The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-12-20


A woman lately died in Puebla, Mexico, aged
l50 years. ,t.p5
A boy in Philadelphia committed suicide last
week because his mother whipped him.
Efforts are being made to continue the Freed
mems Bureau another year.
The Empress Charlotte is reported to be inn
proving rapidly.
On the 18th inst. four express robbers were
hung by regulators" in the New Albany jail.
For five years the divorces in Vermont have
numbered one to every twenty marriages
Burglaries and weddings come off on alter
nate nights in many of the New England towns
Brigham Young recently struck with
paralysis, while attending business.
One hundred thousand crows roost in Lam
caster county, Pa.
Records prove that the Indian wars of this
country have cost 50O00,0OO.
The most lucrative living in England.
$40 00O-has just become vacant.
The London streets, placed in a line, would
reach from Liverpool to New York.
Earl Mayo, late Irish Secretary, hardly
reached India before he was recalled.
Five hundred persons were killed during the
fighting at Cadiz.
Although apparent quiet prevails in Spain,
it is evidently calm preceding the earthquake.
Greece has Indignantly rejected the Turkish
propositions.
Seven Jews have been returned to the new
English Parliament.
Mrs. Bloomer, the dress reformer, now buds
forth i'll Omaha.
bride cake, six feet high, was the promi-
nent feature in q late Western wedding.
In Nevada they fight duels 700 feet beneath
the earth.
Nine hundred petitions in bankruptcy have
been filed in Indiana.
There are more convicts than cells in the
New Hampshire penitentiary.
The late chief editor of the Paris Steele
leaves a fortune of 81 100000
The bridge across the Missouri at Omaha was
swept away by ice Thursday week.
Between Judge Chase's late decision and
counterfeiters, greenbacks are in bad odor.
Hostilities have commenced between Greece
and Turkey.
The instruction in Cuba will materially
lessen the coffee and sugar crops.
Orion Hacket has been nominated postmas-
! ter of Baton Rouge.
Gen. Grant is said to be opposed to giving
! appointments to military men.
MOntl ;lliu were eAcCutcu III IeoLiS VII
tho 9th ult., for blowing up Roman barracks
The steamer Success, from Camden. for this
port, with nearly eight hundred bales cotton
sunk at Lonegrave on the 18th inst.
Father Chalon, of the Cathedral, has inter
posed his good offices with the Recorder, not t.
prosecute the church robber.
A man in New York has sued the Presby
terrain church for damages, for A" disciplining
his wife.
i A bill has been introduced into Congress t
incorporate an African college. The languag
of the lecturers, we suppose, is to be Ashante'
There is great probability that the Suprenl
Court will pronounce the legal tender act Ill
| constitutional.
Moses shattuck, of Brooldyne N. H, age
ninety, has had four sons, whom he name
J Europe, Asia, Africa and America.
=. Two sisters, named McElroy, living III lie
Mass, servants, have lately come into pc
! session of $4,000 by the death Of d relative
. The King of Prussia has given the first
9 ten instalments of $4,000, towards restoriu
! the Cathedral of Frankfort
A daughter of Madame Levert was marie
9 in New York, on the 10th inst, to a Georg
/ gentleman. i@a
d The Cadiz instruction terminated by Il
s surrender of arms into the hands of the Amer
= can consul. t..a..e -. sp.---
# The soil on which the White House is bui
d is not prolific. No child has ever been born
! President while living there.
v The Viceroy of Egypt invested Lord Napi
g with the Star of India as he passed throul
J. Cairo. .a-
Ten patents day are taken out by the
q risians. They invented that great revolutio
% ary instrument, the barricades.
ID Rothschild's disease was inflammation of t
" liver. He was long suspected of ossifcation
A. the heart.
" "A stingy fellow in Indiana economical
a. eating beef instead of turkey, on ThanAsg
= ing day. and rot cholScd by it,