The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-01-17
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Hay from Bombay il now received in Liver
pool.
The editor of the Paris Pays has fought sixty
duels.
velocipeders in Paris are compelled to carry
lamps.
Masquerades are prohibited by the London
police.
Berlin raises a revenue of &C, 900 thalers from
its dogs.
Illinois raises five million bushels potatoes
this year.
Chesapeake Bay oysters are sent fresh to
California.
Late arrivals report earthquakes along the
Peruvian coast.
John H. Suratt's trial cost the Government
nearly 100000.
The first shad appeared in Georgetown, s. c.,
on Christmas day
Single tubers of new variety of potato are
selling at $50 EACH
The tin mines of California will soon supply
the whole country.
Dana editor of the Sun, is the best veloci-
pedist in New York.
Senator Sprague has purchased an island on
the coast of Georgia.
Bostonians observed Christmas this year
moro than ever before.
Tin mines have been discovered in San ia
cinto county, California.
Lumber is selling at $500 per thousand in
some parts of California.
A Jerseyman has invented q method of pro-
pelling velocipedes by steam.
There were 35s fires in Chicago last year, en-
failing loss of $4,000, 600.
Chicago has twenty-five miles of Nicolson
pavement, costing q, 600, 900.
The people of Prescott and La Paz, Arizona,
| are living on cornmeal.
The legacy duty on Rothschilds property
! amounted to $2,5OO,OOO.
The average number of deaths in London
during the winter season is 1000.
The snow sheds on the Central Pacific Rail-
road extend twenty-five miles.
Misunderstanding machine, selling for three
cents piece, is popular in Paris
Davis, the absconding Boston broker, has
turned up-in . card to the public.
An officer of the Alabama Senate has been
caught stealing pair of shoes
Fayette county, KY, is distilling whisky at
the rate of $4,000 gallons day.
Six hundred thousand hat boxes are annually
manufactured in Danbury, Conn.
PAUL Tulane has donated $500 to the Ladies'
Benevolent Society of this city.
They are talking of building dwelling houses
| in New York on the French plan. --r'a7.-
Gen. Grant was the recipient of fat turkey
at Christmas, from a colored Marylander.
1t is proposed to drown the Mormons, by in
Guiding the surrounding territory.
Senator Sumner proposes to allow Mrs. Lin
coin pension of $4,000 per snnum.
! The National Bricklayers' Convention waited
on the President last week.
Advices from our Minister to England would
indicate that there is hitch in the negotiation
When the Pacific Railroad is completed, the
fare to San Francisco will be $500.
| A bridal veil is exhibition in New York
| having lace trimmings worth $S000.
Paris has six thousand stands exclusively
| used for the sale Of roasted chestnuts.
| The parish of Terrebonne raises 1000 hhds
| sugar this season-more than half a crop.
It is stated that Parson Newman, of this city
is to be sued for 900 damages for SANDER
The late Gen. Rousseau died poor. What q
eulogy on his career, in these days of universal
corruption!
! Judge Pelham, of Alabama, has given de-
cision declaring the Legislature of that State
an illegal body.
Butler has introduced bill into Congress fol
establishing protectorate over San Domingo
and Hayti.
The President has nominated S. A. Robertson
internal revenue collector for the second dis
trict of Louisiana.
Tho whole number of hogs in the Bnitet
u States is put down at $4,000, O00--exclusive
|
the two-legged animals
Geo. w. Childs, proprietor of the. Philadel
phia LEDGER now absent in Europe, ordered
| Christmas dinner for $50 newsboys.
Eugene Casserly, Senator from California, wa
the recipient of q public dinner in New Yor
last week.
The new suspension bridge over Magyar
river was opened to the public last week. l
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