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VOL. II. OCTOBER 25TH, 1883. NO. 43. 1155 BRoapway, New York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, 10 cents, CUR highly esteemed contemporary, the New York Commer. cial Advertiser, referring to the recent celebration in New- burgh, says: ‘‘ Hundreds of persons made the rounds, secking shelter from hotel keepers, boarding houses, and even personal friends, but found all full.” This is scandalous, and scarcely credible, We can readily understand how, in the general enthu- siasm, some few dissolute persons may have been’ inérdinately convivial, but that the whole town, including personal friends of visitors, were full, is beyond belief. (4 WAS somewhat in doubt of my chance in the campaign until Mr. DANA published my portrait, Now it is settled. Please have my name spelled correctly in the obituaries, and please do not mix me up with liver pads,"—HOLMAN. s 8 6 WE are pleased to notice the fine distinctions made by the Holy Mother Church in the bringing home with bell and burial of her dead children. Two weeks ago a man died ina garret in this city of many spires. That he was a hardened and despicable wretch there can be no doubt, for two years had passed since he had contributed anything to the Fund for the Erection of an Altar to St. JosEPH, or the Fund for the Pyx‘and Monstrance for the chapel of St, FRANCIS XAVIER, or paid his dues to the Sodality of the BLESSED ViRGIN, or ordered a $5 mass for the repose of the soul of his grandmother, or subscribed to the Peter’s Pence or any other of the thousand and one policy schemes so dear to the Catholic heart. It is true that before that time he was a most devout in- vestor in these little heavenly bonds, and that since then he had been so addicted to consumption as not to be able to buy bread for his children, much less be liberal with his confessor. But this should not be weighed in his favor. He died in a lamp- less garret, with only his starving wife and brats to console him in his last moments. Next day, doubtlessly insane, the depraved wife applied to the priest for permission to have him buried from the church to the support of which he had formerly contributed. ‘This brazen impudence was properly rebuked by the austere man of God, who, with that fine business instinct so carefully cultivat- ed by the MoTHER CuuRcH, informed the bold lunatic that it was $0 or no prayers, And so the body of the dead consumptive was buried by the coroner in potter's field, and his soul was left eo 8 ¢ to howl its way out of Purgatory as best it could. This was of course just as it should have been. Contrast with this the affection shown last week by the MOTHER Cuurcn for Mr. JouNNY WALSH and Mr. JoHNNY IRVING, the two gentlemen who, having promised to kill each other on sight, were honorable enough to keep their word in the saloon of Mr. Suanc Draper. Both were men of influence and standing in the community—so much so that their portraits were several times taken to order at the expense of the city, and cach in his day had been the guest of the State. The misunderstanding which led to the demise of both these gentlemen it is unnecessary now to com- ment upon, but suffice it to say that it was the outgrowth of their profession, and therefore pardonable. Mr. IRVING went gunning for Mr. Wats, and winged him, Mr. WALSH promptly drew, and killed Mr, Irvine, and then Mr, Porter, a friend of Mr. Irvin, killed Mr. WALSH. Both Messrs. IRvinc and WALSH, therefore, died in the very act of murder, for Mr. WALSH was as anxious to settle Mr, IRVING as Mr. InvING was to settle Mr. Wats. Here was a clear chance for MOTHER CHURCH to ex- hibit her appreciation, and accordingly there were blessings and incense and holy water plenty, and the remains of both gentle- men were laid away to rest in consecrated ground with the othér saints. Price, $275.00. It might be said by ribald scoffers that this would make it ap- pear that money can buy anything in the Church. This would be a monstrous libel. The facts we have just cited show it is quite the reverse. * 8 « THE impression gained abroad that Mr. George Vanderbilt was about to become a newspaper reporter, probably arose from the fact that Mr, Swinton was about to start a journal. No newspaper -man, according to Mr. Swinton, receives less than $2,000,000 a year. * « 8 “cs THE public makes as much fuss over my grip experiments and delay as if it owned the Bridge. I want it known that me and the Trustys is running this thing, and if it isn’t my grip what's to go, it’s zo grip, That's flat."—Paine, e ¢ «6 ONSIGNOR CAPEL says that the theologians of his church can hold their own, even in science, against all comers. We should say so. What was the name of that Amer- ican who lost 13,000 francs trying to teach a theologian draw poker last winter in Brussels ?” es 8 ¢ U NLESS France makes ampler reparation for the insult offered him in the Parisian streets, King Alfonso says he will order the Spanish minister to quit Paris. There it goes aga the savage, merciless, Castilian spirit of revenge—the disposition to crush and annihilate—the terrible, blood-curdling Spanish vendetta, For Heaven's sake, where is the Congress of Powers? comicbooks.com