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

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u The Hon. Mis-. Yelverton lectp-ed last week
in yickEburG. az az ssA.tsl si2s gtsf.&s2s ~
The Mayor Of Boston gave a holiday to the
public school children on ST. Patrick's day.
Thefortune Of four French composers amounts
to two and a half million francs. s 50
The New York State prisons cost $3.50, 900
more than their earnings last year.
= Savannah is sending large quantities of lum-
Der to England
The proposed constitutional amendment has
been rejected by the Delaware Senate. ,n,@pnv.1@I
A boy fourteen years old committed suicide
at Ringgoid, Ga, ON the 14th ult.
man in Cincinnati had himself committed
to the Lunatic Asylum to prevent suicide.
! six hundred men are working at Providence
ON locomotives for the Pacific Railroad.
Every fireman in Chicago has had his life in
sured for $4,000 by the property owners of that
city.
The bill for soap and combs in the late Con-
gress was $140O. Still they were an uncombly
crowd. tttF
{ The San Francisco people attribute the spread
of small pox to cats. Pussy had something to
do with it. e.
A lady in Lowell, who had Grape on her door
since the assassination of Lincoln. removed it
ON inauguration day.
Sitka ia the place where traveller either
loses or gains day-depending on his entrance
from the east or west. I4 ~
4 The son of Gen. Seabrook-once the richest
man in South Cardinals now driver on n
Charleston street car
Minnesota had fo ZEN dumb Legislators dur
ing the last session of the Legislature. What
privilege,
+ A scientific cultivator made fifteen bales of
cotton from three acres of ground near Athens,
Georgia.
Two right whales, yielding fifty barrels of
oil, were recently captured off Amagansett,
Long Island.
Before the Illinois Legislature adjourned, a
bill~was passed giving each.member $500 to pay
his room rent during the session.
A soldier still guards the house of eS-Secre-
tary Steward. The Secretary is gone, but the
soldier remains. ll'4i
A keg of gunpowder exploded on steamer
last week at San Francisco, while salute was
being fired, injuring twenty persons.
A Mormon saint lately offended his wives,
for which they gave him sound thrashing, to
teach him better manners.
Two hundred German emigrants arrived in
this city last week. Our planters should offer
inducements to retain them in this State.
The bin authorizing the opening of free pub
lie libraries on Sunday, was killed in the Mas
sachusetts Senate.
The waters of the Mediterranean have been
successfully admitted into the Bitter Lakes
through the Snez Canal.
The Stockbridge Indians in Wisconsin, once
Numbering 10000 warriors, have dwindled to
800 men, women and children.
The report that four Professionals had become
Mohammedans at Madras, is confirmed, and it
is said they are about to marry Mohammedan
women
On the division in tho House of Commons on
I the Dsestablishment bill the vote stood: Fol-
! the motion, 1853: against, $50; majority for the
Government, 1IS.
The Northern cigar manufacturers complain
that the employees of railroads steal out of the
boxes, the companies refusing to pay for the
damage.
1t is calculated that out of the COG, 900 mer
who form the standing Russian army, at least
1000 may be drafted off annually for the educa
tionaI civil service. -----~
The Emperor has consented that the State
shall purchase the collection of relics of Napo
i leon l., hitherto III the possession of Prince Ma
poleon. ....-.-sa
Mr.. Appleton, of Boston, has purchased Car
dina1 Tosti's collection of engrayings, 10000 il
number, and presented them. to the public Ii
brary of that city.
A paper called the Shamrock Hrcath was pub
lished in New York on ST. Patricks day. for on
day only, containing programme of the cele
bration in that city.
Mrs. Mary Magoon has been admitted to prac
tice law in the Iowa courts. In breach of pro
mise cases we should expect Mary to be parti
enlarly eloquent. ..s.s- -.-
As an evidence of adulteration and deterior.l-
ton, physician says, that in his young. day
persons could get drunk without damage
now they get crazy and smash things.
4 In New York they soak oysters in. .. solution
of soda, which puffs them up tenptingly. Or
st. Charles street consumers soak them in bran
dy, leaving the swelling to an after arrange
ment.
Il Mrs. Grayson, wife of the eminent ornitholo
gist, is with her husband in Mexico, and copie
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