The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-08-30
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

Detroit ladies are forming boat clubs.
The wife of Commodore Vanderbilt has
just died.
Advices from st. Domingo report Salnave
again defeated.
Boston has sixty physicians, and sixty
times sixty isms.
A sculptor took cast of Gen. Halpine's
head after death.
Sitka has been declared port of entry
by the President.
Earl Mayo has been appointed Governor
General of India.
Mrs. Belmont drives five thousand dol
lar pair of ponies.
Chicago has appropriated s25O, 900 for a
polytechnic school.
A hundred thousand dollar diamond belle
Is reported at Sharon.
The son of the Sultan is on his way to
France for an education
The Mammoth Cave has been crowded
this season with visitors.
Akron, Ohio, has the largest pottery man
u'ac: DRY in the country.
Revcrdy johnson had an interview with
D;sraeli on the 26th inst.
The Chinese treaty has been sent to Chi
ma for formal ratification.
The lobster fishery of Maine produces
HILL IL
The neat crop of cotton is estimated at
two and Il half million bales.
Frauds in fifty-two cases have been dis
covered in negro bounty claims.
Ebenezer, brother of Washington Irving,
is dead, aged ninety-threc years.
Cardinal Antonelli rctires, and Bernardo
takes his place. Such is the news.
Mr.. Fuller has been commissioned by the
nf
A report was current in London that Dr..
Manning was to be made n cardinal.
Sardines are so abundant on the coast of
Spain, that they are used as manure.
conducta of So, SOC, 900 left the city of
Mexico on the 18th inst, for Vera Cruz.
The colored Democrat, Banks, who was
shot in Carrollton, died on the Goth inst.
The iron railroad bridge over the Missis-
sippi, at Burlington, has been completed.
The Portuguese Chambers have voted
nineteen million francs to fortify Lisbon.
A farmer in Oneida raised seven thousand
quarts of strawberries on one acre this year.
Deaths from drowning have been very
frequent at the watering places this season.
An insane Englishman was the author of
the attempt on Victoria's life in Switzerland
Thirty victims of the recent railroad acct
dent In Wales were buried on the 2:5th inst.
The eclipse of the sun was plainly OBJ
served throughout India, except at Bombay
The receipts from customs for the week
ending on the 22d inst. were four millions
1t is now said that King Theodore has
left n son older than the one taken to Eng
land.
Attorney General Evarts decides that the
eiglt-hour law involves no reduction of
wages.
The vines of Madeira arc recovering from
the plague with which they have been af-
tlicted.
The Belgian Government will not permit
nitro glycerine within the limits of its iuris-
diction.
Perry Fuller, our new Collector, gave
100000 security in Washington, on the
9th instant.
Figaro has received a check-not on n
bank it is prohibited from being offered for
sale in Paris.
A company has been chartered in New
iorkfor the purpose of constructing articles
of hard rubber.
Farmers near Muscatine, Iowa, are work
ing nights and resting daytime, to save
men and horses.
The ship Favorite from Liverpool for
New Orleans, was seen dismasted off the
coast of Ireland.
Sheritf's officers killed a man in the
Broadway theatre, during the play, in eff
fecting an arrest.
A large fire occurred in the village of
Bayou Goula on the 10th instant, proving
very destructive.
Gen. Dulce, formerly Captain G eneral of
Cuba, died on one of the Canon islands.
Wants confirmation.
man in Milford, Connecticut, is build
ing amhorse. To complete the job he
ought to build a rider
war of determination is to be wagcd
against the Indians. Such is the decision of
Sherman and Sheridan.
The assassns of Prince Michael of Servia
were executed on the 2Sth ult.. They met
their fate with firmness.
OF that part of Algeria visited by the