Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1879 — A Sensible Priest. [ARTICLE]

A Sensible Priest.

Father Hennessey, of Jersey City, has taken a very decided stand against the extravagance displayed at funerals. He has declared that no more than twelve coaches shall attend a funeral. Yesterday nearly forty coaches accompanied the remains of the mother of a frominent Jersey City politician to ather Hennessey’s church, He refused to permit the remains to enter the sacred edifice, and was only induced to permit the services to take place after all but ten coaches had been dismissed and the undertaker and the friends of the deceased assured the priest that his wishes were strictly complied with. Last evening Father Hennessey declared that it was nis intention not to permit extravagant funerals, and for this

purpose he should not permit more than twelve coaches to attend the remains of any of his parishioners. As Father Hennessey said, in many cases the coaches attending funerals are not paid for at all, and m others the payment takes bread from the mouths of wives and children. In the majority of cases a string of carriages is for mere show. There is no question that a long ■trhig of carriages at funerals represents a waste of money. This needless waste of money bears more hardly on the poor, and the Catholic clergy are perfectly justified in trying to put a stop to it.— N. T. Graphic. —A professor lecturing on “English' industries” to a daws of juveniles informed them that it took seven men and a boy to make a pin. “I expect,” said a little fellow, “ that it’s the seven men that make that pin, and that they use the boy to stick ft into to see u it’s sharp enough.”