NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS. " Let the adornments of home be chaste and holy pictures, and, still more, sound, interesting, and profitable books."-Pastoral Letter of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. BOOKS. in Cincinnati in 1832. From Letter of Joshua M. Young, Printer, afterwards Bishop of Erie, Pa. 13. Note from Rev. Wm. Hogan, 1822. 14. The Charleston Schism, 1815-18. 15. Jefferson on the First Amendment. 16. St. Augustine's Meditations, 1809. 17. Who Knows? 18. Replies. 19. American Catholic His torical Notes. Pensions. John Murphy & Co., Baltimore, Md. FREDET'S ANCIENT HISTORY. From the dispersion of the Sons of Noe to the Battle of Actium, and the change of the Roman Republic into an Empire. By Peter Fredet, D.D. New, Revised and Improved Edition. 12mo. Half Arab. Price, $1.50. In presenting this new edition to the public, the publishers feel it incumbent upon themselves to state that they have spared neither pains nor expense in making such improvements as were considered best calculated to enhance its value. SOLDIERS, or their widows, who have Modern research has necessitated a most claims for pensions waiting to be settled, careful revision of the history of Assyria, or who think of applying, cannot do betBabylonia, Egypt and the earlier portions ter than to call on F. Emmons, the wellof Roman and Greek history. At the known and successful Pension Attorney, same time the preservation of Fredet's No. 4 State Street, Boston, or send to plan to present ancient history, not ethno- him for his circular giving_full_instruclogically, but, as far as possible, as a suc- tions how to get pensions. Mr. Emmons cession of contemporaneous events, has had nearly ten years' experience at the been deemed essential, as this feature con- U. S. Pension Office before engaging in stitutes probably the keynote to the well- the claim business, consequently he is deserved popularity of the work, inasmuch well prepared to prosecute pension claims as it is most apt to fasten upon the successfully. It is better to have an atjuvenile mind a proper concatenation of facts. The teachers, no doubt, will as much welcome the headings of paragraphs in bold, black type as the scholars, and the publishers hope to have thereby added to the intrinsic merit of Mr. Fredet's compendium. MISCELLANEOUS. torney near home than to employ one in Washington. Mr. Emmons informs us that he has procured more pensions during the last two years than any other attorney in Massachusetts, and is employed by soldiers in all of the New England States and also in the provinces. He was GEN. WILLIAM PRESTON, a distinguished Kentuckian, died at his residence, in Lexington, Sept. 21. the leader of the anti-Know-Nothing movement in his section in 1855. His grandfather was an Irishman. THE first frost is twice blessed. It THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL brings down the chestnuts and the RESEARCHES, of Philadelphia, for Octo- mosquito. ber, contains the following valuable articles of interest. 1. Memorial of Bishop Chance to Congress. 2. Church property, Natchez, Miss. 3. Spanish Documents relating to the Founding of the Church at Natchez. 4. History of the Missions among the Menominee Indians. 5. Catholic Charitable Society of Baltimore, 1827. 6. Early American Catholic Publication Societies. 7. Thaddeus Kosciuszlio, Defender of American Liberty and Emancipator of American Slaves. 8. Abbe Correa, the Priest-Ambassador to the United States. 9. The Crucifix of Father Rasles. IO. On the Missions of North America. Mission of Rev. E. L. Dubuisson, S. J., in Northern Pennsylvania in January, 1835. 11. Old St. Joseph's Church, Philadelphia. Account published at Rome, 1836, and Nantes, 1837. 12. The Cholera MATTHIAS SPLITLOG, of Splitlog City, McDonald County, Mo., is a full blooded Wyandotte Indian and a millionnaire. He is engaged with others now in building a railroad from Kansas City to Fort Smith. He is probably the only Indian railroad man in the United States. "How do you get along without watermelons in winter, Uncle Joe?" "Sar, dar am chickens in the wintah." OBITUARY. "After life's fitful fever they sleep well." CLERGYMEN. REV. JAMES MURPHY, late pastor of St. Theresa's Church, Manton, diocese of Providence, R. I., died on the 5th of November. The funeral took place the 7th. REV. F. B. HANNIGAN, C.M., died in Buffalo on October 16. BROTHER. REV. BROTHER ALBION, aged fiftythree years, of the Catholic Male Orphan Asylum, died Friday, Oct. 28, at the above institution, after a lingering illness. Deceased was one of the pioneers of the Christian Brothers in Troy, N. Y., numbering among the first to enter the field of labor here thirty-five years ago, when the society begun its labors in this city; His good work will long be remembered by those who grew up under his care, as he was a most devoted and zealous teacher. After years of work in this city he was transferred to New Orleans, where the yellow fever of a dozen years ago was prevalent. Together with other members of the society he was constantly in the presence of danger. The disease finally entered the house of the Christian Brothers, and Rev. Brother Albion was at the bedside of seven of his associates when they were carried off by the dreadful plague. Coming North again he resumed work in New York and elsewhere, enjoying excellent health, and, until attacked by that fatal malady (consumption), which closed his useful life, was the picture of health. When taken sick the good Brother weighed in the neighborhood of three hundred pounds; and when death relieved his sufferings he had fallen to about one hundred and forty pounds. Thus an idea of his sufferings can be had. The funeral, which took place from St. Joseph's Church, was largely attended by the orphans, parochial school boys, and the good people of St. Mary's and St. Joseph's parishes. A Requiem High Mass was celebrated by Father Loyzance, assisted by Fathers Gleason and Barnum. Rev. Father Havermans, of St. Mary's Church, paid a high tribute to the qualities of the deceased. SISTERS. ON the 20th of October, Mother Mary Celestine, of the Ursuline Convent in Morrisania, New York, was called to her reward. Mother Celestine was a sister of Rev. Joseph Zimmer, of Raritan, N. J. She was in the thirty-seventh year of her age, and in the fourteenth of her religious profession. The uncomplaining, patient suffering of years of impaired health won the special affection of her sisters in religion, as well as all others who came within the influence of her gentle character. As she lived, so she died-at peace with all the world, and hopeful of a happy eternity. MOTHER MARY, of the convent of the Good Shepherd, died in St. Louis recently. For more than a quarter of a century she has had charge of the affairs of her order in this country, and in that time she overspread the whole land with her works of zeal and charity. The nature of the work in which she was engaged precluded publicity, and its success depended upon the fact of concealment. But the thousands whom she rescued from a fate a thousand times worse than death are scattered all over the land from Maine to Texas. Her history is the history of her order in this country and her best monument is the grand institution of the Good Shepherd in that city. THE death of Sister Mary Baptist (Miss Catherine Mullaney) of the Presentation Convent, Middletown, county Cork, is announced. Deceased was born in Cloyne; she was sixty-eight years of age, forty-seven years of which were spent in the seclusion of the Convent, engaged in the education of Catholic girls. Many of them scattered through all parts of the world have cause to remember her with gratitude. Requiescat in Pace. with Christian patience. Mrs. Cashman children and relatives. May her soul was born in 1837, and was the daughter rest in peace! REQUIESCAT. "Strew on her roses, roses, Oh! weep not that she's gone from pain to Paradise, To warn when danger neared, and aid till it was o'er; willed: sky to die; She long had taught us how to live, she'd teach us now of Mr. John Byrne, of Kilmessan, county Meath, Ire. She finished her education at St. Joseph's Academy, Emmittsburg, Md. One of her sisters, since dead, became a Sister of Charity at this famous institution. Her brother is the Very Rev. William Byrne, Vicar-General of the Archdiocese of Boston. She was married eighteen years ago. She leaves five children, a daughter and four sons, to mourn the loss of a most affectionate and devoted mother. Mrs. Cashman, though of a singularly retiring disposition, and devoted to her home, in which she found her happiness, attracted many friends by her kindliness of heart, and stability of character. She was earnest in the practice of her religion. Her resignation and fortitude in the face of death were remarkable. She was most faithfully attended in her last sickness by the Rev. Leo Boland of the Cathedral, SINCE our last issue, Mrs. Catherine who gave her the last sacraments on the Reed, wife of Mr. John Reed, of Revere, eve of her death and was present at her has died after a very short illness. Dedeathbed, with her husband and children, ceased was born in County of Roscomand her friend and nurse, Mrs. Ryan. mon, Ireland, and was forty eight years Her funeral took place from the Cathe- of age. An exemplary Christian, a dral, at nine A. M. Oct. II. The Rev. devoted wife and affectionate mother, Leo P. Boland was celebrant of the her loss is deeply regretted. May she Solemn High Mass, the Rev. M. A. rest in peace. Corcoran, deacon, the Rev. H. A. Sullivan, sub-deacon. The Rev. Thomas Flanagan was master of ceremonies. THE Right Rev. Edward Fitzgerald, There were present in the sanctuary the D. D., Bishop of Little Rock, Ark., Very Rev. W. Byrne, V.G.; rector of St. has been appointed administrator of the Joseph's, West End, the Revs. Thomas Archdiocese of New Orleans. Since H. Shahan, Arlington; L. J. O'Toole, June he has confirmed over twelve thouWest Newton; John O'Brien, East Cam- sand persons in that Archdiocese. The bridge; R. Neagle, the Chancellor; W. Bishops of the Province of New OrH. Fitzpatrick, Milton; John B. Galvin, leans met on Nov. 3 to decide on Somerville; W. H. O'Connell and E. names to be sent to Rome for the Moriarty, of St. Joseph's; Michael Gilli- choice of a successor to Archbishop gan, Medford. The pall-bearers were Leray. The wish of many is that Bishop Messrs, Noonan, Conlon, Farrell, D. B. Fitzgerald be the chosen one. Cashman, English, and O'Donahue, of Portland. There were present at the funeral, Sister Simplicia, of the Carney Hospital, and seven other sisters of Charity and Sisters of St. Francis. In diately after your name), and you addition to the immediate members of will see to what time you have paid. the family and relatives, a large number of the families of the members of the If you owe for the present year, Catholic Union attended the church please send a money order or postal service and accompanied the body to note for the amount. Don't forHolyhood Cemetery. The last rites at the grave were performed by Frs. Boland and Flanagan. Many friends deplored her untimely death, and extend heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved husband, get. Look at the cover of your MAGAZINE (imme Of the four bishops recently appointed to Sees at the West three of them were born in Ireland. THE REV. JOHN BAPST, S. J., for many years attached to the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Boston, and late at Providence, R. I., died recently at the Mount Hope Asylum, near Baltimore. In the spring of 1854, Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, and pastor of the Catholics at Ellsworth, in the State of Maine, asked the school-masters to exempt the Catholic children from reading the Protestant version of the Bible; and he made his request so mildly that the teachers conformed. The schoolcommittee, however, interfered, and ordered the teachers to make the Catholic children read the Protestant Bible under pain of expulsion. The Catholics appealed to the competent tribunal to establish their rights, and this step so exasperated the fanatics against Father Bapst, that the town meeting, espousing the cause of the school-committee, adopted the following resolution, inscribed on the records of the town on the 8th of July, 1857: Whereas, we have reasons to believe that we are indebted to one John Bapst, S. J., Catholic priest, for the luxury of the present lawsuit, now enjoyed by the school-committee of Ellsworth, therefore "Resolved, That should the said Bapst be found again on Ellsworth soil, we manifest our gratitude for his kindly interference with our free schools and attempts to banish the Bible therefrom, by procuring for him and trying on an entire suit of new clothes, such as cannot be found at the shop of any tailor, and that thus apparelled he be presented with a free ticket to leave Ellsworth upon the first railroad operation that may go into effect." This resolution, welcomed with applause, passed without a dissenting voice, and the council, far from blushing at the act, decided that it should be published in the two papers of the place. Father Bapst, who resides at Bangor, went to Ellsworth, on Saturday, the 14th of October, to celebrate Mass there the next day. In the evening, at a meeting of the two fire companies of Ellsworth, it was proposed and adopted to put in execution the resolution of the council; and about nine o'clock in the evening the mob surrounded the house of Mr. Kent, whose hospitality the missionary was enjoying, and where he was actually hearing confessions. Father Bapst was dragged out of the house, stripped of his clothes, placed on a rail, and borne along amid the taunts and insults of these hellhounds, till the rail breaking dashed on the ground the victim of this outrage. Then they covered his naked body with melted tar, and rolling him in feathers left him. "It would be impossible," wrote an eye-witness, "to repeat the horrible blasphemies and indecencies of that terrible night; but all that the imagination *One at all events assumed the person of the archfiend, exclaim:ng; 66 So we treated Jesus Christ." 595 can conceive short of absolute mutilation and bloodshed was accomplished by the impious wretches. The outrage lasted two hours, a cold rain falling all the while.' When his assailants, weary with tormenting him, left Father Bapst amid the mud, rain, and darkness, he dragged himself alone to the house of his host, and spent a long time in cleansing himself from the filth, tar, and feathers with which he had been covered. In order to calm his moral and physical sufferings, Mr. Kent pressed him to take some food, or at least a drink; but it was past midnight, and the heroic priest, who had come to celebrate Mass on Sunday, preferred to bear the burning thirst rather than break his fast. "Sitio," said his Divine Master. Father Bapst spent the rest of the night sleepless, in the most violent nervous agitation, but in the morning his duties as a pastor enabled him to surmount his suffering, and at the usual hour he celebrated Mass before the horror-stricken Catholics of Ellsworth.* The outrage excited general indignation throughout the United States, and though the grand jury refused to prosecute the wellhnown authors of this horrid wrong, the Know-Nothings generally felt that they had gone too far. The malefactors had robbed Father Bapst of his watch and purse. The Protestants of Bangor made up a subscription to offer the Jesuit a beautiful gold watch, and accompanied the present with an address, in which they eloquently protested gainst the conduct of the people of Ellsworth. Pope Leo's Jubilee. ROME, Nov. 7.—The programme of the ceremonies attending the celebration of the Pope's Jubilee was made public to-day. On Dec. 31 the Pope will receive the members of the international committee, who will present him with a gift of 1,000,000 lire. On Jan. I the Pope will celebrate Mass in St. Peter's. Jan. 2 he will hold a public reception at the Church of San Lorenzo. On the 4th and 5th he will receive foreign deputations. On the 6th he will open the exhibition of the gifts presented to His Holiness. On the 15th the Pope will canonize ten saints. *Father John Bapst was born at La Roche, canton of Fribourg, in 1815, and was brought up at the Jesuit College in that city. There, too, he entered the Society of Jesus, and remained till 1848, when he was sent to Maine. He was at first employed on the dian missions, and then stationed at Bangor. -1888. WITH this issue of DONAHOE'S MAGAZINE we commence the tenth year of its existence. That its course has been approved, no better evidence can be offered than its steady and upward circulation. 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