The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-10-18
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John o. Dixon has been recognized as Turk
ish Consul In this city.
At Bremerhaven, men and dogs do the work
of horses 7y--,--
The Fenian prisoners at Dartmoor are to DO
released.
womillion dollars arc employed in the lager
beer business in Philadelphia.
The present Pope has seen eighty four cardi-
nails pass away during his reign.
The pension expenditures next year will call
for ~, 500, 600.
The President has appointed November 26th
Thanksgiving day. - -
Cincinnati has appropriated 100000 for q
public library building. n. .sg.ae
It il feared late rains have injured the crops
in California.
A Mr.. Smith has established railway the
pool - s., 49,, ~. 's.y ,a,.
A change of Democratic candidate for the
Presidency is spoken of ut the North. Too
late. -'e t-e
Gladstone, in o recent speech at Liverpool,
quoted Darcy MCGEE, in urging the necessity
Of Irish reform; fs, ~ m =, \
vesuvius, taking pattern after affairs in the
Iberian peninsula, has broken out into an If
ruption. ~
For more than Q hundred years fire has
been burning in the disused works of the
Bank Pit Colliery, England.
A fsh-breeder in Nashua, N. H., has in his
pond five hundred front, weighing from one
half to two and half pounds each.
The first sewing machine was made by Ger
man named Madersperger, Of Vienna, in the
year 1915.
Geese plucking is made q punishable offence
in Ireland. In our Crescent city human bipeds
are plucked without punishment.
Ex-Governor Beales, of Wisconsin, was re-
Gently killed by G. NJ Pinney, at Helena, Mon
tana.
Governor Smith, of Alabama, has issued a
proclamation for IN election on tho Sd of No
vember for President.
Gen. Hancock's wound, received ut Gettys-
burg has broken out afresh, and he is now con-
fined to his house.
Putnsm's Magazine is called by the New York
Journal Of Commerce. radical campaign doca-
ment.
The new line Of railway between Alexandra
and Suez was opened to the public on the 9Th
of September.
The viccroy of Egypt has q steam yacht
gold.
Alexander Potocki, one Of the most distin.
guished Polish refugees, died recently in the
city of Dresden.
Soap mines have been discovered in Nevada
and so there is no excuse for the great un
washed in that region.
Chicago has gone heavily Into the shoe bust
ness, still it's immortality is such that soles arr
not safe there.
Rumors of plot to murder President John
son are current at the North-so says New
York paper.
The Great Eastern has got another job. She
| is to lay the new cable between France and thi,
! country.
It is said Capt. Hall has been successful il
discovering some further traces of Sir join
Franklin's expedition.
! A St. Louis printer has seized balloon for
debt. Poor returns he'll receive from such ga
works.
! Abyssnia has a new emperor named Gobazzi
it is not said whether he is an upstart or sprou
from Theodore's stock.
Milwaukee is to have five hundred Thousand
dollars court house, built of Lake s1perio
stone.
Lersundi, the Captain General of Cuba, ha
given in his adhesion to the new order of thing
in Spain.
The Italian cabinet has protested against tn
presence of French agents scattered through
| that country.
/ Seven thousand pounds sterling were raise,
in London for the sufferers by the late earth
quake.
Prim desires to please France and Europe il
the selection of future governor for the Span
lish people.
One thousand feet of ordinary illuminating
gas eau be readily compressed into q space o
ten feet.
1t has been discovered that parafine is an ex
cellent preservative of fresco walls beginning
to crumble with age.
A privateers commission, bearing date SEP