The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-19
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

Liszt refuses to come to America, and will
never appear again as a concert performer.
GeR-Lebouf has been appointed French War
Minister in place of the late Marshal Mel.
Cooperative societies are rapidly gaining
ground in Europe. We, on this side, are be-
hind the age in this matter.
By recent publication, it appears that
there are 10,20S females in Austria wholhave
devoted themselves to religious life.
Gerritt Smith and John b. Cough are pro-
posed as candidates for President and Vice
President on the Prohibitionists ticket.
,- A new paper is to be started in Boston, which
will oppose intemperance, Sunday excursions,
Sabbath promenading, and kindred abomina-
tions.
The crops in Europe and this country are
fine Still the price of bread is dispropor-
tionately high. In New Orleans it is excess
lively SO. =,
Fifty thousand people sleep out of doors
every night in London. A great many people
in this city have not slept even in doors the
past summer. 80
Coal ought to be cheap, for by an estimate
at Pottsyille, it is said that by the LIST of De-
cember the supply win be fully 100000 tons
ever that of last year.
Chicago is improving. In one week lately
they succeeded in suppressing 14o0 nnisances
there. In this precious Crescent City, we are
overlooking with them.
Tile treasurership of Hamilton county, Ohio,
is worth baving-the salary being $4,000.
Gen. Harrison once held it-but then the salary
was not nearly so large.
a French savant'claims to have succeeded in
condensing magnetism. 'Twould be blessing
If some one could invent method of condens-
ing our spouting orators.
Napoleon and President Grant are the two
great smokists of the age. The physician of
the former restricted him to sixteen per day, /
account of his declining health
The 1iibunes London correspondent reveals
the astonishing fact that the Harvards were
beaten in the beat race, because their diet was
currants and milk. Astounding development
point now being argued before the Eng
1ish courts is, whether earthquake is an
accident" circumstance" However de-
cided, one party or the other will be shocked,
An American steamboat has been put upon
the Rhine, and astonishes the natives. They
will be more astonished some day when they
hear one of our old-fashioned Mississippi ex-
plosiens.
Great CONSERVATION prevails throughout the !
ease having made its appearance in the neigh
borhood of Bordeaux, where it has already /
done incalculable damage.
recent publication relates the brutal tre;tz /
ment Of twenty Fenian prisoners IN Kings
ton Jail. One, named Cooner, has been driven
mad; another, named Hayden, has been beaten
till his life is despaired of.
A writer says there are two papers in New
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keep out of his family-TiIton's. Independent
and the Police Gd,eHe-but if one must he
taken, recommends the latter, ..,,.,.r..,,,.
Among the agricultural implements now
in Great Britain are large num-
bers of elephant plows, which are forwarded
by way of the Mediterranean, Suez, Red Sea
md Indian ocean, to their destination.
The steamer Great Eastern proceeds next
month to lay the new Indian cable, for which
she will receive S250O00 in stock for her SER {
vices. She received $4,000 per month while
aging the French cable, and 100000 in stock.
steam omnibus lately tried in the 4.
streets of Edinburgh with complete success.
The dexterity with which it picked its way be-
ween strings of cart horses omnibuses, cabs,
md the docility with which it stopped or
urned whenever it was required, was mar
Ielous.
Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska. is being
,uilt of Freers artificial stone. We under
tand that the ma+syfacture in this city, the
,atelft- right of which is possessed hy our
,uDlic spirited fellow citizen, Mr.. Poursine, I
ttracts considerable attention from builders
nd others.
Four hundred and twcnty-uine MormOhs I
lnded at Castle Garden Monday week. Most
f them are natives of England and Wales--a l
ew being from Switzerland, Denmark and
But ali hail from countries that
oast of Bibles and tracts being universally
disseminated.
Mrs. Denny, of Princeton, KY, purchased
IT of duck eggs, and placing them in her Y
ureau drawer, where they remained some
me, when one day her attention was called 60
nc bureau by an unusual noise therein. Open
Ig out the drawer, to her astonishment She
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