The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-03-06

His see pays its pastor the comfortable sum OF
$35 900.
Governor Warmoth has called an extra ses-
sion of the Legislature, to complete important
| measures.
1t is said that the Chinese have distracted
from the wealth of California $7O,OOO,OO0 in
coin since 1855.
miser sought lodgings at Charlestown,
| (Iass.) guard house, and was charged 81 the
next morning.
| bed of photographic stone, and the only
one in this country, has been found in Van Blu
rem county, Iowa.
Auditor Wickliffe, of this State, has been
found guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Whose turn nextf
Block-printed linen was the production of
Flanders, and is interesting suggestive of
the art of printing.
The loss by fire in Philadelphia last year was
81 ,212, s55, and the insurance on the property
destroyed $3,015,94o.
An Ohio paper prints the names of it's delin-
quent subscribers up side down, limiting that
they are not upright men.
Wine is peddled on the Missouri railroads at
thirty cents a bottle-twenty five cents for the
bottle and five cents for the wine.
In Jersey City, the other day woman sent
| Tor lovers powders. Inc UruSSlSUS clerK gave
her solid opium. She took it and died.
Maine is petitioning the Legislature respect
ing the milk quart In New Orleans our railk
quart, if it isn't BULL is gill measure
A Cincinnati lady is backed by her minister
in an application for divorce, because her hus-
band playfully refused to give her kiss.
Mexico is now enjoying all the delights of a
civil war. The names of poor Macmillan is
!
quired.
Butler, in q late speech, said he despised
newspaper men," adding, elf there is one thing
papers"
Poughkeepsie schoolmaster made a pupil,
as a punishment, run round the schoolhouse
400 times. Besides being punished, he was
crippled.
month, leaving all his property, $780, to the
| u. S. Government. Relatives in Brooklyn will
contest the will.
Eliza butcher, aged II, one of family of
ten children, driven to desperation by want,
shot herself through the heart in Bolton, ILL.,,
on the 18th inst.
| German artist who was sent to Dalmatia
to take war pictures for an illustrated journal,
turned to Vienna.
| The Boston companies have recently made
reductions in the rates of insurance-risks
hitherto charged at fifty cents being now writ
ten at forty cents
| Intelligence offices are being overhauIed by
the St. Louis authorities for taking money
from persona seeking positions without being
of any use to them.
! young farmer is now serving out three
months imprisonment in JAIL at Exter, Eng
land for having shot single pheasant on his
fathers farm five years ago.
| The Catholic Institute lately erected in Ed
inburgh by the Young Mems Society, cost $685.
| 900. When will the benevolent societies of
New Orleans erect hall of their own'
The Death of four divers is recorded during
the last twelve months. The last was at Sa-
vannah two weeks ago, in removing obstruc-
| lions placed in the river during the war.
| A bill was lately presented to the Sandusky
! (Ohio) city council amounting to $3.50, ''for
preaching funeral sermon for q daIkey who
died with the smallpox" The bill wasn't
paid.
| Geo. Dickson, of Michigan, who caused the
| death of his little son by ill-treatment has
been sent to prison for fifteen years. He threw
his little boy down and stamped upon his
| breast.
The last steamer which arrived at San Fran
cisco from Japan brought large number of
tea plants of different varieties, portion of
them for the Japanese colony in Ell Dorado
county.
A jeweler in Grand Rapides, Michigan, late
ly received a valuable gold ring from Catho-
lie priest in that city, with the statement
"this belongs to you, take it and ask no ques-
tions."
A member of one of the Eastern legislatures
recently wrote home to his wife to know what
his religion was, and she wrote back that
he had better call it Protestant-and let it go
al that.
The Mormons often charged with many
fowl transactions; the last one is that at Brig
ham Young's Theatre, chickens are taken at
the box-officc, and change is appropriately
made with eggs.
A Belgium servant killed his mistress last
mouth vim Paris, because she accused him of
being drunk. The husband, paralytic, wit
messed the atrocious act, but his condition pre-
vented him from aiding his wife.
The oldest inhabitant has been found in the
mountains of North Carolina, not far from
Greenville S. C.. He is said to be 143 years old,
in perfect health, has survived seven wives,
and instead of thinking of dying, wants to
marry again