The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-01-03
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.


The Legislature is to meet next Monday .
A man in Syracuse teaches bulls to dance. N
Trichnia has made it's appearance again.
Minnesota has school fund of over mil
lion dollars.
Seventy-fve cases of contested election are
to come before the next House of Commons.
From successive failures in-the fisheries, New
foundland is in sad plight.
There are six hundred clerks in Stewards new
dry goods store.
Three children died in Boston last week from
commissions, brought on by eating raisins.
Minnesota pays bounty of ten dollars each
for wolf scalps.
Pennsylvania has reduced her debt two mil
lions last year.
Reverdy johnson has written to the working
men, defending his intercourse with Mr. Laird.
Rev. ]. p Newman denies having challenged
Mr.. bennett, of the Planters Banner.
Twenty-eight million dollars will be required
| to pay interest on the LIST of January.
Gen. Hancock publishes letter, denying
having broken faith with the Indians.
| The Porte refuses to participate in the con-
ferences the Cretan question.
| The Turkish arsenals in full blast, pre-
pairing for the coming
Marshal Pavio, recently Governor General of
Madrid, is dead.
Ten thousand troops are to lie sent to Cuba
during this month.
The sister-in-law of Charles Dickens COM
mitted suicide in Chicago last week.
Investments in the South said to average
81 100000 per week.
The Senate has determined to confirm no
more of the Presidents nominations.
] Authentic Documents haxe-b been discovered,
identifying President Lincoln with secession.
Mrs. Scott Siddons receives $500 a week for
her readings.
In the last year 100000 were for at the
, different meetings in the United Kingdom.
The Rothschild Hotel, Paris, is said to be the
house where Napoleon III. was born.
Marshal Mcmahon demands 100000 in gold
:, to feed the Algernes during the coming year.
More Geographic messages sent in Aus
tralia than in any part of the globe
e Frankfort KY, is trying an experiment, by
4 suspending the Sunday law for six months.
Il A Kentucky sheriff, who attached false teeth
!, for taxes got bit, they belonged to another
n than the debtor.
: A lady in Rochester, New York, has made
S 300 vests in year, besides doing family
work.
t Alexander II. Stephens entered on his duties
If sity on the ist inst.
l. Another Indian battle has been fought i'll
$ Washit:i Mountains. Santa Anna cap
turcd.
n Treasurer Spinner has written another letter
:, on finance. 1t is now hoped lie has spun his
" last thread.
-, The young Cuban, Capcr;t, was buried on the
31st ut., and the attendance at the burial was
>, the largest ever seen in Havana.
:, Gen. Grant, to avoid the usual Washington
etiquette of calling on the President on New
,s Years day, has left that city for the North
&. A Paris paper says that France is ready to
:. comply with Turkeys ultimatum, if supported
. by the great powers.
:, The English Parliament met on the Both ult.
49, and after the ministers were sworn in, adj
., iourned till February.
-, Denmark is in dudgeon at the shabby way il
=. which our government has treated the sale t.
- it of the Island of ST. Thomas.
% Senator Morton publishes Il letter, combattin:
: Greeleys structures on his plan for the rcsump
r. ton of specie payments.
q The steamer Jewell, with four hundred bale
:, cotton, was snaggcd i'll the zsfuburrru river oi
!, the Goth ult.
The Cuban insurrcctionists are charged wit!
-. having mixed strichninc in cooked food, t.
-. poison their opponents
- ,Fhc suffering poor in and about Santiago
IL Cuba are fleeing to Jamaica, III Apprehension
mn of famine.
g The Greeks and Turks reported to haV
Of had an encounter, in which the latter wer
Ii worsted.
bo From recent out-givings it is probable tn
90 public debt is to be made perpctual-some
he thing in the fashion of our city money.
of Garibaldi declines accepting commissio
of rendered him by the Greek government.
rs prefers the safer work of directing the BLOWN
to up of Roman barracks, and manning innocer
non-combatants.