The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-10-31
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

Eour JeWs enjoy Engllsh baronetcles creates
within the last thirty years
Udclpho Wolfe, besides "a reputation 70
schnapps, snapped up a fortune of S3OO,O
'Ex-President Pierce's estate is estimated a
$lo0o,0o0, which goes to his nephew, now il
,college.
Acorrespondent of an English Journal pro
poses to substitute electric shock for whipping
criminals.
The Sec of Winchester, England, to which
I DIR. Wilberforce has been translated, has an in
come of $4,000.
The car shops of the Lake Shore Railroad al
Buffalo, were destroyed by fire on Sunday
week. Loss, 100000
There are six hundred policy officers in New
York. What policy do they represent Not
gambling shops, surelya
| Our Consuls in Europe, like internal revenue
collectors at home, are to be changed about to
! prevent them from-guess
Gen. Thomas's report about Alaska amounts
to the fact that the only gamers by the acqui-
sition are the office-holders.
An American eagle was lately shot in Oh B
shire, Conn, while in the act of carrying off a
lamb which weighed forty pounds.
ID. f. Hall, of San Jose, California, has given
HOO acres of land for the purpose of founding
an orphan asylum in Los Angeles county. y
The stairs of an engine house in Erie, were
recently set on fire, the waterplug stopped up,
and the dogs in the neighborhood poisoned.
letter from Genoa states that the Duke de
Nemours and his family, well NJ. Theirs,
intend to assist at the opening of the Council.
Mr.. James Glib, Quebec merchant, who
died lately, bequeathed 100000 to the various
charities of that city, Catholic as well as Pro-
testant
Judge r. P. Spalding, of Ohio, is writing the
history of greenbacks. A pleasant undertake
ing, particularly if he is in possession of the
authorities"
Mr.. Greeley advises the Republicans who do
not like him-and he acknowledges there are
many-to vote the ticket with his name
scratched off.
The " Old Curiosity Shop" printed in raised
letters, at the expense of Charles Dickens, has
been distributed among the institutions for the
blind in Pennsylvania
Explorations the ella, in Arizona, have
disclosed ruins of elaborate structures, evidenc-
ing former race who possessed knowledge
of arts and manufactures.
The Philadelphia Library Company have ac-
cepted Internationally DIR. Rushs bequest-
one condition of which was the exclusion of
from the library. -
The Pope said of Pere Hyacinthe, on his last
visit to Rome, Eco un altrocheper Superbia an
Ira tinire col pazzi"-there goes another whom
pride will send into a madhouse.
The Emperor Napoleon, it is said, has ordered
that the travelling expenses of the Canadian
bishops, on going to and returning from the
Council, shall be betrayed from
HE Imperial exchequer.
The Paris correspondent of the London Times
s Mr.. O'Meagher, who formerly served in the
Spanish army, married Spanish woman, has a
handsome establishment in Paris, and draws
IN annual salary of $4,000.
DIR. Whitmore, health officer for Marylebone,
London, s1ys that among the poor bodies are
lept unburicd for eight, or even ten days, ow- |
ng to the inability of the surviving friends to |
ind money to pay for interment.
1t is apprehended that the great influx of
,isitors to Rome will double the price of pro-
yisions. The municipal authorities have been /
INVOKED to take measures for supplying in adj /
yance and preventing eXtortiOn.
At the Irish Immigration Convention, held |
n st. Louis lately, it was decided to form an
association with a capital of 100000, and to I
,e incorporated under the laws of such States |
Is may desire to avail themselves of its privi- /
eyes.
The young gymnast who was killed at Cher
Valley, ILL.,, lately, by falling fEem double +
rapeze, had promised his father to quit the
business as soon as his engagement finish
d, of which that at Cherry Valley was the
asst night.
An officer of the internal revenue in Virginia
eports that he has found in the mountains of
hat State, copper still, the inscription on
yhch shows that it was manufacturedin 1916,
nd that it was imported to this country Its
eing copperhead, had that anything to do
nth its capturei
Mr.. Peabody acknowledges in a graceful let
er the communication announcing to him the
of his statue, in the conclusion
f which he says, {" do not believe there could
9 found in the whole kingdom man of any
ank, however high, who would not feel hon
red by such noble testimonial as you have
lst dedicated to an humble American citizen"