NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 111, 12 June 1875, Page 13

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Dutch, authoress, Sarah Voglear, has become a Catholic. She was received into the Church at Monte Cassino.

The wife of the sub-dean of St. Patrick's (Protestant) cathedral, Dublin, has been received into the Catholic Church.

The ' Telegraph/ quoted by the ' Monde/ announces the death of Maximin,' the shepherd of La Salette. It gives no details of the event.

The 'Petaluma Argus' relates how John Quinlan, afflicted with rheumatism, was completely and quickly cured by applying the leaves of the Eucalyptus or blue gum. Mrs. H. B. Stowe is about to publish a new novel, entitled " We and our Neighbors." Cardinal Donnet, Archbishop of Bordeaux, is gazetted to the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. The Cardinal, who is in his 80th year, is well-known both for his eloquent preaching and for his religious writings. A correspondent of a Birmingham paper mentions, on the authority of a local cabman, that " the cab ranks of that town number among their members men of birth and education, noble captains, eminent publicans, a son-in-law of an earl, and last, but not least, an unfortunate clown."

A negro lawyer is gaining an immense reputation at Richmond, Texas, having thus far won nearly every case he has undertaken.

Prom a book recently published in England, we learn that the number of Catholic Bishops and priests in England has increased from 477 in 1829, to 1824 in 1872 ; that the public and private chapels connected with that Church in 1829, numbered 449, and in 1872. 1400. At the former date there were no convents or monasteries, while at the latter there were 232 of the former and 72 of the latter.

The postal routes across the Alps have suffered greater and more frequent interruption this winter than for years. Sixteen and eighteen feet of solid snow has been the level average on the St. Gothard route.

A man seventy-seven years old has made his appearance in Philadelphia wearing a hat which he put on his head thirty-one years ago, vowing he would never remove it until Henry Clay was elected President.

A verdict of $8000 damages was given against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, for the killing of an infant. The Irishmen of Scranton, Pa., on the 29th of March, voted to raise a fund for Mitchel's widow, instead of a parade as first m r 6"posed. ■ ; Augustine Picard, of Troy, N. T., has just celebrated Ms 108 th birthday. He has a sister 106 years old in Quebec. Statisticians say that the negro race, above all others, abhors suicide. Only two cases have been recorded at Richmond.

- On January 1, there were 198 Catholic newspapers published in 0-ermany, of which seventy-eight appeared in the Rhenish Provinces, Westphalia. Aix-la-Chapelle has four Catholic papers, Breslau five, Cologne seven, Munster eight, Paderborn seven, and Warzburg thirteen. These figures prove that there must be some activity in the Catholic party in Germany, since it can support so many journals. In 1860, there were only five in the whole empire. Jefferson Davis telegraphed from New Orleans to the Memphis Mitchel meeting that " John Mitchel's death is a loss to mankind."

Madame McMahon, with the proceeds of a charity festival, redeemed all the tools or other implements of Paris workmen, that had been in the hands of pawnbrokers. The great spectacle of sixteen hundred men approaching holy communion in a body was witnessed in Cork Cathedral, during a recent mission of the Redemptorist Fathers. A. T. Stewart, of New York, the millionaire Irish merchant, has given £200 toward the expenses of the American Rifle Team. The head of Oliver Plunkett, the martyred Primate of Ireland, is preserved in a Convent at Drogheda. W. S. O'Brien, who now has mining interests in Nevada to the extent of £60,000,000, is quit* young, and waa a common labourer a w years since, 4 ' * •