The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-02-07
EnrruRrAL AND orHEr rrrars.

the Sd inst. ~. II M
A new tbpeshing machine threshes the
grain without brcating the straw
The less by the late destructive fire in
lMeredian, Miss., amounts to 800 GOO. 4
There were about four hundred divorces
grantedin Chicago last year. Sd
The English House of Lords is the only
hereditary chamber in Europe.
Three men received twenty FIVE lashcs
each at Leeds, England, recently.
The grave OF Gen. Harrison is snid TO be
sadly dilapidated. Ohio should see to it.
Snow has fallen to the depth of six feet
in verious parts of Vermont this season.
Smallpox prevails as an epidemic in
many Western cities.
A New York church proposes to exchange
its organ for brass band.
jPlie costs in the st. Adams church trials
>iR England amount to 100000.
The UnitG Gdttolica of Florence has been
seized for its structures on the grist tax.
Some oft New York hotel keepers pay
100000 year rent.
Six negroes and, one white man were re-
Gently lynched near Goldsborough, n. c.,
for desecrating a grave, and other crimes.
r Several lives weye7os and much pro-
perry destroyed last week, by the breaking
up of a dam at Kohanza, Conn.
Father Ignatius is Iecturing in London
on the Christianity of the Low Church
party.
How few of our States can say with Ken.
lucky, that they have never lost cent by
official defalcation9
By order of the Secretary of the Navy,
three hundred men were discharged from
the Chariestown navy yard Thursday week.
Collaborating quartz has been dug up
near Buffalo, which created thes liveliest
time among the " Buffaloes.n
In Baltimore lately police officer had
his pocket picked of gold watch while on
duty.
An insurance company in New Hampshire
has lost but twenty-six dollars in twenty
years.
The International Hotel, in st. Padl's,
was destroyed by fire on the Sd inst.-loss
100000.
Brigham Young has telegraph wires lead
ing to his Office from every hamlet in Nor
mondDm.
The proposed boulevard to encircle Chi
l.cago viii be fifteen miles long. and cost
s., O0d,O0O.
"A Rey. Daniel Gibbs, of Gilead, Conn,
sues the church of that town for his salary.
/ Is there no balm in Gilead for Dauiel7 -
Notwithstanding Iowa has prohibitory
law, her citizens find means to consume
| Sc, 000, 600 worth of liquors.. .&
| Violence is so frequent in the Yosemite
Valley that natural death creates SEN
sation.
There we're 203 persons killed by horses
and vehicles in the streets of London hast
year. ,.ia
The bell that was taken at sebastopol by
the English troops has been hung in the
keep of Windsor Castle.
] At the festivities in honor of the Duke
of Norfolk's coming of age, plate worth
5000, 900 was placed on the tables.
Father o. Callahan, killed on the steamer
Periere, was attached to-she- faeaity=of
Georgetown College, D. C.
Manchester, England, has almost as
large population of Irish, and sons of
Irish, as Dublin has.
There were I39 journals started in Paris
last year. We are not informed how many
survived their first anniversary. =
The new comic paper started in London
is called the Blister. The hide of John
Bull will lie o match for 4.
Would-be wits have found q mine in Sue
Murphy's name. The latest willing calls
her a sweet potato.
The Reconstruction Committee have de-
cided that Georgia is not entitled to repre-
sentation, because she had expelled negro
members from the Legislature.
A programme of a concert given in Lon
don in 1887, at a private house, at which
Prince Louis Napoleon performed solo on
the violin, brought fifty francs.
Figaro states that there are twenty thou
sand persons in Paris who never wash
themselves. We imagine this to be a figure
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