The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-10-18

and seventy 1--we farms tor sale. Wise men will
avail themselves Of the opportunity, as land is
sure to go up.
There are orange trees NJ tho Tuilleries over
three hundred and fifty years old. What talea
they could unfold, If endowed with the gift of
speechi
The Madrid Junta has seized the property Of
theJesuits and abolished the order. A fine be-
ginning for the new men-the first act one of
sacrilege.
T A champion Vermont churner brought but
| tor in two minutes. Our "devip says he can
bringit faster than that-from the next gro
Gerry. 80
The Crotan provisional government has pass
ed vote af stihanks TO the people Of the United
States for their sympathy aud the material aid
afforded.
Canada journals claim that the per centsge
| of persons attending schools there is greater
| than that of any other country, not even ex-
cepting the United States.
LIE Saint, the geographer, who left France
nineteen months ago, has fallen victim to
science. He died ut Abu Khaka, Africa, re-
Gently.
THIS English government is to establish an
oyster fishery on the Irish coast. They have
found those waters troublesome fishing places
in the past.
| Brigham Young is . contractor for carrying
the mails on the Pacific RAILROAD. His con-
tracts with females are already on sufficiently
arge scale.
boy in England was lately tried by nine
Justices for picking up windfall apple, and
sentenced to three weeks imprisonment at hard
labor.
DR.. Burke, of Middleton, Con-, has q single
tomato plant ten feet high and eight feet in
| breadth, which has on it one bushel Of fruit
some weighing pound each.
survivor Of the battle of Lake Erie 90
years of age, is now supported as q pauper by
the town of Middletown, VT Politicians can
not spare pittance to support the defenders
of their country.
George d. Prentice denies having been driven
from the Louisville Journal establishment. He
is on the best terms with his associates, and
hopes to do good service yet to the Democratic
cause.
The late elections have resulted in favor of
the Radicals. We do not give the details, as
they afford no special comfort. This may be
considered o prelude to the contest in Novem-
Der.
A man was arrested in Quebec for endanger-
ing the lives of citizens by exhibiting wild an
imals in the streets. He took them to the
court, and showed that they were boys dressed
in bear skins.
It has been urged as a reason why husbands
should insure their lives, that it would prove q
great help to the wife's second husband, and
might be the means of setting him up in bu-
siness.
At Posen, in Prussia, great complaints are
made that the progress of Germanism is men
acing the national element. Polish and Catho-
lie schools are proposed to be established to
counterfeit this; some are in favor Of taking
legislative action.
On the question OF q marriage between q Pro-
testant and Catholic, lately in Venice, the Pa
triarch announced that the Austrian laws were
still in force, and that the civil marriage was
therefore void, although custom generally re-
cognized it.
The Greeks keep up their ancient character
for adroitness. DIR. Howe, who sent four hun
dred bags of -four, mule back, to the insurgent
Cretans in the mountains, after the customs
officers had seen it, upon examining it again he
found it to be one-half bran.
There thirty-two manufactures on the
Hoosac river, at North and South Adams, Mas
, sachusetts, employing capital of twenty mil
lion dollars. Manufactures are what we need
in the South-we must let politics alone for Q
time H.
Tourists will regret to leaIn of the destruc
, ton by fire of the fine restaurant at st. Mich
ael, on the road over Mount Cents. The dam
ages are estimated at over 100000. A very
great amount of provisions and forage was de
stroyed.
They are putting up q St. Patrick's Hall in
Charlottesville, p. E. 1. New Orleans, with &
e population ten times greater, has not a spot
in which Irishmen may meet q common
center. We hope the Hibernian Association
will remedy this, and take prompt steps to erect
an edifice creditable both to themselves and
their nationality.