The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-07-24

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by violence in England last year.
Illinois has 5000 miles Of railroad, which
with equipments, cost &l2O, 900, 900.
A professionally OF Chinese and Japanese
Is to be established in the Cornell Uniyer.
sity.
The death rate in New York last week
was greater than that Of any week of the
season.
The amount of unappropriated Govern
ment land in Kansas is nearly "a large az
the whole State of iowa.
A Wisconsin farmer has just sold his
wool, some of which he has been holding
for seven years, waiting for rise.
An Albany man bought an acre of ground
three years ago for $15O-this year he has
Melted $l7O0 by strawberries raised on it.
The District of Columbia is now free
ffep regular troops for the first time since
the war;.
On the occasion of the late saengerfest
at Cincinnati, IS, 600 barrels Of lager-beer
were drank.
Belgium, with only territory about the
size of Maryland, gives comfortable suppoxt
to over s, OOO, 900 people.
A school for teaching I" darning - is the
latest Yankee Development; but strong
minded women will give it no countenance.
California cherries have been shipped to
New York, the majority of which measures
three and half inches in circumference.
The heat has been SO great at Madras
that in four days FIVE European soldiers,
one soldiers wife, and one child, died of
its effects. ~
People in Portland complain of having
their dogs poisoned after having paid taxes
on them. Here some people have paid the
dog tax twice.
DIR. Draper is of the opinion that the
prevalence of insanity is largely due to the
use of tobacco. The President uses great
deal of it. What thenf
A boy in Allegheny, Pa, lost his speech
on the Fourth of July, by the explosion of
a fire-cracker, which had been accidentally
thrown into his mouth.
The French Emperor, Empress and Prince
Imperial have sent 5000 francs to aid the in
habitants of Moneties {Alps) in which $50
houses were recently destroyed.
Won't people let Greeley alone! They
say his What Know about Farmingn is
about to be dramatized by Mrs. Stowe for
the Lydia Thompson blondes.
The weight Of the Hon. Alexander H.
Stevens is said to be only seventy-six
furnishes Northern paper
a chance to question his greatness.
newspaper authority says, "The high
est salary paid to an editor in America is
ten thousand dollars year, and we would
not dare to say how small the lowest is"
The son of the Emperor of Russia, Alexis,
who is soon to visit this country, has been
by A. T. Stewart, the use of his
new marble mansion while in New York.
A number Of Coolies, on special Chinese
emigrant train from Sacramento to Knox
vile, lately jumped from the car windows
near the former place, and made good their
escape.
One real estate agent in Newport has
sold 100000 worth CT property within
the last ten years. Poh Mr.. Elder, of
Place, can beat that showing
all hollow.
Commodore Vanderbilt is distributing
ais property among his children while yet
n the flesh. The report goes that he re-
GENTLY gave one of them the snug sum of
b5, OOO, 600.
Two coroners in the city of New York
lad a disgraceful quarrel on the 18th inst.
'ver the body, Of dead man, surgeon
hacking the body at the same time to find
he ball that did the job.
The dressmaker's bill of the Queen of
Denmark DOESN'T exceed 800 year. Why
'ome of our mechanics wives spend more
han that for bathing costume, ETC., while
IN trip of few weeks across the lake.
The most attractive feature of the once
amous New York Battery is poplar tree,
rom one branch of which an unfortunate
German hung himself-sensational people,
specially women, gaze on it with eager
yes.
The papers publish the fact that 500
Chinese laborers arrived at St. Louis last
week on their way to the interior of Ten
,essee, and add, "they were very quiet"
)f course it becomes them to be 30, being
;ool les.
Greeley says, in referring to the bear
arden scenes in the Senate, "the idea that
IN argument can be properly conducted by
men in rage is an absurdity." Hasn't the
shown s'rage in his editorials |
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