The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-07-12

| Gentlemen in Paris carry alpaca umbrel-
las lined with green. 1t would be wrong to
infer from this that they (the wearersl are
verdant.
| An old lady, who got on a train at Chi
cago, suddenly threw up her hands, e1,
claiming, -"1'm a witch!' and expired
instantly.
The King Of the Sandwich Islandsis OPP
posed to annexation to the United States,
and threatens to hoist the British flag if
mOlested.
White Sulphur Springs, Va, has the
largest dining-room in the world-accom-
modating twelve hundred people at the
same time.
French chemists have lately discovered n
new gas light, one jet of which possesses
nineteen times the eliminating power of
ordinary gas.
Miss Clara Stone lately sued E. L. San
bon for $1,000, as damages done to her
heart. Clara's heart, although of stone, is
very impressible.
DR.. Flint, of Boston, has recovered ten
thousand dollars damages from a Northern
company, for injuries received while on his
way to New York.
The Presbyterian Church of Ireland have
forbidden instrumental music in their SER
vices. David would be communicated if
he lived in Belfast.
"A Mdu Ill NOW 1OTA HAS SucO HIS MOGucI-
in-law for $4,000, to console him for the
loss of his wife, who left his domicile at the
solicitation of her mother.
The Freedmen's Bureau, in order to teach
the negroes how to vote, and support them
during the last three years, had to pay
twenty-t two million dollars.
Marquette, Michigan, has been visited by
destructive contlagration, which consumed
nearly the whole business part of the city.
ho 10 tod 0f nm
At Napperville, Illinois, a whole congre-
CATION were poisoned at love feast" by
partaking of meat cooked in n copper vessel
and allowed to remain too long in it.
Medals of honor are to be conferred by
the Pope on Jewish as well as Catholic
physicians who distinguished themselves
during the cholera epidemic last year;
In an encounter at Pass Christian, be-
tween p. X. Myers, of the HandsborO Demo-
crat, and United States Commissioner Orr,
on Thursday last, the latter was killed.
The heirs of the late C. H. Mccormick,
the inventor of the mowers and reapers,
have entered suit against the surviving
partners. The estate is worth $4,000, 600.
Mrs. Caroline NJ. Doll advertises for q
young woman to study theology in a Mas
sachusetts theological seminary. Caroline
would be better employed in nursing doll
| babies.
| VI tuo tWeuCy "Scfcu otdIeS now repre-
sented in Congress, eighteen have Repub-
lican legislatures and governors. Ills
probable that state of things won't last
| long.
Charles Ochsford, of Detroit, who pro-
poses to shoot Niagara Falls, has gone
there to make preliminary arrangements
He might as we'll shoot out his brains-ii
he has any.
Tho English school commissioners, in n
recent report, complain of the exclusiveness
of the English clergy-many of the dissen-
ters' children being dcbarred entrance to
the schools.
A man named Mather, in Portsmouth,
n. H., determined to commit suicide, tied a
forty pound weight to his feet, confined his
wrists with handouts, and then jumped
into the river.
| A bear weighing two hundred and eighty
pounds was recently killed near Port Jer-
Wis. This locality seems to be fatal, having
been the scene of n terrible railroad accident
few months ago.
Five thousand citizens assembled in
Evansville, lately, to see a man walking ON
the river i'll wooden shoes. He had two
small canoes, into each of which he put n
| foot, and so floated off.