The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1868-07-19
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

: projected.
Stevens is in favor of paying bonds i
greenbacks.
Mr.. Evalts has been confirmed as Atto1
: ney General.
8 1t was Samuel Lover-not Lever-wh
, died recently.
A paper is printed in Lisbon, devoted t
woman's rights.
Chief Justice Chase approves the nomin
alton of Seymour.
The government redeemed, in gold, thi
month, $41 100000.
} Mrs. Lincoln goes to Europe, under Min
. lister Johnson's care.
There are eleven thousand journeymel
printers in Germany.
Every sixth person in New Hampshire i.
said to be depositor.
The Fenians, Cook and Blake, have beer
committed for trial in England.
1t seems there are more Scotch Highland.
ers in Canada than in Scotland.
Gen. Augur held council with two thou.
sand BannOck Indians on the I'd inst. =
The Israelites of this city have secured
funds for the erection of an hospital.
The bricklayers of New York are still re-
slsting the encroachments of employers.
Last week, fifteen thousand letters per
day were sent from New York to Europe.
Gov. Humphreys, of Mississippi, was
elected from Office by military authority.
The heat north and west of us exceeds
! that which we are called upon to endure.
Mark Grayson is to walk to San Francisco
/ IN seventy five days, for bet of $4,000.
The latest advices from Mexico are of the
usual turbulent and anarchical character.
A singular family of fifteen unmarried
brothers livinn nnAar IN,
Lyons.
Secretary Seward reports that twenty
three States have adopted the fourteenth
article.
Fifty deaths from sunstroke occurred in
New York city and Brooklyn, on the 14th
instant.
An attempt was made to rob the express
train on the 9th inst, near BrownstOwn,
Indiana.
Tuesday, was at one hundred and three in
the shade.
A brother of Martin Van Buren-Law-
rence-died at Kinderhook last week, aged
eighty-fve.
Pinckney White, the successor of Reverdy
johnson, has taken his seat in the United
States Senate.
Col. Nagle, in a late speech at picnic,
denounced the contemplated Fenian inva-
sion of Canada.
Mile Nilsson, by singing at the Crystal
Palace and-a private concert, in one eve
ming, made $500.
Sixty persons were Precipitated into the
river at San Francisco, on the 4th, by the
FILLING of bridge.
There has been an increase of 80 1000, 900
in the assessable property of San Francisco
during the last year. -
Gen. Sherman has adopted a. son of Kit
o,I %
Ind, to be educated.
A boy of nineteen, in Michigan, is now
seven feet three inches. He may be said to
be every inch q man.
The funeral of Chambers, the champion
oarsman of the Thames, was attended by
sixty thousand persons.
DR.. Inge, an eminent physician, lately |
died in Paris, in consequence of puncture |
received while dissecting.
Requiem masses were said in the city of
Mexico, ON the 10th ult., fOr-th souls of
and MiramOn.
The thermometer reached one hundred
and five degrees in the shade, at Pough-
keepsie, New York, on the 18th inst.
Beirstadt, the artist, gave a dinner to
Longfellow, in Loudon, on the/9th inst.
Gladstone and Farragut were present.
Two silly fellows, residents of Madison
county, Tenn, while hpsy, lately fought q
duel to decide whose wife was most attrac-
tive.
Mrs. Rhoda Berg, aged seventy six, died
lately in Chelsea, Mass, from the effects of
q slight scratch made ON her-hand by
rabbit.
The London police force has lately been
We must increase the New Or
leans police force to diminish negro dis
content.
The Home for aged women, under tie
supervision of Mother jerome, which h.
been established in New York, is complete
success.
James Campbell, of Sharon, Ohio, has not
slept an hour since last October; still, he
has a good appetite, health, and works on