The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-26
EDIroaIAI AND oTHRR ITEMS.

mum Tor opium,
Lady Palmerston, widow of the late Premier,
died the 18th inst
They have in Germany sewing machines
which go by clack-worlS.
Tho London Times publishes an amusing &C
count of Gariba1di's farming.
The recent sale of Agricultural College lands
in Kansas realized nearly $4,000, 600. -
The streets of London placed in single line
would reach from Liverpool TO New York.
The moose made game of Priaoe Arthur in
his late hunting bout, for not one of them
made sign.
The Prince Imperial is to be attended by q
body guard of, Corsicau youths during his stay
on the island. e
The Albany Typographical Union has made
an appropriation of slCo for the relief of the
Avondale sufferers
The loss of Kavanaugh & Decker the noted
billiard table manufacturers, by the late fire.,
was over $4,000.
The wine growers of Burgundy have already
christened their coming crop. 1t is to be
called ''coneile winc.n
n There is three times as much travel by onlni-
bus in Paris that there is in London, and the
fare is much lower.
Arrangements have been made TO repeat the
Boston Peace Jubilee at the Crystal Palace at
Sydenham, England.
The death of L. T. Benson, n Mormon apos-
tie, is announced, .1eaving twelve wives and
| a regiment of children"
The Gamgee meat-preserving process is pro-
nounced a humbug. Although the flesh does
not decay it becomes sour.
| by the published bank reports, it appears
New Orleans banks have $4,000 only in specie,
while those of Texas have 100000.
! Two children, aged about seven years, were
lately before London police court, charged
with picking pockets. Precocious'
The European papers recently announced
! that there were seven of the United States dl-
plomatists at one time in Homburg.
A hen in Winstead Conn, has been setting
for several weeks on seven potatoes, which
have sprouted aud grown above her head.
. Horse Flesh and Fish-On President Grants.
late return to Washington, he first visited his
stables and then had conference with Fish.
The manufacturers of sewing needles at AK
la Chapelle France, cannot supply the numer-
GUS orders-especiaIy from Asia and America.
A newspaper has appeared i'll Madrid called
the Gaillotina, which recommends the most
sanguinary measures towards intractable pa
| triots.
The medical faculty of Paris have recently
conferred the degree of Doctor of Medicine on
three ladies-a Frenchwoman, Russian and
an American.
Large crowds, of all denominations, lately
assembled round ST. Joseph's Church, Buffalo,
to listen to the first performance of the bells
~ in number
An immense annexation meeting was held IN
Quebec week before last, at which resolutions
were passed to ask permission for q union with
the United States.
The Cuban Junta, in gratitude for Secretary
Rawlns's sympathy for the Cuban cause, has
ed Mrs. Rawlipss with $4,000 In bonds
of the nascent republic.
The late Senator Fessenden only knew who
his mother was after he arrived at manhood
The stain on his birth is said to have weighed
} heavily on him all his life.
A New York paper assures us that Mrs DIR
Lozier, of that city, has practice which Yields
, her an income of $4,000, and that the bes
physicians hold consultations with her.
, Mrs. Cady Stanton, i'll recent speech sait
that she chad been studying Jobs wife lately
and found her really remarkable woman
Her "remarlls' on record are rather against he
| amiability.
British and american commissioners fo
adjustment of claims under the Oregon treat!
, have given an award of S65a,8e9 in gold to tn
! Hudson Bay Company, IN extinction OF thei
, posscssory rights.
The highwaymen who robbed the Alontan
express recently were followed by an armed
! partywho succeeded in killing one of the rob
bers, badly wounding another, and recovering
a portion Of the stolen treasure.
t Frauds to the amount of several hundre'
5 thousand dollars have been discovered in tn
! Now York Methodist Book Concern. fef
. Dr. Porter and his son are implicated Can
4 Beecher give the brethren parallels
By the annual report of the English Post
master General, it appears that last year N
fewer than 1888 letters were posted withou
;, any address, and that of these letters Isl con
:. tanned sums of money amounting to $4,000.
. man by the name of James Thomas
g Leeds publican, has been fined for gettin
If drunk in his own house. If Englishman'
Z house is his castle, his boosted independence il
:. it is myth if he can't get how-come-you-s