The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-11-29
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.
The English Liberals claim majority of 15O
in the next Parliament.
Mazzini is reported dead. Will he try to re-
volutionize his new abode ?
bismarck is said to favor the Liberals under
handedly.
Vesuvius no longer threatens the surround
ing villages with destruction.
Pollard, q Richmond editor, was shot dead on
the 24th inst.
The Northern mackerel fisheries are failures
this season.
Stock gambling was never higher than it is
at present i'll Wall street.
France and England are said to be in accord
on the Eastern question.
An English fisherman has caught an eighty
pound eel.
Dickens, it seems, is to write no more Christ
mas stories.
Col Keller presented Gen. Rousseau's report
to Gen. Grant on the 25th.
Western farmer has imported 5000 apple
trees from Russia.
There were 1874 deaths, 245 births and 504
marriages in New York last week.
New York journal says the first command
ment of American morality is, "Thou shalt not
be found outn
To keep up appearances, a writer advises
Protestants to hire somebody to pray for them
while they stay at home.
The sign-boards put up at road crossings on
the Pacific. railways are, "Look out for the In
juns."
The Republicans in Spain are said to be gain
inr fba hrIx, of
the people gain.
placed in the hands of a receiver. Great frauds
are charged.
The crops this year in England are great in
wheat, but turnips and hay and some other
things are scarce.
Southerners are the best customers of the
North so far this season. Western orders are
backward.
1t is much to be regretted that our Council
Chamber is fast being turned into bear-gar-
den. Gentlemen should forbear.
Gladstone, if not in favor of woman's rights
as broadly claimed, is in favor of having their
earnings better secured.
An ironing glove is the latest invention. 1t
will smooth the ruffled tempers of laundresses
it is hoped.
Chief Justice Chase in his court at Richmond
lately, dispensed grand jurors from taking the
test oath.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered
the sale of 525, 600 gold per week in ST. Louis
to relieve importers.
Washington is fixed upon by Johnson and
Stanley, as the place for the meeting of the
Alabama Claim Commissioners.
India-rubber sponge is "a new English inven
ton The Indigenous article may be found on
ST. Charles street, particularly at the luncting
hours.
Twelve Protestant ministers in New York
receive ten thousand dollars each n year for
their services. There many Catholic cler-
Cymen there who do not receive one-tenth of
that sum.
The Charleston Mcrcuy is dead. Established
by DIR. Moffat it has had for editors some of
the ablest men of the South-among them II.
l.. Pnckney.
Gen. Mcclellan gets $4,000 year for super
intending the construction of the late Mr.. Ste
vcns' battery.
Mrs, Victor, of Cleveland, sentenced to death
for murder has had it committed to imprison-
ment for life
They may have a more enlightened govern
ment in Mexico hereafter. gas has been in
troduced into the capital.
The concord in the Presbyterian church of
Canada is marrcd by division the organ
question.
Spain has III scaports; S75 miles of railroad
and 100 miles of canal. She has besides many
traitorous generals.
Massachusetts consumes nearly 81, 100000
worth of liquor a year. This in the land of
steady habits"