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CATHOLIC NEWS.
Church Notes.
The Catholic seminary at Fulda has
been reopened.
The Pope last week received Father
Jean, prefect apostolic of Indian Terri
tory.
The corner-stone of St. Thomas'
Church at Hyde Park, Chicago, was
laid Sunday, Oct. 8.
The parish of St. Hedwig, in Berlin,
contains 110,000 people. This is pro
bably the largest parish in the world.
Rev. Abbe Bocher, chaplain of the
French frigate Mi nerve, lying in Bos
ton harbor, called on Mayor O'Brien the
other day.
Bishop Becker of Savannah is to
Treach the sermon at the consecration
of Bishop-elect Curtis of Wilmington
011 Nov. 14.
The Pope has refused to allow any or
nament' to be placed on Liszt's grave
beyond an unpaiuted wooden cross
bearing the name and words "0:ra Pro
IXobis."
The sea of Arichat, Nova Scotia, has
been changed by order of the Holy See
at Antigonish and henceforth Bishop
Cameron will be known as his lordship
or Antigonish.
Bishops Ireland and Iveane are en
route for Home with the plans of the
Catholic University for the final ap
proval of the Pope. They will be back
in few months.
In the chapel of St. Louis, at Lon
don, Princess Ilelene, of Orleans, was
con firmed Tuesday, by Cardinal Man
ning, in presence of the count and
countess of Paris and the duke of Or
leans.
Miss McKay (Sister Anthony) and
Miss Burfelt (Sister Bercbmans) were
recently received into the Sisterhood of
Mercy at St. Bride's Convent, Little
dale, N. F., by Bishop Power of St.
John's
Miss Elizabeth Foss of Cincinnati,
after returning from Europe, where
i'.he spent three years in the Notre
Dame Convent at Belgium, entered the
convent of the same order at Bead
ing, O.
There have recently arrived in Phila
delphia live Italian religious of the Or
der of the Daughters of Chaiity of Ca
nossa, as they were commonly called in
Italy and China, where they have
houses.
The bath in which the infamous
Murat was when Charlotte Corday rid
the world of him has been sold by a
priest of the diocese of Yannes to a
a Paris wax work showman. The
price was devoted to the uses of a re
ligious school.
The Fathers of the Holy Cross have
set aside their college at VVatertown,
Wis., as a normal school, for the in
struction of young men who wish to
devote themselves to thn work of teach
ing as Brothers of the Congregation.
A French priest of Yionville has
been sentenced at Met/, to two months'
imprisonment for causing the choir of
Iris church to chant prayers for divine
protection over the French army while
acting in defense ot France. The judg
ment was based
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citing seditious cries,.
W.C.
the charge ot ex­
The Catholic seminary at Perigeux,
Department of Dordogne, France, was
entirely destroyed by lire last week. All
of the inmates escaped without injury,
but saved none of their effects. The
loss is S 100,000. Many valuable paint
ings and works of art, together with a
large number of volumes, were burned.
Bey. Henry Shornberg Kerr, S. J.,
has been designated lirst Archbishop of
Bombay. The new Archbishop is son
of the late Lord Henry Kerr, a brother
of the Marquis of Lothian, and in early
life was a captain in the Royal Navy,
lie abandoned the sea and became a
Jesuit. He was chaplain to the Mar
quis of Ripon when the latter was
Governor-General of India.
One day last week Bishops Ireland
and Spalding, Rev. D. J. lliordan. Col.
Rend. W. C. Quan, and W. J.
Onahan, members of the Irish Catholic
Colonization Association, held an in
formal meeting at the Grand Pacific
a a a a a
routine business. The meeting par-j
rook more of the nature of a farewell
to Bishop Ireland than a regular busi
lies a meeting.
Two Funs Burned.
The identity of the two Catholic nuns
who v, ere burned in the wreck of the
train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
Si. Paul last week has been fully estab
lished. They were members of the or
der of the Sisters of St. Francis, who
have charge of St. Mary's academy, at
Winona. Sister Dionysia was 38 years
of age, and had been with the convent
at Winona for twelve or fourteen years.
Her name before she took the veil was
Bridget Begley. Her father, John Beg
ley, lives at Newark, N. J. The other,
Sister Albertina, was about 40. years
old. She came from Erzininger, Baden,
Germany, two or three years ago. and
has no relatives in this country as far
as known. Her name was Albertina
Schmidt. Sister Dionysia left Winona
the Tuesday evening preceding the
wreck for Chicago on business, and
came by Milwaukee to bring Sister Al
bertina home with her. A telegram
from the scene of the wreck says there
is no trace of the remains, they having
been burned to ashes. -r
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POLITICAL {JOBBERY.
Cor-
Periods in English History When
rupticm Held High Carnival.
Corruption in all its forms has existed
in England at different periods of her
history.. Tampering with judges and
juries was once common. A statute
of the reign of Henry VIL in the year
1494 recites that "perjury is much and
customarily used within the city of
London among such persons as passed
and been impanelled upon issues joined
between party and party.1"
4'The
Dance of Death," translated from the
French in the same reign by John
Lydgate, with new incidents, adapted
to the England of his day, mentions a
juror who had given a false verdict for
money. Stow tells us that in 1468
many London jurors wore punished by
having papers fastened, to their heads,
setting forth-how they had been tam
pered with in such and such a suit. A
letter from the Bishop of London, to
Cardinal Wolsey, given by Grafton in
his "Chronicles," says that a London
jury would lind A Gel guilty of the mur
der of Cain. Jardim remarks that the
"proceedings against persons accused
of .state offenses in the early periods of
our history do not deserve the name of
trials—they were, a mockery of
justice." The publication' of
the bench was probably due
in large measure to the fate of Bacon.
However that may be, England, can
now boast of a long line of incorrupti
ble judges and immaculate juries.
That form of bribery which is often a
concomitant of party government —the
bestowal of offices and valuable con
sideration of various kinds to secure
allegiance to the party in power—was
very common during the eighteenth
century in England. Walpole, writing
in 1775, says of Lord Lyttelton: "This
hopeful young man, who, o£ being re
fused a place, spoke for the Ameri
cans, and in two days, on getting one,
against them, being reproached with
such precipitate changes, said that with
his foi'tune nobody could suppose that
he thought of the value of the sala
ry." During the reign of George III.
three hundred and eight}"-eight, peers
were created, nearly ail for political
jobbery, which generally took the form
of the manufacture of constituencies ^OR
to return adherents of the Govern
ment. It was a common practice to
carry an election by splitting up one
freehold into ten, thus multiplying
tenfold the influence of the local mag
nate. Lord Melville, during the first
quarter of this century, was able to re
turn thirty-nine out of the forty-five
members for Scotland. Horace Wal
pole, in commenting on the death of
Lord Clive, in 1774, writes with the ut
most naivete: "He had just named ten
members for the new Parliament."—
Quarterly lie-view.
DARING FRAUD.
How a Firm of Paris Bankers Lost
Thousand ITrancs.
Sixty
A daring robbery was committed in
Paris the other day at the establish
ment of Messrs. Allard & Co., bankers
and exchange agents. The firm,whose
offices are in the Place de la Bourse,
had received a letter from one of their
correspondents, as they believed, a
banker at Seville, informing them that
a check for GO,000 francs, drawn by
him, would shortly be presented for
payment by a gentleman whose signa
ture was inclosed. One Tuesday morn
ing a well-dressed man, whose appear
ance was that of a rich foreigner, pre
sented himself with a check for 60,000
francs,purporting to be drawn by the Se
ville banker. The check was examined
and was regarded as authentic. The man
placed his signature on the back: and,
as it was the same as the signature
sent from Seville, the cashier was pre
paring to hand him the money, when
the man—with a view, probably, to
inspire greater confidence—said that as
he had only a few small purchases to
make, and did not want to have so
much money about him, he would be
glad of 1,000 francs in gold, and that
the rest should be kept till he came for
it in the afternoon. This was done,
and the man, returning at three o' clock,
received the remaining 59,000 francs,
Messrs. Allard the same day advised
the Seville banker that the 60,000
francs had been paid, and were disa
greeably surprised afterwards by receiv- I
inga telegram informing them that the
Seville banker knew nothing what
ever about the 60,000 francs, and that
he had not drawn any check for that
amount. The swindler has, of coures,
disappeared.—Pall Mall Gazett
—Charles Rutherford, of Owen Sound,
Can,, died of a peculiar nervous disease
recently. Two years ago he dislocated
the bones in his left wrist. The bones
were set, but it -was not then known
that the ligature which binds the bones
was ruptured, and the discovery was
made only when it was too late to re
store to the boy the use of his hand.
The thought that his hand would be
useless all his life gave bfcn such dis
tress that he took to his $ed, from
Which he never rose a
sain.
—At one of the Hartford (Conn.)
banks recently was received on depos
it a check for $3 ou a Dakota ban!
In due course of time it was sent for col
lection, and after some time came back
protested,with $3.06 fees. It was after
ward found that the man who drev
the check was also the notary public
the Dakota bank on 'which it w.°
drawn, and so pocketed §3.06 fees
protesting his own $3 check.—Ear
ford Courant.
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NARROW ESCAPE.
There have been some curious eases
of this last species of insanity. Some
seven or eight years ago a well-known
public official of the State of Ohio
visited Niagara Falls with his family
for a month's rest. He was nervous
and worn out, and there were certain
business and political matters whicli
followed him there, and could not be
shaken oil. The gentleman did not
realize that his nerves were at all
shaken on the contrary, he prided
himself in believing that he could en
dure more mental worry than three or
dinary men. He had been at the falls
three or four days when he was joined
by a Chicago capitalist. The two had a
speculation "together, and the details
were to be settled here.
One day after dinner the pair went
into Prospect Park and sat down on a
bench facing the rapids, and not over
five feet from the water. When they
had talked for an hour or so, the Ohio
gentleman seemed to be somewhat ex
ted in his speech and movements.
He threw several sticks into the water,
talked in loud tones and soon attracted
attention. The capitalist thought it a
bit queer, but felt no uneasiness until
the other suddenly seized him in a tre
mendous grip and said:
"Blank, you area scoundrel, and I'm
going to send you over the falls!"
The capitalist wns the smaller and
the weaker man, and he felt the help
lessness of the situation. He was
gripped by the shoulders, but he used
his hands to clench the seat behind
him, and replied to the lunatic:
"I know I'm a bad man, and you
must give me time to pray."
"All right, all right." said the
Ohioan "you shall have two minutes
Prayers,
and then we 11 go over the
falls together.
good fellow,
together."
Say, Blank, "you are a
after all, and we'll go
The idea with the Chicago man was,
of course, to gain time. The people
who had been attracted by the loud
talk had passed on, and it so hap
pened that no one else came that way.
He hoped the lunatic might change bis
mind after two or three minutes, but
instead of that he grew more impa
tient, declaring that they must hurry
up or they would bo too late. De
spairing of aid from others, the capi
talist finally said:
"See here, Mr. Blank, let's go up
and. jump off the Goat Island bridge.
We'll have further to swim, and I
want to leave my wallet with some
one."
"By George! Good idea come on!'1
exclaimed the other, and they walked
up the path and out of the park arm in
arm. They were no sooner out of
sight of the rapids than the Ohioan be
gan to grow calmer, and as they
bore off toward the hotels he
removed his hat, scratched his
head in a thoughtful way and
picked up the point he dropped a
quarter of an hour before, and went
on debating the transaction as if noth
ing unusual had occurred. An hour
later, when asked if he was in earnest
in threatening his friend, he was com
pletely dumbfounded, nor could, he be
made to believe that any thing of the
sort had occurred. However, a dim
suspicion that he might have been un
duly excited by the roar and clash of
the waters crept into his mind,. He
went down to the park alone, but re
turned almost at once, his face very
pale, his eyes betraying wildness, and
his whole manner showing that he .had
passed through a severe struggle.
I shall keep away from the water
hereafter." he said to the capitalist.
I couldn't stay there live minutes
without committing suicide or mur
der."
The matter was, of course, kept
quiet, even from the wife, but two
years later, while the gentleman was
making a trip on the Ohio river, he
was suddenly missed, and he has never
been heard of since. The boat was
racing with another, and the prob
abilities are that the excitement
brought back his passion for self-de
struction, and that he went overboard.
—JNr. Y. Sun.
A Sensible Compromise.
Many strikes might be avoided if the
course followed in the Harmom- cot
ton mills at Cohoes, IN1". Y., were gen
erally adopted. The men wanted moi*e
pay, but the company told them that
they could not afford an advance, and
that they were already payiug as much
as mills in their line at Fall River and
elsewhere. The men did not believe it,
whereupon the manufacturers offered,
if the men would select a reliable man speculation.
to travel about the mills and look up
the subject of wages, to pay all his ex
penses, and to raise "the wages it they
were not as high as paid elsewhere. A
boss weaver has been through Massa
chusetts and has been back to Cohoes
with the statement that the wages
there are as high as any paid in the
country, and that his fellow-workmen
have no cause to complain.—N. T.
Post.
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THE IRISH STANDARD: SATURDAY, NOyEMBER 6, 1886.
Tern-
How a Chicago Capitalist Duped
porarily Insane Friend. I
I Infve not the least doubt," said
an eminent American physician at a
recent medical convention, "that at
least one out of every ten of the people I
of this county live under some form of
insanity, In some it becomes violent
in others noticeable in others never
known nor suspected, except there is
what might be termed a collusion of
circumstances.'"
HELENA'S REMAINS.
Remarkable Excavations Made by th«
Freucli Dominicans at Jerusalem.
An interesting account is given in
some Vienna and German papers of
sxcavations made by the French Do
minican monks at Jerusalem on some
land which they have lately acquired,
about a furlong and a half outside the
gate of Damascus. Six meters below
the present level of the ground the
workmen came on some arches of con
siderable extent, the walls of which
had been very carefully built. At a
short distauce they found the basement.
of a chapel, before the entrance of
Times.
REMARKABLE INSECTS^
Pecali:i?itf«« of One of
lire.
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Most Cm'ious oi
Uritomological Creatures,
Certain elongate insects, popularly
known as '''walking-sticks," or "walk
ing leaves,1' according as they lack or
possess wings, have-long been reckoned
as among the most curious of entomo
logical creatures. Mimicking to a re
markable degree, as their popular
names imply, the twigs and leaves
upon which they dwell, these insects
find their most congenial home in the
tropics, where some of the species at
tain to over a foot in length, exclusive
of the legs. It is also found in various
sections of our own land.
Owingto its slender, long-legged,slow
movingcharaeteristics, ithasbeen prop
erly called the "walking-stick," "stick
bug, "specter while in some local
ities it is known as "prairie alligator,"
"devil's horse," and other odd cogno
mens, generally indicative of its ap
pearance and of a superstition which
is quite prevalent, but most unfounded,
that it is poisonous and can sting or
bite.
The colors of the adult are quite
variable. During early life, they are
invariably of a uniform pale yellowish
green. color and as they have a habit,
in their young days, of keeping near
the ground, this, coupled with a great
readiness to drop whenever 'disturbed,
serves to protect them from observa
tion. With age, the green color gives
way to various shades of gray and
brown. In this way we find great
correspondence with its surroundings.
While the vegetation is green, the I
specters are green, also when the foli
age turns in auiumn, they change color
correspondingly, and when the foliage
is stripped, they so closely resemble, in
both appearance and color, the twigs
upon which they rest—the habit of
stretching out the front legs and feel
ers greatly enhancing the resemblance
—that \Yhen they are few in numbers
it is difficult to recognize them.—Gold
en Days.
Ashamed of His Name.
"See that fellow standing over
here?'' said a citizen of Little Rock
addressing a stranger.
"Yes.15
"Biggest fool I ever saw.
"In what way?"
"I'll tell you. His name is Lige
Coffin. He used to be an unassuming,
hard-working fellow and people re
spected him, but a few weeks ago he
made a few thousand dollars in a little
Since then he has be-)
come a different man. He is vain, and
ashamed of his name. Don't want
us to call him Coffin any more."
"Don't eh?"
"No, he is so high toned now that he
insists upon being called Mr. Metalic
Jase,"—Arkansatv
Traveler...
—Four per cent
fee of inr.fi'fist paid
is the prevailing
to depositors b\
New i'ork banks.
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which there was a tombstone covcred Purifier.) Liebig's Eng.
with a long inscription. Unfortunately
this stone was stolen before any one
thought of copying the inscription, and
no trace of it could bo obtained. About
the middle of their property they found
a large, well-preserved mosaic, and
upon the space all around being
cleared the bases and other remains
of great pillars were discovered.
fc is presumed that this is the
site of the great basilica, built
in the fifth century in honor of
St. Stephen by Exdoxia, the wife
of Areadius. the first of the. long line of
Eastern Emperors. Still more re
markable is the discovery made just
on the boundary of the estate. While
digging the trench for the foundations
of the boundary wall which the Do
minicans wished to braid the ground
gave way, and one of the workmen
disappeared. On clearing out the
place they came on a large and beauti
ful hall, which had been cut out of the
rock where the rock failed the gap
was filled by admirable masonry.
From two of the sides two large door
ways led into two vaulted tombs, all
of equal size. On each side of the
vault there was a resting-place for one
coffin, and at the end opposite the en
trance places fortwo. At the furthest
end of the great hall a passage led to
another excavated vault, in which
stood three great covered sarcophagi.
It is suggested that these sarcophagi
contain the remains of Helena, Queen
of Abiadenos, and her sous. The
quantity of bones found in these cham
bers was very great. In the middle of
the great hall in a hollow specially pre
parer), a sort of long metal box was
found. It was adorned with repre
sentations of children holding garlands
up on high. Unfortunately there was
no inscription, nor any thing which
could furnish a clue to the period or
the purpose of these sepulchral cham
bers.—London
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