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

Crab breeding is now pursued scientifi-
Ohio has over six thousand acres of
grapes. s4.s ~. -
Congress, it is said, will adjourn about
the Goth.
The House of Lords has passed the Irish
reform bill.
The increase in the Illinois penitentiary
is frightfuI.
European dispatches announce the death
of Charles Lever.
Peter Cagger, a we'll known New York
politician, is dead.
The tone of the German press has Of
Tended the French.
Philadelphia and Camden are to be con-
nected by bridge.
Brigham Young is q railroad contractor
ON the Pacific route.
Hon. Reverdy johnson is to sail for
England next month.
. Fourteen thousand persons are exiled
every year to Liberia.
An English jockey-Fordham-m
f400O a year by riding.
One firm in New York, last year, made
$4,000 by hiring pianos.
Stewards dispatch on Fenianism does not
please the London Times.
California produced, last year, thirty
four million gallons of wine.
The loss by the great fire at Marquette,
Mich, will exceed 81 100000.
The elections in Virginia are ordered for
the 18th, l4th, and 18th of August.
Seymour has received from Pendleton
congratulations on his nomination.
1t is reported Forney wishes to sell
one of his " two papers, both daily"
The loss by the late Bremen fire is esti-
mated at million and q half thalers.
False hair is so common that wearers of
the natural article get no credit for it.
A 'simpleton committed suicide in Pitts
burg, lately, "out of love for his wife,"
Fertile, Improved lands in South Carolina
are selling for twenty-five cents per acre.
The dome of the capitol at Washington
is the most ambitious structure in America.
Gen. Neill, French war minister, defends
the preparations made by his government.
The Pottsville, Pa, miners are on a
strike. Gov. Geary threatens them with
force.
Saxony, not larger than three or four of
our parishes, has three and half million
sheep.
Chang and Eng-fifty mine years old-are
going to Paris, to undergo a surgical ope
ration.
Middletown, II. l., is model town, hav-
ing neither lawyer, doctor, grog- shop, debt,
nor poor.
In Siberia the gold fields are open to all,
subject only to a deduction of fifteen per
cent. at the mint.
Absynth, the favorite Partisan beverage,
is said to be one of the most fascinating and
pernicious drinks.
1t has long been thought that Italy had
no coal beds; recent discovery would
seem to disprove this.
Two passenger cars went through the
bridge at New Union, Pa, on the 9th inst,
killing several persons.
bed of salt, five hundred feet thick, and
extending, no one knows how far, has been
discovered near Berlin.
Among thirteen thousand persons buried
in Greenwood Cemetary, New York, there
are but seven centenarians.
The fine agricultural prospects in Europe
have reduced prices twenty per cent. for
articles deliverable in August.
Hole n-the-Day, q Chippewa chief, was
day week, by Pnlager Indians.
Frank Moore has got 600 from Con-
gress for a book describing the decoration
of soldiers graves at the North.
A Greek sutler, who sold matches for one
dollar n box, made the most, after Napier,
out of the Abyssinian expedition.
A farmer living in BIoomingdale, ILL.,,
made 500 by potatoes last year. Let
Louisiana planters take note of this.
Bayard Taylor is said to have taken art
instructions when last in Rome. Tisn't
every tailor that eau suit the public.
In -Jalapa, the garden of Mexico, the
people are almost reduced to starvation.
owing to revolution and brigandage.
One tree in Mahoning, Ohio, was lately
sawed into forty eight hundred and thirty
feet of good inch and quarter lumber.
Cedar Lake, Minnesota, is prolific in fish;
a small party, lately, in q few hours, caught
five hundred pounds of bass and pickerei.
A single coffee plant brought from Arabia
to Paris, in 1914, was the parent stock of
all the coffee plantations in the West Indies