The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-04-26
EDroR1AL AND OTHER 1rx1rs.

1t seems, after- all, that A. T. Stewart il stesr
ard of Grant.
The Prime. of Wales visited Maynooth Col
lege on the 22d instant.
Congress has refused to withdraw thu. mann
gers of the impeachment.
Gen. Maggie is still confined, reports to til.
contrary notwithstanding.
II cost the government $7O,,WN to cove,
$144,OOO of Confederate property.
louis dor was lately taken from az, oyste
in York river, of the date of 1873.
! The elections in Georgia and South Caroliu.
appear favorable to the Conservatives.
Banks's naturalization bill has passed thu
House. 1t is saita to be very stringent.
Boutwells speech before the Impeachment
court was fasco; bout as well give it up.
Two supposed Fenians were arrested in Buck
ingham Palace, carrying n hamper with Greel
Small bills are said to be scarce. Now tina
the election is over, they'll be found larg
enough. ---
Other means having failed, evangelical
| influences have been brought to bear on Rad
| ical Senators.
| Jefferson Davis's trial is positively fixed
| for the second of May. 1t may and may not
come off then.
Two fossils of the extinct Irish elk, with ant
| lers over thirteen feet long, have been secured
for Yale College.
A Dayton distillery, recently seized, burst on
! ten go on q burst.
Governor Baker has committed the sentence
of the negro Charles Joseph, from death to I'M
prisonment for life.
The Freedmen's Bureau is said to be engaged
III paying q premium on luziness. 1t is actively
burrowing in politics.
Now that it is found out we are three mil
lion miles nearer the sun, must be warmer,
of course-say about August
The famous dragon tree of Teneriffe has been
blown down by u tempest. Humboldt esti-
mated its age at six thousand years.
The Prince of Wales unveiled the statue OF
Edmund Burke; if rumor is to be trusted, he
ought to place IL Veil his own deeds.
Empress Eugene has abandoned trails; in
consequence, fashionable ladies are barbarously
bent on cutting off their extremities.
There is IL colt in Montpelier, Vermont, with
two perfect heads Bipeds with one imperfect
head are not uncommon in New Orleans.
Sheep sheared i'll New Hampshire in three
minutes by q new process. People are heeced
in New Orleans with greater economy Of time.
Last year is said to have been the coolest OK
perienced in forty-eight years. Was there u
white man of any experience there at that
time.
Stoneware kettles were exhumed near King
ston, Tenn, lately, from depth of seven feet,
over which trees grew, evidently several CEN
turtles old. =
The approaches to the courtroom where the
Clerkenwen prisoners are being tried are dense
ly crowded.
The homepaths of Massachusetts have re-
fused admittance to females into their field.
Doubtless, they feared the Indies might lapse
into heroic doses.
meeting composed largely of Republicans,
in Hartford, Connecticut, have declared against
admitting black children into white schools.
Where is Greeley: 10y
Lady gambling is now prevalent amuse-
ment in Washington, to which many divorce
cases may be traced.
musical party came off at Ludlow, Yer
mont, lately, the party giving and the parties
attending it being under one year old. The
keynote was ut a high pitch.
Two men lately smoked for wages in New
York, consuming thirty cigars between them
in eight hours. After the trial bacon (hops)
ought to have beensmoked on the premises.
Amasa Walkers new book, Science of
it would sound-a book witlr;l title: Howell
on City Notes, with an appendix on smashed
dies"
Brass clocks maybe cleanscl by boiling chem
in clear rain wafer. We have known of some
persons getting cleaned out by getting into hot
water, bnt it neither improved their time nor
temper.
The horn of Il unicorn recently ex-
tracted from the side of IL ship at Boston, 1t
may be supposed that the ship was gored while
Cape Horn. The horn was extracted
at the hub"
Indian depredations the Texas frontier
have become frequent and bold, that unless
checked, it must end iii the abandonment of that |
region by settlers.
Great success has attended the new method !
of cure by TRANSMISSION of blood. We know of |
husbands who would bleed freely to cure
chronic cases of scoltls.
Mr. Seward has sent to Russia to ask for an
extel Ion Of the Alaska treaty.. Alas! where is
that powerful little bell which ho was wont to
ring ', th such potency.
wealthy maiden lady of Pittsburg, recently
1eceasc l. provided in her will for the support
If her Digs. Lucky dogs they can now en-
bark in o luxurious career.
A large meeting held Oh the evening of
he ODD instant, at Spurgeon's Westinghouse,
london, which passed resolutions flvoring dis
of the Irish Church.
New Siberia and the Isle of Lacon are COM
,osed in great part of fossil Ivory, from which,
five hnnlrel hnor,