The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-08-29
EDrroR1AI AND OTHER ITEMS.

Seventy families have left Nova Scotia for
the Platte Valley, Nebraska. --
The murderers hung this past month con-
fessed that rum caused their fall. a7
Four villages in Maine make, two-thirds of
the spools. for the whole country.
Coates, of thread notoriety, has been knight
ed by Queen Victoria. Sew we co.
The coal dealers and consumers in the North
are not quite in accord about prices
Another ten dollar counterfeit has beer re-
ceived at the Treasury in Washington.
Two artists-Dore and Gautier-acoompany
Eugenie, to illustrate her Eastern tour.
settlement of Mormons has lately been
discovered near Battle Lake, Minnesota.
The colored postmaster of Columbia, S. Co
has deigned to appoint white man deputy.
After reaching nearly 1000 feet, boring in the
st. Louis artesian well has been ordered to
cease.
New York is to have a new fish market, to
cost S125 ,oO0 in place of the old Fulton fish
market.
The Viceroy of Egypt has just presented a
marble bust of himself to the Hotel de Vile,
in Paris.
During the past fifteen years seventeen pa
pers have been started in Cairo, ILL., of which
two survive.
The frequency of the loss of life this past
summer shows lamentable ignorance ofthe art
of swimming.
So dead is the prohibitory law in Massachu-
sets now, that the State constables take their
bitters regularly.
The last vestige of, the English corn laws
have been abolished. Now grain and -four are
admitted free of duty
A fearful accident occurred on tho 2d inst,
in the Burg collery, Dresden, by which
800 GOLFERS lost their lives.
i, A Bostoniah has raised this season, on a plot
of less than two acres, twenty-five hundred
dollars worth of straw berries.
A movable church, intended for Kansas,
has been invented in Chicago. OF course it
belongs TO some progressive sect.
Cattle in some parts of England have been
attacked with an epidemic of a contagious
character, resembling the rinderpest.
NcDouald has put in clay his admirable bust
of the late Mir. Brady, and Ames is finishing a
/ portrait of the distinguished lawyer
By postal convention money can be trans
mitted between this country and Switzerland
by the postal system now in use here.
Stephen Pierce, of Caldwell, N. j., was killed
by lightning Sunday, 18th, while walking
home from church with young lady.
Drought prevails throughout Maryland, Vir-
ginia and Georgia, in consequence of which
the cotton and tobacco crops are threatened.
The Northern Pacific railroad exploring party
have returned to Minneapolis, Min, and report
the route explored feasible beyond expectation.
The North and East rivers and the New York
Bay are patrolled nightly by tug-boats, in order
to prevent the departure of expeditions for
Cuba.
Diplomats in Washington live fast that
the Governments Of some of them have step
ped forward and paid their bills to save their
credit. "
The yacht Meteor, owned by George L. Loril-
Thursday week. This is,what snuff and tobac-
co does.
Miss RGllin, young lady of the predominant
color, has been appointed chief clerk in the
Adiutant Generals office of South Carolina by
Gov. Scott '''-'-
The ladies in England are accused of cutting
down and carrying away the silk curtains of
the windows in first-class railway carriages, to
make aprons of them.
The Thames Tunnel, long considerations OF
the worlds wonders, has been sold for one
third of its original cost. 1t is now used>2s a
common railway tunnel. Y.
! Competent engineers have pronounced the
Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge unsafe. We
! know a bridge on Common street that would
come under that category.
On the 14th inst. the temporary bridge on
the Mississippi used in the repairs of the Falls
of st. Anthony, swept away, carrying
three men over with the ruins.
| The partisans of Don Carlos at Madrid have
taken as their emblem the daisy, in compliments
to his Wife Ladies may be seen in all the pub
lie places wearing these flowers i'll their hair.
a divorce case is now pending in Grafton
county, VT, in which the parties have beer
married forty-iive years. and had fifteen chill
dren, of whom twelve are now living and O
age.
Mrs. DIR. Schradcr and her mother, of Red
Hook, Iowa, were poisoned on the 18th inst. by
taking dose of belladonna, given to them By
a laundering apothecary. Both died in few
hours.
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