The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-04-12

sunday, APRIL IL, 1868
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Adjutant General Thomas-oyer-s sixty
was kept standing more than two hours be-
fore the impeachment court. ~
The Union Pacific Railroad is now COM
pleted to within four miles of the highest
summit on the whole route. 4 I.
Thad. Stevens slept while Butler spoke
the other day. Wonder if he dreamt, "Stil
SO gently DER me stealing" atat 81
The great Exposition building in Psris,
been sold for half q million. iraN w. {.
The heart of the late King Louis of Bava-
| ria has been deposited, according to custom,
| in the church Mt Old Ottingen.
Less hog meat by nineteen millions one
hundred and sixty two thousand pounds
has been made this year than last. .i+
The English authorities have refused to
mitigate the sentences of Father M'Mahon
and other Fenian called cOnvicts.
Bells made from cannon one hundred
years old, have been cast by d Northern
founder. Hayti furnished the cannon.
Vermont sugar prospect is not as good as
usual. The maple needs warmth. Wonder
if they would receive some of our sunshinef
Cen Grant has gained farm in q lawsuit,
by decision of n Missouri court. He is now
counting "sweet voices" for the Presidency.
A farmer in Maine obtained in two months
and half four hundred and forty eight
pounds of honey from two swarms of bees.
The United States Supreme Court has de-
cie!ed in favor Of Mrs. Gaines oil Irrigated
points which have been pending SO many
years.
The Scottish Registrar General says the
successful fishing season has caused double
the number of marriages. Sounds like fish
story.
Tying has not improved by the Potter's
lecture. He preached in q Baptist church
Sunday week. Still, he may be mended by
pottering.
Two ladies' died in this city, last week,
who had reached the ages of one hundred
and three and one hundred and five years,
respectively.
In the late New Hampshire election, sums
varying from $25 to S75 were paid for votes.
The 'bribers were determined to make their
" calling and election sure"
A local Methodist preacher was killed in
Sumter. last week, by the premature firing
of pistol which he had prepared to detect
thieves visiting his lanyard.
The Agricultural Department has added
to its museum specimens of Angora cats.
| Good mousers are sadly wanted about the
Treasury of the United States.
Mrs. Gaines is building a handsome man
sion in New York. Her gains by the late
decision of the Supreme Court will enable
her to build a palace.
A missionary Snowman named Oscanyan,
is lecturing on Turkey at the North, which
makes n contemporary say that the audience
will no doubt be stuffed.
| People of New Haven complain of danger
! from a steeple in that town. We are not in
formed whether it belongs to q high or low
church concern. ------------
The Irish Episcopal bishops have petit
| toned DisraeG to save at least part of their
revenues They evidently think half loaf
| is better than no bread. - =.
necticut, had their Office destroyed by the
late fire-they We're not insured. Set q bet<
ter example, gentlemen. -. I
| A Methodist minister asserts that his de-
nomination spends two millions~of dollars in
| tobacco, while the missionary treasury is
eighty thousand dollars in debt.
| The artesian we'll in st. Louis has reached
over three thousand feet Well, we bored
to reach a we'll on Canal street, years ago,
but the water wouldn't bulge.
1t is>discovered that the cause of singing
| in mice is a parasite which preys upon it's
lkver. Human bipeds sing because of q pa
rasite in the stomach-hunger.
A small Goldfish was lately purchased at
Redbank, which contained twenty -one large
| gravel stones. That fish was sold by the
| pound, of course.
| The news from Mexico is headed "inter-
| esting," but we fail to find the first item of
| interest. Muzzling the press, brigandage,
confiscation of church property, sums up all.
Miss Mary A. Levers, twelve years old, of
Jackson, Wood county, weighs Eve hundred
and twenty-five pounds. 1t would take a