The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-07-26
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

Ireland.
Iodine springs have been discovered ir
Vermont.
Leutz, the artist, died in Washington OF
the 18th inst.
There is a rumor that Judge Busted is to
be impeached.
The President has signed the tax bill,
with q protest.
Astronomers are on the lookout fol
Encke's comet.
The Columbus prisoners have been re-
leased on bail.
The mouthpiece of pipe sold in Paris
lately for 600.
Mile. Patti formally announces her ap-
preaching marriage.
| Five hundred Mormons arrived in New
York on the 18th inst.
Frank Leslie, the illustrated paper man,
has sued for a divorce.
Two weddings have come off on the Mount
Washington this season.
1-Acruunts from fUrt=Hu=Prince regard the
| fall of Salnave as certain.
A pin factory at Cohoes, N. Y, turns out
seven hundred packs per day.
1t is proposed to reconstruct the judiciary
laws so as to get rid of Chase.
The Postoffice Department was furnished
with 372,OOO stamps last year.
Prot. Watson, of Ann Arbor, Michigan,
has discovered another comet.
Half the newly appointed cadets at West
Point failed to pass the examination.
Farragut and staff were received by Queen
Victoria at Osborne on Friday week.
Beecher denies that he ever indorsed
Chase. Grant is his Magnus Apollo.
A Presbyterian church in Cincinnati has
given up the pew-not the pay-system.
Mrs. Victor, who killed her brother in
Cleveland, will be hung on the Goth prox.
Mr.. Evarts was sworn in on the I'd inst.
as Attorney General of the United States.
five thousand head Of cattle at Tolona, Ill.
An English brick-machine cuts twelve
bricks at a stroke, and the strokes are rapid.
coast, the fish being thought as good as cod.
Reverdy johnson is rendered public
dinner by New Workers prior to his de-
parture.
Among the dodgers at the police station
in Springfield, lately, was q man over one
hundred years.
There was an increase of one hundred
deaths in Philadelphia last week over the
preceding one.
On the Fourth of July girl was killed at
Oakfeld,N N. Y, by rocket stick pcne-
trating her lungs.
Hollister, the American minister, refused
the protection of the United States flag to |
Hayt refugees.
The German railroad companies employ |
good looking young ladies at their ticket |
and freight Offices.
A Miss A. B. Edwards is said to be author
of " The Girl of the Period" which caused |
so much sensation. |
Elliott, the artist, receives nothing less |
than $500 for the smallest, up to $1,000 for
the largest portraits.
A negro preacher named Jackson, living
near Mobile, was lynched by people of his
own color last week.
One of the sixty persons killed by sun
stroke last week in New York, had been
married but two hours.
The Secretary of the Treasury says that
after paying for Alaska, there will remain
only $37 ,OO0, 600 in gold.
A gallant boy, named Beck, fourteen
years old, saved three girls from drowning
in New York last week.
Stewart, the dry goods king, is building
a mammoth store in Leavenworth, Kansas,
which will cost $780, 600.
A race in wash tubs was one of the fea-
lures of the Fourth of July celebration at
Massachusetts,.
The Mexican Consul for this port has ap-
pealed to Gen. Buchanan to prevent fill
busters entering Mexico.
Bitter complaints are made of the drouth
which prevails in Europe. England has had
no rains for seven weeks.
Velocipeds are quite fashionable now in
Paris. Boats in our streets would have been
quite convenient last week.
Forty mine sword-fish we're landed at
New Bedford in one day, lately, by vessels
cruising specially for them.
Parisians are using horse oil on the
salads. If Victor were to ask our opinion
Is to our plat, we'd say neigh.
1t is said three small towns on Cape Cod
nave twenty-five pOstoffices. Surely the ]
Oddities are people of letters.
A wild cat weighing twenty-six pounds
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