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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 402, 24 December 1880, Page 11

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The Cardinal Archbishop of New York has ordered a collection in his diocese for the Sovereign Pontiff, appealing to the well-known charity of the diocese of New York for a liberal response. Such an appeal has never been made to the faithful in greater necessities of the Holy S^e, and such an appeal has never failed to win, from Catholic New York, a generous answer worthy of the country and of the cause.

The Hebrews of New York did honour to themselves and the magnificent civilization which they inherit, by voting for the Catholic who was a candidate for the Mayoralty of New York. That will be remembered for them, if ever a son of Israel is a candidate for a high office in New York.

The schools of the Society of Jesus in the Rue de Madrid reopened recently with one hundred more pupils than they had before their suppression by the Government. A new set of Catholic teachers have supplied the place of the exiled Jesuits, but the tone of the teaching will remain unaltered. The increase ia the number of pupils in the schools which have been re-opened shows that many of the Catholic Frenchmen do not deserve the charge of supineness which has been fastened on the whole French by some thoughtless people. If the persecution of the Jesuits conl inues to produce such fruit, they will be the last peisons to regret a measure which has only been a humiliation to their enemies.

A noble and venerable institution will soon die a natural death. The St. G-othard Hospice will be shut up eighteen months hencd, the railway tunnel drawing all the traffic from the Pass. The Ger mania denies that the Holy See is not in accord with the attitude of Catholics in the late celebration at Cologne. "It is in vain," the Oermania says, " that the liberal organs offer us ironical condolences. There exists not the slightest trace of disagreement between the Holy Father and Catholic German?."

The Police Commissioners at Rennes, France, have resigned in a body rather than enforce the decrees against the religious communities.

An Italian woman, Signora Adele Capei, has offered to the Municipal Council of Florence a Bilver box containing ashes taken from the tomb of Dante Alighieri. and a^ke>l that it may hs kej.t in one of of the Florentine miis ii unn. The council has accepted the trift, and proposes to k^ep the precious relic in tht* mu"i'um in course of preparation in the quarter < a 1 led Leonora ii Toledo, where all the ancient banners possessed by the city, are to be collected.

It is a pretty large contract that Gladstone and Co. hav<! undertaken in preparing 'o prosecute the Land Leaguer*. The Dublin Freeman's Journal says the indictment will include two hundred speeches and the testimony of three hundred and fifty witnesses. Lots of people who go to law wish they hadn't before they get through. Speaking of the proposed prosecution, the New York /Sun says :—": — " It is natural enough that an English Ministry should find it almost impossible to keep hands off the leaders and propagator* of the Land League. But they may find it even more difficult to let go-

An Irish witness in court lately, named Patr.ck Monday, who has lived in Montreal thirty-two years, could not speak a word of Engli-h. An interpreter of the Irish language had to be found before the proceedings could be proceeded with. The witness explained through the interpreter that his wife and family as well as his employer heie all spoke Irish, and be had no need to learn English. A society of Mormon girls, having for its object the securing of monogamic husbands, has been discovered and broken up at Salt Lake. The members took a vow to marry no man who would not pledge himself to be content with one wife. Five grand-daughters of Brighara Young had joined it.

The village of Oberammergau is indeed inhabited by people so religious, gay, and gentle that they hardly seem to be denizens of a world of strife and pin. No angry tone, no loud tone, even, is audible in the streets, and there are no sad faces to be seen. If it is *rue that no repetition of the Play will take place, the world will sustain a great loss. There was nothing to suggest irreverence among any of the tourists, and the idlest amongst them seem to have been bettered by what they saw.

The Protestant pulpits of New York screamed with anger because a Catholic had been nominated for mayor of that city. Ah, gentlomen of the black cloth, how little fit you are for freedom !

On Sunday, October 10, during Mass in Gweedore Chapel, county Donegal, so lately the scene of a melancholy catastrophe by flooding, a sound like thunder was heard. The congregation, fearing it was the approach of another flood, became panic-stricken, and rushed en maxse towards the doors. In the struggle that ensued about tweuty persons were more or leS3 injured. One poor girl is said to be in a dying state, and three aged females were almost trampled to death. The cause of the alarm is said to have been a slate from the top sliding down the roof.

Sume good Catholics must have been prayng hard, for to our unspeakable joy we read the following in the French papers :—": — " The Abbe Bicbery, who for a while was vicar to Father Hyacinthe in his schismatical church in the Rue Itochechouart, and who quarrelled and went to law with him, has, after two months' probation at La Trappe, recanted his errors and submitted himself unreservedly to the Pope." New York, Oct. 22. — Three weeks ago Mrs. Mary Mayer, of 462, First street, Jersey City, died of typhoid fever, and was buried. The body appealed lifelike, and the chfeks after death were highly coloured. This preyed upon the mind of a daughter of the deceased to euch a degree that she caused the remains to be exhumed. It was then discovered that the woman had turned on her face in the coffin, and $hat in her struggles she had torn one ear almost off,