mass the Very Rev Phther Cham
bodut declivered the panegyric of St. Vincent,
paying a glowing tribute to the self-anrsriflog.
labore of the Laza*ts and the Sisters of
Charity, both of which orders were founddd
by St. Vincent. In IIouston the two Confer
ences went in a body to Mass and Holy Com
munion. In the evening a general meeting
was held, and at seven o'clock, Father Blam
delivered a lecture on St. Vincent dit Paul
which was attentively listened to by several
hundred persons. Afterwards a collection was
taken up for the benefit of the poor. J. P.
Our readers are requested to bear in mind
that next Sunday evening, 17th last., there will
be a musical entertainment in the old church
of St. John the Baptist, for the St. Vineent's
Home and Model Warm. Those who appre
ciate the immense good this institution has
done and is doing by given a Chriatian edu
cation to over one hundred boys, will no doubt
eheerfully assist in raising funds, at this
crisis, for its maintenance.
A great fire oocared In Portland, Oregon, on
the 3rd, and only ceased for want of material.
The lose are two engine bouses, two sash
factories, three foundries, four mills, Are ho
tels, one hundred stores and two hundred and
ifty dwellings. One hundred and efty home
less families are now encamped in the open
.elds. The o ls l estimatd at 1 00.00,0 on
whleh there was an Insurance of X900,000.