The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-07-11
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

Tho first tea was brought from China to
England In 1891 l,
The cotton crop of Mississippffs expected to
realize S4o0OO,o0e, sA
Gen. Frank Blair carrying OH the life in
surance business>in California.
Forty-two1 persons left Paris OIL the 18th, on
the news of tho riots being spread ~
Pie apple crop Ia some Of the Northern
States promises to be unusually abundant.
( Collector GPinnelf, of Now York has III 600
applications for places in the customhouse,
Miss Rye has arrived again at Toronto, with
an invoice of eighty young English women.
Cardinal Bonaparte has been named pro,
tector of the village of Prosedi, near Rome,
Napoleon has received from the British In
stitute of Engineers diploma of melnber--
ship !.'.' 4's.5 "a
Newspapers do not appear to thrive in Ken
tucky; four have lately "pegged out" in two
days. ,t.seg-1v l, t
Chicago youth of fourteen stabbed and
killed a .comrade of thirteen years on Sunday
week. .,4s,s s. e. p.
The celebrated vineyard of Clos ougeot, in
France, is advertised for sale at the price of
100000.
Sir Rounded Palmer, the distinguished Eng
his practice. ISL ros ,a
1t is estimated that the Chinese residents of
San Francisco have 100000 deposited in the
savings banks. 49,. %t'g ~
Correspondents say that the higher you go
up the catskill Mountains, the more you must
pay for drinks.
Anna Smith, aged nineteen, owns and works
q farm of 100 acres in Mills county, Iowa. She's
of the right grit
Ofevery 100000 inhabitants, there die yearly
STA 2909, in Hungary $40.
A mass of copper ore, weghin 90 900 pounds,
recently passed through Montreal on it's way
from Lake Superior to Boston.
There is said to be man in Kansas City who
charms bees, leads them whittier he pleases,
and compels them to do his win.
Strawberries are soUmiserably low in New
York that the Maryland farmers, who have
them in abundance, refuse to ship.
A. L. Stewart 81 Co. are introducing sales
women into their establishment intending in
time to employ only women as clerks.
Three convicts attempted to escape from jail
in Corinne, Utah, and >-the~guard fred half
dozen times upon them, killing 'sf three.
A storm in Iowa carried four, thousand feet
boards to bits as they fey througn,the'eir.
Tubes for gas-pipesa are bcin & manufactured
in Oshkosh, Wis, ont of timber six inches
square, bored in the same way as pump bar
rels.
The sum of $33o,o0o was recently paid in
Paris for legacy duty improperly left by the
late Baron Rothschild in the department 0f the
Seine
A {pFsei hat l,,I,
to a troop of horses brought from Asia, travel
ed fifty-fve English miles Oh the day of its
birth.
Contracts have been made by Chicago par
ties for the regular delivery in that, city of
fresh grapes from California by the Pacific
Railroad.
The Emperor of France has distributed
$1,000 among the guards of Paris, as n reward
for their meritorious conduct during the late
disturbances.
Attic recent elections in France, four mil
lion votes We're cast for, and 'thrce million two
hundred thousand against, the government of
Louis Napoleon. --- 3
The-residents Of Martha YiHOyard were re-
Gently favored with 100000 herrinSs,being cast
ashore in Kotaya Bay, and thence -eheaply
caJtght,and sailed.
Seventy Thousand extra copies of tic New
York Tribune which contained a list of those
who puit income tTE; wCrU sOtt twCntyzrom
hours after its issue.
The reduction Of the charges for dispatches
over the Atlantic cable has led to a very large
increaoe in the amount of news received by
the Associated Press.
Young Carr, who killed Miss Fox in Belmont
County, wv, some months since, because her
parents opposed his marrying her. has been
senterieed to be hung.
AT the commencement exercises of Washing
ton College, Gen. Lee's,) C. w. Mccormick, of
Chicago, trustee, being unable to attend,
sent $4,000 to represent him.
In the new arrangement of the telegraph in
Great Britain, the Reuter- Telegraph Company
has had an indemnity of over three and half
million dollars awarded to &c.
The Ocean Bank robbery in New York. by
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