The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1868-10-04


sixty thousand acreA
The money matket IA New York is reported
stringsnt. This complaint, 4 chronic with the
New Orleans market, lig.ssi s,;ottsl
The contributions by tbs people Of the Uni
ted States for educational psrposes, last year,
reached 1l5,O00,O00. 81 Il a..~s
Qneen Isabella has taken up ,her, residence ~
Castle Pan, which has been, assigned to her by
the French Emperor. ~. tstt
Twenty-Five Thousand sores of land ip Vir-
ginia have recently been sold to colonists-
mostly to Hollanders.
1t has been proved by experiment that the
cattle disease Ia not necessarily fatal, fprompt
remedies are applied. to 80
Four English miners were crushed to death
by the caving of an iron mine at Mount Hope,
N. j., on the 2Sth ult.
] The recruits at Carlisle Barracks have been
ordered to reinforce Gen. Sherman in his con-
test with the Indians.
| A girl in st. Paul was foolish enough to
question Planchette, and the answer caused
her total derangement. eS ~ m
There is no doubt that the journey from New
York to San Francisco can be made by rail by
the fourth of July next
| An; explosion took place at Rhiwson, Wales,
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wounding great many.
Picnics, ,spiritualism and other diableries have
been prohibited by the eeclesiastical authority
of the diocese of New York.
It is estimated that the rice crop of the Car
olnas, Georgia, and Louisiana, will be eighSy
thousand tierces this season.
1t is given out as a sign of peace, that two
thousand workmen are employed in construct
ing batteries opposite Mayence.
At Cagliari, Sardinia, recently, a powder
magazine blew up, causing the death of the
| major and q detachment of men. lea 3oi
man named Hawthorne lately died in Edo
burg in his hund,ed-i fteenth year, and up 10 the
time Of his death he bad never lost tooth.
Wade Hampton, Toombs, and Forrest, now
addressing the Southern masses, are to be en-
couptered by Wilson and other Northern ora
tors. f" .''-Y
Curvature OF the spine is prevalent disease
among young ladies in New York. 1t is called
the Grecian bend among nop-medcal author-
ties. ' -s.Dty Ji}} b'fG .-i!. sfJi
Australian advices state that troubles have
again arisen with the blacks, thirty of them
having recently been slaughtered by the police
force. ,z.'ir" a. +" '.-Gitil era.
Gen. Hiudman was assassinated at his resi-
dence in Helena, Arkansas. A man named
Robbins has been arrested, but he denies the
murder. .,,,, @ .b
A new order has been established, styled the
" Order of American Mechanics" In Philadel-
phia they number one hundred and sixty-hve
, councils. - ''''
At Urbana, Ohio, on the Goth ult., ten car,
were burned by q nitro-glycerine explosion. A
house quarter of mile off was destroyed by
the concussion.
By recent law in England, parents who
r neglect their children may be sent to prison fol
six months. Such q law would find many sub
jects in this city.
! The Emperor of Austria received friendly
message by telegram on his birthday from the
King of Prussia. The peace prospects have at
upward tendency. t/a
Rows, it seems, are not coufned to rebel re
gions; one occurred in Lancaster, Pa, on the
sOth ult., which lasted several hours,storcs be
ing closed the while.
Mrs Burr, Of Weston, Copu., finding burg
, lar in her house, used him roughly that hi
} was glad TO escape her crushing powers by leav
ing his bundle behind him. tat Ire
EaSnum denies having engaged "the wick
edest mao,r because it would not be n good 10
vestment. He doubtless knows that the !" evan
gelicalsr have exhausted all his gas.
e At last accounts proclamation was issued
at Madrid for the assembling of a Junta. The
Queen in her fight carried OF the crown jew
els and twenty millions reals in gold.
At a recent wedding in Milwaukee, the bride
was eighty-two and the bridegroom twenty
1 The lady married to punish her children. Hell
husband gets handsome sum for his compfais
: ance.
letter carrier in London, by the name O
Tonnes, has been sentenced to five years pena
servitude for stealing twelve postage stamps
from letter. This is a grave offence in Eng
land,
, The success of the Spanish insurrection ba.
set the sDecuinto1s aoog as to IsabelIa's success