The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-06-07
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NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY, JUNE I, ICES.

Gen. Shields Is lectur1ng in Missouri for
charitable purposes.
Ex-President Buchanan died at Wheat
Land ON the first inst.
The trial Of jefferson Davis has been
postponed till October.
The Canadian militia are preparing to
meet Gen. O'Neil's raid.
brate the Fourth of July.
Callicot, the great revenue defrauder, has
been found guilty by a jury.
Peter Cooper and others are organizing
society to protect the Indians.
It is found that the waste of boards makes
fine material for building purposes.
A pronuncimiento has been made by Gen.
Aurobins, in Mexico, against Juarez.
The Revolution, Cady Stanton's paper, is
said to have ten thousand circulation.
Stewart, the dry goods king, and Bonner,
the press emperor, are both Irishmen.
Gen. Stoneman has been appointed to the
command of the first military district.
According to the last census there were
over four million horses in the country.
Great distress prevails in Nova Scotia,
amounting, in some cases, to starvation.
Syphons are found to be good substitutes
for water troughs in watering rice fields.
Anarchy reigns in ADyssinia, the king
nominated by the English being repudiated.
Ice and flowers were gathered from the
same lot in Danvers, Massachusetts, last
week. ~
died in that city on the 25th ult., aged
eighty.
A man named Huber, of Ubrickvife,
Ohio, died lately from the bite of a black
spider.
Geo. c. Graham, of California, has been
elected secretary of the United States
Senate.
A thousand dollars q minute are said to
be the expenses of our government for the
last year.
The pill man, DR.. Aver, pays taxes on
S66,OOO We'd take that last pill without
mouthing.
A society of " Christian dressmakers" in
Paris have determined not to make low
necked dresses.
The Chinese Mission, headed by Mr..
Burlingame, was received by the President,
ON the 5th inst.
Since McGee's assassination fifty thou
sand Photographic of him have been issued
by one establishment
Canada is alive to Fenian movements.
More troops are called for, and the pay of
volunteers increased.
Charges of corruption, and many other
Busted, in Congress.
The most 1uxuriously furnished house in
Troy is occupied by q reformed sutler.
What kind of an animal is thatf
Thirty million edible birds nests are an
nually exported from China. They may be
had in the Paris restaurants NOW.
The Commissioner of Agriculture, in his
last monthly report, says that the loss from
hog cholera amounts to $l5,OOO,OOO.
There is now on exhibition in London u
" blue horse" fourteen hands high, with no
trace of hair on any part of its body.
The Egyptian corn advertised by one
Lindsay is pronounced a humbug-not so
our own corns, they are but too real.
a Mr.. Drum has been elected mayor of
Allegheny, Pa. His opponent, though he
couldn't beat u drum, sounded a retreat.
A petition, signed by three thousand
persons, has been presented to Congress,
for eight hours work in government shops.
The steamer Ben McCulloch was con-
sumed to the waters edge on the 25th ult.,
while lying above Trenton. Three lives
were lost.
Boston has made contracts for Fourth of
July fireworks. Wade should have them,
as he deals largely in denunciatory words
and works.
In Russia all persons are required to
salute the police and remain uncovered
when addressed by them, under severe
penalty. Heath hasn't issued that ukase
yet.
Medical inspection has proved that a
student at Albion, Michigan, has his heart
on the right side. If he loses that important
organ to the ladies he can't be left in the
lurch.
A lady has been expelled from one of the
New York church choirs for reading novels
during service. Loud talking and unseen
ly conduct is no novelty in choirs nearer
home.
A new method of resuscitatiHg- from ap-
parent death has been discovered by a
Paris savant. 1t ought to have been on