The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-09-27
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS

Lelands Saratoga hotel is to cost one mllliOn
dollars.
The Boston Jews are about to test the Sun
day law.
Paul Morphy, the shess-player, is living in
Instructions have broken out in Sicily and
Calabria.
The firm of Yulita, Havana, has failed for
81, OOO, 600.
Every child of ten years in China can read
and write.
Dessicated Goldfish is becoming an article of
commerce.
Congress met on the 21st inst. and adjourned
till October.
The yield of cotton in Egypt this year win
be enormous.
The first railroad in stutgardt was inaugur-
ated in July. ...-.
English Quakers are beginning to dress in
plain clothes.
A broker in Wall street sold 81 ,OOo, 900 in gold
last Thursday.
Wooden-soled boots and shoes are the latest
Yankee notions.
Lakes Huron and Ontario are to be united
Cost, SAC, 900.
Seventy thousand tons of candy are sold an
The insurrectionary movement in Spain ap
pears to be general.
Victor Hugo's new novel brings him one hun
dred thousand francs.
Last year five hundred thousand penguin
were slain for their oil.
In regard to the late riots in Georgia. new
measures will be taken.
| The receipts of customs from the l4th to tn
10Th inst. was 1851 900.
| Gen. Albert Pike has removed to Washingto
to practice his profession.
The millionaire Daniel Drew, formerly dre'
beer at Drovers' Tavern.
Robert Lincoln married Senator marian
daughter on the oath inst.
Switzerland manufactures eight hundr
Thousand watches annually.
Gen. Mcclellan is to have civic receptio
ON his arrival in New York.
The President, it is said, will not recogni;
the late session of Congress.
The editor of the Cleveland Ptaindeater hi
come into fortune of $25,O0O
A noIe proseqsi has been entered in the Il
dictment of Suratt for murder.
The latest novelty is q fan which can be use
e as a rarasol, a veil or a bonnet.
8 Martial law has been proclaimed in Madr
4 and several other Spanish cities.
p Gen. Sully is reported to have driven the
dams beyond the borders of Texas.
Lieut. Beecher, recently killed by Indian
was a son of Henry Ward Beecher.
Sixty million dollars are invested in the l
IL per collar business in this country.
4, There are thirty thousand shoemakers
e Observation-Disclosures the Natick cobier. -
D. A beet sugar manufacturing company
been formed in London with a very large C;
rt ital.
The deaths in Great Britain last year w
thirty times greater by lightning than by tt
% way.
20 Tobn. stock broker in Wall street, bou
III stock to the amount of 81 SOC, 900 one day l
nv week.
The Bombay press condemn the appointm
be of the Earl of Mayo as Governor General
as India.
as The consumption of cotton in England
&C. increased thirty per cent. within the last
is years.
,a The Ham family, to the number of one h
49, dred and seventy-five, met lately at Lewis
lin Maine.
III The italian Government has sold. the tob;
80. MONOPOLY for twenty years for forty mil
dollars.
SUI Suit has been brought against Laird,
ted builder of the privateer Alabama, for sll'
10 damages.
ect Suratt's counsel plead the statute of lin
md tions on his trial, and being held good,
now free.
cod man in Troy named Haydock, travele
a. the 18th instant one hundred miles in TIVE
T., two hours.
:, 1t is recommended in jumping from
q, in case of accident, to jump with and
against it,
ttee The other Northern cities, jealous of
York, are industriously hunting up their :"
"A edest man." q