The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-05-09

SlS,vVo anhuauy In the purchase OF Ola Sahscfib
The Union Pacific Railroad sold 10, 900 tickets
from Chicago TO White Pine, Nebraska, during
the month Of March.
RothsehilRs heirs refuse to pay to 1egatees |
outside of the family, the small sums which |
the Baron left to them. -
1t is PROPOSED to mite the Mediterranean
and the Bay of Biscay by canal through the
valley of the Garonne, France.
Mr.. Brown, of jersey City, lately rode fifty
miles in four hours and twenty minutes on -
velocipode.
it is proposed to remove the seat of Govern
ment from Washington to that burg.
The freshets in Canada, New York and Con-
necticut have been very destructive to prop
erty. In Canada many lives were lost
By an accident on the Long Island Railroad.
Friday week, six persons were killed and .
great number were seriously injured.
t The Empress Eugenie is about to visit Bel
GUM, accompanied by the Prince Imperial.
The visit is said to have religious object.
The petition asking that Esed. Douglass be
appointed Minister to Brazil, is very numerous
| ly signed in Boston.
1t is reported that Napoleon has purchased
the Dnchy Of Nuremberg, from the King Of
Holland, for 6,OOc, 900.
| The glass makers of Swinton, England, now
on strike, have been presented with 600 loaves
of bread by the bakers of the neighborhood.
| Soap was first discovered by the Gauls.
Judging by the great number of the sun
washed" thousands have not yet discovered"
it.
/ j. Russell Young has sued Charles A. Dana,
of the New York Sun, for 800 600 damages, in
publishing " o false, scandaious and malicious
libel" ...,... ..
| General Lee visited the President last week.
4 If Andy Johrsson had received him at the
White House;5tte Union would be again sha-
KEN IYNT0 H7IkgIA
The.condfti0n of,the operatives In someparts
of England is deplorable. The poor law Off
Gals are overwhelmed with applications fol
relief,
steamer of the Pacific Steamship Company
will sail on the first of Jnne for voyage round
the world, to last four months. Price o. pas
3 sage, 5000.
Chauncey H. Snow, an ex-commissioner o
, the Union Pacific Railroad, aenonnces tn
2 whole scheme of the operators swindle, ant
Y that the Superintendent is q party to it.
@ Southern shrimps, go large as to resembl
8 English prawns, have lately been received i
s New York. Expectation Of seata@ags might b
y entered into with advantage--to the South.
o The receipts of the Association for the Pre-
= pagation of the Faith for the last year wer
e 5,3Os, 1916 francs-an increase of $4,000 frame
n on the income of the preceding year,
Il st. Petersburg is said to be sinking wit
- fearful regularity. Not faster, we imagine
% than some parts Of our own city-St. Charlie
4 Co. xvhe fha sir xipu a mr.
digious. '@
In European circles the opinion prevails ths
! the question of peace or war will be dete
y mined by the event Of the cominRFrench ele
tions. If unfavorable to the Government W;
! is sure to follow.
1t is said that Frenchwomen are not as bea
tiful now as they were thirty years ago. TIL
is a compliment, as they are expected to be
In handsome in old age as in youth--which hol'
pretty true of our Creole ladies.
IN Four boys, the Oldest seventeen years of ag
were lately arrested at Utica, n. Y, for Robin
~ freight cars on the Central Railroad. In tin
b they may hope to reach the emfnence of Forbt
" Wood, and others of our city. e. .--. -
DIR. Noyes of this city, has written to t
In New York Farmers' Club, requesting inform
ton as to the best stump-puller, to be appli
p in exfTactfng cypress snzggs srFssa
= in the route of tho new cansl-AeiesE- the eli
De Eighty-twe houses have been erected
--' Newport in anticipation of prosperous sc
OF son. When the Chattanooga Railroad is
rs. ished We may expect a great increase in the
M mand for cottages at the lake watering plac
A Young man in England was mnlcted
ed f5Ooo damages for breach of promise. AT
the verdict he wrote to the maid, offering
ON marry her, the objection of his friends, tt
she was penniless, was now removed, as
'he was worth SIS, 900.
The New York Times reports from Washil
u.s. ton of n Federal office for which there are
applicants-a Bloomer woman, a loyal negro
ND reconstructed rebel, q Republican Dutchmal
wounded soldier, and red-hot politicians
eo' I" backed by n Representative.
ian The doctors in a certain Michigan town b!
agreed among themselves not to attend any /