The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-12
"a EDi1osfAIE AND oTESs 1TE1rs.
iri1s election 10 alalns takes place to-rnorrow.

struck for from 30 TO 90 per cent higher wages.
Efforts are being made in Berlin to organize
n line of steamers between Stettin and New
York. e7e4 ba s7 a.a
Mrs, Beecher Stowe is preparing a. yolumi-
nous reply: to her critics, both American and
English.
Brigham Young is greatly incenscd at Joe
Smiths SOUS fer preaching against poiygamy
lin Salt Lake City. i-7 49, 8. ~ -
: One thousand buffaloes were killed in one
week, lately, within ten miles of Camp Sup
ply, Indian Territory.
In the death of sccretary Rawlins, the Pres
ident loses one of the most disnterested and
honest of his friends. y
Some Chinese miners recently found-in sier-
IA county gold nugget weighing over nine
pounds, valued at $500.
Tonry, the young surgeon who was dismissed
for marrying Anne surratt, has accepted a 'lu-
crative position in Kansas.
The correspondent of Louisville paper says
that Mrs. Stoves scandal was written as a
sensation piece on a wager.
A recent fire in the arsenal ut Ciyita Yecehia
consumed the entire stock of forage of the
French troops serving in Rome.
1t took fifty men, with ropes, levers, pulleys,
and other appliances, two hours and half to
raise up an elephant which lately fell in Yer
mont.
A physician OF the Prussian Admiralty has
proposed the adoptioH-by all civilized States
of Il flag of distress, to be used both in peace
and war
A Mrs. st. Clair has been lecturing in San
Francisco in defense of polygamy and the Nor
! mons. She ought to have been cleared out of
the city.
Capt Shaw, commanding officer of the Lon
don Fire Brigade, is inspecting the various APP
planes in this country, and the mode of man
aging fires,
Jenkins--whether him of the newspapers, is
not stated -orossed the gorge below niagara
| Wednesday week on q veiocipede moving over
a tight rope.
! The cars on the White Mountain Railroad
were delayed by snow lately, and $50 people
! Were compelled to pass the night on Mount
| Washington.
Gustave Dore, the famous French artist, is
| systematically exploring the ms and outs of
London, with the view to bringing out II great
work on that capital %
In a speech lately delivered by Disraeli, at
the seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury, he care
fully avoided politics, declaring ''there was no
such thing as politics in August"
The great reraging i'll the Dismal Swamp
| after consuming many miles of fencing and a
large amount of cord-wood, has driven herds
of wild animals into the open country.
The cost of our army and navy last year was
| $40, 600, OO0-greater than that of any other
nation in the world except Great Britain
which, however, has immense colonies TO pro
| tect. z
An eccentric old gentleman named Savage,
who was notable in the streets of London for
his shabby outfit, and who was supposed to
live on the charity of his relations, has just
4 died, leaving 100000 to the Emperor Napo-
! leon.
The poet SAKE, says that he ran twice the
Democratic candidate for Governor of Yer
mont and each time came within one of being
elected. That was the candidate who ran
| against him.
Greeley, in his long article China, shows
| his qualification, in the opinion of the Herald,
for the Office of Minister to the Celestials. In
| his comments, he docs mp brown" our late
Minister, Ross Brown.
| The Judges of Washington, following the
| example of the Cabinet, have left that inter
esting burg. How do the people get along
without iniunctions9 Here, in the Crescent
City, they are our never falling comfort.
a huge steel hammer, weighing one thou
sand tons, is being made in England for the
Russian government. The hanImer-head weighs
| forty two tons, the anvil block five hundred
tons, and it is to be used in forging steel guns.
committee of the ''women's rights stripe
lately waited on Ida Lewis, with view to
enlist her in tho cause. They were greatly
disguised to find her at the wash-tub, helping
her mother, and altogether oblivioas Of heI
rights"
The question, "will the coming woman pull
teeth p has been sent up to the American Den
tai Association, which sent down an answer
that they had no jurisdiction. Which may be
considered as equivalent to saying, 'let her.
not rip but--pnll.
man engaged in shOyeling wheat at the
Niagara elevator, Buffalo, becoming exhausted
laid down in one of the compartments of the
boat and went to sleep, about o'clock on Sat
urday evening, and was smothcred bga de
posit of wheat upon him.
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