The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-02-07
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The new CO l.iisslral in Rochest is nearly
"A follower of Sam Patch offers to go over
Niagara Falls for $4,000.
: A minute" earthquake was experienced
lin st. Johns last week.
The President pardoaed DR.. Mudds on
the 3D. inst. 3 IS wy
r A new threshing machine threshes the.
grain without breaking the straw. 5a
The loss by the lutte destructive fire in
MERIDIAN, Miss, amounts to S75, 600.
There were about four hundred divorces
granted in Chicago last year.
The English House of Lords is the only
hereditary chamber in Europe.
Three men received twenty five lashes
each at Leeds, England, recently.
The grave of Cen. Harrison is said to be
sadly dilapidated. Ohio should see to it.
Snow has fallen to the depth of six feet
in, various parts of Vermont this season.
Smallpox prevails as an epidemic
many Western cities.
A New York church proposes to exchange
its organ for brass band.
r. Tic costs III the St. Albums church trials
in England amount to 800, 900.
Tie Unita Cattolica of Florence has been
seized for it's structures on the grist tax.
Some of the New York hotel keepers pay
800, 600 a sear. rent.
Six negroes and one white man were re-
Gently lynfhed near Goldsborough, N. C.5-
for Decorating grave, and other crimes.
4 Several lives. were lost and much pro-
perty destroyed last week, by the. breaking
up of dam at Kohanza, Conn.
Father Ignatius is lecturing in London
on the Christianity of the Low Church
party. W.
lucky, that they have never lost accent by
official defalcation7
By order of the Secretary of the Navy,
three hundred men were discharged from
the Charlestown navy yard Thursday week.
Collaborating quartz has been dug up
near Buffalo, which created the iveliest
time among the " Bufaloes."
In Baltimore lately police officer had
his pocket picked of gold watch while on
duty.
An insurance company in New Hampshire
has los. 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
mondom.
The proposed boulevard to encircle Chi
cago will be fifteen miles long. and cost
s., 600, 600.
A Rev. Daniel Gibbs, of Gilead, Conn,
sues the church of that town for his salary.
Is there no balm in Gilead for Daniel9
Notwithstanding Iowa has prohibitory
law, her citizens find means to consume
g, ZOO, 600 worth of liquors. :
| Violence is so frequent in the Yosemite
Valley that natural-death creates h SEN
sation. .
There were 2o3 persons killed by horses
anu vehicles in the streets of London hast
year.
Fhe bell that was taken at Sebastopol by
the English troops has been hung in the
keep of Windsor Castle.
Attic, festivities in honor of the Duke
of Norfolk's coming of age, plate worth
$500 500 was placed on the tables. ~
Father o'CallahaD, killed ON the steamer
! Periere, was attached to the faculty 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 arst anniversary.
The new comic paper started in London
| is called the Blister. The hide of John
4 Bull win be match for it.
Would-be wits have found q mine in Sue
Murphyss nauae. The latest willing calls
her sweet potato. at
The Reconstruction Committee have de-
cided that Georgia is not entitled to repre-
sentation, because she had expelled negro
members from the Legislature.
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