The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-05-03
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ux,rs.

II now appears King Theodore shot himself
| A man in Gibson county, Indiana, has killed
thirty foxes in six months.
California is not pleased at the DELAY of Con-
gress IN paying for Alaska
Cardinal Bonaparte will reside half the year
ut Rome and half at Paris.
Mrs. Darcy MCGEE has received a letter Of
coincidence from Queen Victoria.
Barrett has been convicted. The other Clerk
| enweu prisoners were discharged.
| The Prince of Wales appeared at race course,
near Dublin, on two successive days.
New York consumes sixty-two million gallons
OF water daily. But how much whiskyf
The shooting of Prince Albert, in Australia,
produced the greatest sensation in England
The steam man is to walk for wager the
distance between New York City and Albany.
| It is said that Chinese coolies drown them
selves in Havana at the rate of twenty week.
Accounts from Mexico inform us of the in
crease OF disaffection in that distracted coun-
try:
times. To gain Rome he is willing to wade in
blood. .7.i,l - s.f si 'gt'.i,H. $500
I The New York society for the prevention Of
cruelty to animals, caused ten convictions last
month. -
The vote on the deposition of the President
month. = 49,
Jay Cooke denies being director of an oil
company. J. has lubricating properties enough
himself. 49,
home at q cost of $50, OOO Good news, that, for
the boys. 80 ..II
The collection of the whisky tax is to be
| suspended. Thus topers need not suspend their
petations.
A prisoner jumped from a third-story window
lately, in Philadelphia, without injury-very
like story.
They have begun to manufacture opium in
France. They rooted up the ily-nOw they
SOW the poppy.
had applications for twenty three hundred rich
mems daughters.
| The vice principals of the New York schools
have decided in favor of fogging in school. A
vicious decision.
Thurlow Weed says the great fortunes &C.
CURED in New York by her millionaires is by
the game of grab.
The French war officials are studying the
map of Poland. Is there another battle of
Jemappes impendingf
Disraeli is said to have been under the influ-
ence of liquor when he delivered his speech on
the Irish Church question.
Scarlet fever has prevailed Is an epidemic in
Boston the past year. In travelling South this
fever changed to q dark hue.
Fifty thousand dollars were paid to AL
bany legislator for his vote on the Erie bill.
Verify, we live in q corrupt era.
It ia rumored Mr.. Peabody gave -s2OO, 600 in
! aid of the Pope before he left Rome We wish
everybody had as liberal q hand
The orifice of the Mammoth Cave is closed
mp. Would we could say so of the cormoranta
who arc devouring us in the South. 5i
Chicago hns in store one hundred and FORTY
| thousand toms of ice. That win cool their bev-
| erage, but it can't cure their morals.
The Hon. Mrs. Yelverton is in st. Augustine,
Florida, giving readings, and sung in the choir
of the Catholic Church on Easter Sunday.
The capture OF Msgdala, and the death of
King Theodore, terminates the Abyssinian war.
The captives were found well and released.
"A Kentuckian has invented a churn which
will make pound of butter from q pound of
milk. Our milkman will bet him odds on that
| teat.
A woman named Humphreys has been SEN
fenced in Canada to six months imprisonment
! for assisting q soldier to desert. Very ungal-
liant.
Hancock stock for the Presidency is rising.
A large and enthusiastic meeting of his friends
| took place on the evening of the 10Th ult. in
New York.
| Burke and Shaw have been convicted in Lon
don-the first is sentenced to fifteen, and the
| last to seven years penal servitude. Carey was
discharged.
| The Irishmen of San Antonio, Texas have
| formed an association for benevolent purposes,
| as we'll as for disseminating information among
Irish immigrants.
The debate in the United States House of
Representatives, between Butler, Brooks, Logan
and others, would disgrace professional pick
| pockets and thieves
John Magee the mine owner, who lately died
| worth forty million dollars, commenced life not
| worth cent. 1t is to be hoped he sent some
of this treasure before him.
Two cocks, named respectively Horace Gree
ley and Wendell Phillips lately fought in a De-
| troit pit 1t is pity their prototypes were
not as harmlessly employed.
few weeks ago London was enveloped in
l fog dense that business suspended for
some time. What a contrast to our New Or
leans sun-piercing atmosphere!
A Cincinnatian offers fifteen hundred dollars
for the privilege of placarding the city lamp
posts. The city fathers have agreed, thus Civ
ing their sanction to lampooning
Statistics show that one million sevan hmm