The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-08-16

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La Liberte states that DIR. Pussy has been 9
converted to Catholicism.
Thaddeus Stevens leaves an estate of five
hundred thousand dollars Il ,
In seventy years England has not had SO I
dry a season as the present. {
Toledo enjoys the reputation of being the
dirtiest city on ale continent. I;
Butler fell from his carriage, on the 9th
inst, causing severe bruising.
The telegram lines of England have been
purchased by the government.
Attorney General Evarts decided that
Rollins's tenure of office is good.
Gen. Sheridan has been arrested at Lea
venworth, for assault and battery.
Frank p. Blair, so rumor says, will visit
this city the latter part of this month.
The French Government has suspended
the duty on breadstuffs for three months
At tho fire in Rochester, on the Sd inst,
boy, six years old, was burned to death.
The New York insurance companies have
received $53, OOO, 900 in premiums last year.
Queen Victoria, while in Berlin, patron
lied dry goods stores employing female
clerks.
Seba Smith, the original Jack Downing,
died in Patchague, Long Island, on the 18th
ultimO.
Latest returns indicate that the Demo-
cratic majority in Kentucky will be ninety
thousand.
Joseph Stirling Coyne, an Irish dramatic
writer of some commence, died in London
last month.
The Boise City Idaho) stage was recent
lv STONED on Blue Mountain, and the
mails rit1ed.
Illinois has the cattle plague. At the
present writing New Orleans has the mus
quito plague.
The crops in the United States, this year,
, will be twenty per cent. greater than they
were last year.
A gentleman in Troy, who buried his fifth
, wife few months ago. married a sixth last
, Thursday week.
A terrible explosion took place at Je-
, names Belgium, on the 9th inst, killing
Q over fifty persons.
1 William Lowe, formerly a resident of
New York, is the most eloquent man IN the
n German Parliament.
|. Leland, of the Clarendon Hotel, Saratoga,
:, has bought the Grand Hotel, Paris, paying
8 8 over SO, 5000, 900 for it.
y The thermometer marked one hundred
y and ten degrees in the shade at Atchlson,
y Kansas ON the 3Qth ult. =
d The minister who boasted of preaching
20 without notes, is not to he understood a.
II referring to grccnbacks.
A. Recent explorations show Northern Min
'; neSOta to be, one OF inc lhose iSui''i h''oi'
ie slate regions i'll the world
- Napoleon's speech at Troyes is looked Il
-. as favoring both peace and war, according
,o to the inclination of the reader.
s. Kaolin, q most important material TO
as marking porcelain, has been discovered II
of San Joaquin county, California.
til At the Long Branch hotels many trunk
remain in the halls, being too large to b
d. carried through the room doors.
us There are three thousand women IN til
at palace of the king of Siam. If each has
es waterfall it must be a cool retreat.
cd William Patrick, son of Senator w.
III Wiley, is the Democratic candidate II
rts attorney general of Western Virginia
5 a Coils Mann and Smallwood are expecte
all in this city daily, to take charge, respective
ly, of the Customhouse and Post-otfice.
nd Cuoa suPb,Ss %, a. IIn;tad stotos CO.
ok, tha i az lie ~ +ba cro1, of the world
The body of Peterkin, one of the tv
n men who were drowned by going over Nj
cara Falls, on the 10Th ult., was found I
~, the 18th.
the In Springfield, on the Both ult., a Will
Wind took up four cocks of hay, and CARR
the them to parts unknown. Somebody's got
,si;- windfall.
lio- A Western editor, in reply to a subscrit
AIDE complaining that his newspaper was dan
VA, saws sstlsrt lit is because there Is 80 mu
, IAN due on IT."
noE Harriet BeeeIerSstowe has raised 4 watt
" " tnmeinn on her. Flofida plantation, weight
~ thisus ii ve., pounds.' Harriet Is . so
.Sms pumpkins" ''
re- The Charleston Ne,rs is informed of
mi demise of IA lady in williamsburg Dlstr
,Irr at the advanced age of one hundred {
ing. forty gears.