The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1869-08-22
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Boston has fifty miles of Gre alarm telegraph
that cost $60, 600. In1dAoA gZlq8I 5zuj
~ ~ The United States imports 4seyen pounds of
sugar for every pound they raise. rs II
J, Some consiaerats friend of Alexander Dumas
has presented him with burial lot. Il
4 Senator Pomeroy, Of Kansas was burned in
ef1gy at Jacksonville, ON the 28th ult.
5 e. White Pine has added to its other attractions
that of natural cave of indefinite size.
Snow fell ON Friday week on Mount Wash
ington, and ice forined during the night. 7
Chicago has forty gambling houses, at which
$1,000, on an average, are taken in nightly.
In the last tive years New York has built so
new street railroads, at q cost of $25,eoo,0Oo
The product ofone grain of rye, sowed as an
experiment in Logan county, KY, was rs heads.
Jefferson Davis is travelling through SCOT
land, accompanied by DR.. Mackey. Health
good.
The marriage robe of the Princess Louisa of
Sweden, was manufactured at Berlin, and cost
$24, 900.
The editor of the Petersburg (va} Iader has
been presented with watermelon weighing
AZ pounds. s4
If law and order is symptom of civifza-
ton, how is it that the North tolerates anti
rentisml
! The Emperor of China, fourteen years old, lis
| to be married this year--having been engaged
| some tiRles
| The English liberals have made an initistory
movement towards the disestablishment of the
English Church.
| 1t is rumored that the Lord Chancellor of
Ireland and the Irish Secretary were to be
raised to the peerage.
| We see it stated that the Harvard rowers
have secured the services of Patrick Kelly as
"coach" Pray, what is that9
! The eclipse at Greenbrier White sulphur
Springs caused such fall in temperature that
frost was visible next morning.
The discomforts aud expenses of Northern
! watering places have driven many families to
Europe for summer recreation.
The heat-,in France is SO great that that
apochryphaF individual, "the oldest inhabi-
tant," cannot furnish parallel
The tailors' strike in New York shows no
signs of abatement. The strikers lately walked
| in procession to the number of 5000.
1t proposed to hold worlds exposition in
Washington next year The expositions OF
Washington are already notorious enough.
Reddy, the blacksmith, who furnished the
New York editors d prolific +heme his es-
cape, has been recaptured in San Francisco.
The Vanderbilt and Drew scenes are about
being re-enacted. This time the Albany and
Susquehannah Railroad has the bout with the
Erie.
At Guadalajara, Mexico, Carlotta FeIrc, a
girl of sixteen, is clerk of the court and secre-
taFy of the city council, besides teaching
school.
The intentions of the Viceroy of Egypt are
supposed to be ahadowed forth by the fact
that he lately contracted o loan of 81, 900 00C
in Paris.
AT -Ierre Haute, on the Sd inst, John Fran
els Smith died suddenly of congestion of the
brain. Grief caused his brother to shoot him.
self at the side of the corpse.
Patrick Gilmore. the originator of the BOs
ton Peace Jubilee, has sailed for Europe te
make arrangements for n musical demonstra
ton in New York next summer.
Uruguay has adopted the lnetrical system o.
weights and measures We would like to see
our national authorities adopt measures sufi
ciently weighty to insure honesty.
An English pickpocket was recently arrested
in Hamburg while attempting to rob a Turk
ish Pasha of his pocket book. 1t is not un
common to rob Christians in New Orleans
A New York Jewish paper says that one
fourth of the population of Long Branch ar
Jews, and that the handsomest cottages ant
gayest equipages belong to the chosen race.
At Lynn, Alameda county, California, owing
to q strike among the shoemakers, Chinese ha'
been taught to make shoes, and a large manu-
featuring establishment is likely to be the re
suit.
1t is proposed to found a fellowship in Trim
ity College, Dublin, which will be open to tn
composition of Catholics. This is done through
fear, as that corporation will soon be over
! hauled. .-sF. 81. .+
The Bishop of st. Potion SDr. Fessfer, Score
, tary of the Gcumenical Council has proceeds
/ to Rome, in order to take part in the prelimi
/ nary work which is being prepared for tn
q Council. --.2ts- -.sr ~
The Usage Indians in Kansas, who sold thei
lands for 10 cents an acre, denounce the treat
as a gross fraud them, and repudiate tn
). Transaction. Senators Ross and Pomeroy al
accused of completely.
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