The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-05-30

The hammer which drove the last spike III
the Pacific Railroad is on exhibition i'll twenty
The Duke of Montpensier, it is said, lately
visited Madrid, and had an interview with
Prim. sd W e = rs =" @aAR -
) Three sisters of Gostschalk, the pianist, gave
their fourth annual concert at Willis Rooms,
London. tsg-a-as55-ee ~ -ea-. Ia.
The new town hail ii GLOUCESTER Mass,
which cost sloo,poo. was burnt on Thdrsday,
goth inst. - @S sza
On Thursday week 1000 coal miners struck
at Pittslurg, Pa. Other localities ore expected
to I" strke1 Is s EsP
In tho past Eve months there have been
sixty one boiler explosionsin the United States,
causing great loss of life. "
The least remunerative days labor in the
United States will buy an acre of excellent
land. Who'd be landless
Fred. Hawley, of Rochester, N y, on the
18th inst, rode fifty miles OH a velocipede in
three hours and quarter.
| Secretary of War Rawlins is considering The
propriety of declaring marshal law in. Georgia
! to secure the lives of Union
| New York pays a million dollars for munich
pal salaries. New Orleans doesn't pay that!
but the million goes, Notwithstanding
1. 1.-THE glory and shame.of England" is found
| in the fact, that in ten of her cities there are
two hundred thousand children without the
slightest education.
A law recently passed by the Illinois Legis-
hlature classes habitual drunkards with idiots
and lunatics, and to be under the control of
! overseers of the poor
/ We have the cause of the late war at last.
The Mormons say it had it's origin in President
Van Buren's refusing to defend the prophet
Joe Smith, when driven from Missouri. ia
Loud complaints are made of the inhuman
manner in which our troops are killing off the
Alaska Indians and burning their hurts. The
President must send his Quakers out there.
r A man in Boston lately rode relocipede
upon a tight rope, twenty feet above the heads
of the audience, while another man performed
antics trapeze attached to the veloeipede.
4 Elections have been ordered for Catholic
Conference in Hungary, to be held in June, to
decide on the autonomy of the Church in that
country. This is too dark for us to penetrate
The New York City Board of Aldermen have
voted 81 Od6 IN przea Ia lie given baseball ant
other clubs,A Oar, city athorit isse might -eS
, pend that SUN fna woese-may thaa6 neIicohI
: aging manly games
The preachers of@ghicago have protested
e against decorating soldiers graves on Sunday
Q Nothng'is said against the waste of time ant
b money in decorating the bodies of church mem
; bers on the same day. 1922 -
Y A man ins Worcester, Mass, makes LIVING
i by eating glass for ashow. Tho Hshow" o.
: St. Charles street is different here men pu
d glasses to different nee leaving the glas
: whole, and swallowing the contents.
d At the third annual meeting of the New Yor
y Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to An
J. mails, recently held, it was announced that b'
s. quests had lately been received to the amour
of $t00, 600, Bergh can command hundreds {
=. thousands for da1nb animals while men, w
:, men and children suffer sc cruelty" froms,wan
= An English Presbyterian preacher identihe
-, his Bible in court from the marks he, 4Aaade
% using it as nrazor strop. Here may lie trace
~ the origin of his emitting denunciations. Do
;, the Calvfnistic brother" on Camp stree
in sharpen his pen by the same external apple
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