The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-07-04

The son ofStha Acga1osyicj l26gntpnc the 7th
-ult., has received the name of Alexander. ---
4 The British House of Parliament cost eleyent
million dollars. Our capitol building in Wash
ington bias already cost twelve million, and is
not yet finished. =,
In n Sermon preached at the Brompton Ora
tory, Archbishop Manning stated that there are
more Catholics in. London than there are in
habitants in Rome.
/ For twenty Ave cents the tour of the Central
Park in New York may be made in carFiage.
The fare is fixed by lawuand the "trip occupies
about ninety minutes. sr, .t..t az, s,a, i
J. e. Owen, the actor, is said to be worth
over half million dollars. He has taken the
poets counsel, =" Act we'll thy part, there all
the" emolument lies"
| One of the most talented members Of the
i House of Commons has neither hands feet.
He writes an elegant hand. He is carried in
daily by the messenger. ~. 5s,95 93i'
The Birmingham Board Of Guardians, after
a protracted discussion, have determined, by q,
majority of 80 against 8, to refuse permission
to nuns to visit the workhouse.
| The number of English panpers who received
relief up to March, last year, was efer o mil
lion--beirfg sixty thousand incpease over the
corresponding period of last year. ~
The Supreme Court of New York has decided
that if q passenger is Injured while standing
in car, after having made reasonable effort
to find a seat, he is not guilty of negligence.
Inquiries into the reports of the abuse of
: the Indians> and natives of Alaska, and want
of discipline among the troops, has decided the
President to remove the commanding officer.
Annie Surratt, daughter of the murdered
Mrs. Surratt, was married in st. Patrick's
: Church, Washington, on Thursday week, to
Mr.. w P. fancy, a chemist, employed in the
S Surgeon Generals Office. mo-
(; Clerks for the Patent Office haze to pass On
|, examination in various branches before they
L are accepted. If all Government officials had
d to undergo the same ordeal, there would be
vs. greater number rejected.
% The 1eg1ess printer, Johnny Burns, wal
e wheeled into the foreman's Office at the Gov
ST eminent Printing Office, last week, and ten
II dered his resignation, declaring that he ,woult
80 no longer work with n negro f. ..
N Reports conflict about the views of govern
ID ment in regard to Minister Webb and his dis
A pute with the Brazilian authorities. One wri
e. ter has it that Webb is sustained, anothe
al that his course is condemned.
fg The young man Who married Miss Anna SUI
ie raft has been removed from petty Office. Ca
A anything be more contemplate than this n
he looks as if the Government would like to mul
to der the daughter well as the mother.
to Glyn, Cruthers and Murphy, who SO brutal
er maltreated the passengers on the ship jaime
IL Foster, were sentenced in Brooklyn last weel
on the first to fifteen years, the second to sever
to and the third named to five years in the pen
90 tentiary.
d. Grant wouldn't wait to attend Raymond
re- funeral, although, the Tribune says, it woul
have been fitting that he should have bee
among the mourners.. That paper concludes
4" 1t was regretted that one who owed hi
much; whom he had 30 loyalty supported
Va the field and in politics, when such suppo
=, was very valuable, and whom his paper h7
- largely enabled to, succeed, should have bee
| so pressed upon with hurrying public affai
~ that he could not stay a little longer in Il
,od city" '''.s sa .a5 49, ..t