The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-12-06

| than they gave when -four was much higher.
| The wedding gifts of Miss Kelly, lately mar
ried in New York, were valued at 100000
The Western Telegraphic Companies have
reduced their rates.
| AT the late election, town in Connecticut
failed to vote.
The last Congress passed law requiring
| mail carriers to wear uniforms.
| Fort Lafayette, SO famous infamous during
| the war, is burnt to the ground.
| million sacks of grain are stored in San
Francisco.
| All the Spanish railways are insolvent. So
| arc the Spanish generals-in honor.
Brigham Young advocates short dresses, but
| is in favor of long list of wives.
The census of 1870, it is said, will show the
population of the United States to be AZ, 900 000
Velocipedes used by the rural postmen in
France.
Grain has declined at Chicago at the rate of
cent a day during the past month
Griswold, the defeated candidate for Governor
| in New York, is immensely rich, and spent
$3.50, 900 in thecanvas.
| Gen. Grant has accepted an invitation to
Boston. Wonder if Bnnker's Hill will open
his mouthf
LOWE COIculdu dtUempUcu W klOuaD u young
lady in Wilmington, who refused to marry him.
But Justice kidnapped him to the tune of 500.
By new invention, corn is now dried in q
few hours as completely as months dried it
naturally.
Whisky is said TO be selling in this city at
one dollar per gallon. OF course this is purely
benevolent, and government is not cheated.
A Washington rumor has it that members of
Congress had to be bribed by Russia before
they passed the bill to pay for Alaska.
The new Catholic Church in Michigan City
| is under cover. The interior is to be finished
next year.
A man in Boston has been favored with trip
let's, Ito whom he gave the names of Faith,
Hope and Charity.
Brazil is the only country whose securities
sell at larger discount than those of the
United States.
A Boston shopkeeper ingeniously fixed pis-
toll in his money drawer, and the first person
shot was himself
The first day cunning was allowed by law,
four thousand ducks were shot on the Susque-
hanna alone.
Portland, Oregon, has an idol-temple. If
Mammon is the god worshipped, there are /" as
many as you can shake stick at " in this city
The question of introducing organs in the
public schools is causing some excitement in
Chicago.
st. Patrick's Church, Hartford, supports one
hundred orphans in an asylum, and in seven
teen years has provided for 1000 children.
The herring fishery North has been very sue
cessful this year. One boat, with a crew of two
men and five nets, caught in one night $4,000
herrings.
The beds of phosphate rock on the-Ashley
river, near Charleston, promise to be mine of
wealth. In few months $1,000 have been re-
allied for 1000 tons.
By the Swiss laws boys under eighteen are
forbidden to smoke 1t is shocking to see, in
this city, almost infants with cigarettes be-
tween their lips.
Mallard Ducks sold in Bloomington Ill., last
week at the rate of three for twenty five cents.
In this city we pay-that is, if we indulge in
the luxury-from one to two dollars per pair.
Oakley Hall is elected Mayor of New York by
IS, 900 majority. He formerly practised law in
this city, and we set" his manuscript when
New York correspondent of the Bulletin.
Samuel Taylor, of Maryland, is writing life
of Chief, Justice fancy. Greeley and other
Radicals have long endeavored to deprive the
eminent jurisconsult of his good name.
Charles Reade the author of " Fair Play" is
to receive sos, 600 in gold for his next story.
Milton received Gao for " Paradise Lost" The
Paradise OF authors is in the present day.
Brigham Young has thirty-six daughters
waiting to be "sealed." Here is chance for
any old bachelor who has been left out in the
cold.
Gen. Badeau is coming in for some of the
attentions which his chief doesn't monopolze.
His complexion, manners, and "Anglo-SaXon
face are infinitely described.
The liberty poles of Cincinnati, having an
swercd ornamental purpose, are going to
serve a useful one-being split up as tirewood