The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-08-23
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

IL OuC as5lln IOr improvements
The Canadians apprchend another Fenian
raid.
Gen. b. f. Smith, of the regular army, is
dead.
Ashley, the impeacher, has been rcnomi-
mated.
McCool, the celebrated prize lighter, was
married IN st. Louis, on the 9th instant.
A brewery in Alexandria, Virginia, fell on
the Goth inst, and killed two persons.
Nelaton, the eminent French surgeon,
has been made a senator by Napoleon.
The experiment tried in Washington of
mixing black and white firemen has failed.
The Princess Metternich's bonnets cost
$50, 900 year.
Gen. Grant draws s22 900 year in gold,
and pays no tax.
A sexton recently dug his own grave in
Sandusky, Ohio.
Ruskin, the art critic, has an income of
$4,000, 900 per year.
The Indian outrages lately reported were
greatly exaggerated.
The wheat crop now harvested is the lar
gcst crop ever grown.
Pigot, one of the imprisoned Dublin edit
orS, has been released.
Wine is becoming an important article of
manufacture in Kansas.
Chemists say that growing tobacco great
ly impoycrishes the soil.
Pittsburg laid the first stone of new
city hall Saturday week.
The sale of Church property in Italy, so
far, is nearly $33,00O,OOO.
One thousand barrels of lager beer are
consumed daily in New York.
Trufles to the amount of a million dol
lars are exported from France.
The French Government is purchasing
horses and forage in this country.
Stevens has gone back to his old voca-
tion-giving English lessons in Paris.
The South Carolina Legislature has pass
ed but five bills in thirty days session.
Gen. Joseph Z. Johnston has been made
an LID. by William and Mary College.
A collision between the negroes and po-
lice occurred at Atlanta, on the 18th inst.
A brother of the late N. p. Willis is said
to be boOt-maker in Melbourne, Australia.
Elliot, the well-known portrait painter,
| is reported at the point of death at Albany.
/ The Easter collections for the various
Catholic churches in New York was $2s, 54e.
The Butler Zouaves (black) fired into a
| crowd of whites in Washington, on the Nth
| instant
| Rollins and McCulloch are trying to over
| reach each other but the former still
stcks.'
Charles Dickens, on recent visit to Ire
land, was taken for q Fenian head centre
in disguise.
Miss Susie Train, daughter of George
Francis, takes the lead in Juvenile turnouts
| at Newport.
Blu ComstOck, the noted scout, was killed
by Indians on the 18th instant, near Hayes
City, Kansas.
The ladies of Philadelphia have rifle
club. Their shots are unerring when sent
from the eyes.---
Vallandigham has received the nomna-
ton of the Third Congressional District of
Ohio for Congress.
The negroes in Monroe are fully armed
and drill nightly: Much apprehension
exists in that locality.
Rev. H. T. Pryor, of Lynchburg, recently
sold box of tobacco at five hundred dol
lars per hundred pounds.
| A gold mine in Spottsylvania county,
Virginia, which cost 900 ono year ago,
WAS lately sold for $500.
The New York Society to prevent cruelty
to animals has prosecuted two hundred and
fifty persons in the last year.
3. The printing establishment connected
with DIR. Brandreth's pill factory, at Sing
| Sing, burned on the 2Sth ult.
A farmer in Putnam county, Illinois, COM
mittcd suicide, last week, because the grass
hoppers had injured his wheat.
There is child in Stafford county, Nr-
ginia, eight years old, who weighs one hun
dred and thirty six pounds.
The negroes in jamaica are conducting
themselves in Il manner to excite apprehen-
sion among the white population.
During the three years since the war, the
expenses and stealings in and about the gov
eminent have been 81 500, 000,0 900.
The expenses of the war and navy de-
partments last year were S5,50O,0O more
than during the first year of the war;
The two United States Senators in Con-
gress from Georgia must be happy fellows,
as both parties praise and claim them.
Motley has declined public reception in