The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-12-27

The President isaued apraclamation of gen.
eral amnesty on Christmas day, including all
against whom political offences are charged.
Washington couple, wishing to avoid extra |
expense dressed their dead child in the usual |
manner, and took it between them on the cars. |
The accidents on Western waters this season |
have been unusually great-341 more than LAST |
year.
Father Doane raised $4,000 in Philadelphia
towards the endowment of the American Col |
lege in Rome.
George Francis Train has. sued the Lord Lieu
tenant of Iceland for 100000. He is now in
New York.
Two million dollars worth of property was
destroyed by the late inundation in Switzer-
land
Queen Isabella refuses to abdicate in favor
of her son until he is fourteen years old. He
is now twelve.
In one house in Jamaica, New York, there re-
side five persons, whose united ages average
500 years.
Buffaloes are shot from the car windows of
the Pacific railroad, as the locomotive rolls
| along.
Since the beginning of the Garibaldian trou-
| bles Franco has sent 100000 and Ireland
/ $1,000 TO the Pope
Reyerdy johnson has been requested by Sew
ard not to utter any more balderdash, as it is
unbecoming.
I The late Baron Rothschild never permitted
even his own family to know the amount of
his fortune.
The army of the United States will be re-
duced to forty three thousand men on the LIST
of January.
A man in New Jersey received $4,000 damages
from o ferry company for q smashed FOOT Ma
ny get their heads broken without receiving
a cent. Y
A New York lawyer named Patton gets o fee
of 500, 900 from two London bankers for prose-
cutting their suits against the Atlantic and
Great Western Railroad Company.
An East India paper publishes an advertise,
ment from an. English Methodist lady, who
wishes to marry a king. The circuit preacher
II vouches for her responsibility.
A man in Portland bargained for seventy
FIVE cents to get as many oysters as he could eat
after gulping fifteen dozen, he wound up will
, a stew.
Young Sears of Boston, eight years old, ha
an income of half o million dollars-decidedl,
the richest person of his age in the Uuitet
States.
royal Danish decree has been issued pun
ishing church sleepers. There must be some
thing "rotten in Denmarkn-or rather in it
church.
Mexican banditti attacked the village o
Clarksville and the United States Customhouse
recently, killing two persons and escaping wit
imrnnity.
A boy named Gregory, residing in Posy cour
| ty, ILL.,, threatened to kill his father unless
Il gave him $4,000 He is now in Jail in defaul
3. of bail.
a The Prince of Wales, while hunting at Con
peigne, lately, was endorsed by stag. hi
y fathers habit was to have deer surrounded b
keepers, and shot at a safe distance.
e BY the death of an English relative, W.
| man in Louisville has come into possession
20 $500, 900. 1t seems her fortune is better tina
her morals.
l. Six sermons in one day were lately preache
in Cincinnati against Christianity. Christie
70 progress! What are the sectaries doings-qua
relling.
t. The New York Ereaing Post advises railroa'
to carry passengers for cent per mil
a. Southern railroads now run empty cars, wber
as at this rate they would be crowded
a. One hundred members of Parliament ha'
g. presented q memorial to Reverdy johnson,
urge his government to adopt the penny pos
age system between the United States al
England.
The Baltimore correspondent of the New
leans Times wishes to know what pinders al
80. The st. Charles Theatre bills under the Ia
." James H. Caldwell, had the following legen
~ "Peanuts are prescribed"
Day Goops.-This city has had many publ
of