San francisco Mail News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 337, 3 October 1879, Page 15

San francisco Mail News

(From our Exchanges.) The magistrates of the County of Westmeath, Ireland, yesterday (Aug. G), unanimously passed resolutions calling upon the Government to increase the constabulary force and to give the executive additional powers. Twenty-two persons, injured in the riot at Belfast, growing out of an Oiange attack on a Catholic procession on the 11th Augugt, had their wounds dressed m the Royal Hospital in that city. A beheaded Kansas rooster still lives, after four months of decapitation. He is fed at the throat, and is in good health. The head was cut off at the base of the brain without injuring the spinal column. The Paris correspondent of the London Times telegraphs the following from the Moniteur :— " England has for a year been helping the Sultau of Morocco to prepare for a conflict with Spain, as the latter hankers for the annexation of the former's territory. English officers have been drilling troops, and English engineers fortifying Tangier. England fears tliat the conquest by Spam of Morocco would prejudice Gibraltar." Queen Victoria having heard that the beautiful discourse on the late Prince Imperial delivered by Father Gallwey, S.J., had been published, commanded that a copy should be obtained for her.

A resident of Oshawa, who has recently returned from England, vST E /f a\ experience of the very wet weather, gives his opinion briefly but forc.bly. Said he : « I never did have a very thankful spirit, but I did thank God that my father had the courage to come to Canada and uttered a fervent prayer for the poor of England. The aristocracy and wealthy have a good time of it and are all right, but Id rather be a lamp-post in Canada than a poor man in England. Ihe trial of a wife murderer was postponed at Athens, Ala., and the disappointed assemblage followed the prisoner to gaol, put a rope around his neck, and would have hanped him if the sheriff and deputies had not fought them off with pistols. A greenback orator in Maine was violently denouncing Secretary bherman as a Shylock, wben an impatient log-cutter asked him who Shy lock was Ihe orator advised him then and there to go home and read his bible.

Wisconsin is ro well pleased with her foreign-born citizens, who already number 187,505 of her population, that she has sent an agent to Castle Garden to get more of the came soil to settle on her fertile lands. Rhode Island entertained a like opinion of their worth some eighteen years ago, when she promised them equal rights to induce them to enlist. A poor fisherman at Tallabasse, Fla., while di-ging worms for bait the other day, came upon an old brass kettle containing 1,400d015. in gold coin. He can keep his pot boiling now. ,w i • 1 "* y? { r!u b was P rea c hi ng a weird sermon on the devil, in the Methodist Church at Ephrata. Pa., and a wicked young man was struck with the notion that the congregation had been wrought up to just the condition of mind for beinl easily terrified. He slipped out, gathered some equally wicked companions, and unfoldeu his plan, which was suddenly to introduce a long-horned cow into the church They brought a black one from a field near by, twisted her tail to make her give an unhearthly bellow, and thrust her through the door into the centre aisle. The light was dim. the preacher had excited his hearers by descriptions of eternal toiture, the horns and black face of the bellowine cow were not recognized for what they really were, and the impression created was that the enraged devil had dashed in for vengeance. Several women fainted, and the rest screamed ; but the. clergyman was not deceived. '• It is only a cow, he instantly explained. The jokers have been arrested. A Chinaman in a prison cell at Virginia city had some opium but no pipe to smoke it in. He got a vial, into one side of which he drilled a sman ho]e by worli industriously for a week a nail which he whirled between the palms of his hands. A stem was made by splitting a stick grooving it, and tying the halves together again. Ihe pipe thus constructed was held together by sticking paper on it with paste made by soaking bread in water The ßos ton Herald has a keen eye for the lidiculous. Commenting on the farce of the Queen's address to the British Parliament, which is written for her on the basis of her absolute ownership of furZl°lVT\ m '- the *! Crald "**:-" This commonplace, virtuous, dumpy old lady is made to talk of -'my government," « my realm," myielahons with other powers, «my troops," "my Indian empire as though there was no such thing as c British people, and the Bntish people are supposed to look on, with uncovered heads, grateful bplil 17F m}St l' eSa for c °n«mtmsr to allow them to pay taxes and be killed for the glory of her family. How long will the British people play their part in such a farce ? " ™.™i ii^j lo ™ feyf c v^ wLosei avages last year in the south so sadly paralysed the industrial interests of that region, but at the same time ™ °t forth so many heroic and noble examples of self-sacrifice and tZoT *? Suffenn £ h «manit-, is again raging at Memphis, and a few cases have appeared in other southern cities. On Friday the newsamved that one Catholic priest had already been prostrated by the pestilcnce-the Rev. Father Doyle, paster of St. Bridget's, at Memphis. It is possible, if rot very highly probable, that the d isease this year will be confined within more narrow limits and prove to be more successful y treated than during the sad scenes of last summer. Hut be this as it may. the same fearless discharge of duty which was manifested by our priests and lay brothers and sisters last year, will be shown in the tuals that may yet be before them. Our readers will remember the gallant work done in Memphis hit summer by Father Walsh, of that city. He established the lather Mathew Camp on the outfits of Memphis, and worked day and night feailessly fighting the terrible yellow-fever scourge. Wben the fever broke out this year Father Walsh was in Ireland, but immrdiately upon earning of the return of the fever be resolved to come back at, once. Me is now in Memphis, and has, ah eady reorganised his

Ihe shipping of American beef to Europe is b<ung conducted on a moie extensive scale than was ever known before. On Saturday, the join duly, the five European steamers which sailed from New lork earned 851 head of cattle, 427 tons of dressed beef; and 403 carcasses of sheep. Most of the cattle shipped from American ports are intended for Great Britain. There is no abatement in the yellow fever plague at Memphis, lenn. A general epidemic has been declaied, and the death rate averages about a sco.e a day. Two Catholic pnebts have already died with the fever. A Rio Janieio despatch, by way of Lisbon, says :— " A telegram fiom laia, Binzil. dated 21st of July, states that 14.000 distressed inhabitants of Paia had molted in consequence of the stoppage of supplies foi their iclk-f. 1 hue *as much alarm in Para, as it was Kami tl.at the town might le sacked, and the militia had been called out.

Buttermilk is the popular drink in Chicago and the West, a vast improvement as a summer, or winter drink ; bat we suppose it won't be long before the piohibitory men are denouncing it as a deadly poicon, and calling on the legislature to prohibit its sale As used to be said of the Puritans in their opposition to bull-baiting, it was not the wiong of the thing itself, but the pleasure which it gave to others that made it sinful in their eves.

A Bubmanne cable on the Caspian sea is the latest nevg over which Russia is jubilant. The cable was made in England, and is to be put m place by a Dane ; cost, 310,000 dols.

In the annals of the Mission of Our Lady of Zion for March, Father Rattisbonne recounts the particulars of the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice in the very Cenaculum, or Supper-Chamber, in which Our Lord instituted the Holy Eucharist. Through the influence of a princess of the Catholic branch of the House of Hohenzollern, and by a liberal use of money, Mgr. Spaccapietra, the lately deceased Archbishop of Smyrna, the princess and twelve priests were peja mitted by the Mussulman guards to enter the sacred precincts of i^L holy room and remain enclosed for two hours. It was on the eve^^ Holy Thursday, and in the very spot where reclined Our Lord and His twelve Apostles, on the very night of the year whereon was celebrated the Last Supper, by a successor of one of the twelve, and in the company of twelve priests, the great Eucharistic Sacrifice was offered up for the first time in that place for many centuries. Father Rattisbonne had the pleasure of serving the Mass. I have seldom read anything more impudent than the reply of the agent of Dr. Talmage to the request of a small town for a lecture s "I have upward of 1,000 letters all wanting Dr. Talmage to lecture for them. Some contain fabulous offers. Now, there is but one way of getting the Doctor. If your society can afford to pay what larger places offer, I may be able to drop out a larger place, and give you a date in July. The lowest terms I care to take are £100. I know it is a high price, but Dr. Talmage is a great man," &c. This may be legitimate in the eyes a New York " Christian," but it hardly looks like " good faith "to " drop out " the large places in the manner proposed. Perhaps, however, the frantic applicants only exist in the imagination of the agent.— London Truth.

An old Scotch lady thought that Talmage was talking the deaf and dumb alphabet with his hands and feet.

The Scotch papers contain a report of an address delivered by Professor Blackie, the well-known Greet and Celtic scholar, to a meeting of Highlanders, on the land laws, in which he expressed himself in favour of a sweeping change ia the land code, and warned the governing classes that if the land laws were not improved an agrarian revolution would be the result.

M. Jules Simon can hardly be charged with having too great a liking for the Catholic Church. When he was Minister of Education under M. Thiers, he walked in the track of M. Duruy in favouring secular, and discountenancing religious, instruction. But M. Jules Simon, though not himself a Catholic — some say he is a Protestant, and others that he is a Jew — has a higher appreciation of the merits of the Church than many men who profess to belong to it. He is the author of that book called " The Priest, the Woman and the Family," and of numerous other works, in which he speaks as highly of the Church as any Catholic could. He has now, as chairman of the Senpte Committee on M Ferry's bill, declared himself opposed to that infamous " seventh clause," by which Jesuits are disqualified as teachers. He says all his life has been devoted to liberty, and he is dead against proscription. He will be a more dangerous opponent for the government than a dozen Catholic orators, and no one belierea the government capable of carrying their godless bill with M. Jules Simon for an antagonist.

Her medical attendants believe that the the ex-Express Eugenic will not long survive the death of her son.

The famous Abbe Listz, celebrated pianistc, has just been named Honoiary Canon of the Cathedral at Alhano. His nomination is due to the influence of his fiiend, Cardinal Hohenlohe, newly-elected Archbishop of Albano.

The London Times says :— The Spanish bishops, at the request of the government, have agreed to temporarily relinquish a quarter of their stipends to relieve public finances.

Signor Giaja, an engineer, has explained the Panama Canal scheme to the Pope, who bestowed the Pontifical Blessing on the project. His Holiness said he hoped the canal would prove morally, even more than materially, a bond between the Old and New Woilds.

The bankrupt city of Florence was voted forty-nine million francs by the government to relieve the municipality of its difficulty ; but the city res-ponds, that as the debt amounts to three or four times that sum, relief is nearly as far off as ever. How many bubbles this Italian •' unity " has blown out. and allowed to coMapse 1 A Vienna despatch to the London Dally Telegraph says it is believed in well-informed circles that Russia has succeeded in establishing an alliance with Persia. Russia is closing round India. There are 450 women dentists in the United States, and 1,350 are studying deptistry.

A St. Petersburg correspondent reports that in order to colonise the Cential Asian provinces, Russia promises all her subjects residing therein unlimited land grants and exemption from military services and payment of taxes. General Kauffmann will not return to Turkestan as Governor-General, but will probably be succeeded by Prince Dondonkaff Korsakaff in that position. A letter from one of Professor Nordenskjold's assistants, recently published in various Scandinavian papers, gives an interesting account of the Tshudi, a peculiar race inhabiting the north-eastern part of Siberia. They look very much like the Greenlanders, are small but alert, have a brownish-yellow skin, with coal-black eyes and hair, and a singular joyless, almost frozen expression of face. They live in tents, dress in skins, and feed on seal-flesh. Their ■women are tattooed in the face. In their intcrcomrse with the crew^ of the Vega, they were a little shy, but curious, like penguins, "f3B^ willing to help. Their moral ideas were rather naif, b«t firmly k<lhercd to as far as they went. Of their language a dictionary (TshudiSwedish) has been made, comprising about three hundred words, and it will, no doubt, prove of interest to the linguists, as the tongues of the Polar races have hitherto been as great a puzzle to the philologists as those of the negroes of tropical Africa. The London Times publishes a leview of the agricultural pros* poets, in which it is estimated that the condition of the hay and other fodder ciops throughout England and Wales is many millions of pounds short of the average value. In the principal barley growing districts the worth of the barley is nearer fire to six pounds than ten pounds per acre, which has been the arerage value in other years,