The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-05
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Apallan R9nSuOln - "a .fs- 80
BpOoklyn built to the extent of fifteen mil
lion dollars last year. q y =, n ~ s.,.,ss g
/ Chicago paid sf,745,ooo income tax during
the year ending May 81, 1869. fyfss- e
! Adiamond lately found at the Cape of Good
Hope is reported to be worth 100000.
There sre two old ladies living in tho same
house in Providence, h. l., each over no years
old.
The late hail storm in Switzerland caused
damage to the amount of over two million
/ francs.
The latest English invention is knife, which
cuts rapidly that the patient has NO time to
feel it.
Twenty years ago there was only six post
offices in the State of Minnesota, now there are
six hundred.
| Business in manufacturing has fallen off so
that the Fall River mills run but three days
in the week.
! Marshal R. Evans, of Philadelphia, supposed
to BIO insane, killed his father, Thomas L.
Evans, Tuesday week.
The Tribune estimates that there are 10000
children in New York city growing up without
any sort of education.
| The Gcumenical Council will comprise 9a2
Bishops and Archbishops, of whom over 600
belong to the Latin races.
| A catalogue of the British Museum from A.
to NJ. has been finished, and occupies three
hundred and ten volumes.
| The San Francisco coroner reports for the
year IL murders, 81 fatal accidents, 80 suicides,
132 persons dyingin despair
| The amount of land urdisposed of in the
United States is eighteen times the dimensions
of Great Britain and Ireland.
| Judge McCunn wants the FenfAn funds, new
in controversy, to be applied to the education>
of the children of Irish patriots.
/ One hundred and ten peach cars, containing
$1,000 bushels of peaches, recently arrived >in
Jersey City in single afternoon. +
Austria has 5000, 900 acres of forest, produced
! by planting the value of which is eshma ted at
several hundred millions of florinsI
Catherine Beecher is out in circular defend
ing the Beecher family. The family are deter.
mined to make noise in tho world. y.
Henry Ward Beecher says he owns-a farm
on the Peekskill, and ifhe owned another he
would be on the roadGo the poor house.
Chinese physician named -po-tai, resid-
ing in San Francisco, it is said has seven thou
sand patients and an income of $1,000 per week.
/ The United States has 5000 miles of rail
road, employing $1s7O,oooOOo capital; Great
Britain $500 miles, with capital of $2,5lo,-.
o01OM
Itfs said that although the next cotton crop
| Will be far less than formerly, still the price
Tealized will be greater than was ever before
received.
George Barnac1e, recently married. poisoned
himself and wife at Jeffersonville, Ind, Friday
week. Wonder if he was any relation of lite
/ Barnacle7
Mrs. Harriet l.. Winter, for forty years post
mistress of Deerield, Mich, has been removed
She lost two husbands during life, and now she
loses her Office
A retiring postmaster at Lodus Centre, New
York, transferred to his successor twenty five
cents assets, for which he wished O receipt. a
| ccnt-sible-offc
Edward Rowland, son of the immense ship
owner of New Bedford, Mass, committed sui
eide at Lake Tahoe, Cal, on the Esd ult., by
blowing out his brains.
In 1868 the United States produced 9S0,000-
900 bushels of wheat and corn, about %
bushels per capita; of which only 100000
bushels were exported.
An oculist named Weaver, with an eye for
feminine attractions, has been sent to JAIL in
Laramie, ILL.,, for having more wives than the
law aliows-out of Utah. a--
AT a meeting of the Universal Peace Society.
held in Mystic, Connecticut, Friday week, n
petition was numerously signed protesting
| against the enlargement of West Point Aca-
denny. ----- -
| The landings along the Missouri river ave
all crowded with wheat awaiting shipment.
Notwithstanding this abundance of bread ma
terial, our bakers give small returns fer large
OUTLAWS.
At the present time there are not less than
GOO cooperative associations in England and
Wales, numbering nearly 100000 members, and
doing business to the extent of s35, 900 in gold
annually.
4 newly married German in Louisville, hear
ing that his, wife's former husband was still
living, poisoned himself and wife by putting
morphine and arsenic in the beer they Were
drinking.
The London R6ric,C says that Dickens delb-
tserately killed Dora because she could not cook