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Show I ' 'j ' p On Thursday, Dec. 15, Ht. Kcv. Bernard J. Mc-Quaid. Mc-Quaid. 1). D., Bishop of Rochester, was 81 years s old. He is the third oldest bishop in America. Ho I wns consecrated bishop of Rochester on July 12, t InJ. Bishop McQuaid was bom in Xew York City A on Dec. 15, l5-J, and was ordained to the holy i priesthood on Jan. 36, liS, by Most Rev. John j i; Hughes, D. D.. archbishop of Xew York. . t . ; : ' Tho Hon. Patrick Boyle, Democrat, was reoent- t ly for the eleventh time chosen mayor of Newport t in Republican Rhode Island. His opponent was 1ii Henry Bull, Jr., brother of the Xew York surgeon, ; "William T. Bull, of ex-Congressman Melville Bull of Jihcde Island and of Charles M. Bull of Brooklyn. Brook-lyn. The mayor is the head clerk of the Newport j v Gas Light company, which the Bulls control and 1 of which Congressman Bull is the president. . . : I The Russian Tort Arthur fleet has ceased to ! exi.-t. "When the war began there were seven bat- t tioships at Port Arthur the Petropavlovk, Care- , vitch, Rotvizan, Pobieda, Peresviet, Sevastopol and " Poltava. The first was sunk by striking a mine at f 1 the entrance cf the harbor. The second was badly I ' damaged in the fight last August, when the fleet I tried to make its escape, and ic, now laid up in the I ' German port of Kinchou. The others, with the j : possible exception of the Sevastopol, have been sunk by the Japanese fire from 20o-Metre hill. 4 Regarding reports that the peasantry in Mayo aud Gal way counties, in Ireland, are on the brink of starvation through failure of the potato crop, s Michael Davitt said the matter appears to be ex- aggera;ed. There was a wet summer and fears I j were felt for a partial crop failure, but.no appre- I I -tension exists of serious calamity. In even good I seasons, he said, there is poverty iu the section I mentioned. On the other hand, Mr. O'Brien con-; con-; firms the reports of distress in Ireland, which were first printed in English papers. : j f . '"The Annals of the Propogation of the Faith' I is before us. It is made up of varied mission, news from all parts of the world. Among its contents we find readable papers on ''The Society of For-j For-j eign Missions of Paris;" "Socialism in Loas, Asia." by Father Pourlet; the ''Mission of Libre- 1 ville iu 1 he' Vicariate Apostolic of Gabon, Africa;" : "A Year in the Mission of Mitala Maria," being a . I letter written from Northern Nyanza, Africa, by J " Father Moullee; ''Southern Patagonia," by Dom I Borgatells, a Silesian missionary of Turin; besides other interesting matter, appertaining .to the mis- 1 nous in Oecanlca, Asia, Europe and America. - I . : : I A correspondent asks: "What part of the ecclesiastical costume is the cope, such as that said I to have been stolen from the cathedral' at Ascoli j Piceuo. in Italy I". 1 x3t is a vestment of silk or other costly material I resembling a cloak. Originally designed to protect j the wearer against the weather, it was later worn 1 ""ly i procession and at vespers, during celebra- I tin of the mass, at benediction, consecration or 1, c.-ele.-iayical function. In form it is semi-uireuhr semi-uireuhr find sleeveless, and it is furnished With a iiood and fastened across the broa.-t with a morse, or clasp. Copes, were ornamented with embroidery aud jewels, and in the thirteenth century Ihey be- i ':,)n" J11st. magnificent of all the ecclesiastical t vest men s. ; - . Although we live in a country of constitutional t l; ranee in Religion, the Catholic Church will never escape misreprestntation and calumny. The day is far distant, if ever it comes, when voters i v'm to ''scratch" a candidate for public office for the reason that he is a Catholic. As a lecturer lec-turer voceiuly remarked, if Theodore Roosevelt, ten days .before, ihe election, had been converted to the O.tholic Church, ail K3me Ava& JmUiy en. noun-d, he would have been ovenvhelmingly de- feated, elthough the larger number of people making mak-ing up the '0,000,000 have.no decided religious attachment. at-tachment. ' - ''Truth," a little newspaper of this city, conducted con-ducted on the Bashi Bazouk order of literature, charges Senator Reams with trying to enlist the aid of "high officials of the Catholic Church, clericals cler-icals of national reputation, and powerful, not only in their church, but in worldly affairs," to elect W. S. McOornick to the senate of the " United States.. This information will be valuable to those ''powerful clerics," for it upsets the only knowledge they have had relating to the election of United States senators. Heretofore it has been usual for such to be elected by the members of a state legislature. legis-lature. Now it appears it will be done through a majority of votes cast by the monsignors. The editor of "Truth" might get. some satisfaction by challenging the vote of Archbishop Agius before he sails for the Philippines. lie's an Italian, you know. |