The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-04-19
xD1ruRrA1 AND orn1R ITEMS.

Inc Aate gaze was SenMDIy 1elC III NAOUAe
Irish exiles have been discovered in Po-
| land. l
The Fenian trial commenced in London
on the 10th. =--==-=-- IA >
Except fruit, all the crops are protning in
Tennessee.
Women, dressed in male attirc, voted at
| the late Arkansas election.
There are nearly fifty million acre, unim-
proved land in Nebraska.
Our army of fifty thousand men casts one
hundred million dollars per year.
Thirty deer were killed Oh Butte Creek,
Oregon, on one square mile OF ground.
IA mastodOni of enormous size has been
fexhumed near ST.. Helena Island, S. G.
Two men were killed by lightning on the
10th inst, in Laurensburg, Delaware.
BY last accounts the Abyssinian prisoners
have been released. This closes the war.
The bath houses and wharves at Bay st.
Louis were destroyed by the late storm.
The Mikado of Japan has declared war
against the r ycoo11: look
A kettle has been invented which boils
water by friction, IN six minutes, without
fire.
A chime of six bells were blessed atU Utica,
N. Y, on the 18th inst, for st. Patrick's
church.
less than two hundred applications were
made.
The Introduction which Talleyrand placed
on the publication of his memories expires
| next month.
BY order of Gen. Grant, soldiers are to
cultivate vegetables wherever suitable lands
| can be had.
| Enthusiastic meetings are being held
throughout England denouncing the 1lish
| Establishment.
A school of design in New York has two
hundred pupils. Did they need schooling
| for such an art?
During the storm on the 10th, two negroes
were killed by lightning in Amelia county,
| Virginia.
There is some talk of impeaching Bishop
Potter, on account of exceeding his author
ity in the Tying t'ial.
The heaviest rain storm ever experienced
passed over Macon on the 10th inst, caus-
ing great damage.
The New York music composers have
formed a union AGAINST music publ ishers
| DiscOrd is sure to follow.
Our Russian creditors have agreed to
wait till May for the settlement of that
little Alaska bill.
Mr.. Burlingame and the Chinese embassy
are to have an ovation in San Francisco, on
: arriving there.
The storm Of the l4thl inst. blew the
steamer Lexington to pieces as che lay at
Vicksburg.
A two-story street is projected over
Broadway, New fork, to cost ten million
| dollars per mile.
At the beginning of the war Gen. Grant,
| it is said, owned three slaves. He owns
them now by the million. &C.,.
A hen in Mooretown, Vermont, laid seven
hundred and seven eggs, and raised Thirty
seven chickens in year.
Symptoms of disaffection among the In
dams of the West have become apparent,
and smother war is probable.
There is but one unmarried man in the
Minnesota Legislature, showing the unpop-
ularity of bachelors, perhaps.
! One thousand dozen eggs were shipped
from CentIevlle, Iowa, last week, a. an
average cost OF ten cents per dozen.
James O'Neill, who lately died in Lud
low, Massachusetts,, aged one hundred and
two years, had eighty grandchildren.
Wonder what premium the New Orleans
insurance compar 'es will charge for insur-
| ing The black and IN Constitution
The United States pay one hundred mil
lion dollars per annum for sugar, and yet
were not a sweet-tempered people.
The most popular men in Ohio is dent
| list, who broke u womans jaw. Husbands
have become quite sympathetic since.
| The 18th of June, next, is the day APP
| pointed by Gen. buchanan for the assem-
bling of the Texas State Convention.
There are one thousand three hundred
cnd twenty-fOur newspapers published i'll
| G.,2s.t Britain and ireland.
Commodore Vanderbilt is to have q
sta. re, costing two ilurdred and fifty thou
| santi dollars. What for9
The largest income in Chicago is that of
Mccormick, the inventor of the reaper. He
reaps IL rich harvest now. =
| The whole surface OF our globe has been
dug over one hundred and twenty eight
times to bury its dead. Rich diggings!