The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-09-06
letter to Governor Warmoth justifies the deduc-
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surviving ex-member of Congress who voted
for the Missouri Compromise in 1920
Barnum ran a foot-race lately at the foot OF
the White Mountains. The race of mounte-
banks will not run out while he lives.
A quack doctor advertises a cure for fell
ons" The patients at the Mechanics Institute,
Dryades street, needn't despair, then.
The Queen of Belgium is at Spa, occupying
small cottage, with far less pretensions than
accompanies our fashionables at Saratoga.
Brattleboro, VT, had five cases of suicide last
year. 1t is the seat of famous water-cure es-
tablishment, but couldn't cure the vapors
A visitor at Stamford, Conn.,, says that the
mosquitoes there, if painted, might pass for
Canary birds, they are SO musical and large
The son of Gen. Cavaignac, at a recent ex-
animation at the Sorbonne, refused to receive
q prize from the hands of the Prince Imperial.
Gardeners in the vicinity of New Orleans
should try the Albert Rose variety of potato,
as they mature three weeks earlier than any
other. ---- ~ =-1----- :. y
! ALowell boot-black has accepted challenge
from q Boston "shiner" to compete for the
championship of the State and prize of twenty
dollars.
| The utilitarian Scotch have used the shaft of
a cross which for centuries marked the spot
where Bruce left Arran, for the construction Of
dyke.
The President thinkslI FEDERAL troops are in
better position to preserve the peace than a
militia drawn from one party to make war on
the other.
Mrs. Victor, convicted Of poisoning in Cleve-
land, Ohio, and sentenced to be executed on
the 21st instant, has been respited till the Goth
November.
The collector of Southern port, recently re-
moved by the President, isreported a defaulter
to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars
Who is hef
Indian depredations still continue. Seventy
a family of nine persons found murdered Sat
urday week.
Mrs. Posey, whose husband was soldier I'M
der General Washington, died at Valley Forge,
Pa, short time ago, at the age of 1O2 years
and 10 months.
Mrs. Vanderbilt was the mother of thirteen
children and the grandmother of forty. Would
this fact be noticed if the Commodore was not
q millionaire
A drunken Bostonian, at picnic held in
Manchester, N. H., short time since, was tied
to a tree and kept there till he got sober enough
to behave himself.
woman lately reached Cincinnati from the
North in search of her husband,-a r'edler. to
whom she was married but week, but couldn't
recollect his name!
In answer to a call for loan, Napoleon had
offers exceeding the sum asked for thirty -four
times. We in the United States have our paper
at a shameful discount
A noted New York pickpocket robbed an old |
man named Dickey of $4,000 in United States
bonds, on horse car, the other day. They got |
the thief but not the bonds
There are complaints that the bees this sum-
mer do not send out swarms as usual, or make
honey. Perhaps they have caught the mania
of striking for higher wages.
Allen, the wickedest man in New York, adj
vertises in the Herald that curiosity seekers
needn't call on him unless they wish to spend
at least one dollar at the bar.
Bishop Platzk, of ST. Petersburg, has been
sent to Siberia for refusing to send delegate
to the Catholic Synod which is about to con-
vene under the Emperor's direction.
Mason Jones has withdrawn from the Par
liamentary contest for Queens County, in con-
sequence of his Catholic constituents taking
offence at his Garibaldian proclivities. =
AS lady and gentleman, accompanied by
their little daughter, were gazing at some pic
lures in Paris shop window, adroit thief
cut off the child's beautiful crop of golden hair.
Sir Rowland Hill, the reformer of the British
postal service, is writing history of the Eng
lsh Postoffice. 1t would take mountain power
to introduce system into our confused and ire
gular plan.
An old lady buried at Jackson, Michi-
gan, a few weeks ago, whose funeral was at
tended by two of her from the House of
Correction and a third from the State Prison
all under guard.
The President has expressed his determine
ton to Tennessee delegation that Brownlow
will not be permitted 20 trample on the rights
of the minority. 1t is time this believing bull