The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-10-11

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Four Thousand 6 :ils have gone from Chicago
to pick hops in Wisconsin. %
San Francisco has contributed $4,000 to the
Sufferers by the late earthquake.
General Sherman, has called on the war de-
partment for more soldiers.
Fifteen hundred strsngers visit tho church
of Notre Dame, Paris, every day.
It costs $1Oy65O to collect $4O2 of taxes in
Beaufort District, South Carolina.
Coal has advanced forty to fifty ceuts per
ton at the mines in Pennsylvania.
A would-be-wit says Horace Greeley has ex-
perienced a change of hat-not heart.
| 1t lis estimated that there are twenty thou
sand blind PERSONS in Che United States.
BY the present rise in the Ohio river mil
lion and a half bushels Of coal win be foated
out.
Cunaril, it is said, is about to resume running
his line Of steamers between Boston and Liver
pool.
G:eat distress prevails in Labrador. The
Canadian authorities have taken steps to send
relief
Two ch;'d.en, aged thee and five years, died
in Brooklyn, New York, receatly, of hydro
phobia.
"A lady in Boston, who thinks water injuri-
GUS to the skin, uses fine coin. meal as a sub
stitute.
They manufacture watches in Switzerland
which are wound up by opening and shutting
the case.
The late riot in Opelousas was greatly ex-
aggelated; three negroes were Killed and four
wounded.
At late book sale in London, six volumes
pr nted by William Caxtou, brought the sum
of $3.50.
Gen. Santa Anna has been ordered to leave
| Cuba His merits have not procured him this
attention.
Books to the amount of S25O,O0O changed
hands at the recent itrade sales in the city OF
New York.
The beautiful valley of Virginia, which was
so severely scourged during the war, blooms
once moro.
Such is the abundance Of grapes on the vines
ia New Jersey, that the trellises break under
the burden.
A Boston house offers for sale q new article
! american gros grain black silk. manufactured
in Hartford.
The Able Litz is at Grottamare, on the AID
ria; C, where he is completing some musical
com DOS. tons.
mans head was clean shaved in Georgia re-
Gently; lightning accomplished the job, with
out any charge.
General Mcclellan praises Grant but repudi-
ates his followers and the principles of the Re
publican party.
Robert J. Walker states that the public debt
will double in foctteen years. He confirms
Delmar's figures.
Six Thousand stands of arms recently passed
fbrnnnh ST J,Ouis for T.iEt1a Rock Fou1 deeds
will crop out soon.
The currant crop will be short this year, on
account of excessive rains. Lovers of mince
pie will deplore this.
Eighteen thousand barrels of -four will be
manufactured by Minneapolis and st. Anthony
the next two months.
The Anti-Republican Convention Of Massa-
| chusetts nominated Richard a. Dana for Con-
gress the 5th inst.
The late blow has been very destructive to
the cane crop in Western Louisiana, prostrat-
lug it in all directions.
At a political meeting held at Council Bluffs,
Iowa, recently, five hundred young ladies were
| present on horseback
A Polish gentleman spent half an hour at
the Baden gam:u tables, while waiting for a
| train, and won $4,000.
An Euglish velocipede amateur has attained
the speed of fifteen miles an hour. He expects
to reach locomotive time.
General Parsons, of Flora, Illinois, has q
farm Of twenty-five hundred acres, which is
managed on the tenant system.
Already, in consequence of the revolution in
Spain, people are talking about the annexation
of Cuba to the United States.
Great success has attended the new French
college recently opened in Constantinople. Sons
of the highest officials attend it.
Seventy clerks were discharged from employ
ment last month in New York, in consequence
of being detected in frequenting gambling sa-
looms.
Shooting boys for picking dead apples of the
ground is pastime lately INDUCED in by an