The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-09-20

sand dollars.
family near Elizabeth, N. j., were poisoned
by eating meat, a few days ago. The meat
was diseased.
A nitro-g1ycerine explosion took place at the
Hoosac Tunnel, Thursday week. Three men
were skilled.
They Iare u confident people in Lafayette,
Ga, which has not business house OF dwell
ing insured.
When the Pacific Railroad is finished it will
require table five feet long to record the stop
ping places.
The italian ambassador has made formal
demand on France to evacuate Rome. 1t was
fatty refused.
A fire broke out in st. Petersburg at the flax
depot recently, causing damage to the amount
of S14, 100000.
For the first time in many years, there is an
increase in the Irish population over deaths
and emigration.
Napoleon enthusiastically received by
the soldiers and people at Camp Lonnelegan,
on the 18th inst.
Advices frem Port-au- Prince represent Sal
| nave as gaining strength in the South, but the
North is doubtful.
The Mexican Congress has assembled. The
Indian chief Logada was concentrating his
forces at Barrancas. =
man named Dalrymple, in Minnesota, has
made one hundred thousand dollars out of the
last two wheat crops.
On an island in Stony River, Conn.,, isl cav
ity thirty-three inches in diameter and five feet
deep, cut into the rock.
A negro man named Clark aged one hundred
and eight years, is living near Long Branch,
N. J., actively at work.
A Miss Lee, of Lawrence, drowned herself,
| last week, without wettingh her clothes, by hold
ing her face in the water.
Every morning the police of Baden search
the forest in the vicinity for the bodies of gam
| blers who commit suicide.
| Nova Scotia seems seriously bent seces-
| sion. Fifteen thousand troops have been Of
| fered them from this side
The Quakers in Great Britain number four
teen thousand-they have one hundred thou
sand in the United States.
| The Bermuda Dry Dock, the largest struc-
ture for floating i'll the world, was launched on
the Thames, Friday week.
The latest intelligence from Rio represent
the ministry as averse to mediation, and in IA
vor of prosecuting the war.
They emulating Butler in Hanover, a
boy having recently been sent to prison for
singing the national hymn.
In Jones county, Iowa, u man made sac, OOO
out of stock alone; ten years before he came
to the State without dime.
| Lord Stanley is reported to have said to NJ
Moustier, "that England would go to war if
necessary to maintain peace"
Reverdy Johnson's speeches in England are
severely criticised in some quarters. His de-
mocracy is pronounced fishy.
Messrs Morgan and Schenck have decided to
call meeting of both houses of Congress on
the third Monday of this month
Application for new trial has been made in
; Whalen's case, on the ground that his priv
ilege of challenging was curtailed.
Twenty-Five miles of fence enclose farm OF
thirteen thousand acres in Illinois, which is
subdivided by seventy miles of hedge.
Mr.. Buchanan and Thatleus Stevens, though
living in the town together for years
never spoke when they met in the streets.
2 Returns from the British Home Office show
the number of criminals at large in the king
dom to be one hundred and fourteen thousand
The coroner's jury on the victims of the late
railroad disaster in Wales has brought in :
verdict of manslaughtcr against the two brake
men.
The Workingmen's Congress ut Brussels ad
vises all operatives to abstain from their trade.
in the event of war in their respective coun
tries.
delirious soldier at Quebec leaped over
cliff one hundred and fifty feet high uninjured
> and then drowned himself in the river st. Law
renee.
The negroes i'll and about Amite have be
come very turbulent-so much so that an addi
tional military force was called for by Mayo
Offley.
n Intelligence from Honolulu reports that ii
dial wave ten to twelve feet high was expert
enced the 14th throughout the Sandwich
Islands.
= A man named Refs recently died at Vessel
Germany, who the possessor of n bear,